Played a 1000pts last night and really need a second fish. My oppo only had 4 missile launchers but took my lone fish out T1
Other notes from the game include advanced stabilisation system, I didn't need to move my suit at all even with 40% terrain. Probably won't take it again.
Since Tetras are now "official" and much improved I gave them some test runs against Grey Knights and Imperial Guard in a couple of 1500 point games.
They're definetly more survivable than pathfinders since they can move around 12" and still marker - and can hide behind tanks.
They're more reliable, at bs 4 their h4 lights hit as well or better than my usual pathfinder squads of 5.
They free up two devilfishes to be dedicated (aka preloaded) fire warrior transports.
And to round it off I think they look awesome
Edit: I also forgot to mention that they're a cheaper per-hit source for markerlights than anything else we can field, which free's up some point's for bonding knives, something I missed sorely in my army.
Tetras? How do they compare with piranhas?
Once I've got my pathfinder squad (&fish) sorted, they're next in my list so would be interesting to see how they compare.
They've got landspeeder equiv armor and speed, a heavy4 markerlight and twinlinked pulserifles. A d-pod is included in their price (5 firewarriors), in addition to this I usually give them better bs and a blacksun filter (1 firewarrior).
Unlike the pathfinders they can move 12" a turn and still fire the markers - or turboboost into a more advantageous position.
They're relatively small and low profile (smaller than a land speeder!), so its easy to hide them behind terrain and friendly tanks.
Unlike pathfinders they don't get tied up in assaults as quickly - and I find them to about as survivable as pathfinders when shot at. Sure, they can't go to ground, but they do drag around cover in form of the d-pod and they never fail crappy ld8 checks
Are they in squadrons? I'm still getting used to crappy leadership and vanishing in the assault phase lol.
I'm going to run my PF as 8 with 3 rail rifles, its probably a waste of markerlights but those MEQ killers do it for me.
You can get 1-3 in a squadron, but I do run mine single. That way it's easier to position them, their footprint goes down - and they don't die as quickly.
Taudau, do you make battle report videos, and would you be willing to make one of your next Tau vs. battle that involves Tetras? I'd love to see them in action.
Where do I find the rules for a Tetra and are they tournament legal?
Depends on the tournament, and the rules are on the forgeworld website
Well, I just thought of a reason to take pathfinders over Tetras. The singular reason I can think of (so far) is that Pathfinders aren't restricted from entering areas that are forbidden to vehicles. I've seen a few tournaments that had areas where vehicles were not allowed to go. For instance there was a local tournament at a GW store that featured a "ship boarding action" scenario where the good factions were on one battleship (table) and the evil players were on the evil battleship (table) with four connecting "assault tubes"
That sounds like a cool setup, taking PF gives you a better devilfish but that's more points again.
Hopefully tourney organisers are looking at IA Apoc2 and letting FW stuff in.
Well, they, like most other stuff in the errata, have been cleared as "officially warhammer40k" by forgeworld. With forgeworld being a GW corp I'd say they are as legal as it gets. If they're legal for a specific tournament depends solely on the organisers of course.Originally Posted by Reivax26
Sadly I don't have a camera, and the i-phones quality in regard to video is sorely lacking. I'll see if I can note down enough stuff from my next game to do a vassal mock up afterward though :/Taudau, do you make battle report videos, and would you be willing to make one of your next Tau vs. battle that involves Tetras? I'd love to see them in action.
Rock on, thank you.
except games workshop says "we won't say if it's legal" which is a pita. I agree it should be legal, but the people that actually say refuse to... hate gw sometimes.
Win/Ties/Loss:
Tau 27/2/8 2009, 5/0/2 2012, 1/0/0 2013
Greyknights 17/3/4 2011, 47/4/11 2012
Oh, damn, I didn't know they do. Do you have a link / full quote on that?
Incunabulum - my website with all my stories on it
Incunabulog - my blog with loads of painting and batreps and stuff
One question of topic
Does GW have a trend of taking over unit/weapons designs from FW and introduce them in their books? Like Tetra being in the next Tau dex, etc...
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
They did with the last Tau codex with Piranhas and Skyrays, I don't see why not Tetras now.
There was a comment from GW that they would not take any more models from FW but we've seen before how well they keep there policies.
Question: If a squad containing gun drones gets the bonus BS from Markerlights does it apply to the Gun Drones too?
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