whitefang wrote:
hey read over your list and I must say, as a budding epic Tau player I feel like the XV8's need to have some ranged weapons. Its not like the faresight enclaves fight solely close combat. .
By ranged weapons do you actually mean longer-ranged weapons? Their weapons profile is as follows:
Twin Burst Cannons 15cm AP5+ -
Twin Tau Flamers (15cm) (Small Arms) Ignore Cover
Twin Fusion Blasters 15cm MW4+ -
@yme-loc - How has this army performed against opponents with large amounts of air power? I've not tried the Farsight list yet, but comparing it to other Tau lists the fact that Skyrays can only be taken as a dedicated formation of 3 seems like it could be a real disadvantage.
By comparison, along with the formation of 3 skyrays, the Third phase expansion list has skyrays as an option to join Firewarriors and an option to bury one in a formation of hammerheads. The Vior'la list doesn't allow them to join Firewarriors, but does allow one to attach to hammerheads.