New Galaxy map for 40k 8th

>Chaos rips the galaxy a new buttcrack
>No Nids anywhere to be seen

>B-b-but Tyranids are the strongest!

lel

>>52856182
Seems cool

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>>52856182
>Bane's Landing
More like Bane's Crashing (with no survivors)

>>52856247
If I pull that throne off, will you die?

>>52856182
Im more concerned about the giant necron dynasty thats conquered half of Ultramar.

>>52856224
Isn't that like gloating about chaos not being shown on an ork galaxy map?

>>52856182
> Tau visible on the galactic scale
Fuck this

>>52856359
This isn't the Chaos galaxy map though.
It shows Imperial, Chaos, Ork, Necron and even Tau

>>52856379
It mentions some of them, but the only "filter" applied is that of chaos. If you get what I mean.

>>52856402
But that's not true at all.

>>52856182

>Calixis Sector is in
>No Screaming Vortex in sight

>>52856419
Not even that same anon, but he is right, its mostly showing off chaos

>>52856374
It's ok anon.

They appear to be completely surrounded by Necrons and that giant Warp Storm.

I for one look forward to that hopeful little zit being squeezed from existence.

>>52856182

I like it, especially since Hadex poses a threat to the expanding Tau.

I hope that the new warp storms get some lore behind them, I hate seeing cool names on the galaxy map and find no lore about them when doing searching.

>>52856182
>While Terra still stands at the heart of Segmentum Solar, and much of the galaxy will be familiar, there are also a few other new arrivals on the map.
But some of the planets moved for some reason. Like Terra, which has been offset from the heart. Did the warp move stars around?

>>52856434
>but he is right

But he is not.
It shows off Imperials, Necrons and Orks prominently.

>>52856374
>>52856450
>being this mad
Holly cow batman, your girlfriend must be worried about you.

>>52856473
Seeing things destroyed is somehow against the spirit of 40k?

You might want to find a new hobby there kiddo.

>>52856488
>Kiddo
Please don't teleport behind me, I'm very sorry.

>>52856568
But neckbeard-sama, I couldn't possibly teleport far enough to get behind you.

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>>52856374
Non-Tau fuckers BTFO again

>>52856606
I'm so fat I've found pieces of corn in my shit bigger than you, manlet.

> Still no Necron galactic presence the the far East of the Galaxy

Why life?

Im fine with tau coming into prominence
What i want is for the tau to pick what they want to be
Are they supposed to be a coalition of oppressed ailens or those guys with big fuck huge mechs?

>>52856224
They are.

They just hiding the same way mountains hide. By being the background. All this gray-white is Tyranid coming for dinner.

So it's pretty obvious what happened here, right?

They started writing 40k end times, then got the memo that killing an IP is a bad plan but shit, we already made all these art assets and fluff pieces better just fucking advance to 3 seconds from the destruction of the galaxy then bullshit reasons it doesn't actually die.

>>52856299
For you i will

>>52856728
Did you not see the Necron kingdoms in the east?

>>52856182
Holy Shit, did someone told Big E about the Age of Apostasy again, or why there are so many Warpstorms?

>>52856764
Seems like they're literally doing an Eastern and Western Roman Empire deal.

Crumbling west Terra will fall, but Guilliman's more vibrant east will hold it together.

For a while, anyway.

>>52856728
The Stormlord not Necron enough for you?

>>52856305

if gorillamans back, nothing to worry about lad

>>52856786
>why there are so many Warpstorms?

The veil between reality in the warp has deteriorated further as Chaos grows in power.

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Regarding Tau Empire, doesn't say anything about their alien allies (kroot, vespid) and they don't have their own bit on the website?

Are kroot dead bros?

>>52856791

They've cut the fucking Galaxy in half with a hundred thousand lightyear warp portal with others springing up everywhere else.

Humanity was already only barely holding on to the status quo, the only way this -can't- end in the death of the Galaxy in short order is with asspulls beyond anything we've ever seen.

This is blatant end times fluff, and the reassurances that it's not end times can only mean they've written themselves into a corner and are changing direction after all the setup for it.

>>52856829
Isn't it like should be getting weaker any time it scores a big win because it's food base got smaller due to people dying a lot in the process?

So Chaos gets to do the "win - calm - grow" cycle.

Slaanesh got a spectacular win after which it latched on humanity and considerably calmed down.

>>52856794
>>52856774
Sorry meant the west. There are two dynasties the the west that I hoped they would be awakened in the next edition

>>52856862
If we are speaking of asspulls - I want Iron Men coming from the other galaxy to defend Humanity.

>>52856880
>Isn't it like should be getting weaker any time it scores a big win because it's food base got smaller due to people dying a lot in the process?

No. Chaos is like fish people.
The galaxy is now sliding into the sea were they are all powerful.

>>52856791
But Ultramar is in the same side with Terra. The north part are all literally whos except for Baal and maybe Cypra Mundi (No, Valhalla is not vital)

>>52856921
Where is Gellar when you need him...

>>52856847
I noticed this too and it made me fucking depressed. Just talked about the "battle suits" they use. Fucking annoying...

I own 15 crisis suits though.

>>52856182
Hm.. Can it bee that they changed the probortions of the sectors a bit? Segmentum Tempestus looks a bit smaller... Also, have the Maelstrom and the Storm of the Emperors Wrath fusioned?

>>52856847
>"enlightenment" in quotes
oh boy
ORWELLIAN TAU AHOY!

it's about time

>>52856182
Reminds me of WoW when they did with Cataclysm.

Literal giant scar in the world and everything is all fucked up now.

Meh.

>>52856983
The only edition with them as the good boys was 3rd. They've been the grey eastern commie peril for 11 years

>>52856862
The audio dramas have guilliman planning on using the blackstone fortress

8th ed galaxy status:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFWXpYJKaI

>>52856964
>Hm.. Can it bee that they changed the probortions of the sectors a bit?
>probortions
Fugg :DDDDDDDDD

>>52857055
Proportions, Probortions ABORTIONS, I mean you can say it all about this map.

>>52856182
Calixis sector? Cool.

>>52856182
I thought the galactic core was all Necron territory. Bet they're not happy that so many of their Tomb Worlds got cast into the Warp wholesale.

>chaos necrons when?

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>>52857112
The Necrons are mostly in the North and East.

>>52856182
did anyone notice the small bit of MACRAGG FUCKING MOVING?

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The Crimson Path is live.
13th Black Crusade taking territory.
Imperium Split in literal half!
You can't pen us in any more loyalist scum.
We're coming for Terra and were bring the Warp with us.

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>>52856450
The Sautekh Necrons are kinda busy handling the Warpstorms and daemons. They don't have time for the Tau.

As for the Tau? Due to the increased Warp activity in their borders, the Tau decided to launch aggressive expedition/expansion forces into Imperial space in order to secure their borders.

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>>52856182
>IMPERIUM NIHILUS

>>52856182
So, which anon made the map?

>>52856182

>Tau being sandwiched by Necrons and the new giant warp rift

I love that.

>>52856182
>no glorious Thokt dynasty
Disgusting.

>>52857327
oh and Aun'Va is still dead

Don't worry guys, we got the Grey Knight secret box AND Draigo.

>>52857340
>muh sentient necrons
>muh biotransference reversal
>muh Szarekh
>muh nids

>>52856983
I wonder though, if the Tau encounter that race goes "We agree with your Greater Good philosophy and will happily trade technology and resources between our two races, but we would like to remain autonomous."

How do the Tau respond? I doubt they'd go "join or die" in that regard, they seem to put reason at the forefront, the army's there to quell turbocunts.

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>>52856182
>ITT: we bet about the consequences

>Tau use STL and experimental warp skimmers to surf along the warp scar all over the galaxy

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>>52856224

>Nids are most likely to get squatted if anyone gets squatted
>Tau are safe

>>52857347
I thought were agreed to not speak about Draigo.

>>52857368
>How do the Tau respond?

They let them join. The Tau grant the races under them a degree of autonomy and allow them to keep their culture as long as it doesn't go against the Greater Good.

>>52857394
Yeah but they specifically do not want to join the Empire. They will be trading partners, even allow them to settle the planet they inhabit perhaps but they have their territories and the Tau must respect their laws when within them and answer to their authorities.

>>52857368
The Tau flood them with Tau products and culture until they stop wanting to remain autonomous and happily welcome their new overlords.

>>52857368
>How do the Tau respond?
Attempt to force the alien empire to join by monopolising all its sorrounding relevant trading/travelling/mining points
or deal with it and start the invasion through friendly immigration

>>52857427
The diplomats get to work on a cultural victory, then they join willingly.

>>52857387
He can come out of the rift anytime now, the warp rift across the galaxy is just like high-speed grav train for him. ALL ABOARD THE DRAIGO TRAIN!

What's the Uhulis sector? I've never seen that on the galactic maps before.pretty fucking big for one sector.

>>52857444
>>52857436
>>52857428
Should I paint a crescent moon on my Tau then? Kidding.

Isn't that how the Kroot work though? They're not really part of the Empire as they are mercenaries and are specifically HIRED by the Tau Empire (even if it's an exclusive contract, it's still a contract). Maybe their culture prides autonomy and self-reliance above all.

>>52857371
>Magnus jobs

>>52857499
the kroot are a work in progress

>>52857427
Then the Tau agree and begin the process of conversion. Diplomats talking to the political elite, others simply speaking to the common man and instilling a growing cult dedicated to the Great Good to pushes on their leaders to join the Tau, while Tau goods and tech starts being pushed on them like the Brits giving Chinks opium.

It might not be immediate, but the Tau would eventually envelop them. And all for the low, low price of fielding some auxiliaries to support the Empire.

>>52857427
The Tau would agree to this but will subvert the culture of these aliens until they are assimilated into the empire.

>>52857428
Tau merchant prince supplement to Rogue Trader when?

>>52856182
Don't worry guys, Schindelgheist is still there, the Guardsmen are just on patrol somewhere else.

>>52857449
Don't remind me of the train please. I spent a lot of time trying to forget it.

>>52856747
Coalition of oppressed aliens with big huge fuck mechs

So Jericho Reach, the setting for the deatwatch rpg is just gone now or what?

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>>52856182
I need a drawfag

>>52857549
>Rogue Trader
It's dead, Jim.

>>52857549
>>52857534
>>52857523
>>52857520
Jayzis, so either way they will always present a scenario where the Empire ultimately benefits.

how sneaky and subversive. I kinda like it, though I admit (and I know I might get lynched for this) I enjoy the idea of them being idealistic goodguy fools.

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>>52857207
Warprifts are fucking weird. You know what, take all pskyers you can find and:

>>52857371
You know you might have something there

The Tau fixes it's FTL problem by riding warp scars

Tau become the race to use hyperlink drives, pre-existing routes of weakened realspace caused by the warp scars. They go full space trains.

This would actually allow them to expand and give them a flexibility to make their continued survival reasonable.

The Imperium uses your standard warp drives, and the fucking Necrons use worm hole generation

>>52857499
>Muslim Tau

I fucking love it.

>>52857560
So does this mean that Chapter Master takes place during 8th edition?

>>52857644
>The Tau fixes it's FTL problem by riding warp scars
MULTI WARPSCAR DRIFTING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuFSv2bLa8

>>52857657
Might be. The warp is fickle and prone to change.

>>52857604
B-but I want to play as Por'O Hob' Er' Mal

>>52857644
I initially said it as a ribbing but when I think about it, it does sound a bit like ye Olde Islamic times back when that region was the centre of knowledge. You got diplomats, scholars, strong armies with advanced technology in comparison to others. Better living conditions and rights for the common man as compared to oppressed peasantry elsewhere under the boot heel of their noble lords. Valueable trading of resources like coffee and silks, and shit's so great everybody wants to join.

>Cicatrix maleficum
As a romance speaker, that sounds funny;
>>52856847
where is that from?

>>52857724
Forgot to add: And they are viewed as filthy barbarians that should be crushed purely because of their opposing beliefs. Crusaders vs Muslims, Imperium vs Tau. Lots of parallels, I think.

>>52856910
>Iron men from the other galaxy
Explain

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>>52857090
haha

>>52857520
So for how long will they stay a work in progress?
Cuz so far unless they vespid the shit out of them I don't see the Kroots giving a fuck about the Greater Good or common decency anytime soon.

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Wait, is the plot of 40K actually progressing?

>>52857782
We did it, Reddit.

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>>52856182
>Bane's Landing
B A N E?
A
N
E
?

>>52857798
>enterprise
>not garbage tier

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>>52857798
Yes

It has started moving last year or so, the most influential changes have happened in the last months
>cadia has fallen
>the eldar have got a new god
>guilliman returned

>>52857371
THIS

in before they use this to explain what tau kill teams are doing on armageddon

>>52857781
Some Iron Men fucked off to another galaxy during the purge. Now they return more than ever ready to protect humanity from everything including itself.

They have a simple imperative - destroy everything that bothers humans including governmental structures and such things as army and so on. Humans should just devote their lives to art, social life and similar things and Iron Men will destroy everything that is in the way.

It's and asspull of asspulls.

>>52857857
>the eldar have a new god
What are the implications of this?

>>52856182
>Eye of terror has flowed out through Cadia, through Fenris, past the center of the galaxy, and giving them a tunnel straight to Macragge and the Eastern Fringe as a whole.

My guess is that this is an attempt to give more excuses for various forces to go up against Chaos more often.

>>52857755
>>52857724
Don't forget the Arabs had their own skeletons in their closets. They were more progressive but also just as dirty in some ways as the crusader states. This fits the Tau and their veneer perfectly.

>>52857890
They can protect their souls from Slaanesh better and have some new magic.

>>52857890
right now the Eldar are roughly splintering over those who follow this new god and those who see too much Slaanesh in it and go NOPE. Followers of the new god do not need soul stones to protect them - because the new God eats them instead. Still better than Slaanesh though.

This uncaps their numbers, meaning the Eldar can start BREEDING again.

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>>52857890
Slasnesh gets slowly killed and its daemons discontinued; NOT!chaotic eldar under the new NOT!slaanesh fill the empty space left as the enemy of eldarkind.

emperor children, now orphans, get to survive slaanesh squatting under daemon fulgrim.

>>52857971
>Followers of the new god do not need soul stones to protect them - because the new God eats them instead.

Actually they eat each other instead.

>>52857971

tbqh, I think that's the REAL reason that the galaxy is split in half now.

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>>52857890
Extra thick implications by eldar standards.

>>52857890
If the gods followers are believed, it means all they have to do is unite the 5 maguffin swords and Ynnead will be fully awakened and Slaanesh will no longer have dominion over Eldar souls, allowing them to live free lives without the need for soulstones, the path system, or the need to constantly torture people , aswell as letting them reincarnate again.

There are of course doubters who just think it's Slaanesh 2.0 and following it is the final nail in the coffin for their entire race.

>>52857925
exactly, also reminds me of Ottoman conscription, like the non-muslim tax other religions paid. Ottomans took it one step further to include *drumroll* military service!

>>52857608
>Jayzis, so either way they will always present a scenario where the Empire ultimately benefits.
>how sneaky and subversive. I kinda like it, though I admit I enjoy the idea of them being idealistic goodguy fools.
Why not both? If SM can be heroes of the day AND psychotic killing machines, if IG can be an anonymous meatgrinder and a common men struggle etc etc, the tau can surely be two different things at the same time.

>>52857857
Is it the big death god? And is Guilliman taking over?

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>>52858062
Yes

>>52858089
Thanks broseph.

>>52858062
Guilliman gonna marry Yvraine and become a new Emperor.

>>52858062
Guilliman has been declared a living saint by the Imperial Church and now sits at the head of the Highlords of Terra, though he hasn't seized absolute power and demolished the new Imperial Bureaucracy as many expected. Quotes demonstrate he HATES what the Imperium has become though.

Which, if you consider him Caesar, makes perfect sense, as Caesar was a reformer

>>52857254
>Due to the increased Warp activity in their borders, the Tau decided to launch aggressive expedition/expansion forces into Imperial space in order to secure their borders.

>warpstorms appearing all around
>hey, let's spend our forces to pick on the imperials
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
And I say that as a Tau player.

>>52857724

While the Medieval Muslims did not per se have a hard wired caste system they did have something of that spirit. Out in Central Asia it became a maxim (or a meme that Persians were men of the turban or men of the pen (bureaucrats, poets, scholars, administrators), and Turks were men of the helmet or sword (What you expect). It'd be possible to transcend your racial background but it would also largely define you and your expectations. A circassian isn't liable to end up being a sailor or a merchant, at a certain point arabs of any civilized background pretty much ceased being soldiers (this is more 1400s or so).

Also look into the practice of Mawali. The shorthand is in the early Islamic period they were non arab converts adopted or associated with a particular mentor tribe or clan. Their mistreatment in the initial Arab-chauvenistism of the Umayyads helped ferment the rise of the Abbasids. It can segway well into the practice of non-tau auxiliaries indoctrinated into the greater good. "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others".

Communism still fits the Tau far far more but you can integrate some themes and elements of Islamic civilization into them.

>>52858002

I can't see how the eldar god is a not-slaanesh. Though that being said she's a god of the dead, right? I'm still rather uncertain why death hasn't gotten a chaos god. Admittedly the decay towards death falls under pappa nurgle but fear of death or the thought of death or seeking death for salvation from the despair of the universe seems like a very strong emotion to create a chaos god.

>>52858112
I think the impliocation is they see it as an opportunity to strike at a weakened/distracted Imperium and don't quite understand the real gravity of whats going on

>>52858030
>like the non-muslim tax other religions paid
Funnily enough, that tax sometime ended up being counter-productive as some muslim leaders did their best to prevent conversion toward islam to maximise their revenue.

>>52858113
for the last goddamn time the tau are not communist, they're a Caste Divided Utilitarian Oligarchy ruled by a minority of religious Theocrats.

>>52858172

Alright, point taken, but I am referring to the communistic kind of ideology taking the place of theocracy, the intense state-run totalitarianist element for the tau (merely authoritarian for subject peoples). By nature of what you described they don't really work for Islamic because of the presence of a religious theocracy and the function of clergy being administrative rulers of the state itself. Yeah, there's the caliph, but the Imams and learned did not run the state.

>>52858113
This is really interesting and thank you for posting it. I'll do some research purely for learning's sake.

>>52858060
Yeah I guess you can. I'm sure the military generally behaves depending on the Sept, Commander's tactics etc. Just like you can have one ethereal being a bit of a megalomaniac and another Ethereal like Aun'Shi who puts his life on the line to protect even a common worker.

>>52858112
Well, the logic is quite simple actually, while it would have seen better in and out universe to have the tau fight orks or necrons, and now chaos, we can't have anything substantial happening without the Imperium being involved.

>>52856463
stars orbit the center of the galaxy

>>52858113
>I can't see how the eldar god is a not-slaanesh.
It eats eldar souls to empower itself.

It's only a matter of time until the ynnari start aggressively eating eldar in a race to arms against slaanesh and do you think it will stop once its more direct competitor, slaanesh, is gone?


Remove ynnari, you're worst aeldari

>>52857782
The screenshot is legit. It's just that he left out the part which makes it clear that the statement is only a joke.

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>>52856880
chaos doesn't need mortal life in order to sustain itself. The turbulence of the Warp itself does that on it's own. Chaos just by existing, has already won. That's pretty much how it's been written for a while now.

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>No craftworlds on the map

The fuck GW

>>52858323
Except that if everything's dead, the turbulence calms back down without any mortals to stir the turmoil.

>>52857857
>>the eldar have got a new god
So the rumours they're about to kill off Slaanesh are true I see. I guess it's TWENTY SEVENTEEN and all that.

>>52858365
No bother. Chaosfags take everything written in their codexes as 1000000000% canon, take what daemons say in the HH as unquestionable facts and headcanon vague remarks.

>>52858365
Nope.
The warp is beyond time.

>>52858323
Chaos is an attention whore

it will move only if there's someone to witness it

and realm of chaos talked about the energy the gods obtain from mortals in finite terms, so it will either end at some point when the multiverse is completely silent or kickstart another universe by itself to keep on playing

>>52858410
So I've noticed, lol.

>>52857971
explains why yvraine's so thicc

Anons? Sorry to ask here, but, does /tg/ have a mega with the Gathering Storm supplements in it? I stopped buying the books due to price-gouging, but this thread makes me want to catch up on the Gathering Storm material.

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>>52858410
>Chaosfags take everything written in their codexes as 1000000000% canon

Not a Chaosfag, just stating that's how Chaos has been written for quite a while now. Even if it consumes the Materium Chaos wouldn't die off. hell, I think there was a novel where one of the Eldar stated that, even if they moved to a new galaxy to get away from She who Thirsts, chaos would just follow them across the vast gulf of time.

>>52858469
Have you tried looking for them in the most logical place they could be?

>>52858279

Well I'd assume the souls it eats are in a more comfortable position than Slaanesh. That being said it might indeed take being a god of eldar death to excess and assume killing more eldar makes it more powerful.

>>52858208

Check the wargaming historical topic for some ebooks on the Muslims, you can pick up some things piecemeal from them though if you check for legit books on the subject then even better.

>>52858503
I found this mega in the PDF Share thread. But, it's only got up to War Zone: Fenris' Curse of the Wulfen in its Data Slates & Supplements folder.

https://mega.nz/#F!pFgm0RKR!J06C1gVYcjzNGsF8YNLsjQ!ddAxALZD

>>52858348
They blew up

>>52858502
>Eldar stated that, even if they moved to a new galaxy to get away from She who Thirsts, chaos would just follow them across the vast gulf of time.
That's to be expected, considering they are psychic creatures themselves. It's not that chaos is omnipresent, it's that mortals bring it within themselves wherever they go.

>>52858550
>>52858424

>>52858348

They're giant spaceships, if they move around all the time what's the point putting them on a map?

>>52858410
Wow what fucking cancer you are. Muh headcanon.

>>52858622
Wrong, Eldrad said that Chaos would be already there waiting for them or it will follow them.

Is the Galaxy actually split in two now? As in, is it impossible for any faction that's not Chaos to get on the other side or of that huge storm or communicate with planets on the other side that runs across the entire Galaxy?

>>52858704
They move at sublight speeds IIRC cuz they can't use the Webway, so since space is so big the craftworlds tend to be in the same general area

>>52858774
No one knows.
Though I doubt it will be impossible, fleets could traverse the Eye.

>>52858774
No. It's just "a lot harder".

You can easily set up a narrative campaign or story that your force made it through to the other side.

>>52857857
How long was the storyline stagnated, before the Fall of Cadia/the Gathering Storm came into motion?
I only got into 40k this year, just a month before Fall of Cadia came out

They could just go "under" it

>>52858774
The galaxy is kill, anon.

Until the Eldars new god starts driving back the Eye.(or get wiped out)

>Abaddon cleaved the galaxy in half with a single move

Take about leaving a mark on the galaxy

>>52858872
Almost 20 years.

>>52858893
And he'll still be called the armless cause /tg/ can't let go of old memes

>>52858909
Well, fuck, talking about luck that I just got into it

>>52857090
I like how this joke implicitly acknowledges that GW's been worse than dogshit for years.

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>>52858884
ever been in a deep sea thread?

>>52858893
But will he conquer Terra before Chaos consumes the galaxy?

>>52858872
From about 3rd Edition (1998) to last year the storyline that was set up had been the same.

>>52858926
It's a pretty self-aware joke given they only use the "TM" in this line of the FAQ and nowhere else. It was pretty intentional

>>52857576
Probably.
Thing you've got to remember is, essentially, your choice of 40k setting has to take into account time as well as space. The Jericho Reach doesn't exist any more, but "the Jericho Reach in the Deathwatch time period" does.

>>52858704
Because they'll have an influence on anything near them.

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>>52858774
is that a challenge?

>>52859006
I don't get all the people getting mad at not being able to do something in 999 M41 when you have 10000 years to cover. And that's not including warp time travel shenanigans.

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>>52858893
>Chaosfag tries pass another event as "just as planned" by their leader despite no clear indication of said intention

>>52858918
He tripped and fell and his big ass cracked the galaxy, the fat fuck!

>>52858893
I thought the necron's and the death of the rest of the eldar did that

>>52859045
Crimson Path plan, dumbass.

Abaddon's destroying the Pylons for 10K years, ending destruction of the Cadian pylons led to this.

My fucking god why are Imperialfags such cancer.

>>52859086
What in the 7 hells are you on about?

>>52859093
>The Crimson Path is part of a strategy that Abaddon the Despoiler plans to accomplish with his Thirteenth Black Crusade. His goal is to conduct a massive campaign to breach the barriers of the Cadian Gate in order to shatter the protective fields projected by the Pylons that hold back the tides of the Eye of Terror. Once destroyed, Abaddon's Daemonic allies would be able to manifest into realspace as the Warp spread outwards, across a trail known as the Crimson Path. The expansion of the region of Chaos space would eventually spread into the Segmentum Solar and in time would engulf Terra itself. Once accomplished, even the Daemon Primarchs would be able to enter into realspace. Several Traitor Legions as well as Renegade Chapters are working to accomplish Abaddon's ultimate goal.

that path sure as hell isn't heading to terra
>inb4 but evencthually

>>52859093
Essentially he destroyed everything getting in the way between Cadia and a specific point in space like carving a channel. Then he bust Cadia (the dam) and all the unholy water of the Eye of Terror flowed through in one big nasty move. Both psychological and effective.

>>52859108
No idea, something about a dead eldar god breaking a craft world, and a necron beam making the eye of terror bigger? I have no idea whats going on all I know is there going to turn 40k into age of sigmar and I hate that

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>>52859141
It's a bloody side effect of destroying the bloody pylons, you bloody moron. The walls that are keeping reality from sinking into the Warp that were reinforced by the pylons are crumbling at a rapid pace. Not only is the Eye growing towards Terra, new Warpstorms are emerging and merging together until you got what you see now. It's all solely thanks to Abaddon.

Whatever pylons that are reamining are fighting a losing battle to contain the Warp and they still being targeted by the legions of Chaos.

>>52859184
Just go read the actual book.

>>52858323
>chaos daemons didn't even exist until the old ones made the eldar and the krork
>"hurr they don't need morals guys"

>>52859250
False. The Daemons of Chaos were attacking Necrontyr and Old Ones long before the War in Heaven started. (Traitor's Hate/Angels Blade/Be'lakor/Dawn of War 3).

Eat a dick.

>>52857890
Because they have eldar from all the other factions they could go back to using the weapons of the eldar empire

>>52858365
>Warp overtakes material plane and twists it
>Turbulence in material plane feeds into Chaos
>Warp further corrupts Materium
It makes perfect sense!

>>52857895
It's implied Dante will be forming an Interex style alliance against the tyranids
Maybe sanguinius gets resurrected and we see the cut off bit of the imperium form a society that when reunited with the seg solar leads to a Cold War

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>>52856374

It's small though.

>>52856847

WD gives the impression that the only reason Tau became a confederation of races is because the Design Studio couldn't choose between them and the Kroot. So they may not have an imperative to push the confederation aspect if there aren't really any great ideas.

>>52857480

According to Lexicanum it was first mentioned in 5th Edition. I'm guessing it gained prominence because Krieg is located in it.

Since 8th edition is gonna be a hybrid between 40k and AoS, will that mean we'll see more homebrew content of 40k races in AoS and vice versa?

>>52859348
You are Fake Lore!

>>52859518
>WD gives the impression that the only reason Tau became a confederation of races is because the Design Studio couldn't choose between them and the Kroot. So they may not have an imperative to push the confederation aspect if there aren't really any great ideas.
It's too bad, since Tau auxillaries would be a good way to include models fot the various minor xenos races that get mentioned in the background pretty often but don't warrant an entire codex for themselves.

>>52859731
40k Lizards and Squats to compensate for the WHFB Space Marines

>>52856847
Where is this website?

>>52859849
warhammer40000.com

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>>52856666
How can the castrated humans compete?
protip: they can't

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>>52856182
... What is that??

>>52859898
probably an acolyte of sorts.

>>52859958
Cos it's in the factions alongside blood angels, mechanicus or sororitas, so...

>>52856182
Once again the Chaos Gods fuck the Imperium while the Emperor sits on his throne and watches.

Big E confirmed for Biggest Cuck.

>>52856182
>new drekport
lol

>>52859898
Looks like a trimmed down version of the confessor
Artist was probably told it's supposed to a religious bloke with a military background which is why it's more trim than the model

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>>52856299
It would be extremely heretical

>>52857798
I'm surprised that the Expanse is only Mid tier, if we are comparing I'd say it's better than Voyager.

>>52860175
I meant as a new faction (like BA or IG)

Is there any way to contact people at GW without making a facebook account? I just want to ask them if they'll ever use Rak'gol in any capacity. I don't expect models, but a throw-away story of Rak'gol raiders assaulting an Imperial Fleet due to the warp's waxing would be nice.

>>52856862
Because warp storms never dissipate? Besides, Imperiun Nihilus is just the Blood Angels and the Attilan Rough Riders

>>52860347
Send an email to customer service, some folks have sent fandexes and rules suggestions that the design team does look at them from time to time

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>>52858774
Not impossible, but likely a lot more difficult. Especially for those races who don't have safe ways of navigating through the new warpstorms. It's also going to be more difficult to defend the remaining pylons keeping the Galaxy, and likely the rest of the Materium from being enveloped by Chaos now, since it has more of a foothold in reality.

>>52860561
>Shindelgeist
Wasn't that the planet with 6,3*10^91 guardsmen?

>>52860708
Orc population:low

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>>52857798
>LEXX not god tier...

>>52856182
Well, the Ruinstorm has returned. Guess Lorgar got off his fat arse to raise it once more.

>>52856791
>Crumbling west Terra will fall, but Guilliman's more vibrant east will hold it together.

Until Spehs-Mohammed shows up at least.

>>52856182
>keig is ok
>catachan is ok
>mordian is ok
>necromundia is ok
>elysia is ok
>tallarn is ok
>armageddon is near the rock for some reason..
>caida is dead...
>Atilla... maybe not
>Gryphonne IV? i though the nids ate that...

Not alot of worlds labeled in the bad spots...

>>52857798
OH no NO no! enterprise above star gate universe?

>rename this png 'the thread derailer'

>>52856182
wtf is a "telepathica duct"

>>52856182
everything north of the cicatrix maledictum is definetly going to get destroyed. Terra, Macragge, and Fenris all being south of it isnt a coincidence

So goodbye Valhalla

Goodbye Baal

Goodbye Mordian

Goodbye Attila

you are the only things of worth lost

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>>52857798
What, no Red Dwarf? That's a great way to make Mr. Flibble VERY cross.

>>52860184
For you

>>52861959

It means the ships' psykers cannot get anymore interstellar communications through due to the Warp blocking it. The duct is a clear area of space where you can safely travel or send messages through to the other side. Notice how the duct cuts straight through a large line of purple Warp that otherwise blocks a good chunk of space forcing them to go around.

>>52859436

That was in the 5E codex, not sure if they carried it over the 7E one. Could be interesting to see if they go into detail on it.

>>52861206

Catachan has a Void Whale and Badrukk headed for it.

>>52862147

Red Dwarf best Sci-Fi show ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

>>52859898
>>52860050
>>52860327
Its an acolyte. The art is from Dark Heresy. So is the Calixis sector on the map.

>>52856182
says temporary rift corridor on that, OP

>>52856468
'Nids do not really hold space.

>>52861206
How the hell did the Rock get from behind the Eye of Terror close to Armageddon?

>>52863195

It's mobile?

>>52856374
Muahahah! AND we probably helped the Necrons conquer Ultramar. The IoM pushed and pushed and pushed and naturally the Tau lashed out and looked to a race they didn't fully understand for help.

Tau-Cron Grand Alliance.

>>52863195
Look at me, I don't know the fluff but I'm gonna say dumb stuff anyway.

>>52863195
You realize it's not a planet anymore but a fortress that they fly around, right? It's been the case since heresy era when Lion blew up his own damn planet.

Where does this map come from? Couldn't find it on their site.

>>52863454
warhammer community tardis.

>>52863581
Thanks. So used to everyone around here sperging out (ironically or otherwise) over something somebody made up that I just assume everything's a hoax now.
Er...what am I supposed to be sperging out about, anyway?

>>52863612
Everything. If anything is slightly different in your immediate environment from one millisecond ago you may bitch out.

Where's Chogoris? It's a legion homeworld. It should be there.

>>52856182
>Imotekh only awake for 200 years
>already has a dynasty 20 times larger than the Tau Empire

Can we stop pretending they have any effect on a galactic storyline now?

>>52857608

> I enjoy the idea of them being idealistic goodguy fools.

They still are. Conquest and aquisitioning resources is the core aspect of survival for EVERY living thing on existence. If you don't horde resources all that will happen is that eventually someone who does will come around, wipe you out and take yours.

Subverting other civilizations for gain is not inherently immoral, it's the manner in which you go about it that is the deciding factor.

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>>52856182
Does this means the Supermassive Black Hole in the middle of the galaxy was penetrated by the Warp?

Is the Galaxy literally and metaphysically fucked?

>>52859785
Yeah. it's kind of disappointing that GW never really committed strongly to the client races aspect of the Tau, leaving them with about 2.5 allied species ever represented in gameplay.

>>52863345
>Tau-Cron Grand Alliance
I wonder what waifu is responsible for this.

>>52859801
>40k Squats

The Kharadron models honestly look like they were designed as such anyway.

Why is there a huge warp hole in center!?Did the writers forgot like i don't know THE CTAN GOD CALLED THE OUTSIDER

>>52858704
The Rock is RIGHT THERE though.

>>52863195
By being a spaceship, the way it's always been?

>>52856182
>Finial sector
What is that? And what happened to the ask Elon sector? Is it still around?

>>52862003
didnt magnus fuck fenris into submission though?

>>52866091
Ha, no.
Big daddy Logan spanked him back to the warp so hard Khorne was laughing about it.

>>52866004
Askellon sector

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>>52856182
Wh-where is Vostroya?!

>>52856666
I wouldn't celebrate too much tho... there was a rumor (albeit salty) from a while ago claiming that Tau and Crons were related somehow. I would be very bitter if this came true, and this map ain't helping disprove it

>>52856488
Jayeez. Sounds like you're the one who needs a new hobby if you can't handle the change

>>52863345
>Farsight seizes control of the Empire
>Turns out he's allied/under Necron influence

Anti-Warp Alliance

I can dig it.

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>>52864861
Wouldnt the galaxy fall apart if the big contractor in the middle wouldn't follow the laws of physic anymore?

>>52866499
Not really, it still is a massive black hole that keeps the galaxy going, only difference is now the black hole leads straight to hell instead of nowhere.

>>52856983
I think they've always been Orwellian. Only ones who didn't realize it were the imperial grognard raging about the significance of Tau in 40k. Half of the Tau codex is pretty much undermining the good guy image they had, even going so far as to suggest they brainwash their own guys, use mind control, and invade when diplomacy isn't possible

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>>52856182
>community wants GW to progress the story
>GW progresses the story
>in the worst fucking ways imaginable

Every time.

>>52866659
They could have done a lot worse desu.

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>>52866659
It's not the 'kill everything that was important to anyone' sprawl that was End Times, but I'm honestly hoping I can just ignore it down the road when I actually have people to play with. Or more correctly, I hope it doesn't change up the whole setting so much that I can't just quietly ignore what's going on.

I don't have to care, right? I don't have to bring my models in for a game and get this whole plot shoved into my face, right? I can join a party for a game of Dark Heresy, and I don't have to even mention Cadia getting blown up or whatever?

>>52856182
>The Eldar aren't represented at all
>but some guy named Luther McIntyre is pointed out on a map of the whole galaxy
He better be fucking important I swear to god

>>52864473
He kind of has the advantage of having a pre-existing fleet and army, plus tomb worlds that just need to be awoken. It's a lot easier to conquer the galaxy when you already have a galaxy-conquering army that you just need to dig up from storage.

>>52858113
>tau are the islamig gommunism
fug :-DDD

>>52864473
>>52866921
The Necrons could easily retake their lost Empire

But they're just so lazy

>>52864473
>>52866921
And he has Webway access via the Dolmen Gates.

>No Iron Hands on the map

guess we got eaten boys

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>>52856182
>IMPERIUM NIHILUS

>>52867160
I feel you, brother. No Chogoris either. We got diddled.

>>52867182
rippu

>>52867160
>Iron Hands
Who?

>>52866091

yes, its now almost impossible for the wolves to get new recruits from their planet.
And the Grey Knights did not help by killing all civilians.

Tau dont belong in the 40k universe they should just have their own IP instead of shitting up a good one.

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>>52867384
>shitting up

They're literally a dot on the galactic map, fighting for their existence. It's not like they're taking the galaxy by storm and fucking the SoB while taking a shit on every other faction.

>>52866837
It's the planet Kharn got the teeth of his chainaxe.

>>52867425

They may not be taking the Galaxy by storm but they're taking the Tabletop by storm.

>>52856182
Why is Terra not in the middle? The lines radiating out IS the astronomican, right?

>>52867425

>It's not like they're taking the galaxy by storm and fucking the SoB while taking a shit on every other faction.

Ah so you haven't read the Tau codex then?

>>52867425
Then they can do it in another GW IP instead of stealing resources (just like the steal planets) that could be directed towards revamping Nids or Necrons or Dark Eldar.

>>52867381
>t. Magnus
The Grey Knights killed SOME of the civilians. The spirit of Fenris drove out the daemonic taint and it's stated the planet and population will recover. The Wolves still got you better on Prospero.

>>52866369
Would finally explain the Tau cron ally position in game

>>52867527
You're right.
>>52867606
I have. You don't think it's meant to play them up in their own codex? Doesn't everyone's do that?

>>52867659

I honestly don't think it is in the scale of the Tau codex. They are undefeatable, unstoppable, infallible, invincible. Swatting away all and any resistance instantly without effort. Win every battle, there's a few token "whoopsies" in there but honestly...

It was an incredibly unpleasant read.

>>52867692
Commies are naturally resilient.

>>52867425
But they did expand and grow. They used to be represented by a dot. Now they have a realm nearly the size of Ultramar. With the Imperium torn asunder there is no more IoM manpower that can stop the Tau.

>>52867659

>Doesn't everyone's do that?

You clearly haven't read the Ork codex, they get beaten violently to a pulp in their own codex because

>Waaaagh XD We iz so whacky ladz waaaagh, we'ze an NPC race so it dontz matter waaagh XD

>>52867725
They will take over Ultima soon enough while not selling a single thing outside of table top.

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>>52867692
Codexes always read like propaganda for their respective faction. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the Damocles Gulf sits right between the Tau Empire and Ultramar, but I'll spell it out for you. The threat of the whole damn galaxy is hanging over the heads of the Tau. If the Imperium took serious notice of them and focussed on their annihilation, they're dead. They're in the path of two Hive Fleets, and now there's a warp anomaly and a Necron Dynasty right next door. The Tau Empire is under constant threat of erasure, and it's only because they are so inconsequential in the big picture that they have survived thus far. Tau are the very definition of winning every battle, but losing the war.

MAKE COMMORRAGH GREAT AGAIN!

>>52866721
Considering all of the FFG RPG's are set a few hundred years before this whole thing happens I'm sure you'll be fine.

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>>52867798
Vect has some remodelling to do because of the GoK being smashed open

Can't wait

>>52867771
>he threat of the whole damn galaxy is hanging over the heads of the Tau. If the Imperium took serious notice of them and focussed on their annihilation,

Objectively false. The Imperium made a serious effort to wipe them out in Damocles round 2. Resulting in one of the largest tank battles in Imperial history. The Tau won a military victory.

Also Imperial leadership thinks that wiping the Tau is beyond the Imperial capabilities.

The whole the Imperium could wipe the Tau bullshit was always bullshit. The Imperium is a crumbling realm on its death bed. It cannot muster the power to destroy the Tau which are raising power that can match and defeat anything the Imperium threw at them.

>They're in the path of two Hive Fleets,

False.

There are no major hive fleets in Tau space or nearby. There are only splinters fleets from Kraken and Leviathan flying around and that's it.

>there's a warp anomaly

That's just hanging around on their borders for now.

>a Necron Dynasty right next door.

That has been around there for like 200 years and have never shown any real effort to go after the Tau because the fucking Necron codex says that Imotekh knows that if he opens up two big warfronts with either Ultramar, Tau, or the Eldar of Iyanden his empire would be over extended and in trouble.

And Imotekh's realm is beset by daemons so he doesn't have time for the Tau any time soon.

You are the very definition of not knowing the lore.

>>52867823
Vect's losing control over the Dark Eldar since he ran away and Yvarine made him look like a fool.

The Shadow King is the new star in the Dark City. He is the one saving it.

>>52867823

He's going to have to crush all those in power after they survived the dysjunction and took control of what remained while Vect was away.

>>52867725
But there is enough of Cronpower right next to them
And I think Imothek is a lot more willing to crush the Tau, if they are squatting on Necron Tomb worlds.
Which they probably are, as Commander Farsight found a Necron blade

>>52867854
>>52867856
Vect always had a backup vault somewhere, and while i can see some Kabals being pissed about the daemons + some wanting to serve Yvarine, that's life in the Dark City. Adapt/Prepare or Die

I do want Mandrakes + King Teleports-Behind-You to have a much more promenant role though

The only effect that the changes have brought is that the Wych/Reaver gangs have all been moved on site and there's more customers for their weapons since the Ynnari are from all walks

>>52867860
One, Imotekh has a larger bone to pick with the Imperium

Two, his realm is assaulted by daemons.

He is more likely to ally with the Tau than war with them at the moment.

>>52867885
They are literally allies of convenience

>>52867841

>The Imperium made a serious effort to wipe them out in Damocles round 2. Resulting in one of the largest tank battles in Imperial history. The Tau won a military victory.

>Also Imperial leadership thinks that wiping the Tau is beyond the Imperial capabilities.

The Tau won one (1) military engagement with the Imperium. The Imperium called off their forces because they didn't have enough resources to work with for subsequent engagements. What happens when they do?

>The whole the Imperium could wipe the Tau bullshit was always bullshit. The Imperium is a crumbling realm on its death bed. It cannot muster the power to destroy the Tau which are raising power that can match and defeat anything the Imperium threw at them.

The Imperium might be on its death bed, but the Tau Empire is barely out of its cradle. Out of a dying old man and a newborn infant, the old man still wins through size alone.

>There are no major hive fleets in Tau space or nearby. There are only splinters fleets from Kraken and Leviathan flying around and that's it.

Splinters of Hive Fleets are still incredibly threatening.

>there's a warp anomaly
>That's just hanging around on their borders for now.

Yeah, and it's going to start shitting out Daemons pretty soon like all warp anomalies do.

Individually, the Tau Empire might be able to handle those threats. They can't handle all of them at once.

>>52867881

I hope they make Mandrakes better in tabletop if they play more of a role in the fluff.

>>52867936
Farsight Enclaves dropped a virus bomb on a Tyranid fleet and fucked it up and destroyed it with like 8 guys.

Tau ascendancy is only a matter of time.

The IoM will never have manpower for anything ever again. They can't do shit and never will again against anyone with the IoM torn asunder down the middle. They have no more manpower and ability to focus everything they had.

The Tau will likely have even more manpower considering they seem to have grown to rival Ultramar in size.

If the largest crusade in recent IoM history was turned aside way back in Damocles round 2 then they stand no chance. The AdMech even had to cut off the gulf by lighting it on fire which barely slowed them down.

From that point forward the books says that in the damocles they couldn't afford to attack anymore and would focus on defense.

Now with the updated map the Tau are clearly the victors and curb stomped the remants of the IoM in the sector.

If the Tau did all of that as a speck I can only imagine the effect they're going to have now.

>>52867612

Tau are more interesting and more deserving of attention then any of the factions you listed.

>>52867936
>The Tau won one (1) military engagement with the Imperium. The Imperium called off their forces because they didn't have enough resources to work with for subsequent engagements. What happens when they do?

That's like ignoring the whole narrative of Damocles round 2. Good job on confirming that you don't know the lore.

Go read Kauyon and Montka now.

>The Imperium might be on its death bed, but the Tau Empire is barely out of its cradle. Out of a dying old man and a newborn infant, the old man still wins through size alone.

The Tau have ascended as a major power of the galaxy. Powerful enough to enter into the calculations of the Eldar and Imperials

>Splinters of Hive Fleets are still incredibly threatening.

The Tau have been swatting them done for hundreds of years. Unless it's a full fledged fleet, the Tau have no reason to fear.

Remember when Shadowsun destroyed one without a single causality?

>Yeah, and it's going to start shitting out Daemons pretty soon like all warp anomalies do.

Unless Imotekh who is their neighbor finishes whatever he is doing with the Ymga Monolith. If the Tau are swarmed with daemons, then his realm will be also more beset.

>ndividually, the Tau Empire might be able to handle those threats.

The only thing that's going threaten the Tau is the impending civil war with Farsight.

>>52860184
you're a big guy.

Not to say extremely huge. A giant, almost.

God you're big.

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>>52868069
DE/Necrons have so much potential which GW refuses to utilise

The only interesting tale for a Tau series would be some fire caste who see too much, joins the FSE but sees they're "savage" and has an existential crisis

>>52868069
Nope not really Tau hardly generate any IP revenue at all they are only there to leech off established lore while contributing nothing at all since they can't even be used as an NPC race. That is the truth of the matter. If you want to play Mobile Suit Gundam then go play that instead.

>>52868095
All Eldar except Ynari faction got cucked. GW and majority of fans don't care outside the niche players. Vect is losing his grip. he was the last interesting guy the DE had and he is basically irrelevant in the greater Eldar narrative now.

>>52868127
Farsight 100% certain has one of the Crone swords that must be used to awaken Ynnead. The Tau will be a major part of the ongoing narrative.

>>52868127
Wrong they are consistently in the top sellers lists. If they were as poorly selling as you say they would have their role minimized like the kroot or other races.

Instead they are being expanded at every turn.

>>52868025
You literally sound like North Korea.

>>52868139
Utterly ridiculous if that is the case.

>>52858761
Not Chaos but Slaanesh.

The Eldar are irrevocably bound to their doom. It is inescapable for them no matter how far they run.

>>52868134
did you read the fluff? Vect used the daemon invasion to his advantage by ordering all his rivals to deal with it (and get killed in the process) so that all the lords who remain are loyal to him.

>>52868139
>100% certain
or it's just a necrontyr artifact

>>52868172
Uh oh... a politic fag. Get back to your board faggot before you drown this entire board in off topic shit.

>>52868151
Wrong.
Figurines generate a pathetic ammount compared to Electronic gaming and other franchise royalties none of which show any interest in Tau at all. Gee Dub needs to stop shoe horning Tau into everything their customers outside of table top gaming do not want that product.

>>52868195
The story "Fire and Ice" implies otherwise.

The one who wields the sword is destined to become the Mont'shaar aka the Terror That Burns Dark.

>>52868186
>so that all the lords who remain are loyal to him.

The book says that his control over the Dark Eldar is slipping.

>>52868206
Mont'shaar sounds like a Tau word, not an eldar word

>>52868204
You have a strawman argument. So fuck off. What is this garbage tier internet trash I'm debating tonight. Is this open anon night or something? Ugh disgusting.

>>52868215
hence why he got rid of all the traitors.

>>52868134
>>52868215
Vect has always been "losing his grip"
The fact is he's still the guy you do not fuck with - he was around, supposedly, since the birth of Slaanesh

>>52868220
>ugh
uhmmmmm... like, tumblr, much?
Ugh just...
ugggghh

>>52868217
The marine prophet who told Farsight about his fate used that word.

>>52868202
Are you austistic? You think North Korea is political?

>>52868220
Wrong. You have no counter argument so you resort to adhom which is ironic given you support the cancer that is Tau who are polluting the 40k franchise.

>>52868229
the fluff's very inconsistent about that
in old-ass fluff he was about to get sacrificed when Slaanesh was born, but then in the newer fluff he was a slave in M34.

>>52868247
>the fluff's very inconsistent about that

According to a story Vect himself told to an Imperial (Torturer's Tale). Why would you believe Vect?

>>52868081
Kauyon and Mont'ka both read like Tau wartime propaganda, which either the writers were going for or they are just so shit that they make it seem like that. As such, I take the things said in both books with a very large grain of salt, and note only the end results of the engagements. The end results were: The Imperium pushed far enough into the Tau Empire to encounter a major Sept, then realized exactly what they were dealing with (as the Tau concentrated their forces on the defence of that Sept) and asked for more resources. When they were denied, they fell back like smart armies do when they find themselves outgunned, outnumbered or out-maneuvered, which they were in some combination or another. It's obviously a setup for Damocles Crusade: Son of Damocles the Third. The third installment. The third.

>>52868367
>he end results were: The Imperium pushed far enough into the Tau Empire to encounter a major Sept, then realized exactly what they were dealing with (as the Tau concentrated their forces on the defence of that Sept) and asked for more resources. When they were denied, they fell back like smart armies do when they find themselves outgunned, outnumbered or out-maneuvered, which they were in some combination or another. It's obviously a setup for Damocles Crusade: Son of Damocles the Third. The third installment. The third.

You just recited Damocles round 1 for me.

Damocles round 2 is like....totally different. READ THE TWO BOOKS ALREADY.

>>52868389
Well, shit. I guess I fucked up.

Damocles Round 2 is a huge Tau wankfest, though, and I say that as a Tau player. The whole engagement being a win is pretty much a consolation prize for the assassination of Aun'Va. The writer was obviously retarded, or drank too much of his own Kool-Aid. For god's sake, it takes place on like 2 planets. That's not even a crusade, that's fucking Gallipoli.

>>52868127
>that is the truth of the matter
In a statement laced with hyperbole and 'opinions'

>>52868453
Dawn Of war series alone generated more revenue than a lifetime of Tau IP ever will, tough luck bud.

>>52868509
>Better discontinue every faction that was not in Dawn of War.

Tau were in Dawn of War expansions, bud.

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>>52868509
Well, the Tau have been doing pretty well since they haven't been in DoW since the first one, wouldn't you say? I mean, it's not smart business practice at all to have multiple factions with wildly different aesthetics in order to appeal to the widest audience possible, right? Surely those giant fucking robots that cost a quarter of what the other giant robots do all sell like dogshit, right? I mean, really, how many Tau players even USE Riptides and Stormsurges?

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>>52868539
The one about the NECRONS? lmao pathetic.

>>52868553
Tau were in dow 2 as well.

They also got the first dlc for bfg armada by popular vote.

>>52868749
Tau got a single unit for a single game mode in DoW2, years after it came out. So did the Necrons.

>>52868599
The promotional art of the game had Tau vs Necrons.

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>>52856182
>imperium nihilus
Is that it?

Half of the imperium got cut off and gave up on faith?

>>52868599
Dark crusade wasn't about any particluar race.
It didn't have a story it was the risk style campaign you could play as anyone in.

>>52868795
It could also be just a bastardized version of the latin word for nothing, implying that the Imperium's presence in the region is minimal to nonexistent.

>>52867615

grey knights kill all who have witnessed the daemons, which were over the whole planet.