Today We just played a quick battle, where I tried to use the sweet XV8s with fusion blasters against armoured targets with no use. Let's see what happened:
My army list:
HQ:
Shas'vre with plasma, MP, MT, HW-DC, PR, 2 Shield drones
2 bodyguards with plasma, MP, TA, HW-MT
Elite:
XV8 team leader, TL-FB, TA, HW-DC 2 shield drones
XV8 TL-FB, TA
2*XV8 TL-MP, TA (favourite type of XV8, the Deathrains)
Troop:
2* 6 Fire warrior in Devilfish with DP (usual troop choice)
Heavy:
HH+BC+RG+MT+DP (my usual HH)
He had a land raider, 2 razorbacks with linked lascannons, 2*5 space marines, 5 terminators, 6 scouts, one with a missile launcher, and a Master of the Forge with his conversion beamer which I really hate.
I guess I should make photos about the battles because this way It's really hard to explain clearly what happened, so I'll just roughly explain what happened.
We played seize ground, with 4 points and rolled spearhead. I deployed only my HQ, Hammerhead and my Deathrains, He deployed his Land raider and one Razorback standing together with his MOF attached to the scouts in a ruin (3+ because of the MOF) controlling a point.
In the first round We did nothing, noone could do nothing, not even a wound or a crew shaken.
In the second round I called in my FB XV8s near the Land Raider, which was a mishap, and he replaced my XV8s to the farest corner from his tanks. He came in with only his terminators, eliminating my Deathrains with a concentrated fire from everything.
3rd round one of my DF came in, sneaking near the side of the table to one of the farer points... Because of the terminators I turned back with my HQ and didn't try to outflank that damn razorback with its lascannon in the 3+ cover, but attacked the terminators.
From here things started to get fast so I don't remember clearly, but my HHs railgun got blown up (not inflicting a single wound or crew shaken) my second devilfish and his second razorback came in, I got my FB squad terminated, my HQ running and controlling 2 points, while he controlled one and contested one with my useless HH. In the 7th round I gave up, when I only had one control point, I've been near another one but standing in a crater with 3 fire warriros who survived the destruction of my DF (of 4 armour saves, I rolled 3 1s...) and that broken HH of mine.
Another loss for the great Tau Empire!
What did I learn? That tau don't have Leadership, and tend to run off the table, that HHs can't be used against tanks and that deep striking is a risky thing. I'm not sure my command squad is the best, I have to rethink that... Just the usual stuff. What do You think?
My army list:
HQ:
Shas'vre with plasma, MP, MT, HW-DC, PR, 2 Shield drones
2 bodyguards with plasma, MP, TA, HW-MT
Elite:
XV8 team leader, TL-FB, TA, HW-DC 2 shield drones
XV8 TL-FB, TA
2*XV8 TL-MP, TA (favourite type of XV8, the Deathrains)
Troop:
2* 6 Fire warrior in Devilfish with DP (usual troop choice)
Heavy:
HH+BC+RG+MT+DP (my usual HH)
He had a land raider, 2 razorbacks with linked lascannons, 2*5 space marines, 5 terminators, 6 scouts, one with a missile launcher, and a Master of the Forge with his conversion beamer which I really hate.
I guess I should make photos about the battles because this way It's really hard to explain clearly what happened, so I'll just roughly explain what happened.
We played seize ground, with 4 points and rolled spearhead. I deployed only my HQ, Hammerhead and my Deathrains, He deployed his Land raider and one Razorback standing together with his MOF attached to the scouts in a ruin (3+ because of the MOF) controlling a point.
In the first round We did nothing, noone could do nothing, not even a wound or a crew shaken.
In the second round I called in my FB XV8s near the Land Raider, which was a mishap, and he replaced my XV8s to the farest corner from his tanks. He came in with only his terminators, eliminating my Deathrains with a concentrated fire from everything.
3rd round one of my DF came in, sneaking near the side of the table to one of the farer points... Because of the terminators I turned back with my HQ and didn't try to outflank that damn razorback with its lascannon in the 3+ cover, but attacked the terminators.
From here things started to get fast so I don't remember clearly, but my HHs railgun got blown up (not inflicting a single wound or crew shaken) my second devilfish and his second razorback came in, I got my FB squad terminated, my HQ running and controlling 2 points, while he controlled one and contested one with my useless HH. In the 7th round I gave up, when I only had one control point, I've been near another one but standing in a crater with 3 fire warriros who survived the destruction of my DF (of 4 armour saves, I rolled 3 1s...) and that broken HH of mine.
Another loss for the great Tau Empire!
What did I learn? That tau don't have Leadership, and tend to run off the table, that HHs can't be used against tanks and that deep striking is a risky thing. I'm not sure my command squad is the best, I have to rethink that... Just the usual stuff. What do You think?
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteGenerally there's nothing wrong with the command set-up, I just think it's alot of points in a 1000 pts army. Also I think the fusion suits are too risky. Railguns do it so much better.
If you dropped the fusion suits, downgraded the 2 bodyguards to a normal crisis suit unit (that the shas'el could still join), and finally downgraded the shas'el's drones to gun drones (use cover to give you a 4+ cover save) you'd save 191 pts.
For 195 pts you could have a unit of 2 broadsides with 2 shield drones, that also have the advanced stabilisation system so they can move and fire. To save the extra pts (although I see nothing wrong with TAs on deathrains) I'd downgrade one of the deathrain TA for a Target lock.
Don't be disheartened, it takes a while to find the sytle of play that works for you, all I suggest is magnitize the crisis suit weapons so you can switch them to try out different configs.
Good luck with your Tau
Rathstar
Hello Rathstar,
ReplyDeleteI will certainly try out what You suggested. You are absolutely right about the drones, I'm almost always in cover luckily, I can watch out for that a bit more.
It seems I forgot to write a report about a battle where de FB XV8s were great, though only while they destroyed a land raider. I should go with the Broadsides, You are right, I think.
Thanks for the first comment,
levente