1500pts Tau Death by a 1000 cuts list

[Panxer]

+++ Death by a 1000 cuts (1499pts) +++
+++ 1500pt Tau Empire 6th Ed (2013) Roster (Primary Detachment)) +++

Selections:
Tau Empire 6th Ed (2013) (Primary Detachment) Selections:

+ HQ + (229pts)

* Cadre Fireblade (60pts)
(Independent Character, Split Fire, Supporting Fire, Volley Fire)
Markerlight, Photon grenades, Pulse rifle

* Commander (169pts)
(Independent Character, Supporting Fire, Very Bulky)
Crisis battlesuit, Cyclic ion blaster (15pts), Onager Gauntlet (5pts), Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts), XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit (25pts)
* 2x Shield Drone (24pts)
2x Shield generator

+ Elites + (282pts)

* XV8 Crisis Team (94pts)
(Supporting Fire, Very Bulky)
* Crisis Shas'ui (47pts)
Burst cannon (10pts), Crisis battlesuit, Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)
* Crisis Shas'ui (47pts)
Burst cannon (10pts), Crisis battlesuit, Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)

* XV8 Crisis Team (94pts)
(Supporting Fire, Very Bulky)
* Crisis Shas'ui (47pts)
Burst cannon (10pts), Crisis battlesuit, Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)
* Crisis Shas'ui (47pts)
Burst cannon (10pts), Crisis battlesuit, Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)

* XV8 Crisis Team (94pts)
(Supporting Fire, Very Bulky)
* Crisis Shas'ui (47pts)
Burst cannon (10pts), Crisis battlesuit, Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)
* Crisis Shas'ui (47pts)
Burst cannon (10pts), Crisis battlesuit, Twin-linked burst cannon (15pts)

+ Troops + (430pts)

* Drone Sentry Turret Team [FW] (40pts) (Forge World TauUpdate.pdf p5)
(Forge World rule update)
* Drone Sentry Turret (40pts)
(Automated Artillery)
Deep Strike (5pts) (Deep Strike), Twin-linked fusion blaster (10pts)

* Drone Sentry Turret Team [FW] (40pts) (Forge World TauUpdate.pdf p5)
(Forge World rule update)
* Drone Sentry Turret (40pts)
(Automated Artillery)
Deep Strike (5pts) (Deep Strike), Twin-linked fusion blaster (10pts)

* Fire Warrior Team (100pts)
(Supporting Fire)
9x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle (81pts), Photon grenades
* Fire Warrior Shas'ui (19pts)
Pulse rifle

* Fire Warrior Team (100pts)
(Supporting Fire)
9x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle (81pts), Photon grenades
* Fire Warrior Shas'ui (19pts)
Pulse rifle

* Kroot Carnivore Squad (70pts)
(Infiltrate, Move Through Cover, Stealth (Forests))
Sniper rounds (10pts)
* 10x Kroot (60pts)
10x Kroot rifle

* Remote Sensor Tower Team [FW] (80pts) (Forge World TauUpdate.pdf p3)
(Forge World rule update)
* 2x Remote Sensor Tower (80pts)
(Immobile, Multi-phasic Sensor Suite)
2x Positional relay, 2x Twin-linked markerlight

+ Fast Attack + (165pts)

* Tetra Scout Speeder Team [FW] (55pts) (Forge World TauUpdate.pdf p2)
(Forge World rule update)
* Tetra (55pts)
(Marker Beacon, Scouts)
Blacksun filter (5pts), Disruption pod, High Intensity markerlight, Twin-linked pulse rifle

* Tetra Scout Speeder Team [FW] (55pts) (Forge World TauUpdate.pdf p2)
(Forge World rule update)
* Tetra (55pts)
(Marker Beacon, Scouts)
Blacksun filter (5pts), Disruption pod, High Intensity markerlight, Twin-linked pulse rifle

* Tetra Scout Speeder Team [FW] (55pts) (Forge World TauUpdate.pdf p2)
(Forge World rule update)
* Tetra (55pts)
(Marker Beacon, Scouts)
Blacksun filter (5pts), Disruption pod, High Intensity markerlight, Twin-linked pulse rifle

+ Heavy Support + (393pts)

* Hammerhead Gunship (141pts)
Blacksun filter (1pts), Disruption pod (15pts), Ion cannon, Twin-linked smart missile system

* Sky Ray Missile Defense Gunship (136pts)
Automated repair system (5pts), Blacksun filter (1pts), Disruption pod (15pts), 2x Networked markerlight, 6x Seeker missile, Twin-linked smart missile system, Velocity tracker

* Sniper Drone Team (116pts)
(Stealth, Supporting Fire)
* 2x Firesight Marksman (26pts)
2x Drone controller, 2x Markerlight, 2x Pulse pistol
* 6x Sniper Drone (90pts)
6x Longshot pulse rifle

[Uncle Nutsy]

If you do go with this list, I want to see a batrep, just to see if you punched a tank to death.

[kyfer]

I want to see a batrep purely to see how the fw updates go in battle, let alone the other fun to be had

[apahllo]

I have learned my lesson against tetras and I know how useful they are. They are a great unit, but I'd take 2 units of 2. From my experience against them, this is when they have hurt my units the most.

Never played against the sentry drone but it seems pretty strait forward. I don't think it's enough anti tank, I'd change up a crisis team to deal with armor. So you have more then one option besides the skyray, which is unreliable in my eyes. I'm only saying this because your whole army is anti infantry, you even have the ethereal, which I have also learn to fear, so I think you can afford to change a crisis team.

I really really like armies that field many strong units and that why I like this list. Sniper drone teams and the skyray are the only units that I think should be dropped, for high yield missile broadsides or another hammer head.

[Sparky]

The only thing you lose by using the sentry drone over a similarly armed suicide suit is mobility. You gain the saved space in your elite spot and can ignore all the light weapon fire that would normally roast a suit (Sentry is armour 12).

Guide them in with them tetras, wedge it between two tanks and hope the second one doesn't move fast enough for the next round of shooting.