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"Craig Little" <craig.little@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well, looking at the V4 list, and leaving out the units I dislike (chiefly
> gun drones) while going Air crazy, I come up with the following
>
> CADRES
>
> Fire Warrior Cadre 200
> Additional Fire Warriors 100
> 3 Stealth Teams 125
Nasty up close, but it's the one formation without transports - do you
really want the Stealths here?
> Cadre Total 425
>
> Battlesuit Cadre 250
> Orca 75
> Shas'el 50
> Broadsides 150
> Crisis 125
> Orca 75
Why two Orcas? They'll fit in one IIRC and the thing has absolutely pathetic
firepower. Plus, it's an ugly flying box.
> Cadre Total 725
>
> Fire Warrior Cadre 200
> Devilfish 75
> Ethereal 75
> Hammerheads 125
> -------
> Cadre Total 475
Presumably the Devilfish are just there to take hits meant for the
Hammerheads?
> CONTINGENTS
>
> Hammerhead Contingent 250
> Swordfish 25
Don't like the Swordfish as it stands on principle - making every new unit
upgraded versions of the old units will make this list as dull as the
Tyranid one, which already does exactly that.
> AIR CASTE
>
> 1 Moray Assault Ship 250
Only one?
> 3 Barracuda Fighters 250
Naturally.
> 2 Tigershark Bombers 300
There's a campaign on the list at the moment to drop the Tigershark from the
army - which is stupid because (a) it is well-established in 40k fluff and
BFG mechanics, (b) it has a model, and (c) people have bought said model.
People just don't think it's all that useful as a bomber and prefer the
stupidly-named Whiteshark (I ask you, what's wrong with a sensible name like
Tau Wobbegong?). Personally, I like to think of it as conceptually a fighter
bomber, but with only bomber movement rules to reflect the relative lack of
maneouvrability of Tau aircraft. I'd also rather the 'true' bomber was more
distinctive than just a Tigershark with an extra railcannon, but I hear
Forge World is making that model (and will probably give it its own name) so
we may be stuck with it.
On the subject of poorly-chosen names, could we please rename the Orca? It
isn't a fish, and anyway the Tau have an Orca as a spacecraft.
> Comes to Exactly 2700 points. I'm a little worried about the low number of
> formations, and am thinking I should probably switch out some of the Air
> Caste for a static firebase of broadside contingents or similar.
> --
> Craig (an Epic-scale penny for your thoughts)
This is my v4 Tau list, which is mostly pretty similar:
Tau v4: 2,700pts
Cadres
Fire Warrior Cadre: 8 Fire Warriors, 3 Devilfish
Fire Warriors: 4 Fire Warriors, 2 Devilfish
Commander: Ethereal
Fire Warrior Cadre: 8 Fire Warriors
Battlesuit Cadre: 4 Crisis Battlesuits, 1 Orca
Broadsides: 2 Broadside Battlesuits
Crisis: 2 Crisis Battlesuits
Contingents
Pathfinders: 6 Pathfinders, 3 Devilfish
Hammerheads: 4 Hammerhead Gunships
Air Caste Formations
3 Barracuda Superiority Fighters
1 Tigershark Bomber
2 Moray Assault Ships
Total: 2,700pts
8 activations - the same as my planned Eldar, Siegemaster and Feral Ork
armies of the same size. Short of tanks for my liking, and fluffily I
dislike the fact that Crisis formations are Contingents rather than Cadres
(I feel that Fire Warriors should be the core of every Cadre), but it's got
good numbers, a couple of nasty war machines and some of the best
interceptors out there. Pity I need the Orca, but it's not *as* ugly and out
of place in Epic as it looks in 40k.
The most surprising thing? The overall cost isn't much more than for Epic
armies with plastic components - and if the Morays can be represented with
BFG Emissaries or Protectors, they work out cheaper than a Fanatic metal war
machine.
Philip Bowles
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