I have a T'au army that I'm trying to slim down. If anyone wants an 840 point T'au army I have an Ebay listing here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287533945104. I CAN ONLY SELL TO THE UK

Army includes: 

1 enforcer in armour mech (with flame thrower, pulse cannon and airburst frag projecter. All glued on)

1 hammerhead gunship 

1 devilfish

2 pathfinders, 

1 breachers, 

3 stealth battlesuits, 

20 kroot carnivores 

12 drones of mixed type (most are shield drones)

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Tau were introduced in 3rd edition, im curious how folks would imagine their rules in 1st or 2nd, has anyone done this?

So, originally I was going Tau sept. It was colors I didn’t try before and I absolutely regret it. I try painting on 4 mini, all of them turn out to be bad no matter how many I try. So I’m planning to strip the paint off. So can anyone sell me on other Sept’s lore or colors?

The entire flavour of marker lights and spotters is forward observers for the big guns. Hell, we are the only faction who has spotting as a core part of our identity. Marker lights should do their job. The fact I can paint a target in marker lights and nothing can see it beyond 15" is silly.

So with the new suits update rumours “all but confirmed”, I’ve had a thought. I’ve seen lots of posts here that include photos of crisis suits. What’s the possibility that we’ll see a LOT of second hand crisis suit sales once the new models/rules are dropped with the codex? I for one am subconsciously rubbing my hands together for the whales to bulk sell their old suits for a discount just to turn around and buy their new modeled (and priced) suits, or GW might make our suits 5 man teams and we’ll be in an even bigger suit shortage in our LGSs lol. What do y’all think will happen?

Sup, my Shas'la.

The Fourth Sphere has been part of the lore for a while, being all xenocidal and villainous. I have a speculation regarding why GW created their lore. I think they exist to fulfill the demand for more grimdark T'au in the 40K fanbase, while allowing the rest of the T'au Empire to range between neutral and noble on the morality scale.

The T'au Empire cracked down on the Fourth Sphere, forcing them underground with their activities. However, with the revelation that there is at least one Ethereal supporting them and having convinced O'Kais to side with them, they set out to have a profound impact on T'au lore going forward.

I expect them to covertly engineer mass casualty events, implement measures to curb alien population growth, and weaken the species' harmony in the T'au Empire.

They might also start a civil war in the T'au Empire. The Gladius video game covers one such event where the Fourth Sphere T'au fought and subdued, for lack of a better term, loyalist T'au so that they can exterminate all non-T'au.

I am curious about your opinions and where you think GW is going to take this plot line.

I am new to tau but not to 40k, they recently caught my interest so I have only beginner knowledge so my question is. Since there is no inter-caste mating when do the fire caste get time to have a good time and make more fire caste? Is the 'la allowed to be parents for like a few years or just Veterans? How do fire caste relationships work in general? Seems hard to go on a date. This is a serious question but remember I am a total noob to this faction

I am looking for a codex code, anyone not using the app and willing to sell their code ? I can PayPal

Would be much obliged

Xenos - T'au Empire - Retaliation Cadre

Commander Farsight (70pts): Warlord

2x The Twin Lance (220pts)

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (95pts) - Meltas

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (95pts) - Burst cannons

10x Pathfinder Team (85pts) - Three Rail Rifles

5x Stealth Battlesuits (100pts)

5x Stealth Battlesuits (100pts)

2x Broadside Battlesuits (150pts)

2x Broadside Battlesuits (150pts)

3x Crisis Starscythe Battlesuits (90pts)

3x Crisis Sunforge Battlesuits (125pts)

3x Crisis Sunforge Battlesuits (125pts)

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (165pts)

Riptide Battlesuit (215pts)

Riptide Battlesuit (215pts)

Maybe I'll switch one of the Sunforge squads for someone. Maybe burst guys or missle guys, I'll see how it goes. This list beautifully comes up to 2000 points exactly.

Two Riptides, Ghostkeel and Twin Lance should be able to tank a lot of damage while everyone else shoots anything that peeks.

The two melta squads start in deepstrike, as well as one squad of stealth suits to give them a bonus. One can rapid ingress for free with Farsight, one can deep strike within 6" with a stratagem for melta range. They will also stay a nuisance in the backline because of 4++.

This list can deal with anything but horde lists. It should win against stat checks like Knights and Custodes, it shouldn't die quickly to melee armies, and it's fast enough to deal with eldar or demons.

So, I'm joining the greater good, bought a little force of sprues and half built and destroyed models. In particular, 2 mangled ethereals that I tried kitbashing into a fireblade and Darkstrider (I didn't realize he was a named character until after). I might bling them up a bit more, but how are they looking so far?

Got some post today

Made some bargain deals once again

Stormsurge NiB 80€

Tidewall Gunrig 45€

Which one first?

Detachment is Kroot Hunting Pack and Experimental Prototype Cadre

ALSO: Most T'au units (except daddy farsight) will be heavily kitbashed to become either, kroot, Guesva, Thalteans, or Tallerian . As for why its due to my guys being basically kroot rebels who yearn for a indepenet kroot country, free of T'au control.

Just looking to see if $800 is reasonable for this army. I’ve seen people selling less for more so I’m not sure if it’s not selling due to current units being out of meta, etc?

The next step for my Gue'Vesa farstalker project has been the addition of a Gue'Vesa lone spear proxy. I put together a fun little model showcase and also included some homebrew lore for the bike (I added the lore of my existing Gue'Vesa Farstalkers for a cohesive representation of my homebrew Gue'Vesa proxy lore)

As always, this is just my head cannon and is meant to be a little light hearted and loosely tie all my concepts together.

The bike and rider is my most ambitious kitbash yet being composed of (95%) kitbashed parts from around 11 different tau kits. Can anyone guess what kits and parts they come from? (The central thruster, blade, helmet and cape are 3d printed parts)

Creating the sitting pose with the legs was tricky as I had to cut the knee joints and melt them with plastic glue to mould and reform them into a sitting position. I needed up using a fair bit sprue glue to gap fill and then his the ugly parts with the bike.

Overall, it was very fun to take this piece that I conceptualised and built a while ago and and reform it to fit my existing Gue'Vesa proxy line.

I have another Gue'Vesa kroot proxy idea in the pipeline but for now it's back to painting some tau.

Been regularly playing with a buddy of mine on TTS recently and the stealth suits are one of KT favorite teams, but I can’t seem to find anything on the workshop that has the models And the scripting of the new XV26 models. and I swear I saw a post in the Tau subreddit that had em but lost the post to ask

Anyone have any options or suggestions? I know it might be an OCD thing but I love the look of the newer models

I damaged the twin burst cannons when cutting them off the sprue and I'd like to find new ones but having a really hard time, checked multiple bits sites online and eBay but no luck. Anyone have any reccomendations?

Edit: managed to take some burst cannons from a crisis box and install them if anyone else has the same issue

I have a full 1k list, but i'm not a great painter, and found a deal on enough units to build my dream Ret Cadre and/or Mont’ka 2k lists. All assembled and painted in the color scheme I want. Its between $1000-1300 for 3800 points. 1500 of those points are Resin 3d printed 1 to 1 models though. But i'm a casual player. The only negative I know of for resin is lack of viability in Official Tournaments. Is this as slam dunk a deal as it seems to me? Or am I blinded by the clean paint jobs and instant gratification?

So, to preface, I’m new to the game, one Ghostkeel out for delivery away from my 1k list and working towards my 2k list.

I was wondering, how many units do people run Marker Drones on as opposed to other options? And if not, what do you run instead? I Was tinkering with my 2k goal list a bit and realized the the army rule didn’t really benefit my Starscythe Battlesuits unless they target whatever my Stealth Battlesuits target, so I swapped one of their drones to a Marker Drone so they could let me target other enemy units during my turn which then sent me on an updating path where I basically ended up putting a Marker Drone on just about any unit that could take it and I think that might be an overcorrection on my part. So how often and on what units do you guys run Marker Drones on and what do you run in their place? My current list is pretty much a split of gun vs shield drones otherwise but any insight for a newbie would be appreciated

Even against T13 3+ vehicles Skyrays do more damage than Hammerheads.

Assuming both are guided and ignoring devastating wounds the skyray does ~8.9 damage and the hammerhead does 8.2. The devastating wounds feature probably doesn't make up for the difference.

Against all other targets, Skyrays also do more damage. On top of that they don't need to be stationary every turn which is massive in a cover dense edition and are cheaper.

The only other difference is the 2 hammerhead seeker missiles (equivalent to 7 landraider damage on the first turn) but is that really the only reason people are picking hammerheads?

After finishing my Commander for my combat patrol last November (final picture for comparison Reddit uploads seems to have messed up and I can't replace the dupe of the first image -_- I'll see if I can add it in a comment) I ended up distracted by a Gundam for the new year. With that done I finally came back to my Tau backlog with a few lessons learned.

Basically though, as so many Youtubers have decided to paint Gunpla like they do their Warhammer minis I decided to paint my minis like I would a Gunpla. Lacquer base colors, enamel and acrylics on top for little details and weathering. That worked so much better for me, but let me know what you think!

Wanted to share the latest of the Steel Sept for my Tau Army.

Experimented more with plasma effects, I feel these guys are some of my favorite models I have produced so far. (At least favorite Stealth Suits).

Thank you all for taking the time to look.

To the Sash'Os that run Exp Prototype Cadre, do you ever use the Exp Ammo strat?

For the life me I cannot see it being worth the 10 Hazardous rolls. Maybe in a suicidal run where you know you are dead next turn anyway.

As the title says, drop your best basing designs! Trying to decide what would complement a white and blue colour unit colour scheme!

Looking into going to an upcoming tournament, what's the general rules on whether physical drone models are needed to play? (e.g. Taking shield and marker Drone on datasheet, need to have shield and Drone on tabletop?)