Through determination, magnificent application of superior technology, and unwavering courage, the Tau defied the odds and the overwhelming might of the Imperium. Upon Mu’gulath Bay, the Imperial scum were once again broken and sent fleeing back to their Emperor. It would have been a great and decisive victory for the Empire but alas.....
The Imperials, refusing to graciously accept their defeat, have enacted the unthinkable. They unleashed a weapon of mass destruction on Mu’gulath Bay. The world was set to blaze. Millions of Tau died alongside the surviving Imperial forces that could not have been evacuated (estimated to be 50% of the surviving Imperial forces). The devastation did not stop there. The blaze blossomed into a great conflagration that expended and covered the entirety of the Damocles Gulf in a corrosive sea of plasmic flame. The Tau Empire is cut off from its newly won colonies and worlds and the rest of the galaxy.
Earth Caste research in creating shields that can withstand trips through the Damocles firewall proved to be promising. Ships managed to get through the wall. However, causality rates are high.
Shadowsun and Farsight bid farewell to each but not before Shadowsun warning Farsight that there will be a reckoning between them in the future. Farsight returned to his Enclaves to find under the shadow of Leviathan. The fight is far from over.
The future of the Tau that was once bright with promise, after the great victory on Prefectia, is now...blurred with uncertainty. However, The Greater Good endures and with it so does hope.
Enough talk. Now time for some new fabulous art!
Salty Imperials
>>43868287
salty, acid in anus dripping mad imperials.
For the Psykerbaby enjoying and blending emperor
>>43868268
Scans?
>>43868457
In the 40K general thread.
>>43868313
Is that Fire Warrior on the right going to shoot them with his finger?
>>43868501
it's a psyker
:^)
>>43868301
That pic looks great. But I wonder why the drop pods need to use thrusters so they can fall faster? Shouldn't the pods be firing thrusters at the ground to slow their descent?
>>43868560
Extra kinetic force for the impact maybe?
>>43868281
Aren't Razorsharcks Strike Fighters designed for supporting ground troops more than space combat? I find it odd.
>>43868560
well, unless space marines can survive a fall from any distance, I think that extra kinetic force would kill the passengers.
Also, the pods probably needed to slow down a whole bunch so they wouldn't break up on impact with the atmosphere. Why not just NOT slow down quite so much?
The ground offensive is ineffective.
Send in the assassins!
>>43868526
Is that a flamethrower shooting plasma?
>>43868632
ye[
>>43868625
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>>43868654
*tickle tickle*
>>43868313
>>43868501
I use noticed, he's doing the Disney point
>>43868356
An argument over a parking spot is about to turn ugly.
>>43868367
Two things I noticed about this picture.
1) Why are the guardsmen packed together like this is the battle of Waterloo? The Tau are shooting high explosive missile at you, maybe spread out a bit.
2) Why are hundreds of firewarriors trying to take cover behind those tiny chest high walls? There's a huge bunker thing right next to them with like 4 guys inside it, use that instead.
>>43868625
That Vindicare is swole as fuck.
>>43868670
>Shadowsun never has the same face.
Come on!
>>43868736
>some of those assault marines are using bolters (not bolt pistols)
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>43868501
https://youtu.be/OeHgrf5z4C0?t=432
>>43868356
Lol it looks like they finally drove pask close enough to hit them with his sword. Such tactical genius
>Tech Priests were laughing and cackling like madmen as they deployed the weapon despite knowing full well that they would killing half of the crusade forces
>millions of Astra Militarum burned to ash
Truly, the evil of the Imperium knows no bounds.
>>43868692
I don't understand, how would a Culexus be effective against Tau?
>>43868689
Propaganda paintings. No matter how retarded 40k is supposed to be, both sides litteraly can not and would not fight like this.
>>43868268
You know, I'm suddenly not so annoyed that the SOB somehow managed to vanish between the initial mention of this and the finalized version.
Aun'va LIVES.....in spirit.
>>43868809
They failed their duty to the Emoeror by allowing the wretched xeno scum to overcome them. They got what they deserved
And that' all.
What do you guys think of the new art?
>>43868809
I want to know what's up with that chick clinging to the robe of the tech priest in the forefront of that picture. It does sort of lend to the whole 'evil mad scientist vibe he's got going on.
>>43868692
Aun'va is not amused.
>>43868852
Surely she's a war trophy of some kind.
Death delayed, so she can suffer eternally for failing the Imperium
>>43868692
This pic has so much potential for reaction images
>>43868856
No.He's dead.
>>43868813
Apparently anything with a soul, even if it was a tiny one, is weak to a Culexus.
Plus the helmet device thingy amps up the power of the Pariah aura.
>>43868845
Quick and cheap enjoyable illustrations
No great evocative good art pieces though
The quality of the artwork is all over the place.
>>43868845
Tyranid codex confirmed right before Farsight Enclaves Codex?
>>43868654
Thos Assmarines are like "Yup, he's got it."
>>43868692
>shitposting loudly
>>43868845
They have some absolute REPUG pieces like the Hammerhead vs Lemon Russ one. But some great stuff too. I give it a cautious 7/10
>>43868809
They may be madmen but they don't look like they are laughing
Why do all GW campaigns end in a big explosion lately? End times, quest for ghal maraz, the shield of Baal and now this.
It is not healthy.
>>43868920
This book was the farsight enclave codex
>>43868948
I think they will get another one.
>>43868920
Oh dear god please be true. Tyranids need a good update. Keep Cruddance far away from them.
>>43868939
Well you see, it's so Space Marines can not look at the final big explosions and thus affirm themselves as cool guys. Since cool guys don't look at explosions.
>>43868268
Wait, the Imperium has the tech to make a sector wide wall of plasma?
That is a wall of Plasma more then 200 Light Years wide, MINIMUM.
And it's used to say fuck you to the Tau?
Not fencing off Hive Fleets.
Not quarrentining Daemon of Ork worlds.
Not fencing off the fucking Eye of fucking Terror its self.
Just to stick a middle finger up at the Fucking Tau?
Is this the actual fluff? The imperium just sets hundreds of light years of space on fire?
If they can do shit like that, why haven't they done it against the tyranids?
>>43868965
Anyone with Warp travel would easily bypass it.
>>43868972
Because the Cult Mechanicus are a bunch of dicks.
>>43868965
>>43868972
You aspies need to stop. This was probably some one off weapon they found in a basement on Mars but y'all gonna keep going on and on about why don't they have one installed on every IG Valkyrie. Fuck off already jesus.
>>43868965
I figured that had to be an allegory. There is no fucking way the IoM has the tech to produce an astrological feature like that.
>>43868980
The order of unleashing the weapon came directly from Mars. The fleet commander didn't know his fleet was carrying the weapon until it was time to deploy it.
I think it was brought along just in case the Crusade fails.
>>43868981
>one off weapon they found in a basement on Mars
Then using it on the Tau is a big waste, innit?
>>43868625
ork sniper
>>43868965
Deus ex machina from the "Deus est machina"
>>43868981
Hmm... Tiny alien empire over here that will become a credible threat in about a thousand years and the only reason we keep fighting them is never fully defined.
Or this giant ball of hellspace here that spews out tratior legions ever fifty years or so that turn everything they touch to shit, requiring trillions of deaths to stop.
So wait, wait.
Are the tau... gone? As in, they're stuck being this giant permanent and mildly improbable wall of plasma fire.
>>43868689
Though the Tau are firing guided missiles, the IG troops are offered a little protection by hiding behind the superheavy tanks. Not a good explanation and >>43868816 has it better.
>>43869031
Just for a couple of years. There are other routes, and the Tau Eath Caste is already researching better FTL.
>>43868753
The only one who looks like he's got a bolter seems to be a captain or something so it's legit that he could be equipped with it.
If you're going to be autistic, do it right.
>>43868268
The *entire* Damocles gulf has been cut off by a wall of plasma set up by the Imperium? That's got to be the most batshit retarded thing GW has come up with since tanks that can't possibly have a suspension system.
>>43869031
Most of the Empire is struck behind the firewall.
Shadowsun and her forces, Farsight Enclaves, and Third Sphere septs are on the other side of the firewall.
The Tau are not gone. They are just reduced at the moment until they can find a safe way to get past the firewall.
>>43869013
I know 40k is a freeforall deathmatch and you can't just tell people X and Y are friends and don´t fight... but for fucks sake the level of autism we're reaching with all this "Imperium does not listen to xeno scum" is getting out of hands.
They have a fucking 4th dimension of pure FUCK YOU spilling into the galaxy everywhere and through the Anus of Terror and they prefer to keep wasting assets on the blue fags who actually would negotiate with them.
Get your shit together IoE.
>>43869056
>>43869013
>War is not a binary condition. Despite superficial appearances to the contrary it does not begin or end with a single discrete event. There may be catalysts and culminations, but their antecedents and consequences– cultural, material and even metaphysical– extend through times past and future like ripples in a river that flows two ways. Accordingly, the war between the Imperium and the Tau Empire did not begin and end with the Damocles Gulf Crusade. That conflict was the first great blossoming of our enmity and it will not be the last, but we have now entered a subtler phase of the game. Fifty years have passed since the crusade. Nothing has changed. Everything has changed.
>Here on the margins of the Damocles Gulf we are embroiled in a cold war, an intricate game of deceit, manipulation and coercion waged against a master player. It is a delicate struggle, but never make the mistake of thinking it any less inimical to the Imperium than the voracious depredations of the tyranids or the bleak pogrom waged by the necrons, for the tau are playing for the hearts and minds of mankind. If they triumph our species may survive, but its destiny will not.
-– Aion Escher, Grand Master of the Damocles Conclave, Ordo Xenos
The Ordos Xenos approves of that drastic measure. Only fools do not see the great threat posed by the Tau. The Tau had to be stopped before it was too late.
>>43869073
A reminder that Ordo Xenos also has kill ships capable of completely destroying entire key worlds behind enemy lines in Tau Space, and instead deploy a weapon that somehow generated a 200 light year wide wall of plasma.
Do you have.
The foggiest idea.
Of just how HUGE a single light year is?
>>43869013
Chaos boys can just go into the warp to avoid it just like everyone else, except the tau.
>>43869090
It was the only way to stop the rapid expansion of the Tau. It was a contingency plan by the High Lords themselves.
Zero regrets.
So why are their three factions of Tau in the art, what's the significance? Also anyone want to give me a general outline of events?
>>43869119
>Tau kicked imperial ass
>Imperium got salty, set space on fire
>Tau go home, find Nids shitting in the mail box.
>>43868965
>Trying desperately to find something to whine about
>Uses a Dumbing of Age reaction image
Why am I not surprised.
>>43869119
>A massive imperial armada suddenly appears above Mu’gulath Bay, surprising the Tau
>Tau ships protecting the planet know they have no way to protect the world. They offer token resistance to slow the armada before withdrawing to call the rest of the Tau fleet in the system
>It would take 80 cycles for the Tau fleet to gather enough forces to match the armada
>The Imperial fleet bashes its way through the Tau orbital defences with the help of marines
>The fleet deploys a killaton of Imperial forces on the planet
>The Tau are outnumbered many times over and there is no escape
>The Tau use their mobility to stage hit and run tactics against the seemingly endless hordes of Imperials, trying to thin them down
>Things look grim for the Tau but oh wait!
>Farsight arrives and turns the tide
>The battle is still in the balance
>Assassins are dispatched to kill all Tau major leaders
>All assassin fail save for the pariah one
>Aun'va is dead
>The Shadowsun and Farsight combing the twin strategies of Kauyon and Mont'ka (Also with the help of Tau weather controling tech), manage to blunt and then break the Imperial forces
>The Imperials start to evacuate
>Important personnel were evac'ed first alongside 50% of the surviving forces
>As the fleet admiral prepares to get out here, he met with an envoy of Mars
>The Martian Tech Priests reveal their doomsday weapon and then unleashed
>The world is destroyed and Damocles is on fire
That's all in a nutshell
>this fucking art
And people say that the Tau aren't the weeb shit faction
And ofcourse the Tau get their plot armor to be safe from the galaxy for some time, just so they can develop some stupid deus ex machina that will save them.
>>43869206
>Being cut off from your colonies is plot armour
Imperials are the biggest, pampered babies I've ever encountered in any fandom. Got to assassinate their main leader and prevent them making any advancement and are still upset the Tau are even permitted to exist.
>>43869206
I wouldn't call salty imperials killing tons of your dudes and setting your space on fire and a goddamn nid invasion plot armour.
>>43869198
I thought the farsight enclaves were getting their shit kicked in by orks
How the fuck did they manage to haul a big enough force there to save the day
>>43869237
>I thought the farsight enclaves were getting their shit kicked in by orks
The Farsight Enclave won the War of Dakka like a hundred years ago.
>>43869243
I thought tau only live till the age of fifty
>>43869247
Not Farsight.
>>43869247
Hasn't Farsight got some sort of probably necron sword that steals time from things it kills?
>>43869247
Dawn Blade.
What happened to the orks who were in the gulf?
>Imperium finally going on the offence for once
>nope status quo time
Meh.
>>43869270
Surfing plasma tides, probably.
>>43868985
It's probably just Tau propaganda to cover up some massive fuck-up on their part.
The new art is badass. Thanks for the dump.
>>43868985
>>43869298
They probably found it somewhere.
>>43869073
>but its destiny will not
Its destiny is to be swallowed by Chaos, so I'd say that's a good thing.
>>43868845
Too generic style, nothing interestind or attractive.
>>43869151
>Resorts to an ad hominem about reaction images
Why am I not surprised
So...what's next? Is there anything new coming?
>>43868625
>Vindicare in melee range with Tau
>>43868670
>Callidus firing Neural Shredder at a Drone and only the drone
>>43868692
>Celexus messing up Tau
Is there an Eversor being sneaky on here or something?
>>43869416
>>Vindicare in melee range with Tau
Darkstrider tracked him down and caught him unaware while firing at Farsight.
>>Callidus firing Neural Shredder at a Drone and only the drone
Shield drone
She tried first to stab Shadowsun with the C'tan phase blade but Shadowsun was too smart for that.
>Celexus messing up Tau
The fucker was sadistic in the story.
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>>43868845
Thanks for the dump, OP. Love the new art, especially >>43868602. I'm a sucker for heroic poses like this one.
>>43868965
>HURRR WHAT IS WARP TRAVEL
Just stop. You faggots have already ruined the general. Please stay there for making up reasons to be mad. Is it not fucking embarrassing enough to have cried bitch tears about a book you haven't read only to have everything you were mad about proven to be made up? And yet you're STILL trying to find a way to be mad about it. Fuck off.
>>43869430
>Culexus being sadistic
Do tell anon
>>43868602
>farsight creeping on Shadowsun
also why is he holding a mini death star?
>>43869472
He took his time killing the Tau.
He creeped behind a fleeing Aun'va for a while before catching up to him. It's implied that he tortured Aun'va to death, slowly.
>>43869474
It's a communicator. He is talking to all of them.
>>43869466
>proven to be made up?
Several sites have said the same thing, that the Imperium set the sector alight.
So if you have evidence that this was made up, please share.
And warp travel doesn't matter with the Eye. The reason why Cadia is so fucking important is because it's the only reliable point you can enter and leave the Eye. You can't just warp out of there, you actually have to enter real space after leaving.
>>43869430
Was the shield drone invisible or something? I find it odd that the Callidus wouldn't take it out first, it's not exactly a Tau secret of what they can do. Besides, the drones shielding is just as good as the shielding it provides and the Neural Shredder engulfs everything in front of it, not a single target. Also, does Shadowsun have rapid fire Fusion Blasters?
>>43869513
Also Imperial ships cannot exit the Warp any any place. They usually exit the Warp outside of an a system to avoid gravity screwing them over.
>>43869484
As a salty Imperial, this pleases me.
>>43869513
>that the Imperium set the sector alight.
Clearly wasn't talking about that. The entire bleating that has been going on for the past two days about deaths that never happened. And instead of shutting the fuck up for just two seconds, in your desperate need to shit up every thread with tears you retards have moved on to whining about a problem that is only a problem for the Tau and wouldn't have posed any kind of problem for factions that can.
>Several sites have said the same thing
YOU HAVEN'T EVEN READ IT!? GET OUT. REEEEEEEEEE.
>>43869566
>a problem that is only a problem for the Tau and wouldn't have posed any kind of problem for factions that can
It would pose a problem for the Tyranids and Chaos should they deploy it on Cadian Gate.
So the Imperium have GRIDFIRE. Makes you wonder why they didn't use to close the Eye of Terror or block Hivefleet Leviathan or the next major Ork Waaagh or...
Another rabbit pulled out of their arse.
>>43868965
totally in character
>>43869031
Tau sitting with what imperial tech got left behind researching new ways to get home
You better believe they going to come back on the scene next year or two with new toys and tech and tear the imperium a new asshole
>>43869593
Thought it was because of the tau weather machine and the planet's storms?
>>43869606
It shouldn't but it will.
>>43869579
>>43869593
Wouldnt that totally fuck cadia as well? Also its not even that much for the tau they are already building ships able to fly through it. anyone with warp travel could go around it and nids would just adapt to it.
>>43868625
This assassin is going to have some bad time
>>43869593
they use fucking perpetual motion machines to make little walkers that carry a guy with a taser go.
It probably got used on the Tau because it was a sacred relic in the care of some obscure mechanicus forge world that got salty about the outcome of the campaign.
>>43869597
The Tau are a greater threat than Nids, Chaos and Orks put together. They are the greatest threat the Imperium has ever encountered! Nothing is spared to defeat the Tau. Even Culexus assassins, made from incredibly rare antipsykers, normally reserved for killing the most powerful psykers, are thrown against the blank Tau.
>>43869638
Tau are not blanks and the book states that Culexus were deployed to destroy rogue governs and whatever.
>>43869638
Well it worked.
>>43869031
No, the Tau sent away half of their forces to pacify Dovar before the crusade attacked.
Half of the 3rd sphere expansion forces are still around on another planet.
Also half the Imperial crusade forces managed to withdraw. Half of "billions".
So technically we can have an immediate rematch on Dovar at about equal troop strength.
>>43869678
I don't think the Imperials are going to attack the Tau anytime soon. Not at that level.
The White Scars for example finally decided to go home.
>>43869706
I can already hear the retards screaming "plot armour!!!"
>>43869229
>>43869233
>Imperium has a shitload of unique DAoT tech that could fuck up the Tau as a whole in millions of ways
>conveniently use the one that just happens to cut off the Tau from the galaxy
>>43869073
Escher then began an earnest lecture on the most monstrously conceived plot of the Tau yet, the fluoridating of the recaf in order to sap and impurify the Imperium's precious bodily fluids.
>>43869678
I suspect that they will use the firewall to justify the two forces failing to grip each other in a decisive engagement and drag things out as remnants of the crusade and various Tau forces fight where and when they can.
You now a nice static status quo where they can have either side win big fights without actually risking fucking up the setting and can milk it for a couple years.
>>43869606
>Imperial tech
Honest question, what kind of Imperium tech could the Tau research?
Apart from studying battleships/armor composition to come with more efficient weapons/targetting methods, what could be interesting for them to research?
I don't really see them fucking up with warp travel, as the Imperium relies on genetically-engineered navigators (Unless they force-feed a shitload of them to the Kroots) and Emprah for that.
>Tau aren't a threat!!!
>Tau are small time
Literally forced to use a one off WMD on them while Chaos are currently knocking on the door of Cadia
Genius Imperium logic
>>43869724
>retarded for saying Tau have plot armour
anon, plot armor is a thing and Tau have been getting it the most recently, calm down.
Please don't be mad at me.
>>43869761
Warp engines/travel.
The Tau have been stated to have developed an unhealthy interest in Warp technology.
>Admech have sector wide WMD
>Admech need to steal Tau air conditioning tech
>>43869764
*cough* set damocles gulf on fire ass pull *cough*
Imperial grade plot armour
>>43869795
that the Imperium used it at all is a show of how powerful a threat they've made the Tau.
>>43869761
You probably going to see an Imperial Knight killer at some point after the Obsidian Knight pushed their shit in.
>>43869795
>Imperial-grade plot armour
Gotta compensate for those Flak Vests!
>>43869762
Cadias been knocked down.
>>43868477
>Dat guardsman getting fucking blasted in the chest
Talk about a shitty day.
>>43869739
Only some of them, and even then not very well the tau can already travel through it.
>>43868939
In the story the magos who hands the admiral the weapon is cackling maniacally as he does so. It's described as sounding extremely unsettling, what's with the heavily modulated voice and all. Techpriests are creepy motherfuckers.
>>43869782
>Admech making sense
>Ever
>>43869119
There's Farsight Enclaves (in red armour) who are their own separate faction, and everybody else is just Tau Empire but with different coloured armour for forces from different septs.
>Eldar can create warp storms
>Tau can make suns explode
>Imperials can set sectors on fire
Er... Guys, why are we fighting each other?
How are Chaos/Orks/Nids even a threat?
>>43869875
The crons can blow up practically any star they want from their living room.
>>43869626
How the hell is biological system going to adapt going through plasma wall?
Also, wouldn't 200 light years long plasma wall have some crazy gravitational effects? It's probably gonna collapse into a star some day isn't it?
>>43868477
>>43869834
>Implying this picture isn't Imperial Propoganda showing their tactical genius
>See how these Guardsmen have expertly exploited the Tau's weakness in close combat by closing in on them
>See how Private Deadnow's armour EASILY deflects the xenos puny weapon fire
>See how artillery sergeant Canthear bravely ran all the way to the frontline to point out EXACTLY where he wanted the ordnance to be fired. Danger Close. The Astra Militarum way.
It's beautiful.
>>43869854
>>43869856
That isn't even the worse part of the Admech in the book, they literally turn up to steal Tau tech in the midst of battle and then fuck off and leave the IG and Marines to get stomped.
>>43869899
Classic Admech
>>43868994
Except the Tyranids could just go around it. If you've only got one shot, you might as well go for something it can kill.
Think of all the massive resources that the Admech spent on that crusade... all they wanted was air con.
>>43869890
I don't know anon, How the hell does a biological system adapt space flight and the ability to generate and shoot plasma in the first place?
>>43869875
Based Emperor would have already been cutting deals by now.
>>43869593
It's described as igniting the nebulas in the Damocles Gulf so it might not work in areas that don't have convenient clouds of interstellar gas.
>>43869919
Forge worlds get pretty warm, yo.
>>43869918
Just read the shield of baal. Skip through to the climax. The Necrons and Blood Angels did the same thing as the Admech to kill a big portion of Leviathan.
>>43869925
Doubt it. If the Tau didn't immediately submit to humans he'd declare a crusade on them. As he was wont to do.
>>43869895
Well, there are Orgryns there, so that's probably true.
>>43868268
I'm not caught up on the Tau lore, but does this mean the Tau now have two factions separated by that plasma wall dealie? The main Tau Empire and the Farsight faction? What's Farsight's deal? Does he only have warriors or does he have actual Tau civilian populations?
>>43869950
Farsight has civilian worlds settled by tau military that have retired out, tau colonists, and humans.
>>43869947
High Lords Of Terra Propaganda
Everyone knows by now he was a handshake away from allying with the Eldar
>>43869950
>>43869782
>>43869919
What tech Admech has had hasn't got is pretty random. They have a WMD capable of setting a sector alight because some magos found one in the basement of some forgeworld, but they don't have AC because the STC got lost.
And to be fair, it was very good air conditioning, able to create an enviromental shield and purify the toxic atmosphere of the hive. That could be quite useful, as while Admech doesn't give a damn about the enviroment, keeping acid rain and other side effects of air pollution away from their facilities would increase productivity.
>>43869739
> It then doesn't work, because Tau develop shields that let them ignore it anyway.
>>43869973
Which Eldar? They all have different goals. Biel-tan was going to let Humanity rule the galaxy?
>>43869996
Seems recently they've been developing mechas that destroy it and, more often than not, anything else.
>>43870052
Indeed. Old fluff stated that Riptides were incredibly rare, and that most fire warriors were lucky if they ever got to see one in their lifetime. Now we have artwork of literally Five Riptides all deploying against the same enemy.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the Tau have also teched up to a point where they can make a Riptide in a week, by the same deal with the Tigershark.
>>43869895
>See how artillery sergeant Canthear bravely ran all the way to the frontline to point out EXACTLY where he wanted the ordnance to be fired. Danger Close. The Astra Militarum way.
>>43868845
Some decent pieces, a lot of it is mediocre though.
>>43869875
Because those are all one-off asspulls that will have no real bearing on the setting?
>>43870652
Nothing has any bearing on the setting. The story in 40k is more stale than a Batman comic.
>>43869990
>implying this WMD wasn't just some Artificial Solar Heater for terraforming.
>mfw Taufags getting btfo by superior Imperial schizo technology.
God I love being superior human master race.
>>43868654
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>>43868692
So all Tau special chars are dead now?
Promising codex indeed.
>>43870760
Just Aun'va, but they're using holograms to trick everyone.
>>43870760
Just one.
>>43869966
Farsight has humans? Thought he was super racist.
>>43870760
Only the cunt that everyone, even the Tau Empire players despise. Honestly you did the tau a favour by killing him.
>>43870812
They keep humans for food, and to paint their armor.
Where do you think the red paint is from?
>>43870823
aun'va+billion kroots is fun as shit
>>43870812
Beggars can't be choosers these days
>>43868852
It's his waifu.
>>43870760
Silly anon, only the one everyone hates. No-one is sad to see the back of him.
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>>43870823
Why is hated? I'm confused here.
>>43870974
Because he's Kim Jong-il in space, who hates Farsight and turned Shadowsun against him.
Tbh I rather like the old space-pope despite him not really being useful on the tabletop, aside from a gimmicky build with an allied FSE list with O'vesa to join his unit and become an unkillable super-Riptide.
>>43871011
That's all? Thanks.
>>43870974
He was just a massive twat. Read the two Damocles campaign books and you'll see why.
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>>43870974
Basically, Aun'va's idea of the Greater Good was, "I will determine what the greater good is and how much can be sacrificed for it," rather than the original idea of, "Everyone chooses to put others before themselves."
>>43870974
He was utter cunt in the Damocles Anthology.
>>43868268
So how's Damocles being destroyed and your leader assassinated going?
>>43870974
Tau players hate him because they want their Tau to be noblebright mary sue blueberries, and Aun'Va was neither noble nor bright.
Imperial players hate him because he's Tau.
What's the most competitive blood angel list I can possibly build? I want to shit on my power gamer meta with the imperium's shittiest. Tau and Eldar need to fear the worst book in 7th.
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>>43871245
To sum him up he's Tau Vandire in a way?
>>43869206
>plot armor
why is it Imperium fags are the only ones who parrot this buzzword.
The literal plot armor of the Imperium is "dude, there's so many of them." Everything is trying to kill humanity, and succeeds repeatedly, but it doesn't matter because plot armor of numbers.
Why didn't the Eversor take Farsight with him when it died? Why didn't it explode?
>>43871345
Yep. Bingo.
>>43871181
Nobody liked him anyway apparently and at least the imperium took out half their own force as well.
can tau please stop being this good guy maymay please
please
the greater good is such a dumb meme
>>43871413
It did explode but their suits shook it off.
>>43871413
Maybe it just didnt explode hard enough? I mean the man fights from a giant robot, he must be fairly hardy.
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>>43871444
An Eversor has a Melta bomb on it, but how tough is Farsight's suit?
>>43871476
Dunno, but I guess he just got it repaired?
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>>43871493
Or jump jetted away or something?
>>43871493
I can go with that.
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>>43871444
It exploded, but considering in game the explosion is only ap-, I don't think it's supposed to be particularly good for hurting heavily armoured enemies. Farsight is wearing his battlesuit so the explosion would be unlikely to hurt him.
>>43871476
He does have a shield generator, but it's about as tough as marine armor with more mass. It's possible he got out unscathed, and it's possible it heavily messed him up.
>>43871476
The Eversor's death collapsed the dome and dropped the roof on everybody. Farsight made his armour save.
>>43868549
That is the pose of a xeno that realizes he's about to deal with an old colleague he absolutely hates, and is seriously debating on whether to play nice or cut his fucking head off
>>43868591
There is a variant that is designed to be used in space as a light bomber that looks extremely similar.
>>43868813
Because while Tau souls are little more than candles compared to a human floodlight, they still have souls, and Culexus assassins are Pariahs that are turned up to 11 and given a face gun that shoots pariah bullets that completely obliterates souls.
It is also unknown whether or not Ethreals are actually Psykers, so sending a Culexus might actually be more effective than thought.
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>>43868845
All this new art is fucking awful.
These guys must be truly bargain bin tier inexpensive.
>Chew up an entire Imperial crusade on a single planet
>Farsight and Shadowsun are BFF again
>That faggot Aun'Va is dead
>Tau are offcially noblebright again.
Fuck yeah!
>>43869761
>what could be interesting for them to research?
While Imperial tech is often less advanced than Tau tech, there are tons of devices from the DAoT and Mechanicus factions that eclipse the Tau by an incredible margin. The doomsday weapon deployed is a great example - the Tau can't just set 200 light years of space on fire at once. Studying Imperial tech is a way to make the connections and lead to newer techs that the Tau haven't thought of or have not yet been able to crack.
>>43868424
>drone shooting a titan
That's just downright cute
>>43871413
The old fluff heavily suggests that Farsight could be long dead, and a random Tau takes his place when the previous one dies.
That, and that he could be using doubles.
>>43871641
>Chew up an entire Imperial crusade on a single planet
We all know what Imperialfags are going to say: "b-b-but it wasn't a real crusade", you know like they did the last time the Imperium sent a Crusade over.
>>43871687
Now we know why he's alive, though. The Dawn Blade is keeping him alive. When he kills something with the Dawn Blade it adds their lifespan to his own.
Wow, shit writing to go with shit art.
The Imperium can just set lightyears of space on fire now? Why the fuck haven't they done this before?
>>43868852
>notice me senpai
>>43871641
Farsight and Shadowtsun parted ways with her swearing that some day they'll have a reckoning, so I guess it was kind of a temporary alliance, as they both recognise the Imperium's a bigger threat than their internal struggles.
>>43871727
That sounds less Necron and more like an Eldar, Old One or outright Chaos artefact... And given it's not driven even a Tau completely tentacles and insanity yet, I think we can rule that last one out...
>>43871742
Ordinatus weapons are one-of-a-kind.
Also >>43871623 wow you guys are salty as fuck that the Imperium isn't the only force out there with a degree of protagonist-armour anymore!
>>43871742
Because its not really that useful apparently. The Tau are already building ships that can travel in it and everyone else could just avoid it with the warp.
>>43871758
It steals time and crons are all about time control.
>>43871773
It extends life, something the Necrontyr couldn't do and the Necrons have no use for.
>>43871727
That could be a lie to justify the fact that he's been around for so long.
You know, if the dude had its own enclave, his death could result in major fuckup for the Tau empire. To keep it in control they could pull out the previous dead dude from the exosuit, and put another one inside so the Legend doesn't die.
>>43868965
hive fleets can attack from 3 dimensions so it would be a pain in the ass to do that for the entire milky way unless the mechanus has finally gotten their heads out of their exhaust ports and really started to innovate
He found it on the same world where he found some psychic amulets
>>43869854
>In the story the magos who hands the admiral the weapon is cackling maniacally as he does so
Are you saying you wouldn't if given the chance to set 200 light years worth of space on fire?
>>43871797
I even looks like something a necron would have.
>>43871758
>lel salty cas Tau win
You realize I'm criticizing the fact that the Imperium apparently have this insanely useful megatech that they've never used before, right?
If it were some artifact they dug up and hastily used, it'd be fine, but shit, if they can make these things they should be using them wherever they can. It's retarded even for 40K.
>>43871758
>That sounds less Necron and more like an Eldar, Old One or outright Chaos artefact...
The Warhammer 40,000 universe is ancient. Hundreds of sapient alien races and non-Imperial human societies have been driven to extinction over the centuries, and that's before we get onto the sort of apocalypses that swept through the galaxy before humanity first emerged. It's entirely possible that the Dawn Blade isn't the product of a named race we're aware of, but just a strange relic left over from a people otherwise reduced to dust on the boots of history.
>>43871815
Or find a sector of space full of nid ships and just set the goddamn sector on fire?
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>>43871845
They probably just found it somewhere. Even if they didnt just find one it wouldnt be much use on anyone else but the nids and they would just adapt their ships to it and fly through.
>>43871356
>why is it Imperium fags are the only ones who parrot this buzzword.
I don't get why "plot armor" is even a thing anywhere. Literally everything that happens is by writer fiat regardless of who it involves.
>>43871797
It doesn't steal life. It steals TIME.
Considering Necrons have the only considerable level of time travel or manipulating tech, and that the 'chronophage alloy's' ability is apparently a physical trait of the metal itself rather than Warp shenanigans, it seems likely to be Necron related. Remember that Necron tech advanced a ton after they contacted the C'tan and went all metal.
>>43871831
>If it were some artifact they dug up and hastily used, it'd be fine
What is likely is that the Admech has had one, and ONLY one, for centuries, and just decided to deploy it here knowing that unlike most races that are dealt with, it will actually be effective in an area where the drawbacks are a nonissue.
Anyone who hasn't figured this out clearly doesn't actually pay attention to 40k.
>>43871872
I recall reading that TIME in the damocles gulf is strange, the planets there are younger than the rest of the galaxy for some reason. Is that fanon or canon?
>>43871864
Pretty sure even Nids are hard pressed to adapt to superheated plasma. If they could adapt so easily, they'd do so on the regular.
And it'd be nice if it was specified that the weapon was something found and not understood. Because as-is it just makes the Imperium seem too retarded to be taken remotely seriously.
