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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 22:49:00 No.14787110 View View Reply Original Report

I'm looking at making a 1,000 point Tau army but I have no idea how to get the most out of it. I would like a unit of Fire warriors (maybe 2), kroot, vespids and some stealth suits but everything else is up in the air. What would you guys recommend?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 22:51:00 No.14787120 Report

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I never made much use of stealth suits, plenty of regular suits with armament tailored to the enemy and maybe a broadside.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 22:51:00 No.14787121 Report

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Just play Spess Mehreens.

Otherwise you're gimping yourself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 22:52:00 No.14787126 Report

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always stick your fire warriors in the hovertank, otherwise they will be shot, a lot

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 22:53:00 No.14787132 Report

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Do NOT use vespids.
Just that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 22:55:00 No.14787142 Report

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Vespids are really terrible. They're costly, frail, very short range, and their S5 AP3 gun turns them into a massive fire draw despite not actually being that good (only one shot at BS3 is kind of lame). You'd be better off with suits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 22:55:00 No.14787143 Report

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>>14787132
I'm doing this partly as a painting project, I'm not interested in how good or bad each unit is, just as long as it looks good and is reasonably playable (aka, not steam rolled every game).

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Loch !!GzWmGH6V4eu Mon 02 May 2011 22:56:00 No.14787148 Report

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>I would like a unit of fire warriors (maybe 2)
You are allowed to take 6 fire warriors per army. Not a single shas'la more. Put them in a devilfish and go camp objectives with it because they're no bloody good at anything else.

>kroot
Yes. As many as you can fit, but only after you've maxed out on Elites/HS

>vespids
Save yourself the crushing disappointment now and get piranha instead.

>some stealth suits
This is a maybe at 1k points. A big maybe at that. They won't really do anything that can't be done by railguns and fireknife crisis suits more effectively from further away.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 22:57:00 No.14787151 Report

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>>14787143

> just as long as it looks good and is reasonably playable (aka, not steam rolled every game).

boy do i have bad news for you

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 22:57:00 No.14787152 Report

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A couple guidelines:
- Fire warrior units should always be minimum size and inside a devilfish. Never unload them.
- Broadsides should ONLY be accompanied by shield drones (don't bother with other drone types). Also, broadsides are awesome.
- Vespids are terrible, ignore them.
- Kroot are better then they seem.
- Magnetize your crisis battle suits so that you can easily swap weapons. This will save you a CRAPTON of money.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 23:00:00 No.14787172 Report

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>>14787110

Taufag here

AVOID VESPIDS LIKE AIDS RIDDEN PITBULLS WITH RABIES

Xv25(stealths) are also not too cost efficient due to costing a arm and a leg and are well bad

Firewarriors should be bought as a 60 point upgrade to make you Devil fish Scoring and it should have Disruption pods and a Multi tracker

And lastly on what you mentioned were Kroot these are not a assault unit these are a Speedbump to keep them from killing the useful things in your army

something you will need are Broadsides or Hammerheads en masse and Crisis suits these are the only things that do fuck all in our army and one last thing MARKER LIGHTS these are the one upside

Other than that you chose one of the weakest armies currently in the game it will make you a better Player if you stick at it though

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 23:14:00 No.14787260 Report

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>>14787143
Vespids will get steam rolled everygame.

Not just somtimes.
On a good day you will kill 3 marines with them and they will be whiped out.
But most of the time, just insta-dead. Dead dead dead

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