Editing Warhammer 40,000/9th Edition Tactics/Tau (section)

==Why Play Tau==
Because you like shooting and battlemechs, and being an optimist in a crapsack universe. Just stay the fuck out of melee if you don't want to be tabled for your own 'for the greater good' shitheads sakes.

====Pros====
* You have the best infantry weapon in the game. Eat your heart out Necrons.
* Strength 5 guns everywhere means your troops have an easier time wounding most MEQ things and T8 tanks/monsters.
* You can pump out a lot of mortal wounds if you build around Destroyer Missiles and Rail weapons.
* Markerlights are no longer weapons that you shoot, but actions. They give easy access to +1 to hit for your entire army. Looks like something good did come out last edition's -1 to hit spam.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn27jQAuoWw Almost everything bigger than {{W40kKeyword|INFANTRY}} has the {{W40kKeyword|FLY}} keyword.]
* A plethora of sources for wound-transferring mechanics including wound ignore rolls, and invulnerable saves can make your important units very resilient.
* You have a wide selection of decent AP weapons.
* All Crisis/Commander suit weapons are Assault, letting them Advance and still shoot. Also <s>Deep</s> Manta strike.
* Miss the old days where the Tau was a highly mobile army? Congrats! New rules mean only infantry suffer -1 to hit for moving and firing heavy weapons.
* A bunch of badass-looking titanfall-esque battle suit models.
*You  still have {{W40kKeyword|DRONE}}s, which means weapons designed to murder something based on its keywords don't exist to kill a large portion of your storm shield equivalents.
*[[Cheese|Railguns]]
*The best shooting phase in the game. Not even a meme anymore. The shooty army can finally find solace in the fact that it actually shoots good.

====Cons====
* With the 9th codex being absolutely fucking broken thus far, you're back to being the most hated faction in the game. Have fun finding matches.
* For the Greater Good is gone, as is our immunity to charges in the charge phase.
* Virtual army-wide BS 4+ meaning the so-called "Ranged experts" of the galaxy are only as good as your off the line Imperial grunt. Worse, is that they have expanded the 4+ to hit to more units, though HQs are still safe. 
**And to rub salt in the wound, Markerlights are now strictly worse than [[Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Genestealer Cults (9E)|Genestealer Cults]] Crossfire and [[Leagues of Votann]] Eye of The Ancestors.
* You'll still crumple in assault against just about anything actually optimized for it. Using your [[dakka]] and mobility to make sure they never get that close is still the key to survival.
* Because of the sheer number of Tau units that have the {{W40kKeyword|FLY}} keyword, beware of enemy AA. 
* Our snipers are built into a firesight marskman, and they still suck (luckily not as bad as they were but it's still a strong meh).
* You can no longer stack 5 markerlights to get 2+ rerolling 1s to hit Broadsides on flying grav tanks with the velocity tracker wargear. Markerlights are used up the moment a unit fires on the lit-up unit, and afterwards it is removed.
* You have no psychic powers, few defenses against them, and no cost-effective way of eliminating the {{W40kKeyword|CHARACTERS}} who are hiding among infantry. Anyone running [[Thousand Sons|heavy]] [[Grey Knights|psy]][[Daemon|chic]] is going to have a field day with your lack of Deny the Witch outside of an Enclaves-only relic.
* You may get frustrated trying to master your shooting, and -1 to hit like on Alaitoc and Raven Guard will make your game a painful, infuriating slog. Thankfully, the days of -2-4 to hit are gone, but -1 to hit on BS4+ is still nothing to write off.
*In 9th Ed, being able to {{W40kKeyword|FLY}} no longer allows you to fall back and shoot. :(
* You are currently very reliant on Stratagems. Expect to burn through CP like no tomorrow. 
* The glottal stop of everyone trying to pronounce your new apostrophe.
* GW can't be bothered exploring the possibilities of giving you tons of auxiliaries because they're too busy giving Space Marines another captain or lieutenant or something like that.
* Fish of Fury is back. [[rage|Also some factions can do it to you now without having to spend CP.]]