Every Single Race Within The Tau Empire EXPLAINED | Warhammer 40k Lore
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The Tau Empire is the fastest growing faction within Warhammer 40k - but just how many races actually belong to it?
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Do a solar auxilia episode
Rad vid! Appreciate content/lore that expands the setting
Hello Majorkill,
Would you kindly make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy? Pretty please? Thank you.
Hey! I have to ask, do you consider to make longer vids? im not sure if its better in yt terms for you but i would watch the f*** out of it. Your lore knowladge is great and above and im sure people during work, art, chores, sleep would welcome it. Sometimes i feel you want to add more to specific theme but,, time limit...
I love the Brakua! They're so cute!
Races within the Tau Empire: *exist*
Games Workshop: "I'll ignore that."
kitbash: "allow us to introduce ourselves"
Kroot
Gw: real shit
Auxilia and integrated people
So much potential. Itd be cool to get a Tau Auxiliary army codex thats only has maybe 1 or 2 tau but a bunch of the other races that arent all kroot.
The Tau codex should at LEAST have had an entry called "Alien Auxiliary" with variable skills and stats. (but 40k isn't fun anymore)
Either a Guevesa choice (guardsman profile, but half the squad can take pulse weaponry, all have pistols, close combat and grenades)
A Morelian profile (toughness 2 firewarriors, but with BS 3+ and move 8")
A Talean profile (Toughness 4, 5+ save, have Kroot weapon choices)
Gaurdsman on Tau races: “Xenos, xenos, filthy xenos, flying poky xenos, crunchy xenos, BIG xenos…”
Big titty xenos
"...Strangely sexy xenos"
Gue’vesa: Heretic Simps!
@@sono_chi_no_sodium_chlorid7635
Ayo what
“…sand xenos, snow xenos, street xenos, pointy xenos, flat xenos, stinging xenos, big ol’ fat xenos…”
Another funfact about the Kroot: they basically don't really understand xenophobia at all to the poiint that a lot of really dark humor's derived in the books where they appear that basically amounts to some of the most fundamentally decent sapient beings in the setting make everyone uncomfortable because for literally every other sentient race in the setting cannibalism or just consumption of sentient beings has some very good reasons not to happen not limited to merely squicking people out, but the Kroot keep trying to offer them a taste of whoever they're eating as a genuine attempt to be friendly even offering to cook it so it's more palatable to non Kroot.
The Kroot also view consuming the bodies of their own or friendly fallen with a sort of religious reverence and as a means to keeps friends or even honored enemies alive in a sense. But at the same time they can't eat other Kroot to often or it'll potentially trap them in a form instead of allowing specific Kroot to further evolve. Sometimes it's even implied that Kroot who eat to much of a certain species can in essence become posessed by the psychic remnants of who or what they've eaten and that's part of why this occurs.
One specific Tau commander thought so highly of his Kroot allies and came to appreciate their customs so much that after a difficult campaign where many Tau fire caste warriors were killed he actually flat out ordered his Kroot allies to eat him after he'd been severely wounded, purely as a show of appreciation for what they'd accomplished and it's heavily implied as a sort of attempt to quite literally keep a part of himself with Kroot who had become good friends.
Really it's just an interesting concept for a culture that games workshop kind of sleeps on as of late.
Tau have so many races in their empire. Except for the fact that more than half of them only about a paragraph of lore at most and only a single sentence at least.
can you imagine how much extra gil they could rip off from tau players by making extra race codexes and rule books lol.
Kinda like 90% of Space Marine Chapters, or even a third of Imperial Guard’s Regiments. So it’s pretty fair I guess
Honestly the tau only having 2 auxiliary races in their table top army is one of GW's biggest missed opportunities.
One of many.
You know, those other species of xenos might simply reside further inside the Tau Empire. They might simply not be numerous enough to deploy in a meaningful way if it's not directly next to the space they occupy. And before you ask, putting various xenos in one unit is a bad idea because of coordination, capabilities etc.
@@kompatybilijny9348 By that logic there should still be official models for Gue'vesa then. They're numerous and are on the frontier of the Tau Empire.
@@kompatybilijny9348Ah yes difficulties of a billion dollar making a few new unique models. It's not like it's literally their job, or there's other companies such as Wizards of the coast to compete with.
It's not like there's a one off lore bit about the tau being allied with a race that's said to be able to go toe to toe with a knight. Who would want to see a center piece monster like that?
@@Slavesforsale1I've been asking for a tau guard hybrid army like the Gene stealers for years.
The Tau are a really cool "covenant" like faction. I like the idea of multiple alien races cooperating and using each others strengths to cover their weaknesses.
So do I, but GW had a more interesting idea involving this concept with The Interex of The Great Crusade.
@@eldriswenbro8957The Interex are pretty cool, but from what ive seen (which isnt much admittedly) I prefer the aesthetic and theme of the tau.
That’s heresy talk
They are more like communist China and a black mirror episode plus the British empire exploiting colonial auxiliaries all in one with a caste system
@@TheRealBelisariusCawlwe know do something about it Inquisitor
"But the races that joined the Tau Empire cannot even melee! Just like those blue fish faces!" - Captain-General Little Kitten who still never got over Commander Shadowsun leaving him.
Kroot: *Observe.*
"I told you, that's NOT F^%$#ING CANON!" - Kitten.
Human: "Oh, we can still melee alright!"
There's not humans outside the imperium. You reject your humanity when you deny the imperium.
Niccasar casually ripping death guard in half:
We really need some piece of media exploring this aspect of the Tau empire. I do not care if it is a book, or a game, or whatever, just tell me about the 3 different crab species and the space slugs in the empire.
fun fact; the crab people are technically like one of the most important race in the alliance because of the tech they supply.
Could make a rouge trader rpg game focusing on the tau empire, but instead of a rouge trader play as a water caste tau negotiating and recruiting party members of different species to stop a chaos incursion or something
I love that piece of fanart of the Quarians from Mass Effect meeting Tau diplomats. I weirdly think the Tau would fit into pretty much any sci-fi setting so I wish there was more fanart depicting that.
The tau collecting all these races like pokemon lol
I wonder what trazyn thinks of the tau
@@ellis7622he does
@@CatYah00 what?
@@ellis7622I think they mean that Trazyn knows they exist. And that's about it.
You forgot to include the catachan jungle fighters on that forbidden dinner menu for the Kroot, eating them turns Kroots into obnoxious second hand Rambo's.
A pacific rim then invincible artwork back to back??? Impressive stuff MK
Extra impressive!
"What if the Tau recruited the orks" would be a hilarious "What if" style video.
The Tau instantly became the most powerful faction in the Galaxy
Da greata Gork
@@BallodsoftheboldWAAAAAAGH
If Space Marine could fall into Chaos, what if there is Space Marine who decides to fight for Tau'va?
Space Marine from which chapter most likely to do so?
@chengkuoklee5734 idk for sure but he did actually make a video about if a Space Marine could follow the Greater Good and join the Tau Empire and the short of it is no
Let's be real, we may love our Kriegsmen, Cadians and Astartes, but if you or me were to go the 40k Universe, we'd pray we landed in the Tau Empire.
Yes
Nope. 😂
Yes, Inquisitor, here's the heresy.
Yes
I would wanna be within the Farsight Enclaves
Giant, floating bears? Models when?
and they're psychic
Giant, floating OWLbears, with no eyes, razor sharp teeth, 6 limbs the size of a power claws AND are all powerful psychers.
In the novel Shadowsun the Nikasar was not floating, but it ripped Death Guard marines apart with it's claws.
they are also the way tau travel through the warp
Any faction with awesome railguns already have my blessing but I also do love how the Tau are set up with as a faction that tries to integrate a bunch of different races.
Covenant: I am interstellar alien Empire that is made out of 11 different alien species!
T'au Empire: Those are rookie numbers! I have way over 48 different aliens as part of my faction!
Covenant: Well shit that is impressive. Are they just as fleshed out as ours?
T'au E.: LMAO, NAH! All of them putt together have roughly the same amount of lore and art as the Drones.Remove the Kroot and the freaking Yonhet have more stuff than them!
Covenant: Damn, that's...very sad actually. Seems like a complete waste of potential as well
T'au E.: It really is.
Yes! Another T'au video! I don't know why, but I just can't get enough of those blue guys.
This right here, Inquisitor. Yes, you see? Such heresy.
The Tau are how I play Stellaris. Attempting to go pokemon style through the galaxy and get as many races as possible in the empire I'm playing
9:17 that's Leatherback from pacific rim wasnt expecting him to be here
A Tau army with one of each race in the empire would be fun.
The most INCLUSIVE race in 40k will always be the Tyranids
You're not inclusive when you render everything else down to raw biomass that you turn into more of you.
Space Marines: "The T'au have HOW many different Xeno species among their ranks?c
Magos Biologis: "At present, we count 37 distinct Xenos races among the ranks of the T'au Captain."
Space Marine: "Ship Captain! Chart a course for T'au space! We have some cleaning up to do and we're going to be EXTREMELY productive!"
*_LOADS BOLTER WITH EXTREME XENOPHOBIC INTENT_*
Gets their ass kicked and has their own bombs blow up their fleet
My space marine chapter: "we rather purge the heretics and daemons of chaos"
Space Marine: "you heretic, why is there xenos among you!?"
Mychapter: "these xenos are pretty clean if you ask me"
Tau empire Vilous sergal: "the Emperor is amazing and DAEMONS HAVE NO PLACE IN THIS GALAXY!!!"
SM: "Fine you pass"
@@dwyanecelestial7354 , 🤣
@Idle1996 , depends on the chapter.
If it's the Raptors, the T'au would have a much more difficult time. You know. Since the raptors actually make PRACTICAL choices.
If guilliman does do diplomacy with the Tau and Eldar, i would be really suprised
Honestly I would love for minor xeno races get some attention too. Despite all the death and destruction, the galaxy is STILL full of diverse life.
But focusing on the space orks, space elves, space humans and space robot zombies irronically makes it feel rather small.
It is small, the great crusade pretty much fuked all other xenos races, the only sentient xenos în the galaxy capabile of a society are withing the T'au empire or close to it.
@@alexbrinzan9061 No
There are alot of minor xenos and mutants all around the galaxy(they are usually 3rd class citizens at best in the Imperium)
@@command_unit7792 Yes, that's my point. They are around but we barely see them. The guy above me is a proof that people don't even know minor xenos are around
@@alexbrinzan9061that’s straight imperium propaganda
I hope that someday the Tau Empire will actually be the T'au empire in game and not just in name.
This edition certainly took a small step towards that with the new kroot units, but since their rules are still in one detachment only, they are basically like a mini army within the army and not truly included in the faction.
There's so much potential for different alien species filling different holes in the T'au roster (especially in the melee category) and leading to not only a very interesting faction, but also one that doesn't suffer from the balance issues Tau has had in the past as much.
If they ever make Tau an edition headlining race like the Nids were for 10e and Crons were for 9e, they should really add in a bunch of the other Xenos than kroot and vespids. Hell, the latter would even benefit from more variety as well.
Fifth time asking Majorkill to create a “How Bruva Alfabusa and TTS shaped 40K” video. Please make one.
I honestly really hate TTS and whatever influence it had on the community. Definitely one of the things I'd wipe off the history books of TH-cam.
@@zackzintho48 To each their own. I quite enjoyed it.
@@zackzintho48 🤓
@@zackzintho48
>wojak pfp
Yeah, checks out.
what about a vid eo about what each faction knows about the Galaxy?
like: do all humans know about the great rift
Humans don't even know anything about xenos or the warp. Only those soldiers who ever get so unlucky.
Hey, we got the new Kroot box. Maybe GW realizes auxiliaries are awesome and will start making more?
You can always add existing imperial guard and Demiurg models to your Tau army. We don’t even have Beastman models for the Imperial Guard, that would be a way higher priority than more human and squats models.
I think a video explaining the Plague Wars would be pretty cool.
You should do: Which AOS faction would each primarch play
I SECOND THIS!
Make it a two in one and do old world too in the same video
That is some awesome Gue'vesa art!
A video of the forces of the Mechanicum/dark mechanicum/Mechanicus would be cool
I back this!
Man, its honestly amazing how much more enjoyable your videos are with the new calm approach. Your voice would be perfect to narrate 40k books.
Random invincible insert kinda spooked me
Superb video as always @majorkill.
Could you make a video dedicated to the Navigators, the major houses, their politics, relation to the overall Imperium and factions,
Glad you’re back 👏🏻
It’s cool to learn about all the other Tau Races. I didn’t know they had so many in there empire! Hmmm. Wonder if you could make custom models of a few of these 🤔
Im hopinjg with the new Kroot Range, GW will wise up and figure out the whole alien coalition idea is one the Tau players can get behind. Dont get me wrong i like my Armored Cores but the auxiliaries can provide a wholoe range of new combat options
The tau model line really needs to expand to include a lot of their races... And the empire needs to split into warring factions (as does the empire) with fun different flavors and alliances.
Hello Majorkill,
Would you kindly make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy? Pretty please? Thank you.
I just got started on Tau, great timing!!
Whenever I think of the Brachyura, I think of Experiment 287 (Shortstuff) from Lilo and Stitch. The Brachyura could be really easy to incorporate into the game, without giving them a dedicated unit. Since they're so small, you could just have one perched on the outside of combat suit, fiddling with it. They could be like astromech droids in Star Wars. Then maybe we could get a character mounted on top of a fancy drone.
Not always a huge fan of the Tau, but they are definitely a spot where I look forward to seeing some diverse models, or lore. It actually still pisses me off that, with the Votann being introduced as a Xenos race, and not another faction in lockstep with the Imperium, and basically confirming that they ARE the Demiurg, that Tau can't take a unit, or two, like the Imperium gets Assassins, Inquisitors, and cheap squads of those Agents. I also sometimes wish that a few of the other mentioned, but rarely used, odd space creatures of the lore could show up here. A Lone Operative Lacrymole infiltrator could be really neat, and they don't all have to flop, like DEldar Courts of the Archon did. Oh well.
huh I didn't know the kroot were forbidden to eat the tyranids. "I'll ingnore that"
Its possible the kroot biology is just incompatible with mutations that make them a hivemind.
@@anvos658 Or just really dangeirous
Day three of asking for a video about if Perturabo is actually a Daemon Prince??
Would you happen to know the name of the story where this enemy, I think it was a Tyranid, was on a planet and kept killing the leaders bodyguards but would leave him alive every week? No matter the defenses or the amount of support this enemy would infiltrate, kill everyone except the leader and then leave and it ended up driving the leader insane.
A video of the top ten community made wholesome moments would be great
I wish GW would make models for some of these. I remember as a kid when Tau were new and I was reading about all the lore about the Empire and the speed at which the Tau was growing. And I remember that the general feeling was that the Tau were going to become the next big threat to the Imperium. I always felt like If the Imperium is the present and the Eldar and Necrons are the historic races which ruled the galaxy long ago, Tyranids represented the future if things went to shit whilst Tau were the future if things also went to shit but in a less gruesome way. Either way, the Imeprium would fall, it just depended if you wanted it to be devoured by giant bugs or incorporated into a giant empire. But GW has never really developed this idea. The Tau Empire feel less like an actual Empire and more like a Tau/Kroot collaboration. There are vespids but they are kinda old now. I thought Leagues of Votaan would have made for a good addition to the Tau instead of being it's own force. And I think having seen some of these race, If they adapted a couple of them, updated the vespids and officially absorbed LoV into the Empire, I could see a future for tau where they get split into 2 armies. Tau and The Empire. Allied in the same way the Guard and Marines make up the Imperium. I think that could be a cool new development for 40K, but i've long argued such a stance and GW don't seem to want to do this. Which is a shame.
I was waiting for the explanation of the image and “Basically they’re just giant floating bears.” 😂
The Nicassar are described as brightly coloured ursines with incredible telekinetic and telepathic ability. That's right they're literally the care bears.
These other minor xenos races should be fleshed out.
Also, it wouldn't be surprising if some of the alien species thought to have gone extinct during the Great Crusade to be still alive and a member of the Tau Empire - perhaps even under a new name like those of the unknown races of the Tau Empire.
That's a lot of Aliens in a relatively small empire, which implicitly hints at the almost inconceivable number of genocides the Human imperium is responsible of.
As goofy as the tau can be portrayed the variety of species in their empire is pretty dope! A ton of opportunities for lore expansion and miniatures
GW needs to start fleshing some of these out, even some art for at least Demiurgs would be handy.
Will you make a video on each legion's best accomplishment/battle/victory? Counting unification wars, crusade and heresy
Most of these species should have their models and tabletop rules, especially the dinos
Warhammer's The Exodite got me intetested in Tau Navy. Please make a video about them, their strategy and battles they fought against Imperium Navy.
The psychic bears need to be a model for the Tau. It would fill a much needed role on table top. GW what are you doing. And where's my Greater Knarloc and new Vespid models.
Thanks storiaverse
Finally! More T'au content! Thank you Gue'la!
Tau mentioned, i am happy
Kind of funny how they miss double dipping when they could just toss in a Tau weapon sprue to some Age of Sigmar sprues to expand the line.
Right off the bat, Majorkill says something that's likely going to happen in the far future.
I salute the dude who made Letherback into a Vorg.
I freakin love the Kroot. Gonna go back and watch your vid on that after this.
"Love Death and Robots vibes." That's a good way of making Storiaverse sound interesting.
Tau are basically the 40K version of the covenant. strong enough to exist in the 40k galaxy so long as the really busted stuff doesn't pay to nuch attention to them.
@majorkill A video on each of the primarch’s favourite food would be cool. Also a video on how each of the pirmarch’s would react to being implanted with the butcher’s nails would be cool as well.
Please do a video about the 8!
Majorkill, I'm not sure if you're gonna see this but I've been watching your channel for a long time. Is there any chance you'd revisit/finish the fixing the endtimes series? I loved it so much, I don't know if it'd be as popular today but it was definitely my favorite series of videos from you.
I am not a tau player but even I would love to see more xeno's show up in there model line. It be wicked cool
Literally googled this the day before, perfect.
Every playable race in a Tau army (besides Tau). There’s Kroot and Vespids, then there’s… Kroot, and Vespids, oh and did I mention there’s Kroot?.
Now I'm intetested in those alien dinosaur race!
Attempt 47:
What if the Emperor found the Primarchs in order.
JOIN ME ME BROTHERS!!
Lol they got sentient Hypno-shrooms from PVZ.
So pretty much every other minor races/factions are part of Tau empire. Got it.
Yes! I asked for this. Let's go!
For the greater good!
The vorg is just straight up Leatherback from Pacific Rim with Tau armor 😂
Hey thanks for giving love to all the factions, even if its to keep the major-snowball rolling
would be funny to have a Skaven like race join the Tau.
My headcanon is that DRG - Deep rock galactic, is set in 40k. Workign for the Tau
Ordered my first Major Mini! Son of Iron, Barabas Dantioch!
@Majorkill where do you stand on Orks?
They were my first 40K army back in Second Ed.
Have you ever heard of something known as "Da Big Party"?
I've only just heard of this. It's apparently where The Blood Axes were dethroned as the most powerful Ork Clan forever.
Something to look into perhaps?
Love your stuff. Keep on, keeping on! 👍
Solid topic
Brooo Love Death and Robots are goated af
9:37 did you said Ragdan? Lion is very interested in this…
Id love to see n know more about these xenos especially the kroot
It's nice to see Leatherback from Pacific Rim in Majorkill's video
The tau empire, the Covenant at home
Day 49 of asking for a dedicated series of videos detailing in depth the Lion El'Heresy
so you say there is space lizardmen as part of tau empire, time to convert some AoS lizardmen to Tau auxiliary units:D
I’m kitbashing/printing some alien models for my army to show how diverse they are.
The Tau just need to catpure 1 Human hive world to 2x their empire's power. With all those people trained to work ACTUAL high tech skilled jobs and re distributed to colonize many new worlds. Tau is the greatest threat to the Empire. They just don't know it yet.
They alreay have, more than one actually. However due to how shit and overpopulated the Hive Worlds are, the protocol when dealing with them is to pretty much ship all the people away and redistribute them throughout the Empire.
Then Tear everything that cant be moved or reused down (sometimes some Hive Cities are left because some Kroot like living there) and then terraform the entire planet so it can sustan life once again .
Then recolonize it with T'au and other aliens.
Also, I'd argue that most people in Hive Worlds are not really trained to do complicated work or much of everything. Even those that work in facories mostly work on assembly lines. If anything most of them will have to be educated by the T'au to use the simplest of tech.
You should do a Vaurg kit
Just wait till i paint up these major minis
This will never happen, but imagine a unification between the Tau and the Leagues of Votann. Maybe the Tau would find some way to cure or at least alleviate the lag that the Votann experience, improving these already impressive STCs..
The Tau have been hard carried by the Votann. So, there's definitely major cross-over
Games Workshop needs more lore-writers that’ll write for factions that are not the Imperium of Man and Space Marines.
Ancient Human Vocoder: Red Bull gives you wings!
Kroot: No, birdmen give you wings nomnomnomz