>the Tau are evil brainwashing dictator commies
I want this meme to end
Is anyone else annoyed at GW's desire to make the Tau more grimdark? It felt pretty refreshing to have a friendly race who'd rather negotiate first before sending in the big guns. Sometimes the endless grimdark of each faction gets rather exhausting.
>Is anyone else annoyed at GW's desire to make the Tau more grimdark?
Nah the Tau are kinda boring and need something to spice them up.
Mechs can only go so far
If you wanted something refreshing and different from the 40k grimdark, did you ever try, I dunno, taking a break from 40k and looking somewhere else?
>Tau don't actually have sword arms on their except or farsighted
It's bullshit man
Literally just give it a power glaive profile or w/e, say it replaces the shield generator and is a nod to the close quarters urban combat the Tau increasingly find themselves in against the imperium
Fuck off Taufag. They are already the most boring faction in the game, making them all noblebright on top of it would only make them stick out like a sore thumb even harder.
No, I'm pissed at you stupid newfags who don't even know the entire point of the Tau from the start was to show the fall of a bright new empire into the grimdarkness that consumes everything in 40k. The idea that the Tau were some paradise was always a lie about to be ruptured to expose the rot within.
What this dude said.
GW gave you the ability to play Grimdark Tau or noblebright Tau.
The Empire is Grimdark dominion where the Ethereals control all, while the Enclaves are a noblebright democracy where all are equal.
GW gave you options. Ue them.
user, I'm a tau player since their first codex, and they've always been ambiguous, because at the time GW was smart enought to 1) not fill the codex with faction wank and 2) let a bit of mystery in the portrayal so you can have "your dudes".
>Wanted a brigth-eyed commander eager to bring civilization? Possible
>Wanted a mustache twirling expansionist commie that would put Mao to shame? Possible
>Wanted a disgruntled old general rebelling against the empire? Also possible
And as far as I know, all those are still possible.
You know what I'm annoyed with? The "Bigger is Better" stance that makes them use not!titans instead of skimmers or flyers, going against all the faction stood for in its first incarnation. But all factions suffer from this.
That, and the need to insert Tau in every event, while not defeating them because a faction with 20 populated star systems can't really recover from a serious blow. I was fine with my tau minding their business at the eastern fringe, slowly creeping. Nowadays I feel like I'm reading bad sci-fi mecha propaganda.
For a nuanced portrayal of the Tau, I invite people to read the second issue of the Last Chancer trilogy, an excellent book.
Aren't the noblebright and advancing Tau meant to be a metaphor for humanity before the Dark Age of Technology?
Pretty much, they definately mean GW doesn't have to make rules for enclaves of dark age humans anymore.
Also just because the Tau can be noblebright it doesn't mean they're good guys, they are just as xenophobic as the imperium but without the millenia of dogma and reinforcement.
I always thought the Nids were more boring.
>evil
>commies
Oxymoron.
No. Its about time the Tau got into the swing of things.
Anyone else remember the 'cultural exchange' they had with Rakheth? Because I sure do.
True, they are no commies.
They have a perfect caste system, that is the antithesis to communism.
Other than that, they are Apple meets 1984.
Everything seems nice, unless you make a mistake. Then you never existed.
Farsight Enclaves are that way, my man.
If you take wh40k seriously, you really need to rethink your life choices in the first place.
But they are Shas, you haven't seen what he has seen. He knows the truth and is the future.
"Each must find their own way. If those in our heartland had witnessed the savageries of the void as have we they would know this. The hand of each of the starfarers is turned against the other; none will join their strength together just to see their ancient enemies prosper. Neither should we."
I was always under the impression that the battlesuit opened at the back, rather than the front. There's a hatch there, after all.
This.
Plus, it adds some nice friction in between factions of the race since the brainwashing seems to be a kinda secret illuminati thing amongst ethereals (and are those even proper Tau??? ehrmegherd the plot thickens). It's not really an TAI LAFULL EBIL argument, it's a nice paraphrase of the optimistic and idealistic empire with secret machiavellian devilmen at the helm.
The tau have always been orwellian style grimdark with a happy face plastered on top of it. The initial release was simply too subtle for the 40k fanbase, which has the collective capacity for understanding subtlety as your average 14 year old.
>those copypasta'd poses
Tau fags and anti tau fags alike seem to have this problem of ignoring the context of the setting, thinking brainwashing/conformity is evilbadwrong.
The imperium literally kills planets off because a tiny minority have fallen to chaos, tau on the other hand max out on re-education to deal with dissent and sterilization when it comes to purging populations; both of those are lawful good paladin moves in comparison.
No where else can you expect an enemy overlord to want you gone but let you live out the rest of your life in peace in the meanwhile.
Even the battle damage on their legs is identical.
Kinda disappointed the big one in the background isn't copypasted and enlarged from those in the foreground.
correct answer
>is anyone else tired of a grimdark setting being grimdark?
no not rly
I kinda am.