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I prefer the rifle. Longer range makes it a bit handier. Using the Carbine forces you to get up closer to the enemy and the number of Fearless or high Ld models in the game are getting a little preposterous. Getting close means potentially getting trapped in combat, which is a place that Fire Warriors should never be.

Rife. ALWAYS rifle. For static squads, the rifle has a 30" range while sitting stationary. For mounted squads, the rifle has a second shot at 12". Carbine's only claim to fame is being an Assault weapon, and pinning.

Assault? When are my Fire Warriors EVER going to charge in 5th ed? As for Pinning, How many armies have you fought that are Fearless, Ld 9-10, or have some special Ld rule? Oh, how about....all of them. Except Tau, oddly enough. Pinning is so unreliable that if you really want to make use of it, you have to drop a bucket of Markerlights on a unit (and hope they aren't Fearless or otherwise auto-pass checks) in order to drop them down to an Ld that will probably fail. And if you're dropping that many Markerlights on a unit, why not just buff BS and remove cover saves to just kill more of the target unit in the first place?

oh u noe for the crisis XV8 battlesuit Shas'o whts a realli better special weapon the ion cannon or the fragmentation

Hmm the true point about that but the AFP doesn't need light of sight because its a guess weapon so it can just shoot over buildings. And is it a waste of points to give him a iridium armour because I usually just use stimulant injector.

Stimms are nice and all, but they won't help you against a S8+ attack. I find the more compelling argument against the armor is that it kills your assault movement. The only reason to ever take Iridium Armor is if you're planning to stick a Commander with Broadsides, so that majority armor is never invoked.


There's no need for an FAQ. All you needed to do was open your rulebook: Barrage rules on pg 32, second paragraph: "Note that in older Codex books barrage weapons were idendified by having a G (guess) before their range (eg Range: G48"). This is the same as having the word 'barrage' under their Type."

So yeah, you've been playing it wrong.

That said, I likewise prefer the AFP - I often pair it with the Forgeworld variant suit with Smart Missiles so that I can pump out a lot of anti-infantry firepower from out of sight. The CIB is okay, but it's shorter ranged than the Plasma Rifle, and with S3, it can't do double duty hitting MC's and light vehicles. Plus, AP1? Why? We're paying extra for that AP1 on a gun that can't ever hurt tanks, the only place AP1 ever comes into play.

.... There is not a single unit in the Tau codex which is Toughness 5. Crisis suits of all ranks are T4 - a S8 weapon will Insta-kill them and deny FNP.

Also isnt the hammerhead a really good tank with cheap armoury for it. it can move and shoot and its a tank with high armour value