Tau Elite Tactics

The Tau Elite section has some very powerful options. Be careful, if you over spend your points on elite you will not have enough left for troops to support them.

XV8 Crisis Battle Suit Teams

So you have a squad of models that can deep strike, move 6" fire and then leap 6" for cover, 3+ save, a whole arsenal of anti tank and anti personnel weapons, can fire up to two weapons per turn, and can have up to six drones to give you extra fire power or a 2+ save? Do you really need tactical advice using these guys? OK here goes...

General Tau Battle Suit Tactics

You will not be able to have many of these squads due to their points cost. Use their speed to leap around the table to rebuff attacks and lend extra support to your Fire Squads.

Jet Packs

The XV8 Crisis Battle Suit comes with jet packs fitted. This gives the

Shas'vre Character upgrade

The Shas've can have access to the wargear list. This contain some nice toys to upgrade the squad.

Multi Tracker

A Multi Tracker should be considered as mandatory. This will give Shas've model twice the fire power for only 5 points. Keep in mind that both weapons have to be targeted against the same squad or vehicle. You are fortunate that most of the weapons are effective against either type of target, but if you know what type of army you will be fighting then you can optimize your models.

Stealth Team

The second Tau Elite choice in the very useful Stealth Team.

The Stealth Battlesuit

Infiltrate and Marker Light

The Tau Stealth team can infiltrate. Use this ability to position your team in a strategic place. From here they can use there marker light to guide heavy artillery to vulnerable targets. Using the markerlight means that the Stelth commander can not fire his burst cannon. I suggest leaving the marker light targeting to the Path Finders.

Bonded

The Stealth Team is most effective behind enemy lines. You will find that the 10 point upgrade to have the team bonded will be well worth the points.