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he's noticed that he's easily overwhelmed by nids as well. Soon after i wrote his army up he came to me for an answer to swarms.
i gave him: a purging squad. Twin flamers and plasma rifles (actually he added the rifles, i was for missles.), to his army. He's had proxied the config on three suits for a few games and the configuration kicks quite a bit of arse. And not just against nids. Ive watched his 3 twin-linked flamers tear through Guardsmen, Orks, Eldar, Marines, and even Necrons. We had also been trying to fill in that manditory 1+ crisis squad that farsight requires. He loves it. Personally, i think he should replace the plasma with missle pods to make them alittle cheaper and add some range to his squad and keep them to the missle theme he had goin, let his almighty command squad deal with the bigger things.
Very inexpensive in comparison to his other suits. Less than 50 points a suit. His other suits are..... oi almost 100 each. Trying to set him up a good commander now since farsight doesnt count for the 1+. Any ideas or thoughts. Right now, i have a shas o with an plasma rifle, missle pods, iridium armour, stim injectors, shield gen, shield drones, Hes proving extemely resilient, but costly. I want him to change the rifle to someting with more shots.... like the new ion blaster. Leave the heavy hitting to his command squad and the ion blaster has a watered down verion of rending so i can take down termis to, so he doesnt loose to much killing power.
Yeah, i wrote this up to btw. He's starting to concider me his earth caste lol . i cant wait for his next problem.

Laters,
Samulin

I am intrigued by this Crisis suit idea, although for some reason im confuzled when I know its not hard to grasp...probably overthinking

The stim injectors give the unit the feel no pain special rule. Coupled with the 2+ save i get from the iridium armour and since he is a shas with 4 wounds, hes a pain to kill.

Ethereals are very useful, i agree. but thier use is very limited in my eyes. I'd rather take two shas'o's or el's. probably O's since they are only 15 pt more and give you +1 W,WS,BS,and Ld. Goodies. That and my buddy and I play farsight so i cant take ethereals.

Some very narrow thinking there man. A farsight army is a great thing when played right. his 1-7 bodyguard allow him to fight in almost any situation and from the battles i view,win, All people with access to the armoury get a bonding knife for free, who needs an ethereal, ork fighter is so-so(the old ork fighter rule was better, and farsight himself can go "toe to toe" with any codex space marine master and hold his own if not win.

also they cost more than a marine cause they are better than a marine, and second no self respecting tau player will go toe to toe with ANYTHING, close combat is a nono for tau. Farsight actually helps out in close combat to. many a foe has fallen to his command squad because they thought they underestimated farsights ability. I do so enjoy crushing pompus people more than anything.

Of course all of this is opinionated, but I also agree. You cannot catch a crisis suit squad if they hit and run. You will be torn to bits by flamers, plasma rifles, and missle pods well before you surround them and catch them.
Farsight is probably the only tau besides Aun'Va's body guards that can fight in close combat. He is far displaced from the actual tau fighting style. 3nodding With several attacks, a weapon that allows no armor saves, and a bunch of goodies and body guards to back him up, good luck winning in close combat unless you assault with multiple squads of high-quality C-C fighters. 3nodding
Oh, and just so you know, battlesuits are not completely helpless in close combat. 3nodding My command squad of 3 units wiped out an almost full squad of fully upped chaos marines with taking 3 wounds in return. 3nodding It is also determined by the luck of the roll, my good man. You can have an entire Close-Combat army swarm Farsight and his guards, but have the worst rolls and still lose. 3nodding sweatdrop

y'know since farsight spent forever killing greenskins, he taught his firewarriors and such how to engage in close combat. It says in the codex that they actually won quite a few battles when it came down to fighting hand to hand. Puretide would be proud indeed, if only farsight hadnt left the greater good.
Its too bad tau do not have the real build to be considered well of in close combat situations, they are too short, and they dont have much muscles to speak of, since all they do is pull triggers.

It's all to do with the Tau dogma.

Tradition beats practicality, unfortunately.

Well, considering that the Tau are very hard to beat as it is, think if they were good in close combat. neutral You would almost never beat them! gonk Although, they would be more expensive in points, but it doesn't matter when you add up the firepower and the muscle. neutral Tau are obviously the best ranged fighters in the game. That plus close clombat skills is just scary. eek