The past few months I have been playing Tau with Ork allies. I refer to this army as the TORKS. This all started with the 2nd Standish Standoff and the change to Sixth Ed.
The First Standoff had forced me to create what I consider a complete army. Competitive, Thematic Play, Fully Painted and Flocked.
Going into 6th I wanted to return to my first army the Tau. However after one game I was really missing the lack of hand to hand. I also kept playing around with ideas that I had with Orks revolving around Mega Nobs and Grottsnick.
List Building: Its important to understand how I like to play 40k currently. I like to grind out a win. This list is not a gun barrel that you point at an opponent and table them. The list is durable, wins games in the movement phase and mistakes are hard to recover from.
Here is the Core @ 1500 pts
Shas le: TL Fusion Blaster, Plasma Gun, Multi Tracker and Gun Drone.
3 Stealth Suits: Targeting Arrays
5 Drone Turrets : Missile Pods *Forge World*
8 man Fire Warrior Team: Devil Fish, D-Pods & Sensory Spins.
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@ 1750 I would add another Fire Warrior team and a Broadside
@ 1850 add a second Broadside
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So looking at this list you may say. Its full of vehicles and nothing really sticks out as a big threat. Here is the win loss with this list 15 and 6. If thats how you measure things. Also it has Forge World Models however they are not necessary.
Here is what sticks out to me. 2+ or 3+ across the board either thru armor or cover. Also The amount of AV does help against small arms fire.
Grotsnick and the Mega Nobz work as a Vacuums up the opposing player creating distraction and forcing them to deal with him. The Trukk gives speed to deliver the package and board control.
The Devil Fish are pricy however they are tuff armor 12 with a 3+ / 2+ cover save is great as long as you make your save :) The 18 inch move in a turn makes them worth it. Plus the drones are use full for keeping the Doc’s Trukk on track should it kereen away from the enemy. Actually the drones are useful for lots of different tasks.
The Stealth Suits are expensive but having a 2+ cover save on the Shas le is nice.
The Drone Turrets make a nice defense line, 10 str 7 shots and hard to kill.
Well this is dragging, if you have any questions place below. Here are some photos of the army and the boards at XRG. I will try and write up some battle reviews
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