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The Leadership bubble is nice. So is the ability to target two different units with her guns. My problem is that her Ld bubble and Stealth field give her a role in your lines, but her dual shot and twin Fusion Blasters give her a role intended for deep striking.

What has annoyed me about EVERY SINGLE Tau special character since the race's inception is that they are all short ranged. Aun'shi - Melee hero, has melee abilities and morale abilities. Farsight, Melee Hero, has Melee abilities, kills your FOC. Aun'va - Melee honor guard, Morale abilities. Shadowsun - 12" range weapons, has Leadership abilities. The only character with any serious ranged ability is O'Rymr from Forgeworld, and his Assault 2 Plasmagun is pretty piddly compared to his Flechette Launchers and 3+ invul in combat. What the hell is GW's obsession with giving the Tau melee-themed characters? I want a special character that pilots a Broadside and carries around an ion cannon.

With the current ruleset, we don't need counter charge units because after one round, there isn't a charge to counter. Unless the Assault Squad that hits said Fire Warriors is so hideously depleted that it can't do any meaningful casualties, the FW's will lose combat by such a large degree as to make breaking and running practically automatic. Almost any of our units will be blown through in the first round of combat and probably get run down, allowing us to shoot the assaulters.

Nevermind that even our "counterassault" Special Characters are incapable of taking that role seriously. Though Farsight or Aun'shi into the fray with your typical Chaplain-led Assault Squad and they will get smooshed. Don't even get me started on the Space Pope. If you give them retinues, then said retinues are wasted points, because none of them are specced for combat the way the characters are. Shadowsun is the best of our special characters, but that's not really saying much.

Honestly, if you think that Assault is going to be a problem, Kroot with Hounds are a great option. The Hounds have WS4 S4 I5 with (2?) attacks.

well, shield drones get toughness value of unit protected - 4 for crisis/broadside models smile , can be assigned insta-kill wounds from pesky lascannons and krak missiles, and get 4+ inv save... otherwise basically they are ablative wounds for your crisis/broadside suits.

Heck I remember being down in one of my Aberdeen trips and saw someone who fielded an entire Kroot army (2,500pts I think it was) against Ultramarines. It was an awesome sight to be hold, there was somewhat a lot of them (You could still field far more orks, tyranids and guardsmen then what I saw, but still) It had a command with banners and some important guys dressed like the tau ethereals and armed with Tau weaponry, let alone had one of those giant beasts (I forgot what they're called, just those giant chicken lizard things).

It was fought on a barren desert battleground, the ultramarines almost totally fortified, rep-up with heavy bolters and everything, but the kroot managed to overwhelm them with their close combat and attracting bolter fire onto things that could take it (Like covered elites and the giant beast). In the end, it was a major victory to the kroot.

But anyways, some people who collect Tau always go for the overpowered shooty arm, with lots of gunfire. Although people who don't or are only started, say that they use the Tau all wrong by saying they're sort of a hit and run army and should put more good use with their devil fishes. As in they're suppose to move nearly though entire army when the enemy get to close and then station it entirely somewhere else and fire again. Though like I said the people who do don't try this and the people who don't say they should, what I'd like ta ask is such a thing possible of that tactic?

I actually prefer to use a Shas's O XV8 commander with iridium armor, stim. injector, shield generator, and other options depending on the opponent. Weapons are typically a missle pod and a plasma rifle. I have only lost this solider once to luck. or bad luck as it was. He even was able to outlive a squad of assault marrines. My Kroot have been meatshields for the most part. My dice rolls are cursed. I think its becasue i once made a remark about them..... Anywho, i play tau for the shooty. I know that thats why people hate them, but its why i love them. Mostly because i played Classic BattleTech before i started 40K.

Thank you for the help.