KrakDuk. I find it interesting how their ruling system is literally the “Caste system”. Basically it’s the system where you are given a role at birth and you stay there. Earth Castes are earth. Simple. Spanish controlled Mexico for example had this overly complicated caste or “Castas” system where the more white you are the better, but as races intertwine shit gets out of hand. 😂
Um newest faction? 0:10 You know it’s bad when your faction (the leagues of Voltann)is so forgettable that the tau are still being called the newest faction.😅😂🤣
What I find so interesting about the tau is that they aren't nice because they are good guys but because being nice is actually quite useful. There is an old saying that prussians wouldn't shoot deserters but catch them and force them back into the army but not because they valued human life but because training soldiers is expensive.
@@lucagerulat307 On a related/unrelated note there’s a super interesting idea in moral philosophy that talks about doing good and altruism achieved through purely selfish motives. Seems like what the ethereals might be up to.
@@MintBunHunter deserters aren't necessarily bad soldiers. Desertion would also mostly happen outside of actual combat. In battle you have other things to worry about. But on long marches or the boring time at Barracks (which were basically like prisons) soldiers would try to get away. Most other European nations had them shoot at the time but the Prussians cought them beat them up and send them back showing there is no escaping once you joined the military.
They are evil, but they are a reasonable, pragmatic and rational evil, which is very refreshing compared to the idiotic and self-destructive evil of the Imperium of Man.
OH MY GOLLY GOSH I somehow completely left out my short segment explaining markerlights. Idek how that happened. They're basically just targeting lasers for anyone wondering
It's okay, most people do when they play Tau. My brother always seemed to, and then he switched to Death Guard and never switched back. He's happy, but the smell..dear Throne the smell...
Bro did you read about the Tau chaos god? They kinda embodied their believe of the Greater Good on a chaos Entity. Also quite funny how the heroes of the Tau are a Xena the Warrior Princess, the only guy who knows how to melee and found a cheat sword and then there's Lord Shas'la Kais who is just an average angry guy with lots of guns and a few chaos blessings.
I once made a comment on an imperial guard channel’s video about how I like playing against guard as a tau player, since I think both armies are kind of similar in their mix of vehicles and infantry working together. Let’s just say I got like 15 incredibly long angry paragraphs from people bashing tau and saying “don’t compare guard to your shitty army that’s too scared to do anything but the shooting phase” (also on that point I am rather new and may be wrong but is guard not also like 99% shooting? I don’t think they’re known for having great melee prowess…)
@@marmuhardestboss9197 If you count the Kroot the Tau probably have more melee units then the Guard. Like c'mon. Both are almost strictly shooting armies. Every complaint every levied at Tau can be levied at another faciton.
@@orionknight4803yeah, that’s how I feel about it too, I think people just don’t like tau because they’re new. When the next truly new faction comes out (not counting votann because squats have been around) they’ll get hate too. Edit: having said this, tau have been around for a while though so maybe it’s not that they’re new, idk people just like to hate on stuff
As a Guard Player, I LOVE the Tau. Fighting against Xenos factions are some of my favorite games as a guard player. We need to be nice to tau players, cause I rather play games against the Tau, than Space Marines.
@@david2006it's not about ease of killing, it's about fighting the armies you were meant to fight. So many games are imperium vs imperium, or even (loyalist) space marine vs (loyalist) space marine, and that's not so cool
My first introduction to the Tau was the Fire Warrior fps game. Despite that early traumatic experience, I grew to really like them. Always liked the idea of a more "generic" fish-out-of-water sci-fi faction stumbling into the insanity that is 40k and seeing how they cope with it. They don't deserve the hate they get.
@@recurvestickerdragonI mean that’s how they keep getting imperial worlds to join them. They’re the only ones in the galaxy who knows to say “please” nicely.
It's a shame that it has inevitably faded out (they had a milennia to grow out of their ignorance about the shitty galaxy they live in) because their naivete has brought many of the funniest moments of 40K lore that contextualize the horror of the Imperium from outsider eyes. One of my favourites when a fire caste learned a fallen venerable dreadnought he was studying was, not only once a living being strapped to an agonizing machine of war to keep it in a state of near death for milennia, not only older than his entire species, let alone his empire... But also still alive after suffering catastrophic damages that would render a battlesuit pilot red pulp and looking at him with sheer f*cking hatred in his eyes. He was beholding a being incomprehensibly older than himself, and every cell in that Lovecraftian being wanted him dead. And there was also that time a water caste saw a hive city for the first time, ran the numbers and desperately tried not to sh*t his pants when he realized there were more humans crammed into that hell hole than tau in the whole galaxy. Then there are servitors which diplomats are forced to politely and very awkwardly ignore. Because, you know, the lunatics they are trying to sweet talk think it's perfectly normal to grab one of their own, jam a computer in their skull and tear him apart to turn him into a living forklift.
Space marines who fought in the imperium for centuries after getting sniped by some Random tau fire caste who’s name sounds like something you’d say speaking italian drunk from over the horizon:
It is even more hilarious when you realize space marines do have snipers and one of them even took out an ethereal and a commander in the same battle. Or that the veterans have energy shields to protect themselves from snipers.
I've always wanted a Tau centric video game similar to XCOM were you play as a fire team that is at first made up exclusively of Fire Warriors but you unlock different auxiliaries as the game goes on. So by the end you can use Tau Fire Warriors, Tau mechs, Kroot, Vespids, Gue'vesa and a bunch of other random aliens. I think that would be cool.
Ngl, when I was getting into 40k I saw a Poorhammer video of "what faction is for you". They said "do you like Gundam? Then Tau are for you". Well I'm a lifelong Gundam fan... 😂
Tau were for me since they weren’t miserable to paint (I have the painting skill of the average turnip) and aren’t just card carrying members of team evil. The fact that they tend towards shooty over melee just sealed the deal.
Im also a lifelong gundam fan but i despise the tau cus the fans are so annoying with their ego and victim complex about how “iMpEriUm” bad, and them not shutting the f about the blue aliens
I’ll be honest, the reason they caught my eye in the store as a teenager was their resemblance to Tiberian Sun’s GDI. I knew precisely nothing about Warhammer, I was just like “Big guns? VTOL? TAN? Sign me up!”
That’s not a coincidence. Apparently GW made the Tau specifically to bring in the Asian market. I am… unsure if it worked. Western sci-fi like Star Wars isn’t that popular over in the East.
With La'Kais one think I like is the power scaling in books vs video games. In Dawn of War you can actually lose and kill companies, even chapters worth numbers of space marines and in codexes and novelisations they have to say "Well actually, that was just a game. The real numbers were much lower.". But with "Fire Warrior" book? They just said "The things he did in that game, like soloing a guard regiment, several squads of Space Marines, a Word Bearers warband, with several Daemon Princes and a Greater Daemon? Yeah, it all happened, baby."
There has been a recent turnaround for Tau appreciation lately, and im all here for it. As someone new to 40k, i find the Tau fascinating, and like you said, underrated.
Remember when the tau empire have an existential crisis when a tau commander destroyed a dreadnought and finding out that this dreadnought is over 6000 years older than the tau empire itself. Yeah !
See i think the tau as a faction works and could be loved if they were more like a technological advanced UNSC where victory for them is incredibly difficult to achieve and every victory is phyric but won throigh shear brains and stratagey. But unfortunately every single book where they fight the imperium, every single person in the imperium suddenly become the eldar and somehow lose all brain activity as soon as then protagonist factrion appears. God now i know how eldar fans feel and i feel really bad for them
The ability for the Tau to be the Covenant equivalent with a mix of alien species all united under the goal of survival would be rad as hell. But of course GW would have to make more aliens (GW reaction 🤢) and not make more space marines (GW reaction 😭)
They look like they’re trying to go the Necrontyr route where they solely rely on brains to create tech on par with their rivals but unfortunately are no where near the same level as the Necrons
@@bongibot1104 the thing is, they have plenty of concepts on offer. It’d just be a matter of putting them into production. Also for the love of fuck give us gue’vesa models! Making the damned things by kitbashing is EXPENSIVE.
Eh, GW already screwed It up, I think it was Weshammer but may have been majorkill, who calculated that from a notable planet with 1 billion tau, if it was even split amoungst the castes, it would have 250 million fire cast soldiers, and in one of the tau codex’s, it shows a squad where a tenth of the tau had battlesuits, which would mean that the tau have 25 million battlesuits on that one planet alone, and the average battlesuit is superior to the average space marine (not counting the X factor of experience) but inferior to the average dreadnought (still not counting that X factor) technologically speaking, mobility speaking, how well armed it is, and range. So the tau battlesuits from that one planet, which is majority earth and fire caste, so there are more battlesuits than what I have already said. Outnumber the entirety of the imperium’s 1 million space marines by 25 to 1. So sadly that isn’t much of an option anymore
Its nice to see some tau content that isn't overly negative - i think it's really fun to have a faction that is more tech - y, tactical, and doesn't just annihilate everything in their path, because it adds a cool layer of contrast to all of the other factions. Having a faction that's so different makes them and everyone else stand out more
@@dereckcordova6954 yep! I like the contrast the tau provide. Having a more good leaning faction who’s young is interesting to highlight just how messed up the other factions can be and how they’re all desperately clinging to the past. Plus I love the look of battle suits and firewarrior armor
@@KrakDuk Yeah it really was funny. Thank you for the information I was just remembering the time I was reading a book and a water caste Tau woman was asking a space marine (I don't remember the chapter) if the emperor would like to see great warriors like him killing innocents like her (Tau diplomacy shenanigans) and the space marine just said yes and crumped her like an orc
I kind of feel like they didn’t need to make the Tau a somewhat evil faction like the rest, since being a naïve Boy Scouts that doesn’t know the horror they’re up against but still persevering to do what’s right is interesting.🐱
I have found that most people going against Tau are ill-prepared for a good old Breacher Team swarm. Aka, the "Cowabunga it is then!" shotgun lads that make the Arbites seem sane and measured by comparison.
So Shas’la Kais and Shas’o Kais are the same person, the Shas’ part of their name is basically their rank in society. He got a promotion after Fire Warrior and ended up running the Tau faction in Dark Crusade.
"shas" denotes fire caste, "la" is the lowest rank (private), "o" is the highest (commander), and there are at least three ranks in between. fun fact: "kaís" means "skilled" and it was incredibly funny that that's the only honorific the DoW one earned before making commander instead of something more specific like his peers. It's the equivalent of a space marine captain being called "Adequate-ius"
Unfortunately the timeline for O'Kais doesnt align when he was revealed to be a student of Puretide. He was most likely ranked a commander before the damocles crusade happened, while La'Kais was a new recruit in the events of fire warrior that are stated to happen around 200 years after the damocles crusade.
@@fenrismaav GW really out here with an opportunity to do some arc-welding and make Kais one really badass dude who had a hell of a first day and eventually became a pretty darn good commander in DoW by just fudging the timelines a bit, and instead they went "Actually they're different people. That way we can give O'Kais the exact same backstory as _every other Tau commander_ because that's _much_ better, right?" The Puretide thing was cool when it was just Farsight and Shadowsun, it added another layer to their rivalry, the idea that they were once students of the same legend, now taking very different routes. Now it's just like... "Every Shas'O we've ever made a model for and also all the ones we haven't made models for were all in the same class at school."
@@ToaArcan not every commander with a model was a student of Puretide, we had O'Ralai and O'Rmyr. I find it fitting that there were 3 students to Puretide, as each one represents one of the styles of Tau combat. O'Shova for the montka, O'Shaserra for the kauyon and O'Kais as the monat.
Talking of being the tau being naive, remember when they first saw an imperial titan.....that's when they learned that bigger is always better in the messed up galaxy they live in
I’ve always found it interesting that the Tau are the only faction to use lots of unmanned drones. Obviously the Astra Millitarum’s whole thing is throwing hundreds of guardsmen at the enemy, but even the Aeldari don’t use robots (yes, I know wraithguard are a thing, but that’s putting a dead persons soul in a robot, and you could just design a normal robot instead of putting a soul in danger)
they missed the big bad cybernetic revolt(s) so they don't have the prejudice... personally, I think the other races have blown those dangers out of proportion after many millennia of telephone
Votann, skitarii, Imperial guard, Space marines, Necrons and the sisters of battle all use unmanned drones. If we're limiting it down to robots then the Votann, Necrons and Skitarii still use full robots If we're talking about flying drones in combat roles like we imagine modern day drones the Necrons, Skitarii, Imperial Guard, Space marines, Necrons and sisters all have flying unmanned drones in combat roles
@MyLolmom , there are robots in Astra Militarum as well - CATs, Tarantula sentry guns, Cyclops demolition vehicles, Robot crawlers. Servo skulls are also robots, as the skull is used only as a shell and there are no other organic components.
Them: "why do you like Tau bro?" Me: You dig giant robots! I dig giant robots! We dig giant robots! Chicks dig giant robots! Also, I like how the Tau functions most like a "modern" army despite being alien (laser targeting, mobility based strategy, building kill zones (Kauyon) and implementing shock and awe (Mont'ka,) communication being paramount, liberal use of missiles, etc.) Edit: And using drones!
I forgot which source material this is from but there was a time where they somehow managed to get a venerable dreadnought corpse and when they started tor research they realized that he's been around like twice as long as their entire race and history and it put them in an existential crisis and made them realize how late they actually are
it was in the "Blades of Damocles" book, commander Bravestorm killed a dreadnought and after scanning the interior since the front had ben damaged noticed the age of the marine inside was 6000 years old, basically the age of the tau species, his thoughts were what sort of foe is this or something along those lines.
I just like that they understand if a toaster isn't working, it isn't because you forgot to slather it in holy oil and say the Omnisiah rosary 40 times.
I even noticed it in Old School Runescape lmao. My character repeated "The Greater Good" after a quest NPC said it in conversation once. Made me bust out laughing
Lockwarden: "You cannot keep doing this to yourself. We're here for you, Captain General. 😎 Love is a strange thing, dude. But sometimes a break-up is a blessing in disguise."
I'll never stop laughing at all the times the Tau tried to get the Orks to buy into their Greater Good routine only to get betrayed every time and wind up being hammered flat. Hilarious. "Oh, rite, yeah, we'll be yer mates, lemme jus' 'ave a look at dat big shoota yer got..."
You did an amazing job representing my favorite faction Also for some reason people always make memes about how much the faction is hated yet I can never find someone who actually hates it and has one of the largest reddits in Warhammer, and i find the art style to be just fine in the setting of Warhammer Of only they'd add skaven....
@@Lampman. thanks! They’re one of my favorites as well. I see a lot of tau hate, but I think it’s mostly just a meme at this point. It’s easy to call them nerds and that they suck to play against. There was a minor resurgence of tau hate in killteam lmao. Their team was quite oppressive and I can say from personal experience not too much fun to play against imo.
I don’t really play the tabletop game but if I ever did I would pick the Tau or Salamaders for some good ole space marines. I like the concept that in a world full of war, dearth, destruction and just “grim dark”. There are still some factions that are “moral good” and try to keep the core belief of kindness, in their own weird way
The Tau themselves, now has a Tau goddess, not to mention some Tau are attacking their own allies. which, may cause problems even could cause a Tau civil war, But what do you guys think?
Those guys attacking auxilliares are fire caste from the 4th sphere of expansion. Why they attack? Well, i am not going to tell here the whole story, but basicaly they went into the warp WITHOUT the Gellar field and has observed what has been happening with their allies. Also, they are angry, because some uncorrupted by then auxilliares has started praying to Tau'va (Greater Good in Tau language) and that basically created a goddess and religion from their ideology and that is the reason of being angry (sounds a bit like the Emperor lol)
I think 40K writers at Jame Workshop should stop trying to make the tau into the Imperium and that the plot line about how some Tau have become rabidly xenophobic towards non-Tau for creating a Tau Goddess is grim derp nonsense.
T’au’s desperate attempts to be normal in a universe of cartoon characters is probably my favorite grimdark thing in 40k. From the other end of it, stories about fighting the T’au should feel like the perspective of an Iraqi soldier during Desert Storm - pure demoralized panic as your communications are cut, air superiority is lost, automated drones drop explosives into trenches, mid-level commanders and commissars assassinated to disrupt chain of command and communications between the top and bottom ranks, all barely even SEEING the T’au do it
You should of mentioned after they were tricked by the dark eldar they attack a different eldar faction think they were the same and made all eldar they enemy for the most part
As a space marine player, I loved playing against T'au players at my warhammer's club. I always felt like playing against them push me to actually make tactics and have an actual strategy to counter them rather than counting only on my army passives and toughness to carry me through. I was rather young when I first played warhammer 40k so my army was black templar because it was easy and little bit of deatwatch when they were still an actual faction, also most of the other players played orcs against most of the time to make it more fun for me. But when I got older, damn these guys really didn't pull any punches with when they showed me the "real" game against the T'au and strangely It made me love the game even more especially since at that time I completly switched to being a full deathwath player (when you know, they were still alive... Damn you GW) so now each victories felt like I really earned it. Damn, now I wish my friends and I had more time to play together again.
I feel like Tau were meant to replace the dwarf archetype that was left open by the squating of the Squats, but that never ended up happening, becoming the Gundam faction instead.
Hey dude. What a coincidence. Last video i commented about how i love the Tau and would love a video from you about em. Love ypur stuff. Amazing video. Thanks for your effort❤
I like the tau cause they're basically the opposite of the other races because they're a young, optimistic upstart race instead of a decaying one far past its prime
Filthy xenophile! In the name of the holy God Emperor I deem thee thrice damned, by action, association, and belief, and declare thee Excommunicate Traitoris!
The tau really gives the IG a kick in the nuts to diversify the armies more. Not enough attention is given to the idea that different human planets have completely different inspirations and cultures. There’s regiments like Kreig that excel at kicking in teeth but there should also be regiments that are basically the Gulf War US military or a more modern style army. Soviets, Chinese. So many options. Have you seen the Tekarn Shogunate? They’re literally 40K samurai
Tbh i don’t mind them being the “good” guys of 40K, but I’d love if they encountered a number of the things that made the Imperium what it is, except the Tau react in a different way. Like what if the Tau suffered an Ai uprising, not to the degree that all of their tech would have to be revamped, but would at least give them some perspective for why the Imperium doesn’t use Ai for their tech
Well, the Tau now don't have the same level of artifical super intelligence, planet-consuming robots and nanomachines humans had. Their AI is pretty basic and installed in support systems.
The AI gain full sentience and revolt but the Tau are just like "So what Im hearing is that you want proper citizenship and rights, right? In return you just keep working towards the greater good."
@ This is honestly the sort of story I’d expect, though I think if a sudden Ai civil war broke out between those who wish to stay with the T’au and those who wish to break away regardless would be something interesting to read about
I think the warp storms surrounding them messed with the flow of time, because stone age to space travel with friendly ai in the span of 6000 years is ridiculous. At that rate the dude who discovered fires great grandkid would have a car.
Yea who would have guessed that near species wide unification along with trading with other more advanced species would make you shoot up on tech really fast.
Tau have slower space than every other faction, iirc. It's not as good as everyone else's. When the Ethereals can basically force whole nations and ethnicities to cooperate at will, progress becomes not 'if' but 'when'.
As a tau player this makes me happy, and thank u for pointing out how they're actually more American imperialist cus WE LOVE THAT COMBINED ARMS WARFARE BABYYYY nothin like a tiger sharks railguns followed up by everything else's railguns to seal the deal
what i also like about the existance of the tau faction is that they show another way a system can be dystopian. while the imperium show a brute-force based model (insert "literally 1984" meme) tau show more of a brave-new world vibe, where more subtle , insinuous and manipulative means are used to achieve complete control and conquest (i like for exemple reading the small epilogue part when you finish the dawn of war dark crusade and soulstorm campaign as tau and read what kind of messed up things they do, or reading the small lore of the units and optionnal quest in gladius games)
Please make a video about the Leagues of Votann🙏. Your art-style is so nice and the way you explain these factions is great, I'd love to see my faction on this channel
I enjoy the T'au for what they bring to the Warhammer setting. I'm not a "fan" per se, but I do love some classic 'imperium vs tau' storytelling. The T'au def enrich the wh40k setting!
One thing you didn’t mention is that there is a third Puretide doctrine, one that doesn’t have a tabletop detachment: Monat, the Lone Warrior. Basically what it says on the tin, it’s all about being a one man army. Shas’O Kais is the master of that one, but he doesn’t have a tabletop model. (Tau only have three epic heroes that aren’t Legends, it kinda sucks)
i get anime oooh bbadd but like, pacific rim? gundam but you don't have to care about the people in it? robot walker with 40 missile launchers? you gotta like it A LITTLE BIT right??
Don’t forget Battletech and Titanfall! (albeit the closest analogue to my knowledge would be Armored Core, most of the Tau suits could be plopped into an AC game and nobody would bat an eye)
@ early gen AC is mostly walking with only a handful of examples that spend more time flying, and looking at how different Tau mechs are described as being, there are some that are straight up in the air as much if not more than AC6, potentially even gen 4 Armored Core while others lumber around like what you’d expect from Battletech.
@_E135_ , the only one battlesuit that can strait up fly is XV86 Coldstar. All others can only jump, with mainline XV8 Crisis achieving whooping 50 kph (31 mph) mid jump, while on foot they can reach human jogging speed. In comparison armoured cores are zooming around as if they are F1 cars on nitro. It's not about flying, really, but ground mobility. Battletech mechs are pretty fast for the most part. Even Urbanmech is faster then XV8. Battlesuits are closer to Elementals in this regard.
They don't really need a warp travel alternative since what they do have is basically really, really, crappy warp engines. What the humies and orks ships do is basically acting like submarines that go "down" into the warp and then use various means to navigate while not being able to see realspace (Or as is the case with orks, either cheat for plot convenience or just don't care where you end up.) The Tau ships on the other hand, they just lightly skim across the "top layer" of the Warp, so they go super super slow by comparison, but they have a much easier time navigating, and since their souls are so weak, daemons generally can't even see them when they do their skimming.
Hey KrakDuk! Loved the video! As a big T'au fan, I got into Warhammer 40,000 because I found the T'au so unique compared to the other factions. Their usage of diplomacy, Auxiliary races, and Battlesuits accompanied with high-technology really made me love them. While I don't like how they have become less good through the years, and are now more sketchy, I nonetheless feel that sometimes they are given a really bad rep because of bias. I am happy to see that is not the case with one of my favorite Warhammer creators :) "Believe in our destiny and stand united, for in unity will we achieve victory. For the Greater Good!"
No mention of the best bit of Tau lore which is that the auxiliary races' belief in the Tau'va ended up creating a Vishnu-like multi armed god in the Warp who rescued a floundering Fourth Sphere fleet and also prevented Death Guard from using a wormhole to invade inner core Tau space.
A bit of a correction, the Ta'unar is not a battlesuit, but belongs to a larger category of war walkers called "ballistic suit". But don't worry, BL writers get this terminology wrong too. That's how we have a canon case of a Warlord titan running away from just three Broadsides.
That... Such a funny image. That would be like a grown man running from Barbie dolls with guns... So I guess I can see where the pilot was coming from.
I have a friend who plays Tau reguarly, I play IG, and we regularly battled back in 5th ed. When he bought and built his first Kroot kit, he was *so* excited to use them in melee. He talked about it all the time up to and during our next match. We reached a turn where his Kroot were finally in assault range and of course I charged him first with a conscript blob. Buried them in a pile of bodies.
The irony here is that Tau is actually the faction you want to see when you in danger. The hatred is just prejudice of the emperium to justify war that ended up covering the Emperor order to protect humanity from monsters.
The Tau are a really interesting addition to the 40k universe. They really highlight how comically tragic it is that the most progressive, tolerant and "humane" faction remaining is not humanity, but some small species of aliens that humanity (and the playerbase) despises, kills and makes fun of 😂
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KrakDuk. I find it interesting how their ruling system is literally the “Caste system”.
Basically it’s the system where you are given a role at birth and you stay there. Earth Castes are earth. Simple.
Spanish controlled Mexico for example had this overly complicated caste or “Castas” system where the more white you are the better, but as races intertwine shit gets out of hand. 😂
Um newest faction? 0:10
You know it’s bad when your faction (the leagues of Voltann)is so forgettable that the tau are still being called the newest faction.😅😂🤣
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What I find so interesting about the tau is that they aren't nice because they are good guys but because being nice is actually quite useful.
There is an old saying that prussians wouldn't shoot deserters but catch them and force them back into the army but not because they valued human life but because training soldiers is expensive.
@@lucagerulat307 On a related/unrelated note there’s a super interesting idea in moral philosophy that talks about doing good and altruism achieved through purely selfish motives.
Seems like what the ethereals might be up to.
kinda weird since unmotivated deserters likely wouldn't make good (reliable) soldiers, but i guess they chose that instead of death
@@MintBunHunter deserters aren't necessarily bad soldiers. Desertion would also mostly happen outside of actual combat. In battle you have other things to worry about. But on long marches or the boring time at Barracks (which were basically like prisons) soldiers would try to get away. Most other European nations had them shoot at the time but the Prussians cought them beat them up and send them back showing there is no escaping once you joined the military.
Id argue there's nothing nice about this mindset at all, especially when you compare it to being forced off to war lmao
They are evil, but they are a reasonable, pragmatic and rational evil, which is very refreshing compared to the idiotic and self-destructive evil of the Imperium of Man.
OH MY GOLLY GOSH I somehow completely left out my short segment explaining markerlights. Idek how that happened. They're basically just targeting lasers for anyone wondering
It's okay, most people do when they play Tau. My brother always seemed to, and then he switched to Death Guard and never switched back. He's happy, but the smell..dear Throne the smell...
I mean. It's there in the name, sounds self-explanatory. But yeah some people need the clarification.
What they are are the leftover bits you have after building your drones cause there's not enough tops
7:19 But it is more yellow tho.
Bro did you read about the Tau chaos god? They kinda embodied their believe of the Greater Good on a chaos Entity. Also quite funny how the heroes of the Tau are a Xena the Warrior Princess, the only guy who knows how to melee and found a cheat sword and then there's Lord Shas'la Kais who is just an average angry guy with lots of guns and a few chaos blessings.
The Tau are like Little Caesars pizza, they taste great when you don’t have an imperial in your ear telling you they’re nasty
taste great you say? W-What are you doing step-Gue'vesa?
It doesn’t even qualify as pizza
I once made a comment on an imperial guard channel’s video about how I like playing against guard as a tau player, since I think both armies are kind of similar in their mix of vehicles and infantry working together.
Let’s just say I got like 15 incredibly long angry paragraphs from people bashing tau and saying “don’t compare guard to your shitty army that’s too scared to do anything but the shooting phase” (also on that point I am rather new and may be wrong but is guard not also like 99% shooting? I don’t think they’re known for having great melee prowess…)
@@marmuhardestboss9197 If you count the Kroot the Tau probably have more melee units then the Guard. Like c'mon. Both are almost strictly shooting armies. Every complaint every levied at Tau can be levied at another faciton.
@@orionknight4803yeah, that’s how I feel about it too, I think people just don’t like tau because they’re new. When the next truly new faction comes out (not counting votann because squats have been around) they’ll get hate too.
Edit: having said this, tau have been around for a while though so maybe it’s not that they’re new, idk people just like to hate on stuff
As a Guard Player, I LOVE the Tau. Fighting against Xenos factions are some of my favorite games as a guard player. We need to be nice to tau players, cause I rather play games against the Tau, than Space Marines.
As a TAU main the feeling is MUTUAL HELL YEAH BROTHER
@ Hell Yeah!
Space marines are easy to kill. #custodesmain
@@david2006it's not about ease of killing, it's about fighting the armies you were meant to fight. So many games are imperium vs imperium, or even (loyalist) space marine vs (loyalist) space marine, and that's not so cool
Now tell me guard player, what exactly do you love about fighting the Tau. And did you win the last time you played vs them?
My first introduction to the Tau was the Fire Warrior fps game. Despite that early traumatic experience, I grew to really like them. Always liked the idea of a more "generic" fish-out-of-water sci-fi faction stumbling into the insanity that is 40k and seeing how they cope with it. They don't deserve the hate they get.
hear hear!
we'll win by the power of friendship... and this gun I found!
@@recurvestickerdragonI mean that’s how they keep getting imperial worlds to join them. They’re the only ones in the galaxy who knows to say “please” nicely.
It's a shame that it has inevitably faded out (they had a milennia to grow out of their ignorance about the shitty galaxy they live in) because their naivete has brought many of the funniest moments of 40K lore that contextualize the horror of the Imperium from outsider eyes.
One of my favourites when a fire caste learned a fallen venerable dreadnought he was studying was, not only once a living being strapped to an agonizing machine of war to keep it in a state of near death for milennia, not only older than his entire species, let alone his empire... But also still alive after suffering catastrophic damages that would render a battlesuit pilot red pulp and looking at him with sheer f*cking hatred in his eyes. He was beholding a being incomprehensibly older than himself, and every cell in that Lovecraftian being wanted him dead.
And there was also that time a water caste saw a hive city for the first time, ran the numbers and desperately tried not to sh*t his pants when he realized there were more humans crammed into that hell hole than tau in the whole galaxy.
Then there are servitors which diplomats are forced to politely and very awkwardly ignore. Because, you know, the lunatics they are trying to sweet talk think it's perfectly normal to grab one of their own, jam a computer in their skull and tear him apart to turn him into a living forklift.
Same here! Fire Warrior was my first real introduction to W40k when it came out.
I'm all about the T'au. It's really nice to have a good faction in a setting where everyone is straight up bad in every way possible.
Space marines who fought in the imperium for centuries after getting sniped by some Random tau fire caste who’s name sounds like something you’d say speaking italian drunk from over the horizon:
Knowing the rail gun it’s more like 100 miles away lol
@ yeah probably. hold on i’m editing this
@@Z5-XB top notch editing 👌🏻 for the angel 🩸
Years of Academy training wasted.- Buzz
It is even more hilarious when you realize space marines do have snipers and one of them even took out an ethereal and a commander in the same battle.
Or that the veterans have energy shields to protect themselves from snipers.
I've always wanted a Tau centric video game similar to XCOM were you play as a fire team that is at first made up exclusively of Fire Warriors but you unlock different auxiliaries as the game goes on. So by the end you can use Tau Fire Warriors, Tau mechs, Kroot, Vespids, Gue'vesa and a bunch of other random aliens. I think that would be cool.
Well, as a compilation of different species Tau Empire better works as an enemy faction in your typical XCOM game.
Honestly the Tau would make an amazing enemy faction or even just a reskin for the Advent in Xcom 2.
You can try getting Warhammer 40k Gladius and get the Tau faction DLC with it.
As long as the RNG for hit chances is more akin to Age of Wonders 4 and Planetfall than it is to actual XCOM, I would be all up for it.
I thought the same but an rpg where you recruit all sorts of xenos in the tau empire on a quest to destroy a chaos incursion or something
Ngl, when I was getting into 40k I saw a Poorhammer video of "what faction is for you". They said "do you like Gundam? Then Tau are for you". Well I'm a lifelong Gundam fan... 😂
Tau were for me since they weren’t miserable to paint (I have the painting skill of the average turnip) and aren’t just card carrying members of team evil. The fact that they tend towards shooty over melee just sealed the deal.
Im also a lifelong gundam fan but i despise the tau cus the fans are so annoying with their ego and victim complex about how “iMpEriUm” bad, and them not shutting the f about the blue aliens
@yuimama7022 the irony is absurd
I’ll be honest, the reason they caught my eye in the store as a teenager was their resemblance to Tiberian Sun’s GDI. I knew precisely nothing about Warhammer, I was just like “Big guns? VTOL? TAN? Sign me up!”
That’s not a coincidence. Apparently GW made the Tau specifically to bring in the Asian market. I am… unsure if it worked. Western sci-fi like Star Wars isn’t that popular over in the East.
With La'Kais one think I like is the power scaling in books vs video games.
In Dawn of War you can actually lose and kill companies, even chapters worth numbers of space marines and in codexes and novelisations they have to say "Well actually, that was just a game. The real numbers were much lower.".
But with "Fire Warrior" book? They just said "The things he did in that game, like soloing a guard regiment, several squads of Space Marines, a Word Bearers warband, with several Daemon Princes and a Greater Daemon? Yeah, it all happened, baby."
we love Blue Marbo
Wait, they make la kais more canon character then O kais?
@@BaranZenonlmao fr. People hate on the book for that, but I actually like that they just went silly mode for this one dude
Don't forget the titan he detonated solo in front of a space marine captain.
There has been a recent turnaround for Tau appreciation lately, and im all here for it. As someone new to 40k, i find the Tau fascinating, and like you said, underrated.
Remember when the tau empire have an existential crisis when a tau commander destroyed a dreadnought and finding out that this dreadnought is over 6000 years older than the tau empire itself. Yeah !
That's how I felt when I found out those turtles from Rocky (1976) were still alive
Not the empire. The whole SPECIES lol
@@walrusArmageddonhow I feel now that you’ve told us this
cant wait until they date the age of a necron immortal
Then they realized they have the power to destroy them and make way better "dreadnoughts"
See i think the tau as a faction works and could be loved if they were more like a technological advanced UNSC where victory for them is incredibly difficult to achieve and every victory is phyric but won throigh shear brains and stratagey. But unfortunately every single book where they fight the imperium, every single person in the imperium suddenly become the eldar and somehow lose all brain activity as soon as then protagonist factrion appears.
God now i know how eldar fans feel and i feel really bad for them
The ability for the Tau to be the Covenant equivalent with a mix of alien species all united under the goal of survival would be rad as hell. But of course GW would have to make more aliens (GW reaction 🤢) and not make more space marines (GW reaction 😭)
They look like they’re trying to go the Necrontyr route where they solely rely on brains to create tech on par with their rivals but unfortunately are no where near the same level as the Necrons
This is why I just stick to my evil drug addict pirates for my Eldar needs
@@bongibot1104 the thing is, they have plenty of concepts on offer. It’d just be a matter of putting them into production.
Also for the love of fuck give us gue’vesa models! Making the damned things by kitbashing is EXPENSIVE.
Eh, GW already screwed It up, I think it was Weshammer but may have been majorkill, who calculated that from a notable planet with 1 billion tau, if it was even split amoungst the castes, it would have 250 million fire cast soldiers, and in one of the tau codex’s, it shows a squad where a tenth of the tau had battlesuits, which would mean that the tau have 25 million battlesuits on that one planet alone, and the average battlesuit is superior to the average space marine (not counting the X factor of experience) but inferior to the average dreadnought (still not counting that X factor) technologically speaking, mobility speaking, how well armed it is, and range. So the tau battlesuits from that one planet, which is majority earth and fire caste, so there are more battlesuits than what I have already said. Outnumber the entirety of the imperium’s 1 million space marines by 25 to 1. So sadly that isn’t much of an option anymore
Finally a good T'au overview with SLIGHTLY less bias, thank you!
Its nice to see some tau content that isn't overly negative - i think it's really fun to have a faction that is more tech - y, tactical, and doesn't just annihilate everything in their path, because it adds a cool layer of contrast to all of the other factions.
Having a faction that's so different makes them and everyone else stand out more
@@dereckcordova6954 yep! I like the contrast the tau provide. Having a more good leaning faction who’s young is interesting to highlight just how messed up the other factions can be and how they’re all desperately clinging to the past.
Plus I love the look of battle suits and firewarrior armor
This is just aeldari.
Avatar basically stealing Tau's whole flow depending on the Avatar is just really funny to me
Or just historical alchemical elements.
@@Steel_Penguin to be fair earth, fire, water, and air are a thing in many cultures long before either. Just thought it was a fun joke for the vid tho
@@KrakDuk Yeah it really was funny. Thank you for the information I was just remembering the time I was reading a book and a water caste Tau woman was asking a space marine (I don't remember the chapter) if the emperor would like to see great warriors like him killing innocents like her (Tau diplomacy shenanigans) and the space marine just said yes and crumped her like an orc
FOR THE GREATER GOOD!
Edit: Also, if you think that T'au are weebs, then go look at the Aeldari.
Eldar are also much better communist than Tau
Yeah, that too
Just… no….
Unless you think high pony=weeb, that’s complete b.s.
Outside of the gundam/mech influence, the weeb joke is also b.s. for T’au
Yes, inquisitor this one here.
@@hangebza6625they also eat a lot more skittles
I kind of feel like they didn’t need to make the Tau a somewhat evil faction like the rest, since being a naïve Boy Scouts that doesn’t know the horror they’re up against but still persevering to do what’s right is interesting.🐱
Precisely, how can we say this is the grim dark future if there are no morally good things in universe to compare to
Retcons get ignoted
Kinda can't do that on any big scale, especially if keeping on getting bigger.
I have found that most people going against Tau are ill-prepared for a good old Breacher Team swarm. Aka, the "Cowabunga it is then!" shotgun lads that make the Arbites seem sane and measured by comparison.
@@Rukdug breachers were my first tau kit, they’re very cool!
You just never seen an arbites exaction squad at work.
The Tau as a faction reminds me of the Covenant from Halo, so I think they are pretty cool.
So Shas’la Kais and Shas’o Kais are the same person, the Shas’ part of their name is basically their rank in society. He got a promotion after Fire Warrior and ended up running the Tau faction in Dark Crusade.
"shas" denotes fire caste, "la" is the lowest rank (private), "o" is the highest (commander), and there are at least three ranks in between.
fun fact: "kaís" means "skilled" and it was incredibly funny that that's the only honorific the DoW one earned before making commander instead of something more specific like his peers. It's the equivalent of a space marine captain being called "Adequate-ius"
No, unfortunately not. Dark Crusade is set before Fire Caste in the timeline, so they have to be different soldiers.
Unfortunately the timeline for O'Kais doesnt align when he was revealed to be a student of Puretide. He was most likely ranked a commander before the damocles crusade happened, while La'Kais was a new recruit in the events of fire warrior that are stated to happen around 200 years after the damocles crusade.
@@fenrismaav GW really out here with an opportunity to do some arc-welding and make Kais one really badass dude who had a hell of a first day and eventually became a pretty darn good commander in DoW by just fudging the timelines a bit, and instead they went "Actually they're different people. That way we can give O'Kais the exact same backstory as _every other Tau commander_ because that's _much_ better, right?"
The Puretide thing was cool when it was just Farsight and Shadowsun, it added another layer to their rivalry, the idea that they were once students of the same legend, now taking very different routes. Now it's just like... "Every Shas'O we've ever made a model for and also all the ones we haven't made models for were all in the same class at school."
@@ToaArcan not every commander with a model was a student of Puretide, we had O'Ralai and O'Rmyr.
I find it fitting that there were 3 students to Puretide, as each one represents one of the styles of Tau combat. O'Shova for the montka, O'Shaserra for the kauyon and O'Kais as the monat.
Talking of being the tau being naive, remember when they first saw an imperial titan.....that's when they learned that bigger is always better in the messed up galaxy they live in
didnt they preety much just shoot it with a railgun and it died?
@cerrpik Yeah but they were flabbergasted when they first saw it
"Aun'O, are you seeing this shit? Apparently the square-cube law is more of a square-cube suggestion."
True, they then made their own big mechs
I imagined Tau looking up to see a titan raising up and the titan looks down to see Tau running in circles as they are so scared of the titan.
I’ve always found it interesting that the Tau are the only faction to use lots of unmanned drones. Obviously the Astra Millitarum’s whole thing is throwing hundreds of guardsmen at the enemy, but even the Aeldari don’t use robots (yes, I know wraithguard are a thing, but that’s putting a dead persons soul in a robot, and you could just design a normal robot instead of putting a soul in danger)
they missed the big bad cybernetic revolt(s) so they don't have the prejudice... personally, I think the other races have blown those dangers out of proportion after many millennia of telephone
Votann, skitarii, Imperial guard, Space marines, Necrons and the sisters of battle all use unmanned drones.
If we're limiting it down to robots then the Votann, Necrons and Skitarii still use full robots
If we're talking about flying drones in combat roles like we imagine modern day drones the Necrons, Skitarii, Imperial Guard, Space marines, Necrons and sisters all have flying unmanned drones in combat roles
@MyLolmom , there are robots in Astra Militarum as well - CATs, Tarantula sentry guns, Cyclops demolition vehicles, Robot crawlers. Servo skulls are also robots, as the skull is used only as a shell and there are no other organic components.
Them: "why do you like Tau bro?"
Me: You dig giant robots!
I dig giant robots!
We dig giant robots!
Chicks dig giant robots!
Also, I like how the Tau functions most like a "modern" army despite being alien
(laser targeting, mobility based strategy, building kill zones (Kauyon) and implementing shock and awe (Mont'ka,) communication being paramount, liberal use of missiles, etc.)
Edit: And using drones!
I forgot which source material this is from but there was a time where they somehow managed to get a venerable dreadnought corpse and when they started tor research they realized that he's been around like twice as long as their entire race and history and it put them in an existential crisis and made them realize how late they actually are
it was in the "Blades of Damocles" book, commander Bravestorm killed a dreadnought and after scanning the interior since the front had ben damaged noticed the age of the marine inside was 6000 years old, basically the age of the tau species, his thoughts were what sort of foe is this or something along those lines.
I just like that they understand if a toaster isn't working, it isn't because you forgot to slather it in holy oil and say the Omnisiah rosary 40 times.
Maybe its because you forgot to plug it in instead.
By far my favorite lore channel. I love the longer videos of luten, baldamort, etc. but the short, animated, and hilarious style is just amazing
Hot Fuzz has ruined the phrase "The Greater Good" for me lmao
Any time I hear it I involuntarily repeat it.
Angel: "Shut up!"
I even noticed it in Old School Runescape lmao. My character repeated "The Greater Good" after a quest NPC said it in conversation once. Made me bust out laughing
15:10 kitty: this is still not canon! (I missed TTS)
Lockwarden: "You cannot keep doing this to yourself. We're here for you, Captain General. 😎
Love is a strange thing, dude. But sometimes a break-up is a blessing in disguise."
ShadowSun: "I love you, but my forehead is so sore." @15:07 😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'll never stop laughing at all the times the Tau tried to get the Orks to buy into their Greater Good routine only to get betrayed every time and wind up being hammered flat. Hilarious.
"Oh, rite, yeah, we'll be yer mates, lemme jus' 'ave a look at dat big shoota yer got..."
Mork would be proud.
later they realized jingling keys is more effective and didn't waste any more time or effort aside from leading them on wild goose chases
"Are the tau the worst faction?"
They have gundams, so no, that's epic
I love ranged factions with dedicated melee blockers.
I love less-is-more and blocky tech.
I love Forrest Gump types.
You did an amazing job representing my favorite faction
Also for some reason people always make memes about how much the faction is hated yet I can never find someone who actually hates it and has one of the largest reddits in Warhammer, and i find the art style to be just fine in the setting of Warhammer
Of only they'd add skaven....
rat-things join for the best-great hive-good!
Veer-myn from mantic games have such a great style. It makes me sad there aren't skaven in 40k every time I think about them.
@@Lampman. thanks! They’re one of my favorites as well. I see a lot of tau hate, but I think it’s mostly just a meme at this point. It’s easy to call them nerds and that they suck to play against.
There was a minor resurgence of tau hate in killteam lmao. Their team was quite oppressive and I can say from personal experience not too much fun to play against imo.
I don’t really play the tabletop game but if I ever did I would pick the Tau or Salamaders for some good ole space marines.
I like the concept that in a world full of war, dearth, destruction and just “grim dark”. There are still some factions that are “moral good” and try to keep the core belief of kindness, in their own weird way
The Tau themselves, now has a Tau goddess, not to mention some Tau are attacking their own allies. which, may cause problems even could cause a Tau civil war, But what do you guys think?
Those guys attacking auxilliares are fire caste from the 4th sphere of expansion. Why they attack? Well, i am not going to tell here the whole story, but basicaly they went into the warp WITHOUT the Gellar field and has observed what has been happening with their allies. Also, they are angry, because some uncorrupted by then auxilliares has started praying to Tau'va (Greater Good in Tau language) and that basically created a goddess and religion from their ideology and that is the reason of being angry (sounds a bit like the Emperor lol)
I’m curious if this is the beginning of a mini horus heresy within the Tau empire.🐱
Im looking forward to that lore wise, a civil war of some kind where the tau split over the divinity of the tau'va and how they feel about auxillaries
I feel like we will have to wait til 40k end times for that plot to go anywhere.
I think 40K writers at Jame Workshop should stop trying to make the tau into the Imperium and that the plot line about how some Tau have become rabidly xenophobic towards non-Tau for creating a Tau Goddess is grim derp nonsense.
T’au’s desperate attempts to be normal in a universe of cartoon characters is probably my favorite grimdark thing in 40k.
From the other end of it, stories about fighting the T’au should feel like the perspective of an Iraqi soldier during Desert Storm - pure demoralized panic as your communications are cut, air superiority is lost, automated drones drop explosives into trenches, mid-level commanders and commissars assassinated to disrupt chain of command and communications between the top and bottom ranks, all barely even SEEING the T’au do it
You should of mentioned after they were tricked by the dark eldar they attack a different eldar faction think they were the same and made all eldar they enemy for the most part
Which is funny because the Eldar first instigated the Tau's hyperevolution.
@@JoshSweetvale
ooh, is that confirmed in canon? last I heard, it was a theory
As a space marine player, I loved playing against T'au players at my warhammer's club. I always felt like playing against them push me to actually make tactics and have an actual strategy to counter them rather than counting only on my army passives and toughness to carry me through.
I was rather young when I first played warhammer 40k so my army was black templar because it was easy and little bit of deatwatch when they were still an actual faction, also most of the other players played orcs against most of the time to make it more fun for me.
But when I got older, damn these guys really didn't pull any punches with when they showed me the "real" game against the T'au and strangely It made me love the game even more especially since at that time I completly switched to being a full deathwath player (when you know, they were still alive... Damn you GW) so now each victories felt like I really earned it.
Damn, now I wish my friends and I had more time to play together again.
I feel like Tau were meant to replace the dwarf archetype that was left open by the squating of the Squats, but that never ended up happening, becoming the Gundam faction instead.
Hey dude. What a coincidence. Last video i commented about how i love the Tau and would love a video from you about em.
Love ypur stuff. Amazing video. Thanks for your effort❤
We need a 2 player Warhammer game with shas'la Kais and malum caedo halo 2 style
but kaís is blue Marbo
@@recurvestickerdragonsly marbo tau equivalent
Just casually glossing over ciaphas cain being the reason the ceasefire came to be ao fast...
Cain is just luck incarnate
I like the tau cause they're basically the opposite of the other races because they're a young, optimistic upstart race instead of a decaying one far past its prime
There’s too much Tau hate!!! We need more Tau love!
Exactly
Already enough liters of milk, for their fan arts
No…
Filthy xenophile! In the name of the holy God Emperor I deem thee thrice damned, by action, association, and belief, and declare thee Excommunicate Traitoris!
For the greater good
The tau really gives the IG a kick in the nuts to diversify the armies more. Not enough attention is given to the idea that different human planets have completely different inspirations and cultures. There’s regiments like Kreig that excel at kicking in teeth but there should also be regiments that are basically the Gulf War US military or a more modern style army. Soviets, Chinese. So many options. Have you seen the Tekarn Shogunate? They’re literally 40K samurai
Tbh i don’t mind them being the “good” guys of 40K, but I’d love if they encountered a number of the things that made the Imperium what it is, except the Tau react in a different way. Like what if the Tau suffered an Ai uprising, not to the degree that all of their tech would have to be revamped, but would at least give them some perspective for why the Imperium doesn’t use Ai for their tech
Well, the Tau now don't have the same level of artifical super intelligence, planet-consuming robots and nanomachines humans had. Their AI is pretty basic and installed in support systems.
The AI gain full sentience and revolt but the Tau are just like "So what Im hearing is that you want proper citizenship and rights, right? In return you just keep working towards the greater good."
@ This is honestly the sort of story I’d expect, though I think if a sudden Ai civil war broke out between those who wish to stay with the T’au and those who wish to break away regardless would be something interesting to read about
3:13 west virginia mention
never thought I'd see the day we'd get mentioned in anything related to 40k
it's a bit easier now that fallout 76 is fully ensconced in meme culture
@recurvestickerdragon true I guess
15:10 poor kitten... I miss tts so much....
We all do. If only the ultimate heresy didn't kill the series COPYRIGHT! DREADED GW
I think the warp storms surrounding them messed with the flow of time, because stone age to space travel with friendly ai in the span of 6000 years is ridiculous. At that rate the dude who discovered fires great grandkid would have a car.
If they were human, sure. But it’s perfectly reasonable that an alien species could develop slower or faster.
Yea who would have guessed that near species wide unification along with trading with other more advanced species would make you shoot up on tech really fast.
Tau have slower space than every other faction, iirc. It's not as good as everyone else's. When the Ethereals can basically force whole nations and ethnicities to cooperate at will, progress becomes not 'if' but 'when'.
This man could make a video on space marines eating glue and I'd still watch
This made me think that a Co-op shooter with Malum Caedo and Shas'la kais as the Players would go crazy.
plus marbo
Love the Tau and the Guard XD I have some guard in my tau army that wanted to join for... well... the greator good.
Builder drone looks fed up with his job, I love builder drone
this is the third time _today_ he's had to reset a server because some water caste bureaucrat downloaded scrap code from admec noosphere
Beep boop build for the greater good
@@ghoulbuster1
‘What is my purpose?’
‘You build for the Greater Good.’
‘Oh my God.’
@@recurvestickerdragon Ah he fell for the ‘Hot Vespids in your area’ trick
We’ve all been there
I will have no slander against my Blue Pacific Rim fanboy faction. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
I think my favorite part of Tau lore is that they don’t have warp travel yet the Kroot do.
As a tau player this makes me happy, and thank u for pointing out how they're actually more American imperialist cus WE LOVE THAT COMBINED ARMS WARFARE BABYYYY nothin like a tiger sharks railguns followed up by everything else's railguns to seal the deal
what i also like about the existance of the tau faction is that they show another way a system can be dystopian. while the imperium show a brute-force based model (insert "literally 1984" meme) tau show more of a brave-new world vibe, where more subtle , insinuous and manipulative means are used to achieve complete control and conquest (i like for exemple reading the small epilogue part when you finish the dawn of war dark crusade and soulstorm campaign as tau and read what kind of messed up things they do, or reading the small lore of the units and optionnal quest in gladius games)
Believe me when I say that Tau players want fusion blades and onager gauntlets to return so we can give Farsight a proper retinue.
Please make a video about the Leagues of Votann🙏. Your art-style is so nice and the way you explain these factions is great, I'd love to see my faction on this channel
This came in perfect time as I started building my tau army yesterday
WHEN DROP TROOPS
I know you TheDropsTroopsGuy
@Slamander_Man Legion Clown, is this really you?
@SonOgLemonRuss Im the Original Hater Lord_Flakx01
They are the best Race in 40k. Serious guys they are, trust me, 40k can get pretty dark sometimes XD
I enjoy the T'au for what they bring to the Warhammer setting. I'm not a "fan" per se, but I do love some classic 'imperium vs tau' storytelling. The T'au def enrich the wh40k setting!
One thing you didn’t mention is that there is a third Puretide doctrine, one that doesn’t have a tabletop detachment: Monat, the Lone Warrior. Basically what it says on the tin, it’s all about being a one man army. Shas’O Kais is the master of that one, but he doesn’t have a tabletop model. (Tau only have three epic heroes that aren’t Legends, it kinda sucks)
i get anime oooh bbadd but like, pacific rim? gundam but you don't have to care about the people in it? robot walker with 40 missile launchers? you gotta like it A LITTLE BIT right??
Don’t forget Battletech and Titanfall!
(albeit the closest analogue to my knowledge would be Armored Core, most of the Tau suits could be plopped into an AC game and nobody would bat an eye)
@@_E135_ , armoured cores are way more mobil though.
@ early gen AC is mostly walking with only a handful of examples that spend more time flying, and looking at how different Tau mechs are described as being, there are some that are straight up in the air as much if not more than AC6, potentially even gen 4 Armored Core while others lumber around like what you’d expect from Battletech.
@_E135_ , the only one battlesuit that can strait up fly is XV86 Coldstar. All others can only jump, with mainline XV8 Crisis achieving whooping 50 kph (31 mph) mid jump, while on foot they can reach human jogging speed.
In comparison armoured cores are zooming around as if they are F1 cars on nitro.
It's not about flying, really, but ground mobility.
Battletech mechs are pretty fast for the most part. Even Urbanmech is faster then XV8. Battlesuits are closer to Elementals in this regard.
Your drone choice definitely segmentsbu as a guard player. Great video
The Imperium when the Tau doesnt use the same strategy over and over: 😮
Great timing! I just started my Tau army
I think I understand the t’au are the 40k United Nations
Great video. I like how you mentioned the 4 horsemen. Pestilence is so cool. Like the death guard
Just a small note, but Shas'la Kais (from Fire Warrior) and Shas'O Kais (from Dark Crusade) have actually been confirmed to be the same guy.
Watching your videos make me happy.
My heart leaps for imperial joy when I see a new KrakDuk video ❤
“The greater good is coming from my bolter, alien”
New tau player here love your videos and the animation style
They don't really need a warp travel alternative since what they do have is basically really, really, crappy warp engines.
What the humies and orks ships do is basically acting like submarines that go "down" into the warp and then use various means to navigate while not being able to see realspace (Or as is the case with orks, either cheat for plot convenience or just don't care where you end up.)
The Tau ships on the other hand, they just lightly skim across the "top layer" of the Warp, so they go super super slow by comparison, but they have a much easier time navigating, and since their souls are so weak, daemons generally can't even see them when they do their skimming.
THE TAU IS SPACE NATO? I fucking love them even more
Thank you for my hat KrakDuk it’s the nicest thing I’ve ever been given before. Thank you
Hey KrakDuk! Loved the video! As a big T'au fan, I got into Warhammer 40,000 because I found the T'au so unique compared to the other factions. Their usage of diplomacy, Auxiliary races, and Battlesuits accompanied with high-technology really made me love them. While I don't like how they have become less good through the years, and are now more sketchy, I nonetheless feel that sometimes they are given a really bad rep because of bias.
I am happy to see that is not the case with one of my favorite Warhammer creators :)
"Believe in our destiny and stand united, for in unity will we achieve victory. For the Greater Good!"
1:00 Wait, the Tau were basically the tribal stage of Spore?
well by that point they were city states with gunpowder, so a bit more like civilization stage
Spore mentioned
I miss Spore.
Great video! However, I have to report you to the inquisition now guardsmen
13:38 also we have Monat ( littetrly any FPS main character)
All 3 of them were mastered by Puretide.
Even his best students could master only 1 each.
5:17 I see KrakDuk has been practicing his hand drawing skills. I can’t wait to see what new hands we will soon see!
Bro you are just one of the best WK 40 channels out here by far ❤❤keep it up bro 💪💪💪
Lets be fair, people don't just hate the Tau, they hate "That Tau player".
No mention of the best bit of Tau lore which is that the auxiliary races' belief in the Tau'va ended up creating a Vishnu-like multi armed god in the Warp who rescued a floundering Fourth Sphere fleet and also prevented Death Guard from using a wormhole to invade inner core Tau space.
For real, this is just the best 40k lore channel
my fav suit is the broadsides! those are so chonky and cool!
6:17 he'll never escape the allegations
The giant psychic pancake space bears never fail to make me laugh
Holy shit this is a new video? I just randomly searched Tau 40k and your video showed up 😂 I thought this video was uploaded a year ago or something
I’ve never had a problem with them, I like how they contrast with the rest of the setting.
Bro the imperium has been using drones for 10,000 years. They're called servitor skulls
A bit of a correction, the Ta'unar is not a battlesuit, but belongs to a larger category of war walkers called "ballistic suit". But don't worry, BL writers get this terminology wrong too. That's how we have a canon case of a Warlord titan running away from just three Broadsides.
That... Such a funny image.
That would be like a grown man running from Barbie dolls with guns... So I guess I can see where the pilot was coming from.
I have a friend who plays Tau reguarly, I play IG, and we regularly battled back in 5th ed. When he bought and built his first Kroot kit, he was *so* excited to use them in melee. He talked about it all the time up to and during our next match. We reached a turn where his Kroot were finally in assault range and of course I charged him first with a conscript blob. Buried them in a pile of bodies.
really satisfying when Tau realize how strong and ancient the Imperium is
The irony here is that Tau is actually the faction you want to see when you in danger.
The hatred is just prejudice of the emperium to justify war that ended up covering the Emperor order to protect humanity from monsters.
you're popping these videos out like a factory man and still keeping up the quality, good shit keep it going!
Of all your lil drawings depicting the various races, your Tau are my fave!
The Tau are a really interesting addition to the 40k universe. They really highlight how comically tragic it is that the most progressive, tolerant and "humane" faction remaining is not humanity, but some small species of aliens that humanity (and the playerbase) despises, kills and makes fun of 😂