The Damocles Crusade EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@majorkill]

If only the Tau used the Geologie Morning protection cream and face wash, maybe their women wouldn't be so fugly - coulda avoided alot of conflicts me thinks Don't be a tau, use Geologie : thld.co/geologie_major50_0722

[@risenlegend9443]

Dont worry majorkill Im using a exploit the spiffing brit found and watching your video at 0.5x speed so you get 200% user retention from my view

[@CalAndAly]

def gonna check it out!

[@dominykasseibutis6297]

Make video on lucius the eternal and all these space marines chapters raptors silver skulls storm giants Mantis warriors Noise marines Sons of malice Sons of antaeus Black vipers Covenant of fire Dragonspears Dark krakens Red scorpions Stormwatchers Marines errant Scythes of the emperor Howling griffons Mortifactors Steel confessors Red hunters Iron snakes Excecutioners Angels sanguine Death spectres Emperor's spears Mentors Also make a videos about beastmans in 40k ollanius pius Soul forge Daemon engines Warp smiths and dark mechanicum Pain engines Helbrutes Krorks Drach'nyen Obliterators Electro priest

[@BAMBAM62699]

I put an order in, I am interested in my results.

[@imperialhistati2348]

Finally! Australian Man did Damocles Crusade…

[@NornQueenKya]

"But sir I don't understand, they just keep throwing lives at our lasers" Poor tau didn't realize the imperium has endless Zapp Brannigans running their armies

[@Voltboy1449]

nah the leaders of the imperial make zapp brannigann look like sun tzu

[@NornQueenKya]

@@Voltboy1449 "knowing the necrons have a set kill limit, I sent wave after wave of guardsmen to their deaths. Show them the medal I won Ogryn"

[@Nyghtking]

Wait until they encounter Kreig, they'll probably kill off all the Krieg leadership during the battle thinking it would break their moral only to instead find the entire unit is running at them in a charge, learning that Krieg leadership is meant to keep them from doing just that.

[@donelkingii3738]

Lol

[@yourapeeinguy8263]

stop dying you cowards!

[@shoandutrieux9447]

The Water Caste: "Titans are propaganda by simple-minded Gue'La sources." The Fire Caste: "Why is the simple-minded propaganda obliterating entire armies?"

[@silentking3120]

🤣🤣🤣

[@igncom1]

The Air Caste: "Don't worry we've got it!"

[@DoctorM42]

@@igncom1 Actually during Damocles Crusade Air Caste didn't got it. Tigerhark AX-01 wasn't invented yet and Mantas weren't cost-effective against titans. The go to method of fighting imperial titans was to airdrop like 15 Crisis suits loaded to the teeth with fusion guns on them.

[@igncom1]

@@DoctorM42 That's still a win to take down a walking irreplaceable relic.

[@DoctorM42]

@@igncom1 oh, for sure. Losing 15 veteran pilots (from species that have 30% shorter life cycle then humans to boot) and 15 fairly replaceable suits for a god-machine that that takes centuries to build is an absolute win.

[@Patterrz]

The Tau forgot the Rule of Cool, massive Titan machines are epic, therefore they win

[@lucack6348]

True XD

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

@@lucack6348 Also, extremely powerful, I may add!

[@grealalal]

What is the Ta'unar?

[@navilluscire2567]

I mean literally the Titans' saving grace are their STUPIDLY OVERPOWERED shields, without them they'd be STUPIDLY EASY and HUGE targets to blast into smithereens!

[@iamafuckingfailure]

In 40k, size does indeed matter

[@BrotherCarver]

Tau: Titan's aren't be real, they can't hurt us Imperial Titans: Haha, war horn goes *WOOOMP*

[@loowick4074]

Funny thing about Titans is that literal Neanderthals beat them with dinosaurs

[@thedyingmeme6]

Hehe titans go 'BBWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH'

[@navilluscire2567]

T'au: To be honest it's still SUPER dumb to build those things, an incredible waste of time and resources. Also the only reason why we can't immediately destroy them is because of their STUPIDLY OVERPOWERED shields!

[@iamafuckingfailure]

@@navilluscire2567 Some titans are older than the tau's entire race, also you wrote stupidly wrong

[@navilluscire2567]

@@iamafuckingfailure T'au: And? Am I supposed to be impressed by that? A bunch of random rocks are older than literally every other civilization we've met including yours by millions of years! (except maybe the necrons and eldar..) Also yeah, I did, damm autocorrect! (thanks for pointing that out!)

[@mottzilla2]

I really would love to see Gulliman talk with the Tau.

[@rebel1717]

Same! Maybe even support the Farsight Enclaves in secret

[@robertnelson9599]

I would rather see Bobby G talk to Farsight, the Tau empire is too much like the Imperium to ever get along with them for long.

[@albertrex6851]

@@robertnelson9599 bobby G and O'shova are very rational individuals

[@yamahadrag69]

Gully vs. The Ethereal Caste: Who's more in love with the sound of their own voice?

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

oh my god finaly someone with common se-wait what the fuck is an ethereal

[@yamahadrag69]

So they're basically in the same boat as the Dark Eldar: A tiny population in a small, heavily fortified area that's not worth the time and resources it would take to crack open.

[@DoctorM42]

Tau population is not as tiny, but their areas in nowhere near as heavily populated. Imperials can Exterminaus Tau worlds. But they can only blow up Commorragh distric by district, as it's not a planet but a bunch of webway nodes half a galaxy away from each other connected through instant-travel portals. You blow a Cyclonic torpedo in one and you only wipe out one of 1000000 districts of the Dark City - something Dark Eldar themselves do to each other fairly regularly.

[@Valsorayu]

@@DoctorM42 The Tau population IS tiny if you consider the Imperial population to be average.

[@yamahadrag69]

@@DoctorM42 they also occupy an extremely tiny part of the galaxy, but I get what you mean. It just reminded me of TTS' scene where Big E is explaining Commoragh and how, even though everyone else in the galaxy hates them, the Dark Eldar are so densely packed that it's not really worth the effort to wipe them out.

[@vothbetilia4862]

@@DoctorM42 bro it is sooooo tiny, they can barely even control at least a little bit of it, since nids came near their direction.

[@navilluscire2567]

@@vothbetilia4862 And they repealed them. Shockingly the T'au can hold their own against SPACE horror bugs.

[@MsPuffykinz]

Ah yes an American Australian. A crossover I didn’t know I needed.

[@alpharius8336]

Fit guy shooting rifle with spider bigger than his head on the shoulder sitting in scooter even tho he isn't fat calling everyone a cunt. Ye i can see that

[@briantarigan7685]

They are too powerful to be left alive

[@bestmtg229]

Upside down American

[@metj6885]

Most and least free

[@Butter_Warrior99]

@@bestmtg229, Right-side up Australian.

[@stangerr0267]

I think it's important to note that during this conflict, the Tau did not have things such as Riptides, Ghostkeels, Stormsurges, Taunars, and other more advanced suits that they now have. Not to even mentioned that the Tau navy at this time was just a merchant fleet. They completely overhauled their navy afterwards

[@Lorddacenshadowind]

Ah but now we have primaris marines.... so yeah 😆

[@bramschoenmakers5071]

@@Lorddacenshadowind primaris can't do shit if the ship they are on gets blown up from the other side of the solar system

[@alphanoodle1877]

@Carach you could say the s about any faction

[@DoctorM42]

@@Lorddacenshadowind which are just bigger maines = better targets. Primaris are slightly better at close combat, which doesn't matter much against Tau, since regular marines are already deadly enough if they reach melee with Tau. Their real advantage is that they're easier to make and don't have high chance to get insane, die or mutate during transfomation from normal human to marine.

[@terrelldurocher3330]

@asd asd they were always cool, unlike everything else in warhammer 40k the tau are an actual race, rather then the idea of grimdark.

[@aceofspadesguy4913]

I enjoyed seeing the Imperium and the Tau working together in the Ciaphas Caine series. Always neat seeing the Imperium going against the “haha murder murder planet go boom” stereotype and actually doing some diplomacy.

[@albertrex6851]

Kinda like Nazi Germany. You can't alienate everyone you need to make some allies as well

[@555tork]

i think the writers missed a trick not writing "The Greater Good" from the perspective of Cain on a T'au world.

[@aethewulf4787]

Could you tell me name of book where he works with tau?

[@aceofspadesguy4913]

@@aethewulf4787 For the Emperor, first in the series.

[@555tork]

@@aethewulf4787 their is a second one including the t'au but lighter on the co-operation which i called "The Greater Good"

[@mtrunkello]

Its important to note that the standard plasma rifle for battlesuits were able to punch a hole clean through space marine armor from the front and come out at the back. The conflict must have been as horrifiing for space marines as it were for the tau.

[@dustiespring6591]

You probably got a point there. I mean sure, space marines are used to seeing battle brothers fall in battle… but when your only info going into the battle is that a few meagre centuries ago these aliens were using spears, and your first actual contact is a sophisticated, well armed, and decently trained resistance capable of mowing down your comrades if not taken with extreme seriousness… it might have been a “huh” moment for the marines haha

[@cruelmilk4465]

How were space marines not mowed down like rats? Major kill said there were only 500 space marines in the crusade and Tau can easily create another battle suit. Unlike space marines

[@ew264]

@@cruelmilk4465 id assume the speed of space marine has a role in it. Usually they dont need to dodge but if they realized they had to they could see a weapon fire, react and then dodge it all within 0.1 seconds. Space marine speed is underrated. Theres even a canon bokk which states space marines fight at light speed.

[@mtrunkello]

@@cruelmilk4465 i highly doubt that were only 500 space marines there as 8 space marine chapters were there, including several major ones like the black templars, white scars, ultramarines, raven guard. Even if they were present with just 1 company each it is still 800 marines and i higly doubt that the black templars would not take a xeno exterminating crusade seriously. They have also captured the chapter master of the scar lords. Not a well known chapter but if the chapter master is present, surely they didnt just bring a company.

[@cruelmilk4465]

@@mtrunkello what did you think the ratio of death the space marines have?

[@MR.LMR1996]

Sure, the Tau may not have the might or the means to traverse across the Galaxy as fast and wide as the Imperium, Eldar Craft Worlds or Ork Warbands can, but they can sure as hell put up a fight to defend the territory they already own.

[@HubiKoshi]

Their main problem is that if Imperium decides they just aren't worth the effort it can just hit the Exterminatus button. Losing a hundred potential worlds is a drop in the bucket for the Imperium but an Apocalypse for the Tau.

[@stardestroyer19]

They are really great fighters pound for pound due to their tech. The problem is just how much bigger the imperium is.

[@apolloknight9521]

@@stardestroyer19 and also the bigger threats that the Galaxy is facing.

[@MR.LMR1996]

@@stardestroyer19 Aye. If they were clashing with the Imperium during at best the Great Crusade, or at worst a larger task force that can afford to go after them, then they'd get shat on.

[@PoIy178]

@@MR.LMR1996 you guys didn't watch this video fully did you?

[@geodixohard1616]

We all know why the crusade really started. Because Kitten needed to keep the secret dead.

[@ResillyusXD]

Mate, I swear to f***ing God, that was not canon! I will ram this chainsword right up your-!

[@r.e.z9428]

@Myster Mothman It is.

[@joecool2810]

@Myster Mothman TTS is canon, because Lore is barely recognizable from memes. So why wouldn’t a series with more love then Games Workshop be considered Canon? I mean the short film Astarte, it was made canon so why can’t TTS.

[@unitedstatesofamerica4987]

@@joecool2810 I think You don't get it mate He made a TTS reference

[@lazarmarinkovic8486]

@@unitedstatesofamerica4987 But, but... They dont even fight in ***MELEE***!

[@TheWarmachine375]

During the Damocles Crusade, the Imperium asked the Tau how is their health plan. Apparently it was great.

[@jeck988]

I get that reference

[@SpiritoftheWolf28232]

Just gonna leave a comment here to try and bump this up...

[@tilltronje1623]

Well, in that case: what do bitches love?

[@MysticalyAutistic]

Ell eah

[@Cretaal]

Great or good? I'll see myself out

[@christiedt9818]

I love his summaries of tau v Imperium clashes. Imperials achieve victory by using weapons and tactics so ridiculous the tau could not even dream of how to deal with it

[@navilluscire2567]

Tactics that are horrible outdated but somehow still work and weapons that make no sense and somethings that only a madman could think of and are held together by magic bullsh*t and duct tap.

[@princeofdaemons7344]

@@navilluscire2567 If you don't think a tactic is possible therefore don't prepare for it, that exact tactic becomes possible. I.e in the video. T'au don't have broadsides because they consider it stupid. Strike Cruisder gets inbetween T'au ships and realise they don't have broadsides. **Proceeds to throw a holy shit show of laughter and broadside the T'au ships into oblivion**

[@redcrewmate927]

​​@@princeofdaemons7344 Exactly, just because broadside guns seems stupid, doesn't mean you shouldn't have it on or have some ship fulfilled that roled! Like imagine us fighting an enemy who has this and thinking to ourselves "lol they'll bever reach us" and yet people forget that your shield can take hits just long enough to get between them.

[@poodlescone9700]

Tau: Who in their right mind has broadside cannons!? Also Tau: Who in their right mind would build giant ass robots!? Imperium: raises hands.

[@fellowsoliderofchrist2263]

Honestly I can see Guiliman just going to them and officially making them allies because they’re honestly more useful that way.

[@timnone2924]

Same, even if not pure allies and closer to like a trading partner. It would open up huge doors for tech advancement for the Marines. Like imagine a chapter of Marines armed with Tau based armor and weapons

[@fellowsoliderofchrist2263]

@@timnone2924 yeah Cawl would probably oil his robes considering he’s not afraid of some good ol’fashion tech heresy.

[@vothbetilia4862]

Very unlikely, did you people literally forget the guy is pragmatic, he would temporarily work with them as their such a small empire and is fully aware of them taking their people either by force or manipulation, I believe he said one point he wouldn't attack anyone who doesn't get in their way and if they do, he would not hesitate to end them.

[@cocaine7371]

@@vothbetilia4862 that's why the tau would make a treaty since they know that can get destroyed by the Imperium

[@vothbetilia4862]

@@cocaine7371 That sounds pointless bud.

[@Mankorra_Gomorrah]

Something no one talks about is that the appearance of the Ethereals is very similar to the appearance of the Emperor of Mankind. In a time of peril a wise, powerful entity suddenly wonders out of no where with all the answers and almost assumes command of the entire species before setting out to expand into other solar systems. But instead of it being one massive god-entity they are dozens or hundreds of individuals who are still above the generic tau but aren’t able to do shit like punch chaos gods with their brains. I do wonder if the tau have etherals and humans have the Emperor because the Humans have fairly standard sized souls while the tau have mini-souls.

[@lorenzoquaglia7240]

Man, yesterday night I was high and I thought the exact same things

[@Crusher888]

When bro hits you with that interesting theorem

[@sergeantsharkseant]

Interestingly enough humanity also started out with multipel shamans but due to warp fuckery they said fuck it merged their souls and created the emperor

[@Robb1977]

@@sergeantsharkseant Human ethereals... IE shamans went "peace wont save us. we need to merge and create a godhead" and then the galaxy made the tau so a species could try the shaman thing again.

[@MoroMoro-q8h]

@@sergeantsharkseant I don't think the shaman thing is canon, atleast anymore.

[@jdmatics]

How to underestimate the Imperium: "They wouldn't be stupid enough to do it"

[@dishantdalvi]

it applies to our race even in real life

[@aceofspades5226]

@@dishantdalvi”they won’t rush omaha beach, hans! Don’t worry!” *they should have, in fact, worried.*

[@TheWarmachine375]

5:02 The Tau Space Marine Armor looking like a Gundam there.

[@oldhunterundol3243]

By Gundam standards that would be a regular mobile suit like a zaku or gouf

[@dezalt]

@@oldhunterundol3243 Meh, more like a Fazz to me.

[@thedyingmeme6]

I love the aesthetic of the Tau marines

[@stillwatersrundeep001]

The entire Tau faction is heavily inspired by Japanese historical and pop culture, so that's not surprising

[@laughingmask3118]

I love that the Tau presumed a THEOCRATIC IMPERIUM wouldn't invest the time and resources into building a giant battle church 🤣🤣🤣

[@cpp3221]

I mean, I didn't see the Papal State invest in battle church personnally.

[@sunset7424]

6:53 Literally in the twice dead king the imperium shot giant chains at a necron ships and the overlord was so stunned that they shot literal ship sized chains he couldn't believe it

[@smoothiemcguffin2721]

humanity: winning with random bullshit since emperor-knows-when

[@RJALEXANDER777]

You mean like age of sale chainshot? I'd be right there with the Necron.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

It's not the size of the dog that matters, but its bite. A perfect description of the Tau.

[@alphanoodle1877]

Like a nice but angry Chihuahua

[@beefyblom]

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

[@_A.E.F_2009]

its not the dog of bitr hut sifjrjoshfos

[@SarajevoKyoto]

​@@alphanoodle1877And the chihuahua is piloting a mecha

[@KaiserAfini]

"For the Greater Good !" "No good is greater than the Emperor, and he has sent his angels to reap your existence from His galaxy !"

[@SarajevoKyoto]

That's nice. Hey Shas'el! They're running at us swinging swords! Show them why the gue'vesa still tell stories of Saint Gatling!

[@TheWarmachine375]

5:22 Imperium when they learn their worlds join the Tau: "COWABUNGA IT IS."

[@AIartificalIntellige]

Seccession? In my holy imperial empire?

[@pancake4061]

I honestly don't think Robot Jellyman would even care enough to kill off the Tau, especially since he isn't infected with the post-heresy psychosis that once possessed the entire imperium.

[@toasterdestroyer3774]

The biggest threat the tau pose is ideological, it relatively didnt take much to convince the human worlds to secede. It could create a reasonble schism if more worlds were secretly infiltrated and seceded at the same time

[@navilluscire2567]

They have, numerous other human worlds have been flipped over to the T'au's side without much of a fuss.

[@Specoups]

The ideological takeover will happen when the Tau will prove to the general Imperium population that they exist, that they are expanding, and that they can hold off and win against the Imperium's many enemies. Judging by the pace of their progress, it could happen quite soon. Then, since every other aspect of their society's management seems better, a deep social crisis will happen inside of the Imperium. Why would the Imperium's harsh social contract be needed anymore if the Tau have the same military prowess but better standards of living? If no third party is involved, the Imperium will be slowly digested and assimilated into the Tau empire, should it be through wars the Imperium cannot survive, or through mostly peaceful ways. But of course this is 40K, so many other events and factions will intervene to prevent this from happening.

[@Bananakingchad]

Titans legions of ultramarines: haha alien bro go squish

[@Voldrim359]

@@Specoups I think only daemons and eldears would intervene for that not happening, but the Nekrons will look down on them and the Orks are so stupid to even consider that a threat, more likely "they are together, now i can crush them at the same time, double the fun"

[@theandice8152]

@@Specoups The Tau Empire cannot assimilate the Imperium into it. That would be like if Monaco somehow inspired the United States to enact a revolution from within and overthrow its government/social order. It's not going to become the United States of Monaco, it will just be the United States with a new internal system who's people still govern themselves. The Tau Empire is simply not large enough to effectively influence and control the Imperium's population on a scale greater than perhaps a few dozen planetary systems.

[@Evan-qn2cj]

Would love some new lore talking about the Taus response to their war with the imperium. Like seeing their leaders talk about various doomsday plans in case those imperial fanatics come back

[@igncom1]

Well for one they made entirely new space navy rather then relying on their merchant marine to do all the work. And those massive knight-like mechs all came after this war as before it they just relied on hammerheads and airstrikes to kill everything.

[@robberyproductions1363]

@@igncom1 oh and don't forget that it also lead to the Creation of the Farsight Enclaves

[@Marconius6]

"The Imperium could destroy the T'au if they just focused on them!" Well they can't focus on them, can they? That's kind of the point. The Imperium is so fractured, so inefficient, and has so much shit to deal with, they can't even wipe out a random upstart alien empire on their periphery, despite all their fancy psykers and Titans... actually it might be BECAUSE of their super unreliable psykers and Titans.

[@alphanoodle1877]

Well I mean, every faction besides the Tau kind of has that issue so saying imperium can do it but is to fractured as if was anything special is kind of redundant

[@Valsorayu]

The Imperium can't focus on them since they are busy fighting off tyrranids and literal demons.

[@eu29lex16]

Poor tau didn't realize the imperium has endless Zapp Brannigans running their armies" This only proves that the imperium employs with low quality troop which is very wasteful and not very resourceful and efficient ! And no, the imperium doesn't afford losses, no one does cuz it's why they also loose so much ground and battle and why it's broken. When I play them I don't do it that way, I prefer a balanced quality.

[@navilluscire2567]

@@alphanoodle1877 Yeah whenever someone brings that up I get SUPER annoyed! On how the T'au could be OH so easily wiped out...if only the Imperium used like 0.005% more of its strength but here's the thing...they can't and they NEVER will be able to. If they could, they could easily wipe out through sheer attrition, not brilliant tactics or genius strategy but SHEER ATTRITION mow down every other xenos faction save maybe tyranids or even necrons and even then it be ironically by just zerging them, nothing exceptional. The Imperium's logistics also gets in the way because they've over stretched themselves and the hilarious inefficiencies of their bureaucracy makes coordinating such large scale operations nearly impossible needing literally BULLSH*T basically demigods to pull of consistently enough.

[@Bigglesfly]

And it is designed like that, so people can play all factions. It's part of the setting and thats cool.

[@TrelarysVT]

It would interesting to see a story about a single member of the Tau who somehow made it to Terra.

[@Scoti17]

He could travel with a Inquisitor. But the Tau must wear make up and a fake nose.

[@lordlopikong6940]

​@@Scoti17he doesn't need to, he'll get discriminated either way. Humans have become so racist that anything other than "individually themselves" are inferior

[@rebel1717]

Majorkill you have the crown for being the first and probably only one to explain the Damocles Crusade in a way that makes the Tau look good. Every single time I hear of the Damocles Crusade, it’s always lore nerds using intelligent sentences to explain how the Tau got wrecked, or neck beards telling me straight up “Tau got wrecked, and needed a Tyranid hive fleet to get the Imperium off their back.” As a Tau fan, your explanation, for a lack of a better term, warmed my soul.

[@mcarrowtime7095]

it was a little more tau friendly than neutral, btw. GW is bad at scale, but there was supposedly less than a single space marine chapter, and those that were there would have been less efficient than normal due to the disparate fighting styles of the contributing chapters. by all means, this was a small crusade that got to the tau home worlds, even if they got flung back by the tyranids

[@ZacharyReaper]

Water Caste : "lmao there's no way those hulking monstrosities called Titans were real. It's simply propaganda brother." Fire Caste after the Crusade : "you son of a bitch"

[@themotorcyclemasswhole]

I *love hating on the Tau* as long as it’s lore accurate and good natured. I *despise people who hate on Tau players* . My faction is better than yours is part of the fun, but it’s so creepy when people make it personal and take seriously.

[@FrostbiteDigital]

"I despise people who hate on Tau players" I mean, that's pretty much almost every non-Tau player ironically hahaha

[@themotorcyclemasswhole]

@@FrostbiteDigital Has it really gotten than bad? I mean don’t get me wrong, I will literally have the Cawl inferior send mean tweets to the Tau during gameplay- and they are xenos scum that need to burn under the righteous gaze of my servants of the Omnissiah… but that sh!t stays on the tabletop. All armies are awesome and all players are welcome. And I say that as someone who’s first army was metal…. *Most of you merely adopted the GrimDark, I was born in it, molded by it* (I’m sorry for the cringe, but I always wanted to say that 🤣🤣). Peace ✌️

[@FrostbiteDigital]

@@themotorcyclemasswhole Oh brother lemme tell you it really has gotten that bad. Hell I would argue worse. Didn't help when people like the Vraks guy uploading segments from Exodite with provocative titles like "Incompetent Tau do xx". The comments to those videos are even worse like I swear people have actually evolved from shitting on Tau where they've even go so far as to mock and bully Tau players/fans in said comments section. All it does is cause incentive for new people to bully/mock Tau players as a result because its popular to do. It's actually pretty fucking petty

[@themotorcyclemasswhole]

@@FrostbiteDigital well f@ck me that’s depressing. What are these angry dweebs doing to the hobby?!?!?! I mean first of all have you seen these Tau players paint? I swear 1/2 these kids are professional artists. Second of all, Farsight Enclaves! These guys are awesome. Third of all, fandom is supposed to be fun for everyone who makes the effort. If you go to the trouble of painting an army and showing up on game night- we’re buds and you are absolutely getting one of the cupcakes I baked for game night no matter what Army you play! I guess I stepped away from the tabletop too long if this kind of hate has become acceptable

[@ethansmith3229]

Its because it's the only Faction that doesn't do cool hand to hand shit mainstream

[@jonathanathor117]

It would be interesting if the tau discover a better FTL travel that doesn't use the warp or webway. Like something based on real life theoretical physics like the alcubierre drive for example. I mean their guns alone are based on mass drivers/ electromagnetic catapults/ railgun and coil guns.

[@NCRVeteranRanger]

The Necrons use a non-warp FTL travel method, so the Tau doing such a thing isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

[@trikk9964]

... the problem is... modern-physics does not support "faster-than-light" travel. "True Light" ("Dark Energy" to many) is scaled to the smallest indiscriminate energetic "partial" of matter, which is known as "quanta". This is quite-literally the fastest that the aspects of the universe can react with one-another and produce a holographic and "partial" acceleration. We have no-way of measuring this value, yet; but rest-assured it is much, much faster than the speed of "measurable light"... which is the speed up to which matter, as we understand it through modern-physics, will still generate a "photon" under the force of mass-acceleration. The problem with crossing the "measurable" threshold is that the inertial-frame the traveler was formerly a part-of becomes forced to communicate with the traveler in ways that would "appear" (remember: no photons nor consciousness here) to become simpler-and-simpler multidimensional geometries vibrating at higher-and-higher frequencies as the traveler continues to accelerate. This would happen right-up until the taveler's frame and their former inertial-frame split time-lines and then became cast into static, and never communicating 2-dimensional frames on the surface of what would appear to be a cosmic-cube... to a 4-dimensional demi-god. This is the "True Singularity"... and what truely lies beyond the "speed-of-light". Now... are there ways to travel at "faster-than-measurable"? I believe there are. The most mathematically understandable is in the stream connecting identical poles of two perfectly-aligned black-holes. Here, there might be a sheet of energy moving at spectral-speeds without a fundamental curvature that would instantly tear us apart at an atomic-level. How do you step into and out of a stream like this? Well, you would only need enough energy to create your own black-hole. Or... you could do what the "Imperium" does and employ psykers that can see what the 4-D demi-god can see (essentially becoming this disconnected 4-D consciousness) and, if the 40k setting was mathematically compliant, understand how to pass the 2-D aspects on the cosmic-cube back through a multi-dimensional filter and recompose themselves and their background into the time-and-place of their choosing. Of course... this means they are not truly stepping-back into the universe they initially left. And this is why the Tau suck...

[@NCRVeteranRanger]

@@trikk9964 “Wow, that’s a lot of words! Too bad I’m not reading them.” - Duke Nukem In all seriousness, there are countless ways one could come up with a fictional FTL travel method. Halo has slipgates, Star Wars has hyperspace, Star Trek has warp speed, & so on. Also, the Imperium sucks just as much as the Tau does. Their self-destructive refusal to accept technological innovation is just one out of many acts of the Imperium’s stupidity.

[@trikk9964]

Lol. I like the quote. And... I do, actually, have a soft-spot for the Tau. However, I do think it's a mistake to think that the Imperium isn't radically more advanced than the Tau. It isn't that they aren't innovating... it's that this fractured society, mired in the mistrust of how they handled and failed in their last-attempt at "transcendence" with nothing-short of "miraculous" technology, can now only take small and intentionally quiet-steps to re-discover the "light" they once had. This "light" is both quantum and psycho-reactive: a literal conduit beyond a "veil" that the Tau can't, nor will ever be able to imagine. This is what humanity seeks and still attempts to refine; this is their brilliance... like the Eldar before them... and like the Necron before the Eldar.

[@archon8211]

im a bit late but they have a semi non warp ftl, unlike other warp drives that opens a rift to the warp and dives in it like a portal, tau use the warp like a wall, they bounce of the edges of the warp, with this method there is no fear of demons and such however this method is still slower compared to a normal warp drive, but if they manage to improve this it would be even safer than how necrons travel, the main problem with ftl in the real world is that it requires basically infinite energy, but this isnt a problem for necrons. So necron FTL is basically a real ftl method that is based on physics, but even if tau managed to get past the energy problem and replicated the necrons ftl, they would die the moment they used that ftl, because they would go so fast they would probably get liquified or somethin, appearently the necrons solved this, but like i said if tau improved their ftl it would be safer than other methods.

[@borgCube100]

I like the practical changes the Tau make after this campaign. While it was a sigh from the Imperium (not a small one tbf) it was a "all hands on deck" moment for the Tau. They realised what their military needed and how little their people are to a cruel and massive universe and they've rose to the challenge - well the Farsight Enclaves have even more.

[@DocWolph]

You need to remember the Imperial Truth, Not the Imperial Creed, in which while Xenos are to be destroyed ONLY if they are actually trying to kill or unduly impede humanity. The T'au do not seem to meet the "kill them all" criteria accord[ing] to the Imperial Truth. However just being Xenos at all, the Imperial Creed says "kill them all anyway!"

[@apolloknight9521]

Kinda true, I think I read somewhere that the Emperor is chill having some Xenos under his rule as long they don’t try to exterminate humanity, hence why they have the “Kill Aliens” rule in the first place.

[@navilluscire2567]

What counts as *"unduly impede"* that's so vague and poorly defined that it can be used to justify literally any bullsh*t, like a blank check!

[@DocWolph]

@@navilluscire2567 Maybe. But it also prevents the kind of dogmatic legalism than can stop a commander from making a critical decision. But you would also have to remember than Humanity would/will need to be retained not to kill stuff for the sin of not being human, at this point.

[@TheWarmachine375]

0:33 Commander Shadowsun, the love interest of Captain-General Little Kitten

[@SarajevoKyoto]

NOT CANON!! Well...maybe a little canon. Don't tell the Emperor

[@jwal2]

My favourite fact to bring up is how that Shadowsun killed and outwitted the chapter master of the Raven guard (Corvin Severax, not Shrike) and killed a white scars first captain in melee combat..

[@jacobfreeman609]

She didnt kill the white scar, she only escaped

[@alphanoodle1877]

@@jacobfreeman609 still beat the white scar

[@jacobfreeman609]

@@alphanoodle1877 If you count running away and surviving as beating then yeah ig she did

[@Robotmudkip99]

@@jacobfreeman609i mean that’s still pretty impressive

[@SoullessCinder-420]

If you can outrun someone who is trained to be fast, then that's impressive.

[@Arkantos117]

I'm sick of people thinking that the Tau are somehow anywhere near the tech level of Dark Age Humanity.

[@im2randomghgh]

They aren't on DAoT level but they're closer than most people realise. Most current imperial tech is from the DAoT and compares fairly evenly with the tau. The big development that helped DAoT humans beat the MoI was volkite weapons, which are comparable to pulse weapons. Also the Tau encountered the planet of Amenophis IV, where a DAoT AI ruled a planet of humans and had an intact stc producing DAoT weapons and they stalemated.

[@austindemuynck9460]

@@im2randomghgh ye. The tau aren’t near the DAoT, but they are damn near close.

[@Arkantos117]

@@im2randomghgh Amenophis IV didn't have an intact STC though did it? It had a fragment of one and an AI.

[@robertnelson9599]

Volkite weapons are more like heat rays, pulse weapons are plasma weapons.

[@oldhunterundol3243]

They got gundams thats cool

[@inquisitorgarza312]

The Tau didn’t have a good time considering how easy they had before with their expansions they probably thought that they were the only race with advanced idealistic beliefs and technology that no one could stop them from achieving the Greater Good, until the Imperium got their Warhammer and smashed them in the face, and did the literally definition of burning and ransacking their homes for the shits and giggles. From that moment onwards the Tau realize that they were not the special superheroes that were going to save the Galaxy, but instead they little more than a prop to the worst comedy show of Laughing and Thirsting Gods.

[@robertnelson9599]

The Tau did not interact with the Imperium until their Third Sphere Expansion. The Damocles Gulf Crusade did not stall until they landed on one of their First Sphere worlds. If the Tyranids took longer to appear, the Tau would have gone extinct then and there.

[@555tork]

@@robertnelson9599 not really was there much more the imperium had to commit/would be willing to commit, when said crusade meets one actually defended planet and stops, the tyranids definitely ended that war but with so many other threats to it would the imperium really bother sending reinforcements?

[@PoIy178]

@@robertnelson9599 did you not watch the video? The imperial Fleet sent out was on it's last legs in that Tau city, had the Tau instead harassed the Imperial Fleet on it's way out, they would have destroyed it completely. They also still had multiple other fleets to corner in the imperial Fleet, also not to mention the Tau had only lost a few colony worlds, they barely lost anything

[@seijurohikko6382]

What makes me laugh is we see ourselves as Tau saw themselves back then. Except we still have a primitive technology xD But a lot of people seriously thinks that if some alien species tries to invade Earth, we would win the conflict with our weapons and army. It is ridiculous xD Our best chance would be biological warfare, but that's not the point. Every species needs a good spanking to get their feet back on the ground and don't see themselves better than they are, even if we have the intelligence to understand it.

[@nothingnobody1454]

And then you find out all the people kicking your butt are actually the starving refugees of a collapsed empire. Everyone that scares the tau is a fallen civilisation clinging to relavence.

[@Franz0818]

When Majorkill spoke in a southern american accent a revelation hit me The American flag is red, white and blue, so does the British and Australian Flags. Australians are just British people who far off from the skill tree and I now think that Americans are just British people who heavily invested their skill points to the Gun skill tree. 🤯 Update: The Brits have more evolutions than I thought. The Luxembourg variants are Brits that tried to be French but got stuck between Germany and Belgium, they have invested their skill points to perception and even evolve their very own subspecies the Old Lady CCTVs. The Frenchs are Brits that invested their skill points on Deception and Persuasion, hence can switch sides any time. The Iceland variants are just Brits that got stuck on a remote Island and stayed there, also invested in very little skill points. Norwegians are another British evolution that dwells on the snow, They invested little in the Intelligence skill tree but spent it on Snow resistance. Russians are a breed of their own, Heavily invested skill points in Guns, Snow Immunity and extreme resistance to alcohol. The Czech Republicans are a Russian evolution that invested little to no skill points to Driving (if it even has skill tree) but overall the same with Russians

[@oldhunterundol3243]

When I think of America I always think of southerners its engraved in my mind and everyone else in the world

[@gururaven]

Before this revelation, had you just kinda forgotten what language muricans speak?

[@oldhunterundol3243]

@@gururaven they speak red white and blue

[@Franz0818]

@@gururaven Bro, I thought they were just canadians that one day woke up and chose violence

[@thedyingmeme6]

@@oldhunterundol3243 you mean 'gun'??

[@varangiangaming7178]

Not going to lie, I actually like the Tau especially their tactics and the smart pragmatic approach to diplomacy. I can respect a faction who despite inferior numbers still comes out on top. Also I'm always up for a laugh when the inquisition gets told to go fuck itself or suffers an L(Space Wolves for Life!).

[@DoctorM42]

Tau actually have insane numbers for their empire size. They can mobilize much higher percentage of their population than Imperium and bounce back after defeats or costly victories in years when the same usually take Imperium centuries to recover.

[@The7Purplekirbies]

@@DoctorM42 in that same vein, what people seem to forget (GW included for whatever reason) is that the Tau have been flipping Imperial worlds for Centuries now, meaning that they're likely to have more humans in their empire than actual T'au, or even any other of their auxiliaries at this point. SO, as long as those 4th Sphere of Expansion nutters don't flip the Empire into a mini-Imperium of Man (now with Xenophobia towards everything not T'au) we should see more Humans joining T'au in their expeditionary forces serving actual combat roles instead of as glorified PDF.

[@tauempire1793]

@@The7Purplekirbies I mean possibly tho GW kinda wants Xenos do stay Xenos and the Tau ofc do some really weird naxi style edgy shit to their non Tau populaces

[@navilluscire2567]

@@tauempire1793 Xenos doesn't mean comically evil ofcourse GW and some fans seem to think otherwise.

[@navilluscire2567]

Yes, they're indeed unique which is unfortunately something Warhammer 40k fans HATE, variety or a faction with an end goal other than galactic genocide.

[@squoblat]

There is a story in one of the old books (I think a Codex) that details an adeptus mechanicus expedition that discovered the Tau before they were a multiplanet species with advanced technology. Interesting read and it's fun seeing how far they have come in such a short time.

[@anthonylamonica8301]

If the Mechanicus had decided then and there that they didn't like the blue, barbarian cow-people yeeting rocks at eachother on their single, insignificant rock... there wouldn't be any T'au. Technically, this means that Humanity knows where the T'au Homeworld is... but they forever lost their opportunity to actually _reach_ it.

[@mdd4296]

@@anthonylamonica8301 mechanicus is only opportunistically genocidal. They dont kill you unless you sit on something they really want or they have some experiments to perform and there isnt any other samples.

[@高若嵩-t6r]

@@anthonylamonica8301 That knowledge probably got lost to time anyways.

[@anthonylamonica8301]

@@mdd4296 I'm pretty sure the Mechanicus are _always_ looking to test the newest armor wash formula. Titan feet aren't going to just magically get sanguinous gore on them for the Tech Priests to wash off; it has to come from somewhere. And stepping on Cherubs is considered distasteful for some reason.

[@christiansmith9306]

I can just imagine Majorkill doing a walk through documentary animation as he talking and walking past the battle field and everyone just stops fighting and just looks at him blankly.

[@captainvalourous6668]

Not gonna lie but since Bobby G kinda got along with Yvraine I kinda imagine him opening up an possible alliance with Commander Farsight.

[@brendameistar]

Why the fk r u even lying in the first place?

[@fiberwaffle9364]

Well, at least they talked to the Imperium about the Greater Good and not someone like Logar. That could have ended much worse then the realization that titans are real.

[@HubiKoshi]

They did talk to the Dark Eldar though XD

[@navilluscire2567]

@@HubiKoshi Who looked no more scary than the T'au's numerous other allies or clinet races, just more spikey than the rest. So forgive them for not taking the drukahri as any different from the other species they already forged alliances with when they have the freakin *kroots* around who love to eat people...ALIVE and look like *prehistoric nightmares!*

[@slimboarder.o7]

@@navilluscire2567 they dont eat people alive ?

[@slimboarder.o7]

@@navilluscire2567 and they dont look Prehistoric at all

[@CloudSephiroth]

Farsight Enclave and Exodite Eldar should talk to Guilliman and say “Bro, every empire gets fucked- just leave your empire and bring some dope homies like custodies and primaris ultramarines and we can create an awesome empire together.”

[@dustinnabil798]

A new faction composed entirely of separatists sound cool, remind me of CIS and the banished.

[@mistabrrrly]

The First Ciaphas Cain novel deals with a planet that is being converted by the Tau, but the imperium doesn’t what to use a lot of resources cause it’s on the border of their space

[@utubrGaming]

The TL:DR of that adventure: - While he can be diplomatic and calm and genial on the outside, the existence of the Gue'vesa and their intermixing cultures genuinely disgusts and unnerves Cain on the inside. Then again, it might be because he knows that his Inquisitor GF is reading his memoirs. Also to note - Cain was brought up in the Schola Progenium program, so for an average citizen, your mileage may vary. - He's also glad to be dealing with the T'au, since they're some of the few that could be delayed with diplomacy. The battle for planets are dealt with dances, boasting, parties and dinners instead of trenches and lasguns firing, so it's all good to him. - That said, the T'au Battlesuits, railguns and drones scare the shit out of him based on how tactically coordinated and sleek and efficient their machinery is, and he hopes he doesn't have to deal with - Also, the Tau are so far out on the border and since they don't butcher humanity in a blood orgy and instead incorporate human worlds (aka, humanity still lives on in some form, and even with the Imperial Creed free to preach in some places), it's one of the few places where the Imperium can exercise rational realpolitik instead of "Kill 'em all" policies.

[@vothbetilia4862]

@@utubrGaming That last part is a lie, the Tau do mind readers and manipulate the imperial civilians and if they simply refuse they would get shot just like that. And to top it all off there have been Tau worlds with humans revolting against them a lot, things to do with being not equal or treated as Cannon fodder and not trusted enough to use other weapons and never use vehicles.

[@navilluscire2567]

@@utubrGaming The T'au along with some of their allies (also including some other minor alien species) and maybe the craftworld eldar *(in general..)* are some of the few (but actually quite a lot..) factions the Imperium both can't easily wipe out yet can be reasoned with and thus can engage in real world "geopolitical" machinations but in an interstellar framework and its one of THE MOST interesting things about 40k and I hope to see more in future titles!

[@andresvargas7650]

“Naughty ass pictures of … ART” ahaha 😂 that one caught me by surprise.. I have found myself binging on majorkill…the combination of your comedy and delivery of the Lore is incredible . Thank you majorkill for making learning about this Lore So much fun!!

[@stephanebarbier885]

That "sweet summer child" remark got you my like one this one 🤣

[@wolflordgio6320]

That Cato Sicarius Farsight duel was Epic!

[@ApexGaming]

was sad it wasn't mentioned

[@sotiriospeithis6659]

I played rhe fore warrior game before ever knowing anything about 40k. So the Tau will forever have a special place in my.heart. love their easthetic.

[@TFZ.]

I love the Tau space marine at 5:05. I saw another picture similar to that once of space marines with that armor that fought for the Farsight enclaves... Super sweet!

[@albertrex6851]

I heard that Tau have developed a counter to Titans, some big thick aircraft and Supremacy suits to take down the smaller titans

[@quicke5486]

The modified Tigersharks, they can two shot a Warhound. Cause after all they are carrying what is usually carried on naval ships.

[@cooperkleemann2955]

Yeah that's where the stormsurge and taunar come from

[@danielburks2257]

@@cooperkleemann2955 The Tau didn't have Stormsurges, Ghostkeels, etc. At the time of the crusades, they developed those later. During the crusades they just put giant guns on aircraft

[@cooperkleemann2955]

@@danielburks2257 I know, but I was specifying what was later used to fight Titans. Those being the stormsurge and taunar came from. I'm aware of the story behind their creation. Not trying to sound like an arse or neckbeard btw😄

[@curtisbrown547]

Don't forget the tau reverse engineered the entire codex astartes, and now know literally every space marine doctrinal tactic and exactly how to counter it moment by moment

[@janoycresva2279]

I mean there are alot of chapters that literally wipe their asses with the codex astartes

[@carlzerris6566]

What i find hilarious is apparently one of the pieces of advice in the mirror codex is 'shoot the guys without helmats since they are probably commanding officers'. Cant remember where i saw that so cant confirm if true but still amusing.

[@alphanoodle1877]

And reverse engineered a ork gravity well

[@curtisbrown547]

@@carlzerris6566 I mean, yeah that's pretty good advice, lol. Also must be nice to aim for, with no armor space Marine heads probably explode good

[@carlzerris6566]

@@curtisbrown547unless you hace a rail rifle. In that case shoot the chest so you take destroy the geneseed

[@skalgrimfellaxe5796]

Lets remember that the Damocles crusade was a absurdly small "crusade" with a miniscule Imperial fleet calling it "large" is honestly a joke. It had like 20 capital ships, 50 light cruisers, 14 million men, and in total about 1300 Space Marines. This is absolutely nothing in the scale the Imperium fights, and this still crushed several planets and got all the way into the heart of the Tau empire and even became a threat to their homeworld. Then again, it should be noted that the Imperium has many more humans living on single Hive Worlds than there are Tau in their entire empire. A fact that the Tau water cast diplomates couldn't even fathom when exposed to the fact.

[@haiderbutt2454]

Not true codex literally states sa'cea has trillons of people. They also conquered hive worlds.

[@skalgrimfellaxe5796]

@@haiderbutt2454 Then thats newer lore, older lore was that the Tau only had a few billion on their most populated worlds and on most septs only a few hundred million. Them being upped to "trillions" is a massive shift in the lore and means Tau now also have Hive worlds then.

[@Nukefandango]

The whole "hive worlds have more people than the whole Tau empire" thing is absolute fucking nonsense. It makes zero sense. It's like when the lore insists that fucking Imperator titans, which are walking cities, are like 200 feet tall. What's more, the Tau have *assimilated hive worlds into their empire.* It makes zero sense for a Tau, who knows their empire contains trillions of humans living in hive worlds, to see an imperium controlled hive world and be staggered by how many people are in it. It's GW failing at scale. Again.

[@555tork]

to be fair the worlds the crusade initially conquered before reaching Dal'yth were newly colonized by the t'au with no armies and barely any of their merchant navy within orbit, taking those planets is the equivalent of walking down the road claiming to conquer every house on the way

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

There is no such a thing as a "small" Crusade. It had trillions of guards men, Ad Mech, and multiple SM chapters (including Ultramarines White Scars, Black Templars, Scar Lords, Iron Hands and many others) not to mention FREAKING TITAN LEGIONS!!! No matter how you slice it, it wasnt neither small nor insignificant by any stretch of the imagination. And it was stopped dead on its tracks once it reached the 1st Sept World EDIT: Millions of guards men, my bad

[@Matuss101]

I love your way how you explain the lore, especially the bit why Damocles didnt withdraw from the crusade and denied Inquizitors request for exterminatus :D

[@albertrex6851]

Frankly speaking i have seen dime a dozen people who say Tau are pushovers. No they are not . IoM,Eldaari and others are stronger , true but fighting a Tau is a costly campaign which may not need an whole armada or space navy but will take quite a lot of effort . Say it is like not sneezing but like punching .

[@apolloknight9521]

That’s true. After all, during Damocles Campaign, the T’au didn’t have their modern Battlesuits yet like the Riptide, Storm Surge or Ta’unar Battlesuits yet they were able to halt the Imperium’s advance. Kinda shows that it requires more effort to take down something that’s small yet strong. I summarize T’au in two ways: “Small but Strong and Innovative” & “Small to be a threat and small to be ignored.”

[@lordomacron3719]

only the Tau's size makes therm pushovers. In a Total war sceranio where boths side bring their full might to bear the Tau would lose everytime to all the other factions. But in a limited setting where each side has roughly equal force the Tau are very much able to hold their own and even best some.

[@RayMKlll]

@@lordomacron3719 I mean, sure, the Tau lack the numbers to go head-to-head with... pretty much everybody, but they'll sure as hell take a LOT you down with them.

[@DemonKnight94]

@@lordomacron3719 If IOM and Tau are equal in numbers, Tau win every time.

[@NeoIsrafil]

Ooh yes, more Tau content please, its so underexplored in lore videos

[@parkermaisterra8532]

The books that cover the first Damocles Crusade are the Rogue Trader Omnibus by Andy Hoare and Blade of Damocles by Phil Kelly (who's pretty much become *the* Tau writer)

[@dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd]

lore on the imperial navy, the ages of the imperium (rebirth, nova terra, forging), types of squig, types of melee weapons, eldar paths, the codex, and space marine squads

[@Channel-23s]

If the Tau and the imperium combined they’d be pretty powerful range and melee cranked up to a 10

[@mantictassadar2931]

Could you give us any information on the imperium's first encounter with the necrons?

[@Salted_Fysh]

And then GW caved to the pressure and decided the T'au need to be grimdark now.

[@grantameele421]

I like the Tau. They have so much potential.

[@aclock2]

They also have a lot of inherent flaws, if reaching full potential they might rival Golden Age Human, but that's not enough against this Galaxy.

[@Grabthar191]

I think they have a dark side that has yet to be properly explored. Creepy mind controlling overlords.

[@requiemlul3140]

@@aclock2 Yes, yes it is. Anyone at DaoT level annihilates the rest of the galaxy.

[@WTfire10]

The necron are even beyond that probably and they don't

[@cooperkleemann2955]

@@WTfire10 but that's cause they're busy waking up and fighting among themselves

[@albertrex6851]

Shais O Kais ( no not the Dawn of War guy) the other normal fire caste warrior or fire warrior fell to Khornite influnce. There was a Water Caste guy who fell to Tzeentch or something but Tau falling to Chaos is like 1 in a billion cases whole each 1 guy among 10 people in a hive world or any other world of IoM falls to chaos .

[@555tork]

honestly the fact that the water caster guy had to be touching an exploding warp drive to be possessed speaks a lot to how ridiculously difficult it is to have tau affected by the warp.

[@FrostbiteDigital]

I think you mean Shas'La Kais. Shas O'Kais IS the Dawn of War guy.

[@albertrex6851]

Sometime annexing or conquering an area is not the best way,you need to appeal to the people like Tau did.

[@igncom1]

Imperials call this a draw, the Tau didn't lose a single sept world. Revisionism turned the crusade from a war to exterminate the Tau to a war to contain just one of the expansions. Imperial forces just ditched and ran to fight the Tyranids, the Tau also fought the Tyranids and survived that too.

[@dumbname1961]

Yea… a splinter fleet, Remnant of one that imperium defeated. Its something i guess, no one’d buy blue boys model if space cockroaches came in full might and om nom nom-ed their entire civilization.

[@navilluscire2567]

@@dumbname1961 Or Emperor forbid the T'au get any recognition or allowed to be badass in the lore for more than 5 seconds!

[@loganlautenschlager6885]

This was great I've always wanted a video that explains the demacles crusade with some comedy

[@jeanannd]

If your a human being overworked, starved, beaten down on a Imperium hive world and the Tau come, give you medicine, food, tell you there's no reason for you to be worked to death and the greater good shows you shouldn't be......Your going to join the Tau.

[@alfieingrouille1528]

Majorkill I just wanted to say thanks for fulfilling my vid request a while back you absolute mad lad

[@teobratuteodor1728]

Is hard to imagin how a tau will react to by the first tau or even xenos to see the Emperor what maybe will accidentaly turn that tau in a psyker.

[@blacktemplar1139]

Imagine having a massive fleet, yet you loose to 3 imperators, and maybe a battlebarge

[@The_Archivist407]

Let’s go! More major kill

[@anthonyphillips1893]

Idk but I feel like the ethereals are like the watchers in the night. They created the caste system to not just best utilize the tau pop and species but also to run the pysker traits out of their gene pool.

[@WallNutBreaker524]

The intro alone shows how good the video will be 😂👌

[@grerook9427]

the Tau radically militarized after this first encounter with the imperium. When the imperium returned with what the codex describes as a "proper imperial invasion", they weren't even able to take mugalath bay. This second invasion by the imperium had raven guard, white scars, a full house of imperial knights, hundreds of millions of guardsmen, imperial assassins and a bunch of forces from the Adeptus mechanicus. With all of that they weren't even able to take one planet, they lost the chapter master of the raven guard, almost lost the chapter master of the white scars and the tau didn't even had their main forces with them, it was just the planetary defenses and a tau army stationed there, although to be fair they did get reinforcements by the farsight enclaves. The imperium only got one victory on that whole war by killing the supreme ethereal but failing to even assassinate any of the other targets. They where so but hurt after loosing that they burned the system with some weird ass weapon of the mechanicus, not to kill any of the tau forces but so that if they couldn't have mugalath bay the tau couldn't either.

[@555tork]

the writing of the second damocles crusade at mu'gulath bay was quite atrocious at points though.

[@yourdad6902]

​@@555tork so what imperium lost just like all he times the imperium wins by insert dumb logic

[@BoneTrait]

I’ve always loved how out of pocket your content is. Keep it up, you’re doing great!

[@albertrex6851]

Sisters of Battle : They took it out. It was big, thick with strong smell. It was pulsating. Spraying my fire had no effect on it. It then released a huge load on me. I barely survived that incident. SoB account of encountering a Tau Railgun

[@apolloknight9521]

Wtf I thought I was reading a hentai Fic.

[@jasperzanovich2504]

@@apolloknight9521 You did.

[@thedyingmeme6]

I feel. . . Dirty

[@skraeling]

As a Haudenosaunee I deeply appreciate the Last of The Mohicans track used in your videos. A perfect ambient tune when talking about war philosophy and military doctrine.

[@apolloknight9521]

After seeing this video, I think it made me see the T’au in a different light. As someone who’s a T’au fan, I’m mostly a fan of their aesthetic but When Majorkill said that the T’au has become a force to be reckoned with in recent events and was able to gain the respect of the Imperium, needless to say that I now respect the T’au much more than I thought. After watching the video, I think I can summarize the T’au in two ways: “Small but Strong and Innovative” and “Too small to be a threat and too small to be ignored” I see it as similar to our world history of events: Israel are being surrounded and attacked simultaneously by enemies all sides even to this day while able to prosper but was able to hold out against all opposition.

[@pyromidas]

Israel survives because America is a powerful nation that supports it for power projection reasons. And also to prevent easy arab unification. It acts as an American proxy state, much like North Korea does for China. And it gives America an excuse to have forces in the Middle East. Allowing them the chance to have troop rotation in the conflict there so that they can test new weaponry and maintain combat experience. China currently has an army with almost no combat experience and it's causing them massive problems.

[@apolloknight9521]

@@pyromidas I was just using Israel as just an example but okay…

[@noneofurbusiness906]

Thank God someone made this political

[@apolloknight9521]

@@noneofurbusiness906 I didn’t mean to make it political. I just needed an example. Sorry if I offend.

[@ohamatchhams]

@@apolloknight9521 Yet belolth's explanation is very apt though Israel garner supports and proxies from other countries, even China technically supports Israel's existence after Mao's death and Deng Xiaoping's reforms, this is on top of India switching sides to be very biased towards America just to inhibit China's rises to superpower as of now while being very pro-Israel and even ogle the idea of Judaism being friends to Hinduism (for as oxymoronic as it's sounds) just to spite Pakistan and generally Muslims, despite India has HIndutva/BJP problems that even fractures India's political demographics NATO/USA, China, India and EU are having their own Imperium-complex for being vast but inefficiently managed network of states or countries or huge provinces but requiring their own completely different countries with some interests' alignments as power proxies to upholding political influences, Imperium shows this complex on how Rogue Traders, Chapters guarding the ends of Astronomican light (or eye of terror) to maintain logistics and securities' status quo, and more of than often causing unrests in the regions unless it's well managed

[@MaxUltimata]

I think the important thing to take away from all this is that both sides gave each other a fighting they were not prepared for. The Tau, for the diminutive size of their empire, put up a much larger fight than the Imperium was expecting, and likewise wasn't prepared for the kind of galaxy they were born into. They took heavy casualties in their worlds overall, but that required an extreme investment on the Imperium's part, including the use of multiple Space Marine chapters and a Titan (at least one of which got sniped by a single fighter-bomber that's fairly common in the Tau Empire). I think, in the long term, this was a huge W for the Tau. Unlike the Imperium, the Tau learned a lot from the campaign and responded in kind by reorganizing themselves with a fleet of new technology, strategies and Battlesuits to deal with the kind of fight the Imperium (and galaxy as a whole) was prepared to give them. The Imperium is way too large, disorganized and set in their ways to really change up how they would exactly engage the Tau other than a general warning of "DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE". Neither side is willing to commit the amount of resources to a war with each other again; the Tau would rather conquer human worlds through the Water Caste's diplomacy rather than decimate them through costly warfare, and the Imperium figures it can afford to lose a few worlds close to Tau space out of their acclaimed million, especially when said worlds are now on the other side of the Imperium Nihilus and would require even more resources than before the Great Rift to adequately address. And in the end, both sides are more capable of working together than any other faction in 40K (except maybe the Aeldari on a good day).

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

The Tau encauntering Titans in Damocles: Tau: WHAT IN THE NAME OF TAUVA IS THIS! WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!! THIS WAS A MISTAKE!!!! "proceed to get obliterated" The Tau encauntering Titans after Damocles: Tiger Shark: "Takes out a Titan" Rest of the Titan Legions: OH NO, OH SH!T, OH- NOPE NOPE NOPE TAKE US OUT OF HERE!!!!!! Farsight/Shadowsun: Well, this was easier than expected

[@albertrex6851]

How the tables have turned

[@lolbots686]

later farsight: allright,know what no offense guys,im not gonna be a dumbass,shadowsun nothing personal but were done, still friends i guess anyway shadowsun:.....i definitely regret not figuring out a way to stay with kitten more often. elsewhere,in the inperial palace,screaming at the top of his lungs kitten:THIS IS NOT FUCKING CANON!

[@_ok1735]

aaah the benefits of actually progressing your story

[@epicnessinacan]

I think this is one of your best videos yet! Very informative, great insights and fair to both sides. Well done!

[@nick3xtremegaming212]

ngl the Tau hate is undeserved.

[@burntbread6575]

It’s honestly just annoying at this point

[@nick3xtremegaming212]

@@burntbread6575 facts tho. like I get the hate when they first came out but that was over 20 years ago now the hate is just undeserved. the tau came out in 2001 I was born in 2001. just let it die out already.

[@burntbread6575]

@@nick3xtremegaming212 Shit, I wish it could die out. I play CSM, and whenever I go to my local store to play, and someone pulls out a Tau army, the more autistic players start talking shit and being assholes, and it is fucking insufferable watching.

[@howdareyouexist]

nah

[@mcarrowtime7095]

some of it. railguns look pretty stupid though, and their lore needs a level of finesse that GW is incapable so that hate might very well be preemptive

[@straightarrowshot]

Of all the youtube channels and podcasters I've listened to of 40K lore. You're always the most respectful towards Tau, thanks for that man.

[@Blakewyattdunfee]

Hot take. I like tau.

[@thatredhead3613]

Even harder take. I like tau aswell

[@_ok1735]

I like how grounded they look

[@AngelofDeath333]

Imperial makes a truce with the Tau, leaves when a Tyranid Hive Fleet is on the way… well bet none of those Tau survived that.

[@shaderunner8220]

This is something I keep saying about the Tau- They can never conquer the galaxy cause they don't have the numbers or the time to do something like that, but they are gonna hold on to what they have for a long long time cause of their tactical skills and their insane technology. The imperium will never be destroyed by the Tau, but with how things are in the galaxy I don't ever see them having the opportunity to take back whatever the Tau are holding at the moment. And their hold gets better with each passing day because as we see, their technology is still advancing at a ludicrous rate every edition.

[@archon8211]

i think taus success lies in their ideology, they convert instead of killing if they can, yes their numbers cant keep up with other races, but they can turn them to their side, we already have seen this with hiveworlds, theres literally more humans in the tau empire than tau themselves, so what im thinking is the loyalty of the humans will increase with time and each generation, and our kind is very wise and has high potential, the problem is the imperium isnt the place for that to prosper, but i believe within the tau empire humanity will rise again and we might hit our technological peak point again or even surpass it with enough time

[@DarthAzabrush]

There are more humans on Ciaphas Cain's (still unnamed) homeworld than there are Tau in the universe... damn right they're inconsequential...

[@licensed_beheader]

Bro am pretty sure tau can be corrupted by chaos in fact one of them was possessed by a lord of change and sacrificed many tau brethren to the Great Mutator .

[@555tork]

yeah in one of the Farsight books, but he did need to be touching an exploding warp engine for it to happen, kind of an outlier more than anything.

[@alphanoodle1877]

That's the exception and not the status quo

[@Its_me_Stolas]

Tau, the loveable race. Tau, Necrons, and Da Green Bois. These 3 are just the best. One chill, nice, and utilises tons of tactics. Second is badass, with incredible tech and hella ancient. And the third one is just funny and entertaining, just like certain mushrooms we have here

[@donglerongle3109]

maybe if the imperium wasn't a mess and the heresy never happened, they'd be able to wipe out the tau like they did most other xenos they encountered before the heresy. thankfully the imperium is weaker and now we get to see cool aliens instead of an imperium of only humans and a few lucky xenos

[@dontspeaktoelectrohead1491]

Not with Big E gaining more power every day

[@TheTankbus]

If the heresy never happened I doubt we would have the Imperium that exists today.

[@Robotmudkip99]

I think the Tao would not have been killed as there would be no reason to if the heresy never happened

[@thomasrose2029]

First Majorkill vid I’ve ever seen with adds 😂

[@Geoffroy4440]

Is there any lore on Tau/Necron interactions? How do the Tau view Necron tech and have they been able to reverse engineer any of it? I think it would be interesting if they finally felt inferior tech wise, but I wonder which side would win most engagements.

[@itzHippoHiPP0Th3Gam3r]

I know about one, there probably more idk. The nids were bopping on a tau world pretty hard, a necron fleet pops outta nowhere in orbit behind the nids. Nids get pincered by the two and get completely wiped out, the tau hold a planet wide festival to celebrate their saviors. Crons land, ethereal goes to great them, necrons shoot everyone on the planet.

[@vothbetilia4862]

@@itzHippoHiPP0Th3Gam3r Lmao typical Tau.

[@itzHippoHiPP0Th3Gam3r]

@@vothbetilia4862 finished twice dead king recently so all I can see is them going who the fuck are these blue people

[@howdareyouexist]

@@itzHippoHiPP0Th3Gam3r absolutely hilarious

[@archon8211]

I think they can reverse engineer necron weapons but i dont think it would be useful, even if they manage to create a weapon that can deatomize things we know that it uses a shit ton of energy and necrons basically have infinite energy within themselves. So even if they create it probably would be a very expensive weapon, now if we talk about necrodermis i think thats actually more reliable, i dont remember the name but there was a human that has like a necron arm, so in theory they can make it but getting necrodermis is hard since necrons get automatically teleported away when they are near destruction, which means they need to capture one without damaging it. The good part is necrodermis basically regenerates so one necron is all they need, and when they successfully create a prosthethic they can gather more necrodermis from that too to create more and harvest from that aswell and so on.

[@donaldharmonify]

I've followed you since day one and I gotta say please please continue. Best Warhammer channel on KZbin.

[@im2randomghgh]

The Tau are interesting - a huge military power with only a few hundred to low thousands of planets and not much ability to travel. In their neighbourhood they're a very big player but in a galaxy with one hundred billion stars you can just...not be where they are😂

[@bloodangel19]

When you think about it even the imperium is small. What is 1 million+ worlds in a galaxy of billions?

[@vojtechkorhon4159]

@@bloodangel19 my headcanon is that most of warhammer Milky Way galaxy blew up during the war in heaven and other huge conflicts. But the number is still too small. It should be like 1 billion

[@chnb517]

Not all star systems are hospitable

[@stardestroyer19]

@@bloodangel19 Most planets are uninhabitable. Imperium most likely has the overwhelming majority of the habitable planets in the Galaxy.

[@vojtechkorhon4159]

@@stardestroyer19 estimates I saw were higher than 1 million. So it probably still should be a bit bigger. But there might be inaccessible parts of the galaxy, so maybe nobody looked there

[@custodianguardofthemagyari216]

Fire cast warrior: sir why is that church is getting closer?

[@jacksoncurb7003]

Feel like a space marine would obliterate a tau

[@legaroojack1251]

demigod vs fishman, hmmm yes

[@lowkeyarki7091]

Cause they can, an average tau is weaker than an average human, and before continuing cause I know people will start throwing in shadow sun and commander far sight I said AVERAGE if we're gonna use their strongest warriors as a comparison might as well throw the primarchs into the tau homeworld and see how long before the tau empire decides to bend over. So moving on an average tau is weaker than an average human so of course a space marine could obliterate a tau with a few exceptions.

[@burntbread6575]

A space marine could obliterate literally every race in one on one combat. Yet put a squad of marines against a force of well-trained and organized opponents who are used to their combat doctrines, then yeah, it’s going to be a more challenging fight.

[@spacejunk2186]

Duh

[@archon8211]

İt depends ,Standard tau soldier weapons can actually punch holes in space marines, but if we consider that they have basically have geneseeds that allow them to not bleed out as much as a normal human or have things like 2 hearts and 3 lungs, lets just say 5 shots to their chest area is enough, or they could headshot but marines are fast so they could probably dodge that. Which basically comes down to range, if the tau is in bolter range and they both shoot, marine will survive while the tau gets blown in half, if the marine is far away the tau has to shoot fast and without missing because the marine will close distance fast which is not likely if we consider the tau reflex, so on 1vs1 the marine will basically win most of the time. İf there was a team of tau tho things could change

[@charluu1929]

Tau when they see a titan:AYO the walter class said that these mfs are fake,welp guess I'll die