Your first reaction might be to think “railguns,” and that’s not a bad idea. Drone support will help to keep it alive for longer and a couple of units will help with overwatch. Our Battlesuit could, for example, charge a squad of Intercessors, and while the Marines could certainly do a couple or three wounds in combat, the Ghostkeel would almost certainly survive. Strike Teams form a key part of most Tau armies, though often only 15 of them hanging around filling out a Battalion. Annoyingly, these set up as a unit of their own which Defensively, she has a 5++ and built-in -1 to hit, but will go squish fast if properly targeted, as she’s only T4 with 5W. This makes use of the Crisis burst cannon bomb we discussed, backed up by an appaling number of drones and a clique of commanders, to control the board, while blasting from the back with Magna Rail Rifle armed Broadsides. That downside is substantial, though — although T’au armies tend to castle up in games, it’s worth noting that this doesn’t mean you The second best core Sept, and the one you see popping up most in competitive lists alongside T’au or a custom shooty one. Moreover, it would only apply to one Ghostkeel. Luckily, TGG came with an answer – Prototype Weapons System. Post navigation. If there is a baneblade/excessive amounts of armour, recall Group 3 to help deal with the armour. Personally I can’t Tidewall Shieldline, Tidewall Gunrig, Tidewall DroneportSimon Priddis' Twisted Onslaught List - Click to ExpandDevin Swan's Sword and Brush List - Click to ExpandHMOC Presents: Gunum and Naramyth Present: The Road to Renegade, Part 1 For only 20 points, you get a BS3+ Sniper who can deep strike onto the battlefield more than 9″ away from an enemy unit, gets +2 to his save in cover, and once per game can activate a booby trap for the chance to do D3 mortal wounds (or D6 if you roll a 6 and the unit has 10+ models) to a unit. Warhammer 40,000 Battle Report: Ravenwing vs T’au Empire 2000pts . It was very interesting to see the wall of turrets. Still won though Their primary use is to form big blobs of cheap guys and screen, and provide something approximating a melee threat, but Fire Warriors and Drones screen more effectively since they don’t die so easily, and in any case Tau quite often A Kroot Tracker added by the Blackstone Fortress game, Dahyak Grekh is very, very good. What you do is mount fusion blasters on them all, smash them into midfield where they offer a fair amount of board control, and then unload a pile of seeker missiles and fusion blasters into something vulnerable-looking. Finally, as well as granting access to the custom options TGG also substantially expanded the Farsight Enclaves, giving them many more unique options than the rest, so we’ll give them a slightly bigger section.Thanks to cheap HQs and Troop options it’s pretty easy to fill out detachments, so mixed armies using detachments from multiple septs are quite common, with small Sa’cea detachments being the main way this comes up.The Vior’la Sept’s ability favors a more mobile Tau army, one that is continually advancing and firing on the move, and taking advantage of the fact that it isn’t losing anything from doing so. Why not! @Blastman I wrote a guide, if you're interested. HS: TX78 Sky Ray Gunship [8 PL, 146pts]: 2x Smart missile system, 2x Markerlight, 6x Seeker missileTau players got some opportunity to try out some of the new TGG toys between the book landing and the world going in to lockdown, and easily the most interesting successful list to have come out of it was the one ++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (T’au Empire) [36 PL, 656pts] ++++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (T’au Empire) [43 PL, 831pts] ++++ Air Wing Detachment +1CP (T’au Empire) [33 PL, 512pts] ++As a final entry, since we know they have lots of fans, we have Feliks’ Farsight list. This is an ability that is theoretically very powerful, but in practice just isn’t what a T’au army wants to be doing in most competitive games. It doesn’t offer T’au players much in the way of offensive output, but it does offer some useful utility in other areas of the game. Can also now take The tiny powerhouse mainstays of the current competitive T’au Empire army, drones primarily serve the purpose of protecting key units in your army from taking damage while your units continue to spew out unreasonable amounts of firepower. That’s helpful because with BS4+ base, it really needs the help to get the most out of its shooting. Credit: Jack HunterWhile Stealth Battlesuits are held back from being great killers by their relatively poor BS, much like Breacher Teams they’re a very cost effective unit to help you build up a bit of board control, meaning that they do find their way into lists. Ork Boyz with extra weapons are great for making kitbashed Tankbustas, Kommandos, Lootas, Burnas, and Stormboyz. It won’t, however, be able to do so on it’s own.