Editing Warhammer 40,000/7th Edition Tactics/Tau (section)

===Dedicated Transports===
*'''TY7 [[Devilfish]] Troop Carrier:''' These allow your Fire Warriors to be exactly where you need them to be. With AV12 in the front, the ability to gain a 3+ cover save with ease through the Disruption Pod wargear, think of this as the iron-clad, greased up eggshell that you need to crack to get to the delicious omelette inside. With the new codex, drones that detach from vehicles never count as a kill point.  For ten points, you can replace the gun drones with a twin-linked smart missile system (although good luck finding the model parts for it), which got a serious buff in 6th Edition from its previous stats, allowing the Devilfish to add some cost-effective (line-of-sight ignoring / cover negating!) fire support. These are almost necessary for a good army although they do cost 80 fucking points!. With 7th edition, the viability compared to the SMS does get a boost though, in the form of the Coordinated Firepower special rule from the hunter contingent. A single devilfish, with gun drones and a fire warrior/pathfinder squad inside, is 3 units for the purposes of Coordinated Firepower, giving you an effective fire-team without dipping into other sources. This can be useful when your list is hungry for marker-lights, as it gives them a bit of independence. (note: Devilfish are not allowed to carry models with the bulky special rule, so stealth suits en route to a dispute must shoot-and-scoot and can't commute.)