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  • for the kroot, put them in squads of ten and add in 5 hounds per squad. It comes in at exactly 100 points. P.S., the actual hound models are extremely expensive, so I got "Chaos Warhounds" from the Warhammer Fantasy line, you get ten in a box so that will get two squads down. Not only are hounds cheaper than kroot (so walls for cover saves will be less expensive), but they have initiative 5 (you'll attack first against marines).

  • Kroot can be very useful, they have no armour which spells out 'cannonfodder' , or, you can really mess the enemy up, take advantage of the feildcraft ability (3+ c saves in trees), i have 2 squds of 20, keep them in trees and ambush any aproaching enemy within 12" by firing 80 s4 shots at 3bs, after that the enemy will have lost some significant casualties, if he is foolish enough to assault you into difficult terrain i still get a maximum of 160 attacks and 3+saves :D

  • I love your army, nice job:D

  • Hey, in this edition Kroot are ESSENTIAL! THEY ARE NO LONGER AN OPTION, they win games. It comes down to tactics.

  • put the fire warriors in front of the kroot. when the enemy gets close, send the kroot through the fire warriors for close combat. worked 4 me!

  • @BionicleHarry Put kroot in front so fire warriors get cover save.

  • Wot paints did u use I really want 2 know

  • R u going Commando

  • i always keep one kroot squad just in case :P, but i dont like them much, fire warriors and XV8s :)

  • awesome paint job. i agree with your comments on the kroot. if you have a large squad, they can be bait for your vespids or other units to creep round the enemies flanks. lets face it, vespids are gonna need to flank the enemy to do real damage with thier neuron blasters.

  • how come all these sort of vids r american? this british game looks like a bit hit in the us

  • yaaaaay tau

    damn spacemarines

  • gah! i hate spacies... FOR THE GREATER GOOD!!!

  • devil fish looks really cool

  • hey, u said the kroot dont do much, they are alright in close combat, but have really bad armour save... well infact they dont have armour save, get a shaper, ans then at least u will have a save of 6+

  • tell your friend who plays space marines to build a "friendly list" he knows you are just starting out, he should be a nice guy and not tailor his forces to counter yours. If he doesn't have his whole army painted suggest that he plays with only painted models, and then finish yours. This will create a more enjoyable game for both of you. His forces will not be uber anti tau and you both will be playing with painted armies which is nice.

  • he shud tell his friend to get a life and choose an army that takes skill to use, hehe,

    great vid, love the colours

  • lol likes to bend the rules hahahah.

  • kroot dont do stuff?! vs a guy who plays orks then say that again!

  • kroot vs guard = Massacre 1 kroot squad with shaper and armour saves blitzed through 26 guardsmen a platoon command and a scout sentinel before the end of a game and still had the unharmed shaper and 8 others left

  • I'm trying to get my own army started so does your army need to be painted?

  • I could watch a thousand of these and still love each time.

  • I like how you have three piranhas dude. Field them as a single squadron and move out to attack! They're better with fusion guns but hey, you cna make them work with burst cannons. The key is knowing where to attack.

  • Tip for the kroot arm problem, stick the arms to the wrists first but before the glue drys stick the arms onto the body so you can line it up more easily.

  • nerd

  • you need crisis suits dude. get a suit squad that have 2 sheild drones each and make a single plasma rifle a compulsory weapon choice for every battlesuit

  • how sad

  • need some pathfinders dude, i had a nearly identical army, soon as i swapped my snipers for pathfinders i started to win, nice army tho and good luck,

    for the greater good!

  • nice paint scheme!

  • what green do you use? and is that skull white???

  • if your friend is making his army a close combat army get more kroot to counter it and loose the parahnes there useless

    no affence

  • You my friend, have no clue how good paranhas really are. I run an army with 15 of em, and they rock.

    As for advice, I would say get more Crisis suits, and very good painting.

    Kroot are good for keeping the enemy away from your warriors, and paranhas allow you to pick where the enemey goes. Even a saim hann all jet bike list will think twice about screwing with 15 parahnas, about 6-9 crisis suits and broadsides. (I have 2 squads of 6 firewarriors, and 1 squad of kroot, thats my core...)

  • get more battlesuits then you will win beep strick and give them all plasma rifles and missile pods and give an over group burst cannons twin link`t one uint with missile pods and plasma rifles and overs with twin link`t burst cannons and give them muti trackers all of em then use you markerlights to add 1 to there bs kk

  • awesome

  • can i paint tau with revell colors?

  • You could but don't, Buy acrylic paint like citdel or velejo, revell takes hours to dry

  • hey could any one tell me what out of a crisis suit or a broadside i should get for my tau army?

  • if you mean between the two BROADsuites 4 sure they are great aginst tanks and such but if u wanna go with anti infatry crisis it depends on ur enemy

  • can i paint revell colors?

  • Get a rule book and make sure he never bends those rules again.

  • lol this guy sucks the reason your models break is because you suck at putting them together and kroot are some of the best guys in the tau army, especially when they have a knarloc

  • If you play as Tau use seeker missiles a lot the work so well (but you need pathfinders to use them properly + Broadsides kill everything but are really hard to build and maintain.

  • Im new to 40k and im not sure which army i should pick:

    Eldar

    Space Marines

    Imperial Guard

    Tau

    PM me if you will give me some andvantages of Tau (and disavantages)

    please

    Mr12toe

  • i recommend getting tau. they are excellent at long range, have devistating tanks, and krrot are beasts (literally) at close combat very well rounded.

  • wich army are u interested i, message me and i will give u tactics.

  • kroot are better than fire warriors keep them in cover and shoot there weapons are str 7 but no save so keep them in cover they can bad to play with if u use them incorrect they suck but play kroot correct they can slay your opponite

  • can anyone give me a trustworthy sight that has some imperial gaurd or space marines pre-painted (painted relatively good) and cheaper than fucking $35 for one squad of imperial gaurd?

  • Not gonna Happen bro sorry to tell you. This shit is ridiculously expensive..but fun. It will only cost more for it to be pre painted.

  • $35 for a squad of prepainted minis is an excellent price. Most places that sell prepainted stuff will ask for 2 ro 3x that price. then again price is sometimes a sign of quality. If you are looking for high quality painting, the price is going to be higher. Look and make sure that you know the quality that you are going to be getting before spending money on prepainted minis.

  • so like on gamesworkshop it has pictures of some of the sets are those pre-painted?

  • nope, all models from GW come unpainted and unassembled. you have to read the fine print in each item. places like Miniwargaming, and Bluetable painting will sell them assembled ad painted for you, but you are looking at around 3x to 5x the initial cost of the item depending on the level of painting that you want.

  • Wow you are the kind that give WH40K a bad name. Don't sound so nerdy when you talk! I like your army i collect tau myself, but if you have been at it for a couple of months you should have painted more than that!

  • i collect chaos and tau i love chaos they are so cool

  • If you add a little snot green highlighting to those warriors, it will make them more interesting to look at. But very nice.

  • TAU, imperial, orks and tyranids are the best armys same with chaos. but you just need to know how to use them.

  • i like the colors.

  • how much r they im new to this so im starting warhammer club at school

  • how much of wat i can help you with some stuff

  • how much just prices anything in range of 20 or less quid for now

  • 20$ or less? That will get you like 3 guys depending on what race. And that's no were near what you'll need to play. A starter set is a bit more than 100 and with paint and all the books you'll be spending up to like 300 or more. :P

  • ...Not 20 bucks, you schmuck. QUID. As in british pounds. 20 quid is roughly 40 bucks american.

  • Hey! don't call me a schmuck! haha :p still not really enough for an army unless people are going to share. 40 is just enough for a commander/stronger unit or like two cheaper packs of units. Oh well, good luck!

  • Depends, really. Though the smart thing to do, would be to drop the 90 bucks for a starter box set of one particular army, or 60 bucks for the new Battle for Macragge set that's out.

  • Yeah, that works. =D yeah I forgot to mention the Battle for whatever sets which are good for two people just starting.

  • Forget 'just starting'.

    That set has 1k worth of models in there.

    Counted out, its nearly 370 bucks worth of models if bought seperately.

    Space Marines: 1 captain, 10 tactical, 1 Dreadnought and 5 terminators. 585 points.

    Orks: 1 Warboss with 5 Nobz, 3 Deffkoptas, 20 Boyz. 450 points.

    I picked up 2 box sets to suppliment my army, which is almost 11k at this point.

  • U dont have any options though, which is pretty sad, although the 3 Deffkoptas sure are worth it

  • 18 quid will get you a fire warrior squad, or a kroot squad or an XV8 battlesuit will cost 11.75. 17.60 will get you a battlesuit commander, a broadside battlesuit, commander o'shovah or Shadowsun. £20 will get you Aun'Va. £15 for a piranha, £6 for a gun drone squad, £20 for a vespid squad, £8 for pathfinders, and £11.75 for an XV25 stealthuit squad. (this is all for a tau player!)

  • 1 way to counter space marines is to use alot of battlesuits and hammerheads with radius shots. space marines are pretty crap if u do that. dont give up just cuz u lose to ur friend my friend used to beat me all the time with necrons but he bended the rules all the time so inow i know the rules he cant cheat which is quite funny seeing as i always kik his ass now.

  • screw tau imperial guards rule!

    for the empire

  • if you like imperial guard then why would you watch a tau video?

  • Eh,Drones and Kroot...?

  • yer i agree, in my opinion kroot are waste of time, i prefer a full fire warrior army

  • i just started to collect tau i only have 12 fire warriors, 1 piranha and 3 stealth suits

  • get a HQ and fire warrior and u got urself an army :D

  • Vs rines just remember to be really mobile! :) That's how I win normally but my rine friend likes to foot slog.

  • I have no idea how your painting is up close but I know this: from your camera's distance, it looks *great* on the table.

    For the Greater Good.

  • kroot suck thats why im selling mine and getting a broadside=)

  • Yea I have been really disappointed with how they have preformed :)

  • @Kommando606 Kroot are important. Don;t be afraid to use them. They are there to sit in cover in front of your broadsides, protecting them from enemies.

  • @Kommando606 depending on how you use them they can be great! you can use them to keep ships safe can make human walls can outflank all kinds of stuff just do some research, everything has a reason!

  • @Kommando606 they have no armor!! :D

  • @Kommando606 you just have to leave them near your fire warrior teams so if they get jumped then the kroot come out and attack

  • @pballer578, kroot are not bad if you use them right. 3 full squads of KROOT will destroy almost anything. the way you gotta do it is this. you infiltrait and disrupt. they gotta die for you to win. think of it like that, i mean they are AUXILLARIES.

  • @pballer578

    If you think kroot suck you probably are not using them right.

  • @pballer578 If you think kroot suck you are not using them right, claim objectives and shoot for super cheap. Most good tau players take them 5th edition.

  • @pballer578 use them as a distraction and flank with fire warriors, drones and XV8

  • yo B-boy dawg G homie playa dude man person mc jiggy, that army be bitchin. you grabbed those models by they ass and raped em in a beautiful explosion of grean paint. IN ENGLISH: you did a good job A+

  • tau still cool tho

  • ya use assault marines and deep strike tau tau gets owned in hand to hand

  • your amazing at painting compared to me

  • nope im 12 years old that can paint anything , part from legendary golden deamons , and ive won like 12 battles :) from Belfast , castlecourt , gamesworkshop

  • cool army , was gonna get 2 crisis batle suit commanders , 4 stealth suits with gun drone and markerlight , 12 kroot , 12 fire wariors 12 fire warriors 2 piranhas and 1 devl fish 1 hammer head :) painted with scorched brown , then do armour plates vomit brown , mix of vomit brown and bleach bown highlight

  • I see your dying and you want to invest your money in something that will give you joy and happiness and so your children don't get anytthing

  • so ur like his bitch

  • nICE! i have played in 6 years now =P

  • o and the krewt do a lot with out them what would you have to fight up close not fire teams

  • just a pointer you didant have to buy the devilfish you can take off the barrel of the hamerhead and make it a devilfish, but you probley already knew that.

  • i was thinking my scheme similar to yours. an imperial gaurd army theme

  • i collect orks to bu i only got 4 boyz

    do u collect fantasy?

  • ok ok ok

    we should stop fighting and callin eachother a fag and dickhead.The real dickheads are the lads that think their popular jus cause they play sports and slag us over thinking we're nerds and for full apology im gonna post my tau army.so wb if u wanna continue this or stop nd tlk bout warhammer Im Alex by the way

  • agreed. I try to keep this hobby low key with my friends because....well.... most people do think it is a nerdy thing to do and dont want it really ruin my reputation I guess you could say. So lets start over. Hi Im Graham ^_^

  • howya me name is alex

    i do the same but two of me mates collect it but not 40k i have nearly 900 points

    to be honest man ur a kickass painter

    have u won any battles coz i have the tatics of a goldfish

    but i ,ight win my next since i will have a proper army list and i no how to use marker lights and me skyray hahaha

  • Trust me when I say that this stuff is not painted very well. The crappy camera is VERY forgiving on my tau. Ive one a couple with my orks but never my tau and Ive been getting into the privateer press games recently

  • wht the hell is privateer games nd i lost against the eldar but me army list was fudged,tyranids twice and spacemarines

  • Privateer press makes hordes and warmachine. both great games that I recommend. Not sure about who ive won or lost too. Ive lost to guard and space marines a ton and I may have beat tyranids. With my orks ive beaten space marines, gaurd, tyranids,and eldar theyre more my play style

  • wot colour paints did u use on your devilfish??

  • the green is GW foundation knarloc green and the whites are bleached bone

  • u are the biggest fag ever,u dont see me fukin puttin my tau on u tube ha fag

  • Yea Im a fag cuz I was bored and decided to put this up for some constructive criticism. Go to hell fukin asshole

  • excuses u must have no life if ur that bored to put ur army on nd tell people wht u have nd havent painted

    nd agleast im no a fag dickheead

  • Clearly you have no life if all you do is go on youtube and bash on people for sharing their work. THATS WHAT YOUTUBE IS FOR. Its for people to share videos with other people Why dont you go and have your period some where else deucebag.

  • actually i have friends that go on you tube to listen to music on this and most of them have an army

    AND PEOPLE DONT GO ON YOU TUBE JUST TO SHOW HOW GAY THEY ARE LIKE U

    and o my fuckin god ur american hahahahaha u lads go the fuckin weirdest people ever hahahahaha nd i only slag off people who do gay things like put on THERE TAU ARMY AND EXPLAIN COZ THEY ARE ''BORED''U FUKIN FREAK so stop thinking ur cool coz ur obviously not U probaly belive in leprachauns u yankee

  • WOW you stereotypical asshole.  What do you think all Americans are Yankees because Im actually a southerner. And I dont think Im cool because I put this on youtube. This is just something I do in my spare time when Im bored and I started this hobby because I though it would be fun. Why dont you go fuck with someone else who posts this stuff on youtube because there are quite a few of us.

  • yeah im stereotyipical cause u prob think that ireland has leprachauns and dublin is a big fukin farm u dickhead

  • word of advice

    tau arent at thier best against marines

    try battling orks or tyranids it may sound like a bad idea but if u cant beat tyranids with tau

    well then u need to die in a fire

  • =,( no xv8 *sob sob* srsly dude drop the paranas and proxi(use fake)xv8 units with loads of assult wepons like berst cannon at str 5 ap 5 wich will wound like crazy + an hq with a ciclic ion wich is assult 5 (str3 ap4)and any rolls to wound of 6 are AP 1!also try some sniper drone teams wich will also pop SM like crazy i at 6 str + ull get a marker light wich will make ur sutes hit on a 3+ insted of a 4+.this is a good army dont get me rong its just vs SM u need a lil diff set up remember PROXI

  • I had actually planned on having some xv8s in my army but i dont really use this army anymore so I havent gotten anything new for it

  • how do you glue on metal pieces together? is there a different glue towards plastics and metals? please reply

  • I used Zap A Gap CA with glue accelerator to glue together metal

  • SUPER GLUE

  • nice tau . i like you devilfish :) keep it up

  • nice startt army but ur rong bout the kroot get a shaper and some hounds and if ur up against marines use the krotox if not infiltrate them fite for the greater good!

  • nice tau

  • What is this?5 battleforces!?!?!?!?

  • wow nice army....green & withe....kool...im from Romania and how could i get a tau army in Romania that is in Europe????

  • google it and u might be able to find some sites that ship it to romania or u could search on ebay

  • THX..I found a site but 60$ for a TAU Battleforce is kinda much :( ...

  • Hey man, ive play a game withmy lil bro (9 yrs old) called heroscape, and i wanted to impress him with some really cool detailed warrioers... as i was googling i found a game called warhammer 40k so i googled that, and then i saw these sweet guys called "tau" which are sweeet looking. well anyways i wanted to know how much all your guys cost you(un painted) apporimately, and where i can buy these? walmart? and how wide are the bases(inches or cm) on the big robot guys on the farleft of ur table?

  • awesome painting. i like your devilfish

  • These are painted with great care, i am guessing and loads of detail you must have expericance. Really good work. Though you could make them look a bit more weathered by drybrushing them lightly with a soily brown colour.

    4 Stars + Subscription

    Good work Mate Good Work.

  • not really the camera is really forgiving this is my first army so it is full of mistakes but thanx for the kind words :)

  • what colour green is that?

  • Knarlok green (gw foundation paint)

  • thanks for replying. How much do the foundation paints cost?

  • I think it is $3 for a foundation paint so only 50 cents more

  • the cammders are called hqs

  • I know

  • dude how do u paint the tanks i can not paint them!!! it is like physically impossible for me, with like cammo and stuff

  • hi i have just started playing tau and starting on vblog can u give me any cool advise

  • I've only been playing for a few months but I'll and tell you I've learned. Do you want modeling/painting or playing cuz I'm not the one for painting.

  • oh yeah wats ure colour scheme i like it might steal it lol

  • Main armor color - Knarloc Green (foundation paint)

    secondary armor color - Bleached Bone

    Cloth - Chaos Black

    Some others colors are scab red and ultramarines blue

  • cheers mate

  • just a quik question do u highlight the edges of ure firewarriors or is it optional coz im not 2 sure how to paint them plz reply coz ihave to paint them soon so i can go to the beginners thing in GW

  • i don't but you really should because it makes them look much better i am just lazy and these were a few of the first models i painted

  • oh ok cheers m8 great vids keep it up

  • In addition I would change the bc's to fusion blasters on the pirhanas and make them a dedicated tank hunter unit. I would also try to get a hammerhead, as those are great against any army. In using the kroot, I would inflitrate them and attempt to get a first turn charge, or possibly as a distraction to have your enemy shoot at while you get in position. Also an example of some great highlighting that I found that you might want to see is from petergollum title: Army Tau. Just run a search.

  • I like the army. I agree that the paint scheme is a little flat. What I would suggest would be maybe either a third color, an ink wash, highlighting, or drybrushing. Anyone of those techniques really helps to make it pop, like with my guard I decided to do drybrushing to give them that rustic and out in the field for a long time look. For tau you might want to try highlighting, since theyre supposed to be a clean looking army. Anyway for the army list I would suggest getting more crisis suits.

  • nice man, my tau colour scheme is nearly the same, it will b on my blog, but its takin over 3 hrs 2 upload the blog lol. GO TAU!

  • Thnx

    I have the same problem with uploading videos i just leave them over night.

  • nice, i have been playin for about 1 month now and i play tau, they are great once u know how to play them.

  • i dunno i enjoy them but i like blend and stuff im proud of my models

  • dont listen to him they are awsome to paint

  • The broadsides were fun but i painted like 95% of the fire warriors in one week so they begin to get extremely repetitive.

  • yer dude i love the colour shceme the only better colour shceme ive ever seen in my life is the blue table painting blue colour scheme its the only one ive seen that beats yours. I really like your colour scheme i think i want to marry it lol.

  • Thnx never thought i'd get compared to BTP thnx for the complement :)

  • It sucks when u dont have that much to choose from and u have to Use everthing u got and The person ur playin can counter wht u got cuz they got Tons of stuff to pick from

  • it gets kind of frustrating and he also likes to play missions that play to his advantages and make up his own rules for bunkers and stuff that also play to his favor. he only cares about winning but i just want to have fun!

  • The broadsides do the tank hunting, whereas all the plasma rifles and ion cannon chew through marines and terminators with ease. I do have a hard time with assault jump pack marines though.

  • yea my friend has a 10 man squad of them and they rip me to pieces

  • best thing to do is focus them asap with most of your firepower while you try and take out their tanks / transports with broadsides. Make sure he isn't deepstriking when the scenario rules say he cant :P i've had a few marines try and pull that trick with me.

  • very cool. I havn't tried out pirahna's yet.

    Very nice colour scheme btw.

    I've never used kroot either, they never seem to get in to close combat with me. My army is commander, 2 body guard, all with plasma rifles and missle pods / burst cannons. 3 elite battlesuits, with plasma rifles and burst cannons. 2 squads of 12 fire warriors, 3 broadside battlesuits and a hammerhead tank armed with ion cannon.

  • the piranha's are fun and i like the models too but the kroot do rarely get into cc but they do suck up a lot of shots which is helpful

    thnx for the comment

  • what ive seen people do with kroot is keep them in/behind cover and the wait for people to try and charge with their cc people and they get shot up and then kroot finish them off. did u say 1080 pts or 1800?

  • 1080 and i have heard of people using them like that and that is how i plan on using them in my next game i play with this army i just don't know when that is going to happen cuz im working on my orks right now

  • ok well just a tip to a m8 =]

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