In ITC style missions with Kill objectives added in you also need team wide durability (which Tau have in Crisis Suits) and killing power (the crisis suits again and Rail Rifles). In NOVA style missions you’re looking for durability, mobility and spammability, and T4 4+ save drones with 8″ of movement have all of that. Tau didn’t accomplish anything at LVO but that had more to do with the infinitely tall pillars in every quarter blocking flying movement than the rest of the rules. You won’t be able to spread out easily, and so that can make actually taking advantage of the faction’s mobility very difficult. Stuck Together – While T’au have a fair amount of mobility, the combination of lower Leadership, For the Greater Good’s 6″ range, and Saviour Protocols’ 3″ range means that your Kill Team is going to naturally end up being pretty compact in order to maximize its effectiveness and survivability.Your team will seldom be very large so you’ll want to make sure that you keep your models together and in later turns you’ll often be relying on bonding knife ritual to keep from failing your Nerve tests. Morale – T’au leadership isn’t terrible but it also isn’t great, and you may find yourself going through drones rather quickly.This is pretty boring, and also running a team made mostly of drones will not make you many friends. Drones are too good – Drones are so good they’ll end up making up most of your kill teams and replacing things like all of your non-specialist models.They’re not incredibly squishy or anything but they won’t be doing any damage and being tied up means they can’t shoot. Well, at least the drones near them probably will. If the enemy does get in close with your Fire Warriors and Pathfinders, they’re gonna die. Melee – Tau are famously bad at melee combat.
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Also, because you auto-hit on 6s, a lot of things that might otherwise be terrible at shooting (like gun drones) end up not suffering all that much. They also have easy access to the Comms and Sniper specialisms, and a host of stronger short-ranged weaponry allowing them to be dangerous from multiple distances. Shooting – T’au may not have amazing BS, but what they do have is high-strength, long-range guns that rapid fire and allow them to maintain accuracy over longer distances on the move.On top of this T’au in the T’au Sept can hit firing Overwatch on a 5 or 6. This makes charging your models really painful, and allows you to do things like fire Overwatch with 2-3 other models and then fall back with the model actually being charged. Overwatch – When one of your models is declared as a charge target, every model with the For the Greater Good ability within 6″ of the model being charged can fire Overwatch as if they had been charged.
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This means that T’au models with good guns are a nightmare to take out. Drones can automatically intercept wounds for models in Kill Team, after saves are failed, and convert an entire attack into a single mortal wound. Drones – If you think shooting through drones is irritating in regular 40k, just wait until you have to go through them in Kill Team.Hello there Gue’la! Do you fantasize about working together with your brothers and sisters on the battlefield to protect something larger than yourselves? Do you like to take out your targets with coordinated shooting attacks before they can ever get close? Do you yearn to surround yourself with dozens of drones that will throw themselves in front of you to protect you with their short, automated lives? Then welcome to the T’au Empire, friend! Strengths