
Especially against Tau.Īnother tactic with the guardsmen might be to use grenade launchers against an entrenched enemy. If you can get out Hellhounds quick enough, they can really turn the balance of the battle in your favour. I agree with everything in the above posts. If the melee strategy fails another idea is to use lots of heavy weapons teams due to their insane range matching that of a tau's if not further and just wait until you can build a strong vehicle taskforce of a baneblade and leman russ tanks (throw in some hellhounds or basalisk artillery to pound them from a distance) and throw in about 3 units of imp guard with a 2 commisar and a psyker which will stop them from breaking when ever you use the execute on one unit all 3 should have their morale fill up and then you should be able to beat him back pretty far and maybe even to his base (try and keep your psyker alive at all times as he will reveal the stealth suit units and about 5 units of those upgraded with anti-vehicle weapons can ruin your plan) GG and remember! the emperor protects ) Pretty much what Bob said just engage his fire warriors in melee whenever possible and try and capture a relic ASAP as with that you can get the Baneblade which is needed to counter a Necron Monolith w/ 2 leman russ tanks and a good idea is if you see your buddys etheral commander when playing as tau try your hardest to kill him not only does he buff the damage and health of all units if he dies pretty much every unit of infantry will break and this can lead to a massive slaughter of his men. MY favorite army is IG someone give me some tips for IG VS Tau and Necrons please in the 5+ years Ive owned this game ive never beaten him in a skirmish only had losses and stalemates thats how bad I am but im at a huge disadvantage hes played a ton more dawn of war and numerous other strategy titles while I am more of an Rpg and action game person. Sometimes I do anyway and it just usually results ina quicker loss. We both always agree to not attack each other at the start of the game.

I couldnt recover and lost 40 minutes in. Last night I did ok vs him as Orks but then I didnt destroy his relic after taking out his Monolith Noobish mistake and he instantly recovered his monolith and went back on the offensive. Ive tried countless times to beat him in a skirmish in this game as IG, marines and Orks he always plays Tau or Necrons. and seeing as how i currently am not susscribed to wow and even when I am I do Arenas and he does raids so we dont play together anyway. Throughout the years when my best friend wants to play a game together if its not wow its this game. Im horrible at strategy games and I usually avoid them but I use to play the old dawn of war games mostly just for the campaign.
