Hi, new to this forum. Well, not really new - I've been reading things here and there, but never actually registered.
Anyways, on to the topic at hand.
I bought the Tau battleforce set after years of just toying around with Tau, buying ocassional Fire Warriors here and there just cause I liked their look. But now, I want to actually get into playing with them. They suit my tastes in that I hate close combat and love shooting stuff!
Here's a preliminary 500 Point force that I quickly made up. Please help me out here as I have never played with Tau before so I don't know what works well where and what is just useless. Here's the list...
HQ
Crisis Suit Commander Shas'o (1 Crisis Suit) - 122 Points
- Missile Pod
- Plasma Rifle
- Targeting Array
- Multi Tracker
Troops
Fire Warrior Squad (12 Fire Warriors) - 145 Points
- Shas'ui
- Markerlight
- Bonding Knife
Fire Warrior Squad (12 Fire Warriors) - 235 Points
- Shas'ui
- Markerlight
- Bonding Knife
- Devilfish Troop Carrier + Disruption Pod + Targeting Array
Total: 502 Points.
There it is. It is centred around lots of Fire Warriors for maximum firepower and manpower in objective based games so I could put lots of rounds down-range aswell as having the troop capacity to capture and hold multiple objectives. The Devilfish provides some minor fire support aswell as providing more flexibility by making the army more mobile.
So yeah, tell me what you think! I need as much help as possible, be cruel. I've never played with the Tau and all I know is that their regular troops suck at Close Combat but annihilate at long range, which is the angle I went for here. Other than that, I have no idea what works well and what doesn't, so if there's any advice on general tactics that would be appreciated.
Thanks alot!