Warhammer 40K

[DartStriker]

Table top, Tau are one of the worst army lists I fought. First off, pray to the all mighty Emperor you don't by an Annihilation game. It's so much fun to get a one kill point for every drone I shoot down. Pray you don't fight anyone that deep strikes. Pray you don't fight anyone that outflanks, and pray you don't fight Nids.

That tau need a rules update. To date I have yet to lose to a tau army with my Mech Guard or Decent of Angels Blood Angels army. I've taken two 3rd place trophies and one first place at my local Battle Bunker and each time the tau players who enter those tournaments never made it into the finales.

The biggest problem is your units are too soft, and to easy to kill in Close combat, and they cost to much. (Partially due to being a 4th edition codex still.)
Your best thing going for you is your rail guns, but you can never taken enough fire power to waste through a Mech Guard Chimera bum rush with Valk and Leman Russ Support, which is what I usually bring on my mech guard list. A couple of Vets get up close with flamers and melta guns, the heavy flamers on the Chimera hull burn tau down on a 2 plus and ignore your armor.

Anyways, nothing wrong with playing tau there codex is dated though, to many holes and their is only one competitive list out there really.


/Being pro Imperial rant.

The standard Imperial guardsmen is better in a few base stats over a squad of Firewarriors. Better training, less equipment is the downside a guardsmen has. But you factor in a Guardsmen cost 6 points a model and will still tear tau apart in close combat, ad a commissar to a 20 or 30 man Guard squad and you have a squad that can out fight kroots if it had to.

Deepstriking Stormtroopers rape tau Crisis Suits, when they drop in from deep strike right behind your 150 point crisis suit with shield drones and hit it with 5 Plasma gun shots and 10 hot shot lasguns there isn't much left standing.

The Imperial Valkyrie is a tank hunter, broadside hunter supreme. 3 twinlinked las cannons can turn almost anything in the tau army to paste in one turn.

Coupled with the mighty Leman russ battle tanks, and Manticore rocket launchers, the fearsome might of the guard is something to be reckoned with.

The guard is more then a match for the Tau, and the Imperium of Man could crush the tau, on a whim if they so chose and would have if the Tyranid hive fleet didn't show up.

/End Pro Imperial Rant

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