Tau 6th Edition Troops Review, aka Firewarriors, Firewarriors, Firewarriors

This is a really really straight forwards review.  Lets start with this.  Tau Firewarriors are probably the best troops choice in the entire game.  You can probably ignore Kroot entirely, since they are no longer a combat unit.

Let me explain my thoughts.  Tau firewarriors went down in points to less than ten points each, the same points as Daemonettes, Plaguebearers and Pink Horrors.

For the low, low cost of 99 points, you can get 11 Fire warriors.  If they shoot at 7 Dark Angel tactical marines, which come to 98 points, in a book also written by the same author, then you can see what I mean.

11 Firewarriors at long range kill 2.39 Tacticals.  In rapid fire range they kill 4.79.  This is the equivelent of 33.46 points killed at long range and 67.06 points killed at short range.

The 7 Dark Angels only kill 1.57 Fire Warriors at long range, and 3.14 at long range.  In terms of points killed, at long range Dark Angels kill 14.13 points and at short range 28.26 points.

So yeah.  They are 2.37 times more points efficient at killing the cheapest marines, than the marines are at killing them back.

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.