Thanks guys for having Codex Tau in spotlight.

I’ve got a bunch of these guys sitting in the loft waiting for a decent ‘dex, and I really hope they get it as I think they look cool.
I really hope they don’t get any decent close combat units at all, as that to me doesn’t really fit with their style. I hope markerlights become more effective, much cheaper points all round (especially battlesuits), and methods of slowing the enemy and disrupting deep strikes etc..

Good vid guys thanks for some tau coverage. They do need some help, you really have to build especially for each enemy to have any chance of being competitive. Marker lights can make a big difference. Just one marker hit can give a whole unit the bonus. My biggest challenge with them is to get the shooting order right. If it all goes well you can really peel away the nearest threats and keep the enemy at arms length. The new books, blood angels onwards, make life difficult with so much fast/deep strike. A tau player can use the kroot… Read more »

the army is suposed to be made of sharp-shooters, because fluff-wise that’s what they do best. Vespids could very well be a fast paced assault group to tie an enemy squad in combat while the rest of the army deploy very nice on the battlefield. Kroot are currently very weak and useless ( i got 12 of them blown to bits in ONE large blast attack by an IG army). They could suite the role of a support shooters and support melee team if it’s required. The codex is so weak now that the only way to get more mobile… Read more »

Vote 1 Darrell for codex writer

More Shots! More Twin-Linked! Longer Range! Less AP!

For a Tau we can all live with.

I think you want the Tau to be Grey Knights? I agree that its an old codex and needs a rewrite to deal with the gaps, but these guys should stay shooty. (This is in response to the changes you wanted to see to the fast attack flyers & the melee Kroot – power halberds & death cult assassins?) Covered in grease as a defense against close combat weapons? Have you tried this yourself? 😉 Given that the new design concept for both 40k and fantasy placed a greater emphasis on special characters, I see huge changes for the Tau… Read more »

As usualy, only little adjustment is actualy neaded but it will be completely remastered and cause a lot of new problems.

its kinda sad how the tau are probably the most hated race i may play blood angels but i think the tau are the only good guys becuse the tau give a chance to surrender

i want to see just very cheap marker lites. and that once a unit is lit they stay litt for the whole army not just for one unit. kongo line of kroots behind that kongo line fire woriors behind that kongoline fire woriors or somthing. put the markerlites in the sides and then the unit of kroots your fw troop have to fire throu dont provide cover to the enemy and is a chaep meat block.
and in the second the enemy got to you he hase to knife down each rteam one by one.
that would be nice i think

Thanks for the vid guys. With the new book, I’d like to see how heavily they theme it. If they follow up with something similar to Necrons, who went Egyptian, I could see Tau going Japanese. With that in mind you could add a “ninja” or samurai units for close combat. Maybe something in between a battlesuit and a warrior. Something that could jump around, not be overly expensive but have a decent kick to it. Give it a twin linked assault weapon and a shield to improve saves with options to change it to something heavier. Like Tinracer, I… Read more »

I have been playing Tau for years and own a pretty massive army. I can say, without hesitation, that it is currently impossible to win with them when you opponent knows they are playing you in advance. Land Speeder Storms, Thunder-fire Cannons, Heroic Intervention, Stormravens, Myloc/Trygon, outflanking genestealers, mycetic spore/drop pod storms, bike armies, jet bike armies, Raider/Venom armies, orbital strikes, Marbo, and Leaman Russ spam just to start naming the armies that will limit you to one shooting phase. Your only hope is to layer your Kroot and detached gun drones then pray to the dice gods for epic… Read more »

I don’t think there’s a problem with the standard Tau soldier being BS3. Just so long as their weapons have a little higher range and the points cost is reflected. Kroot seem fine, they’re meant to be cannon fodder, they have a good stat line, they just need a better transport vehicle, or the ability to deep strike them (in some sort of drop pod perhaps). The Tau should remain a shooting army. But they could do with some sort of infantry on a 40mm base that is more combat-apt, part of their merc legions or what not. That would… Read more »

I think to fit in with the castes have psychic ability’s that relate to the elements used by the ethereals. Such as a water blast that pushes the enemy unit back back 2D6″ and does D6 strength 4 AP 5 hits. Fire wave that creates volcanic eruptions in a large blast making the terrain dangerous for D3 turns. Earth Tremor that uses a similar mechanic to Worldscape in the new cron book. Ice blast that slows the enemy’s advance by halfing there movement and also there assault range. These could be used to keep the enemy at bay so the… Read more »

you guys forgot marker lights, they are very useful.

One of the people I play against a lot has only lost twice total and he plays Tau. We don’t know how he does so well with a codex people say sucks. We have tried all sorts of Darrel’s cheesy tactics and still lose.
The thing about the Fire Warriors that makes them nasty is the S5 guns. That causes too many wounds on Eldar for them to get across the field to engage in close combat. The Vehicles are wrecked by Rail guns to my guys always have to foot slog it.

2:59: yes the 50pt commander is bs4 and the 75 pt version is bs5. However, you can get a hardwired targetting array on the 50pt commander to boost him to bs5 for only 10 points. So, you get the higher ballistic skill for 15 points less. Since tau suck at cc the extra ws doesn’t matter

5:52: crisis suits, stealth suits, and gun drones all have jetpacks. they can all move 6″ in the movement phase and then another 6″ in the assault phase. The thrusters he’s referring to are vectored thrusters, which give the hit and run special rule to the model. however, you can only get them on an ic or monat. you can’t get them for a group.

6:59 he’s right on about plasma. but he skips the missle pod. r36″, s7ap4 assault 2 goodness for 12/18 pts depending on twin-linking. better against vehicles than the plasma rifle, and with the 5pt multi-tracker can be fired alongside the plasma rifle!

do kroot suck at shooting? yes. should you pay that extra point for a 6+ save? no. every tau player will tell you that kroot and piranhas are cheap for a reason: cannon fodder! kroot can infiltrate, and piranhas are fast skimmers. If they get close enough to be a problem, they will tie up 1-2 turns of your opponents game, giving your h support and crisis suits more time to do their thing.

I suspect that initially the Pulse carbine “pinning” rule was meant to provide the slowing effect against horde armies that would storm across the board. The problem is that these days with rewrites most horde armies are fearless, negating the effect of such weapons. Having to paying an additional 21 points just to gain access to an armour save for the Kroot and then paying an additional point for that said armour is poor. In general against shooting the armour will be negated and have no value, in hand to hand it provides an outside chance of tying up a… Read more »

Demiurg!!! 😀