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Gredus
About two weeks ago I said I was going to write up a Farsight list. My intention was to write up a different list than the usual "Farsight Bomb" that is most commonly found when searching the interwebs. The best I could come up with was a variation on my 1750 Mobile Missile Line list. That basically wasn't worth posting. Farsight allows extra suits, but he costs more than a Deathrain team on his own.
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He's a character that deserves to be a core of Tau armies as it present a totally different strategy. (oh if only his bodyguards were decent in CC too and Crisis Suits became troops) I'm sure he'll get the awesome slot he deserves when we get a codex update. My advice is not to use him in any game below 2000 points. At 1500 he's a point sponge, at 1750/1850 he's just not work the unit sacrifice.
Many people reading this will already know this about Farsight. My experience of him hasn't brought up anything new. Hopefully if you're new to Tau and you've not spent the 3 days reading up on him I have, then this post will explain why he's to be avoided.......For now.
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Farsight, does have a place. Unfortunately that place is in apocalypse, where you can ignore the 0-1 limitation. Admittedly you still can't take kroot. But not much of a lose in apocalypse. Plus his (admittedly slight) advantage of free bonding knifes and preferred enemy against Orks get a lot better the bigger the points value.
Farsight's an interesting character, and he'd be fun to run in a big casual list (or in Apoc, as Firewasp points out) along with his Seven Samurai. In any sort of "serious" list, though, he's too expensive and doesn't offer enough in return for his trade-offs. Losing the ability to run Kroot (not so big for me) or to double/triple up on Hammerheads and Broadsides (much bigger for me) makes him a liability rather than a strength. I'm sure he'll get revised well, but for now, not so much.
(Also, great use of Astray Red there. :D )
Yeah, I started off thinking "I'm going to totally do an awesome Farsight/Crisis Suit list" and in the end I was like "Hey, where's all my points gone?"
In my last 2 games I've used Kroot wrong but now I can really see their effectiveness. Even if they just serve as a distraction it's something that is not shooting at, or engaging my suits in CC.
I guess for a Farsight list you could use Gundrones as a screen, but it's not very point friendly. There is so much crap out there with FNP and Fearless that wounds and pinning tests would be hard to force.
In a big game with his unit maxed out the'll be a pain to shift. Right up until the ap3 templates come down!
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