YOU'RE Wrong About the TAU: Building/Painting/Collecting 

I mean, what if Orks were released now? I feel like people would blow up talking about how ridiculous they are and how it ruins their immersion.

Same feeling with the Guard, whilst everyone else has these insane weapons, magic and lore the Guard are just normal guys. In halo they would be boring but in 40k they are unique.

Also a think people overlook is that they look out of place when put next to an imperium dude, but a firewarrior would look in place inside an Eldar army, and kroot would fit into the ork range pretty easily, meanwhile a space marine could do neither

Every franchise needs the "weird guys" faction.

@@Dracobyte yeah and that title definitely goes to the orks 😅

I have a buddy who literally painted his space marines as Buzz Lightyears.

@@freewilly1193 I NEED TO SEE THAT

Buzz light-year reject says a lot about my painting skills 😂

Yeah I used to think they look a lot like buzz lightyear

People don't like change or new they hate the tau just cause they were the newest line it's un warranted hate honestly

The tau being a covenant style race would be the coolest thing (and is actually in there lore) but instead some guy at forge world was in love with crafting endless kroot variants

@@egnaroelprup mf you cant even buy knarlocs anymore, Id love to actually be able to use knarlocs and knarloc riders in competitive play but nah they got legended

@@egnaroelprup yeah, it bothers me endlessly that we don't see more alien auxiliaries! The empire is full of other races god damnit!

The Tau also use a symbol very similar to the symbol used by the Forerunners in Halo.

@@AWolf-gq2vu Look up the previous bungie game Marathon and Marathon 2, then you'll be in a world of surprise

I also had a 15-20 year hiatus and recently came back! I really don’t like what they’ve done with 40k gaming wise. Horus Heresy is a much better gaming system imo.

Yeah a little bit drawn out

Especially the little noise that accompanies it. Very annoying

Eh I think its funny because the Tau are for the greater good. But if you gotta say it so much... is it really all that good.. its like brain washing. A word with a good or present sound. I think that was his point. As he hinted to a darker realization to the Tau. I enjoyed it a lot!!

@@WickedTheReaper Same thing with "for the emperor"

It could be justified lore-wise as a joint exploratory fleet force and the tech-priests want to experiment with new tactics

@@branm5459 yeah it feels more like where space marines work alongside imperial guard. . They can work together but don't synergise well. . They used to be two seperate codexes that they squeezed into one and it still has that feel. . I would love to seevthe army be more narrative and separatist. . I loved when you had the Servitor Maniple , Cybernetica cohort, electro priests and motive force fanatics, the Skitarii and their vehicles all as very independent feeling armies. .

when they originally released them in 6th/7th edition that was exactly what they did releasing them as skitarii and mechanicus, but that had it's own feels bad of seeming to be a single army spliot across 2 codexes.

@@555tork I remember when space marines were an elites choice for an Imperial Guard army, inquisitors, grey Knights and such were also just choices to add to your imperial army, the codex and army in general was just getting insanely bloated. I think it works better with less choices sometimes, its probably easier to balance and easier for new players. . I used to love early codexes that were 90 % lore and storys, painting and modeling guides, loads of great pictures and only about 10 pages of rules 😅, I 100% think Primaris should be a seperate codex to the firstborn as their books are just an absolute pain and 75% off the stuff never sees the battlefield anyway. . With the Admech though just having Formations back would be great. . Something to push people towards building an army with a theme again like the servitor maniple and cynernetica cohort. . Nowadays every army just feels like 3 units of whatever the most overpowered thing at the moment is, then another 3 units of the next most overpowered and so on. . I just feel like the narrative and role play element that was so important to the creators of 40k has become eroded with every edition . .

Ik I thought they were cool as hell when I first got interested but I soon figured out they are bad, expensive, and hard to paint lol so maybe I'll build an ad mech army when I've got fuck off money lol

ha ha.

Do you have a link?

@@nevanleong5954 sauce on bobs :'D

Where Is the link?😁

That range is so cool. I wish GW still did sexy/feminine.

Yeah they had immense potential of becoming more instead of a after thought from a risky business play

Totally agree. The Riptide was a mistake and the Stormsurge was just a travesty. Before that Tau responded to Titans not with "hur dur big mech" but with air support, developing the Tigershark AX-1-0 with superheavy railguns. It really showed their different style of warfare.

@@kirotheavenger60 tbh the problem with tau isn't the riptide or the storm surge, its that all there toys they've gotten in a while is battelsuits, tau should have a few diffrent options for transports, the stealth Devilfish should be there premium transport made mostly for high value targets, while the bulk of there teams rely on open top skimmer craft, because most of there transporting would be done out of range of enemy guns, so a vehicle capable of moving maximum men, at max speed, at minimum cost would be perfect for the tau, then there's infantry, unless they are in a battlesuit they don't really become anything more then a rifle to fire, tau should be the most mobile army in the game, but also be the most reliant on avoiding the enemy's fire and attacks, instead they get guns that mean the battle is decided by who goes first, and if they don't roll poorly

@@calebbarnhouse496 as someone who will likely never play the game, I much prefer the mechs, but I imagine that gets boring gameplay wise, where you cant design the battle around them

@@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong there is nothing wrong with the mechs the tau have, the problem is all they get us mechs, they are the mech faction, but instead of leaving the army to be about supporting it's mechs they end up just only having mechs, a look at the tau range really shows it off, th ett y have a few infantry that are only really separated by there guns, a couple variants of auxiliary that haven't been touched in a decade, and then there motor pool, which is 2 vehicle frames, one being 3 different vehicles, and the other being a light skimmer, then you have there ugly plastic airplanes, which really dont have much going on, the tau struggle because the only if you neglect baytlrsuits then you have basically no way to have a centerpiece model without spending 300 dollars on a forgeworld plane the tau should have access to viable all auxiliary armies, the knarlack would be an excellent way to have that, either of the airplanes being made plastic woul help as they look good and fit the way the tau fight perfectly or even just a tank that is bug with shield generators rather them shield drones and works as a rock for the army, as is tau are supposed to have 2 different ways they engange the enemy, but in practice all it means is what turn of the game your shooting is effectively, giving tau the abylity to stand and fight would allow them to make use of anything except the heaviest guns they have in maximum numbers and the guys that can escape

Me painting them after G1 soundwave:"oh, interesting"

So where does viorla fight? Only in snowy environments? Cause that white armor is out of place everywhere else.

@@Grim67894 the white armor that you see depicted for the Viror'la sept on the box art is their dress/parade colors.

Yeah, it is interesting how people think the empires"s fight for survival is evil, yet consider Tau"s 19th century colonial attitude coupled with Soviet Union technology and ideology to be good.

It really is awfull, it drives me mad

Same! I think it’s because the models look unchanged from third or fourth edition and all the newer models like sisters of battle and primaris look so much more grimdark

I mean as a Tau player myself I refer to them as space communist. Though technically speaking they are a culmination of various eastern ideologies such as there caste system which derives from hinduism. The idea of the greater good is an idea that comes from the eastern philosophy. Even the way they fight comes from chinese philosophy. Then there design aesthetic comes from the hyper advancement that Japan has made in technology since the 40's. The faction was originally created to appeal to eastern market.

'Join us or die." Sounds an awful lot like communism in the USSR, China, Cambodia, Romania, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela etc...

@@richardcahill1234 US, Great Britain, Nazi Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Rome, pretty much every civilization ever... lets not cherry pick to0 make a point, either of you.

@@richardcahill1234 Or you know, the British Empire, the US empire, the Dutch... In fact, "Join us or die" is just *every human civilization ever.*

I got the Infinity I highly recommend it. The adjustment on the back to only be able to pull needle back so far is so handy. The coating that they use on the infinity is great to keep it clean also. The evo doesn’t have these. It’s more expensive but I think it is genuinely worth they extra money!

@@ryanlydiard2098 Thanks. I honestly have been thinking about owning both of them, as I'd like to keep the infinity in as best condition as possible. This means if I do end up taking on commissions, I can use the Evo for the bulk of the work. I think I'd feel better having a dedicated "workhorse" brush. I'd definitely consider doing commissions once I am used to using an airbrush though, as will be able to get through them very fast.

@@D00M3R-SK8 o i get that tbf. as for your varnish try vallejo theres is great and you can use it straight out the bottle in a airbrush with the .4 needle

Yes, that line made the video.

ARE NOT RAE

or 2nd?

is it really that hard to win with a tau army???

@@MrFurro-uu7je it was 9 months ago