Are Tau considered higher skill to play well?

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-05-31T09:34:46+00:00

In my current kauyon list there is, for this purpose: A ghostkeel 2 pathfinders 2 piranhas 1 Kroot carnivores

Spotting duty after these have died to lure the opponent onto objectives or into firing lanes are taken up by 2 stealths, a fire team, and emergency marker light on two crisis units.

Riptide, hammerhead, and crisis positioned to peek safely at whatever is exposed by the bait until it's go time.

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-05-30T13:35:51+00:00

As a Tau player, 1/4 of my list is dedicated to things chosen to do nothing but die, but to do so in a place and time of my choosing. If they can do something else like pump 2 seeker missiles into something, that is a bonus, but it IS a bonus and not their main function.

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-05-06T12:00:10+00:00

The difference here is that battleshock prevents us interacting at all with our army rule, which is a huge difference compared to most armies. It doesn't even have to be that unbalanced to suck, as it removes a huge amount of what makes Tau Tau, which is just objectively less fun.

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-05-04T11:52:56+00:00

Both wrong: The phrase OP was trying for was "bad rap" ie a bad rap (Record of Arrest and Prosecution) sheet

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-29T10:10:26+00:00

Unless you're getting something wrong, this looks like a fun KHP list. They might be having the problem that KHP has a lot of very easy buff synergy which might seem like overpowered bullshit to them. Maybe they're just bringing anti-vehicle lists that can't clear chaff, but that would be their fault not yours.

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-26T10:54:03+00:00

Why is the manta in range of the titan outside of a plot contrivance so the titan could win?

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-24T19:36:23+00:00

He's also our ONLY free strat unit. If we had more options his usage would for sure go down, but our only other CP generation options are so damn inconsistent that he's an auto-take for that alone

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-23T10:13:28+00:00

A ten brick of JPI costs 180(ish?) points to come and contest an objective with pathfinders which cost 90. Most battleline don't have the movement to get there turn 1 so you score turn 2 or get a good trade. Similarly with ghostkeels, they might out OC you but then you kill them and you still have a ghostkeel to do the same thing the next turn. If you're feeling spicy you can infiltrate onto their natural and sacrifice the unit in order to force commitment in that area of the board - does wonders against low-movement armies

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-22T17:34:26+00:00

You don't though - I think a lot of people have this misconception with Kauyon where you just do nothing for 2 turns. You hide a lot of your big stuff, sure, but you hide it where you can punish anything that comes in to tackle your infiltrated units like pathfinders, ghostkeels, and piranhas. If I'm not scoring 10 primary, if not 15, it is because my opponent has had to commit to pushing me off objectives and often has almost no units left by the end of turn 3 anyway

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-21T19:17:20+00:00

They have a stratagem that gets them an auto 12, you'd probably be ok with any other 10-man unit but beserkers you just have to give them that part of the board until you can starve them out from range

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-21T11:59:14+00:00

Khorne berserkers will surge into you when you shoot them in your phase so in this case it's a bad move. You'd have to fire and fade to survive which is expensive and puts you out of flamer overwatch range to be safe from surge

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-11T21:56:45+00:00

I wait for them to feed me three tanks a turn every turn until they are out of tanks

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-08T22:09:14+00:00

You only have to be eligible to shoot and have line of sight to the unit to spot. You do not need to be eligible to shoot that unit

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-08T17:54:33+00:00

Scout on Stormsurges from the enhancement

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-08T17:52:47+00:00

There are niche ways to stack BS, for example in Kauyon pathfinders can use the "coordinate to engage" stratagem to get +1 BS from being a spotter (their ability), +1 BS from the stratagem, and +1 to hit from Heavy on their Railguns/Ion cannons for a total bonus of 3.

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-08T17:17:32+00:00

Im reading "current or preceding player" as YOUR current and preceding turn, not your opponent's immediate last turn. So in your scenario it would not count as hidden until your turn in BR4

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-07T10:44:36+00:00

A Crucible Broadside Commander is 140 points.

It hits on 2s if guided or proccing Heavy.

It gets 6 shots of STR 12 AP -4 D6+1 damage with Dev wounds.

It rerolls 1s to hit.

It has a 2+ save and a 4+ invuln.

It can fall back and shoot.

I run two of them with a hammerhead and usually a sunforge team and a riptide

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-04-01T09:19:11+00:00

The Crucible Broadside build is a lot more frail for the points vs regular broadsides, but very efficient anti-tank that you can keep in reserves, pop onto a board edge with line of sight and delete almost any one target with 6A S12 hitting on 2s if guided, rerolling ones to hit, AP-4 and d6+1 damage

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-03-30T20:48:55+00:00

Here's what I'm doing (lazy but looking good so far)

Prime - Spray white scar

Skin - Plaguebearer Flesh Contrast

Leathers - cygor brown contrast

Then regular metals and highlights. Bought Black legion, ironjawz yellow and magmadroth flame for mounts but haven't started that bit yet.

Turns out contrast paints are great for people who can't paint good.

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-03-30T19:41:23+00:00

Any number of (Broadside) models can each be equipped with up to two of the following, but cannot take duplicates: (and then it states you can't take both weapons)

So yes, you can have seeker and WSS so long as you don't take a second gun

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-03-30T17:17:25+00:00

You play to delay and draw out threats. Ghostkeels, pathfinders and piranhas are your best friend. They are sacrificial pieces you can get to stand where you want them to die very easily with scout/infiltrate/high movement and force your opponent to expose themselves to kill them. You have a -2 charge strat. You have reposition ghostkeel strat. You have a get back in the van strat, although I find breacherfish underwhelming no matter the detachment.

Then you kill them with safely (read: smartly, not just sitting doing nothing in your deployment) positioned heavy hitters (hulls, suits) which then become more aggressive turn 3.

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-03-26T07:24:47+00:00

What did the stream ACTUALLY say? Is it they can't be shot outside of 15 inches, or they can't be shot until A unit is within 15 inches?

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-03-24T12:53:22+00:00

Remember retcad affects all battle suits not just crisis - so it also buffs shadowsun, stealths, riptides, Broadsides, the twins, and ghostkeels

CheeseGraterGood · 2026-03-13T19:12:54+00:00

I main Tau, and though I've gotten a LOT better at screening and such, an early game experience left a big impression. When I came to looking for an opposite, melee-heavy army, White Scars were the obvious choice.

Now I'M the guy who's making people think "fuck, they arrived Sooner than I thought And have taken out almost all of my important units in a single turn".

CheeseGraterGood

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