Farsight of DOOOM!!!

Tried for the 1st time using a 5 riptides list. Just wanted to test 1 time since I have them. Unfortunately for Kadir, we were the only 2 40k players that time. lol. He brought his Raven Guards army.

So my list is as below:


Commander (Warlord)          
    Iridium Armor      
    Onager Gauntlet      
    PEN      
    2 Missile Pods      
    Vectored retro-thruster      
    Target Lock      
6 Fire Warriors          
6 Fire Warriors          
4 Pathfinders          
4 Pathfinders          
Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS          
    Early Warning Override      
    Velocity Tracker      
Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS          
    Early Warning Override      
    Velocity Tracker      
Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS          
    Early Warning Override      
    Velocity Tracker      
         
Farsight Enclaves          
Commander Farsight          
O'Vesa (Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL Fusion Blaster)          
    Early Warning Override      
    Stimulant Injector      
    2 Shielded Missile Drones      
Farsight Riptide with Heavy Burst Cannon, TL SMS          
    Early Warning Override      
    Target Lock      
    Earth Caste Pilot Array      
    Talisman of Arthas Moloch      
3 Crisis team          
    Shas'vre      
    Bonding knife      
    Burst Cannons      
    Burst Cannons      


Total: 1850 points

I let him chose the terrain to give him advantage so he picked the dense city terrain. And I rolled KP game. He won the roll and decided to go first. I castled at 1 corner to stay away as far as I can from his Centurions.
Kadir played very well with little room for mistakes. On 2nd turn, his whole army is in front of me. It was tense. Game lasted 6 turns ended with my Victory 12-8 points. He managed to kill 3 riptides which is pretty impressive.

A detailed batte report could be found at Kadir's blog: ak-skullthrone.blogspot.com/‎

The previous game made me aware that I need more markerlights support. So next game will try this version of my Tau of DOOOM!!! Will be pitting against Aiman's FMC Screamstar list. *gulp*

Tau Empire:
Commander (Warlord)
Iridium Armor
Onager Gauntlet
PEN
Command and Control Node
Vectored retro-thruster
Multi Spectrum Sensor Suite
6 Fire Warriors
6 Fire Warriors
4 Pathfinders
4 Pathfinders
1 Skyray
Disruption Pod
1 Skyray
Disruption Pod
Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
Early Warning Override
Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
Early Warning Override

Farsight Enclaves:
Commander Farsight
O'Vesa (Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL Fusion Blaster)
Early Warning Override
Stimulant Injector
2 Shielded Missile Drones
Farsight Riptide with Heavy Burst Cannon, TL Fusion Blaster
Early Warning Override
Target Lock
Earth Caste Pilot Array
Talisman of Arthas Moloch
3 Crisis team
Bonding knife
Burst Cannons
Burst Cannons


TOTAL: 1850 points


With the list above, just had an awesome civil war against Pax's Tau Empire army. His list has:

1 x Cadre Fireblade
12 x Fire Warriors
1 x Cadre Fireblade
12 x Fire Warriors
1 x Skyray
1 x Hammerhead with Railgun (Longstrike upgrade)
2 x 3 Crisis Suits with 4 Fusion Blasters, 2 Plasma Rifles
3 x Missilesides with 6 Missile Drones
8 x Pathfinders
7 x Pathfinders
2 x Riptides with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS


We fought in the city terrain with mission was KP. Epic battle fluff where the Tau Empire sent their army to hunt for Farsight but Farsight retaliate. There were 6 Riptides on the board! In the end no riptide died. lol
Pax conceded as I took down all his other stuff on turn 4, probably due to me starting 1st turn.

We discussed and agreed the next battle, he will bring his 4 riptides (1 of them is FW). Wooo hooo!!! Robot monster madness! 8 Riptides on board fighting.

In response to Pax's full Tau Empire army, Farsight shall face them with the full might of the Farsight Enclaves scheduled next Friday.

Farsight Enclaves

Commander Farsight (Warlord)

O'Vesa (Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL Fusion Blaster)
-Early Warning Override
-Stimulant Injector
-2 Shielded Missile Drones

Riptide with Heavy Burst Cannon, TL Fusion Blaster
-Early Warning Override
-Target Lock
-Earth Caste Pilot Array

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

3 Crisis team
-3 Bonding knife
-6 Burst Cannons

6 Fire Warriors with Bonding Knife

6 Fire Warriors with Bonding Knife

Commander
-2 Marker Drones
-Drone Controller

4 Marker Drones

4 Pathfinders with Bonding Knife

4 Pathfinders with Bonding Knife

1 Skyray
-Disruption Pod
-Blacksun Filter

1 Skyray
-Disruption Pod
-Blacksun Filter

Total: 1850pts


This battle will see 8 Riptides on the battlefield! Epic!

arent signature systems 1 per detachment?

i dont remember the exact wordings of Earth Caste Pilot but can you take 2?

the signature system restrictions does not apply to THE EIGHT.

Gay!!! Lol

Had a test run with Hakim just now vs his Eldar list. Couldn't finish the game due to time constraint as I had to rush back. The list definitely have more problem with units with cover saves. So thinking of fielding in sub-commander torchstar which has on him a Multi-Spectrum Sensor Suite (which gives unit shooting ignore covers rule). Having hard time deciding what to remove to include him...

Just before the epic battle with Pax, decided to make it the army more Farsight Enclave oriented by removing the Fire Warriors and have more crisis suits. So the army I brought to face the Tau Empire is:

Farsight Enclaves
Commander Farsight (Warlord)

O'Vesa (Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL Fusion Blaster)
-Early Warning Override
-Stimulant Injector
-2 Shielded Missile Drones

Riptide with Heavy Burst Cannon, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override
-Target Lock
-Earth Caste Pilot Array

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

3 Crisis team with Bonding knife
-6 Burst Cannons
-Vectored Retro-Thrusters

1 Crisis team with Bonding knives
-Drone Controller
-2 Marker Drones

1 Crisis team with Bonding knives
-Drone Controller
-2 Marker Drones

1 Crisis team with Bonding knives
-Drone Controller
-2 Marker Drones

4 Pathfinders with Bonding Knives

4 Pathfinders with Bonding Knives

1 Skyray

1 Skyray

Total: 1849pts



And the army I faced had these:

Tau Empire
Tau Commander
- Iridium Armor
- PEN
- 2 Plasma Rifles
- 2 Crisis Team bodyguards with 2 Plasma Rifles each

Ethereal

12 Fire Warriors

12 Fire Warriors

8 Pathfinders

8 Pathfinders

2 Tetra Scout Speeder Team [FW]

XV107 R'varna Battlesuit [FW]

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

1 Longstrike Hammerhead Gunship


It was a epic fun game with me taking down 1 of his riptide first and him retaliated back taking down 1 of mine. Then in mid game, I was down to O'vesa riptide and the Heavy Burst Cannon riptide left. He still had 3 Riptides including R'varna. In the end game, only the Longstrike Hammerhead Gunship standing (or should I say floating). It was brutal. My only 2 riptides are both left with only 1 wound each left at the end of the game.

R'varna's weapon was scary. 1 turn, dealt 16 wounds on my O'vesa unit. We both enjoyed the brutal game though no combat was seen (typical of Tau). lol

After the post game analysis, found that my army has too many markerlights and too little guns. Will be tweaking it to be more efficient with some input from master Pax.

Can't wait for the next time to try the new list! ^_^
And thank you Pax for the awesome game.

So here's my new and improved Farsight Enclaves:

Farsight Enclaves
Commander Farsight (Warlord)

O'Vesa (Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL Fusion Blaster)
-Early Warning Override
-Stimulant Injector
-2 Shielded Missile Drones

Riptide with Heavy Burst Cannon, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override
-Target Lock
-Earth Caste Pilot Array
-Talisman of Arthas Moloch

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

3 Crisis team with Bonding knives
-Shas'vre
-6 Burst Cannons

1 Crisis team with Bonding knife
-Drone Controller
-2 Marker Drones

1 Crisis team with Bonding knife
-Drone Controller
-2 Marker Drones

1 Crisis team with Bonding knife
-Drone Controller
-2 Marker Drones

1 Crisis team with Bonding knife
-Drone Controller
-2 Marker Drones

1 Skyray
- Blacksun Filter
- Sensor Spines

1 Skyray
- Blacksun Filter
- Sensor Spines

Total: 1850pts



So with the removal of the pathfinders, the whole army is now very mobile. Total of:

13 Battlesuits
- 4 Riptides suit
- 1 Enforcer suit
- 8 Crisis suits

12 Drones
- 2 Shielded Missile Drones
- 10 Marker Drones

Then can play the song "Jump Around" by House of Pain when I do the assault moves for all of them. lol

nice

hahaha... thanks to you

Managed to try the list today vs Alvin's Nids. He wanted to test his throwdown list. he had..

Swarmlord with 3 Tyrant Guards
Hive Tyrant with 3 Tyrant Guards
2 Hive Guards
2 Hive Guards
10 Homogaunts
10 Homogaunts
10 Homogaunts
10 Genestealers
10 Genestealers
2 Carnifexes with Adrenaline Glands
1 Carnfiex with 2 TL Devourers

His list couldn't give the Farsight enough pressure. Swarmlord unit was to first to go and the rest slowly got picked away unit by unit. Alvin then decided to try his ideal Nids for a 2nd try.
This time the battle was on the city fight, deployment was basic long table edge vs long table edge and he got first turn. Definitely not good for the Tau.

His list was pure CC and numbers:

Hive Tyrant with Wings
Hive Tyrant with Wings
20 Homogaunts
20 Homogaunts
20 Homogaunts
1 Hive Chrone
1 Zoanthrope
1 Zoanthrope
1 Zoanthrope
2 Carnfexes with Adrenaline Glands
2 Carnfexes with Adrenaline Glands

On my 1st turn I had 3 flyers on my face and 2nd turn will see a unit of Genestealers and a unit of Homogaunts charging me. I poured all my firepower in taking down the both Flyrants first. He underestimated the Skyrays.

Then the battle was very compact on my side with all his little guys coming at me. In the end Farsight came through after killing all his Nids except a lone Zoanthrope.

They will have to think twice before invading the Farsight Enclaves.

After 3 games with the list, what Pax said is true. There are too much markerlights and the army need more firepower to finish off a unit from the shooting of the Riptides. So time for some fine tuning.

Farsight Enclaves
Commander Farsight (Warlord)

O'Vesa (Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL Fusion Blaster)
-Early Warning Override
-Stimulant Injector
-2 Shielded Missile Drones

Riptide with Heavy Burst Cannon, TL SMS
-Target Lock
-Earth Caste Pilot Array

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

Riptide with Ion Accelerator, TL SMS
-Early Warning Override

3 Crisis team with Bonding knives
-6 Burst Cannons

3 Crisis team with Bonding knives
-6 Missile Pods

1 Crisis team with Bonding knife
-Drone Controller
-2 Marker Drones

1 Crisis team with Bonding knife
-Drone Controller
-2 Marker Drones

1 Skyray
- Blacksun Filter

1 Skyray
- Blacksun Filter


Total: 1849pts


Added a unit of 3 crisis suits with Missile Pods. Hopefully that will be the key to the balance between the firepower and markerlights. Will test the theory next time.

yea that will help. especially since your super HQ can join them then pass the bonuses to them too..

my super HQ only have the Ignore Cover rule. so not that super la.

Had a game with Dann's DE ally with Eldar. He got to go first and and the first four turn was an uphill struggle for me as I lost 1 Skyray on 1st turn. Oh well.

So I pulled some strategy on turn 4 which was not agreed by my opponent but had to go with it anyway because is the rule and I was labeled uncool.
(his flyer was stunned. zooming flyer that is stunned can only move 18" and cannot turn. so i placed some models on the area where he cannot move his 18" and thus forcing his flyer to crash)

Turn went to turn 6 and ended with me winning by 2 VP (he got 1st blood but I had an uncontested objective).

I only had 1 Riptide (with Heavy Burst Cannon), Farsight, 2 lone crisis Suits and Sub-Commander Torchstar left. He had his warlord Ancient, Farseer with 9 Grotesque, 2 Raiders, 2 Trueborn and 5 Wyches left. A very bloody battle indeed. Thanks to Dann for the game.