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

===Warzone Damocles===
*'''Shadowsun's Firestrike Assault Hunter Cadre (Apocalypse):''' Shadowsun takes command of a grand total of: a Crisis Bodyguard team, 2 regular Crisis teams, 6 Fire Warriors with a Fish, 6 without, 2 Pathfinders with Fish, 2 Stealth teams, 2 Riptides, 3 Hammerheads, 3 Skyrays, and 4 Razorsharks. Really, this is just a convenient excuse to gather all this wanton firepower together, with a bonus of giving anyone within 24" of the commander Fearless and Preferred Enemy.  If you really have that many models together (and you like running stuff like the Tyranids Living Tide) then rock on, you extremely rich GW slave.

*'''Piranha Fireteam Squadron (Apocalypse):''' 5 Piranhas.  Only five, no more, no less. This is a surprise assault formation, plain and simple.  They deploy as a team on the second turn, they can jump into reserves so long as they're all within 6" of a table edge and come back whenever '''fully restocked and restored'''.  If you thought the Tau had enough cheese, there's this, an instant-revival that can make even Tyranids jelly.

*'''Ethereal Council (Apocalypse):''' So long as you get three Characters, you can choose between Aun'Va, Aun'Shi, and more than one plain Ethereal. Grouping this many squishy Tau together boosts their FiNaO range from 12" to 24", but if they're all removed, the enemy gets ''another'' VP for killing them all.  In addition, they can all use one more elemental power just to coordinate the other side's ruination by control.

*'''Hunter Cadre (Apocalypse):''' In a smaller Shadowsun formation, a single generic Commander gets: a Bodyguard team, 2-6 regular Crisis teams, Broadsides, Piranhas, and Hammerheads, 1-3 Stealth, Pathfinder, regular Drone, and Sniper Drone teams, 1-3 Skyrays, 3+ Fire Warrior teams, and an option to take up to 3 Fireblades, Kroot, and Vespids each. This formation gifts a bit more to the team.  First off, they grab Acute Senses.  Then, they can start from reserves and then get out in the first turn.  After that, they all get 12" range for their Supporting Fire, meaning that now it changed charging them from a stupid idea to a phenomenally suicidal idea.  All for the Greater Good.

*'''Drone-net VX1-0 (Apocalypse):''' A real drone network. 12+ Gun, Marker, and/or Shield drones can take optional Sniper, Missile, Recon, Grav-inhibitor, and Pulse Accelerator Drones, all in groups of four or more.  All this dronage grants them a grand total of...+1 to their BS.  It's meant to be a distraction, and the Shields help on that, but if you're expecting them to survive, don't.

*'''Hammerhead Interdiction Cadre (Apocalypse):''' 3-5 Hammerheads put together (so that's +1 BS due to Fire Team). Now, you love Skyrays, ya hate their lack of Railguns. Watch this, so long as the lead vehicle hasn't been blown to bits, it can give your army D3+1 Markerlights to use for extra killing, because this is Tau.

*'''Paradox Squadron (Apocalypse):''' 3-5 Sunsharks in a team. When put in the Arrowhead pattern with 3+ pulse bombs, the lead bomber gets to make a Strength D AP1 Large Blast bombing run, with rolls of 1 on the D table instead [[What|restoring lost wounds/hull points]].  Really, this is more of a gamble than most would want, with a chance of either instantly wiping out an enemy or making them even tougher than before. Its only a 17% chance but still, run at your peril.

*'''Ranged Support Cadre (Apocalypse):''' 1-3 Pathfinders leading 3-6 Broadsides. By joining, the Pathfinders all get Infiltrate and Shrouded.  However, if they ever fire something other than Markerlights or even move they lose it, making placement a priority.  In addition, if the Broadsides use the Pathfinders' Markerlights, the value of the lights get doubled.  Yes, this is about as cheese as everything else, because this gives them the ability to get +2 BS or ignore cover with all of ONE markerlight.