#wh40k tau

[boomclowntown]

gore, goop N' gurlz

#apex legends #apex lifeline #wh40k tau #tmnt #my art

[tauman942]

Publishing a new WH40K Spaghetti Western: The Jaguar and Pierce. Summary: Two firewarriors from opposite sides of the Damocles Gulf, one from the T'au Empire and one from the Farsight Enclaves, must team up to survive on an alien planet. Along the way, they encounter Gue'la outlaws, Orks, Galags, Ogryns, Enoulians, Squats, Tallerians, Drukhari, and Aeldari Corsairs. All action all the time.

#wh40k spaghetti western #wh40k tau #wh40k orks #aeldari #drukhari #wh40k chaos cultists #t'au empire #farsight enclaves #shas'nvre'da'yolwas #shas'ui'nem'ka #the jaguar #pierce #wh40k xenos #n.y.a.b.x.t.t.

[beastalchemistva]

The full lore cards for the Caste System of the T'au Empire! Complete with auxiliary forces information!

You can see the lore video here for sit-and-relax lore absorbance: https://youtu.be/QEKLSpQbBAU

These beautiful pieces of art were made by the amazingly talented @rowscara! Check out her Etsy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/rowscara/?etsrc=sdt

#warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #wh40k #lore #chibi #art #info #tau #tau empire #caste system #aw look at the auxiliary forces #that kroot eats people. but he's very nice once you get to know him

[nictanova]

Shas'O Sa’cea Qimerra Esakruai Bentu

Commission art

#warhamer 40000 #wh40k #wh40k art #warhammer #tau empire

[alternativeminiatures]

Source @ChumiiCham

These chaos-taus (Chaus? Thaus?) look fucking fantastic.

#warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #wh40k #chaos #tau #t'au empire

[taudad]

My beautiful son

#kroot #krup #krup my beloved #tau empire #tau #wh40k #t’au #warhammer 40k #taudad #t’au empire #40k #games workshop #gw

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

T'au Waster Caste: "With the power of delicate diplomacy and masterfully conducted negotiations another planet has been brought into our Empire without the need for senseless and wasteful bloodshed. Not a single shot fired! Now THIS is how you do this properly and most important of all: peacefully."

Meanwhile T'au Earth Caste, collectively:

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #htp #tau empire castes have clashing cultures and they are all another favor of insane #T'au Empire

[voices-of-favor]

#Warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #WH40K #wh40000 #wh40k meme #warhammer meme #40k meme #Tau #Tau Empire #warhammer tau #Imperium of Man #Imperium #Imperial Guard #space marine #space marines #tau can definitely melee #but will it work against the infinite caveman tide?

[the-random-hamlet]

Not Mine. Thought to Share.

#hot fuzz #warhammer 40k #the tau #adeptus arbites #tau 40k #wh40k #warhamer 40000 #40k meme #the greater good

[front-line-head-line]

Thought of the Day: Will is not enough. Act!

#Warhammer #Warhammer 40K #WH40K #Tau #Tau Fire Warrior

[diceyjune]

Unnamed Tau Shas'ui

#warhammer 40000 #warhammer #warhammer 40k #wh40k #my art #diceyjuneart #tau #tau empire #veteran #scifi #grimdark

[tauman942]

For someone who'd a bit of a noob when it comes to these sorts of things, what authors do you recommend to look for when it comes to good tau books? Same with Eldar books.

Sorry, I get so few messages, that I don't pay attention.

Tau Reading List

Tau Novels and Novellas Fire Warrior novel by Simon Spurrier [Original Tau novel - a must read!] Kill Team: A Last Chancers Novel by Gav Thorpe Shadowsun: Last of the Line of Kiru by Braden Campbell Fire and Ice by Peter Fehervari Arkunasha by Andy Chambers Broken Sword by Guy Haley Tau Short Stories Out Caste / Sanctuary of Wyrms by Peter Fehervari [Note: read these two together] Voice of Experience by J.C. Stearns Aun'Shi by Braden Campbell Greater Evil by Peter Fehervari Books that involve the Tau, but they aren't the novel's protagonist Fire Caste by Peter Fehervari The Greater Good by Sandy Mitchell (Ciaphas Cain novel &Tau make an appearance) Vanguard by Peter Fehervari

Dark Strider by Games Workshop

Aun'Shi by Games Workshop

#wh40k tau #black library #games workshop #n.y.a.b.x.t.t.

[ezri-is-real]

Aaaand that’s my riptide done

#don’t mind the glue #im an impatient bitch #miniatures #warhammer 40000 #tau empire #40k #warhammer 40k #warhammercommunity #warhammer #wh40k

[nictanova]

Gue'vesa'vre Lucas Bradford in XV-15

#warhamer 40000 #wh40k #wh40k art #warhammer #tau empire #Gue'vesa #XV-15 #battlesuit

[taudad]

#stole from reddit #tau empire #tau #wh40k #t’au #warhammer 40k #t’au empire #games workshop #40k #gw

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

I'm always fascinated when someone at the club rants about "how they just invented T'au to cash on them anime weebs", completly oblivious to the time and culture of their creation. So T'au came out first in 2001, and were obviously conceptualized some years prior, which puts them into the late 90s in their original design. This is slowly hitting "the majority of the populance has no relevant internet access whatsoever" levels of "barbaric analog ages".

So imagine where GW sits in the late 90s - its a small studio somewhere in England barely coming to touch with the first elements of the internet, with the most dominant medium being television which... is not really about "exotic" shows from the other end of the world? Those get ported over when they have proven to be a hit in their own country mostly.

And without the internet as we know it today, the anime community just... did not exist. You have to understand that the whole concept of online anime culture centred around piracy, fansubs, fanart, and the creation of the term "weeabo" was a mid-to-late 00s thing, and it took almost another decade before "weeb" was somewhat reclaimed and no longer an online-slur.

There was a whole generation that grew up with (often horribly localized) japanese shows on TV (Pokemon, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon) which came over with some delay to their release in Japan. By the time this generation came to congregate into online spaces and form any sort of fan-identity and culture, the T'au and their battlesuits had already been a design over a decade old.

"But wait isn't Gundam from the 70s"? Yes, that is totally correct. However, this is the one glaring mistake people make: you cannot compare modern day media content circulation around the globe to the analog ages. Those of us who remember these barbaric analog times know how it was: you just did not know stuff existed. If it was not in the newspaper or on the telly, it might as well not exist unless you knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy.

Sure, the Internet was slowly becoming a thing that found widespread use, but it would still take a while - not to mention the technical limitations. No streaming episodes. You start the download (if you can find someone who hosted the file of a series you had to know even existed first) somewhere around lunch, to hopefully get something to watch in the afternoon. Oh and also that blocked the household's phone-line and if the download cancelled for whatever reason then it was back to square one. Under such conditions, the online community we know today could simply not exist, as the alternative was importing stuff from the other end of the world for quite the money, or hoping a really shoddy localized VCR-tape ended up at your Blockbuster-equivalent.

Of course there was anime before that time, even those regarded absolute classics in the west, but those mostly achieved that rank over here in retrospective. When in the late 00s people wanted to watch stuff and had the ability to do so they shared what was considered "the classics" first (shared to the best of their ability with one episode cut into 5 parts on youtube with sometimes very questionable subtitles).

So even if we assume there was someone at GW in the 90s who was a total "proto-weeb" and Gudam-fan, there was literally no reason to "make knock-off Gundams" because the miniscule western wargaming audience SIMPLY DID NOT KNOW THE STUFF.

You can't make a marketing ploy to reference something your average consumers have never heard off. If anything, the creation of the T'au as a robotic-centred faction was inevitable: they needed a design that could hold their own in the setting, but Necrons hogged the full-robot niche, Imperials were weird cyborgs, Orks the "madman-scrap-tech", and Nids the "biotech". The only thing left here was "not full robot but also very clean and efficient" - and just like that, the Battlesuits and Drones were born.

It was only in later years when the Internet had come into full swing where they decided to go full-suit with releases such as the Riptide, but if we talk about the OG design of T'au and the first decade? Nothing to do with anime or "fishing for weebs". The fish would not be coming to that spot for almost a decade, and it would take a bit more before their numbers were plentyful enough to make it worth casting a line out.

#random rant #wh40k #T'au #tau empire #warhammer 40k