Tau Empire: Part 2, Ranged Weapons (aka too much dakka)

The Tau love guns. It's a fact. They may even love guns too much.

Example of Tau pornography

But they use that love as a catalyst for their expansion. The Greater Good is actually just a ploy to spread across the galaxy to find new Dakka to fire. It's an addiction, and one they battle with constantly. I'm going to go over their repertoire of weaponry and show you which weapons you might want to take.

Since a good chunk of these weapons are only available on one or two units and their specific BS's may differ I'll do the math for both to show which is more useful or more worth the points. Let's begin.

Quickie: Do Flakk Missles work?

No. Well, not really. Let's take a look:

It's S7 AP4 Skyfire. This allows you to fire it at your normal BS at Flyers. Now we'll look at how they function against Flying MCs and Flyers vs. an Autocannon (S7 AP4 Heavy 2).

Math Rules
MEQs are the ones to get these so BS is 4 always.
FMC's have toughness 6
Pretty much every flyer is 12/12/10 or 12/12/12 (Necrons are 11/11/11 but whatever)so we'll use AV12 (I'm doubting your heavy unit manages to get behind a flyer often)
They won't be evading or diving (ie no Jink)