Tau Empire: Part 8, Heavy Support

The heavy support section used to be just Broadsides. Now it's just Broadsides but you're more depressed about it. The Broadside nerft to their Railgun is completely unwarranted and further hampers Tau ability to put the hurt on tougher units that they always had trouble dealing with. They now have almost nothing to stop the Land Raider and now have only 1 weapon that can Instant Death T5 models. The Hammerhead as good as it was before, it's just not as expensive. Still not impressed. Skyrays are pretty good at taking out flyers and possibly vehicles but you'll need some Markerlight help in my opinion. Sniper teams are not heavy support by any means and having a 50/50 chance to wound someone and a 1/6 chance of Rending a vehicle makes this unit exceptionally luck-based. I mean, sure, you'll hit a lot, but killing it is a total crap-shoot. So overall, another point at which Tau kinda flops but still useful when combined with other units in the army. Let's take a look.