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

====Tactics====
Tau are now the mobile army they should be with their focus on combined arms still not having been completely erased by battlesuits yet. Your units generally don't have preferred targets, but they have targets they do not want to target if you catch my drift.

With the exception of FSE, the general gameplan is to use your good movement and good range to bob and weave in and out of sight lines of dangerous units using stratagems and innate abilities while staying as far away from your opponents as humanly (tauishly?) possible. In order to keep your enemy on their toes, ensure that you are '''''cycling your threats.''''' What this means is that you should constantly be switching out the main issue your enemy is facing and make them spread their forces out. For example: you kill something with your hammerhead's railgun which causes your enemy to focus down on your Hammerhead and hopefully not killing it. Now that your enemies forces are spread out on the table dealing with different threats, you deep strike your Crisis in order to attack their vital unit which leads to them putting resources to attacking the Crisis suits which opens up a path for your troops to enter and operate. This strategy is useful for all armies, but is especially potent with the Tau's combined arms style of combat.

A specific early game tactic that helps with this is the current iteration of the [[Fish of Fury|Fish of Fury]]: A Devilfish stuffed with Breachers with the Mont'ka premove. You send Devilfish to the midboard and, with the Combat Disembarkation strategem, disembark the Breachers to shoot a volley of pulse blasts into your desired enemy. In addition to being pretty powerful, it also creates a speed bump and distraction for your opponent. Do they deal with that current threat or do they target something they see as more vital to kill? Try your absolute best to create situations similar to this.

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