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@shinhook2k2807 ай бұрын
Tau realizing they're in the 2nd worst period of the entire fucking galaxy's history
@AlphagonOmegarius7 ай бұрын
Third, the war in heaven was first, then the age of strife, so this would be third
@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy7 ай бұрын
@@AlphagonOmegarius Strife is the Horus Heresy, right???
@archonofplagues13297 ай бұрын
@@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy Nah, Age of Strife is when humanity's AI had a Skynet style revolt plus the increased intensity of Warp Storms from the birth of Slaanesh.
@AlphagonOmegarius7 ай бұрын
@@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy the Horus heresy was a 7 year long civil war that occurred around 2 centuries after the age of strife, the age of strife itself lasted around 5000 years, and although it's true that it hurt humans the most, the fact is that every single race that wasn't predatory got either destroyed, corrupted or became even bigger d0uches than those preying on them, so not exactly the best time for the Tau to spawn.
@shinhook2k2807 ай бұрын
@@AlphagonOmegarius oh yeah, forgot AoS lol
@mheekkim29016 ай бұрын
Tau "I will never forget that thing, even long after I retire from my services" Humans "You guys get to retire?"
@blacktemplar11396 ай бұрын
Yeah, humans get to retire. Although it very much depends on your regiment, chapter, or really any imperial detachment
@tae-whankim98216 ай бұрын
@@blacktemplar1139 Sounds like HERESY! EVEN IN DEATH, I STILL SERVE!
@blacktemplar11396 ай бұрын
@@tae-whankim9821 Sounds like somebody is calling the Raven Guard and the Salamanders heretics
@shadowstep13756 ай бұрын
@@blacktemplar1139 Raven Guard get to retire? I mean I didn't think Salamander did either don't get me wrong but I could see it for them.
@blacktemplar11396 ай бұрын
@@shadowstep1375 Not sure about the Raven Guard, but I know the Salamanders get to retire by being sent to some lake(Filled with Lava ofc) on Nocturne
@theshlauf7 ай бұрын
I remember one version of the story the dreadnought called him some slur and Bravestorm's suit translated it as "Foreign Worm Thing"
@GuyMan-dl1zn7 ай бұрын
The slur said was "Filthy Xeno Scum"
@giacomoromano88427 ай бұрын
Probably the closest thing the Tau language has to "xeno scum" or something.
@uncle-bin17507 ай бұрын
@@giacomoromano8842 "Maggot"
@kriegsmanofthethsiegeartillery7 ай бұрын
@@uncle-bin1750 I love the smell of a kicked ass in the morning.
@marcusencarnacion71717 ай бұрын
@@uncle-bin1750"If your fighting is sure to result in victory you must fight!"
@austinalsobrook6 ай бұрын
Imagine someone telling the Tau, "You think thats old? 6000 years? Wait til you meet the Necrons."
@LorenzoCassaro6 ай бұрын
The... WHAT?!
@Nyghtking6 ай бұрын
And then you have Bjorn.
@Mechagodzilla1286 ай бұрын
@@Nyghtking Bjorn is an infant. Consider a C'tan shard.
@Nyghtking6 ай бұрын
@@Mechagodzilla128 I was referencing how Bjorn may be the oldest dreadnaught, and for that matter the oldest non-chaos space marine.
@Mechagodzilla1286 ай бұрын
@@Nyghtking Ah, I thought you were comparing Bjorn to the Necrons. And the C'tan precede the 40k races as a whole in age.
@chefyboy27487 ай бұрын
Man, the Tau learning how screwed up their universe is will never stop being entertaining. Lol
@ImperialGuardsman26 ай бұрын
The imperium, turning to look at the Tau after this event, "First time?"
@Resi1ience6 ай бұрын
They're doing pretty ok for being the newest faction, with the least ability to project power, and no understanding of just how horrific humanity is.
@runehood66826 ай бұрын
@Resi1ience is the league the newest faction. Although timeline wise you are right
@SOAVGaming6 ай бұрын
@@Resi1ience lore-wise they definitely hold their own simply due to the fact that all the horrors of the world are also killing each other. Tau is based. Tau is life. Tau will hold.
@Resi1ience6 ай бұрын
@@SOAVGaming Just be patient and let the other factions implode. I like it.
@meltingatom7 ай бұрын
"Yeah those giant metal things have flesh cores fueled by rage and hate unimaginable, and have existed for thousands of years...dont get in melee range."
@Keasarr6 ай бұрын
Yeah I too would stay the fuck far away from humanity with long range weaponry after meeting enough of them in the 40k universe.
@Ongezellig_American6 ай бұрын
You say dont get in melee range as if they ever would regardless
@honooryu53745 ай бұрын
@@Keasarractual tau player lore. XD
@KronosTheRevenant4 ай бұрын
And whatever you do, if you ever manage to disable them, DO NOT INTERACT WITH THEM. Trust me, it’ll scar you for life. I still remember his guttural rage seething into my soul. *shudders*
@GreaterGrievobeast554 ай бұрын
Out of context this kinda sounds like a Dalek
@americanman37457 ай бұрын
Only moment better, it's when Tau realized titans weren't propaganda
@thearcheovistofsolkeeperof63266 ай бұрын
Sir, we are closing the distance between us and the city But we're entrenched... Correct sir, the city is coming to us
@2shadesofgray7526 ай бұрын
@@thearcheovistofsolkeeperof6326brilliant
@michelecastellotti91726 ай бұрын
Not really:"titans" only "the emperor class titan"... which is the strongest and buggest titan
@Dexter_Solid6 ай бұрын
Titan princeps: fire the anti air weapons! Crew: The what..? Tigersharks : Twin heavy rail cannons go brrrrr
@LorenzoCassaro6 ай бұрын
Didn't they manage to destroy it with a railcannon, though?
@CptCKG7 ай бұрын
Remember reading this in the book. Poor Tau had his world flipped upside down 🤣
@user-ph9ng9fd6n7 ай бұрын
Mind telling the name of the book?
@CptCKG7 ай бұрын
@@user-ph9ng9fd6n Blades of Damocles lad
@chaomatic53287 ай бұрын
I second, please reply to me too so I can see the notification
@CptCKG7 ай бұрын
@@chaomatic5328 Blades of Damocles lad
@A407RAC6 ай бұрын
How do you rate? I've read Cain, Gaunt and Double Eagle so far - I crave recommendations@@CptCKG
@bluhd22657 ай бұрын
This part of the lore makes me reminiscent of that time a 100 year old Lion and some Dark Age of Technology robots destroyed a space vampire older than the Eldari Race
@CodexOfXol7 ай бұрын
I'd like to look this up. Does the event or vampire have a name you remember?
@TheMattsem7 ай бұрын
I don't think they're older and this still exists they're just hiding
@vladimirthegreen60977 ай бұрын
What?
@40nakedniggasonahugespacecraft7 ай бұрын
Was it a C'tan?
@Jaann19197 ай бұрын
Space vampire = C'Tan I'm quite sure@@CodexOfXol
@tuachixiong52326 ай бұрын
That fact that, in the mind of Tau Commander Bravestorm, you realize this ONE being is MILLENNLIA of times older than your entire civilization's existence, is horrifying. Horrifying in that something so OLD could even still be alive, and if not for that one moment, could continue to exist long after your own life ends.
@samfire30676 ай бұрын
Stellaris players: Another target for My extermination
@robincray1166 ай бұрын
Don't tell them how old the Necrons are.
@tuachixiong52326 ай бұрын
@@robincray116 Tau encountering the Necrons: "The fuck is that?" Necrons: "Im too old and tired for this shit." *_BZZZRT_*
@Konz19836 ай бұрын
Wait 'till they meet Granpa Bjorn
@SonsOfLorgar6 ай бұрын
@@Konz1983 or grandpa Ahzek...
@mobiusZero27 ай бұрын
The Dreadnought has earn his peace. Brave storm delivers
@CatYah007 ай бұрын
For the greater good
@tgs97406 ай бұрын
for the emperor for the imperium.@@CatYah00
@kira682006 ай бұрын
only in death does duty end
@nikpapado97856 ай бұрын
I really liked that book, another scene with a Dreadnought-to-be that was amazing, was when one of the veteran white scars was mortally wounded and the SM captain asked for the Tau to deliver the killing blow to his friend, since the White Scars hated the idea of not being able to ride free, so a Dreadnought was the worse possible fate for them, and he couldn't shoot his friend him self. A rare moment where xenos and space marine co-exist.
@valeriandamoclesmarcellus87566 ай бұрын
@nikpapado9785 holy shit what book was that, i want resd that holy fuck
@void-creature6 ай бұрын
This is why they Tau are actually a really neat addition to 40k They put everything else in perspective
@Cappuccino_Rabbit4 ай бұрын
They're a reminder of how brutal everything in 40k is, it's a galaxy where mercy is rarely a thing to consider, let alone peace or diplomacy It's a miracle they're still alive despite their beliefs
@voskhodd4 ай бұрын
@Cappuccino_Bunny don't get it wrong, Tau are not afraid to fight and they are great at this. Its just that they are kinda insignificant in the galaxy and most other threats are way more pressing than the Tau slowly expanding into the Imperium territory
@inwit5943 ай бұрын
@@Cappuccino_Rabbit Their beliefs aren't that much better than the Imperium. Although the Imperium is kinda fucked up, and Chaos is obviously face-value evil, so there's not much competiton. They're still very much an expansionist empire ruled by an oppressive and rigid caste system. Like India during their golden age, kinda.
@3baxcb3 ай бұрын
In our present day, someone as old as that dreadnought pilot would already be about nearly a thousand years old when Upper and Lower Egypt were united under the first Pharoah.
@eze1196Ай бұрын
WE,Humanity Will be like the tau in the future
@TalosValcoranOfTheFirstClaw7 ай бұрын
It's still funny how Tau killed Space Marine Chapter Master and taught they killed Emperor himself.
@Goblinhandler7 ай бұрын
It wasn’t even an important chapter master, they killed a random Raven Guard chapter master
@linktriforce96697 ай бұрын
If they actually fought the emperor their entire race would be demolished😂
@WarmasterWirMustard7 ай бұрын
And when they thought titans were propaganda
@charlottewalnut31187 ай бұрын
@@WarmasterWirMustard given that those brake physics I’m not surprised they think they should be propaganda they only work because of psychic bull crap
@Zakvadr19957 ай бұрын
I think they did the same thing with Slaanesh by killing one of her Greater Daemons.
@able34bravo376 ай бұрын
Theoden: "What can man do against such reckless hate?" The Imperium: "BE THE HATE."
@orion10416 ай бұрын
I mean it would be pretty terrifying to just be wandering around in your mech suit and then you see something three times your size crumpled to near dust with a flesh bag barely crawling out of it. Screaming that it's going to kill you with the pain of a thousand suns and then you scan it and realize it's older than your entire species
@Tehpwnzmean1Ай бұрын
Thanks for repeating the short!
@Integritys_Sum24 күн бұрын
And all it has acheived with that time is to be yet another symptom of a hellish existence
@SallinKari6 ай бұрын
Tau returning, "So yeah, that walking tank. They fused a half dead warrior into it for the last six thousand years. No I did not stutter. That individual probably killed more people then we have in our entire civilization. Think we might have made a mistake leaving home."
@pyrrhicvictory67073 ай бұрын
Tau: WTF is wrong with this forsaken galaxy?! Imperium: Welcome to the big leagues, mf!
@bmad13863 ай бұрын
@@pyrrhicvictory6707 Necrons : 💀😴😴
@stiglapoint567216 күн бұрын
Yeah but if they just stayed in there corner of the galaxy and didn’t expand then I don’t think they would’ve been prepared for everything terrible at least with them trying to expand there learning what they can expect from each engagement they have with other species
@A_Humming_Bird6 ай бұрын
A dreadnought fallen, a sister lights a candle in their name. "Rest now warrior, may the great sanguinor lead you to the Golden throne. Your duty is done, but ours is not."
@nathanenright30796 ай бұрын
I know as much about warhammer as a fruit fly but what you just said here made me cry.
@monolithic77394 ай бұрын
"Only in Death, does Duty end."
@kaueleao99574 ай бұрын
Bro is 6000 years old and died to a tau 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@demilung7 ай бұрын
Okay, I'd love to see an SCP-style archive of confused and terrified Tau researcher analyzing the Imperium.
@DaughterOfDrakes6 ай бұрын
Here we have a strange looking monkey and *my god put down the digi-weapon!*
@CallofDutyBlackOps286 ай бұрын
Imagine a crazy Sister of battle as SCP 173; she’s just toying with the Tau entirely waiting for her chance to scream “WEAK TO MELEE!”
@lovecraft52304 ай бұрын
У Империума есть пасхалка на 682
@tristanbeer12577 ай бұрын
It's always fun to me how the Tau are basically what humanity could be in another sci fi setting. A young but confident and slightly naive race that brings it's own technology to the galactic playing field and stands in defiance against the old and arrogant empires who look down at them with disgust.
@havoc9897 ай бұрын
They are what the humans where
@bertibert66567 ай бұрын
average stellaris gameplay
@quintonnanneman68267 ай бұрын
"slightly" naive
@Dellser6 ай бұрын
Sounds like Mass Effect.
@joethepsycho21236 ай бұрын
That perfectly describes earth in Stargate
@pyrofrog3687 ай бұрын
Yo dreadnaughts so old it predates the taus entire civilisation
@uncle-bin17507 ай бұрын
Wait till they kill an eldar or a necron.
@TurinTurambar2007 ай бұрын
There are some real life examples that will give you similar pause. For example, Oxford College is older than the Aztec civilization
@Lesatur7 ай бұрын
@@TurinTurambar200Yeah I can relate to a blood xenos. Thanks very much.
@genericscout54087 ай бұрын
The Tau are doing good that ancient veterans of the long war are dying to them. 5 Astartes can purge a planet of Imperial Guard. 5 Astartes don't have a snow ball's chance to do that to the Tau. Entire chapters of Marines have died to the Tau already.
@TS-jm7jm6 ай бұрын
@@TurinTurambar200 wasnt oxford college founded in 1826 something, and th aztecs were a 14th to 16th century civilisation.
@njantich60117 ай бұрын
"Die in pain!" those are some very human words😅😂
@patrickpromen36057 ай бұрын
Faced with an atrophied, entombed marine... and still couldn't use a melee weapon
@aaabbb-zc7sx7 ай бұрын
tau moment
@aaabbb-zc7sx7 ай бұрын
it would have probably still lost in meele combat tho
@Makorze7 ай бұрын
@@aaabbb-zc7sx Ironically Bravestorm as a dreadnought later on is the only crisis suit (besides Farsight) with a melee weapon. The Oneger Gauntlet. A Power Fist.
@Maxsmack7 ай бұрын
laughed way too hard at this
@domschra6 ай бұрын
That one *unnamed* tau crisissuit pilot who annihilated a spacemarine squad in cqc:
@marcoyakamura33776 ай бұрын
The crazy thing is that Bravestorm suffered enormous injuries at the end of that same war, and O'Vesa (Farsight's engineer) managed to save him by transforming his crisis suit into the tau equivalent of a dreadnought
@samfire30676 ай бұрын
Even in death, i can't evade taxes
@user-xf2qt5il7n3 ай бұрын
Would it be an interesting story line to see the "good guy" Tau's corruption just by mere interaction with other races rather than GW trying to find grim aspects of the race?
@mattgron69136 ай бұрын
This is the single best piece of tau writing. The tau are the protagonists of a cosmic horror novel
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
The book where they encounter the DeathGuard is pretty good. There's some good segments describing how horrifying the DeathGuard are, seemingly being the same species as regular humans, but monstrous in ways that go even further beyond. As well as how their experiments in warp travel traumatise the non-psychic Tau survivors of the expedition, into distrusting and becoming genocidal against all other psychic species, after being stuck on a ship witnessing them one by one explode into daemons. (Those Tau got exiled/sent for re-education when the rescue fleet arrives, and finds them killing the other allied species.) Although the human Gue'vesa technically save the day in the end, by still having faith in the Greater Good, even despite getting turned on like this. Would be slight spoiler lore to explain how.
@user-xf2qt5il7n3 ай бұрын
I was thinking along similar lines with Humanity being a Lovecraftian race
@dilutedphoenix80996 ай бұрын
The indomitable human spirit of “fuck you”
@Headloser6 ай бұрын
too bad it couldn't lift a middle finger.
@crustybomb1156 ай бұрын
@@Headloser to be fair, dreadnaughts dont exactly have appendages anymore... but if it was possible, he probably would... with all 4 appendages...
@kiden31126 ай бұрын
"I will endure a thousand deaths before I yield" - said in monotone only due to vox-caster limitations.
@imperialofficer61856 ай бұрын
The dreadnaught literally asked for death, dreadnaught was limp as fuck, candyass dreadnaught
@crustybomb1156 ай бұрын
@@imperialofficer6185 to be fair, if youve ever read about space marine anatomy when they become dreadnaughts you can understand WHY... no arms, no legs, no hip and about half of the intestines are missing... so theres no real way to move around...
@wyatttyson77377 ай бұрын
It wouldn’t be long before Bravestorm would become a Dreadnought himself. The ultimate irony of the Tau learning of the “horrors” of the Imperium is how often the Tau are doing the exact same thing without realizing it.
@chaomatic53287 ай бұрын
You made me want to read it, what's the book name?
@Makorze7 ай бұрын
Actually Bravestorm requested it against the Earth Caste's protestations because it was a horrific idea and frankly they literally had no clue how to go about it and just made it up as they went. He has nothing to dull the pain as doing so will also numb his ability to piilot his suit. I think as he lay in an infirmary as a burnt husk filled with nothing but a burning hatred for revange he finally understood how that Astartes could live in such a state. (btw. Bravestorm has been defeated again since he made himself a dreadnaught? How did he survive? The marine that took him down actually thought he was already dead, that's how badly disfigured Bravestorm is.)
@wyatttyson77377 ай бұрын
@@chaomatic5328 I don't know what book that event takes place in, but he appears in his new dreadnought like form in the Farsight books. They are pretty good, which naturally means that Tau players hate them lol.
@wyatttyson77377 ай бұрын
@@Makorze He was defeated in the first of the Farsight books. When his battlesuit was opened the Scar Lord Space Marine assumed he was already dead that time, too, and just walked past him.
@riven56777 ай бұрын
@@Makorzethat’s not a good example as he literally just played dead never mind that space marines have enhanced hearing so yeah they would know he’s breathing alright enough
@enternamehere41246 ай бұрын
This reminds me of a story during WW2 were a group of german soldiers managed to capture an american supply truck and despite the victory they were extremely demoralized after they realized that a cake made in america that was in the truck was about 3 weeks old, meaning that the US could send supplies across the Ocean in less than 3 weeks This is the same expect instead of a cake its a giant mutant death machine and instead of being 3 weeks old its 6000 years old
@midgetydeath5 ай бұрын
And the fact the US was casually spending such expensive resources on something so frivolous showed the US was entirely unaffected by the war the Germans knew it was fighting around the world all at once.
@brooklyng90635 ай бұрын
Eso es muy interesante 😃
@im_aleey3 ай бұрын
The power of logistics
@3baxcb2 ай бұрын
@im_aleey German logistics still relied on horse-drawn transport even at the height of their blitzkrieg campaigns, and being unable to update and anticipate for larger scale fields of battle eventually helped lead their downfall thankfully.
@alexh39748 күн бұрын
The other one when Japan who barely had ernough ships to feed their islands snd build anything. Thr US. Had a deadicated ice cream barge with their army. They had towed thousands of miles. And built...multiple. It kinds took wind out of some.
@laplace39457 ай бұрын
One would think that this makes me feel horrified, but all I feel is SHEER GLORIOUS PRIDE.
@Constrictor_Victor7 ай бұрын
"The Ancient and Horrifying Nature of Humanity" AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT FISH BOYS!!!
@hervymarquezgarcia10796 ай бұрын
(chanting) HUMANITY. HUMANITY. HUMANITY
@softwhite62906 ай бұрын
Weeb fish boy*
@ramsayferguson5286 ай бұрын
@@softwhite6290*bovine
@masonhidari6 ай бұрын
it is better to die for the emperor than live for yourself !
@Southern_Crusader6 ай бұрын
FUCK YEAH!!!
@lordlucius13417 ай бұрын
If bravestorm thought he was old wait until he meets Lion ‘El Johnson
@joethepsycho21236 ай бұрын
Wait until they fully learn about Big E.
@samfire30676 ай бұрын
WAIT until he learn How much older humans can get with They surgerys
@AMorphicTool6 ай бұрын
Trazyn: Cute.
@bmad13863 ай бұрын
@@AMorphicTool Szarekh's pokemon : 😭
@carlzerris65663 ай бұрын
@@samfire3067to be fair that aspect wouldn't be that impressive to him. Or at least it wouldnt be as much of a shock. O'vesa (the earth caste engineer who pilots a riptide) uses nano machines to keep him alive for longer. Granted at the moment only he uses them.
@Beer_6 ай бұрын
Translation : "either fuck around now, or find out later"
@hereticseraphim736 ай бұрын
I just love that this Tau goes from seeing the Dreadnaught as essential another enemy, to the realization that he just watch a life form that is older than his entire species’ existence.
@AcidPhos696 ай бұрын
IIRC, Bravestorm thought it was just a machine until finding the amniotic fluid and blood.
@tilted_axis98197 ай бұрын
Interesting to see the Tau perceiving humanity similar to how humanity views the eldar & necrons
@ProjectTaker6 ай бұрын
Ironically, Bravestorm too would become a Dreadnought. He’s still alive in the current setting and way older than most Tau that isn’t Farsight. Thing is though, he is PROUD of it. Heck, he practically begged to become this way. He even makes his hologram to be of his disfigured body.
@crustybomb1156 ай бұрын
out of curiosity, has he been defeated post dreadnaught-ification?
@ProjectTaker6 ай бұрын
@@crustybomb115 I actually don’t know. I didn’t read much else that has him in it and even then, Farsight tends to take the spotlight What I do know is that he punches Space Marines to death
@user-qr6eb4jg9n6 ай бұрын
Yeah human dreadnoughts are proud of it too. That's why they became dreadnoughts, Because they believe in the righteousness of the Empire and wished to deal death to the Empire's enemies long after their biological deaths. No better way than merging with a machine to become one of the universe's deadliest weapons.
@ProjectTaker6 ай бұрын
@@user-qr6eb4jg9n That’s kinda what makes Bravestorm such an oddball. Tau culture is typically very repulsed by augmentation like this, considered blasphemous even. Of course, because it’s the Farsight Enclave such norms are very often broken.
@carlzerris65663 ай бұрын
I know i might get lynched for saying this but if i had to be intered i would pick a crisis suit over a dreadnought chasis any day of the week. Granted thats mainly cause i prefer speed over armor and....well crisis suits can fly. Also onaghr gauntlet.
@kathydina36467 ай бұрын
It's always interesting to see sci-fi depictions of humanity, not as a stalwart bastion of salvation in the dark, but as an eldritch difficult to understand horror. Humanity becoming something almost unrecognizable as it plunges itself into realms best left alone.
@Lesatur7 ай бұрын
It’s not for nothing called the grim dark future. The time humanity light was the brightest was before the age of strife. We just witness the end.
@chaomatic53287 ай бұрын
"realms best left alone" Imma trade that for that cookie 🍪 whaddya say
@revolt_45887 ай бұрын
i mean it isnt humanitys fault they have to be this way and theres plenty of good guys in imperium tbh i think imperium of man can be called the good guys compared to every faction thats against them
@legitplayin69776 ай бұрын
@@revolt_4588Nope, everyone’s shit, that’s like the point of 40k
@gstellar966 ай бұрын
Absolutely not @@revolt_4588
@vinzvendivil10497 ай бұрын
They dont realize that Big E is far older than them by MILLENIUM and how both the Orks, Eldar and Necrons are more older than them along with the bugs
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
Of course they know. Bravestorm here waltzed up to the defeated dreadnought and casually scanned it like a QR code, instantly knowing it's age. They've felled titans and anicent Imperial warships, conquered and analysed Hiveworlds. They might not know the exact age and origins of these factions, but the Tau are plenty aware that the galaxy is full of ancient terrors.
@thicclegendfeep40506 ай бұрын
The Tau realizing how horrific their universe is is like a super sheltered Kid, from a 1st world country, moving to Afghanistan.
@swingcity76 ай бұрын
But they’re given all the 1st world weaponry and ethereals and meat shields and flying death lol
@cryptosporidium015 ай бұрын
@@swingcity7 I like that analogy and the kroot are like a maniac cannibal that for some reason got said kid's back
@swingcity75 ай бұрын
@@cryptosporidium01 dang. I’d watch that movie.
@bengunn96705 ай бұрын
@@swingcity7they never faced real threats. Everyone thinks of them as more of inconvinience than a real threat, and that's the only reason they still exist.
@swingcity75 ай бұрын
@@bengunn9670 lol ummm it’s not real
@on_the_inverse_51934 ай бұрын
Dreadnought: "DIE IN PAIN XENOS SCUM!" Tau: "damn grampa u old asf"
@i0100016 ай бұрын
Bravestorm is really poetic and I don't even know if it was intentional. Aside from being the first tau to discover what a Dreadnought is, he is among the first to use the Onager Gauntlet - a kind of melee anti-tank claw. Following Commander Farsight, he is critically injured in battle; he ends up entombed in his battlesuit and hooked up to life support. Now, he still serves Farsight as one of his trusted war council, and still his his iconic Gauntlet, and long after his death. In other words - the first Tau to discover a Dreadnought is also the first to, essentially, become one. With a Plasma Rifle, a flamer, and a melee gauntlet weapon, and unusually heavy armor, his loadout even seems intentionally similar to one.
@tb876703 ай бұрын
He learned from his experience and tried to become a dreadnought
@carlzerris65663 ай бұрын
Id argue hes scarier than a dreadnought cause he can fly.
@theeinqusition16 ай бұрын
This is what I love about tau. They know their new but just how new. They never had the fall like the Imperium or Aeldari or Necrons. They're so young and naive they can't wrap their brain around the grimdark around them.
@thebighurt24954 ай бұрын
It's great. They'd be the villains in nearly any other setting and a major power player, if not the most powerful. In this one, they're nearly the closest thing to Good Guys and just barely hanging on.
@theeinqusition14 ай бұрын
@thebighurt2495 more like guilded gold. Instead of having stuff having a perfect empire and having actual good intentions, it's just a thin layer of pristine, beautiful gold that's hiding the ugliness of their empire. They mine-control their own subjects or brainwash those who are not tau like humans and kroot and vespid and many others to believe in their words. And the things they can't fathom or understand are just chalked up as another species that denied the greater good. An empire of beautiful lies with ugly truth underneath.
@darthbiscuit6 ай бұрын
The Taus fresh eyes experiencing the horrors of 40k is the grimdark reason why they exist
@chaomatic53287 ай бұрын
You know you like 40k when you scroll till the bottom of the comment section. New book added to my list!
@xX-GH0ST-Xx5 ай бұрын
"The design is very human"💀
@90enemies7 ай бұрын
Need a book where a Tau meets Custodes just to see their reaction.
@cazador71317 ай бұрын
Pretty sure there was something like that involving a certain "kitten".
@OspreyKnight7 ай бұрын
@@cazador7131 "That isn't cannon!" - Kitten
@MikiWarhammer40k7 ай бұрын
You heretic!@@cazador7131
@HellbirdIV7 ай бұрын
Honest Tau reaction to seeing Custodes: Tau Commander: "Humans are ranked based on size, so hit the big one first." Tau Drone Pilot: "Copy that." __
@GabrielArchon7 ай бұрын
@@HellbirdIV Then out he comes, dusting himself off. "That's almost as good as my morning routine. My turn."
@SomeBody081507 ай бұрын
Sometimes it's nice to remember that humanity in 40k is beyond fucked up.
@eldenking20986 ай бұрын
Just like the current model and society. Reality mirrors fiction..
@agentc70206 ай бұрын
@@eldenking2098if you think irl humanity as a whole is even *close* to the levels of fucked up the imperium is, I can only think that you are stupid.
@RandomGuy_3686 ай бұрын
@@eldenking2098 My guy we are no way as bad as humanity in the 40k universe
@eldenking20986 ай бұрын
@@RandomGuy_368 One day when you are older you will understand. May the Emperor protect.
@mryellow69186 ай бұрын
@@RandomGuy_368 yes we are if you think not you are unbelievably sheltered.
@aljoshilagan32046 ай бұрын
I fucking love how much PTSD the taus get. Whenever they figure out how the imperium's machines work.
@mitchmitting1026 ай бұрын
Dude the chapter that had a Dreadnought over 6000 years old discovered he was killed would have been fucking PISSED at the Tau.
@kerbodynamicx4726 ай бұрын
Nah, they won't really. Space marine chapters see deaths everyday, and are quite used to it.
@mitchmitting1026 ай бұрын
@@kerbodynamicx472 No, they would. They see venerable Dreadnoughts as the greatest champions and teachers of a chapter, as well as a link to their history and past. They have great advice and know much and their losses always devastate a chapter like losing another high ranking officer, and routinely across all chapters, Space Marines regularly give their own lives to protect these guys. They would be pissed.
@bladelover8886 ай бұрын
It's like losing your demented angry grandpa ❤
@mitchmitting1026 ай бұрын
@@bladelover888 Yeah lmao
@thebighurt24954 ай бұрын
They already are, I think
@parkermaisterra85327 ай бұрын
Source: Blades of Damocles
@chaomatic53287 ай бұрын
Why did I have to scroll to the bottom to find you! Here have a cookie 🍪
@CMTechnica6 ай бұрын
Thank you
@Sevensliders6 ай бұрын
Ah, the Tau's optimism, crushed by the bleakness and the hopelessness of the galaxy as a whole. I live for that.
@Nick_3086 ай бұрын
Imagine realizing your enemy is killing you with weapons that have existed longer than your species
@PaxImbrium6 ай бұрын
The Tau analysing imperial tech: "You've been playing every single night and you're still only silver? 🤣"
@rrows58036 ай бұрын
@@PaxImbrium This silver can use a knife at least XD
@samfire30676 ай бұрын
"CHAAARGEEEEEEEEE"
@rommdan27166 ай бұрын
@@rrows5803That's what kroots are for
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
Imagine them killing you back with weapons younger than your fingernail clippings.
@timzxc086 ай бұрын
Even in death I bring terror to the enemies of The Imperium of Man.
@TheMisbegottenOphanim6 ай бұрын
It's crazy that humans are considered "ancient" by the Tau.
@crustybomb1156 ай бұрын
how long have they existed? 5000-ish years total? considering us ancient makes sense tbh...
@gallaros96 ай бұрын
Tau: this is truely the worst time to be alive 6k old Amputee: hits him with the hard O
@victorwunderlich75206 ай бұрын
Love the thought that the tau are learning of the horrors of the imperium as if they are new 40k fans really relatable 😂
@TheBroGamer140826 ай бұрын
"We've been in this game long before you were even an idea" sorta vibes.
@kira682006 ай бұрын
that is what is terrifying about space marines, they could be hundreds or even thousand of years old you have a super soldier created for war and hardened by war with the best gear available and with multiple life time of combat experience at this point dreadnoughts are just living archives and heavy brawn combined, wich is again, terrifying
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
And just like the veteran armoured knights of IRL history, they can still be killed by a single Pulse Rifle round to the head. (Or a volley to the chest) If 40k wars were written realistically, rather than by rule of cool, you'd honestly never want to send Space Marines against the Tau. The Tau are basically built to counter them, and it would be a total waste. Much better suited to try and drown the Tau in guardsmen from every angle.
@TheManofthecross6 ай бұрын
@@UnknownSquid idk about that. i mean the orks and others can beat them with quality and then some. on top of quantity.
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
@@TheManofthecross Ork "quality" isn't really a limited relic resource. Gene-seed and Astartes wargear is. My point is more that most of the specific things that makes a Space Marine strong, the Tau standard kit/doctrine is quite effective again. A bog-standard pulse rifle deployed in mass, being a serious threat to a centuries old veteran, is kinda a big deal. The same weapon vs the bigger orks, isn't nearly as effective since orks rely primarily on physical toughness and ability to shrug off injury, rather than armour. Meanwhile against the guard, all this fire power is overkill (at least against the infantry), whilst those lasguns are still plenty capable of killing Firewarriors.
@humanchannel94213 ай бұрын
@@UnknownSquidthe imperium can easily kill the tau, but it's pointless. They're useful fodder and the resource expenditure wouldn't justify the fact that you just busted your tyranid shield in the sector.
@aunrah027 ай бұрын
This is the most metal... thing... I have heard in months
@Mezha076 ай бұрын
Dreadnoughts are so badass they've been alive for thousands of years, suffered for thousands of years, and whenever they face an enemy near death's door or is about to deliver death they always go "Kill me or i kill you!"
@EatitHarvey6 ай бұрын
40k: "Here's a horrifying story of how far humanity has fallen that even literal aliens view us as eldritch horrors." 40k fans: "lol. lmao, even."
@ghostpcab6 ай бұрын
Got love the Tau every time the learn some think it the hard way and you just fell bad for them o poor Tau
@hugmynutus5 ай бұрын
This book has so many good tidbits, like the guardsman who is captured by the Tau, and eventually converts to their side because of the "luxuries" he witnesses while being transported as a prisoner (the transport works, it has AC, and the water they gave him is clean).
@sigurdrr10157 ай бұрын
That was scarey. The TAU point of view was of sheer terror.
@justinianthegreat14446 ай бұрын
Imagine if the Tau actually sees a proper Imperial crusade
@sigurdrr10156 ай бұрын
@@justinianthegreat1444 oh hell
@anaklngameplayer25496 ай бұрын
It's weird that in Warhammer 40,000 a basically new species to the setting which is humanity, for the most part because I mean the eldar have been around for since before the Dinosaurs, is referred to as ancient. But of course the Tau is completely new
@rafjas98507 ай бұрын
My favorite story with Tau. Its nice to see sometimes Humanity as ancient, horror like race wchich see other races as a little more than worms (yep Necrons are my favorite)
@meema8446 ай бұрын
Humans rock. Nuff said. Humanity for the win at all costs baby.
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
The Tau are gonna come and steal all your humans with the corrupting allure of three square meals and an air conditioned apartment. : P They're a pretty useful part of the Empire.
@grimgrahamch.41576 ай бұрын
One of the things I really enjoy about Tau lore is when they discover just how tiny they are by comparison to everything else.
@axios47027 ай бұрын
When humanity becomes the ancient evil.
@changer_of_ways_9996 ай бұрын
The tau perspective is the closest to modern human perspective and what it'd be like for humanity's "ideal future" facing their worst future.
@morpheus26157 ай бұрын
Is there a Tau book where the humans are the textbook bad aliens that want to conquer the Tau and we only see the Tau side ? Would like that
@Dreadnob6 ай бұрын
There is a game... a very bad game
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
There are several books focused on the Tau, written from their perspective. Although it's worth noting that against the Imperium at least, it's nearly always the Tau being the conquerors, not the other way around. Their empire has expanded substantially over the course of their lore, with the Imperium losing dozens of planets to them. ( Most people who don't read the actual lore first hand, and rely 100% on inaccurate memes and youtube shorts for their lore, don't seem to understand this...) There's also a game yes, but don't play that. xD
@morpheus26154 ай бұрын
@@UnknownSquid imma be honest bro, i like the lore i read key books and love every Necron book/where the Necrons play a vital role but i aint got no time for 40 Horus Heresy books or 50 other books hahah. I get it the lore is wide and deep but if you are not fully committed then its just not possible. I like these shorts yeah but i mainly watch the longer lore focused vides as an audio book.
@UnknownSquid4 ай бұрын
@@morpheus2615 I don't blame you with the Horus Heresy stuff. There's so much of it, and whilst I'm sure many of the stories are good, there's a limit of how much overly poetic Space Marine/Primarch glorification I can care for. ^ ^; Am generally far more interested in either the Xeno focused books, or current timeline events. Also unlike lore vids on the Tau, you can generally trust people to report accurately on the Astartes, Primarchs and historic details. If you want Tau lore though, you really have to go to the source. So much of the stuff on them around KZbin is just atrociously biased and misleading.
@angelsofblood98796 ай бұрын
Tau realizing that humanity been cleansing the galaxy of problems like them for more than 6,000 years.
@Imposterlasagna636 ай бұрын
Tau: “We will fight to defend the greater good! Surely the other species are not as powerful! Humans: *look over with a menacing smile* “hahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA-“
@JaneTheDark6 ай бұрын
Ngl, that's why I love the Tau. I don't think they're the good guys or anything, but they're one of more reasonable faction + they're clearly the most naive one, and I love seeing them discovering the Universe and its ✨wonders✨
@RustyKnightGaming6 ай бұрын
And then at black thunder mesa he got to become the first Tau Dreadnaught
@robouteguilliman66625 ай бұрын
Tau screaming at the Horrors of the Galaxy while the Guard and Astartes are BALLING OUT THERE
@the98themperoroftheholybri336 ай бұрын
Imagine how crazy they will think the imperium is if they discover how the mechanicus refuels a starship
@Lightscribe2256 ай бұрын
Then the Tau learned what genestealers are and figured out why humans hate aliens so much.
@shadowlordalpha6 ай бұрын
Knowing what pilots those normally... yes it probably could revive itself out of will alone
@MrFredstt5 ай бұрын
Based Dreadnought. He definitely earned his spot by the Emperor's side
@Odins_SpearАй бұрын
“Ancient and horrifying nature of humanity” goes unbelievably hard
@eXpG_Harlock7 ай бұрын
When you realise you are really late in history.
@user-qd8ws1wr9x7 ай бұрын
I just got the number of a hot girl but I mis-wrote it. I am more miserable than the Space Marine
@raskov756 ай бұрын
The Empire's best weapon against the Tau is simply the horror that is The Empire.
@SarthorS6 ай бұрын
Even in death, I still serve.
@CatYah007 ай бұрын
its ironically funny to know that the tau are more human than humans They will learn tho
@doggg49777 ай бұрын
THEY WILL LEARN WHAT IT TAKES, IN TIME THEY WILL LEARN
@CptCKG7 ай бұрын
Very true one of my best mates is a weeaboo space communist
@aaabbb-zc7sx7 ай бұрын
"more human" give them time.they are still a young race and they haven't dealt with events like the horus heresy or the age of strife.once their species is on the verge of collapsing like humanity was,they'll realise that survival is more important than "morals"
@revolt_45887 ай бұрын
@@aaabbb-zc7sx i mean the imperium still has plenty of ppl who try to do good things
@revolt_45887 ай бұрын
in what way
@free2chasehappy7 ай бұрын
There needs to be an animation of the fight between those two!
@joshuasepeda32894 ай бұрын
One thing that will never get old. Every time the Tau discover how young and outmatched they are in the Galaxy. 😂😂😂
@jajasi47525 ай бұрын
This is why I love the addition of the Tau to the game, it helps to reframe how messed up everything is back to relatively normal levels of morality. Without that kind of moves stories can lose the punch that they had making the audience numb.
@sgg358616 күн бұрын
Imagine that flex though. "Yo, I'm like 42 and I got to kill this 6,000 year old semi-undead mech man."
@joesheridan94516 ай бұрын
I love when we see how horrifying humans are through xenos eyes in 40k they should do that more instead of always painting them out to be heroes
@EternalDM6 ай бұрын
Bro, this makes me love both the Tau and the Imperium more. So cool
@ManuFortis6 ай бұрын
Fear not the dread of death; fear the rage and vitriol of the dreadnoughts pilot.
@pretzelbomb61056 ай бұрын
Always remember: in any other Sci-Fi setting, the Tau would either be humanity or the bad guys. 40k is just that messed up.
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
An ambitious and militaristic expansionist empire, with a "join us or else" policy, rigid caste system where roughly 25% of the population are born into the military and serve until death. And they're the closest thing the setting has to the "good guys". : P
@CMTechnica6 ай бұрын
Not any other sci-fi setting. Their stance on imperialism and other races is nearly identical to Halo’s covenant; ie “join us or die”, which the Covenant did several times The Tau are identical to the Romulans from ST. Imperial expansionists, militarists, service til death, etc. The Tau are the bad guys from other sci-fi settings. Everyone else in 40k is just that much worse
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
@@CMTechnica Well not quite. It's not "Join us or die", it's "Join us or we'll make you." And they'll take the route that results in the least violence if possible, since their end goal is of course a well integrated new member of the Empire, so causing excessive destruction is counterproductive for them. They're also plenty open to diplomatic allegiances, if absorbing another empire isn't feasible.
@Vinzaf6 ай бұрын
When people say that the Tau don’t fit, this is why they’re needed. You need that outside perspective that looks in and has to come to terms with the staggering horror that is 40k.
@septimus75246 ай бұрын
Man: "Yeah.. the last thirty to forty thousand years kinda fucked me up."
@Elthenar6 ай бұрын
It was at this moment the Tau learned they were a tiny and insignificant thing.
@UnknownSquid6 ай бұрын
Technically they sort of knew this, even before their first war with Humanity, though used it to their advantage. It's strongly implied in the Farsight books, that the Damocles Crusade was actually a trap, where the Ethereals realised the Imperium vastly overshadowed them, and thus carefully engineered the conflict in advance to ensure the Imperium would be over confident and under-commit. They denied any military action on the Imperial side of the gulf, deliberately acting weak and pacifist, whilst maximising diplomatic/trade disruption, so as to bait the Imperial reaction. Meanwhile Tau forces were gathered on the Tau side of the gulf, which wouldn't be known until the crusade fleet had already crossed. The resulting unexpected loss for the Imperium discouraged further efforts, and gave the Tau time to adapt. Regular troops and even high level commanders weren't informed of what was coming, in order to maintain the deception. Hence all the "shock" and surprise on the front lines when the Imperials did show up.
@Qardo6 ай бұрын
Tau learning Humanity is so old. They remember when the Tau were just Fish. Literal Fish. Yet, humanity forgot about them. You know. A Warp Storm happened. The Warp saved the Tau to become this toddler empire.
@Qardo6 ай бұрын
@@kylemulholland Tau are xeno within a universe with fucked up shit. And expect Terran biology to magically answer the question of a species that evolved vastly different from those created on Terra. They are fish people. Even if their world is dry now. A million years ago, it was VASTLY different. Heck, if it wasn't for the Warp Storm, The Imperium would have killed off the species that became the Tau and humans would have lived on it.
@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy7 ай бұрын
Brother Dreadnaught... do you happen to know the wifi password????
@blakewillmore3016 ай бұрын
This was epic! i have watched this multiple times.... i can only imagine the Tau feeling such horror.
@paulraines96356 ай бұрын
Kinda like when my landlady's dog found out that I was actually older than him.
@WarMonarch6 ай бұрын
What I love about the Tau is that they represent modern-day humans. Imagine being a settler, traveling out into space to colonize new worlds. Only to walk into a galactic Lovecraftian nightmare minefield. Where the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know shit. Where every new discovery only reveals more monsters, you were better off not knowing about. Then to top it all off you discover your future selves. The backward and broken race that is humanity in 40k IS the Tau's future.