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The T'au (Imperial binomial classification: Tau tau), also spelled Tau in older records and pronounced "TOW," are a young, humanoid and technologically-advanced intelligent species native to the Eastern Fringes of the Milky Way Galaxy.
They are fighting to expand their interstellar empire and extend a philosophical concept they call the "Greater Good" (Tau'va in the T'au Lexicon) to all the intelligent species of the galaxy.
The T'au claim to be a peaceful species when possible, asking if others will join their cause voluntarily instead of fighting against them.
However, if their peaceful overtures are refused, the T'au may well decide to conquer a planet and add it to their growing interstellar empire for the Greater Good, searing the flesh from the bones of anyone who stands against their benign intentions.
orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculous MERCH
You know I bought this near instantly
We need that Doge Vandire merch!
We need "Ama tank" merch
I mean, all of the memes
when i bought the 8e codex i realized that their mechs are just armored cores, to the point that the FSE gets to give a unit with 2 fusion blasters a specail weapon system called fusion blades
its literally just armored core laser blades
Would love a black version!
Tau are like the only normal guy in a time of madness
"Man, Tau are such weebs!"
Eldar: Neglect sex to study the blade and have literal shuriken weapons, teleporting behind people for nothing personnel with weapons named after dragons
Eldar are old school weebs, tau are the modern weebs. For every time period a weeb
Not to mention fucked the Chaos God of Hentai into existence.
Have a culture that's heavily formal and conservative with a strong emphasis on stoicism. Not to mention their eastern style robes and symbology.
THANK YOU!!! I’m glad someone else calls out the bs bishonen knife ear bastards.
@@Lotan_ Hate to break it to you but the Eldar are Irish Space Elves™. Maybe they are Irish weebs? What's the word for Irish weeb, yknow like Teaboo for Brits, Freeaboo for Yanks or Wehraboo for those who like big cats?
Bricky: I hate anime
Also Bricky: Lovingly describes "The Eight" which is some of the most anime shit I've heard out of 40k
40k is literally the most anime shit the west has ever created
Bricky is a closeted anime fan, he's just more critical of it than most. But he refuses to admit he likes it lmfao
Friendly reminder that farsight is the anime protagonist of 40k.
i dont like anime but i like tau so i'm a non weeb weeaboo?
Honestly, I could see a strong argument for Guilliman being the anime protagonist. But that's the beauty of Warhammer, it's universe is big enough for multiple protags. Yarrick and Gazkull, Guilliman, Magnus and Russ, Abbadon, Eldrad, Trayzen, Vex...and dont forget Ciaphas Cains spinoff series. There's so many strong characters.
Also, the more I think about it, the more I want a tragic anime about Magnus. It's not hard to see why bruva alfabusa made him a big part of his series.
That being said, Farsight fits the most tropes still.
"Back when they were primitive warring tribe society"
>Shows English Football hooligans
brilliant.
Thought those were orks.
@no or maybe yes DIGGANOBZ!
ZOGGIN HUMIES, DATS CULTRAL APROBIATION
@@Ake-TL stfu Bluair Glusniffa
Damn that's too close to home.
Just finished the Ciaphas Cain novel “The Greater Good” where the empire and tau form a temporary Truce against the Nids. I love that basically any time Cain and another officer are talking about the truce they just assume the Tau are going to screw them but then he straight up says “not that they have a recorded history of doing such things but it’s what we’d do in their shoes.”
Ah yes, the good ol' Roman-style "if we don't get them they'll get us first!"
Ciaphas Cain's greatest strength and weakness is his crippling awareness of the situation.
"How dare you not commit genocide, that's not the point, fuck you!"
Brilliantly captures the entirety of 40K in so many layers.
All the real ones know that the best piece of Tau lore is that-
*Sounds of an angry custodian in the distance* “THAT IS NOT CANON!”
Oh my God, they sound like those stupid kids who say the same thing about Star Wars legends lore. "But that's not canon!" "Shut the fuck up child."
@@ArtificialDragon it’s a tts reference
@@warbossgrim8256 I am aware, it's from kitten but I don't care XD
@@warbossgrim8256 nobody asked
@@ArtificialDragon Extended Universes are always better than whatever conglomerate says but you dont care lol
Edit: my response to those kids I mean
Shy's visual aid game is absolutely on-point here
The Emperors Servants need not thanks for doing his will, they need only know they walk in his light.
You know that bit in spongebob, when plankton is addressing his extended family, and the computer is making fun of his real name behind him, but he doesn’t catch it at first?
That’s Shy’s level of timing.
20 years
Shy's savage man
Everything's so tongue-in-cheek I love it
T'au : you can believe what you want to believe
Orks : we da bois believe in crushing you
Why they eventually had to write Orks off from being a part of the Greater Good.
And we humans: *LEAVE MY GALAXY OR SUPER DIE*
@@Waywardpaladin i mean, they are just half-sentient fungus, it could be argued they're basically some kind of plant
@@smallvalleyproductions9103 Funny enough, Fungi are an entirely different kingdom than Plantae, yet Orks supposedly do photosynthesis, something fungi can't. Those Old Ones were up to some tomfoolery.
@@Waywardpaladin Hey, when one family of organisms has a good idea, why not copy it?
I remember when I picked up Tau in college. I really liked their aesthetic. Then I heard that "People only play Tau for the anime battle-suits." I resolved to not use any suits in my army. I went with infantry, drones, and vehicles. I never won a game, but I didn't go down easy, either.
I like the smaller suits, stealth and crisis. They are killer
@Frank Rauen I think that's every army besides SPESS MEHREENS and SPESS MEHREENS but spiky.
Ah, so you were playing the 5th Colonial Defense Cadre consisting of that world’s weekend warriors and police officers with one or two fire caste veterans who were assigned to the colony.
I love the tau armor and smaller suits and the HUGE suits with MASSIVE guns, but none in between. I also love the hammer head tanks. The suits and hammerhead look very star wars esque which I love, and the idea of their guns being so long range is sick.
Respect
The “If you can see the Tau it means they’re losing” rule only half applies to the Enclaves
From my miniscule experience from fighting them, they are good in very long and very short ranges, but comparably bad in medium range.
Hehe, XV8 twin linked flamers go whooooosh
Aun'shi also. Dude wrecks Orks in CQC.
@@theoverpreparerlamenters3r436 I haven’t played table top but how does that work ?
@@rokkfel4999 A lot of other factions have medium range guns that can out-shoot their long range guns at the same distance, but are then in turn out-shot by the Enclaves' short-range guns. Basically, if the Tau are engaging you at long or medium range, their firepower hasn't changed, but yours *has*.
Farsight also discovered about daemons and how the ethereals are pretending chaos doesn't exist
Because chaos is probably playing them like a fiddle he knows they are the real threat.
@@mikecampos1193 Maybe. It’s been stated multiple times that the T’au aren’t even worth a daemon’s time of day, but the more creatures worshipping a chaos god, the merrier.
And that’s what cements Tau as the Imperium with a sympathetic publicist.
@@volcemr4469 one Tau is like a grain of rice on the floor. But once they commit to something they start to show on radar
"The ethereals are pretending chaos doesn't exist" - *God Emperor is an Ethereal confirmed.*
DK: gets Minis because they look cool and they wants to paint them.
Bricky: "I have no problem with people who collect _____ Minis, but im still gonna give them shit for having them."
Truly they are both 40k fans.
The T’au: too big to be ignored, to small to bother dealing with.
The sweet spot
Imperium towards Orks: Now you must acquire a taste for... Exterminatus.
Imperium towards T’au: *Focusing. Focusing. Focusing.*
Think of it like levels of imperial government. A lot of things are not worth the full imperial effort (major crusades, chapter foundings) but still gets the attention of the still impressive imperial sector authorities.
@yossarian If the High Lords want that done, they prep an imperial crusade. It's a huge process though, something that sets gigantic parts of the imperial machinery to work. There's often something else besides xenos pocket empires that need this attention.
@yossarian you seem to be assuming that such a thing would be difficult for the imperium to do, or at least take effort for the Imperium to gather. If that is so, then you are fatally underestimating the sheer size, scope, capacity, capabilities, and unending numbers of the Imperial guard. These are people who fight the tide of orca with combined arms warfare and attrition.
“The Tau want to create a society where everyone works to advance the collective.”
40k Doomer: “And I took that personally.”
That is, literally the tyranids. Every tyranid works to advance the collective hivemind. They get a pass though because their method is vore
whic is literally the inverse of the Imperium where everyone works for THE STATE, at least on an imperial-wide scale. individual planets or hell, even CONTINENTS on a singular world might have very different ways of doing things.
Earth Cast Tau - “What is my purpose”
Tau Leader - “You clean bathrooms for the greater good.”
Earth Cast Tau - “… oh my god”
@@TheCrimsonSpork Earth cast of the empire: cries
O'Vesa: builds drone that can clean the entire farsight enclaves in a month
@@TheCrimsonSpork they would just build a drone, Earth caste engineers have better stuff to take care of
When you guys talk about the XV - naming convention I was imagining how the Tau are still actively inventing stuff. I would love to see some top Tau scientist super eager to talk to a captured Techapriest like "share the knowledge of the Imperiums wondrous technology!! We want melee mechs like those Knights Gallent!" And the TechPriest just talking about oils and prayers and shit. "Are you..are you sure this is one of their engineers?"
Considering there is an active alliance with a Forge World, it's perfectly possible!
In fact, the T'au tech, or maybe just their outlook on tech, allowed for an increased of 200% of their production output, so there already were T'au scientist having to work with the oil friendly chanters.
what the tau need are infantry exoskeleton they can put on tau soldiers to let them be good in melee, a hoverbike option that works like light cav with power katans, and a stealth suit that is all about ambushing targets using melee weapons
@@calebbarnhouse496 They don't tho. Why would the T'au waste resources on melee mechs when they can just throw kroots at the problem until the problem goes away? Even if something gets close enough to be a threat, the T'au have a little something called XV8 crisis suits with twin linked flamethrowers. The T'au literally do not need melee.
@@joaogomes9405 @João Gomes I'm not talking a full battlesuit, I'm talking an exo skeleton, just enough to have the tau warrior able to match superior opponents, that's like asking why space marines exist when you can pour our more guardsmen, the only threat to the tau is melee, so having things that help tie down the enemy in melee is really a requirement, and sometimes kroot just aren't around, or could be hired by your opponent, it's better to have a half measure fallback then none at all
@@joaogomes9405 @João Gomes I'm not talking a full battlesuit, I'm talking an exo skeleton, just enough to cover them on the many cases where kroot aren't available, particularly as GW doesn't want to support auxiliaries in tau armies, and yes flamethrower do sound great vs melee enemies, until that enemy is now stabbing your flamethrower battlesuits whole they ate on fire, which is common, fast attack melee vehicles would be great for tau particularly with markerlight add on where the point is to blow through a unit and drop markerlights on them, but melt under ranged fire or getting tagged in melee, and an ambushing stealth battlesuit with melee weapons is mostly to augment kroot ambushes, normally kroot working stealth have no support because stealth suits want to shoot into the enemy not club them, but a battlesuit meant to get in and attack with overwhelming force with there allys then leave would fit perfectly into the tau doctrine, particularly as this would allow them to fade away, tau want to fight in a very mobile and hard hitting way, a unit that can just be sneaky as hell is a very important addition
The ending “buy the merch” had the same energy as “there is no meme this is just a threat”
They deserve more credit for the simple fact that they looked at warp tech and just threw it out an air lock and then nuked it. I remember the actual online campaign that they did to decide which way they went with it.
They still use the Warp, they just skim atop it gaining marginal benefits rather than diving deep into it. And it wasn't so much that they actually looked into it, but rather they couldn't accurately interact with it any other way.
That's not at all what happened during the campaign back in 8th Ed. There was an actual story bit of an Ethereal declaring the warp off limits that they released at the end of it.
If you ask me, a good 'ol demon infested trip through the literal and metaphorical Realms of Hell on a shoddy, ancient and probably barely understood flying churchship has never hurt anyone
@Dank Buds Back in 8th Ed they did a battle campaign where you registered as a participant and then played games. Then you and your opponent would submit battle reports. Based on overall results, they would steer canon in various directions.
The result of the T'au campaign was that they got a hold of some warp tech and ultimately decided to literally chuck it all out the nearest airlock and blow it up. The Ethereals determined that they were already pushing their luck with the fact that Daemons barely even register the presence of a Tau. The T'au Empire would pursue alternate FTL technology.
@@TheRecklessOne And then in the lore they went and created a big ass warp gate that swallowed the 4th Sphere Expansion fleet. Without having a single Geller field. The daemons first slaughtered the gue'vesa, but then they finally noticed the tau and were about to get to them when the nacent Chaos God of the Greater Good saved them and pushed them out of the Warp. And for some reason the surviving tau hated it and decided they need to purge the Empire of the psychichly active races that they see as responsible for creating said god, for "corrupting" the Greater Good with their worship.
Farsight is a nickname he earned due to his extraordinary ability to foretell outcomes in battle. He easily picks up on tactics employed by the enemy and makes steps ahead of them. The guy has high levels of intuition but is no psychic
Dude I love farsight. I own a farsight enclave army.
There are hints that he may be the first Tau to be touched by the Warp.
Old Tau lore was way more grimdark imo. The actual grimdark came from the fact that there were these noble, hopeful people just exploring and colonizing space for the first time before slowly realizing they are the smallest, newest piece in a intergalactic board game that has been going on for millions of years between ancient civilizations and monsters that anyone could wipe them out at any time. And that even worse still, the victors were decided before they even came to be.
Agreed, let them be actual good people. That won't take the grimdarkness, it will just increase it.
They are in such a bad and hopeless situation, yet they try anyway. That is honestly sad.
THIS
I find it very childish that anyone would think a space colonizing empire would be all squeaky clean and perfect, theirs just no such thing
@@ravenwhiteduck3158since when did Fantasy and Sci Fi care about what’s realistic?
@@ravenwhiteduck3158 I find it funny that people expect a "bad" or "evil" empire would ever make it past like a couple colonized star systems before imploding in on itself.
A peaceful and united empire like the Tau is actually more realistic since there is no way humanity would make it to the stars.
Another fun fact Bricky, is that Shadowsun and Farsight are actually really close friends. Shadowsun was told to hunt down farsight and bring him back to the Tau, and she instead messaged him and warned him of her command.
There is a great scene between Shadowsun and Farsight before Farsight engages the i believe second sphere expansion, and Farsight apologizes for his actions, thinking she hated him for it, when she says
“You? Apologize? After all I’ve done to you? It should be me who apologizes to you. For my coldness, my cowardice. It should be I who offers contrition”
Something to that effect, they are exceptionally close friends, but duty and morals have divided them in the current age, not because they despise one another, but their alliances lie separate. Honestly quite tragic
Not to mention the time a Necron overlord became concerned when he picked up a Tau skull and came to the eeiry conclusion that they share the same skull shape.
Could the Tau somehow be a distant cousin of the Necrontyr? They even look and dress the same, outside of the Tau Mechsuits granted.
@no or maybe yes I would be concerned if i as a super powerful robotic empire found biological life that shares the same traits as our perfect bodies
the similarities do not end there. The Necrontyr were described as having a short lifespan and being weak. The tau also have a short lifespan of 40 years (it can be extended up to 90 thanks to medical science) and are relative weak compared to other species. It really raises some interesting questions
The tau were engineered as a race to be new bodies for the necrons.
@@_NIKOS9_NIKOS Humans used to only live to about 40 in mideval times before modern medicine.
peopole talking about japanese tau while eldar shuriken gun , evangelion robots and dedicate their centuries-long lives to master the blade
Gundam robots*
@@sodomgimilik1503 no wraithknights are EVA's, 100%. The lore for them is basically the same too
@no or maybe yes they mate then go their separate ways. No emotion allowed. As dictated by the ethereal of course...
@Ярослав Л i do believe it is said brother of Karel Capek(Czech republic) Josef is the one who created the word robot as his book RUR apply to its meaning.
Eldar are inherently european tho.
I never got the idea that Tau don't fit aesthetically in 40k. Like what did people expect every race in the galaxy to conform to the Imperium's dress code? As long as it's grounded in the level of strength you could have all manner of looks because different independent races would look different.
Its more of the melee thing, you kinda need melee in this universe
Grognards gunna grognard
If anything, the T’au add significantly to the grim dark nature of the Imperium; by focusing on unity and progress they’ve developed more in a few centuries than humanity has in millennia.
If humanity wasn’t hindered by the Mechanicus rendering invention as heresy then humans could be at the same level of technology as the T’au.
@@CdrChaos Now while I agree the Mechanicum or Adeptus Mechanicus have a lot of problems, I think it's a little much to accuse them of singlehandedly stunting humanities technological growth. Sure they don't allow inventing except for a select few of their highest orders... But if you think they have the capability of policing all the hive worlds of the imperium... Well, they don't. And if someone is making things better, I'd say a governor is more likely to look the other way. No, what I believe is the more crucial issue is two things. One, a complete lack of educational system to not only help people understand how things work, but more importantly why. Which honestly the Adeptus Mechanicus has likely completely forgotten by now. And secondly a surplus that allows people to sit on their heels and come up with things. Before modern times in our actual history the only inventors were really the nobility who has both the time to come up with ideas, as well as the resources to make them happen. So it's no wonder nothing has really progressed for humanity when things are so sucky for them.
@@Modolvr Invention is seen as heresy by the Mechanicus. The only ones trying to innovate or improve are seen as heretics to be executed. The only reason Cawl wasn’t executed for inventing the Primaris Marines is because they’re desperately needed in the current Imperium.
Do you think a society that allows for innovation and invention would still be using weapons that are thousands of years old and never try to make them better?
Tau were always grim dark.
The fact they were hopeful and inexperienced in the face of a horrific galaxy is what makes it grim. Despite all their technology they still only a little of the Galaxy.
They are the lost lamb wandering in the dark. We know what waits for them.
I may be late but agreed. They are good people, Commander Farsight proves that even without the Ethereals they had enough influence that the Greater Good idea is now part of them.
And that is good. They are good people. But they are in such a horrible situation that the simple fact that they are actually trying to be good is sad and grim.
The Tau are less about murder and war and more about a simply unfortunate situation and hopelesness.
This reminds me of Baldemort's allegory of the Tau moving into a *veeery bad* neighbourhood, the neighbours being the other 40k factions wanting them dead.
No joke. They always enhanced the grimdark nature of the universe by being so innocent and ill equipped for it. You can have all the fancy tech in the world but the Warp and the Tyranid Hive Mind aren't going to give a shit.
I talk mad smack about the Tau but it's under the same mentality of Bricky's hatred of the Eldar; They're my thing to hate, my rival, that enhances the fun of playing Imperium.
My favorite catchphrase is "Bitch -ass Tau still can't melee" even knowing full well that the Farsight Enclaves exist. It's just for funsies but real talk even though I prefer new Tau lore I still think original Tau lore was perfectly fine
The Tau also have a dark underbelly, where despite their relative tolerance and less oppressive society they’re still being controlled by an upper caste that most of them literally can’t disobey.
Tau: we're talking about the greater good here
Emperor of mankind: greater good I am the emperor I'm the greatest good you ever going to get
Tau: Honey! Where is my mecha suit?!
@@evinbraley WHERE. IS. MY. BATTLE. SUIT?!
So, 8 guys dressed in red who fight in melee just happen to not worship Khorne? Ok.
Hol’ up
sure
Everyone knows anime protagonists can’t fall to chaos
After fighting Khorne demons and suddenly splintering from the Tau Empire. Yeeah okay.
*The Farsight Enclave liberating the Tau race:* Now what?
*Khorne:* Good day gentlemen, have you heard the good word?
If I remember right part of the reason that Farsight defected was because he discovered Chaos and that the Ethereal were hiding it from everyone as well as what Brick said. Plus pretty sure his sword is a warp sword that steals the life force of the slain for the wielder.
You are correct.
Wait a minute can the emperor's sword also permit kill demons cuz that means if guilliman stabs his Daemon primarch they're not coming back.
@@mikecampos1193 The emperor’s sword can perma kill a daemon as it is one of the weapons that also messes with souls.
Think that the weapon Farsight has is one of the Eldar God weapons'. Those things are pretty crazy, and a lifeforce draining sword is certainly something Eldar would have had before their fall. Sides, if it were a warp based sword, pretty certain Chaos would have corrupted him by now, even the smallest tainted objects don't take very long to corrupt their wielder. It being a Crone Sword of Eldar prophecy is a little more likely with how they have their whole wraith bone thing going on being refined warpstuff.
@@Doku71 Ain't there a grey knight that carries a chaos sword and is completely uncorrupted?
Bricky, the only thing I wish you would've mentioned is that the T'au have virtually no presence in the warp. So in order for them to do warp travel they employ a race of psychic pancake bears that make all of their ships work xD
How could they skipped the pancake bears?
@@cavareenvius7886 niccasar are a bit niche piece for tau lore. Would love more lore on Tau dabbling in psyker with humans or something.
I thought they used different FTL? they use the warp too?
@@AbyssWatcher745 yes, though they don’t fully understand it and are still studying it. Their ships also aren’t capable of as long range warp travel as the ships of other raced.
The "pancake bears" aren't necessary for their travel. Linking this because it explains it a lot better than I can. warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Faster-Than-Light
Honestly I just want all the other races that are part of the Tau Empire to be represented in the tabletop. I mean according to the lore they have like two dozens of different species working for them (that we know of) and only 3 of them can be used, some of which need better rules.
They've probably been put into casts that means they don't see frontline fighting, with the exception of a few Ethereals we only ever see the fire cast represented.
@@sirgaz8699 they have quite a few that see frontline fighting like the tarellians and demiurg but they're in a situation like the hrud where we hear about them in books and codices but never get any media exposure beyond that.
Really. Auxiliaries would really flesh tau out and give them their own identity other than "me have big gun". If they did it well they could have a covenant style situation where the tau empire becomes a large conglomerate of different alien races. A lot of the races could even be survivors of previous imperial crusades like the tarellians that want recent on the imperium for what they did. Could even feed into tau becoming darker as they could be put in tricky situations where they might let their vengeful auxiliaries massacre civilians to keep them happy so they don't turn on the tau. Spitballing here but just some ideas I had.
We all keep dreaming about it...
On the one hand yes, Tau could use more units.
On the other hand as long as GW ignores us our kits wont become mono pose and, somehow, more expensive so...
Tau are like flavor enhancers. Not too grimdark on their own, but their existence makes the universe more grimdark.
I'm gonna have to _actually_ you here, Bricky. The idea that the Ethereals aren't entirely trustworthy has been around since the Tau were introduced. There's a bit in the original codex where a Tau scientist studying the Kroot is sending a letter back to his sister talking about how they use smells to communicate and says something along the lines of 'some say that the Ethereals use pheromones to get us to do what they want, isn't that ridiculous?' so it's always been there. There's also always been the idea that everyone in the empire is equal but the Tau themselves are just a bit more equal than anyone else, kind of a condescending idea that the Tau are superior and have to guide the 'lesser' races.
My intro to t'au was in Dark Crusade campaigns. One of my fav factions to play, but the triumphant end for T'au always hit me a little dark. Sure, they brought the human colonists into the fold. They were made equal citizens and sterilization chems were added to their food supply to sterilize half of the human pop to keep their numbers under control. But they had all the same rights as any other member of the ...uh... Hegemony? No, that's Battletech. Whatever the Tau call their empire.
Oh, and they purged the Kroot who fed on either the orcs or the Chaos Marines. Probably the marines.
@@kmcd6140 it's more like the rebellious elements were sterilized and keep in the mind the ending was speculated by an imperial not exactly a reliable source
@Me Alexander Well, didn't they have issues with the Kroot too? Can't tell from where, it's been a while, but I remember reading about the Tau having issues with the carnivorous/cannibalist Kroot tradition, and their mercenary ways. And wasn't there a story about the helms of the Vespids being mind control thingies?
if you look at it their kind right look at the orks eldar humans necrons eta at least thay what pease
I got a sour taste for the tau on dark crusade when you beat the chaos capital the narrator after says they killed every single kroot that ate from chaos flesh cause the kroot troops were always my favorite in the game
Guilliman has his eldar and Kitten has his tau.
The universe is slowly coming together.
And Vulkan is half ork
Alright so. Who are we betting on being the one to lay a tyranid?
@@squidyy2k I LONG FOR GENESTEALER ASS
The Blood ravens have trayzin man spreading all over them...
@@squidyy2k Fulgrim. 100% Fulgrim all the way.
"I say the whole world must learn of our peaceful ways... by force!"
I just want to say as a Tau player, thank you guys for giving the Tau a fair shake and not doing what most people do and just pour pure salt and hatred into everyone that plays Tau! :>
Just sad that's something I have to be thankful for. D:
As someone that isn’t really a big fan of the Tau it’s always bizarre when Die Hard Imperium Fans scream about Tau indoctrinating their population and crushing dissent while being completely fine when the Imperium does it for reasons like “At least when the Imperium commits genocide its honest.” Or “at least with the Imperium you can rebel and join with Chaos or the Genestealer.”
Sure the Ethereal might be a boot crushing your face into the ground, but at least the Ethereal Boot isn’t cleated and being worn by an elephant like the Imperium and at least the Tau slave factories are OSHA compliant and offer Dental Coverage.
@@InquisitorThomas valid points, but those Tau motherfuckers pretend that the warcrimes they commit are actually good things to the people they inflict those warcrimes on
the Empire openly states they just hate xenos and just want them fucking dead or crippled enough to not get in their way
the Tau put on a facade, do a whole merry dance to hide the fact that they doing awful shit to begin with
I would sooner trust people who are openly hostile than ones who hide their hostility
honesty is a virtue for a reason
@@devranyilmaz9806 bUt mUh gReAtEr GoOoODd!1!1! 1
@@devranyilmaz9806 yeah , exactly, tau fans acting all high and mighty and call the IoM fascist. But when a world refuse the greater good , the Tau invade and genocide that world as well . At least IoM is honest about its intentions
@@duylai2224 to be fair T’au kill them for not joining the cause imperium kills them for not being humans which still makes imperium racist. Or rather xenophobic which is their whole flavor for sure. I hope they develop the T’au story more and give them their own Horus heresy so to speak. I think them doing something with a revolt and reveal that the ether also are something different splitting into two different factions or something
Fans: The tau are weebs!
Eldar: name their swords after dragons
Orks: use mecha suits
Imperium: have mecha suits and furries
Necrons: Literally terminators
Chaos & Tyranids: tentacle monsters
By that logic, the Tau are the Mecha section of the Weeb Domain. And I'm fine with that
Imperium has furries? Can I ask what that is about.
@@_NIKOS9_NIKOS hmm. Thats cool then.
@@Knight1029 I think he means the sisters of battle. Since the ecclesiarchy isn't aloud to have "men at arms" under their direct control or of their own they built an army of power armored crazy women with flame throwers and rocket launching church organs mounted on tank treads that were not specifically prohibited under imperial law.
@@From-North-Jersey wasn't there lore that the sisters of battle were use by an upstart to overthrow the imperium.
Dont forget its not just the official art work that the T'au get screwed by GW, its also the entirety of 9th edition so far!
Also Farsite broke off after his Ethereals died, and he found out that they were hiding the existence of Chaos.
The Farsite enclaves also follow the main principles of the greater good without having any Ethereals.
Honestly there is two (and I guess a third related to the first two) reasons why Tau have as much fan backlash even today:
1: Y'know how when the primaris were first revealed they were advertised as nearly 100% superior in every way, but over the last few years that shining perfection has been marred with some actually decent character development such as the reveal of primaris having chapter flaws still? That's basically the same road the Tau Empire took, starting out as this nearly comically squeaky clean diplomatic force in the timeline whose methods were just SO MUCH BETTER than the Imperium, and thus over time they've also taken a bit of the grimdark with stuff like the Farsight Enclave's appearance and their growing edge around the ethereals.
2: Fish of Fury. You can thank this for why we can shoot through other units for the most part, as devilfish were built in such a way that when pillboxed end to end in previous editions, you couldn't target the enemy infantry inside the gap this caused, and this became about as abused as the Iron Hands Dreads after their Psychic Awakening book. This got to the point less 'That Guy' tau players actively avoided lists with their dedicated transport so they weren't given shit for it.
3: This is a general thing for internet culture and fandoms, but Warhammer fans are fond of repeating the same anecdotes and mematics long after they no longer apply, and some people just get irrationally stuck at the image they got in their head from first impression that they'll not want to dig deeper.
You’re forgetting the fourth reason. Have you ever read the tau 3rd sphere expansion book? It basically is a prime example of everything that makes tau lore infuriating to anyone who isn’t a tau player.
@@jimmydaigle8892 I has not offhand, I'm mostly familiar with the Imperial Armor books on the Damocles Crusade on a surface level and codex blurbs myself, though I do know people who know far more than me.
@@gratuitouslurking8610 So basically when the tau fight any other faction in lore they always win through a combination of poor writing, inconsistent power levels, fluctuating resource pools, their enemies being incompetent even when completely out of character, poorly developed super weapon spam, the most egregious plot conveniences that you’ve ever seen, Joseph Jostar levels of just as planned, and things that just border on nonsensical.
People Never got over the Fish of Fury >: )
@@jimmydaigle8892
Ok. So I KNOW this will sound terrible. And I apologize for this take. BUT…that just sounds like the rest of 40k to me. Like, actually and fully, I believe every faction in 40k many of those thing, if not frequently. Mainly being…the Imperium of Man and the Eldar.
Bricky "i got a printer at home. Dont worry it will be fine"
Website 15 minutes after release "you are order number 1415"
"I'm sure there's a lot of rule 34 stuff on her."
Bricky "yes, yes there is."
Spoken like a true conniseur of r/34 content.
Personally, I like the idea of a young race, naïve and with adventure in their hearts slowly coming to grips with the uncountable horrors that are in the 40k universe. It brings an interesting new perspective. Then maybe as they get bigger and bigger they become something akin to the Imperium we know, where they have to do the same messed up stuff the Imperium does to survive.
Also fun fact the Tau preferring ranged warfare is at least semi-accurate to old Japanese warfare. Archery was a key component and once firearms came into the picture they were incredibly popular. Nobunaga in particular is well known for his efficient use of matchlock infantry.
Yup! hell, samurais were actually more mounted archers than swordmen; though they were proficient in both, the sword was very much a backup weapon to the bow and sometimes, the usual spear :p
@@thorveim1174 yea sword was basically your “oh shit” weapon. If a Samurai drew his sword he was in a bad spot.
ehh debatable. That’s a bit far stretch.
Nobunaga adopt a heavy use of gunpowder weaponry after the said weapon is imported by European (Portuguese to be exact) who usually travel to Japan from their colony in Southeast Asia. Japan on its own did not have the cutting edge of gunpowder technology (unlike Tau) despite gunpowder is introduced from China at 13 century, about the same time as Europe. Nobunaga starts using it due to the fact that matchlock are by all means, way more advanced to a point of revolutionary in the eyes of Japanese.
No matter bow, crossbow or gunpowder, the general massive usage of ranged weaponry is quite common in East Asia, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Mongols, etc. It is a preference of warfare in the entire geographical region, not some Japanese specialty.
All in all I feel like Tau having their big guns are not something specifically have to be related to pre-modern Japan, they are just big ass modern looking mech-exo suit, since everyone in the setting are either space-middle-age feudal fascists, iron-age equivalents 5head fungus, space-undead-Egyptian-terminator, definitely-not-fantasy-wizard elf people, GW probably just want a thematically more Sci-fi faction that is less grimdark and thus inspired by Gundam here comes the Tau.
Even if it's not intended it's an interesting parallel considering what's brought up in the podcast.
My point wasn't really anything to do with the technology itself rather than the ranged affinity.
@@KothraStreamdiver hmm, I get ur point. What I am trying to say is the range affinity isn’t really a “Japanese specialty”, it is common everywhere in East Asia and I don’t even think Tau are that “Japanese”. There are many difference on how they behave, how their technology reflect their military and just how their society function. If u really ask me I would argue from these aspects they are bit more Indian, with the whole caste and stuffs. But people seems to only focus on the “Japanese” part to a point that they will go into every minuscule detail to make Tau as Japanese as possible so they get every reason to call the player weeb lol.
For me they get like a spark of Japanese flavor in a good way (their Samurai-ish futuristic armor for example). And I do like the fact that GW don’t go too hard on making a literal copied and pasted history of Japan into 40k. They did that shit in Fantasy with many many different cultures on earth and that shit can be quite lazy.
Yoooo that “Bricky Mitai” edit was fucking great
Looking forward to the "I'm a tank" print shirt. Keep up the good work, guys!
I love stories where Imperial citizens are liberated by the Tau. People being brought out of hellish living conditions, and unlike Chaos, their promises are genuine. And the promises they make are impossible to refuse even at risk of betraying the Emperor. They surrender, and some even kill human soldiers in a desperate bid to save their liberators. And unlike every other faction in the milky way, their allegiance and loyalty is rewarded.
I hope the Tau expand further into the galaxy, or at the very least are given a chance at an alliance with Guilliman. Guilliman is also concerned about the living conditions of Imperial citizens, so a mutual agreement could be made between him an the Tau. Thus, the Imperium now has an alliance with two xeno factions.
@Connor Creighton Totally! Plus they're in desperate need of both friends and equipment. The Tau can provide both and more.
@Connor Creighton They're wearing yellow armor too
Yes I also like the part where people are forcibly sterilized if they don’t cooperate with their benevolent tau overlords :)
@@brianwalsh1339 better than being forced to become a servitor.
@@brianwalsh1339 which was only mentioned on a piece that is meant to be Imperial propaganda
The thing with Tau, at least the way I understand it, is, that most people that were angry about them at first, began to tolerate them, and when GW changed their lore to be "enslaved" good guys only Luetin seems to see the most grimdark Faction ever in the history of grimdarkness.
Angry at first but begins to tolerate them is a good way of describing fan reactions to most GW decisions. Sometimes they even come round to liking it.
If the Tau rely on range to win, and the art tends to depict two enemy factions in close combat, it makes sense that in most art they're losing.
imagine just image of dying guardsmens and spacemarines - with a 'lol' speechbubble leading to the edge and past the edge of the image :P
Or maybe show a tau gunline melting a charging horde of tyranids or guardsmen effortlessly, the new codex cover art does that with orks
My favorite Tau tidbit is that they thought about titans, but decided it was insane to use so much resources on one thing rather then more numerous smaller stuff. Humans had told them multiple times, but chalked it up to Imperial propaganda. Que the Damocles crusade and the Tau find out they are very real and very terrifying.
Wishlist is still Assassin temples.
Then it got shot down by a tigershark
cant blame them as titans absolutely ignore the laws of physics and are only really effective because of plot armor. Multiple organized units IS more effective. You spread out armor among many targets and have lots of manpower for ambushes and angle of attack. And as we can see, they still dont need a titan in their military
@@kamerionsmith4551 more like they can't afford to make Titans so we don't know if they would make em or not but holy fuck imagine giant Tau suits that have the firepower of an Imperial Titan with the elegance and speed of an Eldar Wraith Titan due to better tech
Fun fact, Duncan (yes that Duncan) created the 8 as they were a group of models he painted to test the Farsight scheme. The wargear they have now are improved versions of the ones he put on the original 8.
Yogscast Duncan? that Duncan?
@@k1ngdeth Duncan Rhodes, Chaos God of Painting, Sacred Number: 2 (thin coats). Any act of miniature painting gives him power, and to his worshippers he grants simple yet effective techniques to make an army beautiful on the tabletop.
@@k1ngdeth No the Duncan who used to work for Games Workshop (he now runs his own painting channel) and did painting tutorials. If you don't know he was the face of the warhammer community painting team for a while and so became a bit of a meme and he is well liked within the community.
No shit? That's really cool actually
Duncan Idaho?
"i know everybody hates the Tau-"
- me, holding my precious Farsight model, "YOU TAKE THAT BACK"
but for real, i saw the mech models before i knew what 40k was, and wanted to play them.
"cuz Bricky is a coward" my favourite line by far and it wasnt even spoken. nice one Shy!!
Are you in the Adeptus Custodes? "No, I am even more radiant." *wearing Adeptus Ridiculous shirt*
*Pillar Men Theme Intensifies*
Just fyi "The Greater Good" is actually based on a real life political theory called Utilitarianism. It was popular on Britain during the 1800's
well it's the motto of ccp so haha
@Ярослав Л There isn’t a difference. Communism is just an excuse to continue revolutionary liberalism.
no, Utiliiariansism prioritizes individual rights over all else. As the government protecting rights is the greatest good.
@@parus6422 yeah communism well socialism but end the end not much different
@@parus6422
Utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for all affected individuals
don't twist the meaning when you want it to suit you.
it doesn't prioritizes individual rights, it's about the collective happiness of all.
You forgot the part where kroot aren't just carnivorous, but they'd also really quickly change their genome based upon the guidance of their shaper in respects to their *erhm* diet. Orks, humans and others included
Why the Tau let them still travel and be mercenaries, so they can sample what the universe has to offer ;)
@@Waywardpaladin I thought that was the goal of the fourth wave of expansion, though ;)
@@svenbrede6151 don't know if they retconned it but when Tau first came out they didn't know why the Kroot were cannibals, they thought it was a cultural necessity born from desperation in their fight against the Orks and that if the Tau set a good example the Kroot would change.
While the Tau didn't forbid it, Kroot knew it bothered the Tau and so out of respect they didn't eat people around them and did it while abroad on mercenary contracts and when in all Kroot groups.
Farsight still believes in the grater good and came back to help the Tau empire during the 3rd phase when the empire decided to smack down on the Tau. Shadowsun managed consistently out smart both the whitescares and raven guard at this time to, she even trolled and killed the chapter master of the raven guard lol. Oh and far sight has a soul eating sword that prelongs his life.
I'm gonna keep the head canon that the Tau are the goodie two-shoes of Warhammer 40k. Its different, and I think that stands out among them, between the Choas Bois and Imperial Rule, I like the peace bringer idea.
It honestly also makes it more true grim dark compared to the TAu being mind controlled what would be more interesting is if the Ethereal were literally just very persuasive and are just genetically exist to be tactical manipulators
@@jeambeam3173 bro
You speak the truth
Im convinced that the pheromone this is more imperial propoganda because they are the only ones mentioning the mind control idea
The T’au being the main enemies in X-com makes a insane amount of sense lol!
Can we all appreciate the Baka mita that Shy put in near the end of the video
As someone who plays Tau, this was a nice episode.
me 2
Same
Farsight's expedition ran into Chaos Daemons, and the Ethereals with him acted like they recognized the Daemons, but refused to elaborate on them, which gave him the inkling the Ethereals knew about Chaos and were actively trying to hide it, and during the battle the Daemons SPECIFICALLY targeted the Ethereals until all of the ones Farsight had accompanying him were dead (indicating that the Ethereals' mind-control shit may in fact be a low-level psychic power, considering Daemons go after Psykers first a lot). So against T'au Empire protocol, he continued his expedition instead of returning to the Empire for new orders.
This episode has also shifted me to not hating the T'au. They've got way more variety and depth than I gave them credit for!
Good to know, it’s nice for people to understand or get exposure on the things they hate then remove that said hate.
The Tau are like that one weeb everyone knows that no one wants to talk to but they're cool with that because they're just enjoying their mecha
Until the tyranid fat kid steals his bento box.
eldar are the weeb race they made the god of hentie
What is wrong with liking giant robots? I mean seriously why does a person that likes a big robot battle suit automatically make them a weeb? You have any idea what the word "Weeb" even means?
@@Qardo weeb originally meant anyone who just thinks japan is the best. now a days it's anyone who has any interest in any form of anime and is nerdy.
>have chance to introduce vast examples of lesser xenos races as axillary and mercanery ally forces
>throw it away for mecha suits and writte Frank Grimes faction of 40k
I dont hate Tau for what they are. I hate Tau for GW refusual to strife for what they could have be (40k Mass effect with deamons)
I'd just like to say that I watched TTS from start to EP 25, and it had nothing DK hasn't heard about yet. Now; You guys could potentially turn watching them into content, but there were no big spoilers to worry about.
The last 'spoiler' part left was related to the T'au.
Now He's free to watch it
Bricky doesn't like to do react videos since react videos are "lazy" content when it comes to making youtube videos.
@@laughingman7467 Funny. I saw some "Royal Marine" react to all of Bricky's stuff. I wonder where this animosity is coming from. lol
@@fallbranch I'm not against the idea when a youtuber posts react content of topics/videos their subscribers want them to react to. I'm just paraphrasing brickys opinion on react videos.
"The greater good is their menTAUity" (13:20)
Underrated
i love the Tau, not because they have Mechs but i just like that they realy try to unite everyone and every single Person in the Tau has its purpose
The mechs are a welcome addition as well though
They're lowkey the most evil faction though. Brainwashing is a tough pill to swallow. Plus, their Greater Good ideology is basically just working as slaves for the Ethereals and they aren't peace loving so much as they are aware of how weak they are. The Ethereals would much prefer to kill and subjugate Imperial worlds instead of diplomacy, but they are fearful of provoking the Imperium or losing too much in campaigns.
That's the distopian thing tho
Except not really. You either join and serve a purpose or become ash and glass.
Sounds like a bunch of garbage
That is a subtle yet brilliant Ghost of Tsushima reference in the thumbnail, didn't even realize it the first time I saw it.
Honestly GW should develop the other races that follow the Tau and integrate them more into their armies.
Dont get me wrong i love mechs but the other races as so underused.
The Kroot are the only ones we know more, and they are cool chicken humanoids that can addapt their DNA and mutate into differnt forms and have a whole religion about it.
The next we know more is Vespid and we literally know one unit type and its boss version. Thats it.
The other races are literally just names and a small description on what they do. Maybe some pics if we are lucky.
Again people joke about the Squats but we know more about the Squats than 90% of the other Tau subraces
Fun fact, the squats (at least a part of them) called the Demiurge Brotherhood, and they are part of the Tau Empire
@Frank Rauen They could be better, and probably expand to indifferent types of Vespids
I need a whole ass series on Farsights crew their seriously awesome, I need more of them
ruclips.net/video/VaLsg3M7jOs/видео.html
Need more Torch Star. She seems like a fun pyromaniac
Nick From play on table top must be super excited to hear this!
it's T'au Nick, you gotta say it's full name every time
@@thewitch7342 Oh Excuse me! T'au Nick From play on table top must be super excited to hear this!
Nick’s Melee T’au are legendary.
@@1vandread Nick's Melee T'au is Bizarre and I love it it too!
Every episode that passes the more I’m convinced that shy is a chaos god
Fun Fact , in Chinese Thao or Dao translates to "The Way"
I actually kinda like the tau, with the exception that farsight enclaves are the best possible version of the tau. I wish we got more farsight stuff tbh. I feel like out of everyone the enclaves are one of the few unambiguously good factions. Even the tau empire has nasty shit with how they treat both non etheral tau and non tau races but farsight enclave actually seems to be trying to make a better place in the shithole Galaxy
It is fun as hell to call them weebs tbough ngl
i think farsight is kinda cool but shas'o kais is just cooler to me
May I ask, is Farsight still practicing the 'Greater Good' in his own way? Like sure he doesn't use mind control/pheromones', but is he still trying to add other races to his cause, or working to freeing his people from enslavement?
@@ProjectTaker Thanks for that! Long live Farsight!
I love the Bricky's reaction was just the embodiment of sheer pain, cause the whole thing was just a jojo reference.
FOR THE GREATER GOOD!
I’m glad you guys are finally starting with the Tau, been looking forward to it for a while now, been a little anxious, but here we go!
Personally, I never had any problem with the Ta'u being an unambiguous 'good guy' faction within the 40k setting, simply because they are too small to matter. They are generally ignored by the other factions, capable of defending their territory when pressed, and are making territorial gains, but those gains are miniscule compared to the campaigns of the other big actors in the setting. They provide sort of an outlet or different flavor to the setting that provides a lot of interesting story and gameplay concepts, without really having any sort of impact on the greater setting.
I love the Tau. Diplomatic, peaceful, violence as a last resort… like Starfleet.
Could we possibly get an episode on Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM?
yes
Please!
If, With some Tana. ... Tana, Sir?
Didn't he bang a mechanicus girl with a cat girl tail-dendrite?
Ci, Ci, Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium!
I saw the whole "DK converting to Tau bc he's a weeb" before the episode even started
I suggest their interaction with the drukhari for the next animated short :)
"Tau are recent" I hate to make everyone feel old but tau are 20ish years old. They've been part of 40k for over half of its existence now. Just like Necrons. 6 editions of the game ago...
As someone who likes and plays tau i hate that battlesuits are the only way to play them. Their grav tanks and the forgeworld aircraft are so cool and they've been done dirty. Kroot and vespid are shamefully poor on the tabletop as well which takes away their other unique cool thing.
Don't get me wrong, battlesuits are cool. Farsight and the eight are cool, broadsides are cool af. The stormsurge is pretty awesome but that might be just because mine is actually a scale model of metal gear rex because they're the same mech but rex looks better.
Auxiliaries would be cool too as it gives designers all the creative freedom they want as they'd be designing new races without fear of them being squatted. Plus I think it would go pretty well with tabletop balance as you could use auxiliaries to balance the playing field with specialized units so you aren't completely helpless in certain circumstances. Just make the cost so that you can't cover yourself for every weakness without performing subpar in every category. That's just me though and I've never played Tabletop outside a couple matches so I don't know what the repercussions would be to balance. Just seems that tau have always had shooting be their entire shtick and that being the backbone of the faction kinda crippled their balance as if it was too powerful everyone else would get deleted but if it was a little too weak you'd get deleted. Just my take though.
"recent" being in the lore. every other faction has been around for 40k years or more. the tau have like 1k as a faction. they are young...and several factions could literally accidentally wipe them out of existence.
To put it simply, the Tau are like choosing between a somewhat uncomfortable domestic life, and Cthulu's front lawn.
Hope they touch on farsight just being the same arc as horus, except because the tau have a minimal warp presence his sword hasn’t turned him.... yet
The sword is increasing his life span, but he doesn’t know that yet
@@ebros5758 if he knew what it was doing he would probably kill himself for some reason even though it would never have changed the outcome if he had knew
its (most likely) necron tech so no daemonic seord possession here
not horus fulgrim
More like fulgrim
Honestly before this episode my only knowledge of the Tau faction came from Kitten's rant, so it's pretty cool to see you guys cover it. (Also Bruva x Adept Ridiculous crossover when?)
Really? Only from Kitten’s rant? How long have you been stalling on learning about Tau?
@@napalmman8202 there is nothing of value after that
@@SamueL-td7fb I think the greater good is pretty neat
@@napalmman8202 no
@@xaga8794 yessirrr
Greater Good can be grimdark. Imagine letting an entire fleet or planet suffer or die 'for the greater good' if this world suffers, everyone else benefits.
Edit: Imagine a planet that the Tau Empire needs but the species on that planet isn't having it. They can't kill them all, they need this world. They will serve.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Death of the individual.
That... wow, I actually kind of like that concept and hope that GW do more with that. It doesn't break off from the Greater Good thing they have and the Tau can show a little grim darkness. It's a win-win.
The Greater Good can be a truly horrifying concept. Compare it to the US nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A land invasion would in all likelyhood have killed more civilians, but for the individuals IN Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that probably wasn't much of a comfort.
@@TheHateCorp It also would've likely wiped out a large part of the naval fleet. My grandpa was in training for the invasion when news reached them of Japan's surrender and that they'd be going to Japan as an occupying force rather than invading. They still took the same route they would have for the invasion. Before, they had been assured that the Japanese wouldn't see them coming, but Grandpa noticed that there were gun emplacements on the cliffs surrounding them. It would've been like shooting fish in a barrel.
@no or maybe yes The Soviets were aiming for Hokkaido, NOT the capital.
ED. Also, the reason the invasion was cancelled has very little to do with a Japanese Minister getting stabbed and very much to do with the Soviet High Command realizing that the invasion would in all likelyhood be counted as a breach of the Yalta Conference, and thus open warfare with the rest of the allies.
I remember when Dawn of War: Dark Crusade came out I really liked them, but I had no idea they were anime inspired at the time. I actually liked them because of my love for the Jak series and how the fire warriors look like the Haven City guard, and by extension the drone ships look like hellcats.
this episode is a shining example of why I love hearing Bricky explain lore: Acknowledging that sometimes, the company that wrote the lore did something dumb. Much as I love immersion, there's been plenty of other things where I'm watching a recap and the narrator is bending over backwards to justify why something happened in-universe or acting like the author(s) can do no wrong. Yeah, the Tau have potential, I'd like to see where they could go
Today I decided to comment. For the greater good.
For the Greater good.
For the Greater Good.
GET OUTTA HERE YA FRICKEN COMMUNISTS (no hate intended)
And RUclips is on the wacky backy again.... Apparently there's 1 reply
From Sa'cea
For the greater good
"ZA FEETO!" - Doge Vandire
Fuck no.
@@lordfelidae4505 Too late.
I felt physical pain watching that last bit. And then i cried/laughed.
I miss the hippy dippy Tau frankly I still sit on the idea these Ethereal are just oligarchs and philosophers like there is a massive issue with the way things are run with a whole ass class system based on your race of Tau but clearly they are doing their best with what they got.
They've always been hinted as not being quite what they first looked like under the surface at least method wise but never anything overt as mind control. I always liked the idea that tau are really good on the surface but have a know nonsense policy and if you were to start a movement that ethereals deemed counterproductive you'd get a knock on your door or even be "relocated". Stuff like secret police which hunt down dissidents for the greater good. Mind control just takes it too far in my opinion and just paints all ethereals as evil which undermine characters like aun'shi who was a really nice ethereal who held off orks by himself in melee combat.
@@ridleydidnothingwrong exactly Space Guan Yu was dope
Bricky: "I'm going to give the Tau more respect than Lutin."
Me, after watching Lutin's video on the Tau: "So... Not constant, unconditional hatred/disdain?"
You forgot that Farsights sword absorbs the life force of those it kills which is why he has lived this long, Tau have short life spans so GW had to find ways to make there best characters live longer this is one of them the other is Shadowsun keeps going in and out of cryosleep and is woken up when needed. Farsighted and Shadowsun where trained by the same teacher Puretide and it was puretide who warned Farsight about the ethereals
Shai is just having fun with this episode
I like how any shirt over XL is sold out says alot about this community
i mean realistically he probably made a lot less stock for those
@no or maybe yes people are really huge compared to the European.
@@TheDragonfriday Here in Europe we have a lot more varied sizes, like s, xs and xxs. Where an xxs is just small in America
@@danitron4096 interesting, I know Asia people are small, hell I'm asain myself. I'm consider tall to them. But I'm avarge hight I believe over 5 feet. I haven't measured myself in years though.
I mean, at least in Europe, you don't have to be fat to be xl. Just tall.
"That's like 2009, that's not that long ago."
*Cries in 12 years*
Interesting thing to note about historical Samurai. The katana was a side weapon. Their main weapons, as I understand it, were the bow and spear. With the bow used on horseback.
A thing to note about Tau military doctrine. A lot of tactics and strategies early Tau used are taken directly from "The Art of War". The Killing Blow, The Patient Hunter, opting for quick mobilization of forces rather than strong garrisons, the use and assimilation of former enemy forces, etc. are all in that book.
Killin it with the context pictures Shy, nice going
this is some good stuff. Glad they talked about humans joining the Tau empire. I'm currently running an Only War RPG campaign for my buds about penal legionnaires defecting to the Tau empire and fighting the emperium.
It isnt just a meme, Tau Women prefer their Geu'vasa
Because we got greater goods.
@@mikecampos1193 😎🥖
@God emperor of mankind shall be Call Exterminatus Milord?
@God emperor of mankind you may fire when ready
@God emperor of mankind Cope Mlord
Battlesuits are fucking rad and no imperial corpse-simp will ever change my mind.