6000pts 40k battle report! T'au vs Space Marines and Guard. Manta vs Reaver. Warhammer 40k. 

You guys should get someone with a big Thousand Sons collection on the channel to do the Burning of Prospero at some point! A huge amount of TSons vs a bunch of Space Wolves and Custodes would be super cool!

I'd love to see the expression on that single Tech Marine's face as the entire arsenal of a manta all point towards him.

Need more large battles like this with guest players.

First ever battle report of any miniatures game ever XD. I had no clue what was going on, but I really enjoyed the large/narrative style and everything looks so cool! Definitely want to check out more.

Absolutely outstanding! Loved every second of it

Best game of the year, love Tycho's commentaries ! Thanks guys

Fantastic battle, really touch and go. I really love the narrative elements, voiceovers and extra visual and sound effects. It makes it look and feel on the screen like it does in your head while you're playing 🤘

This turned out 10k-times more extreme than I suggested

I was on the edge of my seat watching this, and I was impressed that the T'au got the W in this thematic battle.

i would like to see Catachan jungle fighters lead by non other than IRON HAND straken VS Tyrranids

This, was, amazing! Stellar production quality as always. Well done as always Play On! I wonder, with the massive scale, ever think of doing the other end in scale? Maybe some kill team? =O

Amazing editing and storytelling as expected!!!!

This channel keeps me interested in 40k as game :D Altough now I'm playing OPR because I forget about to many rules and stratagems when playing in 40k and get my green ass kicked...

Amazing scenery and board set up. Epic models and effects as always... but sadly the Imperials never stood a chance against Tau weapons 😕😢

Well done

I Cato Sicarius approve of unnecessary adoration of I Cato Sicarius! I Cato Sicarius wish to hear more!

Poor Steve did not look like he was having a good time.

MVP manta. No marine can withstand the wrath

Lauren's nickname should be.... Tau Lauren!

Ooof, sucks to see how ineffective the titan was. They're such awesome models but that loss of points for basically no gain...rough.

ive missed steve!

Nickname idea lovable lauren or lovely lauren or luscious lauren XD

Was this pre or post Nephilim update?

I can see how it would be easy to forget about the Manta, it's almost like a piece of terrain.

Tonite on POT gear: Nick finally uses his massive Manta to commit several different kinds of petty crimes, Lauren hijacks a Titan much to the annoyance of a tech priest and Zach rolls enough dice to make the ork players feel jealous.

Love the mix between normal more "competitive" games of 40k and big fluffy thematic battles that you guys do. Play on!

Man, I love when the Primaris are so good, they show up 260 years early

Love how close it was. That poor techmarine XD

Love seeing games this size because we finally get to see those Titans on the table, absolutely awesome content guys, still one of the best channels for tabletop content 🤟

I need more Tau. Maybe Tau Nick vs Cult Nick Narrated by Nick. If we can work in Rebel Nick, I will take it! Everything will auto explode. Still waiting for Space Marine Steve vs Chaos Marine Steve with a mustache narrated by Steve! if we could work in Storm Trooper Steve, I will take it.

The sheer amount of 1s Tau Nick rolled in this game make me wonder if Space Marine Steve threw his dice in an oven to sabotage them, if anyone gets my meaning. He may want to get a replacement set just in case.

I gotta wonder how different this game goes if Imperium goes first, with that Reaver being at full power. Good stuff!

Honesty nothing better than coming home from a hard long day at work to seeing a new play-on video

The second I heard Cato sakarius all I could hear was the Emperor tts voice for him

Everytime they said Cato Sicarius all I could think of was TTS Cato Sicarius

If they ever decide to get into Age of Sigmar in a major way, I’d love to see the siege of Lethis in this style. Just a tidal wave of ghosts versus the forces of Sigmar.

I like how this one is alot more spread out! Makes it feel alot more realistic seeing units be able to maneuver! Great batrep guys!

I think it might have added to the roleplay element of this battle if the tau’s priority targets were also the imperium’s scoring units. because the company commander being hidden away in the chimera and the knight holding back as long as possible were the right strategic choices but made for bad story. why should that company commander matter if he isn’t actually leading the troops? why should that knight matter if it isn’t actually dishing out damage to the Tau lines. maybe if it was an assassinate style secondary and characters had to take an action from morale phase of imperium turn to command phase of next imperium turn in order to score (and you could even rule that the characters would be allowed to fight and fire overwatch without interrupting! i just think that the models worth points should have to be exposed to the battle in a narrative game)

It's extremely fortunate that Nick is a big Tau guy - that'll be my first 40k (and wargaming in general) army, so I'm learning a lot I also learned NOT to split fire

This battle was awesome! Thanks everyone! Also, it would be cool to see some of the new Aeldari being featured in games like this, due to their recent update- maybe Tau vs Aeldari. :)

HOOOOLD ON! Primaris units... during the Damocles Gulf Crusade?? That's it, my immersion is ruined and my disappointment is immesurable 🤣 Nah, just kidding, fantastic battle, I'm surprised it wasn't Apocalipse.

Another fantastic video. Tycho is doing such a great job this season.

Awesome very entertaining. It would be interesting to see an army that actually has an answer for all the Tau shooting. It feels like if the Tao go first half of the other army is already dead before they can even breath. As much as I’m usually taking the piss out of SM Steve, it was very satisfying to see the dice on his side for a change even if it was a loss. Humanity first!

Great battle report as always guys! Always fun to watch. One little thing bugging me though.... It's a Xenos vs Imperium grand battle... don't you think there was room for a Deathwatch detachment in the Imperium soup?

Nick "I want that twink obliterated." Manta "Yes sir!"

Great video ! But I really failed to understand why in gods name is initiative set in stone at the first turn ... This is so stupid in a game where 90 % of the job is done by shooting and when combat is just shooting in melee range.

I love how you didn't even bother to show (or even make) rolls of Manta shooting into a Techmarine. That's right, no one survives that.

Errrr, i dunno, the manta, in a vacuum, seems excellent!... however on tabletop

This game took like a solid 12 hours I bet

Friendly reminder that during the Damocles Crusade, the Tau did not yet possess Ghost Keels, Crisis Suits, Manta's, Tigersharks, or Tau'Nar in their arsenal. They were fighting with Devilfish, Hammerheads, some basic battle suits. Infantry, and some of their smaller bombers and aircraft. Thats it. Still was enough to keep the Imperium from conquering even a single Tau Sept world. The Imperium blasted through a few merchant worlds, resource worlds, and a half baked Tau Orbital defense station. But when they reached their first Tau Sept world where the Tau were amassed in force, and had a much larger fleet waiting for them, they got absolutely pounded. They managed to take a SINGLE city, but then realized they had lost so much strength that they couldn't keep going. The Imperium lost millions of guardsmen, thousands of vehicles, 100's of Space Marines, and dozens of ships. The Commander basically said "man fuck this shit, it ain't worth it. We out of here." And the Tau were gracious enough to let the Imperium retreat through their space, even though they could've flanked them from behind with fleets and wiped them out as they fell back. Now imagine if the Tau had everything available to them today! The Imperium wouldn't have even been able to land forces on the ground of a Tau homeworld, let alone take any major cities. They would've gotten annihilated before they reached that point.

Cato Sicarius: I, Cato Sicarius, am the knight champion of maccragge and as such no foul xenos could ever hope to outmatch my legendary swordsmanship skills! Y'vahra: K [triggers the Ionic discharge cannon control]

WHAT A GAME! Love how close and competitive it was, plus seeing a representation of one of my favorite pieces of 40K lore was awesome. Thanks for the great content, guys!

Is it a thing to use a destroyed titan as terrain?

Epic! Loved the drama, the scenery and just how much fun you all had. Thank you for an awesome spectacle!

Broken sword is lit, it's also twinned with a story of a raven guard being broken and squeezed for info by a Tau mind control auxillary and just barely fighting back at the end, after they already got tons of useful information

I kept on hearing "it is I, Cato Sicarius" whenever they mentioned Cato Sicarius I'm so glad I've been ruined by the Emperor's TTS 🤣

This literally gave me chills...top work gentlemen.

I genuinely hate to uhm actually here, because I loved the battle, but I don’t think there were primaris during the Damocles crusade… sorry for being that guy.

Large point 40k games are so much better than the apocalypse version of the game. It just removes all the fun from the game in my opinion in trying to speed up the game, which is the exact opposite of what you want when playing large scale games. Glad to see you all rolling large amounts of dice for all those models 🙌🏾

A Reaver Titan vs Taunar ??! LOLZ

I know this is very uninformed of me but I'm a diehard imperium player and seeing the titan fall hurt me so, this is why I don't like tau

The T'au terrain is great! Where is it from?

35:48 WTF, that's the worst roll I've ever seen, you need to see a priest about lifting that curse my friend

Ah the Damocles Crusade, probably the biggest reason why I can’t take the Tau seriously as a race.

"I, Cato Sicarius, [insert "If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device" reference here.]"

How the Tau ever will survive against the imperium is beyond me. But I like playing the underdog.

I can’t help but hear “ I Cato sicarius” whenever he’s mentioned lol.

Very fun match. Do feel T'au didn't really apply the idea of Kyoun too well (was simultaneously too passive, and too aggressive. Center objective was left too easy a target, and some forward deployments just found themselves hopelessly outnumbered), but non the less, very fun to watch and hope to see more on the channel. I'm sadly too broke to put money towards patron to see the stuff on there, as much as I would love to support the channel beyond just my views.

I have NO IDEA what anything is here but gawd dayum if I dont enjoy some mini wargaming and thematic battlefields! Love the video and I hope to see more!!

op firepower into a bottleneck... not really a surprise ending. it was only bad rolls and extremely smart play and movement that made it close. also Zach should of had a hat, he would look perfect as a commissar lol GGs and great work by everyone involved!

Even he, Cato Sicarius, could not sway the tides of war.

Absolutely biblical guys, unreal, actually stopped work to fully focus on the end 🤣, so damn good. Questions, was the manta not able to move? And if the manta had killed the castellan would that have won the game too?

Man, that ending. Talk about both a close call *and* a turnabout. Amazing. And as usual: Great production quality, Tycho really nailing it as a narrator and great game by everyone. Fun as always!

i love watching these battles, the narration gets better with each one. i really love seeing how each model is painted. it gives me ideas for painting my own stuff. i just wish the game wasnt so expensive to get into

I just noticed that Nick has a set of 3d printed pathfinders.

What a good level of editting, the weapon firing effect is exceptional!!

Woah, this is EPIC! Great job, guys!! 😁

Fantastic game with a narrow finish! Hope to see more features, because you all seem to enjoy them as much as i do.

I love all the Tau terrain!

Oh wow, Big Surprise the T'au sat back barely moved and tabled the enemy, and still won. I would have preferred a much more dynamic game.

Scenario thought- Guard holdout (4k points) vs 8k point Ork army. However, there are 4k points of Crimson Fists (or Imperial Fists, both would work nicely in different ways) in reserve. Can they withstand the Ork onslaught?

I collected 15k points of Necrons.😅

Man, titans are impressive but bad on the table

This battle was so intense that they ran out of room! new nickname- Play on Tablecloth! Love this, and thank you for producing such great content😀

what was the anime intro?? it looked awesome

Absolutely fantastic battle. I really enjoyed this format. Must have been a lot of work. Just a minor nitpick. They were rolling D6 damage for Seeker Missiles. Seekers do 2D3 Damage now.

Where can these awesome weapon and shield attached "effects" be bought that let most of the T'au miniatures seem more "vivid"? :) They seem perfect to round up the miniatures!

For a narrative battle I'd absolutely looove to see the massacre of San leor. Sororitas Vs Red corsairs. Big time sisters player and don't get enough seen of them :( loved what we have got though! And it'd be awesome to see them against chaos space marines

Loved every minute of it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big game, thematic and narrative gameplay, awesome narration and visuals? Never once felt bored unlike some other battle reps I watched. You guys are epic, keep up the quality work and enjoy the new subscriber :D

This table is f*** amazing!!

Lauren "The Defier" For the Tau once again defies the might of the Imperium Holding their homeland for the greater good. Congratulations Tau's and very well played game. Really love this big scale warfare

Wow the manta is held up by way less plastic than I'd like

I'm becoming a tau fan. Great airborne, and firepower, if the battle suits lasted longer, but no doubt my choice is tau. By nick!

Excellent battle report! Love this narrative campaign. Good job POT team! :)

12:24 "The far right objective is only held by a single model" Meanwhile the model is a supremacy xD

Can we get more horus heresy 2 games? I'm nearly finished painting up my loyalist emperors children and I'm still having some issues understanding all the rules and game play aspects.

first rule of apoc games.. titans can't fire at each other :P that way they get to have their turn XD 3,000 points is a large amount of points.. come on..

That manta did some work

I like this stuff but am not as in to it as many of you in the comments section are. But I love to see everyone's passion for this, glad its bringing yall joy.