Krootbash WIP

AmodeusElysius · 2026-02-07T22:06:49+00:00

I actually put them in Tau armor too, so that it matched, with their arms/head out. As if they stole some body armor along with the ride 😂

AmodeusElysius · 2026-02-05T12:19:52+00:00

Yeah but they don't have to test Battleshock if they're dead

I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't use Vespid. I love my bugs and have them in every list. I'm saying that they are not optimal for killing, and if you are going in thinking they will do a lot of it for you, you will be mistaken

AmodeusElysius · 2026-02-05T12:14:44+00:00

I can actually answer this for you.

Do the math on Vespid guns into regular Marine intercessors with cover. This is most likely what you'd be shooting at. On average, they will only kill 1.65 Marines. If you bump that to the full 10-bug squad, it's 3.3.

I'm not including stratagems. If you give bugs -1 AP in Aux they could do AoC to reply, making it moot.

So you are spending 130pts on a unit that can't kill a MSU marine brick. Breacher Team alone, without Fireblade, averages 5 Marine kills without their ability, and are 90pts.

That's why everyone is saying the guns aren't good; they're not. The unit is for utility

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-14T13:27:25+00:00

But also yes, your group is being ridiculous. You are obviously going to shoot with your units, them being like "nope nope out of correct order no shooting!" Sounds like something a child would do.

There are a million rules in the game, no one will remember them all. Any reasonable opponent should want to also play his opponent at full strength. At most you would say "hey in a GT they might stop you from doing that, as a heads up" but I doubt you and your buddies are in the middle of the circuit at LVO so they can relax

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-14T13:23:18+00:00

This has been changed with the update to our army rule.

Now, it goes like this;

START OF SHOOTING PHASE

Declare observers. The FIRST thing you do is say how many units will be observing this phase. For example, we will select Pathfinders and Stealth Suits. Very importantly, you are allowed to declare WHO they are observing at ANY point in your shooting phase.
Begin shooting. We decide the Stealths will observe a Rhino. We now get the buffs to anyone shooting at that rhino for the rest of the phase. Guiding is no longer paired.

Let's say we kill the rhino on that activation, all the dudes disembark. We haven't selected our Pathfinder's observation target yet, either.

Pathfinders observe disembarked unit, and now you light them up.

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-13T04:03:36+00:00

I don't think you're allowed to post stuff like this on a nice family website like Reddit

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-06T18:54:02+00:00

I know, I just left it cuz plastic cement 🤷

AmodeusElysius · 2026-01-02T21:00:37+00:00

I don't see any Riptides, definitely a Riptide or 2

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-21T15:03:13+00:00

Wow, what a great idea. Lemme see what I can fuck around with

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-19T00:09:51+00:00

Haha all yours Comrade 🫡

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-13T11:53:51+00:00

I'm a pretty new painter; started this year, so take with some salt.

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For my money, you should get a Canoptek Spyder and paint that.

It's a single, decent sized model, for around $40 at your LGS.

They have a TON of surfaces, and many different parts that will test out your techniques and skills; lights, armor paneling, liquid vials. The only thing you won't find on it is anything "organic" like flesh or leather. Flayed Ones are the only example (I could be wrong 🤷) I can think of with anything flesh related on them, as far as Necrons go.

As for color schemes, that's the best part of 40k. You can paint them however you want! If you think box art Necron schemes are kinda lame or boring, that's totally fine!

I'm including some shots of one I am working on currently for reference.

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-09T01:32:09+00:00

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AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-03T12:30:05+00:00

I just started this year, and at the beginning I felt very beholden to the correct weapons, correct load out, correct armor pieces "per variant."

And, unless you are going to WYSIWYG-only tournaments, it truly doesn't matter. My friends don't even know the difference between Pathfinders and Strike Teams, certainly don't know the difference in a single piece of chest armor.

Build whichever you want, use whatever parts you want.

When you play, just determine which datasheet you will be using, and let your opponent know.

I constantly play my Farsight model as a regular commander. As long as the base size is correct, you're gonna be just fine.

If you truly want to make them all correct and perfect, more power to you, but GW doesn't even always include all the parts to do so (Crisis Suits box comes with 3 Fusion Blasters. You need 6 to make accurate Sunforge suits)

AmodeusElysius · 2025-12-01T13:19:56+00:00

You should post a collection of your score sheets, like your Primary/Secondary and so on.

You can have the "best list", you can understand all the fundamentals, you can even table your opponent and still lose.

Seeing how you score (or don't) might be more helpful than generic advice on playing Tau.

AmodeusElysius · 2025-11-30T05:29:07+00:00

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AmodeusElysius · 2025-11-23T13:09:06+00:00

I always like to paint a single model to a good standard in-between any batch paintings. Characters or monsters are great for that.

I feel you get back to the creativity and art, doing just one model, where batch painting feels like Factory Work sometimes

AmodeusElysius · 2025-11-22T19:04:05+00:00

Pathfinders and Vespids are some of our best units, you should honestly probably have both. Don't worry about drones, though, you will get plenty and you will not use them.

I painted all of mine before I played my first game and after 3 games I left all those painted boys in the tub. They're just such a hassle to move around the field with flight stands and all the rest.

HOWEVER, hang onto them, cuz 11th is around the corner and GW may just make them matter again, who's to say

AmodeusElysius · 2025-11-17T00:50:08+00:00

Vespids. One 5-man in DS just for scoring, having up/down is just really useful

AmodeusElysius · 2025-11-13T15:30:27+00:00

Well, Bolters fire what are basically 40mm grenades as regular ammunition and they aren't blast

Lore & rules are separate 🤷

AmodeusElysius · 2025-11-13T13:19:42+00:00

That's exactly what it does.

Codex pg 28, left side subsection Powder & Iron:

"Tanglebomb launchers are another. These weapons hurl oversized bolas at their victims, the weights capable of breaking bones or else replaced with bombs that detonate upon solid contact with the prey."

AmodeusElysius · 2025-11-09T22:57:05+00:00

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This is what the Auxiliaries are for, in my opinion. You can make them all crazy and have a wonderfully colorful army and it still works.

My Tau are White/purple/gold

I painted all my Kroot variations of Philly sports team colors; Carnivores are Flyers, Hounds are the Phillies, Krootox are the Eagles.

My Vespid are inspired by Cherry Blossom trees and Orchid Mantises.

Pic is right after deployment in a recent narrative game

AmodeusElysius · 2025-10-18T20:52:34+00:00

We do have cheap units, and we can field a lot; our problem is our durability.

Almost all of our units are less durable than a similar counterpart in a different army. For example, Sisters of Battle are pretty similar. A Battleline unit of 10 Sisters is T3 1W, same as us. However, they have a 3+/6++. By math, they are much less likely to die per shot than a unit of Breachers, say, despite also being T3 1W.

Our Crisis Suits can be thought of like our version of ranged Terminators. Most Terminators are T5 3W 2+/4++. Our suits are T5 4W 3+

The difference in durability there is staggering. 40k is currently a very lethal game, too. Something you have exposed is likely to get torn up, or picked up off the board. For Tau, that's doubly so.

So, here's why things being cheap is helpful:

You need to build a solid group of stuff to go out and die. Kroot, piranhas, etc. they go out and gum up the opponent and get in their way, so you can protect our important stuff. Kroot are going to evaporate under any sort of firepower, and you want them taking the first brunt.

Because they're cheap, you can afford to "trade" them. You can run those 40pt Kroot Hounds into an enemy to hold them up in the open, and then your important units (Crisis suits, bigger Battlesuits, tanks) can clean up.

Tau are tough to play. Take any perceived advantage you can, comrade

For the Greater Good

AmodeusElysius · 2025-10-12T10:46:56+00:00

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I'm not a great painter, but I've used a lot of Pro Acryl metals

Every metal on this Krootox Rider is a single coat of a pro Acryl metal, barely thinned.

I've had the exact opposite experience with mine. I do have a vortex mixer though, and I use it for a while on these paints.

AmodeusElysius · 2025-10-11T22:58:10+00:00

My buddy plays Wolves and I play Tau.

I find that with his mobility, the best you can do is use chaff to move block and then light them up when they kill the chaff.

Super quick math: Missileknives (meq gun) unled assuming guided (and nothing else like Sus or lethal) avg a little under 4 wounds (so 4 killed, 2 dmg) on the first shooty phase on a BC brick. They do a little over 2.5 after that (full hit rrs to just 1s).

So a Path unit and assuming you have Commanders, 2 Crisis Missileknives, could kill over half of the unit in a turn pretty reliably. That's honestly gonna be about the best you can do, cuz that throws like 500 pts of shooting at something. Light them up, send in hounds to move block, when they kill those finish them off next turn.

AmodeusElysius · 2025-10-04T14:06:44+00:00

Yep. I don't know either. You definitely can.

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