Farsight Enclave

My take on commander farsight. My farsight bomb relies Less on Instant killing but Doing surgical strikes The whole unit will get the sensor suits support but I would think their non scatter deepstrike will allow me to position them to meet the ongoing table demands. I gave it missiles to allow them to fire at range since Deepstriking so close to the enemy sometimes can be very much the end of the farsight bomb. I am also trying to keep the points low so that It does not be too much of a burden for my army. Rest of the army sticks to what I have so that I can cross over with out buying more minis.

HQ: Commander Farsight

XV8 Crisis Bodyguard Team (Farsight)
1 Crisis Bodyguard + Command and Control Node + Multi-Spectrum Sensor Suite
4 Crisis Bodyguard + Fusion Blaster x4 + Missile Pod x4

Elite: XV104 Riptide + Ion Accelerator + Early Warning Override + Velocity Tracker + SMS

Elite: XV104 Riptide + Ion Accelerator + Early Warning Override + Velocity Tracker + SMS

Troops: Fire Warrior Team x12 + Fire Warrior Shas'ui

Troops: Fire Warrior Team x12 + Fire Warrior Shas'ui

Troops: Kroot Carnivore Squad x14 + Sniper Rounds

Fast Attack: Pathfinder Team x5

Fast Attack: Pathfinder Team x5

Heavy Support: XV88 Broadside Team
2 Broadside Shas'ui + Early Warning Override
4 Missile Drone

Heavy Support: XV88 Broadside Team
2 Broadside Shas'ui + Early Warning Override
4 Missile Drone

Heavy Support: Hammerhead Gunship + Submunition Rounds + SMS

come, let's game this Friday!

lol..

looks interesting. I'd love to have a go at that

lets play tomorrow during lunch

Some farsight update.

The new supplementary codex farsight enclaves will be out this Saturday digitally there are 3 different mediums the first is from black library which is selling the codex for 20 pounds it is an incrypted pdf, release 20th this month. Ibooks selling the digital enhance one with some multimedia features is 25 pounds release on the 20th too. The hardcover is due out in october! 30pounds.

Its quite different than the iyanden book cause the farsight one has an army list. You can field a full suit army which is min 3 max 5 but got some restrictions to some units in the tau dex like no ethereal. Got a new character, and gear, one of the unique gear allows one unit to double its shots one per game. Some new drone etc.

No 100% confirmation but apparently farsight enclave cannot ally with anyone. They are and isolationist group whom are xenophobic anything apart from tau. So sorry if you guys were thinking of a full suit army.

Fluff it supposedly expands on the farsight saga. Apparently there has been two dozen commanders donning the farsight suit. Meaning he is more of an idea that a living person now. Which helps explain how could a tau live for 300 yrs. (normal tau life span is 40 human years), It also explains that farsight is becoming more and more popular for descented tau firewarriors. As many question the ethereal mandates. Which is quite in align to some of the new tau hq like cadre fireblade, and the pathfinder hq guy, whom both are not really in the good books with the ethereal's


Hopefully I can use this dream list. points wise i think its waaaaay over

farsight
x5 suits bodyguard not too tool up prob Fusion + Plasma
Commander + sensor suits + attached to missile crisis suits

Elite
x1 riptide - ion cannon
x1 riptide - ion cannon
x1 riptide - heavy burst cannon

troops
x5 crisis suits - Fusion + missiles
x5 crisis suits - twin missiles
x12 Fire warriors
x12 Fire warriors

Fast
x5 pathfinders
x5 pathfinders

Heavy
x3 missilecides x4 missile drones
x3 missilecides x4 missile drones

44 s7 twinlink missiles 26 s7 missiles = 60 S7 missiles

it's too bad it's not hard copy. I would probably pick it up and restart tau hahaha

The Holy Bolter should be S7

Lol it took me a while to realize the basic pulse rifle is basically a heavy bolter ^^ especially if u add fireblade into a full fire warrior unit 24 s5 shots at 30" n 36 shots at 15"

26... Don't forget to add the fire blade's shots as well

Owh yea

Made my first list. Its quite challenging suddenly to not be able to take those fancy support systems from the main tau dex.. But I kinda feel this army feels more rugged and like old school of sorts. I am avoiding using farsight for now.

I must admit it feels kinda cool and very to the fluff with the Farsight enclave, I have to make do with what they have. Commander Redstorm and retinue is quite funky they got outflank, acute senses, Move thru cover and the vibrating ground thing. With 4 marker drones at bs 5 hopefully They can act Independently from the rest.

Notice there is no heavies?




Tau Farsight Enclave 1850pts

HQ: Commander RedStorm + Burst Cannon x2 + Drone Controller + 1 (Warscaper Marker Drone, Outflank, Move thru cover, Acute Senses) + Marker Drone x2
HQ: Sub-Commander RavenFire + Drone Controller + Talisman of Arthas Moloch (5+ inv, 4 dice for deny the witch) + Flamer x2

Elite: XV104 Riptide + Ion Accelerator + Early Warning Override + Velocity Tracker
Elite: XV104 Riptide + Ion Accelerator + Early Warning Override + Velocity Tracker
Elite: XV104 Riptide + Heavy Burst cannon + Earth caste pilot (Re-roll any 1s, Re-roll nova)

Troops: XV8 Crisis Team x3 + Fusion Blaster x3 + Plasma Rifle x3 + Marker Drone x2 + Bonding Knife Ritual
Troops: XV8 Crisis Team x3 + Fusion Blaster x3 + Missile Pod x3 + Bonding Knife Ritual
Troops: XV8 Crisis Team x3 + Fusion Blaster x3 + Missile Pod x3 + Bonding Knife Ritual
Troops: Fire Warrior Team x10 + Shas'ui + Bonding Knife Ritual
Troops: Fire Warrior Team x10 + Shas'ui + Bonding Knife Ritual

Fast Attack: Drone Squadron x6 Markerlight Drones

Heavy support: Skyray Missile Defence + SMS

so tiny compared to normal... The Farsight enclave actually cost a bit more vs the normal tau. Cause of the mandatory bonding knifes and how expansive their special systems are.

Wow. It's quite a small army. But lots of firepower! Let's try it out next Friday.

Made some adjustment


Tau Farsight Enclave 1850pts

HQ: Commander RedStorm + Burst Cannon x2 + Drone Controller + Marker Drone x2
HQ: Sub-Commander RavenFire + Drone Controller + Talisman of Arthas Moloch (5+ inv, 4 dice for deny the witch)

Elite: XV104 Riptide + Ion Accelerator + Early Warning Override + Velocity Tracker
Elite: XV104 Riptide + Ion Accelerator + Early Warning Override + Velocity Tracker

Troops: XV8 Crisis Team x3 + Burst Cannon x6 + Marker Drone x2 + Gun Drone x4 + Bonding Knife Ritual
Troops: XV8 Crisis Team x3 + Fusion Blaster x4 + Plasma Rifle x2 + Bonding Knife Ritual
Troops: XV8 Crisis Team x3 + Fusion Blaster x4 + Plasma Rifle x2 + Bonding Knife Ritual
Troops: Fire Warrior Team x10 + Bonding Knife Ritual
Troops: Fire Warrior Team x10 + Bonding Knife Ritual

Fast Attack: Drone Squadron x6 Markerlight Drones

Heavy support: Skyray Missile Defence + SMS
Heavy support: Broadsides x3 + High yield missile pods + Missile drones x4

so tiny compared to normal... The Farsight enclave actually cost a bit more vs the normal tau. Cause of the mandatory bonding knifes and how expansive their special systems are.