FOR THE GREATER CHAOS!!!

Yes, some of you might already know... i'm starting up Chaos Tau as ally for my CSM. Can't really put this in my World Eaters thread since they aren't really World Eaters if you know what I mean. lol

So here goes... My Chaos Tau of DOOOM!!! hehehehehe

HQ:
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(Warlord) Chaos Lord - Mark of Khorne, Lightning Claw, Powerfist, Juggernaught of Khorne, Sigil of Corruption, Veterans of the Long War, Gift of Mutation
Chaos Lord - Mark of Khorne, Axe of Blind Fury, Juggernaught of Khorne, Sigil of Corruption, Veterans of the Long War, Gift of Mutation
(Ally) Tau Commander
- Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit: +1T, 2+Sv
- Velocity Tracker: Skyfire
- Early Warning Override: Interceptor
- Puretide Engram Neurochip: Can get Counterattack, Furious Charge, Monster Hunter, Stubborn or Tank Hunter
- Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite: Can opt to forfeit shooting gives unit Ignore Cover
- Command and Control Node: Can opt to forfeit  shooting gives unit weapons all Twin-Linked
- Onagar Gauntlet: Can opt to forfeit all attacks for a S10 AP1 attack

TROOP:
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8 Berzerkers - Power Weapon
Dedicated Rhino
8 Berzerkers - Power Weapon
Dedicated Rhino
(Ally) 6 Fire Warriors - Shas'ui with Markerlight & Target Lock (can shoot separate target)
(Ally) 6 Fire Warriors - Shas'ui with Markerlight & Target Lock (can shoot separate target)

FAST:
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4 Chaos Spawn

HEAVY:
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1 Vindicator - Dozer Blade, Combi-Bolter, Daemonic Possession
1 Vindicator - Dozer Blade, Combi-Bolter, Daemonic Possession
(Ally) 3 XV88 Broadsides - 3 TL High-yield Missile Pods, 6 Missile Drones, 2 Target Locks (can shoot separate , 1 Early Warning Override)

Total: 1849 points

So the concept is to provide a balance of CC and durable shooting threat to the enemy.
The Command with the broadsides can target 3 separate units during shooting phase. Commander will be positioned in front to tank the wounds.

When this army is deployed across you, you have 2 Chaos Lords with spawns rushing towards you along with 2 units of Berzerkers in Rhinos.
2 Vindicators will control the mid field.
The Fire Warriors will bubble wrap the Commander and Broadsides unit to prevent enemy charges and of course the Supporting Fire special rule goodness.

Any thoughts?

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Hahaha... one day I'll be a better Tau player than you master sifu Paxtau.

I assume the commander is with the broadside party rite? I think dats ok for a static base. But I rather go with the kroot with sniper rounds vs 6 firewarriors. they are much more versatile, hugging an objective, sniping monsters, or just plain annoying outflanking. you get 10 for the same price of those 6 + a kroot hound as well

haha.. too late, i already got 1 box of Fire Warriors. so can make 2 squads of 6. wanted them for the markerlights man. lol

but one markerlight at bs 3 wor

for the greater bad

@Pax: Got 2 squads so 2 markerlights! lol

@Syam: Yes! For the greater Chaos! Thx for the inspiration. I changed the thread title. lol

fine 2 markerlights at bs 3 worrr.... with that said u got a nice group all castle up. Also dun forget you can use your markerlight tokens when the opponent charges u so since u technically can get 2 tokens you could be overwatching on 4+

good enough with all the twin link guns from the broadsides.

the markerlights are planned to fuel 1 of the broadsides targets. if got good lor. TL at BS4. If not, have to make do with TL at BS3.

yea lor.. having all 3 units of them castling up providing Supporting Fire. I can overwatch with the Firewarriors first, try to get some markerlight on the charger then have my broadside team overwatch them at TL BS3! lol

yeap n ur markerlight still got a chance to hit on a 6 when they try to charge if got a 6 u pass the token to your broadsides so u hit on a 5 twinlink.

but since your commander has twinlink as well a bit of a waste la i feel, your broadsides are already twinlink... I rather drop the sensor suites give him puretide chip and missile packs so your whole unit shoot 12 twinlink S7, 4 BS5 S7 all get tank hunter or monster hunter :Dlagi pawah! although you lose out on the ignore cover la... if you really want keep the ignore cover just in case.

imagine it bro if you had a pure tide chip you shoot wraith knights twinlink to hit and to wound :Dlet them save la when its done u fire the sms as well lol, or target transports and light tanks confirm kills.

Ei.. you didn't see my list meh? Commander got all those upgrades dy la. (-_____-)

yea but are you not overpaying? cause u bought twinlink sensor suits but broadsides are already twinlink for all its weapons.

Is for the Missile Drones since their BS is only 2. And is only 15pts. Not that pricey la.

no need la for 15pts might as well give him missile packs. Give him drone controller drop the irridium armour ur setup lets ur drones shoot at bs 5 and the commander can shoot another 4 missiles at bs 5 too.

You can't. Drone controller doesn't work for missile drones. Check Page 68

owh yea sorry my bad. Dun use my commander like what u are doing so bit rusty.

Already we cannot tahan Joe's Chaos Army, now he go and campur with Tau pulak.
Adoi!!

FOR THE GREATER CHAOS!!!

U know that the tau are immune to the warp rite

How come?

Dunno its in the fluff, they are incorruptible by the powers of chaos basically you wont get a chaos tau siding with khorne but you could get some desperate alliance vs some particular enemy since tau has this friends to all policy. The tau tried to ally with the de before which worked till they defeted their space marine enemies after that, the DE turn on them.

Don't think so. The codex only have 1 paragraph on the warp which it says they couldn't understand how the warp works. Even after operating on the humans, the humans also dunno how the mechanism work other than the chanting and rituals.

Ahhh... I know what you mean now. They are mostly untainted by chaos due to their society nature where they have absolute faith in their cause of Greater Good just like the Grey Knights have absolute faith in their false emperor. I guess I can fluff it as they are renegades which see a world better off in chaos thus FOR THE GREATER CHAOS!!! Lol