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Double Post, grr pirate

heavyflamer, we're running off of certain suppositions here. I'll place them in a logical format for you.
P1 - You have rarely seen Tau win.
P2 - You have rarely (never?) never lost to Tau.
P3 - Tyranids and Tau are on roughly equal footing.
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C - The Tau players in your area are inordinately poor.

From this conclusion, we can also construct the following:
P1 - The Tau players in your area are poor
P2 - You have rarely (never?) lost to Tau
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C - You have never faced a Tau player of high skill.

Returning to your original post, you started talking about how Tau were the worst army in response to my assertion that I started playing Tau first because I wanted to be able to pick up it's strategy rather than learn Marines and then have to re-learn my strategy all over again when I would buy Tau, which is the army I actually wanted. I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish by this.

So to reiterate, Tau are not the worst army in all of 40k. It's actually my opinion that there is no worst army in an overall view. Different armies can be worse at doing specific tasks than other armies, but over all, there is no worst army. However, because they are particularly difficult to learn how to use effectively, they are one of the worst armies for some one just looking to get into the game. I'm well aware that there are many who will just try out thier buddies Tau and declare "OMG these suck, I'll be Chaos when I start building my own army." I was willing to wait out the 2 months of losses while I worked out how my Tau were meant to be used. I'm not a master in any sense, but I at least know the basics of how to field my army now. Thus, they are not nescessarily the worst army, but definately one of, if not the, most difficult to learn.

Tau have a much steeper learning curve than Marines or Necrons do, and a distinct lack of the sort of high grade cheese that some other armies can field. That's why many (including you if I understand correctly), think they are terrible. The Tau codex and rules sets have some flaws yes, but just about all the codexes have flaws and problems and useless units. It's merely a matter of perspective.

Tau are certainly not the worst army out there. Personally I have played and one plenty of battles with my Tau army. They are much harder to play then some of the other armies but if you dedicate a few battles learning how to use them correctly they can be devastatingly effective

*bows* Why thank you. xd

*Hides behind rock* Psst... tau scare me... if played right... oh god... the pain... One word thingy... S5... oh god... so evil! But thats just the sugar man... I watched a tau army lead this guy around the table for 3 turns and obliterate him. It was horrible... Oh god... so evil sometimes...

And for the record (not that that thing above wasnt)... the army i can think harder to play than Tau, the Dark Eldar. I can say this without feeling ignorant, and have been reassured by many many Dark Eldar players. Around, (might be over exagerating this bit...) 90% of the Dark Eldar Codex is worthless right now. Best armies i have seen... (my friend has 4000 points and can field any combo of guys... he got them dirt cheap) his BEST armies, were warriors, in raiders, wyches, in raiders, lord and incubi, in raider. It was plain mean. So many raiders! SO MANY WYCHES! It hurt, I can say that much... I won in the end through pure... luck mostly. I rethought my strategy against him from the ground up, and I still cant see myself winning easily anymore. (Nothing like attacking WS5 wyches with a WS2... and losing extra attacks from additional close combat weapons...)

Dark Eldar are hard to use... Tau in many respects are Dark Eldar killing machines, very good at blowing Raiders out of the sky, just hope the Wyches dont get in close combat... WS1 tau...

Only DE are faster, and can get a 30 inch first turn assualt... 25-30... Its also a good amount of raiders... I mean, around 7-8 in 1500 points...

Actually, I beleive the Tau will remain more or less the same when the new codex comes out. Some new units, some new special rules, some rules fixes, but I expect them to be more or less cheese free. The only way the Tau can cheese anything is by spamming a certain type of weapon, which they are fully capable of doing in small points games. I can cram 9 Broadsides or 3 Hammerheads into 1000 points. That's about the extent of Tau cheese, and I expect it will remain more or less the same. After all, Tau don't have psychic powers, traits, doctrines or any other optional rules that they can combine to create powerful effects. All they have are big bashy guns, and lots of them.

Chaos owns all but you have to know what your doing.