Let's Learn About The Tau Empire - PancreasNoWork Reaction
Added 2025-02-26 17:29:00 +0000 UTC
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Imperials, mostly in the form of inquisitors or Rogue Traders, do occasionally diplomatically engage with orks, especially Blood Axes clan, who are big fans of Imperial Guard-style discipline, ordnance, actually use tactics and can do mercenary work for humans or trade with them.
Valse
2025-02-27 00:18:53 +0000 UTCOn account of people being annoyed at my constant Marathon references, I decided to hold myself back with my theories xD. I'll go back into Marathon mode once I start my co-op playthrough of Halo with Leo.
Xero Degrees
2025-02-26 19:56:29 +0000 UTCAh, the Tau. Or the T'au, because Games Workshop was salty because the authorities would not let them copyright a letter of the Greek alphabet. Sure they're weeby (Farsight is essentially a Char clone if you know your Gundam lore), but they have their own things going on. As you encounter them in Dark Crusade the Tau are their 4th edition counterparts, where the Broadside Battlesuits and Hammerheads were the best things they could bring to the table. Back in the day they took the approach of fighting the Imperial Titans by taking a big airplane and slapping a big gun onto it, because while it'd suck for them to lose expensive millitary hardware, if they won the Imperium just lost a priceless and irreplacable cultural, religious and military artifact. But since big plane doesn't sell really well GW decided to make an even bigger plane (the Manta, which can carry an entire army on its own and only a few people have one on account of it costing 2100 points in game where 2000 points is a pretty big army), the Tau now have their own big robots with big guns. Like the Stormsurge Ballistic Suit, which has the crippling flaw of not covering up the pilot and gunner. No really: go to the GW website, look up the Stormsurge and take a peek at the 3D scan of the model in the gallery so you too can see how a well-aimed grenade, artillery shot, Nurgle's spicy plagues or just a heavy downpour of normal rain can take one of these things out. Dark Crusade also has the Vespids: the models you see in this video are the ones introduced back then and got replaced only a few months ago. The Tau both in-game and in Dark Crusade have a few approaches to combat. The most common ones (and the ones seen in DC) are Mont'ka and Kauyon, the combat arts of hitting really hard when your opponent is looking and hitting really hard when your opponent isn't looking. Cunningly brutal and brutally cunning, if you will. Under the later Commander Puretide, who is pretty much Tau Sun Tzu, three promising Tau commanders were taught: Farsight was trained in Mont'ka (he drops in and hits you in the face with a big cursed sword that steals your lifeforce and adds it to his, which is why he's impossibly old for a Tau yet incredibly fit), Shadowsun in Kauyon (she sneaks in and vaporizes your face with two guns designed to cut holes in tanks), and Kais in Monat. Kais is the commander in Dark Crusade and the protagonist of Fire Warrior. Monat is the combat style of being a FPS protagonist and soloing an entire army by yourself, which Kais is very good at. He's not much of a people person on account of him having the Tau version of autism. Tautism, if you will. As for Cato Sicarius going up against the Tau, there's a really funny excerpt from a novel where he, Cato Sicarius, does exactly that, and it is considered one of the funniest moments in 40k and the redemption of him, Cato Sicarius, as a character. Check the Warhammer channel on the Discord server for that one. And you might have picked up on this one already, but does the Tau symbol not look familiar to someone with knowledge of Marathon lore?
Beriorn
2025-02-26 19:00:48 +0000 UTC
