Over and Under powered

[The Hive Mind]

I can not for the life of me get Tau to do well the Fire Warrior shots are too weak, Kroot and Stealthsuits are too good and the Tanks are too weak.
On the opposite end Necrons are WAY too powerful, I hate playing against them and rarly loose with them.
I think we need a new patch to sort this out.

[murah]

I hear ya, I dislike the fact that with T'au, I have to play on easy to win, so therefor I boost up the difficulty, but then i get killed..... D:

[ZergLord]

To win against necrons, you must attack them as early as possible. The longer you wait, you'll have less chance to beat them. Their main problem is that their units need allota time to build, and they need much gas.

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admin said:

I can not for the life of me get Tau to do well the Fire Warrior shots are too weak, Kroot and Stealthsuits are too good and the Tanks are too weak.

You need to rely on their special abbilities. For instance, their strongest tank (forgot the name) has a weapon wich blasts anything in a radius. It is extremely strong, it easily kills terminators.

[koran]

I had this problem and found myself loosing constantly. Now I very rarely loose with them.

The secret of tau is their range. The firewarriors have a horribly long range, its just they dont have a long enough spotting distance to use it well. What you have to do it have a unit of pathfinders in front of them a little way. They can see alot further and combined they can beat marines with heavy bolters in shooting just because of the rediculous range. They also slay CC troops because the pathfinder shots slow them down. Also ALWAYS take the upgrade building (cant remember its name) that allows you to upgrade your firewarriors, not the other one. In theory the other one sounds alot better but its not. When youve mastered setting up your firewarriors correctly this will make your base almost impossible to attack.

So thats how to defend your base with them.

Now how to attack.

Dont even think about attacking with your firewarriors or anythign else for that matter. Just use them to keep your base secure and protect your precious power plants (youll see why they are so precious in a second).

Now build two of the drone harbringers. these are without dowbt the best tank in the game, and after youve tried this you will see why.....

Set them both to different shortcuts (ie 1 and 2). and set both of their build rally points in the centre of the enemy base (so the drone will go there the second they are built). Then Just keep swapping from one to the other. The drones go into the enemy base and just whittle them down. I own necrons this way.....

[tail3736]

I play SM......
They are soooo overpowered.
However, my favourite army is Tau.
They are fun with all their kroot.
Lol
Tail3736

[Haraio [MALAL]]

Tau are not hard to play if you know how to do it. The key is to use the stealthsuits to quickly capture points and harass the enemy until you can get some decent firewarriors. And for gawd's sake, use pathfinders. They increase line of sight, which means that the Firewarriors get to use their unholy range, plus they slow down enemy units AND can markerlight commanders so they die faster. Always markerlight commanders, or dangerous units such as Seer Councils or Grey Knights. Else your firing line will die.

[ErA | zoe)ender]

zerglord said:

To win against necrons, you must attack them as early as possible. The longer you wait, you'll have less chance to beat them. Their main problem is that their units need allota time to build, and they need much gas.

Lol you have been playing too much Starcraft. It's POWER, to clarify. Anyways, you're right. The best way to beat Necrons is an early marine rush, or, with luck, stealth team rush. But the stealth team rush is purly everything or nothing gamble, as it will either win you the game or lose you it.

[niddy]

i could'nt beat tau in standard in campaign. they just used like 100000 stealthed units and my orkies could even get close to anything!

[T Spear_Chucker]

Tau need DEFENSIVE BUILDINGS!!!
Sure they have listening posts, but they have no heavy bolter turret equivalent of any sort.
Also, their relic unit is just too damn clumsy and slow in turning.
IMO, Tau are really vulnerable early game. Firewarriors should have faster rate of fire or Kroot should be stronger.

Btw, you know what is seriously rigged? SM sniper rush. That owns anything except for a fast vehicle tech.
Also, Farseers need to be stronger. They're just so damn weak now.
SM plasma guns should be stronger too. They do like around 100 dmg while Chaos plasma guns do 200+ dmg...

[ZergLord]

Apr 20, 2008 23:44:48 GMT T Spear_Chucker said:

IMO, Tau are really vulnerable early game.

And so are the Necrons.

Also, their relic unit is just too damn clumsy and slow in turning.

Are you talking about the tank or the Giant Chicken?
That tank is one of the most powerfull tanks in the game. And the Giant Chiken is extremely powerfull in CC.