Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Beating Tau in 6th edition

So the Tau are amongst us.  Unparralled access to s5 guns, very long range shooting and solid vehicles. They can also combine fire to shoot at your charging troops.  So what should you do?

The best bet is to look to allies as many armies, especially assault based ones like Tyranids, Daemons and Orks lack shooting and have poor armour saves.

The best things to use against Tau, come unsurprisingly, from Imperial Guard IMO.

Add any of these to your army;

Griffon Heavy Mortar [accurate s6 ap4 large templates dirt cheap? Yes please]
Collossus Siege Mortar [overkill perhaps, but good in all comers lists]
Leman Russ Eradicator [this is brilliant vs tau]
Manticore
Death Strike
Helhound, basic varient
Sentinels with heavy flamers

All these are either Ordinance, Barrage, Ignore cover, or a combination of those three rules.

No comments:

Post a Comment