6th ed. an my Tau

So 6th edition is a mere 5 days away and I was considering what army I should roll out for its debut. Not doubt 6th will be a learning curve and it will be much better if I stick with a single army. So in the enxt 5 days I have to decide what army I will play.

Tau

Vehicles have changed. Some say duarbility is down. Some are stupid. What has happened is the randomness has been removed. Vehicles now go down based on the number of effective shots they take. Destroying a vehicle is no longer a game of pen until a lottery gives you a 5/6. Vehicles have X hits they can take.

This only goes so far. Planning on Going for glances with under powered weapons will in most scenarios leave you out gunned.

This chart shows how many hits are needed to remove 1 hull point. As you can see when weapons can pen you need 3 or less to take 1 HP. If they cant Pen theirs little point in aiming that way as you are very unlikely to do anything. 

Given the changes to power weapons it is likely that more 2+ models want to CC you now. That means land raiders. Missiles aren't going to cut it. Imperial armies are likely to being bringing more lascannons as S9 AP2 is more effecive in dealing with termies and land raiders.

What about tau? 

Behold, the fireknife!

These guys pump out S7 at 36" S6 at 24" and double that at 12". They can reliably knock off rhino's and chimeras. For those of us lucky enough to pen with plasma we get a 1+ to our roll. 

Fireknives are going to be our goto in handling rhino's and termies. 

For those pesky landraiders we still have the almighty railgun. Which now gets a 2+ on pen rolls! Dont forget this! 

So Tau is ready for vehicles and termies more then anyone as we simply have always worried about them and are well equiped against them. 

However.

Skyray is likely to be our only AA. 

We have no flyers.

Or psychics. 

Or psychic defenses. 

Cover was nerfed.

Skimmers getting jink makes disruption pods less of a unique bonus.

everything is getting faster again!

Tau is just to out dated to play in 6th. Flyers will rape my shit if I dont take a skyray. Land raiders will if I take one. Marker lights are even less valuable. The only peice of wargear that got more relevant was the blacksun filter. 

Lets review.

Disruption pod- all skimmers have jink

Multi tracker- all vehicles have snapfire

Target Lock- remove casualties from  the front

Marker Lights- Cover was nerfed

Ya Tau are special now. Although it will be nice to see that allies mean everyone and their dog can take my broadsides.