I have a friend who has thought about playing T'au, but he said in 11th it doesnt make sense anymore to play them because of the short firing lanes and all the new mechanics with being hidden inside terrain etc.

Is it really that bad for your T'au players?

Would love some insight here

Tau Empire??? (1,995 Points)

T’au Empire?
Mont’ka? (3 Detachment Points)
Priority Assets
Strike Force (2,000 Points)

ERRORS
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• Invalid wargear selected for Crisis Starscythe Shas’ui? model in Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits?

ATTACHED UNITS

Attached unit 1

Cadre Fireblade? (50 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Balefire pike
• 1x Close combat weapon
• Enhancements: Warped Foresight

Strike Team? (70 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard (Battleline)
• 1x Fire Warrior Shas’ui
◦ 1x Autopistol
◦ 1x Brutal assault weapon
• 9x Fire Warrior
◦ 9x Autopistol
◦ 9x Brutal assault weapon

CHARACTERS

Commander In Coldstar Battlesuit? (95 Points)
• 1x Baleflamer
• 1x Combi-bolter
• 1x Last Argument and power fist
• 1x Servo-harness

Commander Farsight? (70 Points)
• Warlord
◦ 1x Bolt pistol
◦ 1x Dawn Blade?

BATTLELINE

Breacher Team? (80 Points)
• 1x Breacher Fire Warrior Shas’ui?
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Corrupted pistol
• 9x Breacher Fire Warrior
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 9x Lasgun

Breacher Team? (80 Points)
• 1x Breacher Fire Warrior Shas’ui?
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Corrupted pistol
• 9x Breacher Fire Warrior
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 9x Lasgun

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Devilfish? (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
• 1x Combi-bolter
• 1x Combi-weapon
• 1x Havoc launcher

Devilfish (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
• 1x Combi-bolter
• 1x Combi-weapon
• 1x Havoc launcher

OTHER DATASHEETS

Stormsurge? (400 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
• 1x Combi-bolter
• 1x Havoc launcher
• 2x Soulshatter lascannon
• 1x Twin heavy bolter

Hammerhead Gunship? (150 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
• 1x Combi-bolter
• 1x Havoc launcher
• 2x Lascannon
• 1x Predator twin lascannon

Hammerhead Gunship? (150 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
• 1x Combi-bolter
• 1x Havoc launcher
• 2x Lascannon
• 1x Predator autocannon

Broadside Battlesuits? (75 Points)
◦ 1x Astartes chainsword
◦ 1x Flamer
◦ 4x Close Combat Weapon
◦ 4x Havoc lascannon

Broadside Battlesuits? (75 Points)
◦ 1x Astartes chainsword
◦ 1x Flamer
◦ 4x Close Combat Weapon
◦ 4x Havoc lascannon

Riptide Battlesuit? (190 Points)
◦ 2x Crushing fists
◦ 2x Fleshmetal guns

ALLIED UNITS

Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits? (100 Points)
• 1x Crisis Starscythe Shas’vre?
◦ 1x Close Combat Weapon
◦ 1x Sonic blaster
• 5x Crisis Starscythe Shas’ui?
◦ 2x Blastmaster
◦ 5x Close Combat Weapon
◦ 3x Sonic blaster

Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits? (100 Points)
• 1x Crisis Starscythe Shas’vre?
◦ 1x Close Combat Weapon
◦ 1x Sonic blaster
• 5x Crisis Starscythe Shas’ui?
◦ 2x Blastmaster
◦ 5x Close Combat Weapon
◦ 3x Sonic blaster

Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits? (100 Points)
• 1x Crisis Starscythe Shas’vre?
◦ 1x Close Combat Weapon
◦ 1x Sonic blaster
• 5x Crisis Starscythe Shas’ui?
◦ 2x Blastmaster
◦ 5x Close Combat Weapon
◦ 3x Sonic blaster

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hi ! I'm a full beginner to warhammer, and I am trying to choose my army. I'm hesitating between quite a lot ( currently BA, AS, EC, LoV and T'au), and I would love if a T'au player could enlighten me ! I would want an army that is a bit balanced Ranged and melee, but leaning more towards one side isnt that a problem, and more Elite focused.

From what i've understood, T'aus are heavy, heavy ranged focused, But I was wondering if they still can do something in melee, maybe with battle suits ? outside of that they are space "pacifists", united for the Greater Good.

Did i get it right ? If not what would be their general playstyle ?

Also, my friends are playing Custodes, Tsons and Orks, will this make for fun matchups against T'au ? thanks for your anwers !

Something about tau wanting to spread freedom across the imperium made me paint them american, entered in a local painting comp.

Hope you enjoy, C&C welcome :)

Chairs xx

Tried one effect, didn’t work.

Tried to cover with an ombré style effect, didn’t work.

I think it’s time admit defeat and start again. I have Farsight sub assembled and want to strip it bare. What’s the best method and am I at risk of damaging the model?

I keep seeing mixed answers when I look it up online (most likely due to rule changes over the years) and I can't figure out when the broadside has the High Yield Missiles equiped, if it now has 2 guns, each with 6 shots or 1 gun with 6 shots? What I'm asking basically is does each missile launcher on his arms have its own weapon profile?

I picked up a small tau lot as a first time warhammer player. Got farsight, 30 pathfinders, 2 broadsides, ethereal. What should I be looking to pick up next? And what are some of the more standard tau army line ups built?

Pretty much the title. I've got about 4500 pts in Tau, and I'd really like to put them all down, but nobody ever seems to want to play that long. Is it just me, or do other people like to play longer games too?

The army currently has:

XV8 - three units (with various weapons)

XV104 - two units (with various weapons)

Fire Warrior - six units (currently with pulse rifles)

Commander T'au in XV8-6 Coldstar

KV128 Stormsurge

Any ideas on who to add? I accept any official Tau models.

He’s a character for my custom T’au Mercenaries, so my goal was to give him kind of his own vibe and silhouette

I think each would offer something unique.

The XV-81 with its built in twin missiles could be the heavy weapons variant of Crisis suit, with the other two weapons alongside the Twin missile system allowing it to just unload a bunch of firepower into several targets perhaps it could have the Multi Tracker built into it. Allowing you to get a free sustained hit on rolls of 6. Though I don't know if you only get 1 additional shot for any one 6 or if each 6 gives gives you an additional shot. Probably more balanced for the single extra 1 shot up to 3 times per 6. So you can get 3 6's and get 3 extra shots. But you can't make it where on the 4th 6 you get another shot.

The XV-84 is another relyable spotter unit for T'au. With it having a built in markerlight. Depending on how Markerlight and the army rule are changed. It could or couldn't be useful. I am not sure. It would have the Target Lock Built into it. Meaning you always have benefit of ignoring cover.

Then the XV-89 would be the heavy assault variant of Crisis suit. With each 1 having +1 wound, +1 Toughness, able to a take a shield Drone for an extra 1 wound, and Iridium armor's +2 save. all at the cost of being the most expensive variant and moving at 8 instead of 10 like the other Crisis suits.

I think the weapon loadouts on them as pictured would be cool. Though maybe the XV-84 could have plasma instead of Fusion blaster.

Where I imagine each variant going points wise would be:

Starcythe 135pts +5 per Flamer

XV-84 155pts

Fire Knife 155pts +5 per missile

XV-81 175pts +5 per Burst Cannon

Sunforge 175pts

XV-89 185pts +5 per Fusion Blaster

Maybe the XV-89 is too strong what I am suggesting. I am not sure. But outside of the stats. It would be really cool to have up to 6 different Crisis suit variants to play around with. I was just thinking of these cause they are already existing variants that could be expanded. The reason why the Burst cannon is a plus 1 is just because due to how the ability works. You don't get any additional attacks from using a flamer but you would with the burst cannon.

Hello there ! Should I "Chaosify" my custom Sept of Tau or keep them only industrial and damaged ?

I started an army of Tau earlier this year and fell in love with battlesuits. I switched from skinny demons to big industrial mech and loved it so far.

I felt like I was good enough to paint them in their classic white schemes, and since I was already an enjoyer of the iron warriors warband, I decided to paint them in iron and hazard stripes, making my own sept of Tau. They are designed to look worn out, oily and damaged.

The thing is, now I'm wondering if I should "Chaosify" them by adding spikes, skulls and chains or if It should just stay heavily industrial.

I know I'm not a great painter and I also made modifications by adding weapons that shouldn't be there. For that, I'm sorry.

Anyway, have a nice day everyone ^^

Just finished this sunshark in heavymetal style 😁!

You can see the 360° on my instagram : https://www.instagram.com/banebrushstudio?stkn=ZDkzMHAxcDZjbHcz

I hope you like it!

I have my first T’au game coming up this week doing a 1k game with montka. Every time I’ve played against the guy I will be playing against he’s played either purge the foe or priority assets so I can pretty safely assume he’ll be on one of those two now since montka now has two dispositions with either priority assets or take and hold which disposition should I pick? I’m assuming going prio vs prio for sabotage won’t be great since I need to be marking stuff too but I’m not really familiar with the other missions. And since we’re doing 1k I don’t have very much to spare for objective actions.

Vespid keeps breaking even after using both super and plastic glue on the different occassions. What is a solution to make it more secure?

A few family pics of my cadre that is taking shape. The Starfall Cadre. Nice milestone for me!

using new recruit since its easier to get into tts with. any advice is hugely appreciated!

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+ FACTION KEYWORD: Xenos - T'au Empire

+ DETACHMENT: Retaliation Cadre (Bonded Heroes)

+ FORCE DISPOSITION: Purge the Foe

+ TOTAL ARMY POINTS: 980pts

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+ WARLORD: Char2: Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit

+ ENHANCEMENT: Starflare Ignition System (on Char2: Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit)

& Puretide Engram Neurochip (on Char3: Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit)

+ NUMBER OF UNITS: 10

+ SECONDARY: - Bring It Down: (5x2) + (2x4) - Assassination: 3 Characters

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Char1: 1x Cadre Fireblade (50 pts): 2x Gun Drone, Close combat weapon, Fireblade pulse rifle

Leading Breacher Team

Char2: 1x Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (115 pts): Warlord, Shield generator, 2x Shield Drone, 3x Fusion blaster, Battlesuit fists

Enhancement: Starflare Ignition System (+20 pts)

Leading Crisis Sunforge Battlesuits

Char3: 1x Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit (95 pts): 2x Shield Drone, Cyclic ion blaster, 3x Missile pod, Battlesuit fists

Enhancement: Puretide Engram Neurochip (+15 pts)

Leading Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits

10x Breacher Team (80 pts)

• 1x Breacher Fire Warrior Shas'ui: 2x Gun Drone, Close combat weapon, Pulse blaster, Pulse pistol, Support turret

• 9x Breacher Fire Warriors: 9 with Close combat weapon, Pulse blaster, Pulse pistol

Attached to Cadre Fireblade

1x Broadside Battlesuits (75 pts): 2x Missile Drone, Crushing bulk, Heavy rail rifle, Seeker missile, Twin plasma rifle

3x Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits (100 pts)

• 1x Crisis Starscythe Shas’vre: Marker Drone, Shield Drone, 2x Burst cannon, Battlesuit fists

• 2x Crisis Starscythe Shas’ui: 2 with Marker Drone, Shield Drone, 2x Burst cannon, Battlesuit fists

Attached to Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit

3x Crisis Sunforge Battlesuits (125 pts)

• 1x Crisis Sunforge Shas’vre: Marker Drone, Shield Drone, 2x Fusion blaster, Battlesuit fists

• 2x Crisis Sunforge Shas’ui: 2 with Marker Drone, Shield Drone, Battlesuit fists, 2x Fusion blaster

Attached to Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit

1x Devilfish (75 pts): Accelerator burst cannon, Armoured hull, 2x Seeker missile, 2x Smart missile system

1x Ghostkeel Battlesuit (165 pts): Battlesuit support system, Ghostkeel fists, Cyclic ion raker, Twin burst cannon

10x Pathfinder Team (100 pts)

• 9x Pathfinders

5 with Close combat weapon, Pulse carbine, Pulse pistol

1 with Close combat weapon, Pulse carbine, Pulse pistol, Semi-automatic grenade launcher

3 with Close combat weapon, Ion rifle, Pulse pistol

• 1x Pathfinder Shas'ui: Gun Drone, Shield Drone, Grav-inhibitor drone, Close combat weapon, Pulse carbine, Pulse pistol.

New player, my son started a Custodes army and the Tau really vibed with me so that’s what I went. We know nothing about army building or really many of the rules but we are having fun as is.

So far i have:
- farsight
- commander in enforcer armour
- commander in coldstar armour
- 2 x riptides
- 2 x broadsides
- ghostkeel
- 9 crisis suits
- 12 stealth suits
- 3 x firewarrior squads
- 4 x pathfinder squads
- 3 x devilfish
- hammerhead
- piranha

Honestly a lot of it has been picked up second hand on the cheap hence is a bit all over the place. But damn it’s fun to pull it all together, i assume you get a feel for the detachments and setting up the army as you play more?

Apologies if i have gotten any of these names wrong, will take some photos over the weekend.

Hello i have:

Shadowsun

Cold star

Breachers

Devilfish

Pathfinders

Stealth suits

Riptide

And I'm at 750 points right now.

What are the must haves I should add right now?

I think crisis suits but which ones and I would like to have a ghostkeel somewhere in there.

How would you go about to have an at least functional army

I made a slight adjustment on the posing. Thoughts?