quote maori
does anybody have any good stratagies/army lists
for playing with tau
i had a 1500pt battle with my new army against some dude down at the local games shop
his dark angels ripped everything to shreds
i'm seriously doubting a tau armys ability after a whipping like that




Hmmm... well I hope you took a few battlesuits with Melta and plasma weapons, as your best bet is to hop forward, kill some marines then use you ability to move again into some sort of cover, at the very least to lower the number of Space Marine guns that can see them.
Stealth suits and Broadsides are a must, for the rate of fire the stealth suits can throw forward and the broadsides to zap vehicles and marines if they have nothing better to target. Also give drones to your broadsides to save some wounds at the start.
Use pathfinders to markerlight particulary nasty units for destruction. Use normal firewarriors and Kroot to soak up the fire and inflict wounds of their own. Also consider a shield drone for leaders.
Oh and don't bother with an elemental... the advantage they give isn't worth it if they die... we haven't found them useful yet, but that might be my mate who has Tau.
With Marines you are better trying to stay at arms length... as they will destroy you up close. Concentrate fire on units that advance your line and try to pick off vehicles like the whirlwind quickly as they seriously hurt you Firewarriors and kroot. Send a couple of Battlesuits with melta guns after them if you get the chance. Otherwise, keep your units loose and not tight together. If he was playing DarkAngels, aim at his Ravenwing bikes with Broadsides and obliterate them quickly. The jink save should fail most of the time. Bikes are lethal to your army... once you are tied up in close combat you are on a major back foot.
That's all I can think of at the moment... if I get any more ideas I'll edit this post.