Actually the main way Tau dealt with imperial Titans during Damocles Crusade was not Mantas. Well, not quite Mantas. They used Mantas to drop several XV-8 teams all loaded to the teeth with fusion blasters to swarm it and melt the titan from inside it's shields, pretty much exactly like Elemetals deal with Mechs in Mechwarrior universe. It was almost a suicide mission, but a dozen or so of mass-produced Crisis suits for a priceless Reaver class battle titan and it's almost equally priceless Princeps pilot is more than a fair trade.
The most underrated ability of the Tau that surpasses the Imperium, Craftworldsrs, and even the Necrons... everything they fight with can be easily replaced and improved upon. Boom
@@fumarc4501 The wonders of technological and mass production approach. Most of the most dangerous stuff the Imperium has is either in short supply or hard and slow to be replaced. Tau can lose a ton of hardware to kill a Titan but they will replace that hardware before a Forgeworld is even informed that they need to get started on building a new God Machine.
@@HubiKoshi This is not completely true tho. Each battlesuit is a marvel of engineering which requires resources to be produced from the ground up, implying advanced components that would require fittingly rare resources. The Tau Empire does not have access to nearly as much resources that the Imperium does. Obviously when it comes to producing the battlesuit the tau are at an advantage as they fundamentally understand how it all works while the mechanicus often only has basic knoweldge of what the components of a titan actually do Still something to keep in mind; tau have to contend with much less resources than their enemies, which is part of the reason why they keep trying to expand in the first place
@@KalashVodka175 That is a very good point. In all honesty "not as much resources as the Imperium" can be applied to pretty much everything like manpower for example. Tau is just a minor faction that's risking by overplaying their hand.
I remember when the Tau were first introduced by GW. For no reason at all i coincided with GW making a large push for esteblishing themselves in Japan. This was surley just a coincidence.
@@fumarc4501 Adeptus Mechanicus: Hey we have our own waifu (hugs toaster) I love you honey let's never part you can make me breakfast every day Toaster: please kill me
Frigin Tau. As always they may be that tiny inexperienced nation in the corner, but the simple fact that they've developed these things over the course of scarcely a few centuries, and began mass producing them from a relative handful of worlds, really can't be understated, in context of the 40k universe. They get faced up against Imperial titans, ancient relics of limited numbers, the pinnacle of Imperial technology, and less than a century after the encounter, they have devised specialised units designed to kill them. They may be considered expensive, but this is expensive from the perspective of a fledgeling star empire. With even a 10th of the territory that the Imperium possesses, they could begin churning out heavy battlesuits like they were nothing. It's a battle of expensive vs priceless, along with a frenzied WW2 style arms race, except where one side is mostly rolling backwards shouting about heresy clawing at it's own skin. They have a subtle and clean style to them, but in they're own unique way, they're every bit as much a looming menace that threatens to grow beyond the tipping point. Rather than feeding on bio mass, souls or such to grow, they evolve and thrive on conflict, and reliably get more dangerous with every fight. That which doesn't kill them outright, only gives them motivation to build bigger guns, like tiny blue pretentious orcs.
id really want to see them how they will deal with the chaos.They are almost invisible to it but just almost.Eventually they will have to deal with it and think of how chaos corrupt the society first and then attacks.
well the first time the tau took down an imperial titan they had pretty much just taken a heavy fighter took its main guns off removed the drone carrying facilities and replaced them with FUCKING RAILGUNS they then sent this relatively cheap fighter out to see what it could do it fucking annihilated a warhound scout titan in one pass (i think in the fluff it took down the shields with missiles and then blasted it with its FUCKING RAILGUNS) yes one of if not the smallest titan out there but still a massive investment in resources (can the imperium still make these things? i just remembered that there are many things the imperium use that they cannot make anymore) and manpower
+Masra94 they sure as hell can. They're just way more better at shooting things. My friend is a big Thousand Sons fan, and don't leave the hopes to one day build a competetive TS army. By playing friendly matches against my enclave crisiswing he learned the hard way that crisis suits can fight back in melee, and fight back hard.
***** yeah, how about you tak e acombat rifle and try to fight a guy with a knife and shovel in a tench on room. There is a reason modern day special forces spend quite a lot of time learning how to close combat, and in 40k with massive hive cities and spaceships as a regular battle zones, melee training even for guard-level troops is even more important. As for marines, eldar and tyranids, their advantages against conventional troops are multiplied tenfold, if they could reach melee, and given their speed and personal survivability via armor, stealth, dodge, transports (inculding drop pods), they have the means to reach it in no time...
***** like many stupid people you sem to think in binary logic - either A is godlike good or useless shit compared to B, and in no way you may use both and choose one appropriate for a situation. Arguing with stupid people never lead to anyting productive, so I see no reason to continue this.
I would imagine the idea of living with the Tau would seem like a total fantasy to the Emperial citizen, like, this dreamy magical place were you can live on a clean, healthy world, and talk and live with non-human beings who DON'T want to immediately kill you...good luck getting there.
Well between the Imperium of Man and the Tau Empire the living conditions of the average citizen is: Imperium: No freedom Likely hellish living conditions (unless you REALLY lucked out and were born on one of the nicest planets) The ever-present threat loyal Imperium forces will kill you on the suspicion of just about anything not properly Imperial The fact that if any enemy of the Imperium shows up in system you're less than expendable in the defense of the system Tau: No freedom Decent, or better, living conditions as far across the empire as the Tau can manage Not much in the way of witch hunting The Tau will actively try to protect you, the average civilian, if enemy force shows up in system So yeah... both fail pretty hard on the freedom front but the Tau win in all other categories. No wonder their military is so underdeveloped, they don't need to put it through constant use against not only Ork WAAARGs, Tyranid invasions, rebellion annihilation, and of course the terrors of Chaos. If it weren't for the fact that the Imperium is pretty genocidal toward xenos and the Tau want to expand (with all the good expanding space has already been snatched up by the Imperium) a Tau/Man alliance would just about be as effective as the Golden Age Confederacy of Man.
Also, I'm curious. This is kind of off topic but what does Chaos think of Tyranids? This question always eludes me because Chaos has been around for a long while. It knows every one of it's enemies. The Necron that may want to shut down the Warp's interference in realspace completely. The Eldar that fell to Slaanesh. Sure you could compare Tyranids to say Orks that may be a threat to Chaos in tiny skirmishes, but overall only hurt the Imperium for the most part. Hell even an Ork ruled galaxy would provide plenty of battle and strife for Chaos to be formed by. But at least Chaos knows to a certain degree, how Orks were formed, what their history was with the Old Ones, etc. Tyranids are a complete and utter mystery that threaten to consume the entire universe. With no known origins other than they came from every direction outside of the galaxy, strongly implying far more dead galaxies out there already decimated by the Tyranids. They're collective hivemind is literally called the Shadow in the Warp and generates enough psychic energy to own a section of the Immaterium completely to itself. Cutting astropatic communications at a whim. Isn't that a giant red flag for the Chaos Gods? Wouldn't this be a threat in the long run against Chaos should they ever come to blows if the Imperium was finally rendered useless? If Tyranids were to wipe out all life in the Universe, there would be nothing for the Ruinous Powers of Chaos to latch onto, thus they would reflect the nothingness of the remaining Universe with no life, no war, no strife to form Chaotic powers in the Immaterium. They would become nothing. With that said, wouldn't Tyranids be the single worst threat to Chaos?
+GothaBillsAndDeath Chaos space marines think Tyranids are the threat to humanity second only to the blind corpse-worshipers who lead mankind to its doom by rejecting a glory of Chaos. Chaos daemons hate Tyranids and want to eradicate them whenever possible (nids don't have emotions to feed on and kill other things that have emotions), but generally cannot, unless Tyranids attack a daemon world (they did a few times, but apparently learned a lesson and now avoid them) or some of their mortal servants mange to shield their daemon masters from the might of a Hive Mind with some powerful psychic artifacts and/or mass sacrifices. I have an interesting theory that Tyranids are a bological weapon, designed by some other extragalactic empire to clear our galaxy of all life (and thus deatroyinf the Chaos, and return the Immaterium to it's original nice and peaceful state) to later recolonize it with species that does not accidentally create lovecraftian evil gods that turn a hyperspace into a literal Hell.
DoctorM42 Can you cite where you found these Chaos Vs Tyranid encounters? Not that I doubt you, I just literally can't find any or can't be arsed to dig that deep into the Lexicanum wiki. It's just surprising to me how Tyranids aren't a major plot point for Chaos given their nature. I do want to see whether or not the Hivemind is able enough to protect it's underlings from Chaotic influences and even perhaps consume Daemon flesh. Or, have this backfire and waste the Hivemind's resources on worlds that will corrupt their underling's telepathic link and corrupt them through physical absorption of "warp stuff" the stuff daemons are made of. Would be a very interesting concept to explore. H.R. Giger's bug aliens made manifest in realspace, relying on scientific/biological evolution attempting to consume space daemons from literal hellscapes mean to reflect/store metaphysical matter such as the soul that look like H.P.Lovecraft had a field day.
DoctorM42 Also can you cite where Daemons hate Tyranids? Again, maybe I'm really dyslexic here, but I have not found an opinion on the matter by the great four or any daemon.
GothaBillsAndDeath ironically the only daemon on tyranid actions are outside of both their codices - AFAIK one is mentioned in the Grey Knight codex, and another in some imperial supplement. Given nids have no emotions Chaos use to get a grip on anyone's soul, they're utterly uncorruptable - deamons and psykers see tyranid souls as a black blobs (not the void like pariah antisouls, but just black) filled with nothing but hunger and determination. The closest thing to corrupting them any of the chaos guys could get was to infect some nids with Obliterator virus, but even then it only worked a few times before the hive mind somehow developed a cure to a disease that defy logic. Oh, and speaking about Nids eating daemons. They tried. But daemon flesh made of warp stuff just evaporated out of their stomaches when the daemon itself get banished into the warp. No biomass, no DNA gained. No reason to fight those spiky flaming things. So the Hivemind avoid them if possible. Just like Necrons.
DoctorM42 Talk about when an unstoppable object meets an immovable one. Very true my friend, thanks for reminding me about the Tyranid souls. "somehow developed a cure to a disease that defy logic." Sounds Matt Ward-eee. I always thought a great scenario would be if Space Marines led Tyranids straight into the Eye of Terror or a giant gathering of Chaos Daemons/Warbands, but if Tyranids sense they won't be able to gain any biomass that story pitch will probably never happen.
FarSight: Honeeeey??? Honey: What? FarSight: Where's my Battlesuit?? Honey: Whaaaaat? FarSight: WHERE.IS.MY.BATTLESUIT!? Honey: It's uh... It's under maintenance! Farsight: Which Bay!?? Honey: Why do you need to know? Farsight: I NEED IT! Honey: Uh-uh. Don't you dare running off doing no darin' do. We've been planning this dinner for TWO MONTHS! Farsight: My Firecaste is in DANGER! Honey: MY EVERNING'S IN DANGER! Farsight: *YOU TELL ME WHERE MY SUIT IS, WOMAN! WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE GREATER GOOD!* Honey: Greater Good? I am you WIFE! I am the GREATEST GOOD you ever gonna get!
They could do that at the cost of mobility and fight just like the empire, the problem with doing that it's that they're unwilling to throw their warriors into a meatgrinder. A skirmish should be fast, deadly and won before it even started through superior placement on the battlefield/sneak attacks.
"We need this new power source on the field now, but it's too deadly!" "Then we will just have to deploy it anyway. The pilots may die, but their sacrifice is in the name of the Greater Good!" And thus we see another crack, another compromise, another way in which the noble idea of individuals freely choosing to give of themselves for the greater good of the many... Is twisted and corrupted into the leaders choosing what is the 'greater good' and compelling others to sacrifice themselves for a concept they no-longer fully understand, nor how their actions may serve such a goal - only that they have been told that they shall and that the goal is good and noble.
RE: The AI thing in the XV-95 - It might be just me, but I feel as though the way the Tau employ their AI (partnered to an organic pilot) likely wouldn't result in the classic AI uprising seen elsewhere (i.e Men of Iron). Bolo parallels aside, it seems to me that having the AI work as an equal to the organic, both working in tandem to achieve their goals, would give the AI a legitimate loyalty to, if not the Tau as a whole, then to their partner. This is opposed to the AI workforce/army that humanity created, which would understandably foster feeling of resentment among sentient AI, especially when exacerbated by Chaos. Just something to think about, I guess.
Problem here is that an AI has no defense against chaos whatsoever, especially when owned by a race that hasn't even begun understanding the true nature of the warp. Doesn't really matter how well they're treated, not that they're treated as equals anyway. Horus was treated pretty well by the Emperor too.
+Yellow King Well, all we really know is that it displaces 5 times the, for lack of a better word, "amount" of space-time, implying that there's five times as much of it than normal matter.
let's just leave it at dark matter/energy doesn't follow the normal rules when it comes to matter and energy and we haven't even really begun to know what it is yet so we just leave it at Dark Matter/Energy or Exotic Matter/Energy. Here's a relevant NASA article on the subject science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/
We don't even know if it's actually a kind of matter. All we know is it makes gravity or is made of gravity or something. Honestly we should just call it dark gravity to avoid the confusion
We do know that it is a kind of matter. It has a measurable mass, measured to be by orders of magnitude the most prevalent form of matter in the entire universe.
TLCBonaparte that would be dark energy. And it's only called that because no one has an idea what it is. Also it's not the force behind the expansion, it's the force behind the acceleration of the expansion
Arch needs to make more Tau videos! Farsight Enclaves, the Void Nexus, Auxiliaries, etc... mostly because I like hearing him talk about things he destains.
by Battletech standards most tau battlesuits are classified as powered armor. they are classified as such because they are piloted but are not worn like regular suits of armor.
A knew dawn of war is rumoured to be in the works , hopefully all the races are in it and it returns to DoW 1 style RTS PS: Tau were in the game however they were DLC for the arena game mode
Albie Goodchild True that, I have seen some people say Dawn of War 2 is better than the original but I just don't see it. DoW2 just has too many company of heroes mechanics and is more micromanagement.
"If you know anything about dark matter" No one kowns about dark matter. It's an explanation for gravitational anomalies, we don't know what it's properties are.
Battlesuits were why I got into Tau back in the dayl. I turned a normal Crysis suit in Farsight using LOTS of green stuff, a demonic sword from a demonic prince model a buddy gave me (cause he took the kit and nurgled it instead). Anyways, he was amazing and I loved him then when I moved a lot of my unfinished army (building and painting) got destroyed or lost. Usually both :/
It would be and interesting match up to see, perhaps a Tau Broadside Battlesuit, an Astarte's Knight or Dreadnought, and a "Graze" model or even a "Tallgeese" model of Mobile Suit, I wouldn't go full Gundam just because of how ridiculously overpowered they are, and god forbid Gurren Lagann makes an appearance :P
it would only be fair if they were both real mecha designs, I'm thinking more of the universal era of mobilesuits before the crossbone, so like a Jegan mobile suit being a standard one going either Nu gundam or Hi-Nu gundam.
The mega-stealth suit with the AI just reminds me of the stealth suit in Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues, it has an AI of it's own, one that I'm sure a couple of guys out there enjoyed.
38:51 - So, a nuclear equipped walking battle tank? LOL This thing even looks like the original Metal Gear! If they ever make a Total War: 40k game I am SOOOOO going to play the hell out of some Tau!
I don't know an excessive amount about the Tau, or this universe in general. But, if they have reactors that go nuclear, and good stealth tech, why aren't they just creating massive nukes and setting them off at enemy bases? Pull up to enemy base, set bomb, leave, have AI trigger explosion, Adeptus Astarte's no moar.
Because of the massive advances in armor sciences and i would geuss aswell Uranium is even real life a relatively rare material, and it is all wasted in a nuke. While in a reactor that is efficient and would use up all the energy of the fuel before discarded lasts much longer, possibly hundreds of years.
Resurgence Of The Shadow Dragons they do that. It's just this I'd 40K, I'm pretty sure a kiosk is the size of three houses so imagine a base. Worked great on Necrons though.
Ah, little error I think arch. The broadside battle suits don't use rail rifles, they use rail guns. Rail rifles are what get used by tau pathfinders and tau sniper drones.
+truemisto sadly it wouldn't fit into a big oval miniature base, so GW would never do that. FW could, though - they already have a lot of non-standard based models.
For that they would need to start to fully understand their tech and lose the religious aspects. Or beat the shit out of Adeptus Mechanicus so that they stop screaming "HERETECH!" every time someone brings in something that was not found in an archaeological dig.
It would be beter that they find a way to do both religious and tech innovating then it will still be a awesome aspect. But like dark ages of our own time line. It could be the death of the Empire if they dont do something about it then only saying : We lose the blueprints, We can't build it so we dont build anything anymore :').
The Imperium would be perfect, if it is no more. They are simply way too morbid (why would anyone make robots from human bodies when you can make it from non-organic matters) and they are too xenophob aswell. For the Greater Good!
That still sounds like a bad idea to screw around with. Imagine a runaway reaction involvinge extreme gravitational fluctuations. That shit would hurt.
@@draochvar9646I believe that what they meant was that dark matter has gravitational pull just like regular matter and that's the only reason why we even know of its existence since it apparently does not interact with electromagnetic waves like light.
I think you're confusing dark matter and antimatter, dark matter is the stuff in the universe that doesn't reflect light. Antimatter is the stuff that annihilates on contact with regular matter and releases a fuckload of energy.
@@yogsothoth7594 I'll be honest here, Dark Matter is called such because the scientific community doesn't know what it is. All they could come up with is that the way our galaxy spins, it should possess somewhere between 8 and 9 times the amount of invisible, intangible matter (~85% of the universe) that only emits gravity akin to background radiation. That is, 8 to 9 times the amount of Dark something (Matter) that also interacts with each other and via some Dark (Energy) which is also most likely responsible for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. That is generally almost everything we know.
@@yogsothoth7594 Dark matter is dark. As in, it reflects no light. On any known wavelength, visible or invisible to the human eye. Hence dark matter. It's not some magick McGuffin, it's just there... or maybe it's actually a swarm of Yu'Vath, who knows?
Great video Arch. The Tau journey of learning just how deadly their universe is has always been the most interesting aspect for me. The comparison of their over-engineering style to that of Nazi Germany is also pretty apt. In addition, I'm dying to find out how their use of AI will pan out. Will their focus on increasingly complicated battlesuits help them overcome the numerical disadvantage they have regarding pretty much every other faction? Will they suffer due to an AI rebellion or manage to find a way to be the only ones to harness AI thanks to their technological affinity (wouldn't that be something)? Most importantly, will future crises shake their stance on the Greater Good and their "relatively" benevolent outlook? Can the Tau even find a way to survive long-term as an empire?
+William Tornieporth Ethereals banned the developenemt of AI to self-awareness state, declaring as self-aware AI are people too and could not be used as tools, but either embraced into a Greater Good as citizen or destroyed like any other intelligent lifeform Tau empire discover naturally.
The Necrons and Eldar both use AI safely (hence why Craftworld Eldar society is a utopia where you can choose whatever path you want so long as it doesn't feed Slaanesh; the runnings of the Craftworld are handled by robots and the Wraithsingers who occasionally have to service them). It was humanity's hubris in thinking they could use *true AI* without consequences (like, say, a slave revolt) that lead to various Men of Gold, Stone, and Iron choosing sides in a war that raged across the galaxy. The Mechanicus's radical ban on AI is a combination of a response to that war and a response to the Martian Schism; most (BUT NOT ALL) of the Legio Cybernetica was decommissioned after the Martian Schism, and technologies that previously weren't considered AI (like Black Iron Core Titans) were declared as such. Most DAOT AI we've actually seen (rather than just heard about fifth-hand) in 40k books fall into one of three categories - seemingly benevolent towards humanity, seemingly ambivalent towards humanity, or hates the Imperium in particular. In the first category was a Man of Stone who disguised himself as a Navy voidsman (I think that's the right term), helped the Imperium by serving, and told stories of the Mechanoclysm, until he was discovered by a Black Templar and a magos then vanished. In the second category was a Man of Iron disguised as a Kastelan-class Robot (as part of the Blackstone Fortress side-game) who seeks to find a fellow true AI in the Blackstone Fortress so that he can have a true companion, but reacts harshly ("you know nothing of either [the Machine God or the Omnissiah]; I have met the real Omnissiah, and I'm not talking about the rotting corpse on Terra") when a magos tries to perform a techsorcism on him. After killing the witnesses, he went back to exploring the Fortress. Also, the AI on the Speranza, who rewound time so that a shot would hit an Eldar ship that was able to dodge because of Eldar divination. In the third category was a DAOT ship that got lost in the Warp and re-emerged after the Imperium had become uber-zealots, then the pilot was killed by an Imperial, so the [far more advanced than anything Imperials have] ship itself kicks Imperial ass because it really liked its pilot and thought that the Imperium were superstitious people unworthy of being his descendants.
About the AI problem, their best solution are drones controlled by a tau operator with a device similar to the neurolink used by hiro hamada in big hero 6, when the operator takes off the device, the drones simply don't works...
@@zanir2387 There is no problem because the Tau don't make true AI as defined by the setting (or modern theoretical computer scientists), "the soulless *sentience."* Same with the Craftworld Eldar, and even the Legio Cybernetica. None of the above groups build machines that can think, really, they make machines that can take a set of inputs about their task and give a pre-programmed set of outputs, hence why the modern Mechanicus, which hates AI with a burning axe, allows the Kastellan-class Battle-Automaton and all of the civilian robots made by the Imperium. True AI would be a machine (Kaban) that's given a set of inputs (sensory, in this case), a task (killing), and no pre-programmed outputs, the machine learning the outputs for itself. I don't think the T'au have programmed a true AI yet, and that is what has saved them.
So after watching the various videos on Tau and their lovely toys, I started searching the internet for art of these wonderful blueberries, only to find A LOT of... interesting interpretations of Human Helper/ Tau relations mostly in a style reminisced of... let's be honest, ecchi anime. That brings me to my question. The castes are not allowed to interbreed. Thus I presume that other races inside the Tau empire are also only allowed to breed with others of the same species, but since I doubt for an instance that a human and an Earth caste can reproduce, would a union of mind and body be socially and or legally accepted inside Tau society? I tried searching for this answer, but the searches came up with mathematical shit instead.
Won't fucking touch Titanfall 2 with a ten-foot pole, but you have just reminded me to purchase the original Titanfall again. No, I'm of the opinion that tau battle suits are far quicker than Titans but you know
@@bfnvalley Gameplay wise yes. Storywise ehh I hated how they basically made the I.M.C the villains the Militia the good guys. In the first game it can argued both sides have shades of grey. But, Respawn threw that element out almost entirely.
@@Burning-Twilight When you've got a series with giant fighting robots, taking yourself seriously is a recipe for disaster. The fact they threw all of the artificial 'we're realistic and morally grey' bullcrap out of the window allowed them to focus on the relationship between BT and the pilot (I forgot his name, he's basically just a proxy for the player), a.k.a the player, and the immensely fun gameplay. Plus, the single player was never a major draw of TF1, since it required online connection to access the campaign.
Great video, but did you leave out the XV107 R'varna and the XV109 Y'Varha, both being highly specialized Riptide class battlesuites, by choice or did these sweet little critters fly under your radar? ^^
+Scout Charger (Dai Tenshi) choice, i dident want to go to deeply into variants afther listing the XV8 commanders versions for fear of never finishing the video XD
understandable, but about 50 minutes isn't really the best you can do, we all know you are able to rant much, muuuuuuuuuuch longer than one measly hour XD
I feel like the Commisar Cain series gave the best view of the Tau I've ever seen in the fluff or books. Shame its non-cannon. The diplomacy aspects were really cool.
1. AI's are not necessarily prone to going mad unless they are capable of and allowed to attain sentience. Only General AI's would be a problem. Although It sounds like the Tau are flirting with this, but are of the mind that AI's should ONLY assist and live pilots will always be int the loop. 2. Dark Matter is an unknown subject to Humans at this point. But all indications point to something loosely referred to as Nullified or "null" Matter. This is matter that has no electrical charge, while Normal matter has a positive charge, and anti-matter has a negative charge. Mater and antimatter will annihilate each other in a massive expression of energy. However we can assume the Tau learned to use Dark Energy or Vacuum energy or the energy of Universal expansion. and have to use Dark matter to do so. And you thought Romulans using Artificial Black Holes, Kugelblitzes, to power their starships was exotic.
Interesting. I didn't think the Imperium reverse-engineered or for that matter captured Alien tech,due to it being considered a heresy or along those lines.
Rellana1 i think it would be heresy to rebiult xenos tech and to use it, not to know how it works and to use this knowlegde against it. space marines can eat the brain of their enemys and gain some knowlegde about them.
If I recall sometimes more eccentric and influential (as well as considered heretical) remembers of the Machine cult are not opposed to using xeno tech as a means to help understand or advance their own designs. Yes, the Machine cult does advance the technology of the imperium.. well only a handful who are given the privilege and even then it's so slow and so unenforceable that one can claim they are just refining the designs and technology that does exist.
@@draochvar9646 The point is that it's so destructive it can instantly destroy a smaller titanic units. They're routinely depicted in the lore sniping out titans.
I think from what youve said this is the order in which I love Warhammer 40000 factions: 1. Imperium of Man. 2. Tau Empire. 3. Orks. 4. Necrons. 5. Tyranids 6. Eldar 7. Chaos. 8. Dark Eldar And I really think Warhammer 40000 is the best sci-fi universe. But still, could you make the Orks video ?
I'd argue the storm surge isn't a battlesuit. It's an artillery walker. It also sounds like Storm Surges would pair well with the larger Tauna Supremacy Armors. Use the sustained fire from the latter to strip void shields while the Storm Surges provide the finishing punch.
it's it bad that during a game of apocalypse (I know that apparently GW is trying to get rid of it but I still play it) my dad had one of those massive stealth suits so I played the ultimate "fuck you" card and shot it with my shadow sword?
On the subject of the XV9-Hazard, the Tau may not think much of the tactic of hot dropping into a platoon and releasing a blistering array of firepower, but Im sure Space Marine Assault squads think it works pretty well.
I want a damn 40k game where you play as various pilots in tau battle suits. Xv15 Xv 25 Xv88 xv104 FUUUUU i wanna be in dat suit I wanna mow down orcs and nids with a burst cannon then swap to my shoulder mounted missile pod splits a biggun down. XD
Chainsaw Panda if Eternal crusade gets a Tau faction. I recommend Battlesuits being the players. I cannot imagine playing as Fire Warrior. considering all the other factions. I mean in eternal crusade you dont play as a guardian, you play as aspect warriors. and Space Marines they have years of experience. it makes sense that if thats the case you should play as Shas' ui who more often than not pilot Battlesuits.
That's The point of a modular weapon system, whatever you want the weapon to be, squad automatic weapon, sniper, suppressed, grenade launcher, anti-air, anti-tank, etc. It also reduces logistics headaches with one weapons system, rather than multiple one-purpose weapons.
JoeRingo118 The answer is yes but with limited prowess that a mech suit could. But who needs arms or hands when you can just have more chain swords that spin and fire smaller chain swords on blue fire.
Commissar_Dan Bitch please, Give me all thy metal and I shall create for you a minigun tank, that has rotary miniguns, on a minigun, that shoots 50mm bolter rounds. AND plays the theme tune of the emperor.
Commissar_Dan It'll shoot bullets that when they penetrate the target, use microsubwoofers to blast "hell march" so loud it breaks down them down on the molecular level, and make their allies run in fear.
That horrible moment when Tau realize they can just pilot Riptides with A.I. Immune to Nova reactor radiation + can throw themselves straight into the enemy and explode? Oh boy....
+Corn Wheat Tau AI is not very intelligent - on a level of a dog, no more. I's intentional too, since more advanced AI's can reach self-awareness and therefore qualify as "people" per Greater Good doctrine - and Tau don't like the idea of creating essentially a slave race. Riptides are expensive, valuable and rare, and generally tau have way more Shas'Vre veterans (each immensely better at piloting and decision making than any AI in their arsenal) than Riptide suits availabe, so taupower is not the limiting factor.
+Corn Wheat IIRC that's not exactly a fresh AI. Isn't it more of a cloned brain of Cmdr. PureTide, or a fragment of one? IDK if there's any real difference and then there's a whole of phil. of mind to go with that.... w.e. I get the feeling that the PureTide AI were supposed to be more powerful AI (mind you it seems they can't adapt for shit).
PotaTOES Even so I doubt it'll take long for the Tau to realize they can just drone pilot or A.I. their battlesuits and basically spam nova reactors in everything without wasting pilots.
Corn Wheat While I think there is potential for drone piloting a lot of their battlesuits, some point in the future (which I doubt we'll reach because of GW). I'm not sure its all too relevant. The Tau breed fast enough that there isn't exactly a shortage of battlesuit pilots, and they can actually mass produce their battlesuits (compared to dreadnoughts and terminators). Plus- drones already do this fire support, reasonably well (just think of Imperial guard). The nova reactor idea is... well its not feasible. IIRC the nova reactors are incredibly expensive and the blast which it produces while incredibly powerful is still quite localized. So while I can imagine some pretty heroic last stands (a riptide out of ammo "rushes" a warlord titan with its shields down), I don't think it would be the common behaviour. Plus, if the nova reactor is our rough equivalent of nuclear reactors, I doubt that they can be fit onto suits the size of Xv8s.
There is a difference between the AI from the Empire and the AI used by Tau. For instance, those made by the Empire was created to serve, where those from Tau are made to mimic Tau.
Actually, WWII Germany's main problem was developing old tech when they had new stuff in the waiting. Using a BF 109 when the Me 262 was available for instance. That and you know, low man power, no gas, and bombs being dropped on them night and day was a problem as well. I am being picky now though. Your point still stands.
On the contrary, Germany's insistence to upgrade and alter their machines to the changing tools of their enemy really screwed over their panzer forces long term. Rushing the panther into service without resolving teething problems, building SEVERAL different tank destroyer vehicles for the same purpose while failing to ensure they had interchangeable parts, and waisting ridiculous amounts of resources on "super weapons" that never came to completion are just three cases of this ridiculousness. American tanks may have been generally inferior to German ones but they were available in greater number and nearly all of them had a much higher standard for reliability than their German counterparts. In terms of airplanes, the Luftwaffe probably made the right choice in sticking to the 109 platform. The real mistake came with not giving jet research greater priority before and early in the war. Then again, this was a time where bombers were expected to out fly fighter planes...
Arch talks about the Hazard battlesuit, and says "it is the most sophisticated and powerful battlesuit to date.” (29:23). But this seems odd, to say the least, as he then proceeds to talk about the Riptide and its variants (I think) and the newer titan-killers that the Tau field. Now its arguable whether or not the titan-killers are “true” battlesuits, so let’s say that they aren’t. But surely the Riptide and its variants (the 104/07/09) are battlesuits. These suits as far as I can tell carry far more and powerful ordinance than the Hazard suit, and seem better armoured or at least as well armoured. The 107 seems to be the epitome of firepower/armour amongst the “true” battlesuits the Tau field. While the 04/09 seem to relatively mobile and maneuverable, considering their size. So I’m not sure what he means by his comment. Perhaps Arch is referring, implicitly, to mass produced suits with his comment. That’s the only sense I can understand it as.
if the tau are so technologically superior to the imperium how the fuck did the imperium manage to reverse engineer their stealth suit when they take 7 hours of prayers to change a light bulb
+Chaos Marine55 better at range?! I call BS, wraithlords are more accurate and their weapons mostly have longer ranged weapons and they have bright lances...
wotcha! man Oh yeah? Battlesuits are much more mobile and it can carry more weapons and support systems than a wraithlord. So when it comes to firepower, looks and mobility, the tau battlesuits takes the cake.
+Chaos Marine55 point madeand approved but the sheer power of eldar weaponry is just superior to that of stupid overused in every anime fish-suit.... and bright lances... tau suits ate superior... at close range (because their weaponary is rquite short ranged) where they run the risk of getting there gills ripped open by a ghost sword
hey did any one else get a USA feel from this guys? seriously their battle tactics and Priority for the safety of their soldiers seem's a little uncanny.
Max B no but what I meant is in comparison to the imperium, I mean this guys are suppose to be A Fascist Alien Race and still they seem to have an uncanny similarity to the manuarisoms of the USA When it comes to their war tactics giving preference to Long range or even automated warfare making liberal use of Guided Missiles and drones just like The USA, On top of that the Tau and their allies have by far the best body armour of any know faction in their universe much like The USA and it's Allies hab By quite a margin the best and most extensive(not to mention expensive) body armour out of any faction in our know universe(well except for Specialist armours made for private consumers) so yea the similarities are rather uncanny specially when Compared to the Rather Alien And Backwards Imperium.
quite right JoeRingo118, just ask any number of us vets who were thrown into the midst with no drone or guided missile support.... though i will say that Anarchy Empire is right, the US military is headed towards using drones and AI if given the chance... assuming the Government doesnt want to throw us humans to the front as a method of population control.....
Mike Whitaker why would they? The birth rate in almost all Western nations is crashing I would think the only nations that would do something like that would China, India and N'korea almost no one else has enough population to waste it like that.
Anarchy Empire, simple, look at the plans of certain US organizations and their purchaces, homeland defence buying enough bullets to have a full clip for each american, fema buying tons of disposable coffins.. leaked plans for Obama to try aand take control via Marshal Law.. and those are only the most prevelant signs... and while this screams conspiricy theory, and may be.. i wouldnt put it past certian individuals and organizations within the US to do just that....
Stop. Taaaaalking. Like thiiiiiiiiiis. You're trying. Way TOOOOO, haaaaaaard. Are you wearing a monocle? You probably should be. Here, allow me to refill your brandy glass, and light your Opium pipe. That fireplace needs stoking as well, don't get up. I've got it.
its a really calming way to explain shit. its essentially the bread and butter of his channel. he will just keep on rambling like we all know and love him
Tau battle suits are just car versions of power armor and melee is cool but its awesome when it comes from a tau melee specialist like Farsight and On shi and kroots those ork slaying badasses
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Actually the main way Tau dealt with imperial Titans during Damocles Crusade was not Mantas. Well, not quite Mantas. They used Mantas to drop several XV-8 teams all loaded to the teeth with fusion blasters to swarm it and melt the titan from inside it's shields, pretty much exactly like Elemetals deal with Mechs in Mechwarrior universe. It was almost a suicide mission, but a dozen or so of mass-produced Crisis suits for a priceless Reaver class battle titan and it's almost equally priceless Princeps pilot is more than a fair trade.
The most underrated ability of the Tau that surpasses the Imperium, Craftworldsrs, and even the Necrons... everything they fight with can be easily replaced and improved upon. Boom
Shadow of the collosus intensifies.
@@fumarc4501 The wonders of technological and mass production approach. Most of the most dangerous stuff the Imperium has is either in short supply or hard and slow to be replaced. Tau can lose a ton of hardware to kill a Titan but they will replace that hardware before a Forgeworld is even informed that they need to get started on building a new God Machine.
@@HubiKoshi
This is not completely true tho.
Each battlesuit is a marvel of engineering which requires resources to be produced from the ground up, implying advanced components that would require fittingly rare resources.
The Tau Empire does not have access to nearly as much resources that the Imperium does.
Obviously when it comes to producing the battlesuit the tau are at an advantage as they fundamentally understand how it all works while the mechanicus often only has basic knoweldge of what the components of a titan actually do
Still something to keep in mind; tau have to contend with much less resources than their enemies, which is part of the reason why they keep trying to expand in the first place
@@KalashVodka175 That is a very good point. In all honesty "not as much resources as the Imperium" can be applied to pretty much everything like manpower for example. Tau is just a minor faction that's risking by overplaying their hand.
I remember when the Tau were first introduced by GW. For no reason at all i coincided with GW making a large push for esteblishing themselves in Japan. This was surley just a coincidence.
Yapanese need animu wifus with gundam suits to like warhammer
We got a faction with an awesome aesthetic out if it so im not complaining.
"you see the tau place a far greater value on the pilot rather than the battlesuit"
says something about the tau there.
That they really have no idea what's waiting them outside their little empire
@@LeohTheArcher princeps arent cheap
@@TS-jm7jm cheaper than the fate of Men
Wait... Tau value their soldiers and not their military hardware? *[angry mechanicum noises]*
@@fumarc4501 Adeptus Mechanicus: Hey we have our own waifu (hugs toaster) I love you honey let's never part you can make me breakfast every day Toaster: please kill me
>Tau waifu stealth suits
I love how this is cannon
tau waifu look like tau men, just their forehead are different.
You should see some of the female Tau on 4chan. Smoking hot.
HERESY!
Would love to see chaos tainted Tau Waifu...
Imari Kurumi
I'd be interested in this as well. Tau Waifu that falls to Slaanesh corruption... Oh god YES!
Frigin Tau. As always they may be that tiny inexperienced nation in the corner, but the simple fact that they've developed these things over the course of scarcely a few centuries, and began mass producing them from a relative handful of worlds, really can't be understated, in context of the 40k universe.
They get faced up against Imperial titans, ancient relics of limited numbers, the pinnacle of Imperial technology, and less than a century after the encounter, they have devised specialised units designed to kill them. They may be considered expensive, but this is expensive from the perspective of a fledgeling star empire. With even a 10th of the territory that the Imperium possesses, they could begin churning out heavy battlesuits like they were nothing. It's a battle of expensive vs priceless, along with a frenzied WW2 style arms race, except where one side is mostly rolling backwards shouting about heresy clawing at it's own skin.
They have a subtle and clean style to them, but in they're own unique way, they're every bit as much a looming menace that threatens to grow beyond the tipping point. Rather than feeding on bio mass, souls or such to grow, they evolve and thrive on conflict, and reliably get more dangerous with every fight. That which doesn't kill them outright, only gives them motivation to build bigger guns, like tiny blue pretentious orcs.
UnknownSquid there essentially us during the 20th century.
id really want to see them how they will deal with the chaos.They are almost invisible to it but just almost.Eventually they will have to deal with it and think of how chaos corrupt the society first and then attacks.
well the first time the tau took down an imperial titan they had pretty much just taken a heavy fighter took its main guns off removed the drone carrying facilities and replaced them with FUCKING RAILGUNS they then sent this relatively cheap fighter out to see what it could do
it fucking annihilated a warhound scout titan in one pass (i think in the fluff it took down the shields with missiles and then blasted it with its FUCKING RAILGUNS)
yes one of if not the smallest titan out there but still a massive investment in resources (can the imperium still make these things? i just remembered that there are many things the imperium use that they cannot make anymore) and manpower
What they really thrive on is order. Conflict is just a means for them to eliminate what they fear most: anarchy.
@JoeRingo118 they don't do any of that euthanizing/ sterilizing bullshit i hope you know that
But...but...they can't even fight in melee!
+Masra94 they sure as hell can. They're just way more better at shooting things. My friend is a big Thousand Sons fan, and don't leave the hopes to one day build a competetive TS army. By playing friendly matches against my enclave crisiswing he learned the hard way that crisis suits can fight back in melee, and fight back hard.
+MrMorphicus just no
***** yeah, how about you tak e acombat rifle and try to fight a guy with a knife and shovel in a tench on room. There is a reason modern day special forces spend quite a lot of time learning how to close combat, and in 40k with massive hive cities and spaceships as a regular battle zones, melee training even for guard-level troops is even more important. As for marines, eldar and tyranids, their advantages against conventional troops are multiplied tenfold, if they could reach melee, and given their speed and personal survivability via armor, stealth, dodge, transports (inculding drop pods), they have the means to reach it in no time...
***** like many stupid people you sem to think in binary logic - either A is godlike good or useless shit compared to B, and in no way you may use both and choose one appropriate for a situation. Arguing with stupid people never lead to anyting productive, so I see no reason to continue this.
+Masra94 I'm sorry. But what did you just say?
let's face it, we all would join the "Greater Good" just for the automatic coffee makers and battlesuit waifus.
I would imagine the idea of living with the Tau would seem like a total fantasy to the Emperial citizen, like, this dreamy magical place were you can live on a clean, healthy world, and talk and live with non-human beings who DON'T want to immediately kill you...good luck getting there.
Well, they do have the best coffee makers in the galaxy.
Well between the Imperium of Man and the Tau Empire the living conditions of the average citizen is:
Imperium:
No freedom
Likely hellish living conditions (unless you REALLY lucked out and were born on one of the nicest planets)
The ever-present threat loyal Imperium forces will kill you on the suspicion of just about anything not properly Imperial
The fact that if any enemy of the Imperium shows up in system you're less than expendable in the defense of the system
Tau:
No freedom
Decent, or better, living conditions as far across the empire as the Tau can manage
Not much in the way of witch hunting
The Tau will actively try to protect you, the average civilian, if enemy force shows up in system
So yeah... both fail pretty hard on the freedom front but the Tau win in all other categories. No wonder their military is so underdeveloped, they don't need to put it through constant use against not only Ork WAAARGs, Tyranid invasions, rebellion annihilation, and of course the terrors of Chaos.
If it weren't for the fact that the Imperium is pretty genocidal toward xenos and the Tau want to expand (with all the good expanding space has already been snatched up by the Imperium) a Tau/Man alliance would just about be as effective as the Golden Age Confederacy of Man.
I mean, have you seen that Tau Brand recaff maker?! It has over 1000 settings and recycles the cups!
Those battlesuits are dope, don't even lie.
I just got into 40k and started a Tao army because there battle suits are bad ass.
HERESY!!!!!!
Same here
Also, I'm curious. This is kind of off topic but what does Chaos think of Tyranids?
This question always eludes me because Chaos has been around for a long while. It knows every one of it's enemies. The Necron that may want to shut down the Warp's interference in realspace completely. The Eldar that fell to Slaanesh.
Sure you could compare Tyranids to say Orks that may be a threat to Chaos in tiny skirmishes, but overall only hurt the Imperium for the most part. Hell even an Ork ruled galaxy would provide plenty of battle and strife for Chaos to be formed by. But at least Chaos knows to a certain degree, how Orks were formed, what their history was with the Old Ones, etc. Tyranids are a complete and utter mystery that threaten to consume the entire universe. With no known origins other than they came from every direction outside of the galaxy, strongly implying far more dead galaxies out there already decimated by the Tyranids.
They're collective hivemind is literally called the Shadow in the Warp and generates enough psychic energy to own a section of the Immaterium completely to itself. Cutting astropatic communications at a whim. Isn't that a giant red flag for the Chaos Gods?
Wouldn't this be a threat in the long run against Chaos should they ever come to blows if the Imperium was finally rendered useless? If Tyranids were to wipe out all life in the Universe, there would be nothing for the Ruinous Powers of Chaos to latch onto, thus they would reflect the nothingness of the remaining Universe with no life, no war, no strife to form Chaotic powers in the Immaterium. They would become nothing.
With that said, wouldn't Tyranids be the single worst threat to Chaos?
+GothaBillsAndDeath Chaos space marines think Tyranids are the threat to humanity second only to the blind corpse-worshipers who lead mankind to its doom by rejecting a glory of Chaos. Chaos daemons hate Tyranids and want to eradicate them whenever possible (nids don't have emotions to feed on and kill other things that have emotions), but generally cannot, unless Tyranids attack a daemon world (they did a few times, but apparently learned a lesson and now avoid them) or some of their mortal servants mange to shield their daemon masters from the might of a Hive Mind with some powerful psychic artifacts and/or mass sacrifices.
I have an interesting theory that Tyranids are a bological weapon, designed by some other extragalactic empire to clear our galaxy of all life (and thus deatroyinf the Chaos, and return the Immaterium to it's original nice and peaceful state) to later recolonize it with species that does not accidentally create lovecraftian evil gods that turn a hyperspace into a literal Hell.
DoctorM42 Can you cite where you found these Chaos Vs Tyranid encounters? Not that I doubt you, I just literally can't find any or can't be arsed to dig that deep into the Lexicanum wiki.
It's just surprising to me how Tyranids aren't a major plot point for Chaos given their nature.
I do want to see whether or not the Hivemind is able enough to protect it's underlings from Chaotic influences and even perhaps consume Daemon flesh. Or, have this backfire and waste the Hivemind's resources on worlds that will corrupt their underling's telepathic link and corrupt them through physical absorption of "warp stuff" the stuff daemons are made of.
Would be a very interesting concept to explore. H.R. Giger's bug aliens made manifest in realspace, relying on scientific/biological evolution attempting to consume space daemons from literal hellscapes mean to reflect/store metaphysical matter such as the soul that look like H.P.Lovecraft had a field day.
DoctorM42 Also can you cite where Daemons hate Tyranids? Again, maybe I'm really dyslexic here, but I have not found an opinion on the matter by the great four or any daemon.
GothaBillsAndDeath ironically the only daemon on tyranid actions are outside of both their codices - AFAIK one is mentioned in the Grey Knight codex, and another in some imperial supplement.
Given nids have no emotions Chaos use to get a grip on anyone's soul, they're utterly uncorruptable - deamons and psykers see tyranid souls as a black blobs (not the void like pariah antisouls, but just black) filled with nothing but hunger and determination. The closest thing to corrupting them any of the chaos guys could get was to infect some nids with Obliterator virus, but even then it only worked a few times before the hive mind somehow developed a cure to a disease that defy logic.
Oh, and speaking about Nids eating daemons. They tried. But daemon flesh made of warp stuff just evaporated out of their stomaches when the daemon itself get banished into the warp. No biomass, no DNA gained. No reason to fight those spiky flaming things. So the Hivemind avoid them if possible. Just like Necrons.
DoctorM42 Talk about when an unstoppable object meets an immovable one. Very true my friend, thanks for reminding me about the Tyranid souls.
"somehow developed a cure to a disease that defy logic."
Sounds Matt Ward-eee.
I always thought a great scenario would be if Space Marines led Tyranids straight into the Eye of Terror or a giant gathering of Chaos Daemons/Warbands, but if Tyranids sense they won't be able to gain any biomass that story pitch will probably never happen.
FarSight: Honeeeey???
Honey: What?
FarSight: Where's my Battlesuit??
Honey: Whaaaaat?
FarSight: WHERE.IS.MY.BATTLESUIT!?
Honey: It's uh... It's under maintenance!
Farsight: Which Bay!??
Honey: Why do you need to know?
Farsight:
I NEED IT!
Honey: Uh-uh. Don't you dare running off doing no darin' do. We've been planning this dinner for TWO MONTHS!
Farsight:
My Firecaste is in DANGER!
Honey: MY EVERNING'S IN DANGER!
Farsight:
*YOU TELL ME WHERE MY SUIT IS, WOMAN! WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE GREATER GOOD!*
Honey: Greater Good? I am you WIFE! I am the GREATEST GOOD you ever gonna get!
smart enough to build small fusion reactors not smart enough to prepare appropriate shielding ... what
GW writing at it's finest.
They could do that at the cost of mobility and fight just like the empire, the problem with doing that it's that they're unwilling to throw their warriors into a meatgrinder. A skirmish should be fast, deadly and won before it even started through superior placement on the battlefield/sneak attacks.
Smart enough to use dark matter as a power source.
"We need this new power source on the field now, but it's too deadly!"
"Then we will just have to deploy it anyway. The pilots may die, but their sacrifice is in the name of the Greater Good!"
And thus we see another crack, another compromise, another way in which the noble idea of individuals freely choosing to give of themselves for the greater good of the many... Is twisted and corrupted into the leaders choosing what is the 'greater good' and compelling others to sacrifice themselves for a concept they no-longer fully understand, nor how their actions may serve such a goal - only that they have been told that they shall and that the goal is good and noble.
Two words... Radium Weapons.
"Uncomfortable experiences with A.I."
*Iron men flashbacks intensify"
RE: The AI thing in the XV-95 - It might be just me, but I feel as though the way the Tau employ their AI (partnered to an organic pilot) likely wouldn't result in the classic AI uprising seen elsewhere (i.e Men of Iron). Bolo parallels aside, it seems to me that having the AI work as an equal to the organic, both working in tandem to achieve their goals, would give the AI a legitimate loyalty to, if not the Tau as a whole, then to their partner. This is opposed to the AI workforce/army that humanity created, which would understandably foster feeling of resentment among sentient AI, especially when exacerbated by Chaos.
Just something to think about, I guess.
OneThousandNoms So you think their ai is similar to they way they are in Halo
Well raising an AI is different than manufacturing AI.
That's a great logical way to do things in my opinion
@En' Peacee Shekelstein plz, tell me more
Problem here is that an AI has no defense against chaos whatsoever, especially when owned by a race that hasn't even begun understanding the true nature of the warp. Doesn't really matter how well they're treated, not that they're treated as equals anyway. Horus was treated pretty well by the Emperor too.
29:53
*dubstep remix of "Raining Men" begins blaring*
"If you know anything about dark matter..."
So, literally no one, then?
+Yellow King Well, all we really know is that it displaces 5 times the, for lack of a better word, "amount" of space-time, implying that there's five times as much of it than normal matter.
let's just leave it at dark matter/energy doesn't follow the normal rules when it comes to matter and energy and we haven't even really begun to know what it is yet so we just leave it at Dark Matter/Energy or Exotic Matter/Energy. Here's a relevant NASA article on the subject science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/
We don't even know if it's actually a kind of matter. All we know is it makes gravity or is made of gravity or something. Honestly we should just call it dark gravity to avoid the confusion
We do know that it is a kind of matter. It has a measurable mass, measured to be by orders of magnitude the most prevalent form of matter in the entire universe.
Dark matter & energy are just names given to known failures of cosmological physics theory.
tau battlesuits kind of reminds me of the armored Core games
I just realized why Arch thinks dark matter = bad... did he mistake dark matter with anti-matter in the video?
Most likely. Nobody exactly knows what dark matter is. The only thing scientist know about it is that it doesn't react to light.
Or anything else.
isn't it the force behind the expansion of universe?
TLCBonaparte that would be dark energy. And it's only called that because no one has an idea what it is. Also it's not the force behind the expansion, it's the force behind the acceleration of the expansion
I believe he did. Dark matter is probably still tricky to work with.
I like the Tau , they value the soldiers experience more than the battlesuit , battlesuits can be rebuilt , experience is priceless.
I always imagine them as robot rabbits. Bunny ears!
Arch needs to make more Tau videos! Farsight Enclaves, the Void Nexus, Auxiliaries, etc... mostly because I like hearing him talk about things he destains.
Did you mean, "Awesome bipedal man-tanks?".
adventurethroughtime yes comrade, we did
adventurethroughtime
They call those body builders.
metal gear?
Those are just regular Space Marines.
@@madquack6449
Woahooooooooooooooo
by Battletech standards most tau battlesuits are classified as powered armor. they are classified as such because they are piloted but are not worn like regular suits of armor.
I was sad I didn't see Tau or Necrons in DoW 2.
A knew dawn of war is rumoured to be in the works , hopefully all the races are in it and it returns to DoW 1 style RTS
PS: Tau were in the game however they were DLC for the arena game mode
Albie Goodchild True that, I have seen some people say Dawn of War 2 is better than the original but I just don't see it. DoW2 just has too many company of heroes mechanics and is more micromanagement.
+A. Coulthard Yeah believe it or not but i actually liked the first 1 more. Much less linear.
ArmorDonio One of the key things that differentiated the races in DoW was the base building. It was a huge mistake taking that out.
A. Coulthard Yep, i thought the base building made each race extra inique,
"undoubtedly giving cutesy name and referring to as mai waifu"
"If you know anything about dark matter"
No one kowns about dark matter. It's an explanation for gravitational anomalies, we don't know what it's properties are.
Battlesuits were why I got into Tau back in the dayl. I turned a normal Crysis suit in Farsight using LOTS of green stuff, a demonic sword from a demonic prince model a buddy gave me (cause he took the kit and nurgled it instead). Anyways, he was amazing and I loved him then when I moved a lot of my unfinished army (building and painting) got destroyed or lost. Usually both :/
The battle suits look sweet!
Fun fact: Tau use dark matter as a power source. For such a young race, that's extremely impressive.
That means they could use something like 98% of the matter in the universe as fuel. They have basically unlimited fuel.
@@jagnestormskull3178 exactly.
So a there's a battle suit built for space combat ? "It's a Gundam !".
+Luke Hardiman (Lúcás Ó hArgadáin) I just wish they had gundams in the universe, they would be the perfect combination of speed, armour and fire power
It would be and interesting match up to see, perhaps a Tau Broadside Battlesuit, an Astarte's Knight or Dreadnought, and a "Graze" model or even a "Tallgeese" model of Mobile Suit, I wouldn't go full Gundam just because of how ridiculously overpowered they are, and god forbid Gurren Lagann makes an appearance :P
it would only be fair if they were both real mecha designs, I'm thinking more of the universal era of mobilesuits before the crossbone, so like a Jegan mobile suit being a standard one going either Nu gundam or Hi-Nu gundam.
00 goes into super mecha by the end of the series but still isn't too broken
most of the mechas in wing gundam are fine as well. G gundam can be tossed out the window haha
The mega-stealth suit with the AI just reminds me of the stealth suit in Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues, it has an AI of it's own, one that I'm sure a couple of guys out there enjoyed.
Ready. Steady. Fighty.
38:51 - So, a nuclear equipped walking battle tank? LOL This thing even looks like the original Metal Gear! If they ever make a Total War: 40k game I am SOOOOO going to play the hell out of some Tau!
I don't know an excessive amount about the Tau, or this universe in general. But, if they have reactors that go nuclear, and good stealth tech, why aren't they just creating massive nukes and setting them off at enemy bases? Pull up to enemy base, set bomb, leave, have AI trigger explosion, Adeptus Astarte's no moar.
Because of the massive advances in armor sciences and i would geuss aswell Uranium is even real life a relatively rare material, and it is all wasted in a nuke. While in a reactor that is efficient and would use up all the energy of the fuel before discarded lasts much longer, possibly hundreds of years.
Resurgence Of The Shadow Dragons they do that. It's just this I'd 40K, I'm pretty sure a kiosk is the size of three houses so imagine a base. Worked great on Necrons though.
Ah, little error I think arch. The broadside battle suits don't use rail rifles, they use rail guns. Rail rifles are what get used by tau pathfinders and tau sniper drones.
+Brian Surber Actually the broadsides use HEAVY rail rifles in the latest codexes. They were a bit nerfed
+Freke Fenrisson really? that's a shame. Funny enough, I had already moved to a new army when the last codex came out so I never bought it.
Yeah, but they are now more flexible and can carry one seeker missile
Their purpose was usually as a tank hunter but do they still have the strength and ap for the role?
+Brian Surber S 8 with an AP of 1 it still packs one hell of a punch
they should consider giving these bigger ones more than 2 legs if stability is a problem. they could look sort of like centaurs, it would be neato
+truemisto sadly it wouldn't fit into a big oval miniature base, so GW would never do that. FW could, though - they already have a lot of non-standard based models.
You could fit a three legged riptide on one of those bases. Or kitbash it with a hammerhead
The blueberries are cool only because they innovate. If the Imperium could innovate they would be perfect.
For that they would need to start to fully understand their tech and lose the religious aspects.
Or beat the shit out of Adeptus Mechanicus so that they stop screaming "HERETECH!" every time someone brings in something that was not found in an archaeological dig.
Mandemon1990 But if they stop that they will stop being uniqe and become another boring sci-fi faction.
Baran Duman Pretty much. Which is why it will never happen.
It would be beter that they find a way to do both religious and tech innovating then it will still be a awesome aspect. But like dark ages of our own time line. It could be the death of the Empire if they dont do something about it then only saying : We lose the blueprints, We can't build it so we dont build anything anymore :').
The Imperium would be perfect, if it is no more. They are simply way too morbid (why would anyone make robots from human bodies when you can make it from non-organic matters) and they are too xenophob aswell. For the Greater Good!
Dark matter core you say? Fuck it, get in close. If I'm going to die, I'm taking as much of the enemy with me as possible. Go ahead, shoot at me.
Dark matter isn't antimatter, Arch. All we know about dark matter is that it has a gravitational pull...
That still sounds like a bad idea to screw around with. Imagine a runaway reaction involvinge extreme gravitational fluctuations. That shit would hurt.
@@draochvar9646I believe that what they meant was that dark matter has gravitational pull just like regular matter and that's the only reason why we even know of its existence since it apparently does not interact with electromagnetic waves like light.
I think you're confusing dark matter and antimatter, dark matter is the stuff in the universe that doesn't reflect light. Antimatter is the stuff that annihilates on contact with regular matter and releases a fuckload of energy.
Aye if you know anything about dark matter please do tell because no one else does.
@@yogsothoth7594 I'll be honest here, Dark Matter is called such because the scientific community doesn't know what it is. All they could come up with is that the way our galaxy spins, it should possess somewhere between 8 and 9 times the amount of invisible, intangible matter (~85% of the universe)
that only emits gravity akin to background radiation. That is, 8 to 9 times the amount of Dark something (Matter) that also interacts with each other and via some Dark (Energy) which is also most likely responsible for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. That is generally almost everything we know.
@@yogsothoth7594 Dark matter is dark. As in, it reflects no light. On any known wavelength, visible or invisible to the human eye. Hence dark matter. It's not some magick McGuffin, it's just there... or maybe it's actually a swarm of Yu'Vath, who knows?
Great video Arch.
The Tau journey of learning just how deadly their universe is has always been the most interesting aspect for me. The comparison of their over-engineering style to that of Nazi Germany is also pretty apt. In addition, I'm dying to find out how their use of AI will pan out.
Will their focus on increasingly complicated battlesuits help them overcome the numerical disadvantage they have regarding pretty much every other faction? Will they suffer due to an AI rebellion or manage to find a way to be the only ones to harness AI thanks to their technological affinity (wouldn't that be something)?
Most importantly, will future crises shake their stance on the Greater Good and their "relatively" benevolent outlook? Can the Tau even find a way to survive long-term as an empire?
+William Tornieporth I think it's possible, despite their shortcomings the Tau are generally the most competent people in the 40k universe.
+William Tornieporth Ethereals banned the developenemt of AI to self-awareness state, declaring as self-aware AI are people too and could not be used as tools, but either embraced into a Greater Good as citizen or destroyed like any other intelligent lifeform Tau empire discover naturally.
The Necrons and Eldar both use AI safely (hence why Craftworld Eldar society is a utopia where you can choose whatever path you want so long as it doesn't feed Slaanesh; the runnings of the Craftworld are handled by robots and the Wraithsingers who occasionally have to service them). It was humanity's hubris in thinking they could use *true AI* without consequences (like, say, a slave revolt) that lead to various Men of Gold, Stone, and Iron choosing sides in a war that raged across the galaxy. The Mechanicus's radical ban on AI is a combination of a response to that war and a response to the Martian Schism; most (BUT NOT ALL) of the Legio Cybernetica was decommissioned after the Martian Schism, and technologies that previously weren't considered AI (like Black Iron Core Titans) were declared as such.
Most DAOT AI we've actually seen (rather than just heard about fifth-hand) in 40k books fall into one of three categories - seemingly benevolent towards humanity, seemingly ambivalent towards humanity, or hates the Imperium in particular. In the first category was a Man of Stone who disguised himself as a Navy voidsman (I think that's the right term), helped the Imperium by serving, and told stories of the Mechanoclysm, until he was discovered by a Black Templar and a magos then vanished. In the second category was a Man of Iron disguised as a Kastelan-class Robot (as part of the Blackstone Fortress side-game) who seeks to find a fellow true AI in the Blackstone Fortress so that he can have a true companion, but reacts harshly ("you know nothing of either [the Machine God or the Omnissiah]; I have met the real Omnissiah, and I'm not talking about the rotting corpse on Terra") when a magos tries to perform a techsorcism on him. After killing the witnesses, he went back to exploring the Fortress. Also, the AI on the Speranza, who rewound time so that a shot would hit an Eldar ship that was able to dodge because of Eldar divination. In the third category was a DAOT ship that got lost in the Warp and re-emerged after the Imperium had become uber-zealots, then the pilot was killed by an Imperial, so the [far more advanced than anything Imperials have] ship itself kicks Imperial ass because it really liked its pilot and thought that the Imperium were superstitious people unworthy of being his descendants.
About the AI problem, their best solution are drones controlled by a tau operator with a device similar to the neurolink used by hiro hamada in big hero 6, when the operator takes off the device, the drones simply don't works...
@@zanir2387 There is no problem because the Tau don't make true AI as defined by the setting (or modern theoretical computer scientists), "the soulless *sentience."* Same with the Craftworld Eldar, and even the Legio Cybernetica. None of the above groups build machines that can think, really, they make machines that can take a set of inputs about their task and give a pre-programmed set of outputs, hence why the modern Mechanicus, which hates AI with a burning axe, allows the Kastellan-class Battle-Automaton and all of the civilian robots made by the Imperium. True AI would be a machine (Kaban) that's given a set of inputs (sensory, in this case), a task (killing), and no pre-programmed outputs, the machine learning the outputs for itself.
I don't think the T'au have programmed a true AI yet, and that is what has saved them.
So after watching the various videos on Tau and their lovely toys, I started searching the internet for art of these wonderful blueberries, only to find A LOT of... interesting interpretations of Human Helper/ Tau relations mostly in a style reminisced of... let's be honest, ecchi anime. That brings me to my question. The castes are not allowed to interbreed. Thus I presume that other races inside the Tau empire are also only allowed to breed with others of the same species, but since I doubt for an instance that a human and an Earth caste can reproduce, would a union of mind and body be socially and or legally accepted inside Tau society? I tried searching for this answer, but the searches came up with mathematical shit instead.
Probably yes. As long as it serves the "greater good".
That depends on whether or not it would serve the greater good. If it's somebody they want influence with, definitely.
i am now curious as to what mathematical stuff you found.
I doubt it. The only place that would allow interbreeding and interspecies relationships are the Farsight Enclaves.
I want to see the first melee battlesuit piloted by Kroots!
28:30 O_o ...Waifu?!
I got the Ford joke.
+Average Slitheen yay! 1 person got it so far! haha XD
+Arch Warhammer I will get any joke that you want me to get, as long as it's a Ford joke.
+Average Slitheen Played way too much Civilization to miss that one.
+Arch Warhammer Please Arch make a lore video about the Tau's first encounter with the Nids
+Average Slitheen Where was the joke? I didn't notice it.
"Rigorous training"
he's sat and "studied" the various Gundam anime series.
Anybody wanna play Tau Battlesuit Fal...uh...I mean Titan Fall 2 with me?
You might've just either ruined Titanfall for me, or made it even better. I might play it again, and if I do, i'll try to get back to you on it.
Won't fucking touch Titanfall 2 with a ten-foot pole, but you have just reminded me to purchase the original Titanfall again. No, I'm of the opinion that tau battle suits are far quicker than Titans but you know
Tzimisce Lord So, I know this is an old comment, but, what? Titanfall 2 improves on absolutely everything about Titanfall 1.
@@bfnvalley Gameplay wise yes. Storywise ehh I hated how they basically made the I.M.C the villains the Militia the good guys. In the first game it can argued both sides have shades of grey. But, Respawn threw that element out almost entirely.
@@Burning-Twilight When you've got a series with giant fighting robots, taking yourself seriously is a recipe for disaster. The fact they threw all of the artificial 'we're realistic and morally grey' bullcrap out of the window allowed them to focus on the relationship between BT and the pilot (I forgot his name, he's basically just a proxy for the player), a.k.a the player, and the immensely fun gameplay. Plus, the single player was never a major draw of TF1, since it required online connection to access the campaign.
I love the XV88. I loved it even when it was just an XV8 model with two railguns. I hope they're viable with the upcoming Codex.
Didn't Farsight's crew fight some Khorn demons when some orc blood spilled on a relic of some sort. (the planet where he found his sword)
"Both from a 'boom boom bang' standpoint, and a psychological standpoint." Sounds like something I'd say.
Great video, but did you leave out the XV107 R'varna and the XV109 Y'Varha, both being highly specialized Riptide class battlesuites, by choice or did these sweet little critters fly under your radar? ^^
+Scout Charger (Dai Tenshi) choice, i dident want to go to deeply into variants afther listing the XV8 commanders versions for fear of never finishing the video XD
understandable, but about 50 minutes isn't really the best you can do, we all know you are able to rant much, muuuuuuuuuuch longer than one measly hour XD
+Arch Warhammer dun worry man. Most of us joined because we enjoy the rambling vids. Take as kin as u need.
I feel like the Commisar Cain series gave the best view of the Tau I've ever seen in the fluff or books. Shame its non-cannon. The diplomacy aspects were really cool.
1. AI's are not necessarily prone to going mad unless they are capable of and allowed to attain sentience. Only General AI's would be a problem. Although It sounds like the Tau are flirting with this, but are of the mind that AI's should ONLY assist and live pilots will always be int the loop.
2. Dark Matter is an unknown subject to Humans at this point. But all indications point to something loosely referred to as Nullified or "null" Matter. This is matter that has no electrical charge, while Normal matter has a positive charge, and anti-matter has a negative charge. Mater and antimatter will annihilate each other in a massive expression of energy. However we can assume the Tau learned to use Dark Energy or Vacuum energy or the energy of Universal expansion. and have to use Dark matter to do so. And you thought Romulans using Artificial Black Holes, Kugelblitzes, to power their starships was exotic.
I see the 'A.I' as more of a Alexa+++, then a skynet 2.0. "Alexa... blow that up, over there!"
Alexa, fix bayonets!
Interesting. I didn't think the Imperium reverse-engineered or for that matter captured Alien tech,due to it being considered a heresy or along those lines.
Rellana1 i think it would be heresy to rebiult xenos tech and to use it, not to know how it works and to use this knowlegde against it. space marines can eat the brain of their enemys and gain some knowlegde about them.
If I recall sometimes more eccentric and influential (as well as considered heretical) remembers of the Machine cult are not opposed to using xeno tech as a means to help understand or advance their own designs. Yes, the Machine cult does advance the technology of the imperium.. well only a handful who are given the privilege and even then it's so slow and so unenforceable that one can claim they are just refining the designs and technology that does exist.
love the tau definitely right up there with the imperium and necron.
"Sadly this was not particularly effective"
You do know that a Tigershark one-rounds an imperial knight on average rolls, right?
"You do know _____ right?" Is just so headass I hear it too much and it IRKS me
We are talking Titans, not Knights.
@@draochvar9646 The point is that it's so destructive it can instantly destroy a smaller titanic units. They're routinely depicted in the lore sniping out titans.
@@draochvar9646 then just send a manta or a couple stormsurges
16:48 XV88-Broadside My favorite battle suit
I think from what youve said this is the order in which I love Warhammer 40000 factions:
1. Imperium of Man.
2. Tau Empire.
3. Orks.
4. Necrons.
5. Tyranids
6. Eldar
7. Chaos.
8. Dark Eldar
And I really think Warhammer 40000 is the best sci-fi universe.
But still, could you make the Orks video ?
+Samuel Šafin Space Marines or Imperial Guard?
+StankGangsta
He made one already
+Traxla Valiner Imperium of Man.have two factions, Space Marines and the Imperial Gaurd.
+StankGangsta Both, but honestly I prefer the Imperial Guard - theres so much diversity.But I love the Space Marines too.
+Traxla Valiner When ? I only saw the video about Warhammer fantasy Orcs.
So fun to go back and watch some old tau stuff while starting them again in tenth edition
They are gundums that was the inspiration
I'd argue the storm surge isn't a battlesuit. It's an artillery walker. It also sounds like Storm Surges would pair well with the larger Tauna Supremacy Armors. Use the sustained fire from the latter to strip void shields while the Storm Surges provide the finishing punch.
it's it bad that during a game of apocalypse (I know that apparently GW is trying to get rid of it but I still play it) my dad had one of those massive stealth suits so I played the ultimate "fuck you" card and shot it with my shadow sword?
On the subject of the XV9-Hazard, the Tau may not think much of the tactic of hot dropping into a platoon and releasing a blistering array of firepower, but Im sure Space Marine Assault squads think it works pretty well.
Long live the tau I would always join them in the 40k universe
Arch we love your rants. Keep em coming.
you know that darkmatter is not neccesarily the same as antimatter?^^
I can see your audio being inserted into a warhammer game as an easter egg as some kind of commander teaching his troops.
I want a damn 40k game where you play as various pilots in tau battle suits. Xv15 Xv 25 Xv88 xv104 FUUUUU i wanna be in dat suit I wanna mow down orcs and nids with a burst cannon then swap to my shoulder mounted missile pod splits a biggun down. XD
Brendan Bailey then play armored core
ThomasOliver Landry I have AND IT"S NOT ENOUGH.
So basically Armored Core?
Chainsaw Panda if Eternal crusade gets a Tau faction. I recommend Battlesuits being the players.
I cannot imagine playing as Fire Warrior.
considering all the other factions.
I mean in eternal crusade you dont play as a guardian, you play as aspect warriors. and Space Marines they have years of experience.
it makes sense that if thats the case you should play as Shas' ui who more often than not pilot Battlesuits.
Patrick McKoin fucking White Glint OP as shit.
That Storm Surge thing looks like a Metal Gear.
Hey Arch Warhammer, can you do a video on the lore on the Adeptus Custodes?
Awesome! painting my units while I listen.
Are you going to do a video on commander Farsight
I'm in love! The tau are awesome in dawn of war! The jet packs are awesome!
That's The point of a modular weapon system, whatever you want the weapon to be, squad automatic weapon, sniper, suppressed, grenade launcher, anti-air, anti-tank, etc. It also reduces logistics headaches with one weapons system, rather than multiple one-purpose weapons.
why is it that whenever you have to repel enemy walkers you design a walker yourself? Wouldn't a superheavy tank do the job cheaper and better?
yeah but it wouldn't be as cool
It can mount a minigun yes. Infact you could mount much heavier miniguns on a tank than a similar sized mech could handle.
JoeRingo118 The answer is yes but with limited prowess that a mech suit could. But who needs arms or hands when you can just have more chain swords that spin and fire smaller chain swords on blue fire.
Commissar_Dan Bitch please, Give me all thy metal and I shall create for you a minigun tank, that has rotary miniguns, on a minigun, that shoots 50mm bolter rounds. AND plays the theme tune of the emperor.
Commissar_Dan It'll shoot bullets that when they penetrate the target, use microsubwoofers to blast "hell march" so loud it breaks down them down on the molecular level, and make their allies run in fear.
That horrible moment when Tau realize they can just pilot Riptides with A.I. Immune to Nova reactor radiation + can throw themselves straight into the enemy and explode? Oh boy....
+Corn Wheat Tau AI is not very intelligent - on a level of a dog, no more. I's intentional too, since more advanced AI's can reach self-awareness and therefore qualify as "people" per Greater Good doctrine - and Tau don't like the idea of creating essentially a slave race.
Riptides are expensive, valuable and rare, and generally tau have way more Shas'Vre veterans (each immensely better at piloting and decision making than any AI in their arsenal) than Riptide suits availabe, so taupower is not the limiting factor.
+DoctorM42 iirc one of the Farsight 8 is an A.I. piloting a Broadside
+Corn Wheat IIRC that's not exactly a fresh AI. Isn't it more of a cloned brain of Cmdr. PureTide, or a fragment of one? IDK if there's any real difference and then there's a whole of phil. of mind to go with that.... w.e. I get the feeling that the PureTide AI were supposed to be more powerful AI (mind you it seems they can't adapt for shit).
PotaTOES Even so I doubt it'll take long for the Tau to realize they can just drone pilot or A.I. their battlesuits and basically spam nova reactors in everything without wasting pilots.
Corn Wheat While I think there is potential for drone piloting a lot of their battlesuits, some point in the future (which I doubt we'll reach because of GW). I'm not sure its all too relevant. The Tau breed fast enough that there isn't exactly a shortage of battlesuit pilots, and they can actually mass produce their battlesuits (compared to dreadnoughts and terminators). Plus- drones already do this fire support, reasonably well (just think of Imperial guard).
The nova reactor idea is... well its not feasible. IIRC the nova reactors are incredibly expensive and the blast which it produces while incredibly powerful is still quite localized. So while I can imagine some pretty heroic last stands (a riptide out of ammo "rushes" a warlord titan with its shields down), I don't think it would be the common behaviour. Plus, if the nova reactor is our rough equivalent of nuclear reactors, I doubt that they can be fit onto suits the size of Xv8s.
Arch,, you are a hero and a champion, but of chaos or for the emperor? hmmm
I sense heresy in the air...
Reaper OfZombies he’s a hero of the skaven under empire
There is a difference between the AI from the Empire and the AI used by Tau. For instance, those made by the Empire was created to serve, where those from Tau are made to mimic Tau.
Imperium's Titans next then?
Little did arch know the riptide would become the tabletop must have.
Tau getting their Gundam on
Any color you want as long as it's black made me chuckle. Good ol automotive history reference.
Actually, WWII Germany's main problem was developing old tech when they had new stuff in the waiting. Using a BF 109 when the Me 262 was available for instance. That and you know, low man power, no gas, and bombs being dropped on them night and day was a problem as well. I am being picky now though. Your point still stands.
On the contrary, Germany's insistence to upgrade and alter their machines to the changing tools of their enemy really screwed over their panzer forces long term. Rushing the panther into service without resolving teething problems, building SEVERAL different tank destroyer vehicles for the same purpose while failing to ensure they had interchangeable parts, and waisting ridiculous amounts of resources on "super weapons" that never came to completion are just three cases of this ridiculousness. American tanks may have been generally inferior to German ones but they were available in greater number and nearly all of them had a much higher standard for reliability than their German counterparts.
In terms of airplanes, the Luftwaffe probably made the right choice in sticking to the 109 platform. The real mistake came with not giving jet research greater priority before and early in the war. Then again, this was a time where bombers were expected to out fly fighter planes...
Lasertech Studios yes having your tanks named "Ronson" real sign of reliability
is this wierd
that i like lissening your lores something in your voice its just makes every lore talk so intresting :D
it's been revealed that the empire roster wasn't complete. CA showed a bright wizard on their Instagram!
Arch talks about the Hazard battlesuit, and says "it is the most sophisticated and powerful battlesuit to date.” (29:23). But this seems odd, to say the least, as he then proceeds to talk about the Riptide and its variants (I think) and the newer titan-killers that the Tau field. Now its arguable whether or not the titan-killers are “true” battlesuits, so let’s say that they aren’t. But surely the Riptide and its variants (the 104/07/09) are battlesuits. These suits as far as I can tell carry far more and powerful ordinance than the Hazard suit, and seem better armoured or at least as well armoured. The 107 seems to be the epitome of firepower/armour amongst the “true” battlesuits the Tau field. While the 04/09 seem to relatively mobile and maneuverable, considering their size. So I’m not sure what he means by his comment. Perhaps Arch is referring, implicitly, to mass produced suits with his comment. That’s the only sense I can understand it as.
if the tau are so technologically superior to the imperium how the fuck did the imperium manage to reverse engineer their stealth suit when they take 7 hours of prayers to change a light bulb
By being really determined.
A bipedal walking tank? Metal-Gear!
tfw no xv-29 waifu, why live ;-;
Tau battlesuits look like they came from the designers of SDF Macross and Genesis climber Mospeda.
Elder WraithLords look cooler
And they have space swords!
+Sam Marchant superior in melee, but inferior to battlesuits when it comes to ranged weapons. :p
+Chaos Marine55 better at range?! I call BS, wraithlords are more accurate and their weapons mostly have longer ranged weapons and they have bright lances...
wotcha! man Oh yeah? Battlesuits are much more mobile and it can carry more weapons and support systems than a wraithlord. So when it comes to firepower, looks and mobility, the tau battlesuits takes the cake.
+Chaos Marine55 point madeand approved but the sheer power of eldar weaponry is just superior to that of stupid overused in every anime fish-suit.... and bright lances... tau suits ate superior... at close range (because their weaponary is rquite short ranged) where they run the risk of getting there gills ripped open by a ghost sword
+Chaos Marine55 and battlesuits look like carboard boxes whil wraithlords have nicer fluff aswell as looking sleek and elegant
Eridium if it's so hard to come by just head to Pandora they have it coming out of there ears
hey did any one else get a USA feel from this guys? seriously their battle tactics and Priority for the safety of their soldiers seem's a little uncanny.
Anarchy Empire almost every modern military prioritises the safety of their soldiers idiot
Max B no but what I meant is in comparison to the imperium, I mean this guys are suppose to be A Fascist Alien Race and still they seem to have an uncanny similarity to the manuarisoms of the USA When it comes to their war tactics giving preference to Long range or even automated warfare making liberal use of Guided Missiles and drones just like The USA, On top of that the Tau and their allies have by far the best body armour of any know faction in their universe much like The USA and it's Allies hab By quite a margin the best and most extensive(not to mention expensive) body armour out of any faction in our know universe(well except for Specialist armours made for private consumers) so yea the similarities are rather uncanny specially when Compared to the Rather Alien And Backwards Imperium.
quite right JoeRingo118, just ask any number of us vets who were thrown into the midst with no drone or guided missile support.... though i will say that Anarchy Empire is right, the US military is headed towards using drones and AI if given the chance... assuming the Government doesnt want to throw us humans to the front as a method of population control.....
Mike Whitaker why would they? The birth rate in almost all Western nations is crashing I would think the only nations that would do something like that would China, India and N'korea almost no one else has enough population to waste it like that.
Anarchy Empire, simple, look at the plans of certain US organizations and their purchaces, homeland defence buying enough bullets to have a full clip for each american, fema buying tons of disposable coffins.. leaked plans for Obama to try aand take control via Marshal Law.. and those are only the most prevelant signs... and while this screams conspiricy theory, and may be.. i wouldnt put it past certian individuals and organizations within the US to do just that....
The t-series of Tau battletech was vastly inferior to the Pewdewpie series of integrated weapon system. Although the T series did win out in the end.
Arch seems to think that using a lot euphemisms = charisma and good story telling. It's hard to listen to after a while.
No, it's just the most appropriate way to present the ridiculous insanity that is 40k.
Battlesuits: the ultimate manifestation of Taukind's weebuism
Stop. Taaaaalking. Like thiiiiiiiiiis. You're trying. Way TOOOOO, haaaaaaard.
Are you wearing a monocle? You probably should be. Here, allow me to refill your brandy glass, and light your Opium pipe. That fireplace needs stoking as well, don't get up. I've got it.
Its a tad bit strange.
It is used to stop studdaring... However this could just be how he just talks.
It also sounds a helluva lot more interesting.
look up the definition of the word "arch"
its a really calming way to explain shit. its essentially the bread and butter of his channel. he will just keep on rambling like we all know and love him
I want to see a varaition of Space Hulk of Tau Battlesuits vs Orks in Waagh on the Hulk.
Am I the only one who feels we are long overdue for a Tau battlesuit game in the style of Titanfall 2?
Tau battle suits are just car versions of power armor and melee is cool but its awesome when it comes from a tau melee specialist like Farsight and On shi and kroots those ork slaying badasses
Tau : Yes, we are shit in melee, but too bad that you won’t get close enough...