tau master race thread

>>34477378
Isn't that also an Ork saying?

>>34477392
Orks have no place in the greater good. They had thier chance

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Well, I think we can all tell how this thread will go.

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>>34477378
Xenos scum, you done fucked up now!

>>34477409

Fiendish Etherial Wu's love of the Greater Good is matched only by his love of kung fu treachery!

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Did someone say Kill the Xenos?

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>>34477378
>Race said to abhor close combat seeing it as barbaric
>Their entire ruling caste are well trained melee specialists who carry a wide range of blades and blunt weapons
>The ruling caste settle their differences by engaging in ritualistic sword dancing duels

Good job, GW.

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Daily reminder that the tau are first in line to get eaten

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>>34477409
>>34477419
Two Black Dynamite quotes in one thread? Best thread ever

>>34477503

I choose to believe that Black Dynamite is canon in the 40K universe.

Ah, who am I kidding, it's canon in every universe.

>>34477496
Actually, there isn't any major Tyranid threat in their sector of space.

The first in line to be eaten are the Eldar of Saim Hain whose craftworld is cornered between two Hive Fleets.

>>34477456
What, they put in a lot of effort make all those cool guns and big robot suits. They just want to use that stuff given how much work it took to get it. Using a gigantic finetuned warmachine armed with the most cutting edge superguns you can get to hit the other guys over their collective heads like cavemen would just be a waste.

>>34477531

>Saim Hain makes me curious about Samhain as a historical festival
>Look it up
>There's another gaelic festival called Beltane
>Biel Tan

Heh.

>>34477531
There was one. Can't remember which, the tau fought when it hit their space.

>>34477588
It was Hive Fleet Gorgon. It was defeated by the combined efforts of the Cadians and the Tau of Kel'shan in 903 41K.

>>34477617
There was also Hive Fleet Kraken that almost wiped out the Enclaves.

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Do not believe the Etherals and their lies. Join the Enclaves for a brighter tomorrow!

>>34477423
+1

>>34478533
Those FW are in for a world of pain. Tthere's only 3 of them and the guardsmen is clearly in charge range.

>>34477617

So.

Cadians did everything, and Tau just kinda sat there and got eaten while trying to send diplomats to the Tyranids.

Right, got it.

How effective are Lasguns against fire warrior armour?

>>34479178

Effective against it as with anything else.

Effective in large quantities.

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Working on my custom sept, rate my fluff.

Ba'sing sept, founded in the second sphere of expansion was primarily an earth caste planet. It was considered the Tau equivalent of a forgeworld and had a large supply of techs/workers from other newly races, conditioned and educated on its nearby moon.

Th industries soon expanded into space and a number of orbital stations and construction yards were built, modified by the locals to incorporate large defensive emplacements.

When the nearby enclaves rebelled, farsight launched an attack to claim the sept quickly in typical mont'ka fashion. Using an empty starship as a battering ram he punched a hole in the defences and began to land troops. The assault was eventually repelled but the damage was done, the faith of the citizens were shaken and their cities were in ruins.

It was at this time that the ethereals stepped in, a massive movement to make the citizens forget what happened and rebuild. The Troops garrisoned here are half patriotic nationalists and half secret police force, grizzled veterans of the conflict with tau rebels they carry large banners and customize their equipment so as to be easily recognizable as loyalist forces

>>34478524
Those were just splinters of Kraken.

Those were taken cared off by

-Shadowsun (defeated a splinter fleet with zero losses on her side) (Tau codex)
-Fatsight (Farsight supp)
-Tau and Ultramarine alliance (SM 5th ed codex)
-Tau and Dark Eldar alliance (DE codex)

>>34477378
everyone is equal, strips humans of all technoly but wants them to join their empire clearly for territory rather than the greater good

>>34479178

More effective then you would think, but board-game balance and all.

I mean, Las-guns fluff wise are supposed to wreck anything remotely similar to a human, armored or otherwise.

Thing is, 9/10 times you aren't fighting anything similar to a human, it's either a fucking fungus, fueled by the bullshit substance of the warp, too fast for you to see it dodge, an unending tide of chitin or a thousand other fucking things.

Against Tau? Wrecks their shit, problem is, the Tau are a mobile force, so you wreck their shit and they snipe the fuck out of you.

I still honestly don't see WHY the Tau are important enough to warrant an Army, at least the Deldar have interesting fluff and are still somewhat relevant.

The Tau are slow as fuck in Space, it's said somewhere, probably xenobiology or some stupid book, that a proper Imperial Hiveworld has more population total than the Entire Tau Species, most of their technology isn't even theirs (Railguns were given to them by dark spess dwarves, and fairly certain plasma tech was scrounged from a derelict Ad-Mech ship via Old Warpstorm) they don't even think Daemons or The Chaos Gods exist, their empire is stupidly tiny and already fractured, and their Leadership is a bunch of naive cocksucks.

>>34479226

>Choosing the Empire over Farsight or going Independent.

They already fucked up.

>>34479240

>Defeating a splinter fleet with zero losses

What? Fuckin' Really?

Not even the Eldar can do that shit, and The Eldar make everyone else fight FOR them, and have been doing THAT longer than the Tau have been a SPECIES.

>>34479293
>(Railguns were given to them by dark spess dwarves, and fairly certain plasma tech was scrounged from a derelict Ad-Mech ship via Old Warpstorm)

Bullshit.

If you make stuff up like this it makes your other claims look suspicious. The Railgun is theirs and so is the plasma.

What they took from the other races was the old warp skim drives from an identified ship wreckage on their moon and Ion technology from the Dwarf things. Both of these were retconned in the 6ed fluff which says that the Tau drives and Ion technology were crated by the Tau themselves.

>>34479308
A splinter fleet is made up of 12 Hive ships with escorts, dude.

>Not even the Eldar can do that shit

The Iyanden Eldar threw a splinter fleet into the Warp to get rid of it with fighting it (Valedor) .

>>34479364
Forgot to mention that the Shadowsun defeated the splinter fleet in space.

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>>34479343
Because we all know there are no squat, dwarf like humanoids in 40k

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>>34477531
Bitches don't know about my iyanden.

>>34479308
What are you talking about Maugan Ra did that by himself! At least that was what the old 'nids codex said, no idea if that's still canon

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>>34479308
>What? Fuckin' Really?
Lies.
Lies and deception.

>>34479400
Maugan Ra only defeated the forces of a single Hiveship, according to the new Nid codex.

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>>34479343

Oh, I'm sorry, the technology that the Tau found and had given to them was retconned to have been created by them in 6ed apparently, because the Tau are special to have Invented Warp Skim drives without actually understanding dick about the Warp/Immaterium at all and having near-zero or absolute-zero fucking Psykers to even realize that it is a thing, unless THAT was retconned as well.

Point is, I don't like the Tau, never have liked the Tau, so I don't pay attention to the Tau.

I DO however constantly scrounge for new information on the million other interesting species in the galaxy that would work better as an army.

Like these fuckers, they eat people and get all their memories, then as a hobby they enslave races and breed entire armies of food, to use a D&D analogue, they are a cross between a Minor Worm-That-Walks and a fucking Illithid / Aboleth.

Hell, to me, Illithids / Aboleths in space would be better than the Tau OR the Deldar.

>>34479429
>Eat people to gain their memories
40k's had them for ages, they're called Space Marines

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>>34479411
Tyranids a shit.

>>34479462

They never really take advantage of that in the fluff, do they?

>>34479429

>In order to feed their constant hunger, the Slaugth have begun to turn their attention to the Calixis Sector and have begun to destabilize the region by fomenting civil war and anarchy. They began by infiltrating the Amaranthine Syndicate when it was a fledgling trade cartel and slowly moved in to control it completely. This patient approach may take several human generations to come to fruition, but it is a plan brilliant in its simplicity, relying on basic human greed.[1a] The Slaught provide humans with technology, wealth, and trinkets, encouraging mankind to tear itself apart over these items. When their plans have sufficiently advanced, they intend to further infiltrate the major criminal, political, and economic organizations of the Imperium, with the Ecclesiarchy and Adeptus Administratum being likely targets. When the appointed time approaches, the Slaugth intend to see the sector collapse in on itself whereupon they will sweep through the region and have their way.[1b]

Well, I have my next Death Watch / Dark Heresy campaign!

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>>34479178
As effective as ever, force enough saves and eventually the enemy goes down.

>>34479429

Don't Illithids come from the future where they have already enslaved everything? Isn't that why Aboleths hate them, because they have no genetic memory that existed before the formation of the Universe that even points to the Illithid race ever existing?

I KNOW the Aboleths are Cthulhu-mythos tier, but I don't know much about illithids.

>>34479506
>They never really take advantage of that in the fluff, do they?

''Ahriman'' the novel had a Space Wolf eat the brains of a Chaos cultist to find out the whereabouts of Ahriman.

>>34477378
I really never understood the phrase "More equal than others", it really doesn't make sense

>>34478995
That's the imperial interpretation.
In fact, the taus did all the work and the cadians just came late and took the glory, so to speak.
The commander of the imperial force made the same interpretation as you, leading to a crusade being sent in tau space.
It failed horribly.

>>34479429

Oh hey I wonder what kinda of tech a race of infiltrators and manipulators use, surely a race of ruthless border-line savages that have no concept of restraint and cause massacres so they can get high off of rotting brains can be advan-

>The Slaugth possess a mastery of biomechanical technology and elemental physics which exceeds that of mankind and perhaps even the Eldar. Among their more mysterious capabilities is the capacity to travel interstellar distances without making use of the Warp. Many of their devices are actually grown or augmented pseudo-living machines which blend both flesh and metal in a functional symbiosis.[1b] Their weapons and artefacts appear as products of warp craft to the uninitiated.[1d] This keen and terrible grasp of the biosciences allows them to grow entire armies instead of training them. Their array of constructs can be adapted to serve as guards, spies and even as labourers.[5b]

Whelp.

>>34479553
Yeah. Illithids are from a difficult to identify fantasy space future where the stars grew cold and distant and the suns darkened out and the gods died and they either evolved or else rose up out of the burrows that were already there (it's implied their existence is cyclical) to conquer the universe before something bigger and badder than them (prolly from the far realm) went on and destroyed their empire and forced them back in time.
The Aboleths are nonplus because there have always been Aboleths and always will be but where the fuck did you come from? Honestly, the Aboleths probably don't even care about whatever ate the Illithid and will continue to Lovecraftian rape fish into the forseeable eternity (especially if its from the Far Realm, as they are Far Spawn kind of)

>>34479609
It's a reference to Animal Farm where under the guidance of the pigs everyone was equal but some animals are more equal than others (more important)

>>34479609

It isn't supposed to, you are just meant to shut the fuck up, accept it, and get back to sucking Tau cock or you and everyone that knows you, even remotely, will disappear off the face of creation, and may or may not show up later on a different planet in a different system spouting off about the Glorious Greater Good all the while covering your scar-ridden body and barely-held together shattered and reconstructed mind.

>>34479634
No I mean, I get what it is, but the phrase itself is fucking terrible.
More equal doesn't work.

>>34479611
Actually if the the Imperium hadn't had to go and fight the first tyranic war then the bluies would have bought the big one. In fact the fleet that helped then fight of hive fleet gorgon were the reinforcements for the original crusade (because warp travel occasionally throws you into the future)

>>34479650
What're you Dark Eldar?

>>34479672
That's the point, its highlighting the hypocrisy of a system that claims to be equal but has leaders (or in the tau's case a rigid caste system)

>>34479429
>Oh, I'm sorry, the technology that the Tau found and had given to them was retconned to have been created by them in 6ed apparently, because the Tau are special to have Invented Warp Skim drives without actually understanding dick about the Warp/Immaterium at all and having near-zero or absolute-zero fucking Psykers to even realize that it is a thing, unless THAT was retconned as well.

You could have read about the Tau BFG fluff to understand how the Tau came to discover and reverse engineer the warp drive to skim drives. Them being not pskers was addressed in that fluff.

Instead decided to be ignorant about it and go ''it doesn't make sense!!'.

>Point is, I don't like the Tau, never have liked the Tau, so I don't pay attention to the Tau.

Fair enough but if you want to criticize the Tau about specific parts of their lore (Technology, population, etc), you should at least be a little informed instead of pulling bullshit out of nowhere.

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>>34479611
>The commander of the imperial force made the same interpretation as you, leading to a crusade being sent in tau space.
>It failed horribly.

I don't think the Iron Hammer campaign has actually been mentioned since the 5th edition Tyranid codex (pic related). The 6th edition one also changed a bunch of other stuff about the Gorgon war, which was annoying.

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>>34479713

>>34479620

Aboleths see Illithids as abomination because, as he said, Aboleths, who share bloodline memories that date back to the Primordial Chaos, have absolutely NO memories of the illithids ever being a thing, even though every Aboleth has the memories of the mother of their race, a horrible abomination that tunnels through the multiverse like a there really is no analogue for this, so when they just suddenly showed the fuck up, it kinda startled them.

Even The Eldest, an Aboleth that is BIGGER than an Abolethian CITY, which are pretty god damn huge, who was ALIVE when the Universe was born has no idea where the fuck they came from.

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>>34479713
Commander Crask and his Cadians were mentioned to be fighting in the Second Damocles Crusade.

I believe this the Iron Hammer (picture related).

>>34479706

No, I'm a Water-caste, the "Diplomat" caste.

Gue'la.

>>34479493
I think we can all agree that 40k fluff is quite questionable.

>>34479712

To be fair, he DID use accurate, or semi-accurate information that would probably still be viable if it wasn't retconned.

Even I haven't BFG about how they discovered Warp-tech, but I really, REALLY don't get how they could figure it out when they don't have any psykers, seems kinda ass-pullish to me.

>>34479746
Oh good, just come onto our small humble Dark Eldar vessel, everything will go fine for our diplomacy

>>34479781

Nah, I'm stationed on this Gue'la world, making sure they spread the Greater Good!

Whether they like it or not.

>>34479308
In old (well, not old old, but sort of old), it was possible to catch tyranid ships in hibernation during travel and wreck their shit before they wake up too much of their defences.
It was usually SM operations, but I would interpret this "zero losses" as something like that.
The other answer is drones. All of them.

>>34479611
Does it matter? The Tau still send diplomatic envoys to the Tyranids, only to get them eaten by the Tyranids.

>>34479828
No, they don't.

They tried once and then quit after they realized what the Tyranids were.

>>34479506
Uh, they do take advantage of that in fluff.

Space Marines attack an orbital defense satellite. Kill the crew and eat their brains. They then know the location of ALL the nuclear weapon silos on the planet, teleport Terminators into every nuclear weapon silo, and start nuking every city on the planet.

That's how you conquer an entire planet with 75 battle brothers.

>>34479828
>Y'he: Tyranid(s), "ever-devouring Yhe" (incapable of integration with the tau'va)
I don't think so

>>34479842
That's what I said you retarded TIDF cunt.

I said the Tau tried sending a diplomatic envoy to the Tyranids and everyone in the envoy got eaten.

>>34479863
No, you said that they still send diplomats . Implying that they haven't learned their listen.

>>34479874
lesson*

>>34479842
Which actually make sense, what's is losing a small diplomatic team to risking a war against an unknown enemy ? Or losing the opportunity to gain a powerful allies ?
It's funny to us who know what the tyranid are, but for them without those informations, their actions are reasonable.

>>34479847
A chance their nuclear silos locations are a common knowledge to their people !

>>34479863
>send=/=sent
"still send" describes an ongoing action

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>>34479874
>>34479891
If you're too fucking retarded to read my post in reference to the post I wrote I have only one fucking message for you.

>>34479890
The location of nuclear silos is generally common knowledge to people that maintain ORBITAL DEFENSE SATELLITES!

Because orbital defense sats and nuclear silos generally fall under the same military wing.

>>34479907
>in reference to the post I replied to

My bad.

>>34477400
No matter the edit I crack up at this every time, easily my favorite thing 4chan has ever shit out.

>speak english or die
>is the one making the argument changing grammar mistake

>>34479938
>taking Speak English Or Die! seriously

You don't listen cult music, do you?

>>34479907
If you can't write proper English to make your point clear, then perhaps you're one who is retarded.

Anyways, the Imperials appeared while the Tau were fighting the nids and shared the effort in fighting the last of the Hive Fleet. They weren't sending envoys or anything, they were in the middle of a war. So you haven't actually read the fluff so why argue about it with something you made up?

>>34479961
My point was perfectly clear in reference to the post I replied to.

If you're too retarded to read the post I replied to, that's your own mental retardation. Not mine.

Tau cunts are so mad, so fast.

>>34479961
>They weren't sending envoys or anything, they were in the middle of a war.
No shit.

The Tau have been at war since the Tyranids ate their diplomats.

The Tyranids have been at war with the Tau from the moment the Tau presented their worthless genetic material to the Hivefleets.

>>34479985
Your point was wrong anyway, they most definitely did not sit there-the tau started fighting immediately after they lost their diplomats.

>>34479985
I ain't.

Just confused why people would make stuff up.

>>34479999
I am talking about the whole Gorgon war. Anon here said that Cadian did all the work and the Tau did was send diplomats.

When the fuff says no such thing. (>>34479713).

>>34480058
all the Tau did*

>>34479919
No, that doesn't make sense, that kind of shit should be secret information.

>>34479999

Speaking of Worthless genetic material.

How the fuck do the Tyranids make use of Blanks?

I know the Eldar because Zoanthropes, Spess Muhreens are Tyrant Guard, Imperial Guard get dissolved en-masse with or two "True" genetic deviations are picked up because of adaptation to home worlds that are of interest.

But what the fuck could the Norn Queens use the Blank Gene for? Besides making damn certain Chaos stays the ever-sweet-loving fuck away from them, that is.

>Chaos tries to corrupt a small splinter fleet
>Chaos is on the same planet with a Chaos artifact
>Suddenly, Blank Carnifexes / Lictors / Winged Hive Tyrant / ALL OF THE GAUNTS / Gargoyles / Extremely Specialized unit that doesn't fuck with Synapse.

>>34480078
Blank = no connection to the Hive mind.

Bad idea.

The Null field created by the Hivemind is enough to weaken and banish daemons.

>>34480078
> Blank tyranid
> Can't connect to the hive mind.
> Eat itself.

>>34480093

Blanks perma-kill Daemons though.

So, say a hyper-specialized Lictor is spore-dropped into the area surrounding Chaos-controlled areas.

The thing is engineered to burn out because of it's metabolism after so long.

Boom, perma-killed Daemons.

The Hive Mind isn't stupid, it could find some way to use it, however remote.

>>34480078
Nothing. If a hive splinter assimilates the blank gene, that splinter dies.

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>>34480110
pic related

>>34480120
The Hive Mind doesn't give a fuck about killing daemons permanently, or at all. It would rather just avoid them entirely as a waste of effort.

>>34480121

But it's just a gene, it wouldn't auto-integrate or awaken, it would just be floating there, it's strands, structure, and sequences just another piece of knowledge in the Norn Queen's mind.

The Norn Queen knows how to construct it from the ground up, that doesn't mean she or any other Tyranid HAS IT.

>>34480146

True, but it makes for a damn good Terror-tactic.

And don't you dare say the Hive-Mind doesn't do Terror tactics.

Hell, that's what Genestealers and Lictors are made for, Terror tactics and Infiltration.

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>>34479770
>To be fair, he DID use accurate, or semi-accurate information that would probably still be viable if it wasn't retconned.

I hate to agree with TIDF/Carnac anon, but that guy really didn't know what he was talking about. He said himself that he doesn't even like the Tau, so it's not exactly surprising.

Old, now-retconned lore for Tau warp drives, for those curious:

>Tau vessels already used a form of gravitic drive. This projected a sheath of gravitic energy ahead of and around the vessel which was continually re-projected further ahead, drawing the ship behind it rather like an archaic sail. For two hundred tau’cyr the Water Caste grappled with the problem only for the breakthrough to be handed to them.

>On the innermost of T’au seven’s moons a routine geological survey discovered the remains of an alien vessel. The significance of the find did not disrupt Tau society as much as might have been expected. Tau theorists had long reasoned that other life forms existed and the verification helped confirm the belief that there was a greater destiny awaiting them. No Tau commented on the sheer good fortune of finding the technology that they so desperately needed on their doorstep just when they needed it.

>The Tau were able to duplicate the warp drive of the alien ship but the initial test flights were disastrous. Achieving transition to the Warp required more than technology, it required psychically attuned minds and the Tau race boasted no psykers. Without them to guide the transition no amount of power could breach the dimensional barriers. The best the Tau could do was make a partial transition, forcing themselves into the void that separated Warpspace and real space before they were hurled out again like a ball held under water then released.

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>>34480175
>Data gathered at great cost during the test flights was studied closely. The Water caste scientists made the observation that the boundary between real space and warp space was not a neat line. It was closer to being a turbulent ocean fomented by the tempestuous warp tides below. By carefully angling their descent toward the Warp and extending the field generated by the gravitic drive into a wing, shaped to hold the vessel down a Tau vessel could extend the duration of the dive considerably. The speeds achieved in the ascent back to real space were staggering and this coupled with the effect of the Warp on time and space ensured that the real distance covered by the dive was immense. Early tests lost several drone ships because they inadvertently passed far beyond the sensor range of their recovery vessels.

>The details were soon resolved. There was still a major constraint, only the most powerful (and bulky) drives could sustain the gravitic wing throughout the dive and the power drain meant that considerable recharge time was needed between dives. Also by comparison to actually navigating the warp the pace was still very slow. Taking typical Imperial Warp speeds the Tau drive was slower by a factor of five. The speed was consistent though, did not expose the Tau to the perils of the Warp and enabled the Tau to expand beyond their home star for the first time.

>>34480150
The Queen doesn't know what it does until it's used and tested. All the organisms it would test the gene on would turn out very poorly, and the blank field could potentially prevent the Hive Mind from being able to actually perceive the results of the test run, so it might try again just to see what the hell happened.

>>34480120
Whatever nid created from it would be outside the control of the Hivemind and its blank aura would harm the Hivemind.

Another point is that daemons are as countless as the nids and perhaps more so. Perma-killing them is pointless for the Tyranids, just destroying them and sending them to the Warp would be enough.

Final point, Implying the Nids can assimilate genetics created the C'tan/Necrons

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>>34480197
>Attempts to spawn blank batch of nids
>No response
>Tries again
>Doesn't realise there's another reason and assumes it was just an unsuccessful batch
>Queen now unknowingly pumping out a horde of aimless daemon-killing devourers.

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>>34480517
>I like the idea of this thread.

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>>34480596
Tau have ways to... change your mind.

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>>34480637

No, you really, really don't.

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>>34480675
ok. how about better weapons and no arbites/inquisition?

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>>34480637
Yes, we know all about their methods of mindchangery

>>34479749

While that's definitely true, I always take the information in a codex as a large mixture of truth and propaganda.

>>34480533
>Iron Warrior squad moves in with a giant dart gun
>they fill it with the obliterator virus
>they shoot it into the queen

And that's how the both the Materium and Immaterium became Iron Within, Iron Without.

>>34480690

That's a fancy bribe for making us attack the Orks / Heretics / Space Elves / Innumberable Chitin covered abominations / Our own People that have more numbers and better orbital capabilities, better supply train, and Bigger Guns, first and in-masse.

At least the Imperials were honest about it, and at least Las-rifles you could take a baneblade rolling over them and being perfectly fine, with these fiddly things you get it knocked out of your hand and you have to call Tech support.

Tau = Apple.

>>34480175
>>34480190
That actually conflicts with Imperium fluff in that entering and exiting the warp is a completely mechanical process and that pskyers, in the form of Navigators, are only needed to guide ships in significant travels. Warp jumps of less than five light years can use cogitators to navigate a course.

>>34480738

TAU SUCK AT SPACE.

TAU SUCK AT -UNDERSTANDING- SPACE AS WELL.

THIS IS WELL KNOWN.

>>34480731

Don't forget that the Arbites and Inquisition actually play an important role in making sure you don't get your soul eaten by a Psyker-turned-Daemonhost / Gateway.

As much as I want the Tau to 'win' 40k. I don't see it happening at all. Which is sad because its probably the best possible outcome for the galaxy.

That being said, I'll volunteer for the Pathfinders in a heartbeat. Give me a Pulse Carbine and a Rail Rifle; I'll make it work.

>>34480781
Good thing the Tau have converted Inquisitorial agents working for them. This includes an Ordos Xenos Inquisitor (Who might be mentally controlled).

>>34480690
>and no arbites/inquisition
Enjoy having your kids stolen away to suck cocks in the legal Slaaneshi church down the street.

>muh cultural enrichment

Thanks, jew- I mean Tau.

>>34480731
Nothing says Tau weapon aren't specially fragile or anything.

>>34480840
Seems to me they should be more robust because they know how exactly their tech works and can replace it without a five day ritual to take out the broken part and another five day ritual to put in a new one.

>>34480738
>implying the Tau will admit that their ships can travel through space like Imperial ships
>implying the Tau will admit that their ships are based on a crashed Imperial ship
>implying the Tau will admit that the first warp travel the Tau undertook resulted in THIS IS A GOOD PAIN - BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

>>34480812

The Tau can't win 40k, it is actually impossible for them to win.

There are at least hundreds of other Minor-Xenos, and that is what the Tau are, MINOR XENOS empires out there in Imperial space, and more outside Imperial space, that make the Tau look like a cosmic joke, that have advanced enough Technology to make the Imperium say "Fuck it, they aren't expanding and don't intend to expand, Fuck it"

The Tau are not hot shit, they aren't even really a threat, the Dark Eldar are more of a threat and those fucks are just Raiders.

>>34480690
>no arbites/inquisition?
>Implying your friends, neighbors, and family won't go running off to inform the Ethereals at the first sign of independent thought

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>>34480813
>Good thing the Tau have converted Inquisitorial agents working for them. This includes an Ordos Xenos Inquisitor (Who might be mentally controlled).
Hahahahahahahahah.

TIDF even harder kiddo.

>>34480858
Did you stop reading after the first sentence? Literally the next one was:

>I don't see it happening at all.

You're a moron.

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>>34480837
>Enjoy having your kids stolen away to suck cocks in the legal Slaaneshi church down the street.

But the Tau defeated and slew Slaanesh and his followers long ago.

>>34480870
Isn't in the Damocles novel, you idiot.

>>34480872

No one wins in 40k, is my point.

The only ones that might possibly win 40k are Necrons or 'Nids.

Except Orks, Orks have already won.

>>34480884

Oh god, I have never read that before.

>>34480889
It's in*

>>34480893
>No one wins in 40k, is my point.
You're really shitty at making points then.

I've always thought if there were to be a faction that is going to win, aside from the Orks because they've already achieved their win condition, it would either be the Tyranids or Chaos.

But it doesn't stop me from wishing the Tau could.

>>34480675
>Da'Ve, I know you're just going to call me a faggot again, but you need to speak to the quartermaster about a new set of armor. I get that he stole your girl back in boot camp, but for fuck's sake your armor's shot to shit and barely holding together.
>Faggot.

>>34480889
...well, in case you didn't notice...

Ordo Xenos inquisitors and their henchmen aren't very skilled in fighting heretics and demons.

That's the job for respectively the Ordo Hereticus and the Ordo Malleus.

And Ordo Xenos henchmen that end up mindcontrolled weren't very good at their job anyway.

>>34479746
>Graceful Por Caste member, master of diplomacy and negotiation
>Ever slandering the name of the benevolent Tau
laughinggue'lawhores.jpg

>>34480870
>‘I am Gue’vesa Dal’yth O’Va’Dem.’ Tall, noble of features, a sure and steady gaze. He wears dazzling white armour of form-fitting plates, a high gorget covering the lower portion of his face. Upon his forehead is branded the adorned I of the Emperor’s Inquisition.

>‘I was once Inquisitor Lucien van Deem. You may use that name, if you wish. It is long since I spoke with an adept of the stars,’ he says. He is weighing my fate, this arch-traitor, but there is no hostility in his face. ‘I apologise for this conflict.’

-From Damocles (Broken Sword)

Then anon was a moron.

Anyways, in the other part of novel an Ultrmarine squad gets screwed over when an Inquisitorial agent betrays them and blasts one of their members face off for the Greater Good.

>>34480967

Apparently, the one on the left is a female.

And look at that bitch, worrying over a little crack on her helmet optics, and then look at that manly motherfucker, his armor shot to shit, molten' fuckin' holes in it.

God damn.

>CaptchaL titmice tufficen

Wat.

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>>34480731
Come on, can't you see on what you're living on? endless bureaucracy, no personal life unless you're on the upper echelons of society, constant fear of being accused by anyone, eating disgusting artificial grub, praying to an undead 'god'... it's not a life worth living!

>That's a fancy bribe for making us attack the Orks / Heretics / Space Elves / Innumberable Chitin covered abominations / Our own People that have more numbers and better orbital capabilities, better supply train, and Bigger Guns, first and in-masse.

>>34480812
Now THIS is a wise man. He lacks confidence in the long-term Tau plan, but he will see the truth in time.

>>34480870
Have your never heard about the Inquisitor that went to the Greater Good and pilots a Battlesuit?

>>34481013
>Now THIS is a wise man. He lacks confidence in the long-term Tau plan, but he will see the truth in time.
Can't tell if I am being insulted or not. Pretty sure I am.

>>34481006

That totally comes off as Mind-control man.

Like, holy shit, those few seconds of him talking makes my skin crawl.

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>>34481006
Doesn't matter if that's from a book, you retarded cunt.

Ordo Xenos has no business dealing with heretics and Chaos.

>>34480978
They will would provide the Tau with crucial information and intel about the Imperium and its struggles and the dangers that lurk in the stars. He says that the Tau know many things about the Imperium and including the Horus Hersey.

>And Ordo Xenos henchmen that end up mindcontrolled weren't very good at their job anyway.

The Inquisitor and his pals came up with a plan that screwed over the Imperial war efforts and intelligence gathering. They seem to be doing their jobs fine.

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>>34481039
I'd never insult a honorable brother human as you. I only pointed out that you're too fresh in our ranks.

Pathfinder work is a glorious one! Nothing shows more will to the Greater Good than supporting your comrades!

>>34481012
I don't care how manly he looks, I'm going to want the chick with well maintained gear over the guy rocking the third-world bush war irregular gear.

>>34481061
Ordos Xenos fight heretics and Xenos if they stumble upon them and would have a idea on what they are and they would pass it to the Tau. Also their knowledge about dealing with Xenos cults and Xenos psykers would benefit the Tau when dealing with Chaotic based cults.

>>34481068
>>34481107
>thinking Ordo Xenos has any knowledge over Chaos and heretics

HOW FUCKING DIFFICULT IS IT FOR YOU TO GET IT THROUGH YOUR FUCKING SKULL THAT THE VARIOUS ORDERS WITHIN THE INQUISITION HARDLY EVER COOPERATE AND CERTAINLY DON'T SHARE INFORMATION BEYOND "Xenos r bad." "Heretics r bad." and "Chaos r bad."!?

>>34481107
>ordo xenos
>fighting heretics involved with chaos

No. Just no. Learn your lore.

>>34481129
I assumed they would let each other know if they saw the other's speciality. Like if you're in Xenos and saw heretics, you'll let an Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor know about it.

>>34481129
The Deathwatch and Ordos Xenos have encounters with Daemons and heretics in their work and would have at the very least working knowledge on what they are and how to fight them. Not the extent of other Ordos but it's still valuable information!

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>>34478533
>>34478977

>>34481144
What about all the Xenos races that have something to do with Chaos?

>>34481144
They fight Chaos Xenos and the Deathwatch RPG book has Chaotic adversaries and scenarios involving daemons and their cults etc.

>>34481173
The Ordo Xenos cabals that have the credits to ask for the Deathwatch for assistance aren't the kind of Inquisitors who end up working with the Tau...

>>34481229
You don't know that.

The guy has a Mindworm on him so he might not have a choice in the matter.

>>34481221
The Ordo Xenos inquisitors that fight Chaos Xenos are from very respected cabals that can call upon the Deathwatch.

These kinds of inquisitors don't end up betraying the Imperium for the Tau or get mindcontrolled.

Only a dumb low-level upstart inquisitor without a cabal gets involved in such dumb shit.

>>34481245
I do know that, you fucking retard, because I paid attention to Inquisition lore.

You think every Xenos inquisitor can just ask for Deathwatch assinstance? You think every Xenos inquisitor is allowed on Chaos Xenos cases?

>>34481272

Depends whether or not people want them dead, before sending in one capable of handling it, to be honest.

>>34479429
I'm the same as you, scrounging for info on 40k xenos races - partially because I'm a Rogue Trader GM and 'tyranids, endless tyranids!' will lose it's appeal sharpish.

>>34481284
Well, there's a certain possibility that the Inquisitor in question is just a "manchurian candidate".

It's a very Imperial tactic, and it abuses the biggest Tau weaknesses. Pride and naivity.

>>34481272
''These kinds of inquisitors don't end up betraying the Imperium for the Tau or get mindcontrolled''

You're just making assumptions based on nothing. How do you know an Inquisitor of that kind won't be broken by the mindworms, when a captured Space Marine with all his conditioning and willpower struggled to keep them out of his mind? He is only human.

>>34481392
He screwed over the Imperials big time and feed them false information. Also the mindworm adviser is interfaced with his mind.

So I find it unlikely, or was it part of his plan?

>>34481398
>How do you know an Inquisitor of that kind won't be broken by the mindworms
Because a proper Inquisitor guides things from behind a desk, you fucking retarded cunt.

Read inquisition lore.

It's the young inquisitors with no experience that get killed, mindcontrolled, eaten, etc.

The experienced inquisitors have only one enemy. Other inquisitors.

>>34481634
There are plenty of Inquisitors who take to the field.

I am not convinced.

>>34481669
Plenty of Inquisitors with lots of influence and money to field entire armies as bodyguards that take the field.

An Inquisitor who gets controlled by a mindworm fucked up majorly.

A proper Inquisitor needs an entire Space Marine chapter going rogue, or a Hivefleet, or a Black Crusade jumping up to get taken out.

>>34480517
Drive me closer so i can mock them from a fae distance

>>34480738
It's always annoyed me that they couldn't find a "Tau" way of travelling at light speed that doesn't use the warp. They could have made things really interesting having them go in a completely different direction.

But no, everyone has units analogous to each other. Every army has a dreadnought variant, or a chainsword/power-sword variant or shields or plasma or whatever.

>>34483852
Reapers