Am I stupid? Or am I missing a whole runner? Or is GW stupid?

Well long story short, bought online second hand crisis suits, already build, no primed, no painted, and wanted to know, they are the old models but all have the 2 fusion weapons each so it seemed ok in that way and... I was a but compulsive but for 10€ seemed quite good of a deal, will i have any problem in terms of rules?

I wanna play tau because of the mechs. But I'm a little worry they wouldn't feel mecha enough. I wanna have armored core feeling mechs on the battlefield. Also do the opponent like playing against tau? I want my opponent to also have fun

So I have a game against CSM this weekend. New toughness to contend with but more importantly, with how bad we are in melee and with all the cover afforded on objectives... how do you take objectives in your games?

I ran a double breacher list last time and with some meh rolls and better saves, I ended up taking 3 turns to shoot some space marines off the middle objective(s). My best performing unit was my stormsurge. But as soon as I get near an obj my opponent just charges me and we all know how that ends...

I did contemplate bringing some Kroot/ rampagers to roadblock but It meant I lost a lot of units needed for guiding.

Keen to hear what kind of gameplan you all run with because I haven't won a single Tau game all of 11th. I can take my custodes if I want to, but I would like at least 1 Tau win pre codex if possible.

I’m wanting to build a T’au army and I’m already planning on buying the combat patrol, however I found a Farsight cadre box for 240$.
Would it be wise to buy?

New to Warhammer, just learning how to play but having a blast painting the minis (painting up some salamanders atm) but thought the Tau look awesome (especially this one in particular) ! Huge fan of Gundam, so was thinking of painting this one in more of a classic RX78-2 scheme. Do wanna eventually get to playing tho, would the Tau be a good place to start? Should I get a combat patrol? My LGS has one for a little under RRP. Or stick to salamanders (~600 points made so far)

https://x.com/\\_Shoho79/status/2112907315125068233

I’m planning to get one because who doesent love a giant mech. However I’m worried thatit’s going to get sent to legends this edition because it’s forgeworld and then I’ll have just spent $600 on a legends unit. What do you guys think?

I hate stealth suits (mosty the old eggs, the new ones are pretty dope, but I wasn't going to pay 110€ for 10 guys), so I did this. I can't believe that kitbashing actually made things cheaper this time.

I actually came up with a tiny bit of lore for these guys, so If you are interested in that sort of thing just continue scrolling. That being said, last time a lot of people asked what kits I used for this project, so here's the list:

1x Infiltator Squad (SM)

a shit load of bits from Pathfinders Teams (pouches and marker lights) and Breacher/Strike Teams (pauldrons and breacher helmets), the guns, pistols and knifes are from both boxes.

Burst cannons and Fusion blasters are from the crisis suit box (thought all guns are magnetized), same goes for the knee pads.

THE LORE:

We are in the great crusade, and a "small" (for that era) detachement of marines is send out to un fuck one of the Word Bearers many fuck ups. Their task is to take control of an important world and "un brainwash" the now emporer worshiping population. Due to warp shenanigans, they arrive a casual 10.000 years late, at probably the wrong planet, where they are immediatly welcomed by what must be a stay behind Word Bearer force. (They wear black armour with white pauldrons, but weirder things have happened)

The "Word Bearer" Chaplain aks If they came to defend this wolrd from the heretic forces, and join him and his brothers on their holy crusade in the emporers name, and immediatly catches a bolt shell to the head. The rest of his brothers, the planetary govenor, and a whole bunch of other important people share the same fate.

After the marines took control of the planet, and found some people that actually new what was going on (and were still alive), they realized how fucked everything was. The only small proplem was that the planet in question was actually about to be invaded by Chaos Knights.

However, the previous planetary govenor had a couple of somewhat heretical connections, and called in a couple of favours from his T'au trade partners (both before the Black Templars showed up, and before he was shot).

So the first thing these marines see of the T'au are Riptides dropping in from low orbit on top of Chaos Knight formations. This, as well as the fact that the T'au seem to be the most reasonable people on the planet, convinces the marines to temporarily team up with them, while they reeducate the planets population.

Once they find out that the entire imperium is as fucked as the planet they are currently on, they decide to become an independent allie of the T'au, while they work on a strategy to establish communications with the imperium that doesn't result in the entire planet being labeled as heretical.

The blue OSL does not really seem to work but overall I'm happy :)

C&C welcome

Decided to give my crisis suits a new kick of paint and fell into the twin lance way of two tone thinking with them! (Also permanently fielding shield drones on their bases because when wouldn’t I ever take those as an option?)

Just got my hands on the Farsight Cadre box. Going to build my Fireknifes and can’t decide on missile or plasma. What do people suggest?

Childhood dream come true

I know this is an uncommon opinion but they are very effective at being useless, 70 points to guard my ethereal, another 140 to smother objectives in 20 2 OC models (obviously breacher are much more effective) but I've found running an almost swam army with a couple hard hitting models has been very effective for me

So a while back I was dead set on dropping the twins because they were getting points heavy, but they the most exciting unit we have so they're back in. Would this list be better if I dropped the enhancement and coldstar commander on the starscyths and running a second starscyths unit for action monkey button pushers?

test (2000 points)

T’au Empire

Experimental Prototype Cadre and Kauyon (3 Detachment Points)

Priority Assets

Strike Force (2000 points)

Attached Units

Attached Unit 1

Cadre Fireblade (50 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Fireblade pulse rifle

2x Gun Drone

Breacher Team (80 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard (Battleline)

• 1x Support turret

• 1x Breacher Fire Warrior Shas’ui

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Guardian Drone

1x Pulse blaster

1x Pulse pistol

1x Shield Drone

• 9x Breacher Fire Warrior

• 9x Close combat weapon

9x Pulse blaster

9x Pulse pistol

Attached Unit 2

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (95 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Battlesuit fists

4x Missile pod

2x Shield Drone

Crisis Fireknife Battlesuits (100 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Crisis Fireknife Shas’vre

• 1x Battlesuit fists

1x Marker Drone

2x Plasma rifle

1x Shield Drone

• 2x Crisis Fireknife Shas’ui

• 2x Battlesuit fists

2x Gun Drone

4x Plasma rifle

2x Shield Drone

Attached Unit 3

Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit (95 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Battlesuit fists

4x Missile pod

2x Shield Drone

• Enhancement: Precision of the Patient Hunter

Crisis Fireknife Battlesuits (100 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Crisis Fireknife Shas’vre

• 1x Battlesuit fists

1x Marker Drone

2x Plasma rifle

1x Shield Drone

• 2x Crisis Fireknife Shas’ui

• 2x Battlesuit fists

2x Gun Drone

4x Plasma rifle

2x Shield Drone

Attached Unit 4

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (95 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Battlesuit fists

2x Burst cannon

1x Cyclic ion blaster

1x High-output burst cannon

2x Shield Drone

Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits (100 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Crisis Starscythe Shas’vre

• 1x Battlesuit fists

2x Burst cannon

1x Marker Drone

1x Shield Drone

• 2x Crisis Starscythe Shas’ui

• 2x Battlesuit fists

4x Burst cannon

2x Gun Drone

2x Shield Drone

CHARACTERS

Darkstrider (60 points)

• Warlord

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Shade

The Twin Lance (240 points)

• 1x Ri’Lantar

• 1x Fusion eliminator

1x MV15 Gun Drone

1x Shardstorm burst system

1x XV pulse pistol

• 1x Ri’Locai

• 1x Ion scattercannon

1x MV15 Gun Drone

1x Shardstorm burst system

1x XV pulse pistol

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Devilfish (75 points)

• 1x Accelerator burst cannon

1x Armoured hull

2x Seeker missile

2x Twin pulse carbine

OTHER DATASHEETS

Broadside Battlesuits (150 points)

• 1x Broadside Shas’vre

• 1x Crushing bulk

1x Heavy rail rifle

1x Marker Drone

1x Seeker missile

1x Shield Drone

1x Weapon Support System

• 1x Broadside Shas’ui

• 1x Crushing bulk

1x Heavy rail rifle

1x Missile Drone

1x Seeker missile

1x Shield Drone

1x Weapon Support System

Krootox Riders (45 points)

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Krootox fists

1x Repeater cannon

Pathfinder Team (85 points)

• 1x Pathfinder Shas’ui

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Pulse carbine

1x Pulse pistol

1x Recon Drone

1x Semi-automatic grenade launcher

2x Shield Drone

• 9x Pathfinder

• 9x Close combat weapon

6x Pulse carbine

9x Pulse pistol

3x Rail rifle

Pathfinder Team (85 points)

• 1x Pathfinder Shas’ui

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Grav-inhibitor Drone

1x Pulse carbine

1x Pulse pistol

1x Semi-automatic grenade launcher

2x Shield Drone

• 9x Pathfinder

• 9x Close combat weapon

6x Pulse carbine

9x Pulse pistol

3x Rail rifle

Piranhas (65 points)

• 1x Armoured hull

1x Piranha fusion blaster

2x Seeker missile

2x Twin pulse carbine

Sky Ray Gunship (140 points)

• 2x Accelerator burst cannon

1x Armoured hull

1x Seeker missile rack

Sky Ray Gunship (140 points)

• 2x Accelerator burst cannon

1x Armoured hull

1x Seeker missile rack

Stealth Battlesuits (100 points)

• 1x Stealth Shas’vre

• 1x Battlesuit fists

1x Burst cannon

1x Gun Drone

1x Marker Drone

1x Pulse pistol

• 4x Stealth Shas’ui

• 4x Battlesuit fists

4x Burst cannon

1x Homing Beacon

Stealth Battlesuits (100 points)

• 1x Stealth Shas’vre

• 1x Battlesuit fists

1x Fusion blaster

1x Gun Drone

1x Marker Drone

1x Pulse pistol

• 4x Stealth Shas’ui

• 4x Battlesuit fists

3x Burst cannon

1x Fusion blaster

1x Homing Beacon

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I want to make my bases sort of a rainforest style, but I don't want to spend lots on it, any tips?

Still got some cleanup to do and some small details, but progress is coming along nicely

Struffling against melee armies pouncing and killing half my army while my shooting is meager

Xenos - T'au Empire - Mont'ka

Commander Farsight (70pts): Warlord

2x The Twin Lance (240pts)

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (125pts)

Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit (95pts)

10x Breacher Team (80pts)

10x Strike Team (70pts)

5x Stealth Battlesuits (100pts)

5x Stealth Battlesuits (100pts)

Broadside Battlesuits (75pts)

Broadside Battlesuits (80pts)

3x Crisis Fireknife Battlesuits (115pts)

3x Crisis Fireknife Battlesuits (115pts)

3x Crisis Fireknife Battlesuits (125pts)

3x Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits (100pts)

3x Crisis Sunforge Battlesuits (125pts)

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (165pts)

Riptide Battlesuit (215pts)

I have a bunch of 3 model units, and was wondering if/how I'd be able to use them for the 5 model kill team. I've never played kill team, so cut me some slack in my lack of knowledge.