Imperium: 'You reek of Chaos therefore you must be eradicated' Tau: 'Bruh, we are immune to the ruinous powers...' Imperium: 'THAT'S WHAT A HERETIC WOULD SAY"
The best Tau lore is when they first encountered a Tyranid Splinter Fleet. They sent diplomats... That were promptly eaten. So they sent another group cause they thought they made a mistake. They were also eaten. The Tau destroyed the fleet easily but the nids already got a good taste and wanted more.
This is kinda what I like about them. They’re still genocidal imperialist scumbags, but at least genocide is an option whereas for the imperium man it’s the default.
I like the T'au. Usually it's humans who are the youngest race having their prime. It is interresting to see a setting in which humans are starting to decline and a new species is rising.
With Rowboat Gurlyman back. I think that the Inperium has a solid shot at making the idiots learn new tech. Cuz fak all dat god shit bout my paw. He ain’t no god.
@@PaladinPoppie Rowboat Gurlyman hates that people see his father as a God, but he knows that the ecclesiarchy is a valuable tool to keep order and that now is not a good time to start a civil war with the Imperium when the Galaxy is split in half.
This is what originally drew me to Warhammer 40k. That humans are the ancient old race along with their religious brutality. Like you said, its a stark contrast to the usual sci-fi setting.
YES! I love that this is one of the more unique trait of WH40k compared to most sci-fi/fantasy universes. *points to plasma weapons and warp jumping space ships* 'You think our stuff is advance? You should have seen us 20k years ago!' XD
While the Warboss' Waaagh! is ravaging a planet, he hears a voice from a nearby hill shout: "A Space Marine can take on 10 Orks". Obliging the challenger, he sends 10 of his Nobs to take him on. After a few minutes of gunfire and whirling, the voice again shouts: "A Space Marine can take on a 100 Orks". So yet again the Warboss sends a 100 of his green skinned warriors to the fray. However after a grueling hour of combat, none of his boyz come down the hill. And this time yet again the voice challenges "A Space Marine can take a THOUSAND Orks". By this point the rest of the Waagh! has taken interest and a thousand of the meanest and orkiest Orks charge the hill. After hours and hours of explosions, and wailing. A badly wounded Ork crawls back to his Warboss and with his dying breath says. "Boss, boss da oomie waz lyin, der be TWO space marines".
"A gland that spits acidic venom, two hearths, three lungs, an organ that allows it to gain the memories of the consumed foes... What kind of deranged supervillain designed this abomination?!" -Earth Caste scientist after dissecting a Space Marine.
You forgot the ribs that have been mutated into overlapping plates and the ability to cocoon themselves in hopeless situations, lasting hundreds of years even drifting in space.
It makes sense that upon first achieving interstellar tech that a race would have good intentions. Only when exposed to the hostility of every other race will they corrupt as others have before them
Whenever I hear people complaining how Tau don't engage in melee combat, I imagine their words coming from the mouth of an idiot trying to fight the Tau and they just keep sending charges at their fortifications, fully convinced that eventually their men will stop being turned into burnt swiss cheese.
@No Subs Not really, since Tau is actually recruiting imperium worlds to their side and call the citizens as Guevesas. Also they actually have tech to fight tyranids called the Darkstarwarhead. Tau has more superweapons in the book called war of secrets. They even have weaponry that destroy planets but the ethereals view it as barbaric.
@Just a normal nazgul less but I wish they a nuanced good. Like some tau are like aun va others like aun shi. Also had less plot armor and more surviving by the skin of their teeth and stop taking imperial planets and instead find unclaimed planets and terraform uninhabitable planets focusing on building their forces and breeding like crazy.
@@MarquisLeary34 Yep, though it seems a lot of so-called "socialist" governments wind up practically as caste systems as they devolve. Which is weird, but, so is reality.
Yeah, they're not commies that's for sure. Its more Confucianism with a sci-fi twist. Mind you, there are no ideologies as we know them in our world in 40K anyway. Its all religious dogma, manifest destiny nonsense, and kill or be killed. In a real sense the Tau are the only group in the 40K setting who have a proper ideology. In a galaxy that only knows war, an ideology of peaceful coexistence is very very seductive. That's their real threat to the Imperium particularly. The galaxy has been in constant war for thousands of years at this point. You can see people maybe wanting to try something different as a way out. No matter the dark side to the ideology.
Hold on. The Tau are, in fact, NOT immune to Chaos. There have been two known instances of Chaos Tau. One was a citizen who killed his own kind for Tzeentch. The other was when a Tau soldier was fighting a daemon of Tzeentch, soon after obtaining the of Khorne in order to defeat it.
Yup as the other chap points out, the Tau are very hard for warp entitys to grasp as they have almost no precense, they do however have a presense so a very desprate warp entity can mess with one, but their a flickering match compaired to a bright light bulb of your average human and quite a few other races. - so their "NOT immune to Chaos." and they can be corrupted by icons of chaos. It is the Allied races that are the real risk to the Tau.
@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi Saying immune means they cant be affected by chaos. But they can be affected like a battlesuit pilot nearly turned khorn berserker in one of the firecaste book. In the Crisis of Faith book it is shown that a watercaste was possessed by a tzeench daemon when he touched a corrupted rune. Resistant is the proper word because it is shown in the books that when a daemon tries to influence humans they instantly get visions and such. While Tau will only get migraine unless the daemon strains themselves to forcefully push the visions. The possessed watercaste tzeench daemon even says that because the tau souls are so weak that it took way way longer for his mutations to appear compared to a human host.
The Tau aren't "immune" to chaos. Their souls are just so insignificant that daemons ignore them. One water caste member got possessed by a daemon of Tzeentch in the book Farsight: Crisis of Faith.
"Agh, the fuck is this shit? Nothing but Communist Manifestos and Weeb porn?! Tau are boring, GIVE ME MORE OF THAT SWEET, SWEET HUMAN-MEAT!!! They are the true masters at being degenerates, all with their anonymous message boards, mob mentality, pineapples on pizza, Furry porn and ROCK MUSIC!! Humans are truly made for us!" -That Daemon upon possessing a Water caste member.
Correct, the proper word is resistance, that water caste used its warp magic to influence Farsight. To humans it would have filled their head with visions but to farsight it was just a migraine.
I feel like the Tau were a really great addition to 40k, they serve as a strange sort of meta reference/foil to a lot of the more idealistic takes on scifi IE Star Trek and the like. Especially nowadays, it gives the altruistic good guys a slightly unsettling twist, and more interestingly shows what it might be like to be on the other side of such a factions borders. Yeah sure you can keep your fashions and language- but your *collective ideals* must be bent to align with your new rulers. You can never truly be *your own* people again. Oh that's fine, of course. Haven't you heard? It's all for the greater good! Your values are Tau values now- for the betterment of everyone of course. Federation of planets indeed. Also I'm a huge sucker for their aesthetic. Feels somewhere in between 1970s scifi and the first Wipeout game. Fkn awesome man.
well at least they're not as overly controlling as the Imperium can be (nor as xenophobic), and their assimilation is less destructive than the tyranids, and CERTAINLY less violent than the forces of Chaos or the Orkz. though yes it days say a lot about how horrible 40k's setitng is that even the one outright 'good' faction has some skeevy sides to t.
@@sarafontanini7051 I would argue that the Tau are more controlling the diference is they use mind control instead of propaganda and violence I dunno if I think that is better
I personally subscribe to the headcanon that the Tau were "created" by some chaos God. It may not be one of the big well known chaos gods, but maybe one that people don't know much of. I also like to believe that there is more than just 4 chaos gods.
Ironically the Tau is the second species I like in the 40k universe, first is humanity/imperium of man. Imagine what these 2 species(yes even the other species that are a part of the Tau empire) could accomplish if they could work together, I imagine the Imperiums technology decline would go away and really benefit from Tau technology. Both sides working together could easily wipe out the Ork hords, Tyranid hives and heck maybe even the necrons much more efficiently, I mean if both sides agreed on a temporary peace then we at least know that an alliance between these two is at least possible, perhaps really low but possible. They might even convince the eldar to join their alliance (if they do form an alliance) and easily be able to take back the Galaxy. Idk that's just my opinion.
Ninth F Remnants Most likely not considering most of humanity are xenophobic fanatics and eldar are egotistical, clinging to their past glory where they see humanity and tau as children(lesser beings). I think the most likely to form an alliance in 40k would be the necrons silent king, seeing the threats of tyrnaids on rest of the galaxy and knowing the necrons maybe not enough to defeat them
techno bread My knowledge of 40k lore is very limited, but it seems to me that the tyranids represent an impending doom that everyone is going to have to deal with. Several factions are already realizing that the nids are the ultimate threat in the galaxy. I can sort of see a buildup to factions having to work together to defeat the horde.
@@aceofspadesguy4913 Sorry mate but the T'au at best have only hundred world at best compared to the millions the Imperium has. In fact a single hive world contain more humans than there entire T'au population combined. I'd say the Imperium and the Necrons working together is sufficient enough to handle the Tyrannids. In fact the Imperium can reform all of their armed forces to make far more effective, better gear and training. The only reason they cant do this is because they need 3 centuries of PEACE to effectively reform. PEACE as in no chaos, no tyrannids, no eldar fuckery, no necron interference. Unfortunately the Imperium has been in an constant war since the 32nd millennium. They cant afford to get off their war footing and reform.
With every pasing encounter, the Tau begin to understand a little more that they are in the wrong galxy and that it is full of monsters, which can not even comprehend the concept of peace. Also that the Tau do not have the biggest guns.
They might not be strong, but God save anyone who stays in their eyeliner for 3 seconds. Cause they can head shot tanks and the disappear like nothing was there
@@sirgideonofnir6840 true, but they have jet to have any same setbacks the other races had... oh and they have to survive because their massive shield/unwilling defender the imperium suffers greatly. The tau have never faced a full might of a black crusade, the entrence of a hivefleet or a rampage of necron dynesty, because of the said imperium. All of these events would wipe them out, as could the imperium if it was not currently fucked by all sides.
No, etherals can't be compared to the primarchs or the emperor because the ONLY power the etherals have is their control over the tau. The emperor and his sons have that and immense physical and psicic strength, which the tau do not.
Um... no? The Tau are usually ignored by Daemons but they're not in any way immune from Chaos and the Warp... They still have souls and they're emotions still bleed into the warp, it's just that they have absolutely zero psychic potential and because warp energies can't "conduct" through them and into the materium, they're mostly useless to the Chaos gods but they can still be corrupted just as easily as any human.
@Anthony Rodriguez well I'm talking about memes, so I don't care. I also can't tell if you're being serious because you haven't seen the clip I was referencing or because you think I actually am a tau hater. For reference I don't play 40k just a lore enjoyed and I am no fanboy of a specific army or a hater of a specific army. Except word bearers fuck those guys.
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The T’au Empire as a faction follow the design philosophy of being the one reminder that this is, indeed, a sci-fi setting. Like, in a setting like Mass Effect or Star Trek, they’d fit right in. Here, they have to deal with what are essentially knights and clerics from the Imperium, daemons and sorcerers from Chaos, the interstellar fair folk that are the Eldar and more. They have no gods to bless them(?) and no spells to conjure, all they have is science and the Greater Good.
Nice summary. The Tau definitely make an intriguing addition to the WH40K universe. More, with very little modification they could be dropped into just about any SF setting as well.
@@Anonymousevilmaster I know they are piloted. What I'm saying is that if the Space Marines had the same level of tech integrated into their armor they would be so much stronger. The imperium needs to get past their phobia of advanced tech. There's an account of Space Marines and tech priests encountering a ship from the "dark age of technology" and after the tech priests wake up the ships AI it basically shuts them down with every attempt of theirs to stop it. Imagine if they had powerful AI like that on their side and were less superstitious about it.
@@thelardmaker6806 i see so its shadowsun again huh..her mary sueness is greater than all of Utramarines combine, course they will win again by chaos doing something uncharacteristic in a favor of the Tau..sigh
I wonder how the Tau and regular Eldar would interact on an Empire level. Thought the Eldar would never, ever, ever join the Tau, I bet they would be farsighted enough to at least make some sort of alliance of convenience. How long until Tau technology surpasses the Eldar? Might not be a bad idea to at least shelve one threat for now and quietly manipulate them as best they could. The most cunning of Eldar vs the most cunning Ethereal would probably a geopolitical enthusiasts' wet dream. Prolly even Tzeentch would have some snacks and soda while watching.
The Eldar and the Tau have interacted a few times. The Eldar are supremely condescending to the Tau despite the fact that the Tau were fighting them on even footing. And when it was revealed the Tau and Eldar were manipulated by the dark Eldar the Tau offered a truce to get some vengeance on the Dark Eldar, but then the regular Eldar just stuck their noses up at the Tau and left.
I've always found it curious when space marine users knock crisis suits about being Gundams stuffed into the game. It's like, what the hell do you think a dreadnought is then? It's basically a Gundam built by McDonald's, complete with someone breathing heavily inside.
I’ve never played 40k but a player in my new D&D campaign showed up to the first session with a T’au mini, asking if he could play as a fire caste T’au with orders to acquire an ancient relic on this planet. His character is definitely overpowered (he has a plasma rifle at level one and basically free plate armor) but I think the role play potential is worth it. This video was a great intro to the T’au and has already given me loads of ideas for future plot hooks. Thanks!
Imperial Inquisitor: you call ripping off other species gonads a part of the "Greater Good" ? Tau High Leaders: *The Greater Good* Imperial Inquisitor: SHUT IT!
Yo dude, it’s like every single thing I love, you do a video on. Keep up the good work. Praise the god emperor of mankind, bless his immortal soul, and pray for are fallen astartes
The T'au are by far my favorite species in 40k. If I ever get to playing it rather than just observing the lore, they're definitely the army I plan to play.
I've been a Tau player for a long time and this pretty much does them justice. The only thing not really mentioned is that the Tau's main strength is at range. Most other armies can rock them at close range. But yea, us Tau players are devotees in general, usually complaining about the other armies.
I like to think that Tzeentch likes the Tau as its such a relief to have someone naïve enough to not be hopeless and believe in diplomacy, but also strong enough to expand in a war-swept galaxy. Maybe they are the ones who can change the fate of the galaxy.
I really like the Tau. They are a fantastic narrative device, in my opinion, because it gives us a perspective of the 40k universe from what is basically our own modern point of view. The Tau society is as tolerant as the west, and they practically feel like these near future sci fi humans, like generically from 500 years into the future from today. It's really cool to see what a society like ours would take of the grim darkness of the 42nd millennium
Ahh... The Tau, the only race/organization I was very close to actually liking before they made them more "in line" with the rest of the factions in 40K.
@@maxsteel4934 I'm very much the same there. In my head, the Tau are literally the only decent people in the Galaxy, which makes them actually unique compared to basically evil human zealots, basically evil fungus monsters and all the others.
Hysterical I tend to disagree, grey is much better suited to them. I started liking tau only after I’ve read that vivisection book and learned about pheromones. They instantly turned from, boring dime a dozen good guys, into interesting and fascinating race.
@@EnragedOxygen I can understand that. But for me, making them more gray only makes them more standard to the 40K universe. Pretty much all the factions/races are dark with a sinister side to them. Having the Tau be actually decent people/good guys, for me makes them interesting compared to everyone else who's gray to black in terms of morality.
When I 1st discover Warhammer 40ķ I instantly loved the Tau. I couldn't resist the "Gundam" army, and despite all hate, the greater good has always been so beautiful to me.
I mean. Out of their setting they are evil. In setting they are the goodest of the good guys (which mind you include the Religious Space Nazi's and the Xenophobic Manipulative Space elves)
Sadly no, as given by a PoV of a Tzeench daemon. Their souls are not worth the trouble because its so weak. He compared both souls, the tau souls are like tiny flicker of lights in a forest like wisps. While human souls are bright like freshly lit torch in a dark cave. Tzeench even rejected his offering of Tau souls.
@@thelardmaker6806 oh no, i Was referring to the total amounts of death from each events, making a joke about how he says "thousands" and the tau called it "the terror," where as Slaneesh's birth killed millions/billions
as a tau fan and collector man you did a good job a few things idk about like saying that the tau that used the warp drives are different idk about that one man but all in all good job
Indeed, you could make this comparison... The Dominion, with the Vorta and Jem'Hadar, also has castes after all. And the Etherials are basically the Founders. The Tau seem to be less evil than the Domionion though, but maybe I just get this impression because all other factions in Warhammer are even more evil.
I know there are no good guys in Warhammer 40k, but I consider the T'au to be the least evil faction in 40k, they actually have a Water Caste of traders and diplomats, and they treat any humans that do join them well and allow them to still worship the Emperor without any xenophobic element, you don't see that with the Imperium Of Man.
Thanks for the vid! As a casual observer of 40k who likes to watch random youtube videos about it, I genuinely thought that the Tau were robots this whole time 'cause they look like robots in their armor. Blew my mind with this when I saw the first picture of one without armor.
No. The Chaos Gods already represent warped concepts and ideas of reality, life, and human nature. There's no real point in adding a new one when most of the niches have been filled already.
It would be the god of the greater good. The many limbed being is referenced in a book and it opened a portal saving a fleet from the astra militarum. If it isn't a chaos god it would just be a god
@@TheSonofsalvation It's also not a god of the greater good, but something manipulating the tau. The tau don't have a big enough warp presence to make a god, and there aren't enough humans in the empire nor have they been round for long enough.
An intresting Tit bit for Stargate & Tau fans. When the Tau took over there first world (ie T'au is there home world so I am taking about Tau'n) it already had an indigenous race which died out due to a mysterious illness preventing them from reproducing. The Tau of course did everything they could to help, and its remember as a great tragedy. I can not remember where I read it now, but it was hinted at, that this was no tragedy as the Etherials knew the Tau needed a strong begining of there own and that the water cast was in on it. (Stargate refrence Race: Aschen Place: Volian world). This of course suggests that the Etherals have no qualms about genocide to advance there cause. Guess they fit into Warhammer 40k nicely.
The Tau are basically humans just in a different point in our history. A much simpler time, a happier one. One where the whole universe wasn’t killing itself.
The Tau are actually my favourite faction in 40k *because* they're less dark and evil than everyone else. Adds a new angle to the lore and spices things up. Their mechs are also fucking badass.
One day the Tau and Imperium will be forced through some factors to Allie themselves against the Tyranids, Orks which grow in power daily. Despite Imperial arrogance even they will see this.
4:20 t'au baby plops out, and the drill sergeant is already giving him flak about how he is worthless, cant do anything right and must get on his face for pushups.
It’s funny how the first species they met during their first venture to the furthest reaches of space were the Orks. Since they are the most perfect foil for the Tau. Tau are peace loving creatures. Despite the brainwashed dictatorship they have they still give the creatures they come across a chance to be civil and not to rash to violence. More often having been forced into combat with the other races. Orks, as even the most novice 40k fan will know are all about conflict and bloodshed. It’s in their culture and they excel at such a brutal hobby. While Chaos fight to appease their gods, the Eldar fight for survival and the Imperium of man fight for both. Orks fight for the sake of it. Not only making them the most satisfied and thriving race in the galaxy but also the most dangerous because there is literally no negotiating with them. They tend to speak the tongue of violence better. The Tau are also complete opposites compared to combat. Tau are a species based around ranged combat. Using their musket style guns and shooting from a distance. Only having beings like the Kroot fight for them in hand to hand. Once someone gets up close their only response is to run or die. Orks on the other hand are much better at hand to hand than ranged. Often charging at the enemy at great number for a “propa fight” as they would say. Sure some of them have guns but more often than not they just spray and pray. Not really aiming but sporadically shooting for the sake of it. Even their vehicles and weapons are different. Tau tech is efficient, elegant and precise. Their rifles are built in order to directly hit their targets because they need it to in order to fit their style of combat. They also tend to rely too much on their technology. Using drones and other forms of automatons and AI. Orks are more natural in their tech. Their vehicles and guns are crude and made from nuts and bolts. Only kept together from the sheer belief that they will and even then it’s a commodity for such tech to just spontaneously combust. Ork rifles are often machine guns because they like to shoot it quicker not out of efficiency but because it’s fun to shoot things with it. They simply go for the quickest thing with the loudest and biggest explosion because they’re obsessed with explosives and loud noises. All in all the Tau and Orks are more of a perfect metaphor for the battle of absolute order vs absolute anarchy. The Tau are a species that’s entire society and civilisation is built on some 1984 style dictatorship masquerading as a utopia that’s peaceful and loving. Instead it’s the perfect society akin to the society of Demolition man where their citizens are literally brainwashed to serve the cast system with the oppressors at the top. Orks are the complete opposite. Their decisions and loyalties change on a whim and the only time a clan of them conglomerate is to wreak havoc on the galaxy for a laugh. They butcher and maim and steal and destroy and pillage just for fun. They fight each other out of boredom and have no society to speak of. No laws, no sophistication, no big ruler apart from the war boss of their clans. I love the dynamic between the Tau and Orks because of this and honestly I wouldn’t mind seeing a narrative campaign or even a lore storyline where the Orks and Tau hash it out in a full scale war like the Orks are with the Tyranids at the minute. With third and fourth parties manipulating it behind the scenes. Dunno that just sounds really fun to me.
I recall hearing there was a Tau fleet that lost the Ethereal with them in a battle and without the Ethereal nearby, they actually separated from the Empire.
I'd honestly have preferred the Tau stayed as proper good guys. A genuinely altruistic faction would've made the 40k universe a lot more interesting. One of the reasons I've lost interest in 40k is that it's simply become stale and repetitive. When every faction HAS to be evil and terrible in some way, their lore and backstory stops mattering and they all start to feel similar. Here's the bad guys with pointy ears. Here's the bad guys from space hell. Here's the green bad guys. Christ's sake the biggest faction that gets the most attention feels like it was written by an edgy 15 year old trying to sound badass, and I fail to see why fans get so obsessive about it. Doesn't help that said fans have become cancerous as fuck, too. I've never seen a fanbase get genuinely pissed when you mention you like an in-universe faction that they don't, but a quick scroll through the comments here is proof enough of both of my points. The sheer volume of "hurr weeb space commie can't melee" comments make me want to jump in a river.
Pure altruism is boring to write, boring to read, and boring to talk about. The tau would become a forgotten faction or written out if they didn't have SOME interesting/negative characteristics
It's sad and shows a lot about the true nature of people when something was created to be a little light of positivity in a sea of darkness and people got upset and wanted it to be evil also. .
I believe that the Eterium are similar to the emperor of Mankind This is how it could explain why everyone all of the sudden follow them, the same way humanity follow the emperor without even knowing ho he truly was The Tau may have been chosen after humanity lost it ways when the emperor fell, and maybe the Eterium are iether similar spirits like the emperor Or crazier idea The spirits are the emperor him self (or atlist parts of him)
@Think Like A Sponge that wasn't the emperors idea, it was humanity's fear of the xeno that couse it And why wouldn't the emperor wanted to find another solution, all we know is that the emperor cares only for the dead of the chaos gods, so why not use a species ho seems content with a simple lifestyle with advance technology And little to no connection to chaos The Tau aren't perfect, but they seem like the right choice for a war against chaos
Imperium: 'You reek of Chaos therefore you must be eradicated'
Tau: 'Bruh, we are immune to the ruinous powers...'
Imperium: 'THAT'S WHAT A HERETIC WOULD SAY"
Tell that to the shitty game firewarrior
They're a puppet race. If chaos get on their masters, their immunity wouldn't be very useful.
Ork: y u so boring git?
@@4f52 good question on ethereals being affected by chaos or not.
*default dances*
The best Tau lore is when they first encountered a Tyranid Splinter Fleet. They sent diplomats... That were promptly eaten. So they sent another group cause they thought they made a mistake. They were also eaten. The Tau destroyed the fleet easily but the nids already got a good taste and wanted more.
They did the same thing for orks too before they placed them on the blacklist.
Still makes more sense than "Ork Diplomats"
@@sicarius6501 actually orks do have diplomats, these guys are only available with Ork Freebooters.
This is kinda what I like about them. They’re still genocidal imperialist scumbags, but at least genocide is an option whereas for the imperium man it’s the default.
They're good. Not smart
I like the T'au. Usually it's humans who are the youngest race having their prime. It is interresting to see a setting in which humans are starting to decline and a new species is rising.
With Rowboat Gurlyman back. I think that the Inperium has a solid shot at making the idiots learn new tech.
Cuz fak all dat god shit bout my paw. He ain’t no god.
@@PaladinPoppie Rowboat Gurlyman hates that people see his father as a God, but he knows that the ecclesiarchy is a valuable tool to keep order and that now is not a good time to start a civil war with the Imperium when the Galaxy is split in half.
Heretic traitor.
This is what originally drew me to Warhammer 40k. That humans are the ancient old race along with their religious brutality. Like you said, its a stark contrast to the usual sci-fi setting.
YES! I love that this is one of the more unique trait of WH40k compared to most sci-fi/fantasy universes. *points to plasma weapons and warp jumping space ships* 'You think our stuff is advance? You should have seen us 20k years ago!' XD
While the Warboss' Waaagh! is ravaging a planet, he hears a voice from a nearby hill shout: "A Space Marine can take on 10 Orks". Obliging the challenger, he sends 10 of his Nobs to take him on.
After a few minutes of gunfire and whirling, the voice again shouts: "A Space Marine can take on a 100 Orks". So yet again the Warboss sends a 100 of his green skinned warriors to the fray.
However after a grueling hour of combat, none of his boyz come down the hill. And this time yet again the voice challenges "A Space Marine can take a THOUSAND Orks". By this point the rest of the Waagh! has taken interest and a thousand of the meanest and orkiest Orks charge the hill.
After hours and hours of explosions, and wailing. A badly wounded Ork crawls back to his Warboss and with his dying breath says. "Boss, boss da oomie waz lyin, der be TWO space marines".
What is this propaganda?...
..I would like to know more.
HHhaahahAh the funniest comment ever!
This... Made my day 😂
This... Made my day
Finnish marines
"Tau are bad at close combat", yes, but you have to get there first....alive.
That is true. And the drones are definitely force multipliers.
"A gland that spits acidic venom, two hearths, three lungs, an organ that allows it to gain the memories of the consumed foes...
What kind of deranged supervillain designed this abomination?!"
-Earth Caste scientist after dissecting a Space Marine.
You forgot the ribs that have been mutated into overlapping plates and the ability to cocoon themselves in hopeless situations, lasting hundreds of years even drifting in space.
IS THAT HERESY I SEE?!?!
@@racingboi7342 I feel like I remember you from somewhere...
Worst was when the Tao find the Orks or the Tyrands
wasn't consuming foes a tyranid thing ?
Its nice listening to a Tau video thats not just ranting about how people should hate them.
*kitten seething with rage at the mere mention of the cowardly vagina faces
It makes sense that upon first achieving interstellar tech that a race would have good intentions. Only when exposed to the hostility of every other race will they corrupt as others have before them
But you really should hate them
Heretic! Get the commisar or the Inquisition, whatever just get that traitor to mankind!
But people should hate them...thats the point. They are mere punching bags.
Commander -Char Aznable- Farsight is best Tau because *HE CAN ACTUALLY FIGHT IN GLORIOUS HAND TO HAND, FACE TO FACE MELEE COMBAT.*
Farsight. He is a Char!
HOW CAN THEY NOT FIGHT IN MELEE! SUCH DISHONOR!
@@Fanatic808 they have much weaker body compared to an average human.
@@junigearx7452 it's a tts meme
Three times the speed of a common tau
Whenever I hear people complaining how Tau don't engage in melee combat, I imagine their words coming from the mouth of an idiot trying to fight the Tau and they just keep sending charges at their fortifications, fully convinced that eventually their men will stop being turned into burnt swiss cheese.
Honestly their complaints about Melee combat is just their nerd fantasy.
@@apolloknight9521 on god.
This shit sounds like they think the T'au are using muskets or something.
The tau: not good guys but decidedly a better choice than most alternatives
@No Subs *in the future and the Tyranid penetrated most species so...
@No Subs Not really, since Tau is actually recruiting imperium worlds to their side and call the citizens as Guevesas. Also they actually have tech to fight tyranids called the Darkstarwarhead. Tau has more superweapons in the book called war of secrets. They even have weaponry that destroy planets but the ethereals view it as barbaric.
@No Subs Who knows, Tau Ai works differently.
@No Subs Tje fanatically blinded, self-destructive space nazis are not any better...
So in other words the pussy faction
Games workshop: here some good guys!
Fans: ewwww gross!
GW: alright fine, we'll make them less good
Well i guest i going use time travel *accidently create different timeline* so i going kill all GW stuff member in past so what happened next then
@Just a normal nazgul I hated what GW did to the tau.
@Just a normal nazgul less but I wish they a nuanced good. Like some tau are like aun va others like aun shi. Also had less plot armor and more surviving by the skin of their teeth and stop taking imperial planets and instead find unclaimed planets and terraform uninhabitable planets focusing on building their forces and breeding like crazy.
@Just a normal nazgul yeah, but certain groups get tored of it after a while
@Just a normal nazgul I also kinda want them to try and use an upscaled and armored riptide in space modified with extra boosters
The tau sounds kinda like the imperium during the golden age of technology but, minus the greater good philosophy
And also far less advanced
The Tau seems the good guys but really their not.
@@horusthagreat1802 nobody is good or bas guy in war hammer universe what I love what Tao is not good guys? I don't know much about Warhammer
And thus will fall like them.
You heretic....
I don't even play 40k but I love these vids.
Came for the SCP but I'll hang out for the 40k too; if that's okay.
Me2
Welcome brother, join us in the dining hall and we will tell our stories of conquests
Don't gotta' play the tabletop to enjoy 40K. I've been a 40K fan for nearly a decade but am just now dipping my toes into the tabletop.
Xeo Nespydonum same here but i don't use official models i use tan plastic army men
You could all just pop into warhammer shop and ask how to.play it does cost around 200 to get started though.. e.g. brushes, paints and starter box
oh nice a video that does the T'au justice without just screaming space commie no melee. good job, subbed
Calling a regime with a CASTE SYSTEM "communist" just shows that people don't even know what the word means.
@@MarquisLeary34 Yep, though it seems a lot of so-called "socialist" governments wind up practically as caste systems as they devolve. Which is weird, but, so is reality.
Yeah, they're not commies that's for sure. Its more Confucianism with a sci-fi twist.
Mind you, there are no ideologies as we know them in our world in 40K anyway. Its all religious dogma, manifest destiny nonsense, and kill or be killed. In a real sense the Tau are the only group in the 40K setting who have a proper ideology.
In a galaxy that only knows war, an ideology of peaceful coexistence is very very seductive. That's their real threat to the Imperium particularly. The galaxy has been in constant war for thousands of years at this point. You can see people maybe wanting to try something different as a way out. No matter the dark side to the ideology.
Almost every Warhammer 40k faction: *I'll beat you up!!!!*
Tyranids: _This is how you eat a bigmac_
Hold on. The Tau are, in fact, NOT immune to Chaos. There have been two known instances of Chaos Tau. One was a citizen who killed his own kind for Tzeentch. The other was when a Tau soldier was fighting a daemon of Tzeentch, soon after obtaining the of Khorne in order to defeat it.
Maybe he means they are immune to worshipping chaos, the tau that killed his own kind was just possessed he didn't really fell for chaos.
Yup as the other chap points out, the Tau are very hard for warp entitys to grasp as they have almost no precense, they do however have a presense so a very desprate warp entity can mess with one, but their a flickering match compaired to a bright light bulb of your average human and quite a few other races. - so their "NOT immune to Chaos." and they can be corrupted by icons of chaos. It is the Allied races that are the real risk to the Tau.
The proper word is resistant but yeah not immune.
I call that almost immune considering how it hardly happens at all while its a constant threat for the Imperium lol
@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi Saying immune means they cant be affected by chaos. But they can be affected like a battlesuit pilot nearly turned khorn berserker in one of the firecaste book. In the Crisis of Faith book it is shown that a watercaste was possessed by a tzeench daemon when he touched a corrupted rune.
Resistant is the proper word because it is shown in the books that when a daemon tries to influence humans they instantly get visions and such. While Tau will only get migraine unless the daemon strains themselves to forcefully push the visions.
The possessed watercaste tzeench daemon even says that because the tau souls are so weak that it took way way longer for his mutations to appear compared to a human host.
The Tau aren't "immune" to chaos. Their souls are just so insignificant that daemons ignore them. One water caste member got possessed by a daemon of Tzeentch in the book Farsight: Crisis of Faith.
"Agh, the fuck is this shit? Nothing but Communist Manifestos and Weeb porn?! Tau are boring, GIVE ME MORE OF THAT SWEET, SWEET HUMAN-MEAT!!! They are the true masters at being degenerates, all with their anonymous message boards, mob mentality, pineapples on pizza, Furry porn and ROCK MUSIC!! Humans are truly made for us!"
-That Daemon upon possessing a Water caste member.
Thats pretty sad when you think about it. They are so hated that even chaos don't like em.
Correct, the proper word is resistance, that water caste used its warp magic to influence Farsight. To humans it would have filled their head with visions but to farsight it was just a migraine.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 you know, you just kinda implied that daemons consider hentai to be "virtuous"
NPC they do look like most tentacle monsters so...
I love these series. Can you please do one for adeptus mechanicus? Keep up the good work.
if you love this check out luetin09 or archwarhammer
Yeah both of those channels have amazing content
The toasters are pleased with this ans
AZERBAIJAN ZZZZ1.! Lmao m
@@TheSchematican who?
I feel like the Tau were a really great addition to 40k, they serve as a strange sort of meta reference/foil to a lot of the more idealistic takes on scifi IE Star Trek and the like.
Especially nowadays, it gives the altruistic good guys a slightly unsettling twist, and more interestingly shows what it might be like to be on the other side of such a factions borders. Yeah sure you can keep your fashions and language- but your *collective ideals* must be bent to align with your new rulers. You can never truly be *your own* people again.
Oh that's fine, of course. Haven't you heard? It's all for the greater good!
Your values are Tau values now- for the betterment of everyone of course.
Federation of planets indeed.
Also I'm a huge sucker for their aesthetic. Feels somewhere in between 1970s scifi and the first Wipeout game.
Fkn awesome man.
well at least they're not as overly controlling as the Imperium can be (nor as xenophobic), and their assimilation is less destructive than the tyranids, and CERTAINLY less violent than the forces of Chaos or the Orkz.
though yes it days say a lot about how horrible 40k's setitng is that even the one outright 'good' faction has some skeevy sides to t.
I still would live in the Tau Empire if I found myself in the 40k universe. It's kind of the least worst option.
It sucks that the Tau are kind of in a bad spot when it comes to the tabletop game.
@@sarafontanini7051 I would argue that the Tau are more controlling the diference is they use mind control instead of propaganda and violence I dunno if I think that is better
I personally subscribe to the headcanon that the Tau were "created" by some chaos God. It may not be one of the big well known chaos gods, but maybe one that people don't know much of. I also like to believe that there is more than just 4 chaos gods.
Ironically the Tau is the second species I like in the 40k universe, first is humanity/imperium of man. Imagine what these 2 species(yes even the other species that are a part of the Tau empire) could accomplish if they could work together, I imagine the Imperiums technology decline would go away and really benefit from Tau technology. Both sides working together could easily wipe out the Ork hords, Tyranid hives and heck maybe even the necrons much more efficiently, I mean if both sides agreed on a temporary peace then we at least know that an alliance between these two is at least possible, perhaps really low but possible. They might even convince the eldar to join their alliance (if they do form an alliance) and easily be able to take back the Galaxy. Idk that's just my opinion.
Ninth F Remnants Most likely not considering most of humanity are xenophobic fanatics and eldar are egotistical, clinging to their past glory where they see humanity and tau as children(lesser beings). I think the most likely to form an alliance in 40k would be the necrons silent king, seeing the threats of tyrnaids on rest of the galaxy and knowing the necrons maybe not enough to defeat them
techno bread My knowledge of 40k lore is very limited, but it seems to me that the tyranids represent an impending doom that everyone is going to have to deal with. Several factions are already realizing that the nids are the ultimate threat in the galaxy. I can sort of see a buildup to factions having to work together to defeat the horde.
@@aceofspadesguy4913 Sorry mate but the T'au at best have only hundred world at best compared to the millions the Imperium has. In fact a single hive world contain more humans than there entire T'au population combined. I'd say the Imperium and the Necrons working together is sufficient enough to handle the Tyrannids. In fact the Imperium can reform all of their armed forces to make far more effective, better gear and training. The only reason they cant do this is because they need 3 centuries of PEACE to effectively reform. PEACE as in no chaos, no tyrannids, no eldar fuckery, no necron interference. Unfortunately the Imperium has been in an constant war since the 32nd millennium. They cant afford to get off their war footing and reform.
@@aceofspadesguy4913 They won't. You haven't had factions working together since 2nd edition, if that.
And all they could hear is the laughter of thirsting gods..... 😈
With every pasing encounter, the Tau begin to understand a little more that they are in the wrong galxy and that it is full of monsters, which can not even comprehend the concept of peace. Also that the Tau do not have the biggest guns.
They might not be strong, but God save anyone who stays in their eyeliner for 3 seconds. Cause they can head shot tanks and the disappear like nothing was there
@@sirgideonofnir6840 "God save anyone" is a thing in 40k though, a thing the tau do not have access to and as i said some factions outgun them.
@@galling2052 actually in terms of outright raw power of technological advancement. The Tau are swiftly starting to outgun all other races.
@@sirgideonofnir6840 true, but they have jet to have any same setbacks the other races had... oh and they have to survive because their massive shield/unwilling defender the imperium suffers greatly. The tau have never faced a full might of a black crusade, the entrence of a hivefleet or a rampage of necron dynesty, because of the said imperium. All of these events would wipe them out, as could the imperium if it was not currently fucked by all sides.
Oh, no, the galxy is full of mosters? What will the Tau do!?
I love the Tau, my favorite race because of their aesthetic and theme, thanks for covering them!
IT'S A GUNDAM!!!
(explodes)
WHAT A GUNDAM !?
smurf communist gundam
Nyruk Daerog expect for the fact that tau battle suits are tiny
I love that reference!!! XD
Seems like the etherial supreme is the tau version of the emperor and the others being primarchs
Not really
it mean they do have total control over the population
No, etherals can't be compared to the primarchs or the emperor because the ONLY power the etherals have is their control over the tau. The emperor and his sons have that and immense physical and psicic strength, which the tau do not.
Psycho Mikey, no, Ethereals even the supreme one have no special abilities aside probably from the pheromone thing.
"Prosper, as T'au Shall."
Indeed, for the greater good brother
Um... no? The Tau are usually ignored by Daemons but they're not in any way immune from Chaos and the Warp...
They still have souls and they're emotions still bleed into the warp, it's just that they have absolutely zero psychic potential and because warp energies can't "conduct" through them and into the materium, they're mostly useless to the Chaos gods but they can still be corrupted just as easily as any human.
"They cant even fight in melee" you've mentioned the Tau. Kitten will not be pleased.
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Every Custodes player I have ever seen says this about the Tau moments before their precious Banana Bois get shredded by Tau Fire Warriors.
@Anthony Rodriguez well I'm talking about memes, so I don't care. I also can't tell if you're being serious because you haven't seen the clip I was referencing or because you think I actually am a tau hater. For reference I don't play 40k just a lore enjoyed and I am no fanboy of a specific army or a hater of a specific army. Except word bearers fuck those guys.
Always loved the anime looking gear the Tau have!
Loving the Warhammer 40k content! Hope you keep it up on a more regular basis 😎
The Greater Good, The Greater Good, The Greater Good, The Greater Good, The Greater Good, The Greater Good, The Greater Good, The Greater Good
Space Marine: Brother? *Brother!* The xenos is scaring-
The Greater Good, The Greater Good, The Greater Good, The Greater Good, **drags a marine** The Greater Good, The Greater Good, The Greater Good
Space Marine: *AvEnge mE brOthER!!*
What?
Every time I hear “the greater good” I just think of the movie “Hot Fuzz”
kamenriderreaper I was waiting to read “shut it” at some point
I know were you got that from..
@@Stormkrow280 Crusty jugglers!
The T’au Empire as a faction follow the design philosophy of being the one reminder that this is, indeed, a sci-fi setting. Like, in a setting like Mass Effect or Star Trek, they’d fit right in. Here, they have to deal with what are essentially knights and clerics from the Imperium, daemons and sorcerers from Chaos, the interstellar fair folk that are the Eldar and more. They have no gods to bless them(?) and no spells to conjure, all they have is science and the Greater Good.
The greater good? I'm the greatest good you're ever gonna get!
*fires up sonic blaster with depraved delight*
Fking slaanesh's bitches...
*Charges Hellpistol with religious intent*
I love the T'au because they're (ironically) so much more human.
But they mind control people
Evan Chase weeaboo
Also who are they in fantasy? Or were they a completely original race for 40k
There is no T'au in Fantasy, Skavens would never allow such a thing.
@@Yashagaru Skaven? BULLSHITERRY
The Tau where my first experience with the warhammer franchise, so I cant help but like them slightly more than the others
Ah yes, the worthy rivals against some Factions I know.
Tau and the Necrons were always challenging to fight.
didn't take got their ass raped by necrons?
tau
auto correct
@@gavinlee6196 you know
you can edit your comments and don't have to write new ones.
@@MrPumpkinsss too lazy
Nice summary. The Tau definitely make an intriguing addition to the WH40K universe. More, with very little modification they could be dropped into just about any SF setting as well.
That 'strange looking Tau' ... and the etherial Tau that came from it....could that have been a gene stealer?
"It's all about the Greater Good!"
John Ivan Oplimo *THE GREATER GOOD*
@@giorgioguolo7196 Shut it!
I love Hot Fuzz
The greater good
"The Greater Good."
Thanks for the content my dude we all appreciate ya
Definitely want to see what would happen if Tau technology was combined with Space Marine Terminator armor...personal Gundam anyone? Lol
heresy, heresy would happen
wraith dino IMPerium morons...
Well, that's what the Tau Battlesuits already are. They have a pilot in them.
@@Anonymousevilmaster I know they are piloted. What I'm saying is that if the Space Marines had the same level of tech integrated into their armor they would be so much stronger. The imperium needs to get past their phobia of advanced tech. There's an account of Space Marines and tech priests encountering a ship from the "dark age of technology" and after the tech priests wake up the ships AI it basically shuts them down with every attempt of theirs to stop it. Imagine if they had powerful AI like that on their side and were less superstitious about it.
@@USMCRabbit They would be flayed alive and turned to servitors by the end of the day cause xeno tech is heresy!
In a nutshell: The Most HATED faction for reasons that I still don't understand.
Armored mecha cuz they commies lol
@@PHAToregon Forgive me for not beong enlightened but uhhhh.... How are they commies?
Armored mecha "from each according to his ability to each according to his needs" thats communism
@@jastier930 in layman's terms?
Armored mecha in layman terms, they're weeaboo space commies that don't even fight in fucking melee
For the Greater Good!!!! Stability and harmony for all!!!!!
Having watched Hot Fuzz some days ago, everytime you brought up the "Greater Good" doctrine, I just had to echo it.
*THE GREATER GOOD*
@@merrittanimation7721 *Y A R P*
I was doing it too but I couldn't remember why! Hot Fuzz was funny.
To be honest, I find the Tau quite interesting in their technological advances, although they are sadly enemies of the Imperium.
I honestly love the tau but more specifically the farsight enclave
To be honest, these guys stood a better chance with the Tyrranids than friggin CHAOS
chaos feeds on emotion and souls to corrupt, nids, necrons and tau doesnt have 1..also tau havent had a large chaos invasion yet..
@@ekulerudamuru ah...
@@ekulerudamuru Now they do, its in the current timeline.
@@thelardmaker6806 what do you mean? chaos invading Tau now? can i know where you get this, havent caught up after Cadia ble... i mean CADIA STANDS!
@@thelardmaker6806 i see so its shadowsun again huh..her mary sueness is greater than all of Utramarines combine, course they will win again by chaos doing something uncharacteristic in a favor of the Tau..sigh
I dont think it was ever on the table, but I would LOVE LOVE if you did lore from the endless legend / space setting.
Endless space 2 is fun as heck
I wonder how the Tau and regular Eldar would interact on an Empire level. Thought the Eldar would never, ever, ever join the Tau, I bet they would be farsighted enough to at least make some sort of alliance of convenience. How long until Tau technology surpasses the Eldar? Might not be a bad idea to at least shelve one threat for now and quietly manipulate them as best they could. The most cunning of Eldar vs the most cunning Ethereal would probably a geopolitical enthusiasts' wet dream. Prolly even Tzeentch would have some snacks and soda while watching.
The Eldar and the Tau have interacted a few times.
The Eldar are supremely condescending to the Tau despite the fact that the Tau were fighting them on even footing.
And when it was revealed the Tau and Eldar were manipulated by the dark Eldar the Tau offered a truce to get some vengeance on the Dark Eldar, but then the regular Eldar just stuck their noses up at the Tau and left.
I've always found it curious when space marine users knock crisis suits about being Gundams stuffed into the game. It's like, what the hell do you think a dreadnought is then? It's basically a Gundam built by McDonald's, complete with someone breathing heavily inside.
ROFLOL!!!
Well I've always thought Imperator Titans and Imperium warships were built by out of work Catholic cathedral builders So that works. LOL
I’ve never played 40k but a player in my new D&D campaign showed up to the first session with a T’au mini, asking if he could play as a fire caste T’au with orders to acquire an ancient relic on this planet.
His character is definitely overpowered (he has a plasma rifle at level one and basically free plate armor) but I think the role play potential is worth it.
This video was a great intro to the T’au and has already given me loads of ideas for future plot hooks. Thanks!
So how did this little stunt turn out?
Was the Tau integration successful?
6:25 _“Greater Good”_
I cant help but think of the council of Evil leaders in Hot Fuzz with Simon Pegg whenever I hear that line.
40k and SCP work so well together!
"It's for the Greater Good."
*"THE GREATER GOOD!"*
"SHUT IT!"
JackgarPrime hot fuzz???
I do as the rock commands
Imperial Inquisitor: you call ripping off other species gonads a part of the "Greater Good" ?
Tau High Leaders: *The Greater Good*
Imperial Inquisitor: SHUT IT!
Inquisitor obviously unaware that the Astartes are all castrated....
I mean, the Imperium does far worse to other species. Tearing off the gonads is a punishment they reserve for their own species.
Hearing the guy who talks about the scp and lovecraft about the Tau empire gives chills to my spine and screams: "this not gonna end good"
Yo dude, it’s like every single thing I love, you do a video on. Keep up the good work. Praise the god emperor of mankind, bless his immortal soul, and pray for are fallen astartes
The T'au are by far my favorite species in 40k. If I ever get to playing it rather than just observing the lore, they're definitely the army I plan to play.
I remember playing vermintide but the 40k stuff interests me so much more
This is probably the best introduction video to the Tau I have yet seen. Well done sir!
I've been a Tau player for a long time and this pretty much does them justice. The only thing not really mentioned is that the Tau's main strength is at range. Most other armies can rock them at close range. But yea, us Tau players are devotees in general, usually complaining about the other armies.
12:24
Lmao
I like to think that Tzeentch likes the Tau as its such a relief to have someone naïve enough to not be hopeless and believe in diplomacy, but also strong enough to expand in a war-swept galaxy. Maybe they are the ones who can change the fate of the galaxy.
7:57
It's not actually illegal for trade to occur with other species if a rogue trader presides over jt
Tau: We're the Good guys!
Kills everything like every other faction:
Tau covered in Blood: we're the good guys. Really.
Sounds like the brave new world, but much more cooler with pew pew laser and intergalactic spacecraft.
I adore these videos, so informative.
Water. Earth. Fire. Air....
AvaTau? 🤣
Only the AvaTau can save us
@@realshit3605 ikr 🤣
I really like the Tau. They are a fantastic narrative device, in my opinion, because it gives us a perspective of the 40k universe from what is basically our own modern point of view. The Tau society is as tolerant as the west, and they practically feel like these near future sci fi humans, like generically from 500 years into the future from today.
It's really cool to see what a society like ours would take of the grim darkness of the 42nd millennium
Ahh... The Tau, the only race/organization I was very close to actually liking before they made them more "in line" with the rest of the factions in 40K.
This so much its why i tend to ignore the changes to the tau
@@maxsteel4934 I'm very much the same there. In my head, the Tau are literally the only decent people in the Galaxy, which makes them actually unique compared to basically evil human zealots, basically evil fungus monsters and all the others.
@@hysterical5408 agreed minus some freelancer captains i sometimes feel it gets silly how every thing is dark and grim
Hysterical I tend to disagree, grey is much better suited to them. I started liking tau only after I’ve read that vivisection book and learned about pheromones. They instantly turned from, boring dime a dozen good guys, into interesting and fascinating race.
@@EnragedOxygen I can understand that. But for me, making them more gray only makes them more standard to the 40K universe. Pretty much all the factions/races are dark with a sinister side to them. Having the Tau be actually decent people/good guys, for me makes them interesting compared to everyone else who's gray to black in terms of morality.
When I 1st discover Warhammer 40ķ I instantly loved the Tau. I couldn't resist the "Gundam" army, and despite all hate, the greater good has always been so beautiful to me.
T'au
The good guys.
Sort of
I mean. Out of their setting they are evil. In setting they are the goodest of the good guys (which mind you include the Religious Space Nazi's and the Xenophobic Manipulative Space elves)
They are pretty interesting, have been learning more about them lately.
in the 40k universe, the Tau are probably as "good" as it gets
so awesome ! love the tau
"thousands died during this period, now reffered to the tau as the terror"
*Laughs in Slaanesh psychic screaming*
Sadly no, as given by a PoV of a Tzeench daemon. Their souls are not worth the trouble because its so weak. He compared both souls, the tau souls are like tiny flicker of lights in a forest like wisps. While human souls are bright like freshly lit torch in a dark cave. Tzeench even rejected his offering of Tau souls.
@@thelardmaker6806 oh no, i Was referring to the total amounts of death from each events, making a joke about how he says "thousands" and the tau called it "the terror," where as Slaneesh's birth killed millions/billions
as a tau fan and collector man you did a good job a few things idk about like saying that the tau that used the warp drives are different idk about that one man but all in all good job
The T'au kinda strike me as being similar to the Dominion of the Gamma Quadrant, in some respects.
Indeed, you could make this comparison... The Dominion, with the Vorta and Jem'Hadar, also has castes after all. And the Etherials are basically the Founders.
The Tau seem to be less evil than the Domionion though, but maybe I just get this impression because all other factions in Warhammer are even more evil.
I know there are no good guys in Warhammer 40k, but I consider the T'au to be the least evil faction in 40k, they actually have a Water Caste of traders and diplomats, and they treat any humans that do join them well and allow them to still worship the Emperor without any xenophobic element, you don't see that with the Imperium Of Man.
TES finally made a video for the greater good ;-}
Thanks for the vid! As a casual observer of 40k who likes to watch random youtube videos about it, I genuinely thought that the Tau were robots this whole time 'cause they look like robots in their armor. Blew my mind with this when I saw the first picture of one without armor.
Wait....is a Tau based Chaos god real???
Should be.
No. The Chaos Gods already represent warped concepts and ideas of reality, life, and human nature. There's no real point in adding a new one when most of the niches have been filled already.
No
It would be the god of the greater good. The many limbed being is referenced in a book and it opened a portal saving a fleet from the astra militarum. If it isn't a chaos god it would just be a god
@@TheSonofsalvation
It's also not a god of the greater good, but something manipulating the tau.
The tau don't have a big enough warp presence to make a god, and there aren't enough humans in the empire nor have they been round for long enough.
Think of it as a greater daemon level warp entity than a full on chaos god.
An intresting Tit bit for Stargate & Tau fans. When the Tau took over there first world (ie T'au is there home world so I am taking about Tau'n) it already had an indigenous race which died out due to a mysterious illness preventing them from reproducing. The Tau of course did everything they could to help, and its remember as a great tragedy. I can not remember where I read it now, but it was hinted at, that this was no tragedy as the Etherials knew the Tau needed a strong begining of there own and that the water cast was in on it. (Stargate refrence Race: Aschen Place: Volian world).
This of course suggests that the Etherals have no qualms about genocide to advance there cause. Guess they fit into Warhammer 40k nicely.
a bunch of altruistic aliens with gundàms. It was love at first sight when I became aware of the Tau.
The Tau are basically humans just in a different point in our history. A much simpler time, a happier one. One where the whole universe wasn’t killing itself.
Better than Leutin's video by far, thanks for a less unhinged take on the Tau
I've never played this game, but I really like this video
The Tau are actually my favourite faction in 40k *because* they're less dark and evil than everyone else. Adds a new angle to the lore and spices things up.
Their mechs are also fucking badass.
To bad tau commit genocides
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Cool video. Love the chill music.
I love the Tau their my favorite Faction.
One day the Tau and Imperium will be forced through some factors to Allie themselves against the Tyranids, Orks which grow in power daily. Despite Imperial arrogance even they will see this.
I liked the t'au before gee dubs listened to imp fanboys whining and made them more grimderp.
what happened?
@@poisondamage2182 basically now they're mind slaves of the ethereals who are supposedly controlled themselves by someone else
The Imperium of Man wins again
@@NotooInteresting as everything should
@@davedave8986 I have never met such a toxic community in my life
4:20 t'au baby plops out, and the drill sergeant is already giving him flak about how he is worthless, cant do anything right and must get on his face for pushups.
It’s funny how the first species they met during their first venture to the furthest reaches of space were the Orks. Since they are the most perfect foil for the Tau.
Tau are peace loving creatures. Despite the brainwashed dictatorship they have they still give the creatures they come across a chance to be civil and not to rash to violence. More often having been forced into combat with the other races.
Orks, as even the most novice 40k fan will know are all about conflict and bloodshed. It’s in their culture and they excel at such a brutal hobby. While Chaos fight to appease their gods, the Eldar fight for survival and the Imperium of man fight for both. Orks fight for the sake of it. Not only making them the most satisfied and thriving race in the galaxy but also the most dangerous because there is literally no negotiating with them. They tend to speak the tongue of violence better.
The Tau are also complete opposites compared to combat. Tau are a species based around ranged combat. Using their musket style guns and shooting from a distance. Only having beings like the Kroot fight for them in hand to hand. Once someone gets up close their only response is to run or die.
Orks on the other hand are much better at hand to hand than ranged. Often charging at the enemy at great number for a “propa fight” as they would say. Sure some of them have guns but more often than not they just spray and pray. Not really aiming but sporadically shooting for the sake of it.
Even their vehicles and weapons are different. Tau tech is efficient, elegant and precise. Their rifles are built in order to directly hit their targets because they need it to in order to fit their style of combat. They also tend to rely too much on their technology. Using drones and other forms of automatons and AI.
Orks are more natural in their tech. Their vehicles and guns are crude and made from nuts and bolts. Only kept together from the sheer belief that they will and even then it’s a commodity for such tech to just spontaneously combust. Ork rifles are often machine guns because they like to shoot it quicker not out of efficiency but because it’s fun to shoot things with it. They simply go for the quickest thing with the loudest and biggest explosion because they’re obsessed with explosives and loud noises.
All in all the Tau and Orks are more of a perfect metaphor for the battle of absolute order vs absolute anarchy.
The Tau are a species that’s entire society and civilisation is built on some 1984 style dictatorship masquerading as a utopia that’s peaceful and loving. Instead it’s the perfect society akin to the society of Demolition man where their citizens are literally brainwashed to serve the cast system with the oppressors at the top.
Orks are the complete opposite. Their decisions and loyalties change on a whim and the only time a clan of them conglomerate is to wreak havoc on the galaxy for a laugh. They butcher and maim and steal and destroy and pillage just for fun.
They fight each other out of boredom and have no society to speak of. No laws, no sophistication, no big ruler apart from the war boss of their clans.
I love the dynamic between the Tau and Orks because of this and honestly I wouldn’t mind seeing a narrative campaign or even a lore storyline where the Orks and Tau hash it out in a full scale war like the Orks are with the Tyranids at the minute. With third and fourth parties manipulating it behind the scenes. Dunno that just sounds really fun to me.
The Air Cast - basically the Belters from the Expanse.
I recall hearing there was a Tau fleet that lost the Ethereal with them in a battle and without the Ethereal nearby, they actually separated from the Empire.
My favorite faction finally
I'd honestly have preferred the Tau stayed as proper good guys. A genuinely altruistic faction would've made the 40k universe a lot more interesting. One of the reasons I've lost interest in 40k is that it's simply become stale and repetitive. When every faction HAS to be evil and terrible in some way, their lore and backstory stops mattering and they all start to feel similar. Here's the bad guys with pointy ears. Here's the bad guys from space hell. Here's the green bad guys.
Christ's sake the biggest faction that gets the most attention feels like it was written by an edgy 15 year old trying to sound badass, and I fail to see why fans get so obsessive about it. Doesn't help that said fans have become cancerous as fuck, too. I've never seen a fanbase get genuinely pissed when you mention you like an in-universe faction that they don't, but a quick scroll through the comments here is proof enough of both of my points. The sheer volume of "hurr weeb space commie can't melee" comments make me want to jump in a river.
Pure altruism is kinda boring. Tau are as close to that as possible while being rational geopolitical actors.
Pure altruism is boring to write, boring to read, and boring to talk about. The tau would become a forgotten faction or written out if they didn't have SOME interesting/negative characteristics
Would it be wrong to say that there's at least a hint of racism involved with their hatred of the tau? :o
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It's sad and shows a lot about the true nature of people when something was created to be a little light of positivity in a sea of darkness and people got upset and wanted it to be evil also. .
Bunch of dickwads that jack off to the demonculubar
I believe that the Eterium are similar to the emperor of Mankind
This is how it could explain why everyone all of the sudden follow them, the same way humanity follow the emperor without even knowing ho he truly was
The Tau may have been chosen after humanity lost it ways when the emperor fell, and maybe the Eterium are iether similar spirits like the emperor
Or crazier idea
The spirits are the emperor him self (or atlist parts of him)
No they just use pheromones to mine control their population
@@the_dropbear4392 if that was true why it didn't work with the orcs?
@@TheDragonfriday they only control the tau
@@TheDragonfriday Why would it work on the orks?
@Think Like A Sponge that wasn't the emperors idea, it was humanity's fear of the xeno that couse it
And why wouldn't the emperor wanted to find another solution, all we know is that the emperor cares only for the dead of the chaos gods, so why not use a species ho seems content with a simple lifestyle with advance technology
And little to no connection to chaos
The Tau aren't perfect, but they seem like the right choice for a war against chaos
If I may ask, could we have a series on everyone's favorite space Amish, the Eldar Exodites?