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Anonymous No.96387053 >>96387726 >>96388373 >>96388726 >>96388798 >>96389111 >>96394563 >>96395784 >>96395799 >>96399918 >>96400306 >>96406994 >>96412967
I think after everything that's happened since 8th edition and especially in 10th, we need to accept that the Tau really are the protagonists of 40k and throw our weight behind them.
Anonymous No.96387306 >>96387465
Their mechs suck and kroot are cooler
Anonymous No.96387415
Tau get second place, CWE come first
Anonymous No.96387465
>>96387306
Said the man with the worlds gayest opinions in everything.
Anonymous No.96387726 >>96388131
>>96387053 (OP)
How do we 'throw our weight' behind a fictional brand of toy soldiers? Are you suggesting we buy them? No, I won't. Poor advert anon.
Anonymous No.96388131
>>96387726
This. It's fucking fiction and fictional lore. Depending on the writer, they can go from kicking puppies for fun to peace and harmony loving hippies if the writer decides so. Hell, you have the right to interpret stuff as you like, anyway, because unlike reality, stuff changes on a whim in fiction - it's whatever you feel about it in the moment.
Anonymous No.96388373 >>96389154 >>96396608 >>96396973
>>96387053 (OP)
>actually the faction that can't impact the wider galaxy in any meaningful way are the hecking main characters
ok
Anonymous No.96388450
Is this another sort of trolling by anti-woke types? This sounds like some kind of parody they would come up with.
Anonymous No.96388594 >>96388693 >>96390533 >>96393941 >>96394650
Given that the Tau represent modernity, should the Tau planet diverge between Communist, Capitalists, and Fascism?
Anonymous No.96388693 >>96389165 >>96390533
>>96388594
How would they do that if their entire social structure is built around the Ethereals? Can more groups like Farsights even exist if they themselves arn't slowly falling apart?
Anonymous No.96388726
>>96387053 (OP)
>>96387073
Anonymous No.96388798 >>96388898 >>96389166 >>96389594
>>96387053 (OP)
>in reality, female Tau
Anonymous No.96388898 >>96389131 >>96389210 >>96394551 >>96396944 >>96404598 >>96404639 >>96408620
>>96388798
does 40k have any attractive females(in official GW approved art)?
Anonymous No.96389111
>>96387053 (OP)
Blueberry porn is the only good thing about 40k and it's been that way for the last 10 years.
Anonymous No.96389131 >>96394611
>>96388898
yes
Anonymous No.96389154 >>96390134 >>96390718 >>96399918
>>96388373
>scrappy underdogs
>not the main characters
Anonymous No.96389165
>>96388693

Just give different Tau sept different sociopolitical structures, even if they are all ruled by Ethereals.
Anonymous No.96389166
>>96388798
Would.
Anonymous No.96389210 >>96393941 >>96395859 >>96396545
>>96388898
Macha is the only canonically cute xenos in the setting (this is canon as GW did approve this)

everyone else? trash.
even lelith hespirax looks like an angry jewish woman in her queen of knives book cover, thanks mike brooks you hack
Anonymous No.96389594 >>96389851 >>96393094
>>96388798
Shadowsun's like 100 years old. Young Tau can be cute.
Anonymous No.96389851 >>96389981
>>96389594
i was going to engage with you earnestly until the image you posted loaded. jfc dude you are beyond help
Anonymous No.96389981 >>96390004
>>96389851
>I was going to participate but I saw some big blue titties and I just couldn't control myself

How tragic.
Anonymous No.96390004
>>96389981
Seems like the Tau propaganda is working.
Anonymous No.96390134 >>96390210 >>96393235
>>96389154
I wouldn't even consider them "Scrappy underdogs" with how they quaked their boots after narrowly getting a pyrrhic victory, despite having better tech
Anonymous No.96390210 >>96390633 >>96396539
>>96390134
>having better tech

That's debatable in some areas. Like their infantry forces are better equipped (the non-auxiliaries anyway) but their space ships were categorically worse for a long time and even after the Kor'or'vesh Initiative it's not really clear if they're on par with Imperial ships.
Anonymous No.96390533
>>96388594
>>96388693
I mean the Tau are collectivists but like, to an extreme degree because they're all literally being mind controlled. The only "free" Tau society are the Farsight Enclaves and I guess you could call them fascist since they appear to be a military government run by the Fire Caste. Capitalism just doesn't even seem to be a thing Tau think about, and non-mind controlled communism was tried before the Ethereals showed up and just like in real life it failed miserably and everyone wanted to kill everyone else.
Anonymous No.96390633
>>96390210
Oh right. I do forget if their jets are now better or if their pilots barely match Space Marine Pilots with AI.
I remember one of their codexes saying they rely on AI to be equal, but that was prolly decades ago
Anonymous No.96390718 >>96393235 >>96394617 >>96396003
>>96389154
They are basically stuck in the galactic boondocks and have no force projection capability beyond slowly expanding their (modest) borders. They are pretty much the only faction I can think of that doesn't have an excuse for why a whole army could pop up and fight anywhere in the setting.
Anonymous No.96393094 >>96393118
>>96389594
I thought tau only lived 50 odd years for some reason
Anonymous No.96393118
>>96393094
NTA but IIRC Shadowsun is put in stasis because of how valuable she is
Anonymous No.96393235 >>96393351 >>96393928
>>96390134
>scrappy underdogs can never show fear
>>96390718
>scrappy underdogs can't grow up in the rural outlands
Anonymous No.96393351 >>96393364
>>96393235
It's not that they "grew up in the rural outlands", it's that they stuck in the rural outlands due to their limited FTL capabilities. They are a regional power that has very little impact on the setting.
Anonymous No.96393364 >>96393385
>>96393351
>scrappy underdog protagonists can't gradually grow in power
Anonymous No.96393385 >>96395421 >>96396989
>>96393364
Not in 40k, no. Xenos don't get to change the status quo, that's a Primarch thing.
Anonymous No.96393928 >>96395421
>>96393235
Scrappy means someone that is aggressive or prone to fighting. Like Scrappy Doo, who always tried to pick a fight with the monsters without any fear.
So yes, they aren't scrappy underdogs.
Anonymous No.96393941 >>96396680 >>96398717
>>96388594
Not really. Tau are very small and very tight-grouped who only even managed to achieve any relevance due to plot armor and totalitarian chemical control.
You introduce too large difference, or worse, fractionalism, you get disorder and Tau will crumble.
>>96389210
DoW3 isn't canon.
DoW2 is though, and Eldar there are attractive.
Anonymous No.96394551 >>96399938
>>96388898
I mean the most recent Tau book has a "romance" of sorts between a human and an Ethereal so Tau can look hot enough to attract a humans attention.
Anonymous No.96394563 >>96396669
>>96387053 (OP)
>dey's not green
>dey's got no choppas
>dey's neither gorky, nor morky
Dey don't sound like no pros ta ME.
Anonymous No.96394611
>>96389131
>2013
It was a completely different company and time. Meanwhile, SoBs are canonically trans now
Anonymous No.96394617 >>96400051
>>96390718
Didn't they recently develop some sort of stable wormhole tech or some shit that lets them jump around the galaxy or bleed into a new quadrant or something?
Anonymous No.96394650
>>96388594
Votann are capitalists and Imperium is fascist. Well, maybe closer to feudalist.
Anonymous No.96395421 >>96396434
>>96393385
>scrappy underdogs can't be underdogs
>>96393928
>scrappy underdogs can't try to befriend those they meet along the way
Anonymous No.96395784
>>96387053 (OP)
>Yes gaijin, submit to castration for the greater good
Anonymous No.96395799 >>96396633 >>96396695
>>96387053 (OP)
They're still dickbags, I don't know why people believe the Greater Good is any good
Anonymous No.96395859 >>96398051 >>96399946
>>96389210
She didn't even have the Face Stripes originally, /tg/ gave her those!
Anonymous No.96396003 >>96396705 >>96400219
>>96390718
People who are outdated in the lore should shut the fuck up. The T'au expanded to the galactic north and south. They perfected Warp travel after the fourth sphere disaster.
Anonymous No.96396434
>>96395421
>"scrappy underdogs can't try to befriend-"
Huh?????? I don't remember saying that?
Anonymous No.96396539 >>96396552 >>96396705
>>96390210
Their ships are always going to be worse because they don't have reliable FTL like everyone else. They constantly have to wave away why they are anywhere that isn't the tiny corner of the Eastern Fringe.
Anonymous No.96396545
>>96389210
>dat ears
>cute
YUCK!
Anonymous No.96396552
>>96396539
>Warp-drive
>reliable FTL
Anonymous No.96396608 >>96396943 >>96401466
>>96388373
>that can't impact the wider galaxy
>spawned Warp entity before Imperium and Eldar
>send 3 First Founding chapters running with tails between their legs
>repelled Death Guard invasion alone and without losing a single planet
All in all Tau achieved more than any other xeno race
Anonymous No.96396633 >>96396950
>>96395799
>I don't know why people believe the Greater Good is any good
Anonymous No.96396669
>>96394563
>>dey's not green
And that's good.
Anonymous No.96396680 >>96396941
>>96393941
>due to plot armor
Imperium surviving on it's own for 10k years is also a plot armor.
Anonymous No.96396695 >>96397841
>>96395799
Because in the grim darkness of 40k, it's the best offer you'll get as a human.
Anonymous No.96396705
>>96396539
See
>>96396003
According to the recent Farsight novel and the 9th ED T'au and Votann codex, they do.
What's wrong with you? Did you read a Tau wiki page three months ago and thought it was enough?
Anonymous No.96396941
>>96396680
No, anon, it's just living normal human life.
Anonymous No.96396943 >>96396974
>>96396608
>>send 3 First Founding chapters running with tails between their legs
I mean, it's not wrong but they lost many planets in the process and basically got sent back to their original borders, not to mention how it lowered the Tau's morale soo bad they decided not to do an Sphere expasion for centuries. Plus it leads to the expedition that causes Farsight to go into exile.
Anonymous No.96396944
>>96388898
Sweet summer child.
Or if this is just a way to get pics, TouchΓ©.
Anonymous No.96396950 >>96397046 >>96400664
>>96396633
Disgusting thing against canon, logic and common sense. Just like tau.
Anonymous No.96396973
>>96388373
Yeah I don't get those kind of posts. They are two bit players in the narrative of 40k. This is like all those people who were fakes and said Waluigi was their favourite character.
Anonymous No.96396974 >>96397112
>>96396943
That was retconned in the 9th ed and 10th codex.
The Second Sphere expansion wasn't stopped by the Damocles Crusade. It continued until Hive Fleet Gorgon and the War of Dakkaa used up the remaining empire reserves.
The Farsight expedition you mentioned retook all the ground lost to the crusade and then some.

There is also the new lore from Farsght: Blade of Truth about the Damocles Crusade being a just as planned by the Ethereals.

You are nearly a decade outdated.
Anonymous No.96396989 >>96397049
>>96393385
Even primarchs. The only persons to make any "significant change" is Abadon unleashing the maledicktum, then Yvrain rezing a loyal primarch (tho Gily just spends his time being suicidal).
Anonymous No.96397046 >>96397058
>>96396950
Anonymous No.96397049
>>96396989
The eldar unleashed the 5th chaos god; Modern GW. It caters to the current crop of shrimple tournie muhrinetards, this is the bad timeline.

>pic related is Eldar's fault.
Anonymous No.96397058 >>96397070 >>96397489 >>96397620
>>96397046
The Goddess is faceless, though. Why do artists insist on drawing her with a face?
Anonymous No.96397070 >>96397082
>>96397058
I don't know, I only posted that version for creepiness factor.
Anonymous No.96397082 >>96397093
>>96397070
Now, why did they draw her pregnant?
Anonymous No.96397093
>>96397082
Mommy Goddess!
Anonymous No.96397112 >>96397135
>>96396974
>That was retconned in the 9th ed and 10th codex.
Legit retconned or just "elaborating on something more clearly?"
I'm being serious, cuz I'm out of touch with 9th and 10th ever since I got into AoS.
Anonymous No.96397135 >>96397241
>>96397112
Retconned. Previously, it was the Damocles Crusade that halted the 2nd sphere. Recent lore says it wasn't. It was the Tyranids and Orks.

Moreover, you should read "Farsight: Blade of Truth" or listen to Phil Kelly's Farsight podcast on Warhammer Community. The planets the T'au lost to the Damocles Crusade were purposefully abandoned by the Ethereals as part of a just as planned. That's why the Imperials got easy victories at the start of the crusade.
Anonymous No.96397241 >>96397290
>>96397135
Not him but that's dogshit writing and a major reason why people still dislike the Tau even years after fishrape.
Anonymous No.96397290 >>96397302 >>96397338 >>96397590
>>96397241
>"T'au are too weak to major faction!"
>GW writes them tanking an Imperial crusade, Tyranid fleet, and an Ork Waagh! in a row before they pause to recover

>"Tau are too naive for 40K"
>GW writes the Ethereals being aware of the galaxy's power and are smart enough to create controlled conflicts in order to train the Tau race for the grimdark ahead of them

You can't satisfty some people.
Anonymous No.96397302 >>96397643
>>96397290
At least the Tau'va is turning everyone into Tittycows!
Anonymous No.96397338
>>96397290
That's crazy because I never said either of those things.
Anonymous No.96397489
>>96397058
People want another hole to stick their wang into
Anonymous No.96397590 >>96399479 >>96400730
>>96397290
Wow! I didn't know patching your work based on complaints of those who don't like it was good writing!

The Tau can have their naivety challenged and become jaded without it all being a master plan. Why can't they survive these encounters and be bloodied and surprised at the turn of the tide against him? The notion of controlled conflicts and full awareness of their scale is just retarded fucking writing.

Tau as presented pre 2013 are fine and functional. The only problem is they weren't given a way to have meaningful footholds outside the eastern fringe, everything else works. Whatever strawman you're quoting is as retarded as you are.
Anonymous No.96397620 >>96398936
>>96397058
It's sexier that way. Not a very satisfying answer but there it is.
Anonymous No.96397643 >>96397693
>>96397302
Kill yourself ND
Anonymous No.96397693
>>96397643
He is too busy trying to kill his own mother and fantasizing about breaking into cattle farms to fuck cows to make the time to kill himself. I wish I was joking or exaggerating when I list such extreme, false sounding things but he himself is on record as admitting he tried to do the first and wants to do the latter.
Anonymous No.96397841
>>96396695
>tfw no fire warrior gf
Anonymous No.96398051 >>96398100 >>96398595
>>96395859
design shifted to fit /tg/'s expectations
a real power move
Anonymous No.96398100 >>96398149 >>96401177 >>96403607
>>96398051
And so too shall it be with Blueberry tits!
Anonymous No.96398149 >>96398256 >>96404542 >>96405291
>>96398100
if that's the case I will repeatedly post this until Tau designs shift in this direction
Anonymous No.96398256 >>96401177 >>96402714
>>96398149
Fine then, HAVE AT YOU!
Anonymous No.96398595
>>96398051
I think it's more likely that when they were designing her for DoW3 and were making her helmetless, they realized that concept art of what she looked like without her helmet from DoW1 didn't exist, so they googled Macha and saw the art /tg/ had made and just assumed that it was somehow in-line with some concept art they just didn't have access to. Macha is a redhead with stripes because of /tg/, yes, but purely by happenstance.
Anonymous No.96398717
>>96393941

Small as over 300 worlds editions ago? That allows for a some variety already, I think.
Anonymous No.96398936
>>96397620
>It's sexier that way.
Disagree
Anonymous No.96399479 >>96400727
>>96397590
No. GW needed to make the Tau a serious player in the galaxy to justify them being a main playable faction.
Anonymous No.96399918
>>96387053 (OP)
She's actually cute for the gooner Tau art that's out there.

Also no. They have so little purpose or direction in current 40K lore, that their spinoff faction in the Farsight Enclaves have overtaken them as the protagonists of their race.
>>96389154
Somehow, you have people act like they are the biggest existential threat to the Imperium. Maybe because people use them as an allegory for Communism, when they have less resemblance to Communism than the Imperium does outside of having Chinese inspiration.
Anonymous No.96399938 >>96400026
>>96394551
Wait, which book? O.O
Anonymous No.96399946
>>96395859
The funny thing about this image is that Lelith is the one who has canonically participated in orgies and has whored herself out.
Anonymous No.96400026 >>96400319 >>96400615 >>96401969
>>96399938
Elemental Council.
Anonymous No.96400051
>>96394617
They had a "stable" wormhole for the 4th sphere expansion. Problem was that it was made from reverse engineered IoM FTL engine so they warped a fleet through it without having any kind of defences against daemons.
Anonymous No.96400219 >>96400400 >>96400937 >>96400937
>>96396003
>perfected Warp travel
Were are you getting this? Because their most recent codex says nothing of the sort.
Anonymous No.96400306
>>96387053 (OP)
You just want some blue pussy
Anonymous No.96400319 >>96400615
>>96400026
Elemental council was really good.
Anonymous No.96400400 >>96400937
>>96400219
Yea I thought after their little adventure in the warp they went back to their shorter range but safe ftl drives. I haven't read anything anywhere about them thinking a second round in the warp was worth a shot.

I mean I believe an unshielded warp demon party and creating a new minor god of the greater good. Was all they needed to say no thanks.
Anonymous No.96400615 >>96400714
>>96400026
>>96400319
>look it up
>"Print length: 498 pages"
goddamn
you really can stretch out interspecies romance and alien bureaucracy if you want to
Anonymous No.96400664
>>96396950
This desu. Completely out of character for the fraction, and everyone just ate up this slop.
40k is hopeless.
Anonymous No.96400714 >>96400838 >>96401134 >>96401237
>>96400615
I mean the Horus Heresy series exists, you can stretch everything out to an absurd degree if you try.
Anonymous No.96400727
>>96399479
>No. GW needed to make the Tau a serious player in the galaxy to justify them being a main playable faction.
For what reason? Eldar are joke of the setting, yet they are playable
Anonymous No.96400730
>>96397590
>and full awareness of their scale is just retarded fucking writing.
Anon relax. GW just turned Damocles Crusade into Russo-Japanesse war in space.
Anonymous No.96400838
>>96400714
Anonymous No.96400937 >>96400964 >>96401287
>>96400400
>>96400219
>>96400219
9th ED T'au codex. The story about the planned 6th sphere expansion.
The Votann codex of 9th ED describes T'au Warp travel and how it's faster but riskier than the LoV Warp travel.

The Blade of Truth novel has the Torchstar using an early prototype of the Warp travel to reach the Enclaves in time.
Anonymous No.96400964 >>96401287
>>96400937
Imperium fags never read lore which doesn't fit their narrative.
Anonymous No.96401134
>>96400714
Truth nuke. I'm only at Angel Exterminatus.
Well, i should say truth Exterminatus at tuis point
Anonymous No.96401177
>>96398100
>>96398256
Fuck off ND.
Anonymous No.96401237
>>96400714
and that's not a good thing
300ish pages is the ideal, long enough to tell a complex story but not so long as to feel like a chore to get through
Anonymous No.96401287 >>96401306 >>96401371
>>96400937
>>96400964
"Fio'vre Ka’buto and his scientists assure me that the modifications they have made to their original designs render the Slipstream module safer and more stable than ever before when deployed en masse."
So basically some Earth cast engineer said "trust me bro, it won't be THAT bad this time" and you think that means the Tau perfected warp travel? Has it occurred to you that the Ethereal could have been lying or the engineer mistaken? Even the pov character in the story is incredulous.
Anonymous No.96401306 >>96401349
>>96401287
>alt-rights conspiracy theories
Nigga, Tau expanded their empire with their new warp-drive tech, deal with it.
Anonymous No.96401349 >>96401362 >>96401378
>>96401306
They had one use of it that was a mitigated disaster and that's it. Until we get a codex saying that they used it without getting half their fleet murder-raped by daemons, it's canon that the Tau can't Warp travel like the Imperium.
Anonymous No.96401362 >>96401791
>>96401349
>Until we get a codex saying that they used it without getting half their fleet murder-raped by daemons, it's canon that the Tau can't Warp travel like the Imperium.
Isn't the canon now pushing that the Imperium looses half of their ships to daemon murder-rape?
Anonymous No.96401371 >>96401465
>>96401287
Why did you ignore all other sources I mentioned to focus on just one and then add in your fanfiction?
Kinda sus ngl.
Anonymous No.96401378 >>96401411 >>96401465
>>96401349
Wrong. The 8th ED codex says that small flights were highly successful. They crossed their entire empire in days.
What caused the disaster was thousands of ships engaging their Warp drives at the same time.

You are a lying piece of shit and the most dishonest sort of person.
Anonymous No.96401411 >>96401445
>>96401378
Just post a pic of that text just shut them up faster. Otherwise they'll keep insisting without losing face
Anonymous No.96401445 >>96401481 >>96401588
>>96401411
>When it comes to warp travel, the Kin are equally steady in their approach. They use warp drives and geller ramparts of superior design and reliability to anything humanity understands. Each craft is commanded by a Voidmaster - a captain skilled in every aspect of spacefaring and often augmetically enhanced to aid them in their duties. Each is supported by Ironkin Wayfinders, whose accelerated logic-cores enable them to cogitate probable paths through the madness of warp space without risking psychic interaction. With support from their bridge crews, these specialists guide their craft in a series of plunges. These are short, controlled warp jumps.Travelling in plunges takes longer than the vast warp jumps made by Humanity, or the risky sprints of the T'au slipsteam module, but it ensures that the Kin arrive where and when they intended almost every time.

-Leagues of Votann codex

>β€˜Not necessarily,’ said Torchstar. β€˜Not if we mobilise swiftly enough. The y’he are all but unstoppable, but they are slow– slow as death. With a cutting-edge Slipstream device aligned perfectly and viably maintained, my ta’lissera bond-mates believe there is a chance a few cadres could reach them before the invasion’s latter phases are over. In time to make a difference.’

----------

>β€˜And what of Fio’Kan’ta, she who pioneered the Slipstream drive in the wake of Dal’yth, a marvel of technology that has extended our empire’s reach across the stars? Why, that single development has been utterly transformative. Already the earth caste look to perfect it, allowing us to make sprints out into the wider galaxy and claim our destiny on hundreds, even thousands of new septs. Do you know of her works?’

-Blade of Truth

The novel shows that the Slipsteam module was in use before the Fourth Sphere disaster.
Anonymous No.96401465 >>96401486
>>96401371
Because it's the Tau codex? The primary source for Tau lore? And it doesn't say what you claim it does. I going to bet that. if I bothered to track down the blurb in the Votann book you mention, it won't suddenly confirm that the Tau have "mastered warp travel" either.
>>96401378
>They crossed their entire empire in days
Who gives a fuck? If they can't use it to travel vast distances or in significant number, they are still stuck in their tiny slice of the galaxy. They remain a regional power that will have no effect on the larger narrative, unless the narrative comes to them.
Anonymous No.96401466 >>96401520
>>96396608
>spawned Warp entity before [...] Eldar
People would be more likely to take your opinions seriously if you knew what the fuck you were talking about
Anonymous No.96401481 >>96401491
>>96401445
>risky sprints
>With a cutting-edge Slipstream device aligned perfectly and viably maintained...there is a chance
>the earth caste look to perfect it
So it's still high-risk, experimental technology that they have yet to perfect. All of this directly contradicts the claim that the Tau have "perfected warp travel". Jesus.
Anonymous No.96401486
>>96401465
Because you are a liar. We established that.

Yes, it does. The PoV guy wasn't being doubtful about the drives, but the danger of the Great Rift.
The old module of the Slipstream allowed a flight from Dal'yth Prime to the Farsight Enclaves in days.
Crossing the entire empire from edge to edge makes them equal to Imperial Warp travel speed.
Anonymous No.96401491 >>96403766 >>96404325
>>96401481
You idiot. The Farsight novel takes place before the Fourth Sphere. It's meant to show how, even before recent developments, singular flights were successful.
Anonymous No.96401506 >>96401509 >>96401511 >>96401593
What do you call Tau enterprises: directorates, commerce federations, megacorps, bureaus, cooperatives, zaibatsu, companies, unions, guilds, something else?
Anonymous No.96401509
>>96401506
No. That's the Votann.
Anonymous No.96401511 >>96401527
>>96401506

Cadres.
Anonymous No.96401520 >>96401986
>>96401466
He is talking about the Ynnari trying to spawn Ynnead.
Anonymous No.96401527 >>96401965
>>96401511

That works. After all, "company" is used both to describe an enterprise and a military unit.
Anonymous No.96401588 >>96401605
>>96401445
>Leagues of Tranny
>Novelshit """lore"""
Ok, so tau don't have good warp travel.
Anonymous No.96401593
>>96401506
"Valid targets"
Anonymous No.96401605 >>96401646
>>96401588
We have been over this.
GW said that Novels will be the main lore dump avenue instead of codexes.
Codexes have been scaled back in the lore department.
Anonymous No.96401646 >>96401664
>>96401605
>GW said
And?
GW's right that the nucodex isn't valid lore anymore either, that's for sure.
Anonymous No.96401664 >>96401676
>>96401646
>And?
And GW is IP's owner, so it is for them to decide where and how dump lore.
Anonymous No.96401676 >>96401700 >>96401743
>>96401664
And fans are consumers, so it's for them to decide which lore is valid and which isn't.
Anonymous No.96401700 >>96401718
>>96401676
Okay so why anyone should count your butthurt over Tau?
Anonymous No.96401718 >>96401743
>>96401700
So they won't forget that cope retcons for tau don't count.
Anonymous No.96401743 >>96402316
>>96401718
>don't count.
>>96401676
>And fans are consumers, so it's for them to decide which lore is valid and which isn't.
Pick one Arch
Anonymous No.96401791
>>96401362
>When the Tau Girl Pile is on the battlefield.
Anonymous No.96401965 >>96401981
>>96401527
>That works
It's literally what they're called in the codices, retard. Septs and cadres.
Anonymous No.96401969 >>96402090
>>96400026
Why this bitch in Solution 9?
Anonymous No.96401981 >>96401992
>>96401965

I'm talking about how to call Tau enterprises not just military units. Cadre works surprisingly well in this context.
Anonymous No.96401986
>>96401520
That's a completely different situation altogether thobeit. The tau/humans under tau dominion don't have a transsexual soul remora leeching up any excess psychic energy like some sort of randy rimjobbing remora.
Anonymous No.96401992 >>96403201
>>96401981
Tau doesn't have military detachments, just well-armed diplomatic fleets ;^)
Anonymous No.96402090 >>96402105 >>96404542 >>96405588
>>96401969
Diplomatic mission.
Anonymous No.96402105
>>96402090
She's gonna get killed by the WoL bro. WoL doesn't take kindly to primalsimps trying to Temper peeps. WoL also has a spaceship, so all she's gonna do is expose the existence of the Ethereals and the Greater Good God and get both of them killed in a series of instanced Trials.
Anonymous No.96402121 >>96402122 >>96403095
They should use stuff like space elevators and orbital rings.
Anonymous No.96402122 >>96404041
>>96402121
>foundation
Post discarded
Anonymous No.96402316 >>96402350
>>96401743
Oh, you thought taufags decide their own lore? Nope.
Anonymous No.96402350 >>96402389
>>96402316
>admits he gets his opinions from a loretuber washout
Oof
Anonymous No.96402389
>>96402350
Nice strawman you defeated there. Did a "loretuber" gave you a tip or something?
Anonymous No.96402714
>>96398256
it'll happen.
Anonymous No.96403095
>>96402121
>They do, the Air caste live in orbitals which are basically giant space stations, while in aeronautica there was a giant space elevator that the tau were defending.
Anonymous No.96403201 >>96403209 >>96403587
>>96401992
I love the fact the Tau canonically have gunboat diplomacy. I think they also have their own version of manifest destiny.
Anonymous No.96403209 >>96403260 >>96403341
>>96403201
I've always said that tau were made to appeal to americans.
Anonymous No.96403260 >>96403276 >>96403398
>>96403209
Then why'd they make them all chinky?
Anonymous No.96403276 >>96403704
>>96403260
Because that also appeals to americans.
Not the mechs, though. If it isn't Gundam Wing, they won't care.
Anonymous No.96403341 >>96403424 >>96403587
>>96403209
I mean Tau are space NATO, but all the alien allies are ultimately to benefit them, like the Americans with their European allies. So really the Tau are just a reflection of America more than communist Russia/China/India/Japan etc
Anonymous No.96403398
>>96403260
americans are weebs.
Anonymous No.96403424 >>96403457
>>96403341
space nato, kroot are native american themed the way they act as auxiliaries but fight their own way reminds me of collonial battles in north america with native allies supporting western line tactics with skirmishing.

Tau like big guns and air power, two thing america likes.

The whole new player on the block who morally grandstands

They're even have the motif where they are run by a cabal that preaches that everyone is equal while they consolidate power.
Anonymous No.96403457
>>96403424
Kroot are space Thails not native amercians and reflect the Thai soldiers and their interactions with the british empire, some fought with them as mercs (kroot working with the tau) and other fought aganist them (kroot just being mercs for anyone even Tau enemies.
Anonymous No.96403587 >>96403595
>>96403341
>>96403201

That's just every successful empire in history. Unless they are seriously exploitative and genocidal (like the Nazis), empires tend to incorporate conquered people and give them reasons to stay in the empire. Relaying on the stick all the time is exhausting, a drain on resources, and time-consuming.
Anonymous No.96403595
>>96403587
Yeah but Tau are still Space NATO explicitly, word of god of their design etc
Anonymous No.96403607 >>96403704
>>96398100
Tau'cron would actually be a great storyline, the youngest race getting jumped to the oldest level of tech and being overwhelmed by at, while the Silent King is essentially C'Tan'ing them all the while.
Anonymous No.96403704 >>96403749 >>96404344
>>96403276
>Not the mechs, though. If it isn't Gundam Wing, they won't care.
But they got the Mechs from us in the first place!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfbBcrGetVg

>>96403607
>while the Silent King is essentially C'Tan'ing them all the while
Why would he C'tan them?
He wants to return to flesh, right?
Anonymous No.96403749
>>96403704
You need to make someone else make a copy of the Necron VHS tape to pass the curse along.
Anonymous No.96403766 >>96403852 >>96404170
>>96401491
I mean of course their test flights were successful when they reverse engineered the warp travel engines. Small ships with at most a small crew of creatures that have basically no warp signature. They might as well not had not even traveled through the warp as far as the demons were concerned.

If I recall correctly the issue with the 4th expansion versus their test was massive fleets which included their auxiliaries that are warp sensitive meant there was enough meat on the bone to get the demons attention versus the test ships. Though I assume just enough tau alone would draw enough attention for a warp fiesta

I can't recall however if they just didn't bother with gellar fields because they appeared to be useless or they just didn't understand the tech. Though I suspect the latter as they had no real reason till that point to look into that kind of stuff.
Anonymous No.96403852
>>96403766
I thought the problem with the 4th expansion send off was that they wanted to make a parade of it so they shoved all the ships together to launch into the wild blue yonder and the results of activating a fucking wall of warp drives was ripping open the immaterium and getting them all sucked in and thrown through the warp.

Sure the auxillaries were extra fucked though.
Anonymous No.96404041
>>96402122
the irony
all of 40k's lore is just Dune + Foundation with some other stolen odds and ends glued on
Anonymous No.96404170 >>96404408
>>96403766
Objection. Aun'Va's large fleet also used the Slipstream module to arrive at the Farsight Enclaves in time to arrest Farsight and subject him to a trial by combat. It ws a fleet large enough to beat a splinter hive fleet.
Anonymous No.96404325 >>96404408 >>96404484 >>96407860 >>96408178 >>96408241
>>96401491
None of the sources prove Tau perfected Warp travel. None. Your "recent developments" aren't shit. They are lore blurbs keeping the Tau in limbo between having warp tech and not being able to use it in any meaningful way. Being able to move around their own territory one ship at a time means fuckall in the 40k universe. The Tau will remain a forgettable sideshow while GW writes a dozen more big lore moments about the Imperium fighting Chaos to sell more Space Marines. Orks, Nids, Eldar and Necrons will all get to play bit parts in these stories but the Tau won't. You can't even call them a NPC faction because they just aren't present for the overwhelming majority of shit that happens in the setting.
Anonymous No.96404344
>>96403704
Kill yourself ND
Anonymous No.96404408 >>96407510
>>96404325
See >>96404170
Eat shit, liar.

Over the course of the exchange, you bent backward to be dishonest.
Anonymous No.96404484
>>96404325
Don't matter. I'm putting mechs on the table and blowing up your marines.

If you don't like it try not to lose fuckboy.
Anonymous No.96404542
>>96398149
>>96402090
holy fucking SEXO
Anonymous No.96404598
>>96388898
yes, too bad you'd probably be disgusted by her presence
Anonymous No.96404612 >>96404808 >>96405127 >>96405291 >>96405592
does the Warrent of Trade allow Rogue Traders to legally keep a Tau >girlfriend in their retinue?
Anonymous No.96404639
>>96388898
yes, and she's a tomboy too
Anonymous No.96404808
>>96404612
Not sure, I think they have to be sanctioned Xeno...
Anonymous No.96404941 >>96406854
If female Water Castes are bimbos, are male Water Caste femboys?
Anonymous No.96405127
>>96404612
Xeno fucking is allowed, gayness is not.
Anonymous No.96405291 >>96405684
>>96398149
>>96404612
>jannies deleted one trannyfaggot pic but not the other
Weird
Anonymous No.96405588
>>96402090
Anonymous No.96405592
>>96404612
Not sure, I think they have to be sanctioned Xeno...
Anonymous No.96405684
>>96405291
not my problem.
Anonymous No.96406854
>>96404941
I hope never to find out.
Anonymous No.96406994 >>96407018
>>96387053 (OP)
>Tau really are the protagonists of 40k and throw our weight behind them.
Yeah whatever just keep the big blue tiddies coming.
Anonymous No.96407018 >>96407065 >>96408580
>>96406994
Anonymous No.96407065
>>96407018
Hook this one up to the milker, she's fit to burst.
Anonymous No.96407152 >>96407230 >>96408297 >>96408306
So what are the odds Shadowsun becomes the mortal champion of the T'au'va and gets special powers?
Anonymous No.96407230
>>96407152
>What are the odds (anything related to xenos happens)

C'mon now.
Anonymous No.96407510 >>96407860 >>96407860
>>96404408
Christ on a bike, can you seethe any harder, faggot?
Anonymous No.96407860 >>96408178
>>96407510
>>96407510
Your post here >>96404325 is major seething and faggotary.
Anonymous No.96408178 >>96408241 >>96408241 >>96408297
>>96407860
I am guessing you are the real seether here

You have been making these threads for years now, often using the same obscure sources to prop up your arguments, and the throwing around the same insults when someone disagrees with you

At some point you will just need to accept that no one on /tg/ shares your elaborate headcanon assembled from out of context novel quotes, badly edited campaign books, and hyperbolic statements from 10 year old White Dwarf filler articles

If you are seriously interested in trying to find the 10 other people on the planet that have invested as much time on their tau headcanons as you have, then you would be better off on reddit or trying to find some dedicated tau message board. But instead you just keep on making these bait threads and having the same arguments over and over again, and even lowering yourself to regularly engaging with coomers and off topic pollacks when no one engages with your bait

>>96404325 is right, the Tau are always going to be stuck in a narrative loop where they are winning more than they are losing, but never in a way that is relevant to the overall setting

Also, Tau lore is always going to suck and be highly inconsistent between authors because they are too irrelevant for GW to try and enforce consistency, and also they don't have a lot of the built in excuses for inconsistent power levels that other factions have (varying tech levels within most factions, warp shenanigans, unreliable narrators, etc.), and also they are so small that the few notable things the tau have ever done get retconned every few years by new authors while authors for other factions usually just write about a new war anytime they want to write something new.
Anonymous No.96408241 >>96408244
>>96408178
>>96408178
Wait a second
>You have been making these threads for years now
You think I am making these threads? On top of being a seething retard you are deluded too? I am random anon, dipshit.
>At some point you will just need to accept that no one on /tg/ shares your elaborate headcanon assembled from out of context novel quotes, badly edited campaign books, and hyperbolic statements from 10 year old White Dwarf filler articles
Cope from a guy who only relies on fanfiction, the Only way to deflect from having nothing.

>>>96404325 is right, the Tau are always going to be stuck in a narrative loop where they are winning more than they are losing, but never in a way that is relevant to the overall setting

He is wrong. The Tau took part in Arks of Omen and there is a T'au presence in the Vigilus system.
Through the Star Tide Nexus, they have access to the galactic north. The 10th ED codex has them setting up in the galactic south with the help of the Kroot.
There are T'au colonies near Baal and some T'au were thrown into the galactic core

Recent statements from GW said that the T'au are among the major powrrs in the galaxy

On top of all of that, they want Warp travel.

So basically, you are some delulu loser here spouting things he doesn't know about. Why are you so obsessed?
Anonymous No.96408244
>>96408241
They have Warp travel*
Anonymous No.96408284
The 40K ultimate guide that was released months ago says that the T'au have Warp travel.

>The armored warriors of the Fire Caste are the most visible manifestation of the T’au Empire’s might, but the foundation of T’au society is the Earth Caste, made up of laborers, technicians, artisans, scientists, and engineers. Humble and dedicated, Earth Caste members provide the food and resources, the technology and maintenance that keep the whole of the T’au’va functioning. Without the Earth Caste there would be no Warp travel, no expansion, and no new cities.

-Warhammer 40,000 The Ultimate Guide

I guess that settles it.
Anonymous No.96408297 >>96408306
>>96407152
I'd say fairly likely, if they bother to revisit it.

>>96408178
>always going to be stuck in a narrative loop where they are winning more than they are losing, but never in a way that is relevant to the overall setting
...Isn't that pretty much EVERY faction though?
Anonymous No.96408306
>>96407152
>>96408297
The afterword of her novel says that Shadowsun adopted weaponised agnosticism. She doesn't worship the goddess but she sees her as an asset to the empire.

Farsight is more likely to become her champion since he saw a vision of himself being worshiped by her followers.
Anonymous No.96408580
>>96407018
O'pai is a good girl.
Anonymous No.96408620 >>96409648
>>96388898
Eldar
Anonymous No.96409648
>>96408620
my lovely banshees mmmm <3
Anonymous No.96409971 >>96410035
>booba tau gf
>but she has little/no soul
hmm...
Anonymous No.96410035
>>96409971
Women already don't have souls, so what's the problem?
Anonymous No.96410184 >>96410210
Man I love fat tiddied blueberries as much as the next guy but you hypertroons make it real hard to enjoy.
Anonymous No.96410210
>>96410184
The problem lies with you. I'm loving it.
Anonymous No.96412956
Im still dissapointed there are more stories about Tau and Kroot working together and even being buddies despite one side being savages and the other being cannibals ,let alone Kroot models featuring some sort of Tau clothing and vice versa
Anonymous No.96412967 >>96413077
>>96387053 (OP)
I'm not gonna read the thread but I have come to say that thigh highs + leotard is the sexiest outfit in any setting.
Every female character should wear leotard + thigh highs, in all settings. Fantasy, sci-fi, modern, steampunk. Leotard + thigh highs rule all.
Anonymous No.96413077 >>96413099
>>96412967
Anonymous No.96413099
>>96413077
elbow gloves are also top tier btw