Who's better? Farsight or Shadowsun?

[orkblasta]

So what's your opinions on this? And why did you choose the answer that you chose?

I recently started a tau army and will be purchasing my friends tau off him as he doesn't want to collect the army any more. Among his collection is a farsight model. I personally can see the benefits of both leaders but I think shadowsun is more useful but I don't want to buy her if I'm wrong and am wasting money.

So what are your thoughts?

[salamut2202]

the tau codex has horrible characters. farsights impedes your armies options and shadowsun is badly equiped for her role. tau'va is a button for your enemy to push if they want to win. i guess shova gives you the whole 8 xvs deepstriking at the same time but really? a normal 'o or 'el thankyou.

[ZergLord]

Voted Shadowsun. Because I like her model.

[Loplod]

Jul 12, 2010 4:39:52 GMT salamut2202 said:

the tau codex has horrible characters. farsights impedes your armies options and shadowsun is badly equiped for her role. tau'va is a button for your enemy to push if they want to win. i guess shova gives you the whole 8 xvs deepstriking at the same time but really? a normal 'o or 'el thankyou.

This

[orkblasta]

thanks for the input guys, but really are they that bad? I don't see the point in running an Aun'va but farsight and shadowsun have some cool options.

Maybe your right and I'll just stick with my two XV8 commanders.

[salamut2202]

shaodowsun has a support role - like an ethereal with armour but without the army running away. she's durable and buffs your army but she's jump infantry with fusion blasters which is more of an assault unit. she isn't equipped well for her role.

farsight is an assaulty xv with a ridiculously large retinue and makes your fire warriors better by being fearless and mediocore against orks in close combat but there's so many restrictions. you can only take one of these, you must take this, this is only a rock on the left side, yadda yadda.

i ain't paying more points for that!

[Psychichobo]

I would consider getting the one whose fluff you like most. As it currently stands, they're all a bit meh, Farsight being the best of a bad bunch in my opinion. But when they get updated, they'll be useful again, and so you can run whichever one you like the most.

[trogdor]

Ya Farsight, his retinue can be beastly if set up right as well. The tau characters do all suck though I wouldn't mind seeing a Puretide or a Brightsword in the future

Another possibility is ForgeWorlds leaders, haven't looked at the XV9 character yet but R'mirez (i forget how to spell his name) isn't half bad

[salamut2202]

o'r'myr and o'r'alai are the forgeworld characters

[trogdor]

That's the one he's not bad

[skeletalman]

Jul 15, 2010 4:56:04 GMT salamut2202 said:

o'r'alai

o'reel'lai?