Greetings and Hello! For the first time in forever, I had a game of 40k with a friend, and It's looking like I have another game of 40k in my near future, and I've been doing a bit of of work on my Tau, fixing the Devilfish, so on, so forth, and I've come up with another list for 1200 points (which is what my friend feels comfortable putting on the table with the amount of troops choices he has available.), and we'll probably be playing on a 4'x4' table.
So, with no further ado:
HQ
-Cadre Fireblade:XX points
--Warlord, sits in Bastion with Pathfinders, markerlighting and supporting in case they happen to be charged.
Elites
-Crisis Suit team: 1x Shas'Vre with Command and Control Node, Puretime Engram Chip, 2x Shas'Ui each with 2x Fusion Blaster, 2x Shield Drones: 190
--For less than the cost of four fusion piranhas, puts out as many fusion shots, but they're also twin linked, tank hunting melta shots. Will either deep strike, or take cover, depending on deployment and army choice. Volume of fire also means that they can plink at Chaos marines if neccessary. Shield Drones are for durability, of course.
-Crisis Suit Team: 3x Shas'Ui each with 2x Burst Cannons, 2x Gun Drones: 158
--Fire support unit for the Fire warriors. Possibly the most marginal unit.
Troops:
- Fire Warrior Team: 1x Fire Warriors with Rifles, 1x Devilfish with 2x Seeker Missiles: 186
- Fire Warrior Team: 1x Fire Warriors with Rifles, 1x Devilfish with 2x Seeker Missiles: 186
--Scoring units, Stay in devilfish until they need to jump on an objective. May give the Fish sensor spines, as the game board will likely have a lot of ruins/craters etc.
Fast Attack:
-Pathfinder Team:8x Pathfinders with Markerlights and Pulse Carbines: 88 points
--Sit in the Bastion with the Fireblade, lighting up the enemy. My understanding, and my opponents, is that weapons fired out of fire slots on buildings don't need to be at the same target, which is my justification for a pathfinder unit of this size.
Heavy Support:
-Hammerhead Gunship: Ion cannon, Blacksun Filter: 126 points
-Hammerhead Gunship: Ion cannon, Blacksun Filter: 126 points
--I Yhwh-condemned love me some Ion cannon hammerheads. The Pieplate comes free, and last game a first turn overcharge ate almost an entire unit of chaos marines, and the other immobalised a rhino before it had a chance to move.
Fortification:
-Bastion: xx Points
--Put this down in deployment area with a corner pointing at the enemies deployment, and I should be able to get 6-8 Lights out the window, or maybe man the heavy bolters.
I'm open to suggestions, but note that I don't have Riptides, Broadsides, or more Crisis suits to put down. Possibly substitutions are Stealth Suits, more fire warriors, different Crisis setups. I'm also curious about running Darkstrider and a unit of Pathfinders with special weapons as a combat/assault unit with a recon drone to call in deep striking Crisis suits, although that seems...reckless.
Edit: It seems we've been incorrect about firing out of buildings, you must still fire at a single unit out of firing slits, so pathfinder squad is likely to shrink.