Do you have any successful strategies to play Tau, if yes please share here.

Tip (ii) Always ask your opponent his Saves!

Playing Tau is all about asking your opponent, what saves his troops have. Do they have cover saves, apply markerlights, 2+ Sv use plasma guns or rapid fire with pulse rifles. With Tau one can do a few mistakes and using the wrong gun on the wrong opponent can lose you a game.
Be always tactical aware — always!

If your opponent tend to use lots of coversave, use markerlights, flamer and fragmentation grenade.

If your opponent likes to infiltrate or deep strike, have lots of kroot squads

If your opponent have lots of tanks, use Dead rain squads.

@osian Probably not, but they’re no less useful.

From looking at the new Codex, it seems that some of the new units will be making Tau Shooting far more powerful than before. But it seems like not much has changed so the Tau are still a “glass cannon army” that requires some thinking to use well.

(40k)-Tau & Necrons. (Fantasy)-Cathay. (Firestorm Armada)-Dindrenzi.
(Dropzone Commander) -PHR.
Keep calm and remember that everything’s curable by cake!

@chadeptus said:
Well the tau players I played were always brutal and not to be reckoned with, this new codex just makes them even more brutal lol

it wouldn’t surprise me if the long term tau players suddenly became kings of the pile. Same thing happened in my store when the GK codex came out. Me and the other long term GK player were top in almost every league our FLGS did, even over the bandwagon jumpers. The combination of a solid new dex and lots of skill and experience from playing the underpowered old one makes for a frightening prospect to play against lol

Tau – Strategies 6th Edition Codex :

This is the last strategy I am using and found it good.
5 Tau Piranhas and a Commander with Drone Controller. A squad of Tau Piranhas with Fusion Blaster and 2 seeker missiles each cost more than 300 points. It is quite expensive. But with the new rule set, the detached drones from all the Piranhas form a single squad of 10 Gun drones. In point cost that is almost half the Piranhas’ cost.

The XV8 commander is attached to the Gun drone squadron. The Drone controller upgrade the gun drones ballistic skill to 5. I think this is the meanest str 5 ap 5 platform there is.

In the meantime, 5 Piranhas that shoots 2 seeker missiles (without the need of markerlight) and a Fusion Blaster for 150 points is not too shabby.