BIG 40K LORE! THE TAU EMPIRE EXPANDS! The next big Narrative?! 

Oh, we shall... We have our nerfs. :D

Gotta mispronounce filthy xenos names, this is how we assert dominance

wtf I'm drunk before the video evens started.

Molecular = Mock-you-luh.

aahh shit, ok, let's do th....

More than that, I come back to the hobby after more than a year away to find out that the brand new lore we are talking about is the Chalnath expanse and the startide nexus is from two editions ago.

I'd like to see some human collaborationist Tau auxiliaries with hybrid human/Tau uniforms and tech.

@@StuSaville I honestly want to possibly see some Tau heretechs. Like imagine a mechanicus but just absolutely dripping with some high end Tau tech.

And get smashed by the Imperium because they poked too close enough

I was thinking Imperial Saints.

But wasn't the thing saying they won't have wings?

More likely celestine

Sororitas to me

@@adeptuspotatocus6451 Yes, that's what I was thinking. This is about faith as a weapon and that's kind of what they are.

Yeah I’m learning that as of now, what did it say about work hole in that book

Wait until he finds out Guilliman may come back…

The T’au lost the engagement against the Death Guard in the Chalnath Expanse. Also they weren’t saved by their warp god the Death Guard just decided to fuck-off after some of their ships made it into the Startide Nexus. (Sure the T’au probably would’ve won if the Death Guard did decide to appear on the other side but thats irrelevant right now). O’Shaserra crippled the invading Death Guard fleet but some ships still got into the Nexus, the ones that didn’t fucked off back into the warp and almost all the boarding actions conducted by Breacher Teams was a whopping failure. Now I am can only really talk with certainty about whats in the T’au codex because its the only newer box I have, but from what I have seen on the new Chalnath lore I would say that it makes sense that the T’au haven’t conquered it yet. Reason 1: Chalnath is a fucking big area, T’au ships are still slow because they haven’t fully understood warp travel yet, which means any defending Imperial ships can respond to the T’au quicker than the T’au can respond to them, while the T’au Empire might have the better organisational skills with the Imperial Forces being stuck on the wrong side of the rift. The T’au are still much slower, reinforcments from the greater empire take a long time to get through the Nexus and their ships are slower at navigating the expanse than Imperial Vessels. Also gotta remember the T’au are probably still mapping the Expanse whereas the Imperium already knows where everything is. Reason 2: the Imperium still have more forces than the T’au or at least the same amount. 3 Regiments of Imperial Guard is a very large force, thats not counting PDF forces and judging on the new lore the T’au can’t sweet talk their way into capturing planets like they normally do which means a lot more Fire Caste manpower is being used to induct planets than a normal sphere of expansion. The T’au are also fighting Death Watch, Inquisitors and SoB (and we all know how powerful faith is for humanity). Reason 3: While yes the Cultists should make dealing with Humanity easier the T’au still have to fight the Genestealer cults so it doesn’t make it that much easier. Reason 4: Tyranids. Farsight did create a virus the Tyranids can’t combat but there is no reason to suggest that the Empire have access to said virus and I don’t see anything to suggest that they have created their own. Also in the past I believe the T’au needed help from humanity and I think Dark Eldar when they had to face Tyranid Hive Fleets, and that was with resources from the larger empire, an Expansion Fleet is cooked against an invading hive fleet unless they get help or reinforcements (and FAST). So nah I think GW did a good job explaining this plotline away.

@Sollapoke the Tau star god did intervene when dealing with the Death Guard fleet. It made the Death Guard sorcerer mutiny against the Chaos Lord of the Armada and trapped the Chaos Lord in the warp. That's from the Shadowsun book. Again, this isn't some small Tau fleet. This is an expansion fleet. It's equivalent to a medium-sized imperial crusade and can colonize multiple systems at once. 3 regiments of the Guard, some Sisters of Battle, and a few dozen Deathwatch can not hope to beat it, especially when they have to deal with Genestealer Cults. The Tau Psychic Awakening book made it clear that outside of actual open combat, the GSC is more a hinderence than a threat when coupled with fighting the Imperials. The Tau were quite effective in dealing with the Tyranids and only lost a handful of worlds to Hive Fleet Gorgon. The lore specifically states that the Tau and Tyranids change as fast as each other, and the Tau have devised Tyranid countermeasure. Mainly catching the Tyranids in open space and whittling them down from a safe distance until breaking them on a heavily fortified planet. Will it work against the entirety of Leviathan like on Baal, no, but I doubt any Tyranid Hive Fleets of Leviathans size are moving about in this region of the galaxy, especially when Leviathan is on the other side of the Cicatrix Maledictum. Remember, this event happened back in 8th ed, and the fact that the Tau haven't completely conquered the region flies in the face of them being an actual threat to the Imperium when they easily beat back an entire Imperial Crusade with multiple Guard regiments, Space Marine Chapter, and fleet assets. The Tau beat said crusade with less resources compared to what they have now in the Startide Nexus.

To be honest I thought most of those names had almost East Asian pronunciation In Valraks defense hard if you're from the North .....even harder if you're a Brummie like me

Belligerents is an English word lol. The names of sector's and planets I can forgive but this, no just no 🤣

They don’t sell well. That’s why.

It's be better than the video game dedicated on a "fire warrior"

As a tau commie we are fish Also the fire warrior was a student of pure tide and pureide was basically that guy for the tau

TAU ARE GOATMEN 🐐 THEY'VE GOT HOOVES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

T’au are cows, seriously, has nobody here actually read the Lore before memeing them? Shame on you.

For a moment I was like “wtf you talking about Matthew?” THEN I remembered about the sharks in the Colosseum thing in the latest live stream 😂

40k is a setting, not a story, there are stories yes, but none of them will come to true final ending. Eldar will always be hunted by slaanesh, the emperor will always stay on the throne, the necrons will always be waking up and so on.

To sold miniatures 😁

@@DMDuncan37 I hate it but you’re right.

New things sell, finishing them would be cool but some bean counter told them it doesn't matter

Tau’va Gue’la

Joke's on you, I'm a gue'vesa. Also, I fight for the Enclaves!

​@CaydenSworn hey do you remember that time farsight banished a demon with a magic symbol by carving it into the demons chest ?

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

But weren't they not coming with wings? According to Valrak himself

Maybe it's in reference to the winged Space Marines from the Bequin books? The foil is coming back on boys, Valrak will find a way to connect this to the king in yellow

@@TurbanCatMccoywings Can also mean the jump pack, maybe?

Kroot ethereal model confirmed

What’s wrong with being optimistic? Don’t you get sick of all the negativity? That’s why Tau are loved and will be the inheritors of the galaxy.

@@jasoninthehood9726 yes lord- commissar. Take him. God-emperor protects.

The Tau have secret classified weapons they use against nud invasions. I could source you but would rather gw didn't nerf them since they forgot they added them in lore. They are one of only two races that defeats nids with sn 80% success rate. The other being votann.

@@Aptonoth What about Necrons?

Tau have really only interacted from my knowledge with Dark Eldar and it made the entire Tau empire the hated enemies of them. The Dark Eldar scoured Pech the homeworld of the Kroot, wiped out a Tau Sept world, and lied to the Tau ethereals about the nature of their aid in fighting the Tyranids. It also didn't help that it was lead by Urien Rakarth

@@markhohenbrink5230 Tau have interacted with Votann. See (I believe) 9th ed. Votann Codex.

If they redid everything in the DW vet kit in primaris id be pleased

Agreed. Votann got skipped in the current one, even though it quite literally should have somewhat focused on us. And now... yet another one. It's gone beyond frustrating. I don't know where GW thinks we fit (or don't fit), but it feels like they really like Votann but almost as that "cute cousin you see once a year" faction... Sigh. (Edited to remove strikethrough) Post Edit: Also? Tau. Votann. Another way in that way. Sigh again.

Yeah I'm still waiting for more lore it's like we are drip fed it like if you go away for a week and no one's gone around to change the hamsters water bottle, just having to rely on tiny little drops 😞

@@JackRabbit002 I honestly haven't had the time to look at the KT book, but maybe there are slivers in there. The problem is, why are we looking for slivers? It'll be 2 years in December. They should honestly have dropped some paragraphs here and there by now... maybe there's more stuff somewhere.

At least the tau finally learned not to deliberately infect themselves….

​@@bobh9492 Imps still didn't get the memo...

Small groups over galaxy

Except 40k is never played at the scale of full armies. A standard 2k game is perfect to show off a few kill teams, dreds, and specialist supporting forming a task force to take out a specific threat. That is supported in the lore.

Valrak is off on that one. It's not close to Ultamar, it's on the other side of the Great Rift in Imperium Nihilus.

@@VedaRa501 Ya I think he saw Ultima and his mind just clicked Ultramar.

The Death Fleet that fought the Tau 5th Sphere Fleet got wiped out when it entered the Stattide Nexus by the Tau God. It's terrible lore and it seems unless you are a Tau ally, you get killed if you enter the Nexus

@@markhohenbrink5230 Ok, the ones I mentioned though aren't those Death Guard though.

See after hearing about all the new flying units appearing in Killteam You mentioned Death Guard and I envisioned bloated Cultists with fly wings

Theyd probably would think of them as overhyped space marines until they lose the same amount of planets as the Damocles mini crusade in a month

​@jakerooke174 Damocles Crusade fleet conquered three pre-evacuated planets before being broken on the first Sept World they came across. Three. The Lion is powerful, and would certainly get results, but ultimately he's just a bigger railgun target.

The Wormhole is old lore? First time I am hearing of it!

​@@ChapterMasterValrakit's been a thing since 8th ed

@@markhohenbrink5230 Why in the Emperors name is it in this months White Dwarf if it this old, god damn GW.

@@ChapterMasterValrak GW thought Xenos players deserved a bone

@@ChapterMasterValrak Yes it was in 8th ed.

He said he would on Monday

Yes it was in the Psychic Awakening.

@@VedaRa501 thank you seems like a cheap repeat

Greater Good Daemon Prince! I feel would divide the community more than the Fem-Custodes

@@JackRabbit002 you mean "Princess" And she's been around since I think Psychic Awakening.

Listen to start of the video, mate ;)

@@ChapterMasterValrak ok I will listen later because now I can not 😄

YOU SAW NOTHING.

@@ChapterMasterValrak much love brother 😂 didn’t want the community snagging the foil off you