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Tau Empire

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A group for the fragile, eastern fringe dwelling, grey skinned communists called the Tau.

Tau-riffic.

  • Avatar Image ichimarutensei887p said 2 years, 1 month ago:

    As it has come up recently in the main “new codex” thread I thought I’d provide some figures as reason why > BS5 is not great.

    Here are the figures for the improvement in firepower when raising the BS by 1;
    BS1_BS2_BS3_BS4__BS5__BS6___BS7__BS8__BS9__BS10
    100% 50% 33% 25% 3.33% 3.23% 3.125% 3.03% 2.94% -

    At BS5 the improvement you get by raising BS drops off dramatically.
    Going from BS5 to BS10 gives an improvement in firepower of just 16.67%, less that you get just by going from BS4 to BS5!

    Also, two weapons fired at BS3 are expected to beat a single weapon fired at any BS, i.e. BS10. With all the points you’d spend getting more BS you’d probably be better off getting more guns with less BS.

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  • Avatar Image akblu100p said 2 years, 1 month ago:

    i’m confused as to the point of this.

    So you’re saying that the markerlights granting BS 5 is all we need? BS 5 is awsome, but i guess everyone is annoyed that we have to use markerlights which are a 50/50 in order to get BS 5, and on top of that, a squad can’t use it unless its networked.

    Speaking of which, can you fire off all your markerlights first before you shoot, or must you mark and shoot at the same time?

    I mean if you have 3 squads with 3 markerlights, you shoot all the markerlights first, THEN use the bonuses? Or do you shoot/mark with squad A, then shoot/mark squad B, shoot/mark squad C?

    Also, how long do markerlights stay active? is it just until you expend them? If so, could you just mark up everything and let them sit on them the whole game?

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  • Avatar Image rokco77p said 2 years, 1 month ago:

    Yeah, getting over BS5 isn’t very useful except for blast weapons. For a blast weapon a BS of ten means always a hit. But on normal weapons BS5 is the max you need.

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  • Avatar Image ichimarutensei887p said 2 years, 1 month ago:

    The point is that there is very little benefit in going past BS5 as it doesn’t scale well.

    I think you have to fire them one at a time while the squad shoots also. So if you had 3 FW teams with markerlights, only two of them could get the markerlight support based on these squads alone.

    Pg 29 of the codex “The counters remain until the end of the current Tau Shooting phase or until they are used.”

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  • Avatar Image akblu100p said 2 years, 1 month ago:

    So…in short.

    Pathfinders should always shoot first :P or the unit with the most markerlights/markerdrones.

    Then use everything else.

    Ok, so they only last that shooting phase. gotcha.

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