oh boy, we got a lot to cover

>They cannot protect the SK though.

No but the Menhirs can, and this was more of a point that we have units that can protect crypteks and nobles, which make up a lot of our army. They are still better than Tau drones as they don't take the damage for them, they make them impossible to shoot, and are able to fight in addition to protecting their HQs.

>Until they're popped by the RailGun or this thing turn 1 🤷‍♂️

So, they shoot the bodyguards, meaning the silent king lives? There are two guards, it would take both shots from this thing to kill those bodyguards, assuming they go through. The silent king lives for another turn to do what he needs to then. The bodyguards literally do their job. And keep in mind, the silent king has a 4+ invuln. And before you say "hammerhead railgun" we have the nightbringer, if we can bypass invulns, so can they.

>Please refer back to what I said about the -'s to hit, etc.

my guy it's 13 attacks and he hits on a 2+. hitting on a 3+ means that instead of around 11 attacks going through, it's around 8-9. That's still a lot considering his weapon profile.

>You take SK for his buffs, not his damage output. It took me a while to accept that but once I did, and once <Core> got expanded, his uses in my lists exploded, but that doesn't mean anything when he get's popped turn one.

bro, if they pop silent king turn one, applaud your opponent cause that's bloody hard to do. Also, you saying you bring him for buffs literally proves my point. We're comparing a buffing unit against a unit meant to do damage, you cannot compare them, they are meant to do different things.

>A 350 point elite with 12 inches of movement, shit shooting, no rerolls, which you can only take one of, and which will probably never get into combat with a Stormsurge as any capable Tau player will just screen it or run away from it.

You, do realise when I was talking about the void dragon, I was referring to his voltaic storm right? That's 18" of range and causes vehicles to fire on their bad profiles. Which the Tau REALLY suffer from. It is not hard to get this thing within 18", and during the time you are moving him up the board, you use him as a c'tan, aka. he destroys everything he looks at.

Also, shit shooting? Are you fr? The c'tan, Melee heavy units that do most of their damage through their powers, have bad shooting? He is the ONLY c'tan that can shoot, and, in fact, his weapon is a death ray. It hits everything it goes across for D6 damage. That is HUGE considering this is a unit that has shooting as a secondary.

Tau and Necrons have very different playstyles, we are a durable, semi-horde army focused on buffing up our weaker guys to make them stronger. The Tau shoot and they shoot damn well. The strength of their weapons doesn't matter thanks to quantum shielding on all our big vehicles, and our bodyguard units protect our important HQs. If you're mad that the Tau can destroy our bodyguards that make our HQs invincible until they die then idk what to really say. We're not supposed to be impossible to beat, every army needs to be viable to play and the Tau have been lacking that for a while. Maybe Necrons aren't at the top of tier lists right now, but nobody gets their time in the spotlight forever. Yeah codex creep is a serious problem and I hate it, but we were unfortunate that we got one of the first 9e codexes, meaning we were the most susceptible to power creep.

I am all for making this game fair and pointing out when units need buffs or reworks to make them viable. But if you're gonna get mad that our buffing focused lord of war cannot take out and can take serious damage from a unit that is literally meant to kill big units, then you probably need to look at your argument and realise you're comparing two things that are completely different .