Fire Warriors have Pulse Rifles, Pulse Carbines, Marker Lights/Target Locks, Photon and EMP grenades. Possible even a few Drones. They could also upgrade to Shas'ui or even a Cadre Fireblade.

Vespid Stingwings can fly, have Neutron Blasters and could upgrade to Strain Leaders. That's it.

Tau should probably have at least one kroot unit. The kroot are a pretty integral part of the tau warmachine, aren't they? Feel free to correct me, I don't know that much about the Tau beyond the basics

I know i should be loving the dark gods and all that blabber, but i have been craving to kick a$$ as a Lychguard!

A fair point, though I highly doubt they'd let people get to Fireblade level. That would make him about a shas'el, which (to my understanding as someone with little knowledge of the Tau, so please correct me if I'm wrong.) is about the rank of a Space Marine captain. And I don't think they'll let thousands of captains run around. At least I hope not.

You re right. Fireblade are officers Tau who don t want to have an exo-armor and continu to fight with Fire Warriors. But i believe the majority of the people who play Tau prefer have a Crisis.^^