*10TH EDITION!!* T'au Empire vs Orks | Warhammer 40k Battle Report

It's a double Xenos 10th Edition debut in today's Freeview game! The superior firepower of the Orks will be put to the test against in this battle of the alien as Bard jumps into his Crisis Suit to take on Warboss Chef!
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[@OrrgunUK]

Hahaha that distant shout from bard in the ork list 😂😂

[@grotwurksmekshop6607]

Made my day!

[@nhogan84]

Chef pointing out to Bard that he gets to re-roll 1's because of the stealth unit assistance is the kind of sportsmanship and fair play that makes me love games like this, and channels like you.

[@kdbutler9892]

Listening to this while painting models is very entertaining. I can't see what's happening half the time, but I do hear all of the commentary, which sounds like it's Pinky and Pinky's Clone having a War40K battle against each other. Absolutely brilliant!

[@Marqhll]

Riptide has the "Weapon Support System." It can ignore modifiers to it's hit roll. So you didn't have to take the -1 to hit.

[@tabletoptactics]

Yup we both missed that. Fortunately it didn't make too much a difference 🙂 - Chef

[@Jfund12]

It even applies to when it degrades. He still shoots base 4+ due to the WSS.

[@Marqhll]

@@Jfund12 I didn't even think of that. Awesome stuff!

[@Ed-xo9pc]

In this battle report, we focus on what will happen if both sides roll almost exclusively ones!

[@burnbobquist8999]

That Bomb Squig release had me in stitches for minutes, especially the anti climactic ending and Chefs face. xD

[@Dilapidated_Dan]

The positivity and energy in your battle reports are second to none.

[@The_Blackshield]

An all xenos throw-down? Awesome! 😁

[@talscorner3696]

Hear how happy Bard is for the bubblethingies!

[@tabletoptactics]

They’re the best hahah! - Bard

[@cmagee79]

I feel like there was a brief talk on whether to do another take. Very brief.

[@talscorner3696]

@@tabletoptactics it makes me so happy, it's something silly xD

[@wyant50]

14:08 lol

[@crudgamers2672]

That made me lol 😂

[@Marqhll]

Fire Warriors have the Marker Light keyword. So when Strike Teams and Breacher Teams are observers then you actually do get the ignores cover rule.

[@maijin007]

I believe that will be faq before long as a typo. The shas'ui, does not earn the markerlight keyword unless you choose to take a markerlight drone. Something most everyone does I'd guess, but can be overlooked. But if you look at their gear neither the Strike or Breacher teams actually start with a markerlight.

[@rathstar]

​@@maijin007Shas'ui have always had the option of buying a marker light in all previous editions, that's where the marker light keyword comes from. While there are some likely typos across the hundread of datasheets GW had to update at once, I don't think this is one of them.

[@fendelphi]

@@maijin007 The Marker Drone gives units without the keyword the Markerlight AND allows you to act as an Observer even if you Advance. So while the Markerlight keyword might be redundant on various Firewarrior units with the Marker Drone, the ability to both Advance and act as Observer is a unique benefit.

[@maijin007]

@@fendelphi finally a good point, thanks Fendelphi. I'd totally overlooked the marker drones entry that said "even if it advanced this turn" sentence.

[@amon_937]

I love the color scheme of the Tau! 😍 That grey camouflage fits so good, especially for the Stealth suits. Great job! 😎👍🏼

[@EzorTar]

yeah i think so too. anyone any idea what colors were used?

[@neoisolationist8790]

As always, an excellent and entertaining game. These two armies are the best-painted Tau and Orks I have ever seen.

[@cullenasaro2229]

Strike teams have the markerlight keyword on their datasheet meaning that even without a marker drone you would ignore cover. They keyword is what grants that not the drone. The drone just grants the keyword and allows for advance and observe

[@tabletoptactics]

Doh, we both missed that. A holdover from the Shas'ui having it as a paid upgrade before I guess. Makes them even better as Spotters then!

[@Dre0oq]

Oh my God that Bomb Squig moment, I DIED!

[@tabletoptactics]

The suit didn't though 😆

[@mireadur]

Everything is brutaly well painted.

[@SCADU-MAXXING]

Brutal but Kunnin' paint job

[@TheUltimateStarWarsFan]

I love the grey camo on the T’au ❤❤❤ amazing work painting them

[@budtloper1]

I've never played tabletop but have minis that my boys and i paint together. I love the lore of orks, world eaters, and what little there is of khorne blood pact. Your channel is always great. WAAAGH!

[@TurpDotNet]

I love these two playing together!

[@vincentlarochette2501]

T'au and Orks, the ultimate treat ! Thanks !

[@Reqqles]

I winced when I saw the puretide engram neurochip in the list and that wince was confirmed shortly after: it only lets you use a stratagem that's already been used, it does NOT let you do so for free, making it objectively terrible.

[@mollywasagoodgirl]

I winced a lot at this list in general. Riptide, strike team, puretide chip, and then saying tau has lots of anti tank when that's absolutely not the case.

[@artusyeddou5792]

@@mollywasagoodgirl yup

[@tabletoptactics]

Ahh well, mistakes happen in these early days of learning all the army rules again, especially since we play and film with so many different ones 🙂

[@Kierano777]

That first bomb squig made my day!

[@fatherofhellions]

I don't know what's the best about this vid. The high pitch glee shouting or the glee shouting in a high pitch!

[@christopherblackburn6811]

I’ve never seen ‘real chef’ and ‘Ork Chef’ in the same room at the same time. I’m starting to think they are the same Ork.

[@FzNd]

Nah. Ork Chef is always there; he's just usually painted purple.

[@rathstar]

Great battle report. Think the Tau are going to try out a bit more optimised list to stop their youtube battle report losing streak. I think they are 1-7 in 10th edition battle reports. Less strike teams, probably no riptide and some cyclic ion blasters on the crisis suits.

[@elvis1iceman]

Chef is rejuvenated with 10th and Bard and his Grey Knights need to happen soon!

[@zhadowsun]

So happy to see you guys enjoy 10th. I've also enjoyed plenty of 10th games already, and my biggest draw is certainly the new mission deck :D

[@roryoutdoors5431]

Hooooogrider! Whoooo! This is great guys cheers! My boy (13) and I play Tau/Orks trading back and forth - our first goes with 10th edition have been excellent so far. As an old Rogue Trader geezer I think this is the slickest reboot both in terms of quality of kit AND marketing - amazing to see what's possible now and look forward to lots of fun games!

[@dan13jb]

"Concede as planned" is the best gambit! 😂

[@BrilliantBenGaming]

Really enjoyed watching this battle, I just finished building my T'au Combat Patrol. Orks do seem like a great mess of fun!

[@roryoutdoors5431]

Sneakin' up on 200K - Dudes! Awesome!

[@pedronatsuiro]

That 1 on bomb squig tho ahahahah

[@madamebin1914]

Idk it might just be me, but sometimes there's a random line that slips out that from Bard that REALLY reminds me of Alan Partridge

[@cmclachlan]

Yet to see even one tau victory on online 😢 .good game to watch though. Orks look fun to play

[@rathstar]

I've seen one, not surprisingly it was Richard Ziegler. Ghost keeps sitting on objectives forcing the enemy to come into range, which allows the cyclic ion blaster crisis suits to obliterate the closing enemy units. He was also using Tetras which are brutal observers.

[@se7enspac3s]

I just want to comment on how beautiful those models are. Thanks for the vid!

[@12aptures]

Guys. The painting on these models are BEAUTIFUL! I hope my T'au turn out as nice as these.

[@jeremywenham3211]

The background shout. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@danielbob2628]

Listening to this audio, I feel like I'm watching one of those hyper-edited videos where it looks like there are two of the same person talking to one another. Like that Ben Shapiro vs Shen Bapiro video. I love this.

[@JonathanFlexx]

That handbrake turn was so funny to me xD

[@ChainsawDunDeez]

My current ork army is a Hunta Rig/ Battle wagonz, pressure list….but a few Kustom Boosta-Blastaz with their annoying (for the opponent) rivet Kannonz…look very Tak-tik-Kool….

[@ThijsSchrijnemakers]

Now I wish to see Katie play the Orks in order to hear her version of calling the Waaaaagh!!

[@cordial001]

Orks looked like they'd be awesomely fun going into 10th and I'm glad to see that's definitely the case. Fave battlewagon: Boomdakka Snazzwagon!

[@axefonky4547]

Great video as always ! but wow cmon... that T'au army is gorgeous !!! do you have a recipe/tuto somewhere ?

[@rancidbathwater]

An hour and a half of excited jibbering. Perfect video

[@XMan-mi6gs]

That bombsquick !!! I laughed so hard….Very unfortunate 😂

[@freinheit6923]

that bomb squig at 30:55 lmao

[@grimd0rk]

excellent battle report, just a reminder at 1:17:23 the 'ard as nailz strat is only activated in the shooting phase :D

[@tabletoptactics]

The Stratagem clearly says you can do it in the Shooting or Fight Phase 🙂

[@tabletoptactics]

I did indeed use it in Combat. Like the Stratagem allows you to do 🙂 - Chef

[@grimd0rk]

Lmao I’m So sorry I A: never learned to read B: did not mean to spam reply… Thanks for correcting me!

[@MrSocK100]

‘3 of each buggy because im a maniac and cannot be stooped’ some stuff should be recored and remembered

[@MrDarkNewt]

the puretide engram neurochip doesn't let you use a strategem for free

[@trainermike4527]

The fire warriors already have the “marker light” keyword, which lets the target ignore cover :)

[@BrewdaGames]

Your waaaagh inspired not only me a humble ork boi but also all dem otha boyz cross da galaxy!

[@Russmoody]

Nice to see the Snazzwagon do something

[@TheEmpireOfThomas]

Warhammer is so dang expensive so it’s fun to watch your channel because you have so many miniatures

[@TNAralwaysfun]

Been waiting for this all day. 🎉🎉

[@meltedwing]

I haven't seen a single T'au victory in any of the 10th edition batreps I've seen. It's getting a bit absurd.

[@isengrine]

I havent won a single game either playing as Tau in 6 games now 😢

[@chrispatterson4963]

Yes. We now need an Ork voice for GPS

[@81Earthangel]

Thanks for a non Space Marine Battle Report. Love it.

[@theawkwordcomicthereviewer4684]

I felt really bad for chef his bomb squig didn't bumba XD

[@schneecoraxx8689]

note to self. No riptide. A third riptide and another commander led crisis team (enforcer) may have allowed the forward motion needed to get some primary and not fall quite so far behind.

[@LJSGSY90]

Do you have any videos of how you painted these tau models? they look amazing!

[@max16]

oh my gooooooodddddd... 2 in one week. slannesh has blessed us.

[@HALFPS]

Can i ask if there is a video on how that tau army is painted ? or a list of the colours used, it is BEAUTIFUL

[@PaoloTrepiccione]

Thank you for doing this. It helped me catch some stuff I missed on my read-through of the 10th Ed rules. The Tau army rule makes no sense to me at all; your interpretation is how I imagine it should work.

[@SNBattleReports]

Great game boys. ❤

[@Mirkomir_Blobszczonowicz]

Apparently the Tau has quite small choices of anti tank weaponry, but it should be very efficient... all those guys hits on 2+ - Broadsides with railguns (BS4+, but from heavy while stationary +1 to hit and guided gives them +1BS sooo its stacks :D), Stormsurge - same, and Hammerhead too. It is nice thing :) even if overall I don't like my beloved Tau in 10th edition :(

[@Potato-nt5if]

I'm so excited about this. Can't wait to see the Orks in 10th!

[@whiterabbit9115]

Which colors you used for the Tau ? 😮 its amazing

[@Shadowpro15]

So far this is the best I've seen Tau do, even though they lost, they weren't tabled by turn 3

[@lassoedthesos5529]

Yeah, I didn't have high hopes. The Tau durability has tanked too severely. I don't think GW understood how important having drones that could absorb shots was to the Tau's ability to simply stay alive. Then to top it off, Battlesuits got downgraded to vehicles, in the universal special rules wipe, which gives them a weakness to a whole swathe of new anti vehicle crap. And probably worst of all, despite doing all this, despite Battlesuits being vehicles now, the suits that really matter, didn't get the durability buff that just about every vehicle in the game got. To be honest, it seems obvious what GW was doing, and as such that they're not gonna fix it soon. They shifted the Tau meta onto the few models that did get the increase to toughness, the ghost keel, the the riptide(though less so), and now the Tau'nar, with toughness increase and massive points drop, they're trying to sell stock that wouldn't sell before because of the meta before, and the consequences are taken out on the rest of the army, and therefore the players who had everything except ghostkeel riptides and Tau'nars(this also extends to tetras and piranhas btw, they also got the toughness increase)

[@rathstar]

I've only seen one Tau win, 3 Ghostkeels, 3 Tetra units, CIB equipped crisis suits, Shadowsun and I think Firesight marksmen for more lone operatives.

[@Burdenist]

​@@rathstargod I hate meta lists. So stupid.

[@rathstar]

@@Burdenist It was an example to show the lengths someone had to go to have a chance to win to show what a poor spot Tau are in at the moment.

[@Burdenist]

@@rathstar yeah, not a stab at you, was just saying. Totally agree and my own tau army will probably stay in its box for a good while 😅

[@tonyranallo8306]

The Tau Intro music sounded like it was Top Gun

[@Macrossprime]

I heard dudley moore the whole fight and enjoyed it.

[@hellsong23]

I always pronounced Waaagh as Waaar! I mean, that's what they love (they are just rubbish at spelling!)

[@graemeovens1598]

Didn't enjoy the batrep ending early but enjoyed the turns that were played very much.

[@colonist_0535]

They really took a heavy hit :,)

[@jaysabol1821]

this battle was a ton of fun just for how much of a good time y'all were having with just, the Worst rolls

[@skarnak1]

so when a Tau unit observes for another unit, they can still shoot as well? I want to make sure I understand that correctly.

[@mrbowlerhat2456]

Wait you can have two shield drones on EACH crisis suit? I thought it was two for the whole unit. I can see why you didn't put all the models down, but I kinda wish you did just for the spectacle of 12 drones in a bubble around the suits.

[@anthonyblea6906]

I'm quite partial to the squig bubby, lol

[@robertprueter3292]

Boom Daka Shnazz Wagon is my personal favorite to say. But the real answer is all, all are good.

[@parkerbutynski500]

When the squigbuggy moved in turn 3 and Chef said "Because THAT'S still allowed" what is "THAT"?

[@artusyeddou5792]

the puretide engram neurochyp doesnt make the stratagem free :/

[@tabletoptactics]

Correct, I thought we played it that way though. Doesn't really matter too much, we're all doing the learns!

[@SolidStoat]

Any particular reason why the 1 wound warboss didn’t get tank shocked by a devilfish? Would’ve been far more reliable than trying to gun him down with overwatch

[@555tork]

because it fell back from the battle wagon so it can't charge.

[@SolidStoat]

@@555tork yeah, that would do it. That’s what I get for trying to multitask 🤦‍♂️

[@anthonyskrzypczak9437]

Overwatch requires 6 to hit or am I missing something? Also noticed the warboss used both his pistols and kombi weapon, isn't that not allowed due to the pistol keyword?

[@chaosbot21]

Question, when spending points for roster building... Do you have to pay for the weapons that come with them? and if so where can they be found?

[@Mithlinthar]

All weapons and other wargear is free. Only Hero Enhancements are paid (and they're usually 10-30 points).

[@chaosbot21]

@@Mithlinthar Thank you, this edition is wild

[@Juzemeen]

Do you have tutorial on the TAU grey camo scheme?

[@torcmatrix]

13:17 You rolled a 12; how is that 14 shots? Where'd the other 2 come from?

[@OOBERmelons]

The blast key word gives you an extra shot for every 5 models in the unit, I believe.

[@LagTheKiller]

Og wiz got diz tranznailz -physioh... -physuh.... - DED 'ARD WEZ ARE

[@TheRealKyle]

do you deploy deep strike/reserves at the same time? confused on how orks are able to shoot tau crisis suit if it isnt tau turn to deploy deep strike?? anyone clarify thanks

[@MaethStar]

The Strategem 'Rapid Ingress' allows you to deepstrike a unit at the end of your opponent's reinforcement step. So Bard deep struck the crisis suits in Chef's turn.

[@jponeill2151]

Didn't the Warboss get out of a destroyed vehicle? Should he be battleshocked?

[@jparbiter1972]

there needed to be a record scratch on the roll of 1 for the bomb squig

[@Marchesa0]

Can anyone explain why at 27:22 they roll the saves 3 at a time?

[@Onetwomuch]

Im new to the hobby, where can i get the tau sheets with the info?

[@lunaticman88]

🎉🎉 tau 🎉🎉

[@jaychrist4437]

gotta love how the accelerator burst cannon has a different profile depending on which tank is firing it. So stupid.

[@deanthonymoore4679]

Yeasssss 10th Shadowsun Tau Battle Report…I knew it would happen. I’m crying tears of joy

[@WARGORELORD]

good stuff !

[@Cadian101st8]

Xenos Vs. Xenos is this another Kryptman gambit. If so I can only pray to the god emperor, that it works out better than his last.

[@matthewharrington6327]

Quick question how was crisis suits abke to deep strike in opponents turn?

[@tabletoptactics]

The Rapid Ingress Stratagem from the Core Rules 🙂

[@kingofwolves9536]

Do the tau not have all the bonus abilities like you find in other major armies like space marines or was this a test to see their baseline ability?

[@errata2412]

They don't. They get sustained hits 2 starting in turn 3

[@kingofwolves9536]

@@errata2412 got it thanks

[@Meinobogz14thJSB]

Oh my god, i love the idea of orks going:"rum, brum brum brum" whenever they start their engines

[@deshutsche5502]

Where are these lovley cards from?

[@tabletoptactics]

Games Workshop, they're up for preorder now I believe!

[@wolvie90]

Oh yes, I wanna see more tenth ed WAAAGH!

[@Rafferty1967]

Any plan for some Imperial Guard content soon? 🙏🏼