A battle report from last Thursday against m_folias's Tau.



This is pretty close to what m_folias took. The Hammerheads only numbered 4 though, not sure what he replaced them with:

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Start of Game


Start of Game


Start of Game


TBolts break a scout formation


Barracuda go on CAP


TBolts get CAPed


They lay a BM on another scout formation


The scouts attempt to double, fail and move


The SC doubles up and lays a BM on the pathfinders


They attempt to double, fail and regroup


Terminators come in, laying a BM on the Crisis


Raptors retain and engage the Broadsides


One goes down for no losses


Three get away


Fire Warriors double and lay a BM on the THawk


Crisis attempt to advance, fail and shoot taking out a Terminator


The barrage kills half a Pathfinder formation


A retinue comes in and lays some BMs on scouts and Skyrays


Another comes in and takes out a Pathfinder Devilfish, they break and run


A retinue retains and destroys the Skyrays after summoning


Hammerheads take out a marine.


Scouts double and lay a BM on the Warlord


A retinue summons and advances on the Crisis, laying a BM.


2 Barracuda formations take out a marine in the Warlord's formation


Fire Warriors break them

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Turn 2


Turn 2


Raptors summon and engage the Broadsides again


They're wiped out and the Crisis break from the support BM


Terminators retain and engage the Pathfinders


They are wiped out as well


Pathfinders take out a Marine in the open


They marshal and move back.


The retinue in the open breaks some scouts


The Hammerheads attempt return fire but fail and regroup


Helltalons stand down


The Pathfinders in the building fail again?


A THawk straffes the Fire Warriors in the open, taking three out


Barracuda stand down


Helltalons stand down


The Firewarriors double and lay a BM on the Warlord


They marshal


Barracuda hit them for a BM


The last THawk stands down


More barracuda for more BMs


The Orca stands down

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Turn 3


Turn 3


Crisis double and grab a T&H


Scouts double and take a marine in the Warlord's Hunter


A drop retinue summons and advances, grabbing a T&H and taking out a Hammerhead


Barracuda break the Warlord


Helltalons go on CAP to protect them


Pathfinders double and lay a BM while contesting


Hammerheads advance and take out two Daemons


The Terminators double to contest, laying a BM


Barracuda stand down


The THawk gets CAPed while breaking the Pathfinders in the building


The Orca stands down


Helltalons break the scouts grabbing blitz


A THawk clears the Pathfinders contesting a T&H


The Raptors grab Blitz


End of Game


End of Game

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3-0 Red Corsairs with BTS, Blitz and T&H.

I was worried when it looked like my drop wouldn't catch must. I tried to use up some of the Tau's activations before the retinues came down by stalling with the Helltalons and engaging on the far left with the THawks. That went well, but it was Matt's failed activation rolls that really helped me the most.

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Thanks for the report, much appreciated

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Thanks Dave, these reports are a big help!

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cool report got lost a little with the lists and what was happening.

hope you gave him some tips for next game. could have garrisoned the FW and the path finders on overwatch on the blitz to creat a decent bubble along with keeping the skyrays in the centre or even garrisoned the broadsides on overwatch and played a defensive game turn 1. Then counted turn 2 with coordinate tetras creating crossfire for the FW and pathfinders.

Edit i wrote some dumb things

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Nice report!

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This was the list I took. (ignore my note in blue)


Dave totally smashed my ass. He quickly target my right flank. Then broken as many formations possible. With those broken formations and the six that failed to activate I had 5 or so detachments that tried to do more than lay a blast marker. Turn one was FUBAR.

The endless shit I did wrong.
To help Dave out, I screwed my myself in the deployment. The skyway's AA bubble covered 10-15cm off board. Continuing down that path I stuck my BTS outside of this bubble and far out on the right flank.

I choose to engage the air drop with mech FW, swinging around for the crossfire, only to have the LOS/LOF blocked by his Thawk. Those FWs were wiped out next turn.

At some point I forgot which detachment was his BTS and went after a different detachment, his right flank drop podded detachment. With his BTS broken and trying to hide, another wonderful display of the day's tactics!

The only part of the plan that worked out was the scouts. I had 5 detachments with the scout ability. Those provided a huge area of denial for the air drop with ML coverage on my entire frontage.

Another day with some highly motivated Tau would put up a better showing.

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