Holding out hope for a Farsight Enclaves detachment, which gives access to a stratagem that can make fusion blasters into fusion blades for one fight phase.
People expect Tau to play very slow and stationary, which can work extremely well in your first few games against newer players. Your best games as a Tau will be the games you lose or the games you fight from behind and come back because you will learn exactly where you need to sharpen up for specific threats. Tau units are versatile in how they can be built and function which gives them a lot of quick malleability, so dont be afraid to experiment with all ranges of builds and weapons. I highly recommend magnetizing your gun attachments for this reason, though personally i have never cared what a model looked like vs what was on my opponent's list. Hope this helps!
Any tips for someone who’ll be playing against orks? Most of my friends play orls exclusively. I guess ver generally what would you suggest. Also, thank your comment was very helpful.
Coldstars are always awesome, but don't count out Enforcers. An Enforcer reduces armor penetration by 1 against all attacks for himself and the unit he's leading. I like to give him Exemplar of the Kauyon. This gives his unit's ranged weapons sustained hits 1 from the 2nd round onward. He carries 4 weapons, like the Coldstar. Leading a unit of 3 - 6 Crisis suits gives him a wide range of versatility for mob control and armor hunting. Plus, that 4th slot gives him easy room for a shield generator to make him extra tough. Toughness is something you'll need with orcs. The Coldstar can move, but orcs have Da Jump, and can potentially reach you anywhere anyway. Let them come to you and be tough. Plus, make the crisis suits guided, and you've got a buffer against negative to hit firing weapons into melee.
@@jamesramirez523The greatest strengths Orks are likely to have against you are transports that you'd do well to destroy before they can get close to you.
Finally getting into 40k after all these years of being a fan of the setting and my first army I'm working towards is T'au, what a coincidence. This will surely help me work towards the Greater Good!
I'm in the exact same boat. been playing the games and reading the books since at least 2011 with Space Marine, and I bought the Start Collecting Tau box last year. one of these days I'll probably pick up the combat patrol box to continue my (very slow) march towards a real army. Good thing I can play on TTS in the meantime
I really hope TAU gets some love at some point, some new models and updates to some of the models would be amazing!!!! Surely Kroot makes a comeback with more models to!!
I'd argue that T'au is in a better place than IG or AdMech, much more likely to get some love than those two, so you could be hanging out with us peons instead lol
If you want to play T'au it's strongly recommended you magnetise your crisis suits and weapon options. Works for Riptides and Ghostkeels too. And a little for Broadsides. Also if you work out which bits to just put together/blu tack you can run a hammerhead as both guns, a skyray or a devilfish depending how you play.
@@colecarmichael5724 a lot of people are more relaxed in casual. I generally like to run WYSIWYG but when it's a whole unit with identical wargear and there's no other units with different wargear but the same models it's not going to cause problems. I you do end up having different loadouts on identical models or lots of stuff which is different loadouts and different models it becomes hard to keep track of at best and easy to cheat at worst.
Just bought an Apocalypse Vanguard Detachment box for 130€ off of ebay today. Riptide, Commander and six Crisis suits. Pretty good point value and overall great units to expand any Tau army with.
@@LegionVillain There are SO many great ideas for Kill Team, but James thougth we really needed a 5th Space Marine Kill Team... BTW, I'm once again reminded that Nids don't even have a bespoke team yet. Imagine how great a Nids vs Catachans KT would've been.
tau is a fun army getting crisis suits and devilfish and pathfinders is a great choice pathfinders can get guide twice in a turn so if you have a vehicle like stormsurge you can get heavy and have it be guided so you only have to roll a 2+ to hit a ghostkeel and broadside is good too (def get the combat patrol since you get all the usefull things)
How to start a Tau Army; 1.) watch Gundam, Evangelion, Gurren Laggen, Darling In the Frannx, 86, etc. 2.) Realize that you’ll be forever bullied for playing the only army that tries to use “advanced tactics and technology” in a universe where Titans and Daemons exist. 3.) Enjoy your thicc battle mech waifu Tau pilots
I still have a riptide, a pathfinder squad, an ethreal, and a few drones from an attempt to get started a few years back. I'm trying to get my friend in to it because he is big on the lore. Hopefully what I got can still be a good fit.
Honestly, the most shocking part of this entire video is the part where such a large portion of the comments section can summed up with "I hate Tau, and GW should delete them entirely". Like, seriously, what is wrong with wanting to play the faction that actually uses advanced tech, and has goals other than war crimes and genocide? But who am I kidding? GW doesn't listen to anyone other than the SM fanbois, so as long as that keeps up, the best Tau can hope to get is an index writer who couldn't give a crap about the faction he was writing for, copy/pasted abilities from the last edition that don't really work any more, a detachment rule that doesn't exist for the most important half of the game, and no balance changes other than GW saying "just make them a horde army". Don't get me wrong, it would be great if GW would stop making Tau so aggressively British with how they insist on never giving the auxiliaries any decent equipment... or access to the army rule... or any reason to bring them other than flooding the board with chaff...
I was memed on until my 3 Broadsides wiped half of my opponent's army in just one turn. 96 missile pods and 3 smart missles do a ridiculous amount of crowd control. 🤣
I would just like to say I have a new hatred of Tau now that in my engineering class, we are using the Greek letter Tau. This is a joke by the way. I have actually been thinking about starting Tau. (Farsight mech)
I just want to throw this in for anyone interested in starting T'au. Buying 2 combat patrols is actually a very good deal right now, especially if you are working towards a 2k list. Most lists want 2 ghostkeels, stealth suits are a great tetra alternative on a budget (and fulfill a great role in the list), multiple breacher units is a meta viable build, and both of those breachers will want a cadre. The only unit you don't want 2 of is the Ethereal and even then you can just use the other for kitbashing practice/cool basing material.
Totally agree. I ended up kit bashing my own cadre fireblades with the 2 spare ethereals I had. I tend not to use Ethereals in favour of farsight but actually the extra CP farm is totally worth it
I've been watching TrollTrader for pretty good discounts on unpainted miniatures, assembled or on sprue. Got about 700 points so far, assuming I can Blue Stuff my way into an extra Pathfinder and Fire Warrior unit. The Combat Patrol box should get me to 1000 points but the Ghostkeel doesn't spark joy so I'll wait until I've painted everything else up (and I'll wait to assemble the Crisis Suits until GW tells us what loadouts they'll allow).
I managed to get the boarding patrol box earlier this year, great value in it. Just hoping there's eventually another box set to keep going cause man the suits are pricey
This is for those who are looking for big and powerful tau models: Stormsurge or tiger shark (standard,not AX-0-1), these two will walloop your opponent
New to WH, and decided on Tao. Bulding my first box, Combat Patrol. I built Breachers, now working on the Stealth suits. Is there a guide of what drones to build?
Hi! Tau player here , currently Drones are now wargear / reminder tokens , so Technically you dont have to have them on the field ,although i still recommend sticking a drone beside a unit with the wargear equipped just as a personal reminder. For Drones it will be unit dependent but generally , support units that dont have the markerlight keyword like stealth suits , probably want a markerlight drone + plus a shield drone , aggressive units might want gun drones (this is most common on Breachers alongside the guardian drone) , and high value units such as crisis , you will normally run shield drones to give them extra wounds
Besides the obligatory Mont’ka and Kauyon detachments, I think we’ll see some of the old apocalypse cadre formations come back as detachments. Rapid insertion cadre for battle suits, Optimized stealth cadre for stealth/ghostkeels and pathfinders, armored interdiction cadre for tank/transport heavy lists, and auxiliary reserve cadre for auxiliary lists. It feels like this would cover most types of lists that Tau would want to field although I would love for more auxiliary units to be available since the pickings are pretty slim to theme and entire army around.
Personally the Crisis suits annoy me. They are auto CIBs, almost no advantage to anything else. Wish they would move the CIBs to a brand new T'au kit. I personally would change their load out to make the second of any one wepon would give it Twin-Linked and the third either giving a reroll witht that weapon or forcing you to take something else.
Hey, im just starting out an I'm not sure I understand correctly, the video says the box contains a total of 390 points of units, but when ever I use an online army builder if I just add all the units it seems to be more than 2000 points, I must be doing something wrong but im not sure what
........ did u watch the poorhammer video ,that was for taking into account one of EACH unit , and ur not going to buy one of each unit , esp the overcosted ones
Claiming that Tau are easy to paint seems way off, especially if you are going Vior'la like the box art. They are full of flat planes that demand good brush control or an airbrush, a lot of panel lining that will be a PITA without oils, and they have so many edges as space marines, but many are far harder to reach, as the infantry is much smaller than most. They are not the very highest tiers in painting difficulty, but there aren't many things armies are way harder. I'd rather paint Death Guard, with all the million tentacles, than those flat panels. And nowhere near the easiest armies: Necrons, then Tyranids.
can someone explaine me how the sacont list works he has 2 6 krisis squads and 2 commander but then he has farside what squad farside is joining? or is he just flying around on his own
Give us a farsight crisis kit with swords for farsight to lead. James needs to stop being a coward and give tau some high risk melee units so we can stop being a 1 phase army for once.
First you grab a hammer. Second hit yourself with it. Third keep doing until you stop thinking about building a tau army. Nah just kidding go tau if anyone wants and habe fun. If I would do it would be a stealth sneaky army😊
How to start a tau army: Play guard instead. :) I collected them back when they just came out and a bunch of them were metal. I think Nick from PlayOn (Tabletop) is probably a great inspiration for the faction because he's into them being fun, rather than a wish fulfilment army of 40k needing something positive. In case you don't know, tau are a sinister faction and GW has done well to steer away from the goody-two-shoes image they had and are trying to show their authoritarianism and deepseated supremacist beliefs of being superior to other species. Sadly a lot of people haven't realized it yet or how their own world views align in pretty gross ways.
@@Smilomaniac I don't disagree that tau can have bad aspects to their civilisation, I just don't like how GW immediately goes to ~~Mind control~~, like, sure, make them when they meet other factions, it's either assimilate or die sorta thing, or have their weapons be incredibly effective (as they are) but incredibly torturous. Idk it just seems like a weird direction. But that still doesn't mean they aren't a faction to be developed, but considering their entire thing is technological progress, unless they were completely destroyed then they need victories here and there to learn, whether that involves many tau getting dissolved by Tyranids or bolter fire then so be it, as long as the faction's lore is developed from it
I don't understand why this video was made, why would someone start a Tau Army? Is this so we identity those who may be 'at risk' mentality? That's the only explication that makes any sense.
Holding out hope for a Farsight Enclaves detachment, which gives access to a stratagem that can make fusion blasters into fusion blades for one fight phase.
Want a new space marines lieteunant you say?
@@enriquegd2977 Lieutenant with fusion blade. (It has anti-T'au 4+ and he uses spare parts of Crisis Suits to reinforce his armor.)
Please nooooooooo
that would be sick
@@fruitzpunch7721 excuse me while I kitbash the new combi-weapon Lt from anti-tyranid to anti-tau
I want this so bad. But alas all we’re going get is more marines.
People expect Tau to play very slow and stationary, which can work extremely well in your first few games against newer players. Your best games as a Tau will be the games you lose or the games you fight from behind and come back because you will learn exactly where you need to sharpen up for specific threats.
Tau units are versatile in how they can be built and function which gives them a lot of quick malleability, so dont be afraid to experiment with all ranges of builds and weapons. I highly recommend magnetizing your gun attachments for this reason, though personally i have never cared what a model looked like vs what was on my opponent's list.
Hope this helps!
Any tips for someone who’ll be playing against orks? Most of my friends play orls exclusively. I guess ver generally what would you suggest.
Also, thank your comment was very helpful.
Coldstars are always awesome, but don't count out Enforcers. An Enforcer reduces armor penetration by 1 against all attacks for himself and the unit he's leading. I like to give him Exemplar of the Kauyon. This gives his unit's ranged weapons sustained hits 1 from the 2nd round onward. He carries 4 weapons, like the Coldstar. Leading a unit of 3 - 6 Crisis suits gives him a wide range of versatility for mob control and armor hunting. Plus, that 4th slot gives him easy room for a shield generator to make him extra tough. Toughness is something you'll need with orcs. The Coldstar can move, but orcs have Da Jump, and can potentially reach you anywhere anyway. Let them come to you and be tough. Plus, make the crisis suits guided, and you've got a buffer against negative to hit firing weapons into melee.
@@jamesramirez523The greatest strengths Orks are likely to have against you are transports that you'd do well to destroy before they can get close to you.
Finally getting into 40k after all these years of being a fan of the setting and my first army I'm working towards is T'au, what a coincidence. This will surely help me work towards the Greater Good!
I'm in the exact same boat. been playing the games and reading the books since at least 2011 with Space Marine, and I bought the Start Collecting Tau box last year. one of these days I'll probably pick up the combat patrol box to continue my (very slow) march towards a real army. Good thing I can play on TTS in the meantime
@@burnin8able same, got into 40K a year ago, got some money recent and bought some units, a ghostkeel a unit of pathfinders and a devilfish
I really hope TAU gets some love at some point, some new models and updates to some of the models would be amazing!!!!
Surely Kroot makes a comeback with more models to!!
Did you see roadmap? They are getting new things in Spring 24
I'd argue that T'au is in a better place than IG or AdMech, much more likely to get some love than those two, so you could be hanging out with us peons instead lol
If you want to play T'au it's strongly recommended you magnetise your crisis suits and weapon options. Works for Riptides and Ghostkeels too. And a little for Broadsides. Also if you work out which bits to just put together/blu tack you can run a hammerhead as both guns, a skyray or a devilfish depending how you play.
For casual warhammer don’t people just mention when they have or no? I’m brand new it’s just what I heard
@@colecarmichael5724 a lot of people are more relaxed in casual. I generally like to run WYSIWYG but when it's a whole unit with identical wargear and there's no other units with different wargear but the same models it's not going to cause problems. I you do end up having different loadouts on identical models or lots of stuff which is different loadouts and different models it becomes hard to keep track of at best and easy to cheat at worst.
@@chrisc7563 man I wish I understood anything you said sorry super new to warhammer
DONT DO THIS GUYS NOBODY CARES ABOUT WHAT WEAPONS ARE ON YOUR CRISIS AS NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THEY RE ITS JUST DUMB
Do not give a shit build your models in the way you find them cool@@colecarmichael5724
Step 1: Buy or print 18 Cyclic Ion Blasters because the Commander kit only comes with one and Crisis Suit kits come with zero.
Need 21 or 22 for the team+commander ;)
Just bought an Apocalypse Vanguard Detachment box for 130€ off of ebay today. Riptide, Commander and six Crisis suits. Pretty good point value and overall great units to expand any Tau army with.
I just bought 4 Piranhas, 4 Hammerhead, 2 Skyray, 4 Devilfish, 6 Stealth Suit and 20 Fire Warriors for 135€ used
Where the fuck are you finding this shit they don't exist online for me
Should've made this video last month for Sept-ember.
Maybe a little too soon? Ah, who am I kidding, they're not Marines, they're lucky James has even bothered to make a new Krootox.
The year is 2050; GW still hasn’t acknowledged Xenos or human auxiliaries in T’au beyond Kroot
@@darko-man8549 But on the bright side James is selling the brand new Ultramarine Captain Shitting on a Toilet! And it only costs 300€!
@@DominatorLegend now with a new set of war gear they haven’t released rules for yet
I'm saying a tau guevesa fighting any other xenos threat would make a great killteam box.
@@LegionVillain There are SO many great ideas for Kill Team, but James thougth we really needed a 5th Space Marine Kill Team...
BTW, I'm once again reminded that Nids don't even have a bespoke team yet. Imagine how great a Nids vs Catachans KT would've been.
Ooooh I've been looking into Tau so this ought to help! Thanks 👍
tau is a fun army
getting crisis suits and devilfish and pathfinders is a great choice
pathfinders can get guide twice in a turn
so if you have a vehicle like stormsurge
you can get heavy and have it be guided so you only have to roll a 2+ to hit
a ghostkeel and broadside is good too
(def get the combat patrol since you get all the usefull things)
I'm loving my Tau with double Hammerheads led by Longstrike! Give me that 72" range and a big bad mother lover to shoot!
so you have 3 hammerheads or?@@jroden06
I just watched your Video on starting Tau from 2022 and now I reload my feed and this pops up. Great timing there!
How to start a Tau Army;
1.) watch Gundam, Evangelion, Gurren Laggen, Darling In the Frannx, 86, etc.
2.) Realize that you’ll be forever bullied for playing the only army that tries to use “advanced tactics and technology” in a universe where Titans and Daemons exist.
3.) Enjoy your thicc battle mech waifu Tau pilots
Watching Eva and Darling In The Frannx is recommended for anyone in general.
2 is the reason I stopped playing Tau lmao
I downloaded titanfall 2 again after 2years and i was like “I need to start Tau “
@@DarkKnightCuronin my play group of 6,4 of them play imperium,1 necron and me play da Ork
@@TheAHuman you sound like a Slaanesh cultist
I still have a riptide, a pathfinder squad, an ethreal, and a few drones from an attempt to get started a few years back. I'm trying to get my friend in to it because he is big on the lore. Hopefully what I got can still be a good fit.
These types of videos are super valuable, especially for new players. 👍🏻
I think Aun'va has been so popular last edition and even this one that might be a good canadate for updating to plastic. Same goes for Tetras
Hey thanks for making this video I love the tau and this is a great overview and easy explanation for a new warhammer player!
Honestly, the most shocking part of this entire video is the part where such a large portion of the comments section can summed up with "I hate Tau, and GW should delete them entirely".
Like, seriously, what is wrong with wanting to play the faction that actually uses advanced tech, and has goals other than war crimes and genocide?
But who am I kidding? GW doesn't listen to anyone other than the SM fanbois, so as long as that keeps up, the best Tau can hope to get is an index writer who couldn't give a crap about the faction he was writing for, copy/pasted abilities from the last edition that don't really work any more, a detachment rule that doesn't exist for the most important half of the game, and no balance changes other than GW saying "just make them a horde army".
Don't get me wrong, it would be great if GW would stop making Tau so aggressively British with how they insist on never giving the auxiliaries any decent equipment... or access to the army rule... or any reason to bring them other than flooding the board with chaff...
Amen
I still got a couple of metal XV15 models. Those are old af. And look it.
But i love them as they were my very first Tau models.
This video has helped me (a beginner) and is certainly working towards The Greater Good
Why collect them? To have a mecha suit only army of course! Pew pew!
I picked up a box of Kroot Carnivores just in case the new sculpts would be dynamic posed... I want to customise them a lot.
First: Be prepared to be memed on.
Second: Have fun anyway.
I can attest to this 😂 if you are going to play T’au, you better have thick skin and a healthy dose of self irony, or you are in for a bad time.
Tau against tau is like shooting fish in a barrel ( I play tau and find the fish meme so funney
I was memed on until my 3 Broadsides wiped half of my opponent's army in just one turn. 96 missile pods and 3 smart missles do a ridiculous amount of crowd control. 🤣
I would just like to say I have a new hatred of Tau now that in my engineering class, we are using the Greek letter Tau.
This is a joke by the way. I have actually been thinking about starting Tau. (Farsight mech)
Frist thing you should get for tau is magnets. Gw likes to f the meta so you'll be changing load outs frequently. So long ion blasters!
I just want to throw this in for anyone interested in starting T'au. Buying 2 combat patrols is actually a very good deal right now, especially if you are working towards a 2k list.
Most lists want 2 ghostkeels, stealth suits are a great tetra alternative on a budget (and fulfill a great role in the list), multiple breacher units is a meta viable build, and both of those breachers will want a cadre. The only unit you don't want 2 of is the Ethereal and even then you can just use the other for kitbashing practice/cool basing material.
Totally agree. I ended up kit bashing my own cadre fireblades with the 2 spare ethereals I had. I tend not to use Ethereals in favour of farsight but actually the extra CP farm is totally worth it
I'm painting my Tau right now!
i build an entire tau army made from piper makes models. they look so cool. love them
I do this too! super dynamic and refreshing given the sculpts from GW are ancient :'D
I love the thing about the deep warp as a chaos player and fan
I've never played tal but played against it all the time. This was my fun idea of a tile that controls the middle of the board and slowly moves back as it shoots. You finally attacking you and turn four and five.
Tau (1995 points)
T’au Empire
Strike Force (2000 points)
Kauyon
CHARACTERS
Commander Shadowsun (100 points)
• Warlord
• 1x Advanced Guardian Drone
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Command-link Drone (Aura)
1x Flechette launcher
2x High-energy fusion blaster
1x Light missile pod
1x Pulse pistol
OTHER DATASHEETS
Broadside Battlesuits (270 points)
• 1x Broadside Shas’vre
• 1x Crushing bulk
1x Heavy rail rifle
2x Missile Drone
1x Twin plasma rifle
1x Weapon Support System
• 2x Broadside Shas’ui
• 2x Crushing bulk
2x Heavy rail rifle
4x Missile Drone
2x Twin plasma rifle
2x Weapon Support System
Broadside Battlesuits (270 points)
• 1x Broadside Shas’vre
• 1x Crushing bulk
1x Heavy rail rifle
2x Missile Drone
1x Twin plasma rifle
1x Weapon Support System
• 2x Broadside Shas’ui
• 2x Crushing bulk
2x Heavy rail rifle
4x Missile Drone
2x Twin plasma rifle
2x Weapon Support System
Broadside Battlesuits (270 points)
• 1x Broadside Shas’vre
• 1x Crushing bulk
1x Heavy rail rifle
2x Missile Drone
1x Twin plasma rifle
1x Weapon Support System
• 2x Broadside Shas’ui
• 2x Crushing bulk
2x Heavy rail rifle
4x Missile Drone
2x Twin plasma rifle
2x Weapon Support System
Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Cyclic ion raker
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin burst cannon
Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Cyclic ion raker
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin burst cannon
Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Cyclic ion raker
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin burst cannon
Kroot Farstalkers (70 points)
• 1x Kroot Kill-broker
• 1x Kroot pistol
1x Pulse rifle
1x Ritual blade
• 9x Kroot Farstalker
• 9x Close combat weapon
1x Dvorgite skinner
8x Farstalker firearm
9x Kroot pistol
1x Pech’ra
• 2x Kroot Hound
• 2x Ripping fangs
Kroot Farstalkers (70 points)
• 1x Kroot Kill-broker
• 1x Kroot pistol
1x Pulse rifle
1x Ritual blade
• 9x Kroot Farstalker
• 9x Close combat weapon
1x Dvorgite skinner
8x Farstalker firearm
9x Kroot pistol
1x Pech’ra
• 2x Kroot Hound
• 2x Ripping fangs
Kroot Farstalkers (70 points)
• 1x Kroot Kill-broker
• 1x Kroot pistol
1x Pulse rifle
1x Ritual blade
• 9x Kroot Farstalker
• 9x Close combat weapon
1x Dvorgite skinner
8x Farstalker firearm
9x Kroot pistol
1x Pech’ra
• 2x Kroot Hound
• 2x Ripping fangs
Krootox Riders (35 points)
• 1x Kroot gun
1x Krootox fists
Stealth Battlesuits (120 points)
• 1x Stealth Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Burst cannon
1x Homing Beacon
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
• 5x Stealth Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
5x Burst cannon
Stealth Battlesuits (120 points)
• 1x Stealth Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Burst cannon
1x Homing Beacon
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
• 5x Stealth Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
5x Burst cannon
Stealth Battlesuits (120 points)
• 1x Stealth Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Burst cannon
1x Homing Beacon
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
• 5x Stealth Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
5x Burst cannon
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Please do such a video for the Black Templars.
I've been watching TrollTrader for pretty good discounts on unpainted miniatures, assembled or on sprue. Got about 700 points so far, assuming I can Blue Stuff my way into an extra Pathfinder and Fire Warrior unit. The Combat Patrol box should get me to 1000 points but the Ghostkeel doesn't spark joy so I'll wait until I've painted everything else up (and I'll wait to assemble the Crisis Suits until GW tells us what loadouts they'll allow).
just checked out trolltrader and my wallets already suffering, thanks for mentioning it
I managed to get the boarding patrol box earlier this year, great value in it. Just hoping there's eventually another box set to keep going cause man the suits are pricey
No doubt as soon as a new wave hits a combat patrol will soon follow.
Just buy old ones used and kitbash
cause one of the competative units is a forge world modell
This is for those who are looking for big and powerful tau models:
Stormsurge or tiger shark (standard,not AX-0-1), these two will walloop your opponent
1500 points. Aun’Shi and all the other aliens. 159 models.
New to WH, and decided on Tao. Bulding my first box, Combat Patrol. I built Breachers, now working on the Stealth suits. Is there a guide of what drones to build?
Hi! Tau player here , currently Drones are now wargear / reminder tokens , so Technically you dont have to have them on the field ,although i still recommend sticking a drone beside a unit with the wargear equipped just as a personal reminder. For Drones it will be unit dependent but generally , support units that dont have the markerlight keyword like stealth suits , probably want a markerlight drone + plus a shield drone , aggressive units might want gun drones (this is most common on Breachers alongside the guardian drone) , and high value units such as crisis , you will normally run shield drones to give them extra wounds
My Favorite two factions are Orks and Tau. They are opposites and both very fun.
Buy 3 Tau commanders and 6 boxes Crisis suits and use your foes tears to salten your meals
The army i wanted to get into but picked up leviathan instead. 😅
That and get 30+ cyclic ion blasters printed out
So, what do we think the new detachments will be? Montka, farsight enclaves, auxiliaries... And then?
Besides the obligatory Mont’ka and Kauyon detachments, I think we’ll see some of the old apocalypse cadre formations come back as detachments. Rapid insertion cadre for battle suits, Optimized stealth cadre for stealth/ghostkeels and pathfinders, armored interdiction cadre for tank/transport heavy lists, and auxiliary reserve cadre for auxiliary lists.
It feels like this would cover most types of lists that Tau would want to field although I would love for more auxiliary units to be available since the pickings are pretty slim to theme and entire army around.
Necrons next 🏌️♀️
theres no box sets with the tau included not including combat patrol or battle forces which makes them kind of expensive
Can you mix septs in one army. Lets say 50/50 Viorla and FSE?
Love the Video,
Could you do a salamanders How to start please
Personally the Crisis suits annoy me. They are auto CIBs, almost no advantage to anything else. Wish they would move the CIBs to a brand new T'au kit. I personally would change their load out to make the second of any one wepon would give it Twin-Linked and the third either giving a reroll witht that weapon or forcing you to take something else.
Cib is not provided in the crisis kit, so you probably gonna see codex version of crisis unable to take any
I think Tau is one of the more expensive armies these days.
For a competitive army, yes
Have you been listening to Poorhammer podcast?
I'd love to see a similar video for other factions.
He made “How to Start…” on lot of factions
yea but most are outdated.@@popegramzz479
Step 1: Draft a 5 page essay on how any faction could possibly be a “good guy” in 40k
What color paint is that tan the tau sept use?
Hey, im just starting out an I'm not sure I understand correctly, the video says the box contains a total of 390 points of units, but when ever I use an online army builder if I just add all the units it seems to be more than 2000 points, I must be doing something wrong but im not sure what
if "not that expensive" means "one of the most expensive armies to collect" as proved by @poorhammer a few days ago, then sure.
........ did u watch the poorhammer video ,that was for taking into account one of EACH unit , and ur not going to buy one of each unit , esp the overcosted ones
Claiming that Tau are easy to paint seems way off, especially if you are going Vior'la like the box art. They are full of flat planes that demand good brush control or an airbrush, a lot of panel lining that will be a PITA without oils, and they have so many edges as space marines, but many are far harder to reach, as the infantry is much smaller than most.
They are not the very highest tiers in painting difficulty, but there aren't many things armies are way harder. I'd rather paint Death Guard, with all the million tentacles, than those flat panels. And nowhere near the easiest armies: Necrons, then Tyranids.
Checked Noble Knights and it’s actually more expensive.
can someone explaine me how the sacont list works he has 2 6 krisis squads and 2 commander but then he has farside what squad farside is joining? or is he just flying around on his own
Give us a farsight crisis kit with swords for farsight to lead. James needs to stop being a coward and give tau some high risk melee units so we can stop being a 1 phase army for once.
The ultimate anti tau weapon, a yuong cat
I'm sitting on 30 crisis suits wishing I could drop the old farsight suit troops
Tau combat patrol lo0king mighty good. Could get away with buying 3.....
Only got about 7k points of tau from 9th that have never seen the table
I have unfortunately lost pretty much every game I have played with my tau.
Tau? You mean Kroot with their gun helpers?
Thanks for the comments section. A who's who to avoid
BETTER GET THIS ONE UPDATED STAT! I AM KROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
I hope they make Vespid killteam one day.
Tau are the lamest race in Tau empire
First you grab a hammer. Second hit yourself with it. Third keep doing until you stop thinking about building a tau army. Nah just kidding go tau if anyone wants and habe fun. If I would do it would be a stealth sneaky army😊
Warhmamrr
#1 get a 3d printer
Better question: Why would you start a Tau army?
😂
Because they're cool
Step one: Dont
Step two: Buy Eldar.
Step three: Rake in the wins.
First step: buy 2000 dollars worth of gouda cheese to go with your cheesy greater gouda
Throw them away and buy a non-comminist faction 😂
Just kidding, Enjoy what you like most
I prefer my hyper capitalist bdsm pirates. But I also have a few other factions for actual play
Don't DO IT
"don't" 😜
You start by not doing it and consider your life choices who led you to even have the thought.
Aw but me no wanna play genocidal maniacs 0~0.
How to start a tau army: Play guard instead. :)
I collected them back when they just came out and a bunch of them were metal. I think Nick from PlayOn (Tabletop) is probably a great inspiration for the faction because he's into them being fun, rather than a wish fulfilment army of 40k needing something positive.
In case you don't know, tau are a sinister faction and GW has done well to steer away from the goody-two-shoes image they had and are trying to show their authoritarianism and deepseated supremacist beliefs of being superior to other species. Sadly a lot of people haven't realized it yet or how their own world views align in pretty gross ways.
It's pretty sad that GW decided that the lore had to be sinister, rather than letting Tau be a naive faction being their hubris.
guard is boring tho
@@sharpshotm16 Still just comes across as good, you need them to fail permanently for that idea to work, in which case I’m all for it.
@@ToastedMap1e They’re probably the most versatile faction in the game.
@@Smilomaniac I don't disagree that tau can have bad aspects to their civilisation, I just don't like how GW immediately goes to ~~Mind control~~, like, sure, make them when they meet other factions, it's either assimilate or die sorta thing, or have their weapons be incredibly effective (as they are) but incredibly torturous. Idk it just seems like a weird direction. But that still doesn't mean they aren't a faction to be developed, but considering their entire thing is technological progress, unless they were completely destroyed then they need victories here and there to learn, whether that involves many tau getting dissolved by Tyranids or bolter fire then so be it, as long as the faction's lore is developed from it
I don't understand why this video was made, why would someone start a Tau Army? Is this so we identity those who may be 'at risk' mentality? That's the only explication that makes any sense.
Aw but I don't want to play a faction of genocidal maniacs...
I hope you are joking lol, your views are more outdated than a finecast model
The trick to having fun when building a Tau army is to buy a whole bunch of Kroot and don’t build a Tau army.
Starting Tau army:
Buy some intercessors, paint them blue and stop with that xeno nonsense.
I'll let myself out.
Most space marines are lame, go xenos i say
Step 1) Don't.
Hint: You don't - you play something else.
You still have time to delete this
bro died to a hammerhead once and decided to be anal about it