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an english maori?
theres a combination u don't see everyday
of my 3 losses only one had equal points
the other 2 where an allied goblin & chaos warriors army that had 5500 pts while i had 4000pts of dwarfs and a mates empire (steam tanks)

has anybody seen the new THQ game Fire Warrior
its a FPS set in the 40k universe with u playing as a tau trooper
looks awesome!!!

WArhammer. Great game. I havn't played it for a while though but the reason its so cool is that is pits you straight in the middle of a conflict and leaves all the startegy and fun up to you. Bliss. Personnaly I've changed over and I'm collecting the Imperial Guard and the soldiers of the Chachans.

yeah.. Deathworld Veterans rules are nasty... I've beaten Tyranids after Close combat has begun with my Hellesvour 8th... (a deathworld army)

and Oh YES... snipers are excellent.

Although my opponents have the most trouble with my Helles Teeth squads... (what I call Catachan Devils squads in my army) ...basically I use the counts as rule and my General is a carbon copy of 'Iron Hand' Straken. So I have four of them in my army. Nasty.

Although I can't wait for the plastic Cadians to come out in 6 weeks.. as I can start my Valconian 1st regiment properly.

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.

revenge is sweet
faced the same dark angel army this afternoon with a new path finder squad and a hammerhead
this time he fielded less tactical and assault marines but more bikes, a predator and a dred.
the dred killed one of two troops before it disapered under a hail of melta shots
the predator had a kill total of 0 the hammer head blew it sky high
just brought another broadside after the game
i'll paint it up tonight as he rekons hes gonna kick me tomorrow
we'll see

what do u have against hammerheads
the most brilliant vehicle since the land raider
my tau armys tally now stands at 5 wins - 1 loss

thank god for broadsides

quote Dissension

Hi, Dissension here.

I don't really play Warhammer, but I'm interested in trying it. Any ideas on where to get the stuff to play? I haven't seen any in a long time.

Depends where you are.. I'm in the UK myself so Games Workshop stores are quite common.. as are Independants who stock it.

It's probably not much more expensive to buy it direct from the U.S Games Workshop Mail order... as it isn't to buy it from the U.K Mail order over here. It's probably worth checking out the U.S site, as if it's anything like the U.K one, it should have loads of info on the armies and the games. Also a online catolugue with all the models on it.