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Building a 1000 point Tau list is giving me far more trouble than I origionally anticipated. Here's what I've come up with thus far.

Ethereal
50pts

12x Fire Warriors
-Shas'ui
118pts

12x...

I like using special characters and I like when my opponents use them too. I like the character it adds to the table, almost like seeing a battle out of a book unfolding infront of me.

I really...

A sky shield is pretty good with tau. I never got to use one personally but I really want to. A commander on a quad gun is awesome but it also limits his mobility.

A skyray can fire 2x seeker...

I like the way you have your list set up, its very close to what I run. There's only a few things that I would change but that's me.

-I would drop 10 kroot and make 2x squads of 15.

-Use those...

I know what the early warning system does. I was telling him that he has a better chance to hit flyers with TL high yeild missiles.

12x TL shots at S7, even with needing 6's, will get hits and...

3x suits with 2x missile pods each is fun especially with a commander with cyclic, missile pod, and engram chip. 17x S7 shots at 18" with monster or tank hunter is fun.

I'm going to try a unit of...

I've always frowned upon burst cannons on my suits. We have fire warriors and sniper kroot for massed S4-5/sniper shooting. I'd rather give my suits weapons that our infantry can't take.

Edit: A...

ML because multible shot, high strength weapons are awesome and a HF for auto hitting fun.

Your list doesn't have any S10 shooting. Broadsides no longer have railguns, they have heavy rail rilfes.

Longstrike is pure money with a railgun hammerhead. BS5 rerolling armor penetration is...

There's no school like the old school. I run regular LRBTs and maybe a Demolisher or two on 4'x4' table games.

LRBT
-Battle Cannon
-Hull Heavy Flamer
-Heavy Bolter Sponsons