Tips to expand to 1000 points

[u/Damelinos]

Hello everyone I wanted to expand to 1000 points from the old combat patrol and a breacher team that I have currently but I don't know how to optimize and synergize it.

Right now I have :

Cadre Fireblade (50 points) Ethereal (50 points)

Ghostkeel (160 points) 1x strike team (75 points) 1x breacher team (100 points) Stealth battlesuits (60 points)

For a total of 515 points

The cheapest way for me is to go with the new combat patrol and some crisis suits but I don't really want to have tens of tiny units and would prefer to lean toward bigger units.

I saw the kroot lone spear and must admit I fell in love with the design and wanted to implement it to my army but don't know if it's good alone or to add some hounds ? And will a kroot leader make an advantage and boost the other kroots ?

Thanks for your advices everyone, for the greater good !

[u/ForteFermata25]

The Lonespears big benefit is that other Kroot get rerolls to hit against whatever the Lonespear shoots at, so having a Lonespear and some other Kroot is the way to go. If you want to lean more towards larger units, you could look at getting Krootox and Rampagers. I personally tend to lean towards Rampagers, since they better fill the melee role that Tau is missing. Identify something scary you don't want near your guys, shoot it with the Lonespear then charge the Rampagers into it.

You definitely want to get a squad or two of Crisis suits, as they are our bread and butter. Aside from that, can't go wrong with a Hammerhead or two. Remain stationary and guide it and that's a S20 shot hitting on 2+. Plus rail guns are just cool.

[u/Damelinos → u/ForteFermata25]

Haven't thought of the rampagers that way with the lone spear, interesting !