Tau thread?
Tau thread.No Xeno.
>>46529633
>Spoiler
So no Tau, then?
>>46529666
I think OP might be implying that Tau areAbhumans.
>>46529743
>>46529666
>>46529743
I assumed he was referring to that Tau-Necron OC who was named Xeno.
>>46529666
He means that poorly named OC, satan.
>>46529823
>Believing the prince of lies
You innocent lamb.
>>46529633
Needs more orks
>>46529844
>doubting the morningstar
You lack faith, anon.
You can trust him.
>>46529633
Kroot vespid and guela support when?
I, for one, think we should annex the Tau into the Imperium. Label them a protectorate, use them to fight the Tyranids, lay with their qts, and use their battlesuits for kick-ass robo-rumbles.
>>46530417
This is why the Inquisition is hunting you, Charleston.
>>46529869
God those commercials were hilarious.
Macs are still over-priced trash.
>>46530417
The Tau do not have qt's.
Thinking they do is a sign of brain problems, brain problems best solved by having that section of your brain torn out and replaced with standard issue servitor implants.
>>46530417
Implying Mankind even needs any kind of help from a vile xenos species?!
>>46530516
>>46530557
Pish-posh.
>>46530564
Not help, per se. Think of it as "aggressive restructuring of acquired realms via assertive negotiations."
Can someone convince me why I should like the Tau fluff? They always seemed bland to me so I never read too deeply into them. So obviously there could be some cool stuff I'm missing out on. Is there?
>>46530655
Why not just kill them, pave their worlds down flat, and then fill those worlds with things that aren't living garbage? Y'know like humans, or we can even skip the paving their worlds flat thing and populate them with Ogryn! That way all that was once Tau gets covered in retard-urine!
>>46530687
The Tau are literally North Korea, only existing by virtue of there being much larger problems elsewhere, and protected by a frankly ludicrous amount of author fiat, like, even more than every other faction combined.
That's pretty much all there is to it.
>>46530687
You shouldn't.
They're a Gary Stu race used to attract weebs to 40k.
>>46530687
Their basic infantry were kind of interesting, because you had boxy armored dudes and indian birds side by side.
that's gone by the wayside, though
>>46530754
>>46530788
>>46530860
Okay thanks, I guess I'm not missing out on anything then.
>>46529869
>DA BIG RAID
>The Blood Axes of Waaagh! Grog tell a story about the greatest Kommando attack ever, known as Da Big Raid. It happened on the world of Vor’sanar, when Waaagh! Grog smashed into the edges of the Tau Empire. Freebooter raids on the Tau planet had been previously repulsed by a huge alien warship with more dakka than anything in the Ork fleet. Called the Korst’la by the Tau and Da Big Dakkaship by the Orks, it stalked the space lanes around Vor’sanar, annihilating anything that trespassed on the Tau Empire. The Korst’la’s only weakness was that it needed to use the huge orbital docks around Vor’sanar to refuel and rearm. While Grog knocked the heads of his Freebooter Kaptins together, trying to get a large enough fleet together to storm the Tau planet, a mob of Blood Axe Kommandos came up with a more cunning plan. They would attack the orbital docks while the Korst’la was away, wrecking the Tau station, and denying the warship a place to repair itself or rearm. The Kommandos set out in a looted Tau transport ship, using captured codes to approach the Vor’sanar dockyard under the pretence of having been damaged in an Ork raid and seeking safe harbour. The Tau were initially suspicious of the lone vessel limping into their station, but every demand for identification was met with a satisfactory response, and the idea that Orks could undertake such a ruse was unthinkable to the Tau. It was a horrific surprise then when the vacuum seals opened and Ork Kommandos poured out into the station. By the time the Tau had mustered to repel the invaders, the Kommandos had reached the station’s reactors. Smashing them to scrap, they set off a chain reaction, dooming the station and allowing Waaagh! Grog to ransack Vor’sanar and ultimately the entire sector.
>>46529633
>you and your guard buddies will never rape a tau bitch so much she becomes bloody and raw
>>46530716
My dear man: if they're dead, who will play to my ego?
>>46530557
dem lips
>>46529633
It seems to me that GW has been trying to retcon Shadowsun's appearamce since they made her. You've got all these boxy robots and then for the first canon female they give us a sleek, rounded battlesuit and a head with soft features and long hair. That's plenty of indication for me, but everything since has been in the "no sexual dimorphism but the face slit" camp. Why is Shadowsun lthe way she is, then?
>>46531853
Half
Human
>>46531876
They're literally aliens. Do you not see how out of place that trope is?
>>46531981
Do be fair, the amount of genetic engineering and natural adaptation that went on during and before the Age of Strife would probably label most of 40k humanity as different sub-species to each other.
Kinda like the Honorverse Diaspora of Man thing.
>>46532063
This. You think that Homo Sapiens Hirsutus just happened to naturally evolve into catgirls? No, sir, somebody during the Dark Age of Technology decided, "it would be advantageous if everyone on our planet was part cat.
"But no more than ten percent cat because it's just furfaggotry after that."
And that's where felinids come from.
>>46531981
Okay, faggot, half ELDAR
>>46532202
>tfw there was a half-human half-eldar in earlier fluff
kek
>>46532136
Cats DO have some pretty fucking nifty advantages man.
Like, the type of advantages that would make most Catachans salivate at the thought of such enhanced senses and natural balance.
Hell, the Cadians would probably go for such things as well, if it didn't compromise their genetic code or make them easier to mutate if exposed to some ambient warp-energy.
>>46532136
>>46532063
The tau don't fit in with that idea, though. Their lore includes their pre-spacefaring period, and they're, like, actually different--not just humans with pointy ears or green skin. Are Vespid and Kroot are also altered humans? It just doesn't hold water.
>>46532243
I was just pointing out that the amount of genetic fuckery going on doesn't necessarily rule it out.
It's dumb as hell thinking of a Tau-Human hybrid, but the Eldar are literally part space-crystal and part warp-stuff with a meaty body and there was a Half-Eldar at some point in the old fluff back when they were just elves in space.
>>46532240
Catachans would see that as a crutch, honestly. When you're good enough to out-sneak eldar and tyranids as a basic human, you don't really need gene-modding.
>>46532285
>Catachans
>Basic human
No.
Catachans have, at some point, underwent a decent amount of genetic tweaking to make actually living on Catachan an option, or have evolved into natural physical ubermensch in all ways except mental through millennia of adaptation and environmentally enforced selective breeding.
>>46532136
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUuvHPr4BGk
>>46532344
>Terrific Terra, you're roight!
Gold. Solid gold.
>>46532336
The fluff says they're just people. That's why they're considered so badass. They aren't augmented humans and still manage to survive on a death world.
>>46532336
Catachan is nothing but guts and hard work.
>>46532284
Well either way, Commander Shadowsun's bod is totally sexy under that battlesuit. My own headcanon puts female tau between the two extremes: curvy and feminine, but physical equals to males (at least those of the fire caste) and lacking breasts. That's just me, though.
>>46532383
The average imperial thrall is probably physically superior to the average modern human.
You literally cannot live on a fucking Deathworld like Catachan outside of extremely fortified hives without natural adaptations making you superior to a base-line.
An average Catachan-citizen is a fucking beefed up amazon and the male equivalent of that.
>>46532449
>You literally cannot live on a fucking Deathworld like Catachan without natural adaptations
But you can. That's why they're so badass.
>>46532449
Cool. That's not the case on Catachan, though. They're normal humans working hard to survive and that's it.
>>46532449
I'm sorry you cannot accept anything other than your headcanon.
>>46532449
Post proofs
>>46532558
His headcanon is just as good as the actual canon.
It's vastly superior and more believable than anything BL has ever put out.
>>46532577
>thinly veiled samefagging is still samefagging
What do Catachan inhabitants actually eat anyway?
There really isn't anything that comes to mind as healthy to eat on that world, let alone something healthy enough to eat and in such abundance as to fuel the units exported from it.
>>46532634
Imports, the imperium needs good soldiers, catachan needs food.
>>46532784
That sounds like a very exploitable weakness in a grimderp setting.
>>46532634
They probably have some method of eating the fauna. Hunting dangerous animals for meat sounds appropriately death world-y.
>>46532784
doubt it, catachan is all about self-sufficiency
>>46530516
thats Haythem
>>46533195
No.
His name is Charleston.
>>46532426
They literally use the same torso, arms, and legs as their male counterparts. Female Tau are just a head option.
>>46531673
>>46530417
[/spoiler] That's my headcannon for my enclave force accompanied by Imps with an unorthodox commancer [/spoiler]
>>46532344
>>46529633
Yes Xeno!
Can all caste make works of art? Which caste is known for being artists? What art from each caste would look like?
>>46536278
Supposedly the Water Caste have storytellers, so probably them.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Tau didn't have much in the way of art, though.
>>46536072
Get the fuck out quest shitter. You and your ilk are ruining /tg/.
Delete your post.
>>46536278
art does little to further the greater good, it's good for reminiscing on deeds done in the name of the greater good but does very little to advance it
art done for the sake of art, that is, if it serves some purpose, such as an earth caste building with intricate details or a fire caste weapon that's visually appealing is their art, all castes have it
How do you come up with Tau names?
>>46537036
Pick a name, throw a rank and a sept on to it, then make up a few more names.
>>46537036
caste-rank-sept followed by their achievements, although i usually end mine with some sort of personal name to make it easier to remember
>>46537072
>>46537098
What about names for the Sept?
>>46537165
usually the features of the planet are incorporated into the name
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tau_Sept
i'd go through this and consider the color scheme you want, find some way to adapt it to planetary features, then rip some words and names and put it together
>>46537036
After the obligatory identifiers mentioned above, it's simply a matter of choosing the words you want to go alongside Ukos.
>>46532136
If Captain Amelia is what to expect with felinids... hnngh.
>>46537431
>Tau thread
>turns into a weeb and smut thread
Gee what a surprise
>>46537698
That's every thread. There was a thread about fucking bee armor that had the same shit. That's 4chan.
>>46537841
Well, to be fair, I don't really see how you can fuck bee armor - or indeed, any kind of armor - without it being at least a little bit smutty.
>>46534445
The Inquisition has discovered your heresy, despite your efforts to hide
>>46530716
We could do that, or we could worry about the massive hive fleet of space bugs bearing down on us. Or the infestation of green-skinned maniacs. Or the heretics working to decay our fair Imperium from within.
Posting tau.
>>46532449
Catachans are the biggest mary sues in the 40k. Way worse than Draigo and Tau empire combined.
OR the Catachan itself is just an exaggeration after exaggeration and is no worse than living in the Australia.
>>46530557
>Those DSL
>Not qt
>>46536884
fucking bullshit.
There was a thread with a picture of a young boy hero with 5 scantily clad women behind him. The caption was something about his dad giving him these handmaidens to help him. all the posts discussed /ss/ and hatred of tumblr art style; the picture was an anime art style. not a one tried to use it for ideas. One of the lines in the description said
>They're kinda like my mom
using that alone, I was able to come up with this
>kid's father is a wizard
>spent a thousand years trying to make the most realistic golem anyone had ever seen, eventually discovering cloning in the process
>looked up one day and realized that everyone he knew and cared about is dead
>decides he can't be fucked to go out and find people to date
>decides best option is to build a clone/golem wife, a clolem wife
>after a few iterations, builds clolem wife
>the venture has bankrupted wizard dad, so now he needs to go take JOBS for fucking MONEY
>Takes clolem wifeof course she's a fighting clolem, who makes a clolem and doesn't have it fight
>They save each other's asses and grow closer together during their adventures, fall in love andhold hands
>Wizard dad still gets rekt gg no re, crippled
>clolem wife takes him home, they live together comfily
>Clolem wife wants kid, sad because she can't as the necessary bits are made of clay
>Wizard dad builds son clolem, now happy freak of nature family
>weakness in clolem power source revealed, Mom runs out of power, dies
>Wizard devastated, begins research to find way to bring waifu back
>discovers ancient power source that will give her life
>Wants to go, can't, body too shit
>Son volunteers
>To help, Wizard reawakens old Models of Clolem before the creation of Mom-Clolem
>Sends them with son
>woop-de-fucking-doo, you've got a backstory you fucking faggots
Quests didn't ruin tg, spergs like you ruined it
What would be the name of an Ethereal based on Mao Zedong or comrade Stalin?
It is kinda retarded how hard the Tau are pushed when they are such a tiny civilization that has no right to be ranked up alongside the actual factions, they are a minor race.
Didn't they somehow even get written into showing up to take part in the worldwide campaign games representing the battles of the 13th Black Crusade around Cadia just so Tau players could be involved?
>>46539502
They were still stuck in their own corner, but taking full advantage of the Imperium's distraction.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030723180218/http://www.eyeofterror.com/uk/armies/tau.htm
>Greetings, Commander. The wisdom of the Ethereals shall guide you through these perilous times. The constant squabbling of the Gue’la are of little concern to us, but their wars now begin to impact on our glorious Empire. The foes of the Gue’la sow discord, fanning the flames of war on our doorstep, and the warriors of the Gue’la’s Emperor are drawn away from the true objective of battle. It shall be your appointed task to quash any who dare to encroach on our territories, be they Gue’la or their foes. The furtherance of the Greater Good is paramount, and nothing must be allowed to set back our Empire’s expansion.
>Ko’vash Tau’va vor Shi.
>>46539597
pdf also related:
>FACTIONS
>It emerged that the players had got organised. The forces of Disorder had formed several factions advised by strategists from different think tanks, most notably the Triad and the Planet Killer group. Repeated efforts by the forces of Order to form a coherent strategy failed to get the same results. Until the last weeks of the campaign the forces of Order stayed one jump behind and unable to respond to the spreading tide of Disorder. To my delight the Tyranids and Orks each worked as discrete factions and hammered at their own chosen targets, Belis Corona and Scarus.
>A side effect of this was that the Tau were left to their own devices and expanded steadily through the whole campaign – I had believed that doing battle with the Tau would absorb more of the Ork and Tyranid players’ attentions during a campaign mostly about the Imperium and Eldar against Chaos. Likewise, the Dark Eldar, Dark Angels and even individual Chaos legions worked together for common goals, often pursuing their own agenda in defiance of any overall plan. It was a joy to behold.
>The Tau made several major expansions to their empire over the course of the Thirteenth Crusade. With Imperial attention elsewhere, and the local Tyranid and Ork menace temporarily contained, Tau settlement colonies and pioneer teams reached far and wide into the outlying systems of the Damocles Gulf, the Perdus Rift and much further afield. Although the encroachment on Imperial space has been relatively minor, the Tau have established no fewer than five 3rd phase colony systems in a halo around their existing sept worlds. These massive areas of expansion are already being referred to as the Third Sphere Colonies by the diplomats of the Water caste, and are rumoured to include unprecedented numbers of human auxillaries. That the Imperium’s attention is focused elsewhere is no doubt of comfort to those humans who have pledged their support to the burgeoning Tau empire.
>>46530557
What is this fanart suppose to prove?
>>46532596
Fuck off you denying nigger.
>>46539473
Holy fuck, and you call me a sperg. That thread was also cancer. Why the fuck are you so proud of your oh-so-special magical realm adventure background? It's not original, it's not GOOD, and it's not welcome here.
Please leave and never return. You are EXACTLY the reason that this board is shit.
>>46530417
They're cowardly filth who can't even fight in melee combat (which we all know is the most honorable form of combat)
>>46536072
Worst. Girl. Even fucking Cultist is better, and Cultist is fucking atrocious.
That's right, the Tau needs Shield Drones armed with Tasers. Every enemy model near it get S3 AP - concussive damage.
>>46529633
>No Xeno
What aboutBlue?
>>46545396
why does she have a swastika on her chest piece?
>>46539597
>>46539608
That's a fucking great way to handle that. I love it.
>>46545396
>>46545461
That's obviously an Ork Manji.
I want a heavier version of the Pulse Blast Rifle that can be taken by Crisis suits and Stealth Suits.
>>46545396
Because she's an ork good luck charm, that is one of their symbols
>>46545461
>>46546379
It's the symbol for "Orky", in fact.
>>46546438
>that symbol for zog
