For the Greater Good

I have never taken part in any type of campaign and I suddenly have a real need to take part in one. I have a feeling that I won’t do very well, but that is a different story. I would like to give it a go, not for the competition but to get involved in a large narrative run by others, to be able to get lost in the story through games. I have been looking at a Tau army for a very long time now but have never seemed to get myself to start it.

I really like the idea of a Tau Hunter Cadre; it works in a very similar way to a theoretical modern military force. I like the way that you have to depend on all of the disparate elements of the army to win a game. I have been told that the Tau are very hard to be a success with but I love the narrative concepts that the codex creates in my warped mind, so I’m going to give them a go regardless of whether I am any good with them. I’ll still have fun trying them out.

1500pt Tau Cooperation Cadre

HQ

Shas’o, plasma rifle, missile pod, multi tracker,
drone controller, shield drone. 135pts

Elites

2 battle suits, shas’vre, bonding knife, multi trackers,
Missile pods, plasms rifles, 139pts

2 battle suits, TL fusion blasters, targeting arrays 124pts

3 stealth suits 90pts

Troops

6 Firewarriors, Shasui, markerlght, 80pts

6 Firewarriors, Shasui, markerlght, 80pts

6 Firewarriors, Shasui, markerlght, 80pts

6 Firewarriors, Shasui, markerlght, 80pts

12 Firewarriors, shasui, markerlight 140pts

Fast Attack

8 pathfinders, Rail Rifle 106pts

Devilfish 80pts

Heavy Support

Hamerhead, Railgun, Burst cannons, multitracker 165pts

Skyray 125pts

Broadside 70pts

Tactics

I’m not really sure what I will do with these guys…the basic concept is to use the markerlitghts to support the shooting every turn ad try to blow the enemy off the table. The small firewarrior teams should slow down the destruction of my firebase by the enemy not being able to overrun any longer. The crisis suits will be tasked with pinpointing enemy threats like terminators and destroying them. I also have two suicide suits equipped with Fusion guns and a raised BS, these will target high value enemy armour or leaders. The stealth suits will lurk around at the back of the enemies’ deployment zone distracting my opponent and killing what they can. The pathfinders will infiltrate and not use the Devilfish, which will be used by the large Firewarrior unit and will work as a beacon for my battlesuits. My heavy armour will target high value targets first and then focus on destroying troops so I can dominate objectives.
I don’t really plan on taking objectives but to destroy the enemy to a man. To me this fits in with the way a Tau Cadre would work. I am not sure how this would work in a tournament or gaming weekend. Once I have tested it and built it ill give it a go and see.

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GrimJaw