Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Tau (section)

====Starter Armies====
* ''1k Balanced Army'' - While not particularly competitive, it will get you a good core of useful units that you can expand on as you become more experienced. While Crisis suits are currently less than ideal, they can be easily used as proxies for Commanders if needed.
** '''Start Collecting Tau''': Remains one of the most cost effective ways to build a balanced force. Gets you 3 crisis suits, while also getting 10 Fire Warriors and an Ethereal for essentially free. 
*** Whenever you are buying Crisis suits, you should be buying this box. It only costs $20 extra. Use spare Fire Warrior parts to turn any un-needed Ethereals into Cadre Fire Blades.
*** You can technically use the crisis suits as commanders. That is 3 HQs for the price of 1.
** '''Hammerhead''': Gets you an armoured vehicle to dish out some damage. Build it as a Longstrike and use the spare turret with...
** '''Optimised Pathfinder''': Gets you a handful of Pathfinder's to throw out Marker Lights, and a Devilfish that you can use with the above spare turret, to turn it into a second Hammerhead. '''*Update*''': This set is no longer in print unfortunately. The fish would probably be better used as a fish anyway, with some breachers in (see Breacher Team section above), as you only get the extra main weapon in a hammerhead kit and not a second actual turret/mount. You could build it as a skyray of course (why?), but you'll still lack the parts to fit burst cannon or missile sponsons and the correct sensor array on the chin mount.
** '''Stealth Suits''': 2 boxes of these gives you two durable units capable of dealing with Hordes and giving you some board control to deny deep strikes and slow charges.