Tau Auxiliaries and their Highschool Stereotype | Warhammer 40k Lore
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Ironically the Faction that everyone seems to hate is one of the only factions that has friends. Today we'll talk about the myriad of Tau Auxiliary species. From kroot to vespid I'll talk about them all! (at least the ones I could find).
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Hi everyone, hope you enjoy this video! I’m sure I mispronounced a lot of things this time around because of silly alien names. Feel free to let me know how silly I am, also feel free to drop any video suggestions below.
Also I shoulda said TikTau’k AGH, TauTok is fine😞
Omg how did I say Kaminoans wrong, just caught that
It's OK, who gives a crap about xenos feelings.
A video about the Horus heresy or a video series about each legion would be awesome
PS Amazing artwork as always :D
You made a video game pitch vid, I think a part 2 would be amazing. Just found your channel today and I’m already hooked
@@TemplarBlack. true. I like the Kaminonians because they have easily stranglable necks
"Sixth friend we're FUCKED" had me in stitches well done mate
Lmao, typical tau reaction when the enemy gets within 100 feet of them.
Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk T'au players don't call it the Fight phase, they call it the "Remove models" phase
@@nickz1259 lmaoo, sounds about right. Even in killteam one of the the only things I feel comfortable charging with my guardsmen are tau
Should have been ‘6th friend we’re clusterfucked’ to be perfect though…
As an ork fan who's attention span deteriorates with every time I shout waaagh, these videos are the morkiest zoggin things I've layed eyes on.
Thank you! That’s some high praise, glad to get some approval from the greenskin community!
"The Demiurg are not real warriors"
THAT'S GOING IN THE DATA CENTER OF GRUDGES!
Their physical ability falls “short” compared to other races
@@Bakersmanbakemeacake doubt it, in the tabletop the Kin (the Demiurg by their actual name) are as strong as marines
Tau company : auxiliary, we are SHORT on supply..
Demiurge : SHORT?! there will be no alliance...
Lore: “yeah the tau don’t understand the warp”
the auxiliary race of psychic owl bears: ……..
Gw strikes again !
It actually makes a lot of sense. The Nicassar's evolution centered a lot around the warp, to the point they use it to perceive the world around them and move mostly by their telekinesis. The Nicassar themselves understand the warp, but can't really explain it to the Tau.
To make a poor analogy: imagine humans find a super advanced species of blind, deaf ant-like creatures that perceive the world and communicate mostly trough smell. How the fuck would you explain classical mechanics or electricity to them?
@@marcospatricio8283 mean a.) the tau could still research the phenomena that they create. As we see in the imperium you can still learn about and understand psychic phenomena without being psychic.
B.) the tau have humans in their society who are also psychers probably even a few sanctioned psychers and navigators who jumped ship.
C.) you can describe the practical aspects of someone even if they arnt capable of it. Sure the owl bears may not be able to articulate every aspect but explaining that the basics shouldn’t be that hard. I can explain driving a car to someone even if they arnt physically capable of driving one themselves.
Your premise assumes that the nikkasar can’t communicate complex ideas to the tau which is verifiably false given they had enough common ground to you know integrate into tau society
@@azurewraith2585 mate, I assume it's not the case, but you're coming off as kinda angry and putting words in my mouth. I'm just trying to have a friendly chat, ok? This is a silly discussion about a made up universe. If it is affecting you negatively, you should probably just ignore me and move on.
Assuming I just read you wrong and we can continue, I'll address your points one by one.
a) I never said they don't. Keyword: "research". That means "observing phenomena and learning trying very hard to understand them", not "instantly knowing it". Research takes time and progresses in steps. The Tau were in the stone age 6K years ago. They are at most 5K years old. It's very plausible they just didn't have enough time to understand the warp properly.
b) yes. They also don't understand the warp that well. Prospero, for example, had a massive population of psychers and thousands of years of study (the wiki states the very foundation of the colony was related to psychically talented humans), and they still didn't learn the chaos gods existed until it was too late. And to make things worse, possession among human psychers who aid in research must be very common, which is both a great hazard and a source of false information. Psychers and navigators are certainly very important in Tau research, and I'd love to have some in the Tau empire, specially in a book. But they are not easy and readily available sources of knowledge.
c) I think you're misunderstanding my point, but I don't blame you. My background makes me forget how hard it was for me to learn and accept that. I'm a CS student with emphasis in robotics in my 5th year (which means I probably learnt this stuff 3/4 years ago) and let me tell you, mate: we can't explain or replicate lots of shit humans do. There's over 40 years of research on bipedal robots, and about halfway we just gave up on programming them to walk and have them learn it instead. Precisely because walking is so instinctive to us, we can't understand or replicate it's minutiae. And that's not the only thing. Edge detection is very hard, object segmentation as well, object permanence is night-impossible to achieve as far as I know, and so on and so forth. Manipulators are also very hard to make, and while soft robotics are proving very promising, we didn't even try to program these and have been using ML since the begging. I get that it is very counter intuitive, but these are the facts, and I'm basing myself on them to reach my conclusion.
If we can't put easily instinctive concepts we ourselves are capable of into words or to use in technology, do you really think we would have an easy time teaching them to a species so unlike our own?
Don't forget the Kroot who use the warp regular whenever they go out in their warshperes to find new contractors
The Nicassar are psychic Owlbears
GW HAS PSYCHIC OWLBEARS AND DOESN'T DO SHIT WITH THEM, WTF
FOR REAL. To be fair tho 40K is almost synonymous with missed potential, so many cool little things that end up never getting models😞 thanks for watching!
Maybe DnD owlbears need to be 20 years old or something trademark idk.
@@martind5653 D&D doesn't own the concept of an owl-bear hybrid, just the creature design and name itself. The Nicassar are fine.
THATS WHAT I DONE BEEN SAYING
What you're saying is that you want more Space Marines, right?
Sam o'nella but with 40k
lol perfect analogy
Tons of Salmonella wannabe channels lately.
@@insertname9736 krakduk isn't a wannabe he's different to sam but he does have a very similar humour and manner of speech
@@insertname9736 krakduk isn't a wannabe he's different to sam but he does have a very similar humour and manner of speech
I miss Sam
I think that the Auxiliaries are not only awesome but enrich the whole setting knowing that there is so much more going on in the galaxie. Great video as always!!!
Ya I love lore that’s just like, oh by the way this species is a giant bug monster and they make ships. Even if it’s not expanded on it actually makes the setting feel bigger than like 5 factions or whatever fighting.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate it
I think that's why I love the Tau, seeing that there's more species than like 5. I'm always bummer out hearing about the xenos that were wiped out in crusades cause those are like cool factions we'll just never see.
"Tautok" Okay that's both smart and horrifying.
Lmao, tik tok was the true grimest dark after all. Thanks for watching!
This makes me think of a tau krotox
The word fidget spinners just unlocked so many repressed memories, this channel is awesome
The only thing I love more than 40K is dead memes and trends🤣
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoy the channel
Did you know ? A kroot eating a necrons, will die in the hours that follow, like tyranids they can't stand Necron food 😅(Kasrkin novel)
Ya I read about that, makes me wonder how they even eat a necron. They must just be able to bite through absurdly tough things.
Necrodermis is technically made up of uncounted numbers of microscopic nanoscarabs, a kroot that eats it will be eaten from the inside out. Tyranids are currently working on a way to digest necrodermis however so they can incorporate it into their bioforms like they do with other minerals.
I find it weird how a lot of people say that the Tau use sterilization and re-education, which potentially exist within the empire but only mentioned ONCE in a non-canon video game ending. Don't get me wrong there's plenty fucked about the T'au, but compared to cannibalism, slavery, literal genocide or being cut open on a table for the mechanicus I think most of us would still prefer tautok in comparison.
Ya, tbh that DOW ending kinda stuck in my head when I played it and I didn’t realize it was mostly not a thing for the tau otherwise so my bad on that one.
Thanks for watching! Tau are definitely one of the lesser evils in the setting haha
@@KrakDuk Well nobody is truly innocent in 40k, the whole "there is only war" thing is kind of the basis of the setting.
But personally I'm huge tau fan, especially their auxiliaries like the gue'vesa because how they show a young race trying to hold to their principles in a galaxy that doesn't care about them. Funnily enough they remind me or the "The cold indifference of the universe vs the indomitable human spirit" meme more then the imperium itself.
Good video regardless!
For me that ending makes sense would have happened.
After all, you need to keep some populations on check.
@@KrakDuk yeah and like the entire sector solar system whatever that area was in soul storm used to seem loyal to the tau but like they went into mass rebellion against them and restored the imperial guard within months of the imperium returning so I took it as a if they rebel against the tau they use sterilization as a form of eugenics
@@andarara-c1p considering the Imperium would just straight up genocide any non humans (and some abhumans) on the planet i reckon the Tau is still significantly more merciful
I like to imagine the lil' Cadian guy isn't the narrator, he just stopped by to hear you talk.
*Interesting vid on Tau Auxiliaries I've never seen before*
GW: Ah So you want more Space Marine models!
I love tau Auxila, but the sheer lack of minis on the tabletop (except the very new Kroot range). I would LOVE to see a kill team of just a collection of funky races and humans !!! There are way to many kitbashes that look soo cool xD.
I even printed a bunch of fun made Auxilia with my 3D printer! Best of all there were frree!
Also Great video as always Krak ^^
An auxiliary Killteam would be so awesome, with each specialist being a different Xenos species.
I heard rumors the next Killteam box will be Scions vs Vespids, so if true that’s right up my alley and super hype.
Thank you again! Glad you enjoyed the video
That would be great!
They did the same thing with Tau so maybe... but i doubt it will be just vespid. Tho it would he fun to see what other kind of weapons they would have
As someone who only watches the Hobbie from the outside .. aren't there some Age of Sigmar minis that could fit ?
Yea just a single unit type from each would be enough. A Korg as a Titanic unit would be enough XD
I’m not even into 40K but love your videos/art/humor.
Lol thank you! That’s good to hear
Fun fact. Humans born into the Tau empire will also worship the Greater God as like a God unlike the Tau that to them the Greater Good is a philosophy. This worshipping of the Greater God has caused a new Warp entity, and the Tau themselves don't really know how to feel about it. Also, no, the whole thing about starlinzing(God, I'm bad at spelling, sorry, but I think you know which word I'm trying to say, right?) Is just Imperium propaganda. After all Humans are born into the Tau empire so they're not just converted Imperium citizens or warriors. Their worlds start out as that but slowly over time they become fully Tau worlds and of course humans are born onto these worlds and after generations they might not even know the Imperium exist at all and just do whatever it is Gue'vesa do on Tau worlds. Now of course if you mean that Gue'vesa cannot do the dirty with anyone other than a human in Tau society then yeah that's kinda what happens. But they are not stairlized(again, forgive me for my bad spelling)
Oh ya I read about the greater good warp god. That’s pretty funny and makes sense with how warp entities are described to work.
I didn’t realize the sterilization thing was mostly imperium propaganda. Thanks for pointing that out, I think I was remembering older lore.
There are however humans that are integrated into tau society rather than being born into it, for them the reeducation camps make sense for the setting. Especially considering how strong imperial indoctrination can be already.
Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk No Problem. And yeah the reeducation stuff is probably true but we don’t know exactly. But yeah I just wanted to point out that fault in what you said about Gue’vesa and yeah I do agree with you. Gue’vesa are the best Auxiliaries in the Tau Empire. There’s a few videos by other 40k RUclipsrs if you’re more interested in what it’s like for a Gue’vesa in the Tau Empire but that’s only if you’re interested. (Btw Cadians are also my favorite of the Imperial Guard regiments as well so yeah)
@@Pixel22-fs3tt ya I appreciate it, I honestly did prefer when the tau were less overtly evil. It was an interesting contrast imo, so them not just sterilizing all their human allies is something I’m fine with lol.
And hell yeah dude, Cadia stands!
@@KrakDuk Yeah I also prefer the Tau to not be evil. I just interpret that all the evil stuff said about the Tau is just Imperium propaganda to be honest and yeah it Cadia still stands!
@@Pixel22-fs3tt ya I think that works well
7:49 thraxans are also in the show “invincible” hmmm interesting
You forgot the most fun part about the Gue'Vesa: those damned humans and their untampered souls created a new Chaos God as "The Greater Good", which Shadowsun met in the warp once
Being known for having knees and ribs is one of those things... it's either completely unremarkable cause "Yeah its' called 'having a skeleton'" or it's terrifying serial killer shit cause it's not *their* knees and ribs.
And I mean this being 40k... I feel like the latter is almost more likely than not tbh.
Maybe theirs are especially strong or abnormal compared to other species with similar looks or biologies?
Humans: *all the other kids better run better run, out run my gun*
There’s a blast from the past…
Bruh this is peak 40k lore content. You just made it to the top tier with Pancreasnowork
Ah thank you very much. That’s a high honor, I love his stuff lol
The fluster Cluck was a good one
"101 Morrelians..." I'll let myself out.
Lmaoo, Rip Morrelian children
You know about that old, possibly decanonized Drukhari character Cruellagh the Vile?
@@tau-5794 40K if it was good:
i only found you recently, but i absolute love the jokes and fun art style!!
Thank you very much! I’m glad you enjoy my videos!!
A follow up on the dark eldar would be very interesting because they also use alot of auxillaries
Ooh yeah good idea. Drawing some sslyth would be cool too. Thanks for watching!
Dark Eldar in general are great for comparing with high school clique culture
Not canon coz the Blood Ravens ending was the canon one for Dark Crusade.
But I really liked the Tau ending where Imperial Guard who surrendered were inducted into the Gue’Vesa, while the rest were executed.
Best part of that ending was an almost throwaway line, mentioning declining human birth rates. Implied to be a result of Tau sterilisation efforts, coz they didn’t trust the Imperials, but couldn’t go full exterminatus coz of their image.
Nah, clearly the declining birth rates were because the human men couldn't have kids with Tau women, despite their best efforts.
Or its a sign of their life improving with education as it's the case of our world. The better the lives of people, the lower the birth rates.
As someone getting into Warhammer the more I learn about the Tau the more I like 😂.
I like how you draw little 40k dudes.
Thanks! They’re fun to draw
SHORT!!?
Thats going in the book!!!!
There's a story I like of the tau Where they Try to travel through the warp right, Without a Geller field You could imagine how that went.
I’d give a couple toes to get more Auxiliaries on the tabletop
Me too, the nicassar and Vorgh would be super cool to see. Thanks for watching!
Your videos are both an art itself and verg informative. I will watch your channel closely. Amazing work!
Thank you very much!
@KrakDuk No need to thank, its your work that's amazing!
Your videos are so fun, you deserve way more views and subscribers.
Thank you very much! I always appreciate seeing your kind words
Yoooo my fav 40K man is back!
Aye thanks a lot! Hope you like the vid👍
You need to look at Charpactin. The sentient magic mushroom that speak with flashing lights that the Water Caste use to check if Fire Warriors are still loyal.
Oh what I didn’t even know about those dudes. That’s really funny, wish I had them in the video.
Thanks for pointing them out!
@KrakDuk No problem! I play Tau on the Tabletop so I love looking at all the potential models we will never have!
@@alexandermartinez2115 that’s too real lmao. I feel similar reading about various guard regiments
the human 'clusters' and individual 'friends' seems like they just weren't brave enough to call them squads of comrades lol
Lmao fr. They were not beating the commie allegations
dude your stuff is amazing!:) looking forward for whats to come!
Thank you very much! I’m excited to get more videos out, I have a lot of topics I want to cover
I love your vids bro!!! keep up the good work and I see you being one of the biggest Warhammer channels!
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it, I hope to continue to improve my work and grow as a creator
The vespid are bros that talk about charging their J/O crystals too openly.
I wish they made Gue’versa models. If they can make brood brothers for gene stealers they can make Gue,versa for the Tau.
I want clusters on the table top!
Ya I think that would be super cool to see. I heard they might be making a vespid killteam so that and the Kroot expansion may be hints of good things to come hopefully.
Thanks for watching! I too would like my little friend clusters on the table
Brood Brothers are just alternate heads for the normal IG kit, gue'vesa would have to be entirely new since they can't have the same heads, legs, or hands as normal fire warriors.
It's a solid decade since I did anything with warhammer, but back in the day kitbashing gue'vesa together was pretty easy. Had a friend who had an army of catachan/tau combo guys way back in 2003!
Surely all those plastic minis are still made? Or no?
@@ilmari1452 lol I’m pretty sure the tau and catachan kits are the exact same ones from 2003. Definitely the catachan at least, not sure about the firewarriors.
Catachan gue’vesa is pretty interesting. I usually only see cadian styled ones. Catachan guevesa only wear pants, a fire warrior pauldron, and headband🤣🤣
oh man i was the guy in my highschool who had ribs and kneecaps but not anymore
When I first started getting into 40K, the Tau were my favourite faction. In a grimdark world where everyone's a bad guy, the Tau were a real breath of fresh air 😊
Found your channel today...keep up the great work😊
Oh hey that’s awesome! Hope you enjoy my videos, there’s a lot more to come
@@KrakDuk Great. Can't wait :D
thank you for the dark eldar representation! nobody likes to draw us!
Ofc! I actually really enjoy drawing the dark eldar, their pointy bits are a nice departure from the usual round or blocky guys I draw.
I love your videos! The length and humor make them entertaining, educational, and keeps my ADHD ass engaged. If Luetin’s in-depth hour long videos are like a 40k textbook, you’re channel is like 40k for Dummies (I mean that as an absolute compliment to both you and Luetin😊)
Thank you very much! Glad you like the vids
That’s what I was aiming for. I wanted my channel to have short digestible vids so people could find topics they might want to delve deeper into, either with other channels or the books
A great vid as always, btw are you gonna do a vid about squigs anytime soon?
Thank you very much! That’s a good idea, going over all the squig variants can be a fun thing to cover. I’ll put it on the list, thanks for the suggestion
6:33 Oh wow seeing Jack Dohrety here aged like a fine wine
Yeap Maclaren go vroom (I wanted a boom) fuck that kid
I love your drawings, they're so charming.
Thank you very much!
Not gonna lie I giggled like a mad man when he said the humans wear 'blue face'
good job digging
more then a few i didnt know about
Nice waching you again!! funny video and i relly love tau, whould love some animated lore of it
Thanks alot! I also like the tau, they’re actually one of my favorites. I’ll definitely make some more tau lore videos sometime in the future.
0:56 Hey, fan art is better than No art!
True! I love the 40K fanart community
What the T’au could be (as a faction): The Covenant from Halo; many races fulfilling different specialized roles, with the Tau themselves as the main force. Plus gundams, cuz they’re awesome.
What we have: Kroot, Tau, Vespids (barely), Tau, Battlesuits, Tau, more Tau in Battlesuits…
GIVE ME THE PSYCHIC BEARS, BUG KNIFE BLENDERS, DISCO SLIMES (I don’t remember where I got it but they got slimes with powerful lasers… and act like everything is a stage play), AND EVERYTHING ELSE, JAMES WORKSHOP
Great video! Only thing is that the Nicassar weren’t the first to join the Greater Good, they were the first to join and survive 🙃 The Proctoon were the first to join and then shortly after they joined they were struck by a mysterious plague that the T’au were “luckily” completely immune to
The T’au then converted the now “tragically” empty world into the Core Sept world of Borkan
So yeah, the T’au totally didn’t pass the smallpox blankets out to the Poctroon and then take over their planet, they’d never do that
"Humans are the best auxiliary"
Kroot: WHERE ARE YOUR MODELS THEN
The video is the best, if not THE Best video so far
SALAMANDER (last time i promise), in other news the Kaju is my new favorite xenos
I strategically put him in to get you to watch🤣 but ya I hope GW decides to expand the auxillaries some day they’re super cool
Thanks for watching!
The Tau using literal Kaijus to fight titans would be hilarious
Really wish that GW would make some more of these as actual models. Until then, however, I may try to kitbash some of these designs because the ones in this video look awesome!
So I'm just now getting into Warhammer, and all I can say is, I had no idea the Tau was even a thing until this video.
Vespids have finally had a confirmed design in the new kill team box
Great stuff you deserve more subs
Thank you very much! I appreciate it
I will be waiting for the Admech video my friend. I decree it
Also diggin the content my guy, artwork ties it all together
Yessir Admech is on the way. Trying to make my way around all the factions. Thanks a lot! I appreciate it
The sterilization thing is not really a thing (the reeducation camps is completely a thing though). No, the actual attempt at grimdark are the survivors of the 4th sphere who want to kill all the non-tau.
Out of all the T'au auxillaries, the one I want to see most get its own figure someday is the Vorgh. Imagine being able to call in Godzilla to throw down with a Titan or Gargant
A tau aux codes would be fun. If i could create stats inwould try and make one
I'm so glad he didn't forget the Glershitglorbs
I woukd love to see an Auxiliary codex and a lot more models for them.
Really cool video, i hope gw can give Gue‘vesa models one day
Everyone remembers that one kid in high school who was known for their knees and ribs. Brings back memories.
Farsight enclaves are probably the only place in 40k that is truly a neutral good type of faction. Would like a vid on them one day
10:11 - 10:22 I feel personally attacked, lol because its true. Good job, you get a like.
Human radio man picking up a cluster’s distress call.
“Come in, what’s your unit? We’ll send help!”
“We are the 126th cluster, I am the 1st friend! By the greater will, the emperor has blessed us with your help!”
*targets their location with artillery instead*
Ah the 'Wormholes' quip got me.
Strapping in for the series 'T'au and Friends'
6 seasons and a movie!
I would buy TF out of a T’au Kaiju. And blind space bears. That would be so cool.
Imagine playing a game with every possible Tau Auxiliary while the opponent player is absolutely baffled that the Tau have a lot more friends than expected.
The galg should be that one guy that everyone knows his name but not his face and is constantly mixed up with other people in the school.
For contex, for a long time the Galg were believed to be by both the fanbase (and some writers) a humanoid frog species. It was only after the Liber Xenologist book released art of them that it was cleared up, and the book made the confusion an in-universe thing by saying that some Rogue Trader mixed the names of two different Tau auxiliaries (among other mistakes)
3:32 Short?!
Damn, didn't know the Tau could be that dark
Vespids are that super intelligent foreign exchange student that also believes in holistic medicine.
I think the earth cast would be more of the building/welding classes whatever that click is
Tau is the faction I play the most. Specifically my Kroot army even if I virtually never win XD.
Enough mecha suits, gimmie more of these models
Guys! Guys! Do not listen to KrakDuk! I just tried blue face in an attempt to integrate with other members of my community and it did not go well at all
Looking back maybe the shade was a little too dark…
Anyways as a Brit this video gave me a new appreciation of the Tau, nothing like a bit of colonisation and stealing for the Que… Kin- umm Ethereal
One day they may even evolve from their primitive ways and learn the good old stabby stab
Ah nooooo, you had me mistaken. Blue face is a practice by the foolish heretics who betrayed the imperium for the “greater good” It should not be done by righteous guardsmen!
Lol true, I didn’t realize how British the tau were
As always, Thanks for watching!
Well thank you for creating these vids. It’s a fun little addition to my weekend/Monday
@@Goblin_deez. ofc! I’m just happy people like em lol
Dying at "rib and knee boy" omfg
The goat has posted
Haha, I appreciate it. Hope you like this new one
I think the psychic space bears or well their space ships actually appear in battlefleet gothic
You missed the Loxatl from the novel "Fire Caste"
There needs be another Tau kill team made up of a 1 or 2 actual Tau and then a bunch of axualliaries, I think that's the only way wee are gonna see these guys getting new models outside of stuff like Necromunda or making proxies from AoS models
At the moment, my Tau army is complete. I have everything I want and don't feel the need for more. If more auxiliaries are added to the game, that'll change my mind.
The sterilization thing was from a non-canon ending to a video game and was narrated by an Imperial. I don't think they actually do that.
Someone did make a full playlist regarding Tau auxiliaries
Although I'm not sure which is canonized or actually true about it but regardless it's still pretty entertaining stuff
His name is heretical hatter
The fan art's in this video are biblical
The tau were my first army because they were basically the covenant. I was a die hard halo fan
Glep Shitglorbs mentioned, Insta like
How bad do I want Gue'vesa support? One of the Kill Teams I'm planning is Kasrkin remodeled as a Gue'vesa unit and if I ever get back into 40K proper I'm thinking of mechanized guard altered to look very Tau.
Damnit GW I will actually give you money if you offer Tau Auxiliaries!
Did the thraxiens appear in invincible or in 40k first
The Ultramarines are the most Roman in appearance while the Tau are the most Roman in practice. The Roman's did use a ton of different clients from Italy and elsewhere.
I’d say the main difference is the Roman’s never even pretended to treat the auxiliaries as equals, at least on average.