I have a friend in Knoxville who plays Tau and had an abundance of Crisis suits. He also has a Riptide and Stealth suits, so his Elites are pretty crowded.
I will be going to visit him in a few weeks and wanted to run a good list by him that uses what he has.
After talking to Tarzan and Ben Bills, I came up with this:
HQ
Commander Farsight
Crisis bodyguard (x7)
---2 w/ Fusion blasers (x2 each) & Target lock
---4 w/ Burst cannons (x2 each) & Counterfire Defence Systems
---1 w/ Command and Control Node,
Vectored retro-thrusters
Puretide Engram Neurochip
Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite
-----4 Shield Drones
(if you do not know what the above systems do, find a codex, they are important)
Ethereal
Elites
6 Steathsuits w/ Shas’vre
Riptide w/ Ion accelerator & Stimulant injector
Troops
10 Fire Warriors
10 Fire Warriors
10 Fire Warriors
Fast
7 Pathfinders
Heavy
Hammerhead w/ Longstrike
---Submunition rounds & Disruption pods
2 Broadsides
---High-yield Missile pods & Velocity trackers
2 Broadsides
---High-yield Missile pods & Velocity trackers
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So the point of the list is to form a fire-base around the Ethereal, keeping everything within supporting fire of each other.
Then Farsight's enclave Deepstrikes with no scatter behind the enemy to kill 2-3 units on the drop, then thrust-move away.
With 32 BS2 overwatch shots from the Burstcannons, he shouldn't have to worry about much charging him. If something does get through, they can Hit & Run.
Any thoughts?