We’ve got a great game coming your way Tuesday night! Frankie’s new Tau list (which you can read about here) vs. Raw Dogger’s nasty White Scars Battle Company! Be sure to join us for the live show starting at 7pm PST on our Twitch channel.
Here’s Jason’s list!
| Jason Butler | 1850pts | ||||
| White Scars Battle Company | Size | Cost | Size | Cost | |
| HQ | 10th Company Task Force | ||||
| Khan | 1 | 125 | Scouts | 5 | 55 |
| Chaplain – Hunters Eye | 1 | 110 | Scouts | 5 | 55 |
| CCS – 5x Melta Gun, Drop Pod | 5 | 130 | Scouts – Sniper Rifles | 5 | 60 |
| Troops | |||||
| Tactical Squad – Combi-Grav, Grav Cannon, Rhino | 5 | 115 | |||
| Tactical Squad – Combi-Grav, Grav Cannon, Rhino | 5 | 115 | |||
| Tactical Squad – Combi-Grav, Grav Cannon, Rhino | 5 | 115 | |||
| Tactical Squad – Combi-Grav, Grav Cannon, Rhino | 5 | 115 | |||
| Tactical Squad – Combi-Melta, Melta Gun, Multi-Melta, Dpod | 10 | 170 | |||
| Tactical Squad – Combi-Melta, Melta Gun, Multi-Melta, Dpod | 10 | 170 | |||
| Elites | |||||
| Fast Attack | |||||
| Attack Bike – Multi Melta | 1 | 50 | |||
| Attack Bike – Multi Melta | 1 | 50 | |||
| Heavy Support | Inquisition | ||||
| Devesators – 2x Grav Cannon, Rhino | 5 | 140 | Inquisitor – 3x Servo | 1 | 34 |
| Devesators – 2x Grav Cannon, Rhino | 5 | 140 | Coteaz | 1 | 100 |
| Lord of War | |||||
| Fortifications | |||||
| Detachment Totals | 59 | 1545 | 17 | 304 | |
| Grand Total | 76 | 1849 |
And Frankie’s monstrosity!
CAD
HQ
Commander- Drone Commander, Suit
Troop
Firewarrior x5
Firewarrior x5
Fast Attack
Drone x8- Marker
Lord of War
Stormsurge x2- Early Warning, Twin-linked Burst Cannon, Shield
Riptide Wing
Riptide- Early Warning, Stim, Twin-linked Smart Missile
Riptide- Early Warning, Stim, Twin-linked Smart Missile
Riptide- Early Warning, Stim, Twin-linked Smart Missile
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This is going to be a brutal and bloody game! A lot of it will come down to first turn. Jason has the advantage there with Coteaz allowing him to reroll his seize roll, and he will additionally get a +1 due to Frankie having a LoW. With the raw firepower being thrown around here, he who shoots first will likely shoot last.
Which player are you putting your money on?!
Riptides and Stormsurges are good, but against that much MSU and Melta + Grav? I’m not thinking this will end too favorably for the Xenos.
I think you will be very surprised at just how much firepower Frankie’s list puts out. It’s devastating. A lot of this will come down to first turn, though.
I want white scars vs white scars
Actually that is something I am curious about, what is your game plan for heavy grav armies???
Storm surges have 4++ 5+ fnp while if Tau have first turn the rip tides will have 3++ with their re-rollable over charge. I think this has pretty good survivability.
Right! I shot at least 30 Twin-Linked Grav shots and a handful of Melta shots into a unit of Stormsurges and did like 4 wounds
Stormsurges have the potential to shrug off a lot of “heavy duty” firepower thanks to 4++ and FNP, but they also have the potential to just eat some Krak/Bolter/Scatter fire and roll over to die. T6/3+ ain’t that great for shrugging normal shots, just ask Tyranids.
Like Reese said, it depends who has the first turn. If white scars go first it would mean a few dead Riptides…
I like the chances of the white scars winning this one! With Coteaz, there is a really high chance that he will go first. I can easily see 2 dead riptides or a stormsurge after the first turn.
PHATJSLEAZE FOR THE UPSET???????
The dice gods will betray him.
We already rolled up Kill Points, haha, going to be uphill for the Ol Raw Dog!
As a tau player I think the white scars are going to rock the tau.
For the greater good!
That Tau list is like $700. Is that … cheap … for an 1850 list? It feels like it.
My money is on the battle company… Too much scoring too much grav.
While this Tau list is very good it is also very susceptible to anyone going first and hitting it hard because of the low model count and reliance on marker lights to be effective. And since reserves tactics do not benefit this particular list i would instead capitalize on range and smart deployment of the army by using the classic void shield.
Castle up, let them come, Anchor the surges, Hailfire the Riptide wing and markerlight/intercept wherever possible. Then move out.
Farsight Enclaves (CAD)
HQ
Commander XV8, Drone Controller, 2x Missile Pod, Target Lock, XV8-02, Talisman
Elites
XV8 Crisis, Bonding Knife Ritual, Flamer
XV8 Crisis, Bonding Knife Ritual, Flamer
Lord of War
2x KV128 Stormsurges, Advanced Targeting System, Early Warning Override, Pulse Driver Cannon, Twin-linked Burst Cannon
Fortification
Void Shield Generator
3x Void Shields
Formation Drone-net VX1-0
16x MV7 Marker Drones
Formation Riptide Wing
3x XV104 Riptides, Bonding Knife Ritual Early Warning Override, Ion Accelerator, Twin-linked Smart Missile System
It seems like a void shield is an auto include for any list. Why not bring it?
Looks like I’m staying up late tonight!
There is more to it than just who goes first. If Frankie gets first turn, but Jason steals the I, then Frankie is going to be in trouble.
But, if Jason is going first from the start, Frankie can deploy his models in relative safety to minimize damage.
Also watch for Frankie charging those MC’s and GC’s into combat if the White scars scout closer, which they almost certainly will.
I predict that Jason will win Maelstrom, Frankie wins primary, and Frankie wins on Tirtiary. I think Frankie has an advantage in that he played White Scars Battle Company quite a bit recently.
I predict Khan will charge into the Stormsurge with his mighty moonfang and forge the best of the narratives as he his all his swings, and insta wounds all his wounds and Frankie fails all his Invulnerable saves and Jason rolls 15 Total Wounds from his 5 Insta Death Wounds on the Gargantuan.
Booya
Though sadly the lone surviving Stormsurge will roll 3 Stomps and an 3 6’s to remove the unit from the table.
That would be amazing, lol!
My money is on Frankie, mainly because he’s got the experience advantage. After all, he’s the guy who gave Rawdogger pointers on running a White Scars Battle Company. Naturally, Frankie should know how to play against it/counter-deploy it.
Knowing Raw Doggers bad luck, the mission will roll up as the revised KP one and he loses before the game even starts :p
If only he could be Raven Guard and re-roll! 😀
They did roll revised KP, haha!
At first when I read the title for this, I thought Frankie was going to play against himself.
That’d be an awesome video though, find a way to splice in Frankie playing as both players.
Holy editing!
Can’t happen. Frankie always has to win. A video of him on both sides would necessitate that one of the Frankie’s would lose. The Internet would break
legendary
I think I would actually have a fair game against ye old Flanklin’s Tau. One thing Deldar excel at is beating down low model count armies. It would largely come down to deployment and who strikes first but it would be good! That said, I don’t think this a fair fight. Not because of Rawdog’s ability, but because I still remember “The little vortex that could”. Lol
I would love to see Rawdog give us a tutorial of the new tank shock rules.
lol