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To clarify : I've meant get infiltrating suits into position to ml offending indirect fire tank, and use "Hellfire pattern" seeker missile to circumnavigate intervening terrain.

Well you are required one commander, so you should get him. If you don't have the codex then that is a must also. As for everything else it depends on how you want them to play.

If you like snipers I'm guessing a static army might be your thing, and if thats the case more fire warriors are in order. Though IMO I feel you absolutely have to have some mobile elements (it is tau after all) so kroot always make a good second troop choise, and having a unit of crisis suits are always good to.

Really there are a lot of ways to go with this so here is a question for you. How do you want your army to play?

So I have been playing Tau for a year or so now and have found a nice ballanced 500pt are that i can make minor modifications to that counter different armies. I am now thinking about what to get next, i have narrowed it down to either a devilfish for my firewarriors or a hammerhead for fire support.

My current list fields:
-1 unit of kroot (varying unit size)
-1 unit of 12 fire warriors
-1 unit of 5 gun drones
-commander (varying settup)
-2 crisis suits (varying settup)

so yeah anyway, based on all this what is yoor opinion.

Not a lot of confidence in the kroot there. Also with anywhere from no armour to 6 armour, wouldnt the kroot be more suited to assaulting the units that would disrupt your firing lines, rather than just being a meat shield?

Though of course i dont play Tau, so Im not sure of standard kroot practice other than what ive played against and whats in the kroot merc codex.

razz i got crisis shas el today hes awesome 3 wounds armour save 3+ ld 10 razz 3 attacks and i am changing my army colour to blue smile
rofl

Super Saphira!

if it gets ugly as well my tau can move in with a other garrison of men to save there leader

Kroot serve as momentary distractions, meat shields, and screens. There isn't much use to them since they aren't that good at melee and they don't survive worth crap. Best use is to send them in as a last ditch effort to get someone away from your lines.


yep im using em as meat sheilds when the enemy is like 6 inches from my men they retreat behind the kroot (who are standing behind them) they go further back to position to fire again when the kroot are gone so are the enemy

also if you put pathfinders in a group if they mark the enemy can the whole squad shoot someone said they can



Super Saphira!

oh my GOD I got angry last thursday!
I brought in my Tau Commander to school to show to some of my friends cause some of 'em also play warhammer 40K

And some friggin....MEAT head decided it was okay to slam him against the cafeteria table. Resulting in a broken foot, chipped paint, and the breaking of the stand I had him attached to. scream

So now I must rebalance him onto it so he looks like he's flyin' again.
I managed to fix the foot like nothing happened to it luckily..

I also posted some art that was based directly off of my commander on deviantart in case if anyone wants to see it: Shas' O Shii