Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Well, they are kinda. A little bit.
And as for your Tau, frankly that sounds like a challenge. I fear your strategy to overcome the marine's heavy weapons won't work, since I have a 'boots on the ground' philosophy - as many marines as I can afford the points for. Ph34r my massed boltguns 
well, pulse rifles are better than bolters, and a firewarrior is cheaper than a space marine, so I have more. additionally, I keep my saves ( 4+ ). of course space marines have that damn 3+ save, but with the superior range of the pulse rifles, I usualy get one more shooty turn tha my opponent, and with that many shots, even 3+ saves can be missed
of course, for the annoying cases, I have the crisis suit "jump in, shoot, jump out" tactic that pisses everybody off and makes them do big mistakes to take those suckers down
( which they usually fail to, gotta love those shield drones
)
and that sure would be a challenge if we could meet
