THE T'AU MEET THE DEATHGUARD!

[@Infiverse]

In 40k the enemy of your enemy is your enemy.

[@undoisteinkekshd1093]

You don't have allies

[@informationyes]

Underrated comment

[@alpharius2802]

Nothings your Allie everything is your enemy there’s no peace and pity just relentless death and pain for there is only the hope of the emperor and the light of sanguinias but prai . Se . . . F. . .ooo. . . . R . . .rrr . . .a . . . . . . Lll. . . P . . . . . A. A a . . . .s . . .ss

[@MisterZimbabwe]

The Guardsman's Lifting Primer, page 324, paragraph 4, line 3: "There is no such thing as overkill. There is only 'Open Fire's and 'I need to reload'.".

[@anquiladremon]

@@MisterZimbabwe and fix bayonets

[@Fourtytwo4242]

Farsight taking a sip of coffee"I tried to warn them"

[@cryptosporidium1375]

42 42 sounds like a Gue’vesa joke

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

I think Farsight fought the Death Guard before Shadowsun did.

[@user-ii2jo4nh4j]

@Anzu Wyliei No that sounds like something Tzeentch himself would say

[@pronumeral1446]

@@samuelrodriguez9801 Farsight Fought the World Eaters or Black Legion, I forget which.

[@spaceduck5129]

💀💀

[@brandondemers1769]

Every time the tau poke their head out of there pocket empire they're given a new reason to stay there.

[@jamescawl6904]

Nurgle simply opened the Tau Empire's mouth and took a big fat shit. Karma is a bitch.

[@kriegkorpsman402]

Good.

[@sydanthay2172]

Well. For now yes. But the rate at which they are developing their tech makes them most dangerous later on

[@herpicusmc.derpington2878]

Even if the Tau manage to repel the Death Guard, it’d take a lot longer to fully rid themselves of Father Nurgle’s “gifts”.

[@jamescawl6904]

@@sydanthay2172 Better Tech doesnt always mean victory. You forget that in the 40k universe that the Imperium is about 1,000,000 populated planets strong with more than 15,000 years of Experience in Galactic scale warfare. The Orks are super fungi that can make things happen if they believe hard enough. The Nids are Galaxy killers The Necrons are grumpy space Genociders The Eldar are super psykers wuth an attitude and are untrustworthy as hell. The Dark Eldar are super sadists with pain and suffering as their fetish also has super tech. The Choas Gods are extra super bad with countless demons, Legions of traitor astartes and corrupting powers yet it took 13 black crusades for them to break Cadia before the Guard. And most important of all the lack of Tau warp drives.

[@aidanthornton173]

**Tau poke their heads out of the empire** **Witness the Tyranids, imperium, chaos, orks, necrons, Dark eldar, etc** **Tau slowly retreat back into the empire**

[@metaljugger]

That empire has grown ten fold in a matter of decades. And they did a little bit more than just witness them. Mistakes are the hallmark of a developing nation and its a nice change of pace to the the edgy as all fuck space cathedral opera that happening literally everywhere else in the galaxy. But lets just keep shitting on the tau for all eternity, because we don't like the weeby space aliens. Give me more edgy death cults and WW1-esque Imperial Guard regiments because that is literally the only thing I want to see coming out of this entire universe, ever.

[@dalek--ck9oy]

@@metaljugger found the tau

[@jgw9990]

@@metaljugger People shit on the Tau because they get a lot of plot armour. Like their technology is as good as it needs to be to win. Their army is tiny, they shouldn't have the manpower to conquer hive worlds (which is a Tau nightmare as its all close quarters meatgrinder) yet the writer's would have us believe they succeeded. So people glory in stories of their defeat because they deserve them.

[@nurgleschosen8145]

@@jgw9990 it's also because they were ment to be the good guys of 40k and the fans were having none of it, the charm of warhammer was that no one was good, just different shades of evil. The Tau are so unimportant, so small that they should have crumbled long ago and I agree with that believe.

[@GodlordBazi]

@@nurgleschosen8145 Well, the Tau are also just a different shade of evil. They basically stay friendly till you refuse to agree upon their offer. Foreigners, which refuse to merge their civilisation into the Tau Empire are simply conquered by military force and as a Tau citizen, if you don't do what is expected from you, they simply keep on making your life shittier step by step till they finally execute you and check your brain in hopes of finding what exactly made you being such a little rebellious shit. The problem I (and most others) have with them is just that it's not very credible what they are capable of doing. In terms of military size, speed and firepower the Tau would be no danger at all, but yet they are. I mean, just look at the story in the video here. They get gangraped by a single chaos legion, the Imperium of Man fights off 9 of those legions since over 10k years, AND their demons, AND a whole bunch of other xenos which are a lot more powerful than the Tau are. Yet still the Imperium of Man is loosing ground the the Tau Empire? I mean, seriously, the Imperium has assembled two powerful crusades to skullfuck the Tau and they failed both times. There's no way in hell an Empire so small such as the Tau's could compete with something so big like the Imperium of Man in terms of replenishment of their forces.

[@NewGuy2534]

Farsight: So … how was fighting Chaos?

[@Subjekt3]

well he did it first :)

[@thelardmaker6806]

@@Subjekt3 The Tau had already fought the forces of the other chaos gods, DG was the first overwhelming one theyve seen.

[@fumarc4501]

Farsight fought demons of Khorne without the support of Chaos Space Marines. Shadowsun is having a worse day.

[@cryptosporidium1375]

Boss Umbra Farsight fought Khorne and Slaanesh for the Dawnblade.

[@TurKlack]

Shouldn't he be dead by now? Tau don't seem to live very long iirc

[@Yokou32]

Well the Tau seem to have left tutotial. Now they are in for it hehehe.

[@metaljugger]

Thats what they said the last 3 times they 'left the tutorial'.

[@kelvinvito105]

They switched into survival mode and regretted it.

[@commissarlugh1040]

Spawn protection: off

[@helltrigger87]

Yeah they smashed the space marines, imperial guard, orks, and tyranids, I guess easy mode is over...

[@mikkelnpetersen]

"Your free trial have ended"

[@Peter_Turbo4]

"Why haven't the enemy arrived yet" Memewhile in Ultramar: *ANGERY ROMAN NOISES*

[@trevor3194]

I like how the Tau assume the death guard are coming for them, but in reality the death guard have MUCH MUCH bigger fish to fry. The Tau think they are the center of the galaxy when in reality the chaos gods couldn’t care less about the Tau while Guilliman is back in the setting and literally carrying humanity and the imperium on his shoulders.

[@AntonSlavik111]

Its always nice to see the Tau try to understand the insanity of the Galaxy they live in. I love that bit about Nurgle where they think he turned on the Death Guard.

[@89Keith]

true, also: Peace through power!

[@BNik92]

@Cian McCabe this is bullshit because the entire schism in the Tau society was started due to their cadres being unable to agree on how to take on the Orkz.

[@Denterify2]

@Cian McCabe What about that time they got first saved by the Necrons from the nids only to get murdered by them?

[@matthewhelland9258]

@@Denterify2 Or the time they were dumb enough to send ambassadors to Commoragh.

[@Griffolion0]

"Mutated corpses that literally just keep coming." Mate we're talking about Nurgle, not Slaanesh.

[@alexitrinune]

Took me long to realise.

[@tjbarke6086]

Well played.

[@SilentHotdog28]

That's the one thing that Nurgle and Slaanesh have in common....they keep coming haha.

[@ThePalatineHill]

i.... i don't even want to picture that even though i am

[@mr.redhands8390]

What are you talking about? Nurgle mutates a lot of his... oh... OH...

[@ju5t1ce33]

Why isn’t there a 40K film yet? 1. Because the wider mainstream audience is not ready for it. 2. Because Hollywood would find some way to mess it up.

[@Meartmans86]

There is one and it was a disaster of galactic proportions. Search for the Ultramarine movie and prepare to claw your eyes out.

[@LocalHeretic-ck1kd]

@@Meartmans86 I kinda liked that movie but in my defense I knew next to nothing about W40k when I first saw it. These days I dont really want to watch it again. But that movie had John Hurt in it.

[@marianpazdzioch6632]

WH40k is not family friendly and Holywood doesn't like that.

[@planetoftheweek]

I pray to the emperor, that we never get a hollywood 40k movie. grim dark would turn into fluffy unicorns bullsh..

[@curtisschutz2440]

Hollywood would find a way to turn it into a love story, and nobody wants to see primarchs in love!

[@Jdne199311]

"You may have meet a space marine chapter before Shadow Sun, but you've never meet a Legion" That was spine tingling good!

[@nightlock826]

Fulgrim: I’m going to screw around with the blueberries Mortarion: can I join in?

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

Dark Eldar: We did not expect special forces

[@bluelax99able]

@@eyeballpapercut4400 "That's the point"

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

@@bluelax99able If you didn't get it, I was talking about the near extinction of Kroot due to multiple Drukhari raids on the Tau Empire

[@justsomeamerican2301]

Deathgaurd : farts Tau empire : dies

[@alexitrinune]

This made me laugh hard.

[@FoundingChambers]

This made me laugh harder than it should 🤣🤣

[@snarbysnarbolax]

This made me fart and kill a tau

[@funtimefredboi3877]

So you claim you wouldn't die

[@darkscholar625]

Legend has it that when the battle was at its most dire, Shadowsun thought of her Kitten and all of the time they shared...

[@Yorkington]

Her precious, Golden Kitten...

[@josephwonsetler389]

*kitten from a distance* NOT FUCKING CANNON

[@thetau4866]

@@josephwonsetler389 SHUT IT KITTEN YOU KNOW IT IS

[@Nightmare704RY]

@@thetau4866 Kitten to Magnus: could you do me a favor? *Shadowson is about to be cut dow bi a plague marine when, sudenly, out of a strange portal, a tall human figure clad in golden and silver armor step in between and slay the deathgard where it stands with a mighty power alabard* Kitten: ok damit, IT IS CANON!

[@thetau4866]

@@Nightmare704RY thats the only way I could see it, him doing something manly and saving shadowsun

[@firestorm1088]

"Despite losing, despite knowing she doesn't have a chance, she makes the stand anyway." and that is exactly what 40k is all about.

[@adrgs12]

"You may have meet a space marine chapter, but you've never met a legion" NOICE, had a chill when you said that

[@Denterify2]

And now Imagine the look on the taus face when they ever learn about the great crusade and how that could have hit them if they developed a bit earlier (relatively)

[@UnknownSquid]

@@Denterify2 The Tau existed during the Great Crusade, it was only 10 thousand years ago. It's just that they would have been in a primitive bronze age state at the time. They were also a long way out the way of the crusades path.

[@orange8420]

Imagine the tau face When they realize literally any major faction can simply wipe out their entire race

[@HowlFromBeyond]

Dear diary, vacationing in the Star Tide Nexus with papa. We met and infected lots of new blue friends on the way. I still miss Ultramar.

[@jakehughes5962]

Heh

[@iconicusensign9624]

For the Greater Decay!

[@justastandardplaguemarine4286]

Greetings plague brother

[@danielboatright8887]

Cant have renewal without death, they're just spreading renewal.

[@imperialfistsmarine5064]

5th sphere expansion- Gee golly I'm so glad we can expand the reach of the Greater Good. Death Guard- Greetings mortals do you have a moment to spare in the name of the Plague Father?

[@bgcvetan]

Mortarion: Xenos, listen and listen well... With blistering speed Grandfather Nurgle sends his purulence greeings and wishes you to know that he loves you, with pustules heart, accept his loving rancid gift.

[@davidcharron8890]

Tell Nurgle he can keep his generous gifts. We don’t want them!

[@donttreadonmemes]

Nurgle just wanted to be part of the greater good

[@E100Omega123]

Deathguard: *Shows up* Tau: Holy balls what the hell are those abominations?! Space Marine: *sips recaff* Hmmm Tuesday already?

[@dirkwehner9019]

Hey Wolf Lord Rho, I am amazed and humbled by your treatment of my stories. You are doing a great job catching the atmosphere I'm going for, and I absolutely appreciate your work and how meaningful it is for the community. Thanks so much, keep it up!

[@wolflordrho]

Thank you for creating such great stories! You enable fans like me to be immersed in the world of 40k, and live moments with characters like we were there. It is us that thank you!

[@ArinorMephisto]

So wholesome! I love seeing comments like this.

[@00784865]

The stories you guys create are trully fantastic. I love every bit of it.

[@goliathsteinbeisser3547]

Hey there! Thank you for this story. You really did the nature and the horror of Chaos justice and a great job at describing this encounter. I would love to see the Tau explore and struggle to make sense of the universe. There are so many stories waiting to be told about intrepid Tau navigating this terrifying galaxy.

[@TheTorito601]

Hey Dirk, just wondering, do you have a reddit or a page where you put out short stories or things you're interested in?

[@void-creature]

Tau: expand even further CHAOS: YOURE PLAYING WITH THE BIG BOYS NOW..... By the might of HORUS you will kneel before us...

[@kagat2359]

Prince Of Egypt reference

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

My first two thousand sons sorcerers were named after Hotep and Hoy, the priests in prince of egypt lol

[@ShahbazBokhari]

The Tau are gonna learn the truth of the galaxy ... oh they gonna learn.

[@UnknownSquid]

@lil crispy So far, every threat they've faced, they've suffered initial losses but came out stronger in the long run. Only other faction in 40k to show that kind of adaptability is the Tyranid. Any major incursion could end them, but at the same time every minor incursion develops them toward the point of being able to withstand ever bigger.

[@victuz]

@@UnknownSquid So they're like Saiyans and Doomsday.

[@kookbrah640]

They will learn of our peaceful ways .... by force

[@apolloknight9521]

@@UnknownSquid Well, I’d like to think that a race that thinks highly of innovation, I’d see it that every loss they take they learn from tehri mistakes in some way, (Most of the time)

[@michelecastellotti9172]

The ONLY treath they will realistically struggle with are custodes

[@MrGlobbits]

Finally........the Imperium always has to deal with like literally everything, every threat and xenos. Let the blueberries take some of the load for once. Yeah I know, it's not exactly unheard of the xenos and/or chaos fight each other, just the Imperium seems to be the ones always having to do it. It's a wonder they have anything left.

[@aopt471]

That's maybe because all the imperial subfactions are the most played and with the Horus Heresy the core of the fluff. - Just my first thought.

[@MrGlobbits]

@@aopt471 Whatever the reason, it's a breath of fresh air to hear it. It's interesting to see and hear the Tau's reaction to Chaos though. Gotta say as well, I find myself rooting for Chaos here for some reason.

[@bgcvetan]

You know, for a insidious species that castrates all humans on the planets they conquer effectively dooming humans to extinction in the name of -Etherials- greater good, there is some sweet justice that the first contact chaos marines come with the loving embrace of grandpapa Nurgle.

[@kriysixvector4552]

@@bgcvetan Dawn of war is not canon

[@kingragnork]

@@kriysixvector4552 some of it is though, how do you know which is and isnt?

[@landbeforetimeee]

Event Horizon could be considered a 40k prequel, if you want a movie in the vein of the beginning of the story.

[@ferofax]

So people going crazy because they looked into the warp.

[@ZeroCanalX]

Fun Fact: Event Horizon craetors said they wanted to make it w40k prequel, but when they saw licensing fees, they decided to make it its own thing.

[@monkeykingofthejungle2053]

@@ZeroCanalX SAD! It should have been a warhammer film.

[@Ex0psMerc]

I love the horror stories that 40k has done. The atmosphere they build is great. My favorite so far has been the Perdition's Flame. That reveal at the end.....I never saw that coming.

[@primecoconut4204]

GREETINGS, ALIENS, WE ARE THE DEATHGUARD. WE ARE HERE TO GIVE YOU GIFTS FROM OUR GRANDFATHER! Sadly, you have refused it and it makes Grandfather sad. HERE LET US ENLIGHTEN YOU ABOUT PAPA NURGLE's KINDNESS!!

[@khylerbane4523]

I read this in Typhus’s tts voice.

[@Schnittertm1]

Deathguard knocking at the T'au front door (with bolters): "Hello! May we talk to you about our Lord and Savior Nurgle?" T'au: big NOPE

[@khylerbane4523]

Typhus: “I wasn’t fucking optional!” *swings scythe*

[@fallenknighttyler8695]

Well I'm sure the Captain General "Kitten" will be happy to hear about this 6:12 Need to find a Independent Studio, Hollywood cant handle it or be trusted

[@bgcvetan]

That's not a f*cking cannon.

[@bryan0x05]

@@bgcvetan is that heresy I detect

[@Nyghtking]

Maybe, maybe not, no one deserves the fate that nurgle has in store.

[@cadis4257]

Hollywood must never get its hands in Warhammer. Enough with wanting Hollyshit to adapt beloved franchises.

[@mereanochheart7050]

Hollywood would make sjw / pc 40k movie...imagine: (

[@daswordofgork9823]

Typhus meets Shadowsun for the first time: You thought that it would be your precious Kitten that you would find here, but it was I......... Typhus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@randomizedrandomizer2533]

"KONO TYPHUS DA!"

[@nathanjay83]

ITS NOT CANON!!!

[@THExRISER]

6:31 This is literally like that meme you see in KZbin comments: "Guys I paused the hologram but I can still hear the screaming,help!"

[@markhellvig4549]

remind me of the novel Know No Fear when Roboute Guiliman is talking via holo feed to his brother Logar, admonishing him for the attack on Calth, when all of the sudden the hololith starts to laugh and cackle, morphing into a being that turns out to be a freakin Daemon that is suddenly on the bridge with Guiliman!!! and the Tau just got a tiny taste of a haunted scream after teh holo feed stopped.. a non psychic race trying to make logical sense of chaos.. Welcome to the 40th millennium Tau. "There is no peace among the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."

[@THExRISER]

@@markhellvig4549 Let the galaxy burn.

[@markhellvig4549]

@@THExRISER all ends in decay

[@SilenTHerO78614]

Ah the Death Guard, Shadowsun arm the Riptides with the flamers. The Heavy flamers.

[@Spacefrisian]

The Y'vahra kind?

[@SilenTHerO78614]

@@Spacefrisian Any and all you have if you're going up against the Death Guard. Plus idk if it would be worth it in the long run knowing how the Death Guard roll. Probably not the best idea for your latest battlesuit to fall into the hands of nurgle because of a few infected pilots.

[@tylerwilliams417]

I love Tau stories where they meet Chaos and the horrors that come with it.

[@Denterify2]

Especialy since the Tau other than the big factions often have acutally no clue what they are realy dealing with.

[@PheonyxJay]

It’s always a breath of fresh air, I was introduced to humans briefly this universe first, but fell in love with the Tau. Especially as someone new to the lore and universe, seeing things through the perspective of the Tau is always so much fun, and also, oh so terrifying. I knew of the Death Guard before, but this? This was the first time I saw what they did and how they did it. You’re telling me our super fast and heavily armed battlesuits are cleaved in half by these guys? That they are never weathered by our firepower? And the things they did to the Tau are horrendous

[@bulwyf2572]

I love Death Guard. I love how out of all the demon primarchs the only one that kept his sons together and actually grew in the Long War was Mortarion. The only reason he turned was to save his sons. Glad to see him kicking ass in 40k.

[@demonic_myst4503]

To be fair magnus also turned for his sons and for the civilians of his planet magnus almost returned loyal till he asked the emperor what of my sons and the emperor said they were a lost cause which made magnus refuse him the only way magnus will reyurn to loyalists is if his sons are saved

[@darkinnovator2479]

Hmm, maybe Mortarion will appear himself? That could be fun, or even to see a normal Primarch terrifying the Blueberries!

[@TheAgentmigs]

The best scenes in 40k are ones where there no shots fired. Period.

[@iniudan]

Boyz, some git need to lern to fink propa orky... dere nayver 'nough dakka!

[@DP-ym8zf]

Indeed *draws chainsword*

[@jamricsloe]

I’m very curious to know if Roboute Guilliman knows of the Black Templar’s true numbers.

[@dave-ish8098]

Or how the Dark Angels work kind of like a legion as far as their command chain goes.

[@Cha-Khia]

He very likely doesn't care at this point.

[@ekulerudamuru]

You all forgot the codex state when on a crusade, the 1k limit can be negated that's why the BT are on an eternal crusade

[@edim108]

@@ekulerudamuru Guilliman: No, that isn't how you're supposed to play the game!

[@oswaldchai9865]

@@edim108 minor details sir.

[@tomgraveling8123]

they've never meet a legion...

[@jetstreamsam1242]

Led by a Primarch/ Daemon Primarch I may add

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

its gonna be like slaanesh patrol. "hello and goodbye you are dead."

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

@@KossolaxtheForesworn basically!!!!!!

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

@@KossolaxtheForesworn it's not even fair fight!!!!!!!!

[@Voron_Aggrav]

Exactly why the Tau are still around, nobody gave them two cents of attention to sit them down and explain how things work,

[@MrTolgarion]

I think when something like the deathguard comes at you and you don't go running screaming like a little girl to the hills then by default it just became 40k.

[@void-creature]

Well, I guess the Tau finally passed the test, a true baptism in pestilent fire

[@lordfrostwind3151]

It still could have been worse, Lucius and his merry men could have been the Tau's first taste of the Chaos Gods.

[@grayowl8322]

Or kharn and his berserkers

[@apolloknight9521]

Wasn’t the Farsight Enclave the first to face Daemons?

[@timothylyons5686]

Finally Shadowsun meets a legion. Now she learns how outgunned the Tau really are.

[@pakornwattanavrangkul2550]

Always love it when the horrors of the universe gets described through the tau.

[@Astavyastataa]

The Tau are one of my favorite factions. Glad to see them getting some more fluff.

[@mr.candyworm2693]

I'm maybe sick, but I really cheered for the Deathguard here

[@fasteddy9789]

The Death Guard brings the greatest gift of all.....Silence

[@markhohenbrink5230]

It would be interesting to see Commander Farsight fighting chaos. His sword lore wise is weaker than the Emperors sword, but it takes the life force of the thing it kills and gives it to farsight. So what happens when he kills a demon, greater unclean one, bloddthirster, or some other big bady.

[@Cha-Khia]

Edits because I'm an illiterate twat. It would most likely just give it a true death (as in no coming back EVER) and not really effect Farsights life span Or slightly less likely it would just banish it back into the warp like normal, and just be better at killing daemons because it's a empowered -TottalyNotAnEldar- Sword. And least likely, it would turn Farsight into a daemon.

[@blairinferno4675]

@@Cha-Khia he's already "killed" daemons with his sword.

[@AM-ep1rv]

Farsight becomes the mini god emperor of the tau

[@XHobbiesPrime]

40K would be a perfect setting for a series of sci-fi/horror films.

[@west-vf7qj]

Xombiticus there is literally a Warhammer 40K TV show being made revolving around an inquisitor.

[@XHobbiesPrime]

@@west-vf7qj Eisenhorn on Amazon. I am very excited for it.

[@Denterify2]

The Death of Hope Fanseries might be considered

[@Rybak7]

For the Greater... Unclean One!

[@bizarreworld2510]

Shadowson is truly badass, Kitten you lucky bastard!! Some custodian screams in the background: *THAT'S, NOT, CANNON*

[@SpicyToTheDeath]

‘Where’s the Death Guard fleet?” Mort and bois: (immaterium rift opens) Déjà vu

[@josegamez1862]

This story brings my favorite army the Deathguard to the Tau and made me fall in love with the Tau. I am now making a Tau army lead by Commander Shadowsun to go recreate this epic battle. .....Joooy

[@dayotobiusa]

Don't forget the single custodes in the distance...

[@AnonYmous-jo1pk]

I really enjoy this channel. The fact that he sticks to the lore, but also adds his own opinions and theories on it makes it one of the best W40K channel around here. Thank you for providing such great content mate!

[@calbaxter1721]

I must say, that background music choice is haunting! I love it!

[@Leivve]

For me, the Tau are the closest thing you'll get to pre age of strife humanity. They have all the traits of them. A sense of egalitarianism (relatively), embracing of technology, AI, ect.

[@Ghostx357]

i am not sure if we can compare the old (probably federation) to the tau.

[@thelardmaker6806]

@Lord Admiral Spire Soon enough, them drones will become smaller and smaller as their tech advances, I say.

[@Gnarlf]

@@thelardmaker6806 We need much finer brushes then, i guess ;)

[@Leivve]

@Lord Admiral Spire key word closest. The tau also aren't stagnate, they will reach that point eventually too.

[@jackdaalfbrainork6392]

Leivve they saw the death guard... *imagine the emperor’s children, world eats and thousands sons came to say hi*

[@ryanstuart5449]

Mate you're channel is the best 40k one about, the enthusiasm you have for this is infectious!!!

[@pinestriker2789]

Ryan Stuart ironic that you say infectious givin that the death guard are in this story

[@ryanstuart5449]

😂 Never thought of that, oh well looks like the inquisition will be round soon

[@andrewkennedy9134]

Interesting point for me was the comment shadowsun makes about tau from 4th expansion committing atrocities...obviously this could be purely because of their traumas, but could it also be early signs of their corruption by chaos?

[@Wimpiethe3]

Poor, poor little ignorant blueberries.

[@bkr1895]

Rho, friends don’t let friends start Tau armies

[@AussieGriffin]

The tension of having a fleet that could crush you being missing from it's anticipated destination? That's terror. A.G.

[@Macheteman75]

I've been working 14-16 hour days lately and for the last 3 hours I'm all by myself and your videos have been keeping me entertained the whole time I'm there.

[@wolflordrho]

I’m glad they can help out!

[@claeswelinder2014]

What makes it even more captivating is your contagious and enchanting genuine enthusiasm!

[@rodneysandersii6997]

Closest thing to catachan is: predator 1. Imperial guard: Starship troopers 1 The warp: event horizon

[@mecasheepawesome1469]

Man the the space weebs are in for the ride of their lives.

[@tae-whankim9821]

The Death Guards Stairway to Heaven is the Tau's Highway to Hell

[@TOUGHEYES]

Ride of their lives? It's the Death Guard they're facing, not the Emperor's Children on a Wednesday.

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

I wonder what the Tau would make of the Thousand Sons. At a glance they look less weird and mutated than the Death Guard, but lots of psychic powers and automata would be weird for them. Also seeing that unvuln save at work would be funny too, I can imagine a battlesuit blasting away with weapons that can usually destroy a tank only for it to do nothing to infantry lol

[@lashcandle8170]

Ugh I’ve been waiting so long for you to do this video. Feels like it’s been forever. I felt that the emotion shown by Shadowsun and the dire situation they built up was great. It’s too bad, that this wasn’t the theme of the story

[@HorusHeresy1982]

Shame they abandoned this story thread. I really like the T'au advancing in their understanding of the Galaxy.

[@khylerbane4523]

"You may have met a space marine chapter before Shadowsun, but you've never met a Legion." I can honestly see any of the chaos/traitor legions saying that. Also, imagine if Mortarion decides to join to vent his frustration. I imagine it would go something like this… Shadowsun looked on as the horrifying abominations advancing towards her. For all the firepower they had, all the hits they took they would not stop moving. As if they were immune to damage. ‘What are these things’ she wondered to herself, ‘These tainted Gue’vesa?’ She would not get to ponder for long. For then a voice rang out… “XENOS!” All attention was turned to where the voice came from. And what they all saw stunned every Tau fighter present. It was a Gue’vesa. On of the tainted ones, but much more than that. It was enormous. At least 20 feet tall, with moth like wings, a torn cloak, massive scythe, clad in the green rustic infected style armor as the rest and, like many Gue’vesa, wore no head protection of any kind. It was reminiscent of the Astarte chapter master that the empire killed in the Damocles Gulf war. But the comparison didn’t do the being justice. It was as more that chapter master was to this being what a normal Astarte, or even basic Gue’vesa, was to a chapter master. In fact, in perhaps a in an ironic twist of both fate and history repeating, had it not been tainted and mutated she would have assumed that such a person could only be the Emperor the Imperials go on and on about. Just like with the Chapter Master all those years ago. But then the being spoken once more… “I am Mortarion! Primarch of the Death Guard, Champion of Nurgle, Lord of the 14th legion, and Son of the Emperor.” That last part caught Shadowsun’s attention. *Son* of the emperor? If this is his son, what was he like? “Rejoice, for your suffering and misery has come to a blissful end. For I spread upon you the gifts of the unholy grandfather himself.” As he spoke green mist spread out from his being and onto the closest front line combatants. They screamed in agony and pain all the while physically melting and turning to literal mush of meat and bones. Never in all her years had the commander see such a horror. “Do not cry” the gaint continued, “You not dying, it is merely the consequence of rejecting the Plague father’s embrace. Embrace Nurgle, join our family, embrace his love, accept his gifts, and Ypu will know no pain. No more suffering, no more loneliness, no more death. Only euphoria, acceptance, love, peace, and happiness. For Poppa Nurgle loves us all for who we are, and all you need to do is love him back and you too be part of a world of truly pure perfection.” Shadowsun was no fool. This “Mortarion” was a liar. His words may be honeyed and sweet, but his actions showed the truth. He was no herald of a benevolent god, but a reaper of souls. Shadowsun looked at her troops and saw a horrifying sight as some began to mutate into a similar forms as the invaders. They were weak willed and sought the easy way out. Turning their backs on the Greater Good. But to the Tau commander there was only one choice to make. Calmly, she rose her arm, aim her cannon at the Tainted Gue’vesa leader, and fired at him. "Never" she yelled, 'I will *never* lower myself! I am Shadowsun and I serve only the Greater Good!" The shot hit him square in the upper chest. And didn’t even register as a speed bump. “So you have chosen death” the one called Mortarion replied. “We offered you friendship and you spit in your face. Well then, let me enlighten you as to what happens to those who reject Nurgles gifts.” “I have faced your kind before, Human” Shadowsun said in Gothic. “I know how to face Astartes.” Mortarion just laughed. "You may have met a space marine chapter before Shadowsun” he said gleefully, “but you've never met a Legion."

[@sulaimanbinabdulhalim4488]

Wow

[@Everlost_Nation]

There is a space marine movie and that youtuber Astartes made some short films that are absolutely amazing

[@Denterify2]

Astartes Hellsreach Death of Hope all great fan Projects ^^

[@ryansobol8991]

you know what I like? When somebody stops telling a story to start explaining how great a story it is /s

[@simplewrites]

I like how the Tau call the Imperium's battle tactics and weapons primitive but keep being reminded that "less advanced =/=less lethal"

[@thuranz2773]

To be fair though, Pulse Rifles are pretty OP for a basic infantry weapon on the tabletop. They outperform weapons I'd argue are even more advanced and sophisticated in lore like Gauss Flayers and shuriken catapults. Though I'd guess that probably isn't the case in lore (kinda like how catapults had their range cut from bolter level, because a codex writer wanted them to function like SMGs). What the Tau also don't seem to know, is that their average tech level is a lot higher than the Imperium. But their tech ceiling is also significantly lower than the Imperium's.

[@simplewrites]

@@thuranz2773 yes exactly. Tau infantry is more advanced than the Guard, but the Tau don't have stuff the mechanicus have like Titans and they don't have as many ships as large and as powerful as the Imperium, especially not Exterminatus level weapons

[@ghostwood9174]

Read “The Buried Dagger” recently and it flipped me to a Mortarion fanboy. Definitely planning to build a Death Guard force as my first Chaos army. Great read up, Wolf 🤘

[@TherealSBlair]

Death Guard. We even make the tau look interesting. :)

[@Monkeyshaman]

🤔🙋‍♂️🤐 Nevermind citizen.

[@thoo6426]

i just love how clueless the tau are when it comes to the wider universe .... kind of cute

[@PanzerDK]

The Sons Of Mortarion will Spread the many Gifts!

[@goddhowarddiscipleofobama]

The Tau: “What the hell are those things?!” *screams of pain and terror in background* Death Guard: “Yay, friends! Here, have some gifts!”

[@Tyrnak_Fenrir]

This makes me want to complete and play what I have of DG even more. I've got the forces from Dark Imperium and the general chaos units from the Dark Vengeance set.

[@RyRyUNDEAD]

You are quickly becoming my favourite youtube channel. Your videos are brilliant, very immersive. Keep it up dude!

[@garrettmastantuono8043]

Awesome listening to you as always Sir, I'm a dedicated tau fanatic so please don't sanction me. But if you think Shadow Sun is a badass, she pales in comparison to farsight. See Commander farsight from tactica imperialis I'm sure you'll love it. Keep up the great work, look forward to all your videos in the future.

[@spacecaesar7619]

garrett mastantuono never forget that if guilliman were to take notice of the tau they’d stop existing in an afternoon, cheers.

[@thelardmaker6806]

@@spacecaesar7619 Nope, fanboys keep forgetting about the great rift crushing the Imperium. The Great Rift also awakened countless thousands of Necron Tombworlds which many are sieging Forgeworlds right now.

[@johanandersson4351]

Wow.. I got actual chills from the Great Unclean One bit.. the representation of daemons always were my favourite part of 40k stories, like mentions found in The First Heretic or Know No Fear. Also is the reason why Grey Knights are my fav faction. Thank you Wolf Lord!

[@shawnhopkins224]

It's all fun and games till hive fleet kronos busts into the place like Kool aid man

[@Darksmirk1]

I imagined this as an animated show; in my head. Made hearing this so much better.

[@ThomasFishwick]

What I want to see is a Tau battle force when it meets a Primarch. Either Traitor of loyalist. Imagine a Tau Water Cast trying to negotiate with Robute, or Leman...

[@The_Desert_Tiger]

or even better angron

[@UnknownSquid]

Wouldn't negotiation with Robute have a reasonable chance of success? The dude goes around with an Eldar at his side, and is generally very pragmatic about his attempts to hold the Imperium together and stop it shitting itself to death. Far as I see it, the last thing Guliman would be interested in doing is going to fight the Tau for no reason. Small as they are, they're not push overs and have a history of inflicting unexpectedly high losses on Imperium forces that have faced them. Meanwhile the Tau pose incredibly little active threat to the Imperium as a whole. They're easy to ignore yet also far too costly to fight. It's kinda like if you played an RTS free for all, and the Tau were this small but deadly NPC faction that doesn't leave it's base. Any player could go crush them with a modest investment of effort, but it'd cause them to loose the game to their actual rivals whilst gaining nothing. For every Tau world the Imperium would conquer, they'd lose 3 more to other foes that they should have been defending against. I'm pretty sure Robute would far rather leave the Tau to their own business, and spend his desperately strained forces on fighting chaos.

[@XRyanK]

They kinda did make a film along the lines of whats desribed in this passage. It is extremely similar to 40k with lawrence fishburne called event horizon, boarding a ship thats essentially capable of warp travel but with zero defenses against warp entities, its first warp jump causes havoc. Good film.

[@bluenight104]

To the Imperium the Tau are basically mice scurrying in the dark. Yeah, they’re a problem but you don’t worry about mice in the basement when you have a crazed axe murder, skynet terminator, literal space locusts and homicidal fungi all killing each other and yourself in the living room. Meanwhile, the elder (both craftworld and dark) are the crows and vultures circling overhead and occasionally pecking your head.

[@thuranz2773]

I think the Imperium views them more as a bulwark, so they don't have to deal with all the shit that would otherwise be attacking the Imperium instead. So long as the Tau don't try to expand too far into the Imperium's territory, they'll be fine with just having a Cold War with them.

[@bluenight104]

@@thuranz2773 they too small to be a bulwark. The tau are literally surrounded on all sides by the imperium.

[@blkice6063]

Thank you for reading this, i was hoping that you would, i enjoy your spend on the way you read these short stories.

[@LemonGingerHoney]

Is seems as Death Guard itself brought the surveillance drone and released it, to make Tau fear. "How did the drone manage to get here?" "This fleet should have already been here looking by the date of recording!" I guess they simply used warp to drop drone into that space and let the fear grow little by little.

[@thelardmaker6806]

In the lore subreddit they say that the DG just used the Nexus to port their forces to the scourge star as a rallying point to siege Ultramar in the Plaguewar book

[@plaidpvcpipe3792]

I especially loved the story about the Gue'vesa fighting the Vostroyans and the Genestealer Cult. For those who haven't read that one, do, it's awesome.

[@kennethbedwell5188]

Or the god of the Greater Good doesn't want anyone but Tau coming through the Nexus

[@kingbaldwiniv5409]

No such thing.

[@thelardmaker6806]

@@kingbaldwiniv5409 There is, its in the book war of secrets.

[@fumarc4501]

The Chaos God of Order and Disbelief is still out there... waiting.

[@kingbaldwiniv5409]

@@thelardmaker6806, no, it said no such thing in War of Secrets. It simply showed a big warp entity taking a T'au looking shape and taking their becalmed vessels out of the warp. Considering that the antagonist in the book is a fallen Dark Angels chaos sorcerer, it would be naive to believe that the powers of the warp would not seek to throw an additional hurdle in the way of their agent in the theater of conflict. Besides, the T'au are psychic empty, they don't generate following in the warp. As a result, it wasn't a "god of the Greater Good".

[@thelardmaker6806]

@@kingbaldwiniv5409 Its the same concept why the Emperor does not believe in gods. He does not consider the chaos gods as "gods". To him they are just super old and super powerful empyreans. To give them name like gods only strengthen them. This entity that helped the 4th sphere was created by Humans that are allied with the Tau. Though it is philosophy humanity worshipped it like an entity. That is how this being was born, same as how the Ecchlesiarchu creates their saints (those angel like beings that you see in Dawn of War) The humans who follow the greater good worship this entity as a god. Soon enough it will grow powerful. Chaos does not consist the entirety of the warp. In the warm many Empyreans live within it. Only that they are in hiding because of the Dark Pantheon. The Eldar Gods are considered Empyreans which were born in the warp.

[@tadoshka5170]

Tau : Why does the Imperium of Man so barbaric and can't see reason ? *Meet Chaos* Tau : Oh, so that's why

[@ScandinavianHeretic]

"How has no one made a 40k film yet" - Well for a start they have, just not about this. If you mean a game of throne'esque sort of thing, yeah good question. I figure its partly to do with how horrible most mainstream 40k video games have been. I mean lets be fair, some might have sold okay, but they always fail to do the lore justice, to tell a good story and indeed do something interesting which is Entirely possible in a grimdark, immersive kind of way. There is enough material out there, for years and years of story telling ... its not even "pew pew" all the time, loads of intrigue, mysteries, politics, ceremonies, industry (LOADS of industry..EPIC amounts of industry), cults, research, exploration (Holy shit the exploration) and uncovering lost artefacts (my god what artefacts). Its not even an overstatement and I'm sure you know this. To do anything, properly, with this franchise in movie terms, you need someone who cares more about telling a story than constant action (though not opposed to action). Someone like Paul William Scott Anderson, who directed Event Horizon...and team him up with the original screenwriter too after giving him the material to reference. Then maybe you'd have a shot.

[@OculusOccluded]

When I read the title of the video, I knew I didn't even need to watch to know how the meeting went. But because it's Wolf Lord Rho, I will.

[@Eliphas_]

The Tau are the punching bag again

[@not.Zer07]

As it should be

[@KaboukiJoe]

Best place for the underdogs. Makes the little victories shine :)

[@UnknownSquid]

They'll likely always remain a punching bag, in a deliberate effort to prevent them ever growing too large. With how their forces aren't restrained by limited and irreplaceable geneseed/relics/archotech, if they ever gained too much resources and industrial base, then things would get really skewed surprisingly fast. It'd be like playing a match of Dawn of War where you initially start big and ignore the Tau because everyone else is beating on you. Except the Tau don't need relic points and have no cap, and are able to field stupid amounts of fire warriors whilst you're stuck with 30 unit cap of Space Marines. Every time you lose a space marine behind enemy lines you permanently lose unit cap. And if you lose your titan, you never get it back. You start at tech level 3 from the start, but the Tau can tech up to tier 5 whilst you can't. Any RTS player would tell you in a heart beat that there's only one way to win that fight. Prevent it ever getting to that phase of the game. Keep them small. The Tau don't have the stagnation or level of internal fragmentation that other 40K factions do, so the writers have to repeatedly pummel them to maintain the status quo of "eternal war" that 40k is built to accommodate.

[@Bullitluna]

My 1st time visit, god you got me, hooked

[@HappyKatanaGaming]

Straight up "Event Horizon"

[@Haydin1117]

There are definitely some very cool xeno POV stories out there. There's a short novella callled Severed I read recently about Nemesor Zandrekh (necron don Quixote) and his best friend and bodygaurd Obyron that was excellent, and really focused on how the sentient necrons are coping with their (pretty horrible) existence.

[@J.Panxer]

Tau fleets have always been weak sauce against everything except tyranids. Something's gotta break for the Empire. AunVa is dead, replaced with an AI. There's something in the warp claiming the greater good. They're murdering their Gue'vesa in droves to cancel their psychic presence out of desperation and ignorance/refusal to acknowledge what the warp is. They're stretched too thin. Out too far; and the only one who knows what's really going on, Farsight, is possibly in danger of being corrupted by the warp. The Tau need the eldar to break shit down for them and give them a history lesson.

[@Zninety]

The plague marine in the rough center of the picture and with the exposed torso has amazing abs. I'll bet he exercises regularly and follows a strict diet.

[@daltonbalusek]

Glory to Mortarion! Glory to the Death Guard!

[@lordvader1466]

Ah My Boys,Get Ready with Snacks !!, Another one From Wolf L.Ro. !!, Please Continue, Emperor Protect !!!.

[@TheDiablotak]

Can we expect some lore videos from the siege of terra series? I have a particular passage in mind from the lost and the damned that 🤞you’re going to cover

[@TheDukeOfDallas]

The pic of Typus snatching that Tau up with one hand while all of that mayhem erupts all around is chilling. Just imagining what that Tau is going through, knowing full well this is the end and having that monstrous mug be the last thing you see before you're torn into pieces. Fk that.. Also the description of their bolter shots sounding "wet." Fking blechh.