What would a Gue'vesa commissar be like? Yeah yeah, >implying they'd would work for xenos, but I'm honestly curious. Let's just pretend one of their academies was on a planet that got absorbed into the Tau Empire and after some initial purges, is still training commissars.
Would they be just as trigger happy as normal commissars, or would the Greater Good temper that somewhat? And how would they deal with the fact that they're fighting the Imperium now?
On a side note, commissars actually look pretty swanky in Tau armor.
>>44478422
It varies from person to person, but certain groups of humans have been in the Tau Empire long enough for children to grow up as normal citizens of it. Others more whole-heatedly embrace their new cause. The typical opinion of those who embrace the greater good is that the Imperium doesn't care about the lives of its citizens, and so they're willing to fight to 'free' other Imperial worlds to improve the lives of the citizens. They don't hold nearly as many bad feelings as normal guardsmen do about them.
Presumably a commisar who was willing to get with the program would be one who was less likely to kill his own men to begin with. Being shown that the Tau don't expect them to die before ever retreating would remove much of the need to shoot guardsmen to prevent them from fleeing. Any who carry on as normal would likely be arrested for murder/warcrimes and sent for 're-education'.
>>44478422
>What would a Gue'vesa commissar be like?
Sterile
...and a Heretic
>>44479238
>The old, grizzled commissar tells the young gue'vesa soldiers horror stories about dealing with the Administratum
>they think he's making shit up
>>44479874
>This one time they had an entire regiment executed because of typos in report indicating that they surrendered to enemy when they had in fact surrounded him.
>Or that one time when they wiped out an entire hive because its medics began taking Hippocratic oath and the clerk read it as "heretic"
>>44478422
Like a disapproving Asian parent.
Other than the whole 'oh god the imperium wants us triple dead' thing, is day-to-day life for humans better under Tau rule or worse compared to day-to-day life in the Imperium in a world that isn't maximum shithole?
>>44478422
Tau tactical doctrine puts a higher value on equipment than on lives.
A tau commisar, by troll logic, will execute the nearest drone to force his over-extended, gung ho squad to retreat in order to save their lives rather than suicide into the enemy's gunline.
Pretty much the same, with better tools to keep morale up and less executions.
Likely in the same fashion as real world political commissars. I.e; not executing people and preforming the duty of educating the unit on the ideology of the state.
>>44480806
>A tau commisar, by troll logic, will execute the nearest drone to force his over-extended, gung ho squad to retreat in order to save their lives rather than suicide into the enemy's gunline.
speak of the devil.
Smaller caps and equipped with one of these Tau pulse pistol that, somehow, manages to be just as powerful as their rifle/carbine counterparts (S5 AP5).
>>44481083
The problem is that overall, the idea of what a Commissar actually is and does has been polluted by misconceptions of the Soviet Union during WW2. By 1942 Commissar's had become political officers, their power curbed, and their ability to execute people replaced by blocking units, effectively taking up the role of military police. These existed within most other Western Armies, while the Wehrmacht saw its more 'dedicated' members, forming ad-hoc units of fanatics moving around the rear lines to make sure no one decided to go home early.
Tau Political Officers would likely have no ability to execute their own men except in really severe cases, would likely act more like military police while also having that political element to them. They'd almost certainly be much more humane, and would probably wouldn't be able to make real military decisions.
"Commissar, do you believe in the Emperor?"
"I believe there's a man on a chair somewhere wearing more gold than anyone should ever be allowed to wear."
"Do you believe in the Ethereals?"
"There's literally one right over there. Go talk to him, then run a lap for questioning the Greater Good, then 49 laps for asking such a stupid fucking question."
>>44481312
cancer
>>44481312
>"I believe there's a man on a chair somewhere wearing more gold than anyone should ever be allowed to wear."
Are you saying the Ethereals should not be allowed such quantities of gold if they desire it?
>>44480798
Generally at least a little better.
The Tau don't really intervene much on planets that voluntarily join. They're often lured into joining with stuff like better farm machinery abd medicine or lower tithes and shit like that. Plus they'd tend to drive out the hardcore imperial church folks so there'd be less burning "heretics" to worry about.
Military organizations seem largely untouched other than having the higher ups under the command of Tau, even former guardsmen PoWs who at times where taken by the whole regiment still operate as gue'vessa much as they used too in the imperium.
>>44478422
>And how would they deal with the fact that they're fighting the Imperium now?
The Tau if at all possible don't commit gue'vessa forces to fighting against the imperium. They want too avoid that conflict of interest and also avoid having heretics on the battlefield enraging the imperium and making them fight harder and commit more resources.
