Which Tau Fleet

[CyberShadow]

I am leaning towards the Spartan Terran ships, and the Directorate ships. There are a lot of the Alliance and Marauder ships that are also pretty cool. I will avoid the recasting scene right now. I like the rules for the BFG Tau more than the minis, and this is an opportunity to buy some cool ships for a variety of sources and cherry pick the best of each.

[CyberShadow]

Another quick question.... I am looking right now at the Firestorm Armada and Full Thrust mini ranges. But, I know that there are real size differences. FA looks larger than BFG (and is.... based on my dim memory) and FT I know are smaller. So, a simple question, for both of these ranges, what size class works as the usual BFG ship classes.

So, something like:
- BFG Escort = FA Frigate = FT Cruiser
- BFG Cruiser = FA Escort = FT Battleship
- BFG Grand Cruiser/Battlecruiser = FA Cruiser = Battle Carrier
- BFG Battleship = FA Grand Cruiser = N/A

Thanks.

[horizon]

I think that is about right.

[CyberShadow]

One more quick question... In the combined Tau fleet list, the Merchant is listed as 95 point, but the main GW Tau fleet lists it at 105. The implication is that the combined fleet list overrides the previous list where there are differences, but is this correct?

[horizon]

Yup.

[CyberShadow]

Awesome, thanks.

[Gothmog Lord of Balrogs]

This is making me want to do Tau after I finish off my IN and Chaos (which I will be done with this summer)

I wouldn't want to proxy really with other games fleets, but acquiring Tau is really $$$. Anyone have success converting/scratch building Tau?

[CyberShadow]

Cant help there, as I am going full on proxy (I ordered my first 500 points yesterday, from four different sources!). The GW Tau fleet should be pretty easy to throw together as they are really mostly geometric shapes in a queue.