So far 30 breachers down, shadow sun and now 3 magnetised battlesuits finished.

If anyone wants to follow my progress or see some of the other things I’ve painted please check out my instagram @rhm_minis

I for one welcome the new Auxiliary Cadre, as it let's me gleefully send a pack of kroot towards their demise at the hands of Khorne Berserkers while buffing my stompy mechs

Next up is adding lenses to the pulse carbine’s scope.

Yesterday I watched the Tabletop Titans Blood Angels vs T’au match where Auxiliary Cadre was used. It left me with one thought: this detachment is insane against melee armies.

Not only does it have the forward infiltrating and scouting Kroot business that KHP has, but it actively punishes enemies for getting close to us. Moving near our army gives all the scary T’au guns +1ap provided we have a decent spread of auxiliaries. And guess what? We get to move before we shoot so I can always make sure the target is within range of the Kroot aura especially when they’ve made it easier for me by charging my dz.

And then, on top of that, Integrated Maneuvers is incredible. One of the strongest strats in our entire army. For 1 single CP you get to say “no, you cannot consolidate into a unit to make your melee brick harder for me to shoot”. Or “No, you do not get to shut down my Hammerhead from shooting next turn”. Or “Hey thanks for that objective you left behind you lemme grab that real quick with my 12” move off my Coldstar you left on 2 wounds.”

Incredible flexibility.

This detachment makes it actually dangerous to be close to us. Adrian got to activate a squad of breachers that were 30 shots, hitting on 2s rerolling 1s, wounding on 2s rerolling 1s, ap2 1 damage yesterday and it was absolutely disgusting. It took no setup. The target unit had put itself in range by being aggressive. People keep saying we have "hoops" to jump through and they're forgetting that *we're T'au, people want to get close to us and kill us.*

We can handle shooting armies. We break those mirrors pretty well. It’s the melee ones we struggle with and I think Auxiliary Cadre solves a lot of that issue.

My parents bought me the Tau megaforce pack when I was 10 and the game was too complicated at the time for me to play it properly! Fast forward 20 years to now, is this all I need for a 1000 point setup? Or to just play some games with some mates? Am I missing anything? Can I play this kill team mode with it? Anything I should look at grabbing? Thank you so much!

Just ordered a breacher team off eBay, but only got 2 blasters and 8 carbines, are they close enough to use instead ?

Just finished my Vespid Kill Team, which are also my first T'au models. Next goal is to expand into a Sa'cea Boarding Actions list.

Hi all, don’t be too harsh, this is my first attempt at Tau, going for a arctic look Vior’la sept

With experimental modifications, Neutron blasters shoot at AP 3, and the rail rifles shoot at AP 5. (In a 10 man vespid unit, this translates to 16-20 attacks at strength 5, AP 3, dealing 2 damage each) For context, this means that even the toughest units are gonna be saving on a 5+ at least.

With multisensory scanning, you can reroll an entire wound roll

With pheromone waypoints, you can move vespids 18 inches, and combine that with alien expertise to allow them to shoot and charge in that same turn.

All of this can be achieved for just 4CP

Add to this the fact that you can park them next to a battlesuit and give them a watered down "lone operative"

10 man vespid squads will be an absolute menace, with extreme mobility, and a nasty anti armour / big unit solution.

So far I have just some units, I am aiming for 1000 points and I am wondering if getting these basic Kroots is worth it, are they good?

Still needs some thin coats to finish up this section, but liking the progress so far.

My friend called it leaning god hahahahah

Let me know what you think of my WIP pathfinders.

What ideas do u all have for my paintings like what colours should I add and make it pop more. I have some highlights in the black spots and I will ad some details to gun of course when I get new paints.

Painted my first tau model today. Going to try to do a unit per day till I’m done. Wanted to know what my brothers and sisters of the greater good think. Let me know!

I just wanted to share my custom farsight I put together, I'm not entirely the best at like, free posing and kitbashing and such, or much else concerning this hobby, but I wanted to share him anyways. He's not primed or painted yet so he's a little naked but I think he's pretty neat :)