The T'au are the newest kids on the block in the 41st millenium. While they may have blistering firepower and devastating mech suits, they have a lot to learn and many horrors of the universe to discover...
To those saying this vid is too fast - I agree. Definitely sped up the narration in this one too much in hindsight. Future vids are/will be less sped up if at all in terms of narration. Cheers!
In order for the Tau to be proper 40k their organizing caste would indeed have to be mind controlling opportunists. Stealing free will in order to advance their aristocratic dominance. I think they have Commander Farsight actually finding this out? Some of my favorite underestimations of the Tau are the underestimation of the Death Korps of Krieg's fanatical desire to win, and the idea that Titans were just an Imperium Propaganda story.
@@Captain_Yata It went predicably Orky "I've heard in a probably archived thread that the Tau tried to recruit them as mercenaries by giving them weapons without magazines since they knew the Orks would just kill them on sight, so the Orks instead beat them to death with the guns."
" You know they're just running around loving each other down there.....better lay the exterminatus upon these heretics-ALRIGHT FIRE!! " *Smashes face on exterminate button*
I have to admit that. even though you guys absolutely suck balls at melee fight. it won't matter because no one can even get close enough to melee you in the first place. be it space marine with a power sword or the ork "rok" ship
I know we say they die in melee, but let's be honest, if any of us tried punching one we'd end up like that Clone Trooper who punched a droid. That armor looks thick.
@@williamcote4208 the greatest good for the planet, is being exterminatus Greatestly - the guy who love pressing the "exterminatus" button without any reason or just one most minor reasons, e.g "I don't want to see that house in particular and the planet with it"
Fall to a light breeze in melee yes, but this one time I finished off an Avatar of Khaine with a Fire Warrior bonking him in the face with his rifle....
@@Norway642 The Adeptus Mechanicus is the reason the Imperium has any tech at all. The stagnation is due to the way the Imperium treats innovation beyond the status quo, the Mechanicus would be building things left and right if it weren’t for imperial policy
@@theandromedaeffect979 Uhh no, they do invent still bud, the difference being they invent and innovate not regularly, because they don't want to risk another problem like the men of iron. But the Imperium does invent.
I think the Tau are fine, although I recognise it took some time to get there. Pretty much all the factions (apart from like Orks and Tyranids) started off as relatively good and became more and more dysfunctional and evil as they try to cling to power after their fall. The Tau are the same, comparatively functional when they're in their ascendancy but with the roots of an inevitable collapse already baked in there.
literally the whole point of the Tau was to add something of a comparison to other races to show how fucked up they are, you add 1 good guy with all the bad guys to show how bad the rest are, its really that simple, it doesn't "ruin the setting" it actually makes it better by making it EVEN MORE GRIMDARK in comparison to the tau.
I do think the Tau belong in 40K, even if they are notably less malevolent than the other factions, because they're also notably weaker. It's a deeper level of darkness that the closest faction to "the good guys" is undeniably the least likely to win.
yup. the grimdark is that they are DOOMED. Either the more obvious doom that one of the other factions will finally take them seriously, and immediately wipe them out without difficulty, or the slower, more terrible doom of where they keep being ignored until they have morphed into something the other factions can’t just crush as soon as they “get around to it”, but are forced to become just as cruel as the rest to get there. It’s also hilarious that in 40k is so screwed up and cruel that they’re the least bad option, when they’re still objectively a totalitarian police state fit to be the big bads of most other settings. It’s just contrast with the *excessive* cruelty of everyone else that their simple pragmatic imperialism looks reasonable by comparison.
@@AnonD38 lets not. Even GW noticed the 'grimdark'nonsense was way too much since the grimdarkness come from the idiocy of the people %90 of the time.
@@berilsevvalbekret772 Oh shut it. Grimdark is the only thing making the setting unique. If it loses that then there are other more interesting and *especially* more customer friendly universes to get into.
I never got why people think they don't fit in the setting. They aren't completely apeshit fanatics like Chaos or the Imperium, but they still have a lot of demons, and would be villains in almost any other setting. Plus their perspective and visual design are really refreshing.
@@issiahgonzalez8916 their crisis can with fusion blades and farsight has done so many times, of course the lil fire warriors cant do that, but i mean, have you seen a space marine?
@@AnonymousCaveman man, you are right about that. I played that game before I even knew what the 40k universe was. I had no idea it was a whole thing. Now the universe is one of my favorite things to learn about. The lore is really something else. And I agree with you whole heartedly, on todays systems that game would be so great with what could be done. Imagine that game with better graphics and being able to use a war suit. Then the possibility of online play. Yes please.
on the other hand the T'au are geniuses because they are practically the only ones who have said "Hey! why are we fighting? Wouldn't it be more profitable for both of us to establish diplomatic relations? We will lose less resources and lives in a stupid war, we can combine our numbers to fight real threats (orks, drukhari, chaos and tyranids) and we can exchange our knowledge to each become better.
Tbh, if the God Emprah himself is still walking & breathing like he does before the Horus Heresy, mans would literally accept a diplomatic relationship with the following race: Craftworld Eldars, Tau, and some that are willing to know the true dangers of Chaos Daemons.
I love how you know how the option of giving them freaking lightsabers so they still suck in melee combat compared to everyone else but they get what they have a chance to get that one good hit in. and in order Hammer that sometimes all you need.
The Tau make sense since they’re the only species that haven’t had some major collapse yet. Imperium, Eldar, Orks and even Nekrons have all us some big fall.
I think the t'au are very important to the setting. Stories are built on contrast. A gunshot itself isn't tragic, but if that gunshot is aimed at a single mother of three, suddenly you have tragedy. If everything sucks all the time, sure. Creative setting, everything sucks. Cool. But if you have ONE TINY PIECE OF HOPE, suddenly you have tragedy. Without Wilson's journal, 1984 the novel wouldn't have anywhere to go. There would be no progression, no contrast. The t'au are that contrast. They're the last flame of hope in the universe, and they're too small and weak, too late to really do anything. To help in any way.
Best explanation I've seen, exactly why I like them! Of course they have their Grimdark elements too but that feels a bit forced and shoehorned in after everyone complained about them being good
Honestly, people really act like the Imperium's Xenophobia isn't warranted. Before the Tau, the primary races were the Eldar who believe the Galaxy is theirs because "we are above you all", the Necrons who literally just want to erase all life they can find, the orks who just want to fight & kill, and lastly, the Tyranids who just want to eat everything & move on. None of these Xenos are capable of coexisting with mankind. I'd wager that The Emperor would have allied the Imperium with the Tau akin to how he aligned with the Cult Machanicus.
Yeah but imperium also shoot itself on the foot during Great Crusade exterminating some species that could have been pretty beneficial sepient ones I mean. Kriptman? The exterminatus guy from Tyrannic Wars said he either caused complete or near extinction of what 83? Species because they MIGHT be a threat to imperium. I get this was supposed to be grimdark but most of the story is grimdark because people are fucking idiots. North Korea is less of a hellscape 😅
The T’au is how I imagine humans would be if entering the fray of a greater galactic conflict because enough of us like making things that look cool and there aren’t enough of us to be cannon fodder
They are still evil but all warhammer factions are different flavors. They are not the hyper evil of the dark eldar or the zealots of the imperium. They dont run forward screaming with bloody axes like chaos. No. They are the ones who shake your hand with theirs while holding a dagger in the other.
I like them because they kindve represent new people getting into 40k like you hear about 8ft dudes who can cave in your face with a punch do sound like gods
I’ve played guard since 4th edition and still haven’t lost to the tau granted I’ve played maybe 35 matches against tau and yeah baneblade and earthshakers mixed in with heavy weapons teams make quick work of them
If only the Imps and Eldar could put aside their pride and understand that uniting with the Tau could prove mutually beneficial for all three factions in the galaxy full of tyranids and chaos
I honestly sort of like the Tau being in the setting because in many ways it answers questions of how golden age of technology humans probably interacted with everyone else and how they probably would have fought since they really didn't have space Marines or any of the abhumans that can go toe to toe with something like an ork in melee
Disagree on one point: Tau are bad guys, they’re just not obvious about it like everyone else. They have a rigid caste system which is basically eugenics and will sterilize any noncompliant species they fail to negotiate with. It is theorized that the Ethereal caste have a way to mind-control the other castes and that without them, they would fall back into internal strife, which the Ethereals stopped. Whether this is through psychic means or pheromones, xenobiologists cannot say. But the fact still remains that during the War of Dark Revelations, an event throughly censored, they gave up 77 of each caste except the 7 Ethereals requested by the Drukhari for their initial services. The second time, they demanded 7 Ethereals, or 7,077 other Tau in their place. They wouldn’t give either and an entire world got cleaned of EVERYONE. So yeah, not exactly “naïve good guys” if they just sell out like that.
Stop saying some bullshit. During the war of dark revelation,the tau need to fight a hive fleet kraken. But after gorgon,the tau empire is not ready to fight another war with the tyranid. So they start to search some help and its the darks who team up with the tau. The first time they ask 77 tau and 7 ethereals like u said. BUT the second time they fight with the darks eldars the tau have noticed than the creation of these monsters are litterally the tau than the empire give to their "allies" So they have refuse to give them others tau et have attacked the dark eldar. But they have disappears and attacked another colony without défenses and have purge the whole planet.
@@dilaleo1855 they definitely have the purest motives, but they live to kill and fight and stuff. I feel like just the fact that the Tao's first thought when they meet a new species isn't to immediately destroy it is enough to make them the good guys.
@@ouijajuice9496 They do not destroy but they enslave. Also in Warhammer 40k theres no concept of good and bad.I mean you can't blame the boiizz because they are literaly created for killing and fighting stuff you also can't blame nids because they are created to eat stuff
I love the tau because they still do evil things by today's standards, but I feel like when they do it it has a little extra kick since they're supposed to be the good guys. When any other faction commits some atrocity it just feels normal.
@@Bananakingchad we know, do you think we havent already faced titans? It took your biggest, most powerful titan class to destroy one of our armies (emperor class), do you think we still think they do not exist? Why do you think we created the Ta'unar?
I like the tau from a gameplay perspective cause the poster Childs of WH40 (space marines) get their asses clapped by them. Me as a necron player i dont really mind them, one goes down? Fuck it just review it with a good roll
I keep getting the feeling the Tau are really just naive NOW. I got this gut feeling that they will eventually suffer some sort of catastrophe that will spiral their ideologies out of control, and turn into a sour bunch that just dgaf anymore. I'd hate it, but at least that's the trope that seems likely to me.
When you mean Advanced weaponry that out classes most civilizations. Are you just talking about I guess your meaning ocrs, imperials (sometimes) or tyranids. Because they’re definitely not as Advance as the necrons or the eldar
The Tau remind me of what modern day humans would be like if they ended up in the warhammer universe. Surely daemons and entire races of sadist perverts dont really exist right? Right?...
