Chaos And Tau Army list 1500pts

[MagicRabbit]

40K Army: Chaos

Chaos Sorcerer
+ Mark of Tzeetch
+ Doombolt (to be switched out for Physic Scream)
+ Gift of Chaos
+ Terminator Armour

Aspiring Sorcerer
+ Doombolt (to be switched out for Physic Scream)
+ Gift of Chaos
9x Thousand Suns

Aspiring Sorcerer
+ Doombolt (to be switched out for Physic Scream)
+ Gift of Chaos
9x Thousand Suns

Vindicator
+ Havoc Launcher

Rhino
+ Havoc Launcher

Tau Allies


Shas'O
+ Plasma Rifle
+ Missile Pod
+ MultiTracker
+ Iridium Armour
+ HW Drone Controller
+ 2 Shield Drones

12 Fire Warriors
+ Shas'ui
+ HW Drone Controller
+ 2 Gun Drones

12 Kroot

Broadside
+ Plasma Rifles
+ Team Leader
+ HW Drone Controller
+ 2 Gun Drones
+ Shield Generator

Broadside
+ Plasma Rifles
+ Team Leader
+ HW Drone Controller
+ 2 Gun Drones
+ Shield Generator

The Shas'O will be designated as my warlord with the command traits. He shall be joining the broadsides to give him some additional protection. The Thousand Suns units make a great front-line unit, especially once they get charged and the sorcerer starts turning them into spawn. Physic Scream is an amazing anti-terminator weapon.

So I'm looking for advice on the army, any thoughts are appreciated!

[karl_franz]

As a tau player i like the idea. The Tousand Sons fill the gap for tough, yet disposable frontline unit with a nice firepower potential. The vindicator seems to be a bit of a priority target for your opponents so I wouldn't count for it to survive long. One piece of advice on the tau side though. If you want to stick the commander with the broadsides I'd give him twin linked missile pods, degrade him to shas'el, remove the multitracker and add blacksun filter (<---this is generally a no brainer for a broadside unit). This would save you some points to invest (maybe) in more kroot (or kroot hounds as a meat shield).

[MagicRabbit]

The issue with in the current ruling is that your Warlord is the unit with the highest leadership or if tied you can chose. The chaos sorcerer is a front-line defender and is likely to die at some point, where as the shas'o is tough as nails with the unit he is in. If I degrade him to a shas'el he then has leadership 9 and cannot be my warlord. Thus he also has BS5 so twin linked missile pods don't seem that important The multitracker seems a no brainer allowing him to fire both the plasma rifle and the missile pod. and yes the blacksun filter.. how did I miss that?? XD

On the Vindicator, It's always been a puzzler for me. Some games it does nothing as it blows up on the first turn. But other games I've seen it run rampant and decimate the enemies army. Especially when facing hordes, this thing is a godsend

The other thing I'll mention about the TS units is that anyone dropping down SM assualt units is gunna get a nice hail of inferno bolts heading their way

[Boris420]

Your list is illegal. You can only have 1 Heavy Support for your allies and you have two. Can't believe no one pointed this out to you.

[MagicRabbit]

Good spot. Doesn't matter though i'll just run it the other way around with chaos as the allies.

[Boris420]

Good spot. Doesn't matter though i'll just run it the other way around with chaos as the allies.

good call. what is your shas'o going to be doing? is he gonna camp with the firewarriors? you can also outflank him with the kroot and use them as meat shield for him to get some side armor shots...

[MagicRabbit]

After playing a few games at the local store, the list has performed very well, although it does seem to have a small weakness for terminators...

So! Coming up this weekend is a small tourney at the local club. Now I like to write all-comers lists, but I happen to know a few players who like terminators... so here is a new version of the list for the tourney! New points limit of 1750, let me know what you think!

Ahriman

10 Chaos Chosen
+ 5 Plasma Guns

1 Aspiring Sorcerer
+ Doombolt (Physic Scream)
+ Gift of Chaos
+ 8 Thousand Sons

1 Aspiring Sorcerer
+ Doombolt (Physic Scream)
+ Gift of Chaos
+ 8 Thousand Sons

Vindicator
+ Havoc Launcher

Shas'el
+ Fusion Blaster
+ TL Plasma Rifle
+ HW Drone Controller
+ 2 Gun Drones
+ HW Multitracker

12 Fire Warriors

13 Kroot

Broadside
+ 1 Plasma Rifles
+ HW Drone Controller
+ 1 Shield Drones
+ 1 Gun Drones

Broadside
+ 1 Plasma Rifles
+ HW Drone Controller
+ 1 Shield Drones
+ 1 Gun Drones

Massive firebase of kroot, fire warriors, and thousand sons. Heavy support from the broadsides and vindicators. Once the enemy is in close quarters the physic powers kick in. That scream is devastating! The Shas'el is great anti-termi as is the chosen. Ahriman is awesome, especially the fact he can cast multiple shooting physic attacks.

[FraustyTheSnowman]

If you switch out one power for a roll on the table you have to switch out all of them. No psychic scream and gift of chaos. It was a little unclear in the beginning of sixth, but shouldn't have been (I blame the crappy battle reports in wd), but has been directly stated in the recent faqs.

[MagicRabbit]

You're right. That sucks and makes no sense. If i can mix and match different tables in the main rule book why can't i mix and match with my codex??

[Agnos]

Actually, Thousand Son Aspiring Sorcerers can only ever be given one Psychic power to begin with, despite being Mastery level 2. If you take Doombolt, you can't take Gift of Chaos

[Tankhappy]

Can you have more than one broadside for tau if their only an ally?