http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/ Fight with fire and courage. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:45:53 GMT vBulletin 120 http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/images/blueone/misc/rss.jpg http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/ http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/tau-empire/183213-drone-transport.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:57 GMT hello all, i have done a search of the forum befor posting this but couldnt find anything, I am looking at doing a fully converted drone army, i have a unit of pathfinder drones and was thinking of converting a transport, what would the tau empire use to transport drones ?, i was thinking along the... hello all, i have done a search of the forum befor posting this but couldnt find anything, I am looking at doing a fully converted drone army, i have a unit of pathfinder drones and was thinking of converting a transport, what would the tau empire use to transport drones ?, i was thinking along the lines of the droids in star wars, they are just held in a rack and dropped off. any help and ideas would be appreciated. ]]> Tau Empire theonetyrant http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/tau-empire/183213-drone-transport.html http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/tau-empire/183115-tau-tournament-army.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:28:54 GMT Hey...
I am doing a club tournament the sunday after this one.....
And have decided i'm going to use my Friends Tau as i an paint it quick enough (it took me 2 hours to paint a terminator, and i want to do half of it again, and i have 16 to paint, along with 5 Drop pods and 5 Long fangs, and a Dread for my space Wolves army, that won't be done.... but i can dry brush tau, and paint the detail quite quickly, i plainted a Hammerhead in about 2 hours, then the second one in about an hour....)
Anyway... i just want some help deciding what to use, i think this is what he has:
Shas'o/el
2/3 Battlesuits (i would rather just use them as Bodyguards....)
over 50 Fire Warrios
10 or 20 Kroot
3 Broadsides
3 Hammerheads
2 Devilfish (possibley 3, i'm not sure...)
8 Pathfinders
he has a couple of broken Piraha things whatever there called, and an Etheral

I was thinking either using a standard army, with 36 Fire Warriors, Shas'o with 2 bodyguards, 8 pathfinders with the devilfish, 3 Broadsides, 2 hammerheads.... he has used that before, with some good results....
Or useing the 3 Hammerheds..... 3 Devilfish dunno... ]]> Tau Empire rodgers37 http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/tau-empire/183115-tau-tournament-army.html http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/tau-empire/182835-kroot-kroot-everywhere.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:27:34 GMT So I've recently come into A LOT of Kroot including Forge World Knarlocs! Now I know I'd have to use Imperial Armor rules to do this but I'd like to make as Kroot heavy an army as I can legally make.

So here's my plan:

1 Shas'el
1 Fire Warrior Squad
(Possibly) 1 Gun Drone Squad

The rest:

Several Carnivore Squads with either Krootox or Kroot hounds
1 Knarloc Rider Squad
3 Great Knarlocs
1 Baggage Knarloc

So you see basically I have the absolute minimum Tau I can field and the rest is Kroot. Now I know this will not be competitive but I don't play in tournaments, I play to have fun. My question is this. Has anyone ever fielded an army like this before and what were your experiences with it?

PS: If I feel like winning a battle I'll use my IG army....that fields no tanks at all. Makes it more interesting that way! :soldier: ]]> Tau Empire bhollenb http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/tau-empire/182835-kroot-kroot-everywhere.html http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/tau-empire/182724-markerlights-best-way-use-them.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:24:15 GMT Yes I realize there is a markerlight guide already, and have read it. It is an impersonal guide however, and I want peaples actual opinions on what does and doesnt work. I am starting a tau army, and I kind of want the focus to be on markerlight combos. so, I want people opinions and the... Yes I realize there is a markerlight guide already, and have read it. It is an impersonal guide however, and I want peaples actual opinions on what does and doesnt work.

I am starting a tau army, and I kind of want the focus to be on markerlight combos. so, I want people opinions and the pros/cons of different ways of using them. So, the ideas that I have had first:

Basic pathfinder squads of course. but I dont know if its better to have small or large squads, and I don't know if it would be cost-effective to add 2 marker drones to up the efficiency of the rest of the unit.

Putting markers on stealth suits: 2 ways to do this. one is to put one on the shas'vre. other way is to get drone controllers on all of them and fill them up with marker drones. this gives an extremely versatile unit that can shoot markerlights even while moving. only problems I see with this are: its extremely expensive, and the gun ranges are a little contradictory.

Crisis: Using the same idea as the stealths, but use Deathrains instead. this allows for unit that is effective against both tanks and infantry, and the gun ranges are the same (really long) so they are in little danger of being shot back at.

Sniper teams: Also have and can use markers. good for killing meqs, and you can have TONS of them. if you are willing to give up railguns :/ I kinda like them tho. lots of fun, and its cool dropping entire SM teams who cant even shoot back.

Vespids: great synergy with lights. Use 2 with a full vespid team and you will kill 8-10 rines in one round of shooting. good unit for a "forward defense team" as well.

So, basically I am looking for peoples ideas as to the most cost-effective lights, if stealth/crisis teams armed with markers is worth it, and what units benefit them most from them. Also, and good light-combos is good (by this I mean like... a sniper team. you use 2, and then put one back on because of the now BS5 markerlight in the group)

Edits: from another forum, I have learned: you cant use MLs to increase ML shots. you CAN have a shas'o with 2 marker drones join squads to basically increase their BS. ]]> Tau Empire dethdukk http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/tau-empire/182724-markerlights-best-way-use-them.html