@GML: First off, stop misquoting me.
Every time I have quoted you, I have not changed a single word that you have written. So every quote has been accurate to what you have written.
Secondly stop putting words in my mouth.
Where?
Thirdly you are the one moving the goalposts to try and punch holes in my conclusions.
You arbitrarily mix single and plural, when it suits you.
You actually think several terminators and a single MEQ model was the comparison I did, and not the other way around?
Ah yes, arbitrarily. Or it's a typo, because everyone is perfect when writing on the internet. Let's ignore every time I used the word "Terminator" and instead focus on the one time I used "Terminators."
But let's address this whole moving of goalposts:
Your first statement was this:
On the more positive side though, T'au got a real boost in shooting, now they have 3 shooting phases...
You claim Tau have 3 shooting phases, which would imply that Tau have three phases in which they can shoot in the same turn. I'll even give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you are referring to game turn, not player turn.
Your error is pointed out to not be the case what so ever in that there is no way that the Tau have three shooting phases in a (game) turn.
So you double down:
T'aus 3 shooting phases:
1. T'aus normal shooting phase
2. T'aus improved overwatch
3. T'aus Fly allows them to keep shooting even when assaulted.
T'au won't have any use for pistols, at least not the units with the "Fly" keyword, since they will be shooting with their guns instead.
Here, you make it clear that you are interpreting the wording of Fly from the article to mean that Tau get to fire in the assault phase, which again is shown to be wrong. You then think that showing the math is going to prove your point, when all it does is reinforce that your initial point about 3 shooting phases is incorrect.
So you try to reassert your point with this:
Here is how the crisis suit shoots:
Turn 1 player 1:
Crisis suit shoots normally.
Turn 1 player 2:
Crisis suit fires overwatch. (possibly along with buddies)
Turn 2 player 1:
Crisis suit moves away from combat at fires, again.
Here is how the terminator shoots:
Turn 1 player 1:
Terminator shoots normally.
Turn 1 player 2:
Terminator fires overwatch.
Turn 2 player 1:
Terminator moves away from combat and can't fire, or stays in combat and still can't fire.
As you can see the Terminator and the crisis suit is not fighting eachother in combat, they are both fighting MEQ's, but we can use GEQ or something else, same story.
If the opposing player can't make a Turn 1 assault even better for T'au, just keep on shooting.
Your flopping between a plural use for MEQ, and singular for GEQ, would imply that the plural is due to the fact that you are referring to to separate engagements. At no point did you clearly state that you are going for an equal valued opponent. When I point that out, then you bring out the idea that you
clearly meant for the engagement to be a 3v1 fight.
What it all comes down to is, quite simply, this:
You stated that the Tau get 3 shooting phases, which is incorrect because they are able to shoot in three separate player turns. You can throw math out all you want and change how things match up, but in the end
you are wrong.