Took one squad with grenade launchers, meltas, and maces. They lasted til the end of the game while taking out a hammerhead tank and longstrike HQ. My friend was very surprised how hard they were to kill. I'm planning on getting another unit, and replacing my castigator in future games.
Posted May 8, 2022, 1:43 AM UTC
They are much harder to kill with AOC, but T'au have some of the best Guns in the game to kill them. What was his list like?
Something like this
++ Battalion Detachment -3CP (T'au Empire) [63 PL, -3CP, 975pts] ++
+ Configuration +
Detachment Command Cost [-3CP]
Sept Choice: T'au Sept
+ HQ +
Longstrike [9 PL, 160pts]: Railgun
. 2x Gun Drones
. . 2x Gun Drone: 4x Pulse Carbine
+ Troops +
Breacher Team [5 PL, 85pts]
. 9x Breacher Fire Warrior: 9x Pulse Blaster, 9x Pulse Pistol
+ Elites +
Crisis Battlesuits [18 PL, 175pts]
. Crisis Shas'ui: Burst Cannon
. Crisis Shas'ui: Burst Cannon
. Crisis Shas'ui: Burst Cannon
. Crisis Shas'ui: Burst Cannon
. Crisis Shas'vre: Burst Cannon
Stealth Battlesuits [4 PL, 75pts]
. 2x Stealth Shas'ui w/ Burst Cannon: 2x Burst Cannon
. Stealth Shas'vre: Burst Cannon
+ Heavy Support +
Hammerhead Gunship [8 PL, 145pts]: Railgun
. 2x Gun Drones
. . 2x Gun Drone: 4x Pulse Carbine
Riptide Battlesuit [13 PL, 240pts]: 2x Plasma Rifle, Heavy Burst Cannon
+ Dedicated Transport +
Devilfish [6 PL, 95pts]
. 2x Gun Drones
. . 2x Gun Drone: 4x Pulse Carbine
++ Total: [63 PL, -3CP, 975pts] ++
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I’ve had a similar experience with my paragons against tau too. They seem like they are just particularly tough for them to shift
As a Tau player, Paragons sit in an awkward durability bracket that is annoying to deal with. Tau have lots of D2 and D3 options for killing marines, and they have BIG guns for killing vehicles and high-wound monsters, but the stuff in between is tricky. Spending a Railgun shot to kill a single Paragon isn’t very efficient.
I personally deal with that kind of thing via volume of fire, but he went pretty elite with that army and looks like he lacked the ability to just spam shots into things.
What weapons did he have on the Crisis suits? He list is quite skewed towards big guns, especially for that game size.
Burst cannon, missile pod, and plasma rifle
Hmm yeah. Burst Cannon and Missile Pod got hit hard by AoC and Mont’ka nerf. Missile Pod D2 also naturally sucks against Paragon -1D. Plasma is solid but D3 isn’t efficient against Paragon.
Really glad to hear the Paragons performed well, they’re so cool and they deserve to see play.
What happened to your castigator? If it’s drawing high-damage fire away from your Paragons then that’s still pretty handy.
He almost always kills my castigator first thing. I've only got to make use of it the one time I went first. Lol. Rail gun + any other weapon takes it out easy.
Maybe that's still good? Something else would die instead anyway no?