To everyone finding this meme in 10th edition, it was made at the very end of 9th. Tau were able to stack ridiculous AP on pretty much any and all guns.
You don't want to take tau on ranged, that's why you devise ways to get close to them quickly, such as teleportation, and then enjoy your baby-punching session since only the Farsight Enclave has enough brains to actually train their soldiers to fight in melee combat.
@@gunsevenwhillans420 Tau troops are trained in melee combat (as are modern soldiers), its just very, very secondary to their other missions. Also, what tf is a genetically unaltered, near-human organism going to do to a 10 foot tall, 2-ton living tank with a chainsaw? That's like saying guardsmen aren't trained in melee because they can't stab space marines to death with ease.
@@tdpuuhailee8222 Lore wise it can be explained by the machine spirit being so infuriated with the heresy of the guardsman that it just explodes in rage
Hench why no one ever likes fighting Tau players, so boring to fight a unit that just can just completely obliterate an entire front line if they get good roles
@@ryuhanja3415 Lmao, this whole stuff just reminds me of the internet weebing out over the cool katana wielding samurai When in reality, as soon as guns were available, the samurai took them up and used them in warfare
I always found it hilarious that the Tau with their pew pew rifles just rip straight through all those bulky, imperial machinery the size of small island states like they are made of cardboard
I think the imperium doesn't understand that solid sheets of armor aren't actually good armor, and can even make impacts worse. Modern armor has gaps and subsheets to stop the projectile without transferring its energy into the internals, but the imperium most likely lost that knowledge.
@@oatmealman1586 I could be wrong, but ages ago I read somewhere, that some of the STCs used as a basis for Imperial tanks actually are for hardy modular farming and transport equipment. Which... kinda makes sense from the standpoint that these things were distributed to remote colonies to manufacture all the stuff you could need at the frontier. And since the STCs have some AI in them, I guess they just brainstormed how to put some guns on top of them when they were asked to do so.
@@dschehutinefer5627 most stcs come from farming yes, knights were also used for farming and mining, but there's the conflict of if they were intended only for farming, or if its to show just how advanced DAoT was, that warmachines millenia ahead of ours can be simple farm vehicles
In older editions most tanks were immune to infantry fire from the front and sides or even the rear. When I first moved to 8th edition i was pretty annoyed a heavy bolter killed my malcador infurneus from the front, Previously that would not have happened.
I don't have anything to do with WH40K, but i want to point out that animation and image quality in that scene with Tau warrior was absolutely top-notch
Its from a warhammer official show called The Exodite. It started as a fan animation, but they hired the dude making it and put it on Warhammer TV. It's about an Aeldari who is stoking a conflict between humans and Tau by assassinating their political envoys, whilst doing his own personal mission - and the Tau send a squad to capture him to hopefully show they are honest about a ceasefire.
@@Cirac1 The fact that this scene is a very obvious reference seems weird for an official show, but if that's true then that explains the quality level.
@@jumpinghunter9152 If you see the unedited version - it doesn't come across as a reference. He just gets crushed. Its definitely a good watch! It even has Clancy Brown as the voice of the Aeldari character.
Having never spent a penny on any GW or related product, I still really enjoy all the bickering and fighting in 40k comments. Like watching two ant hills fighting each other. Very entertaining, but the motivations of the factions are incomprehensible to me.
If you mean the game factions: Domination, survival, entertainment. It is more complicated than that, but you will have to watch the hours long excellent videos of Lutein09 (or others, but he is brilliant) about the specific happenings and races yourself :) If you mean the commenters then the answer could very well be: Math xD
Basically anyone who's not the tau: total galactic domination and the extermination of all other species. The tau: "bro we just want to live in peace." In fact, the event that caused the tau to begin their empire was the imperium trying to turn their homeworld into a tank factory.
I highly recommend a youtube/podcast duo called Isyander and Koda. I'm not really into 40K either, but their lore breakdown is really easy-listening yet engaging for newbies (like myself). Maybe the Tyranid episode is a great place to get started. The planet-stripping is such a fun concept. Can't recommend them highly enough.
Well unironically, to be honest, sorta yeah? Their guns are damn good. A pulse rifle in lore hits harder than an Astartes bolter. It's probably the most understated/underestimated weapon in all of 40K for how big a deal it is compared to the fanbases dismissive perception of it. A Pulse Blaster (short range "shotgun" equivalent) will blow a Space Marine clean in half if hit with one. If the Tau were having to make do with something more akin to the Lazrifle, they'd have perished long ago.
They managed to secure a part of the galaxy so well that it just isn’t worth the effort sending fleets to wipe them out, it’s best to take the occasional losses here and there rather than gathering all the manpower and ships to take the fight to them.
@@Epsilon-5 If the Imperium was still at the same strength they were 500 years ago (when they first met the Tau), then they would at least be putting up enough of a fight to defend their own territory properly. As is though, the Imperium is so utterly boxed in and overwhelmed right now, that the Tau is pretty much walking all over them. Like, on a relatively small scale, of course, but still. A hundred worlds is still a lot of worlds that could have been helping with the indomitus crusade has they not joined the Tau instead.
@@UnknownSquid agreed, however I’ve heard the imperium is on the path to rebuilding as of the Indomitus Crusade. Don’t like it myself so I haven’t read much of it though
@@michelecastellotti9172 GW's method of "balancing" Tau was to make one list in the army completely fucking toxic to play against and every other unit in the army utter garbage. Then every person you encounter assumes you're playing the toxic list and starts insulting you out of nowhere.
It always makes me laugh when GW and the fanbase has selectively ignore and misremember their own lore and rules so they can make the imperium always win. Because IRL, the donkey fart levels of poor maintenance on that Russ is, at absolute best only gonna blow up itself when the Tau Saving Private Ryan's its ass.
Doesn't matter how well you stack up against the IoM, the Necrons are literally you but better in every single way. Also the Eldar effortlessly clap you lot every time you try to fight them, & the Eldar by their own admission are just barely relavent. Also also, the IoM has yet to actually try dealing with the T'au yet, the shear amount of resources & manpower they have (remember, they control some 80% of the galaxy) means that they *will* win a war of attrition if they focus on you, just ask the GOAT Farsight. I say this all as someone who likes the T'au, you lot are not a real threat to anyone, the Swarmhood (not to be confused with the 'Nids) is way more of an issue than you.
How else could our Mary Sue Imperium led by Gary Stu Emperor be portrayed? Remember when GW made Emperor a bit less Gary Stu (turning him somewhat incompetent, needlessly cruel, and even dowright a-hole on some occasions) and Imperium lovers made vocal tantrum? And the same Imperium lovers also made similar tantrum in the beginning of Tau (noble and kind warriors were "ruining their grimdark", such edgelords and edgeladies), so GW had tu turn them into more sinister faction (and Imperium fanboys are still butthurt that Tau are even with all that still closest thing to good guys, so at least they keep b*tching about them and their fans).
@@michelecastellotti9172 This would hit harder if it weren't for the fact that the only time the Imperium has ordered an exterminatus whilst fighting against the Tau, was on one of the Imperium's own hive worlds (Hive World Agrellan), after losing it to the Tau. :v Blowing up your own planet to deny a victory, is still a loss.
Why did they ever get rid of AV? It makes perfect sense that a tank might have different levels of protection on different sides and that sufficiently strong personal weapons could defeat vehicle armour from the sides and back. Universal save on all sides is silly.
On the one hand, saying Tau aren’t doing great in the meta is an understatement. On the other, I’ve had a group of Termagants charge and consume my full wound Bloodthirster in one turn. Either way could happen and good meme
@@Bluegender88 they weren’t, something impressive to do is 20 shots s5 ap 4 d1, rerolling to hit and wound, with exploding and auto wounding on 6s, even vehicles could fall with that combo. (9th ed. Btw)
@@wombatgirl997 Depends on who you were fighting. Also: I did a lot of Fire Team and Inquisitor. In =][= EMP affects power armour as well whichj suddenly made them every fire warriors best friend.
@@wombatgirl997 All old school RPG's were like that. Essentially, just choose if you would like to emphasize the RPG elements or just run it like a more in depth kill team.
@@wombatgirl997 To be fair, in the old white box D&D even a level 4 character was only 2 or 3 hits away from death. And in CyberPunk we had "punk with a 9mil syndrome" where any character regardless of how powerful they had become could be taken out with a single shot to the head. =][= does work best with some disposable wounds (cannon fodder) to insulate the real characters. For larger groups (3-5) I would suggest only a pair of additional henchmen and encourage team play tactics. Another option is to start the team on a higher power level, or just give the 'heroes' double the wounds. it does make for action hero esque bullet sponges though. The tone of your game is yours to determine, just make sure everyone is on the same page. Entirely off topic but I have to know: To which does your name refer, The common, norhtern or southern hairy nose?
@@wombatgirl997 OK; let me gush fan boy like all over CyberPunk 2020. Cyberpunk is a great system for gritty tactical shootouts. -hitting a target isn't determined by a magical number they generate. if a target is close it's DC10 If a target is at long range its harder. -modifiers are kept simple. most are a simple +/-1 -Armour actually does its job -cover takes the hit for you if it would. By the same token, if you want to shoot through the wall into the guy behind it go ahead. Cyberpunk provides rules of how stuff breaks down while being shot. -your stats really matter, the difference between 8 strength and 9 strength is huge. More than that though the game clearly defines the social system. Skills like wardrobe and style and common sense rulings on your fashion choices make it very hard to wear full body armour every day. Face down rolls simulate the stress of pre-combat measure, or allow a subtle cat fight to occur in the polite talk between frenemies. That being said they technology is hilariously out of date, there are options to receive fax in the field. And if you do get into the real big guns, you will have to decide, rules as written to give your punks some chance. Or real life type destruction, in which case a near miss can wipe your punks off the map. Wombats are really interesting, although they bite, all the time. and they smell. unfortunately the southern hairy nose is critically endangered. I hope this helps.
@@tarektechmarine8209 The Imperium just lost almost literally half it's territory in the lore. It's not remotely got the forces to fight any war that's not absolutely critical. It's basically stuck in a state of desperate survival, and has the least leeway to make offensive actions of any faction in the setting. Their last major action against the Tau, was to exterminatus one of their own Hive Worlds that they lost to the Tau, and then using a rare Mechanicus relic weapon to "ignite" a wide expanse of space, to block and delay the Tau advance. They can't beat the Tau, because they don't have the forces available to fight them with. Simple as that.
But to kill Leman Russ you need to shout from pulse pistol to the back in 7th edition (not to the side). Only then you can get penetrating hit and explode it on 6.
And this is why its so difficult to enjoy the setting, the novels, and everything related to 40k. The amount of wanking for the boring imperium is just tasteless and bland, only serving to make them more mediocre and less interesting by the day.
So a setting made by humans which evolves around humans fighting against aliens and demons to maintain a galactic spanning empire worth millennia is “boring” because it’s somehow humanocentric? When you started digging the lore wasn’t this so obvious to you? And you blame humans for choosing the IoM as a faction? Never considered a lot of *humans* may prefer a faction to which they relate to because that’s their own fucking species? The Imperium of Man are literally the protagonists of the setting and always has been, get over it.
@@tanaka601It starts to get very boring and samey when the ‘crumbling, decaying galactic empire’ conveniently wins almost every battle it’s in. The Imperium might be the protagonist faction but at the same time it has a habit of stifling the creativity and potential of the setting.
@@tanaka601 Look if the IOM is a crumbling mess of a decaying corpses dreams currently stuck on a giant golden shitter then perhaps actually show that and have the other factions slaughter the IOM ruthlessly and without problem almost all of them time as the IOMs tech is laughable badly maintained and understood by the toaster fuckers.
@@joshwenn989 that depends in my opinion, i red the entire horus heresy except a bunch of fillers and i never get bored, but i know xenos players who got bored really fast. There’s tons of books out there displaying imperium forces get defeated, killed, destroyed and i get that these aren’t the majority but that’s literally it, the Imperium is the overall “protagonist” of the setting and somehow it has to win, people want this and i can’t lie to myself, i want my favourite toys to win, but that doesn’t make them loosing less interesting also considering the fact that yeah these are “toys” but the setting isn’t your star wars family friendly story, this is warhammer and here everyone Dies in cruel ways. I play black templars but my favourite book is Helsreach, a book where black templar forces get literally wiped out at the end of it, i really enjoyed “black legion” series where the chapter first founder dies (sigismund), the duel between Helbrecht and The stormlord is fantastic because it shows that there are some beings out there who can absolutely destroy Individuals like chapter masters and the fact that being a space marine hero doesn’t make you “the best of the best in everything”, Helbrecht is probably the greatest naval commander the imperium ever had outside primarchs and a bunch of few, but he’s a terrible duelist and he’s better at strategy than fighting.
He is never going to lift that gun considering where the hole in his breast plate is. All the supporting bone structure and muscle would be broken, torn and bruised making the lifting of an arm with a weight on it impossible.
@@averhan Well, he is a bi-pedal creature with two arms fitting into a shoulders with a torso that is very similar to human. He is portrayed as having a braincase in a head at the top of his body which points to a central nervous system. But the thing is, they are not considered strong in the meta, physically that is, I mean I took out a whole squad with 8 Storm Guardians last time I played against them. And that hole in his breast plate is at least 10cm long. They could have had him use the uninjured side to shoot.
No one in the comments has actually played the game smh, S5 pulse weapons still need to roll at least a 5 to wound light armour, they dobt even have any AP
@@rivenarchon333 With a roll of a 5, a ST 5 weapon can glance AV 10 vehicles and penetrate on a 6. With a roll of a 6 then could glance AV 11. All tau have is shooting and combined arm tactics. They don't have easy access to krak missiles (hunter missiles needed at least a marker lighter to fire just one off and they were pricey). Fire Warriors need to be able to handle anything that isn't a MBT. All things considered, for most additions they were balanced more or less to everyone else. So no, it wasn't awful. Unless you think just playing Imperium should equal insta win.
@@TheRyujinLP No, I don't think playing Imperium should be an instant win. I just don't think vehicles should be getting one tapped by sidearms. Evidently, they could not.
Rear armor on a tank is paper thin, the impuruim is not know for its quantity, technology or logistics According to the rule set this is in refance to it could have worked, but also who knows what that tank had already been though and what was with it before deploy
No respectable Leman Russ Tank would even DARE to get downed by a single puny fishface with a nifty lightgun ... NO sir. PS : I do not like T'au and am a proud member of the Ordo Xenos!! DO NOT SUFFER THE ALIEN TO LIFE!!!! FOR THE EMPEROR !!!
I love reading comments in literally anything warhammer related. We all share the same niche hobby, but nah, lets all fight because my little imaginary figurines hate your little imaginary figurines
Aww Tau loving weebs coping in the comment section and wishing there was more Tau winning content. Don't worry, I'm sure we'll get another Fire Warrior game any day now 😆
To everyone finding this meme in 10th edition, it was made at the very end of 9th. Tau were able to stack ridiculous AP on pretty much any and all guns.
It's only just dawned on me that the six is when checking to see if the vehicle explodes, I love the attention to detail.
"...six."
"Uh... your shot hits the tank's fuel cells, causing an explosive insta-kill."
"-laughs in Tau main- *nice* "
@@the_infinexos Who's DMing your 40k matches?
@@knight_lautrec_of_carimWH40K has DMs?
If u play crusade :]@@Sturmta
People make fun of T'au in melee because you really do not want to take the T'au on ranged.
Sort of like making fun of a lion's ability to fly...
eh, I make fun of the tau because they are dumb, we are not the same
You don't want to take tau on ranged, that's why you devise ways to get close to them quickly, such as teleportation, and then enjoy your baby-punching session since only the Farsight Enclave has enough brains to actually train their soldiers to fight in melee combat.
@@gunsevenwhillans420 Tau troops are trained in melee combat (as are modern soldiers), its just very, very secondary to their other missions. Also, what tf is a genetically unaltered, near-human organism going to do to a 10 foot tall, 2-ton living tank with a chainsaw? That's like saying guardsmen aren't trained in melee because they can't stab space marines to death with ease.
No, it's because they ruin all the fun.
They bring a gun to a swordfight and say "lol too ez you all suck"
Random fact: On tabletop, you can kill a titan by having a guarsman kick it.
By the Emperor! It's that bad?
@@Spacey_key I wouldn't say "bad" more like an extreme excample of inconsistency between gameplay and lore.
(Also I have never played tabletop.)
@@Spacey_key It can happen. It’s highly unlikely of course for a Guardsman to kill a Titan in CQC. A Titan would need to be nots very last hitpoint.
@@tdpuuhailee8222 Lore wise it can be explained by the machine spirit being so infuriated with the heresy of the guardsman that it just explodes in rage
@@Edimonde
That is very interesting.
Yeah. T’au ranged weaponry is terrifying. Same thing’d likely happen if you fired a Plasma Pistol at one of those too.
Hench why no one ever likes fighting Tau players, so boring to fight a unit that just can just completely obliterate an entire front line if they get good roles
@@ryuhanja3415 mordern warfare
@@zarpp9411 🤓
@@ryuhanja3415 Lmao, this whole stuff just reminds me of the internet weebing out over the cool katana wielding samurai
When in reality, as soon as guns were available, the samurai took them up and used them in warfare
@@steyn1775 ane even before that, katanas were sidearms. like a pistol today. not meant for war.
Also by tabletop standards. That tank will have to roll god tier to crush him.
I've always hated that about tanks. They're massive, at least give them a meaty charge bonus!
@tiobridge841 that’s what tank shock is for!
I always found it hilarious that the Tau with their pew pew rifles just rip straight through all those bulky, imperial machinery the size of small island states like they are made of cardboard
I think the imperium doesn't understand that solid sheets of armor aren't actually good armor, and can even make impacts worse. Modern armor has gaps and subsheets to stop the projectile without transferring its energy into the internals, but the imperium most likely lost that knowledge.
@@oatmealman1586 I could be wrong, but ages ago I read somewhere, that some of the STCs used as a basis for Imperial tanks actually are for hardy modular farming and transport equipment. Which... kinda makes sense from the standpoint that these things were distributed to remote colonies to manufacture all the stuff you could need at the frontier. And since the STCs have some AI in them, I guess they just brainstormed how to put some guns on top of them when they were asked to do so.
@@dschehutinefer5627 most stcs come from farming yes, knights were also used for farming and mining, but there's the conflict of if they were intended only for farming, or if its to show just how advanced DAoT was, that warmachines millenia ahead of ours can be simple farm vehicles
@@battlez9577 It is the far future grimdark. If your farming vehicle does not and cannot sport at least some guns - get out.
In older editions most tanks were immune to infantry fire from the front and sides or even the rear. When I first moved to 8th edition i was pretty annoyed a heavy bolter killed my malcador infurneus from the front, Previously that would not have happened.
I don't have anything to do with WH40K, but i want to point out that animation and image quality in that scene with Tau warrior was absolutely top-notch
Its from a warhammer official show called The Exodite. It started as a fan animation, but they hired the dude making it and put it on Warhammer TV.
It's about an Aeldari who is stoking a conflict between humans and Tau by assassinating their political envoys, whilst doing his own personal mission - and the Tau send a squad to capture him to hopefully show they are honest about a ceasefire.
@@Cirac1 The fact that this scene is a very obvious reference seems weird for an official show, but if that's true then that explains the quality level.
@@jumpinghunter9152 If you see the unedited version - it doesn't come across as a reference. He just gets crushed.
Its definitely a good watch! It even has Clancy Brown as the voice of the Aeldari character.
@@Cirac1 Interesting, will check it out.
The best show was the fan project "Astartes" but Games Workshop decided to kill it
Emperor Class Titan: You Approach Me?
Instead Of-
*Rolls 6*
Guardsmen: *F I X B A Y O N E T S*
yeah daemon angron is killed by heavy bolter in table top
Having never spent a penny on any GW or related product, I still really enjoy all the bickering and fighting in 40k comments.
Like watching two ant hills fighting each other. Very entertaining, but the motivations of the factions are incomprehensible to me.
If you mean the game factions: Domination, survival, entertainment. It is more complicated than that, but you will have to watch the hours long excellent videos of Lutein09 (or others, but he is brilliant) about the specific happenings and races yourself :)
If you mean the commenters then the answer could very well be: Math xD
_It is the grim-dark future._
AKA a dick measuring competition.
Oh what a life it must be to not know passion for anything.
Basically anyone who's not the tau: total galactic domination and the extermination of all other species.
The tau: "bro we just want to live in peace." In fact, the event that caused the tau to begin their empire was the imperium trying to turn their homeworld into a tank factory.
I highly recommend a youtube/podcast duo called Isyander and Koda. I'm not really into 40K either, but their lore breakdown is really easy-listening yet engaging for newbies (like myself). Maybe the Tyranid episode is a great place to get started. The planet-stripping is such a fun concept. Can't recommend them highly enough.
So this is how the Tau Empire has managed to survive so long.
Well unironically, to be honest, sorta yeah? Their guns are damn good. A pulse rifle in lore hits harder than an Astartes bolter. It's probably the most understated/underestimated weapon in all of 40K for how big a deal it is compared to the fanbases dismissive perception of it. A Pulse Blaster (short range "shotgun" equivalent) will blow a Space Marine clean in half if hit with one.
If the Tau were having to make do with something more akin to the Lazrifle, they'd have perished long ago.
@@UnknownSquidEnergy weapons of the Imperium are explosive and not in a good was.
This my rifle, this is my gun
I got a plasma and rolled a 1. 💀
They managed to secure a part of the galaxy so well that it just isn’t worth the effort sending fleets to wipe them out, it’s best to take the occasional losses here and there rather than gathering all the manpower and ships to take the fight to them.
@@Epsilon-5 If the Imperium was still at the same strength they were 500 years ago (when they first met the Tau), then they would at least be putting up enough of a fight to defend their own territory properly. As is though, the Imperium is so utterly boxed in and overwhelmed right now, that the Tau is pretty much walking all over them. Like, on a relatively small scale, of course, but still. A hundred worlds is still a lot of worlds that could have been helping with the indomitus crusade has they not joined the Tau instead.
@@UnknownSquid agreed, however I’ve heard the imperium is on the path to rebuilding as of the Indomitus Crusade. Don’t like it myself so I haven’t read much of it though
And so the Tau player managed to make a comeback on turn 4
1st-2nd editions: Tau who?
3-6th editions: S5 vs AV14/12, can't even glance.
7th+ editions: ... Sigh.
At least in 10th it’s going up against T11 and a 2+ save
In 7th the only way a strength 5 gun could damage is by hitting the rear and rolling a 6, it's 8th edition where the game goes down hill not 7th.
As if any other faction wasn't as bullshit, but alright.
I still cant forgive gw for locking us into triptide for 3 f*cking editions, jesus crhist
@@wombatgirl997 Same here! Big yikes
@@michelecastellotti9172 GW's method of "balancing" Tau was to make one list in the army completely fucking toxic to play against and every other unit in the army utter garbage. Then every person you encounter assumes you're playing the toxic list and starts insulting you out of nowhere.
It always makes me laugh when GW and the fanbase has selectively ignore and misremember their own lore and rules so they can make the imperium always win. Because IRL, the donkey fart levels of poor maintenance on that Russ is, at absolute best only gonna blow up itself when the Tau Saving Private Ryan's its ass.
My Brother in the Tau'Va,you're abolutely right,those tanks are shit!
Doesn't matter how well you stack up against the IoM, the Necrons are literally you but better in every single way. Also the Eldar effortlessly clap you lot every time you try to fight them, & the Eldar by their own admission are just barely relavent. Also also, the IoM has yet to actually try dealing with the T'au yet, the shear amount of resources & manpower they have (remember, they control some 80% of the galaxy) means that they *will* win a war of attrition if they focus on you, just ask the GOAT Farsight. I say this all as someone who likes the T'au, you lot are not a real threat to anyone, the Swarmhood (not to be confused with the 'Nids) is way more of an issue than you.
The imperium definitely has multiple shity regiments who will get the worst of the worst but I doubt its every regiment
Get used to it. You got idiots in charge of GW and the fans continue to enable them.
How else could our Mary Sue Imperium led by Gary Stu Emperor be portrayed? Remember when GW made Emperor a bit less Gary Stu (turning him somewhat incompetent, needlessly cruel, and even dowright a-hole on some occasions) and Imperium lovers made vocal tantrum? And the same Imperium lovers also made similar tantrum in the beginning of Tau (noble and kind warriors were "ruining their grimdark", such edgelords and edgeladies), so GW had tu turn them into more sinister faction (and Imperium fanboys are still butthurt that Tau are even with all that still closest thing to good guys, so at least they keep b*tching about them and their fans).
Been shot in the shoulder, proceeds to crawl with arms.
To be fair they are not human.
Maybe their nervous system is really weird.
IT was me who ordered an Exterminatus. The tanks were too slow with purging those pesky blueberries.
You still owe us toasters for that exterminatus fleet
@@techpriest2474 Counter offer: A shipping container of archeotech called "Air fryer" and "Rice cooker". Sounds good?
@@inquisitorthornside3p494 *Happy techno-biological abomination noises!
Anyone while winning:"seethe and cope imperials!"
Imperials:"fine"
Anyone who was winning:"WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT"
@@michelecastellotti9172 This would hit harder if it weren't for the fact that the only time the Imperium has ordered an exterminatus whilst fighting against the Tau, was on one of the Imperium's own hive worlds (Hive World Agrellan), after losing it to the Tau. :v
Blowing up your own planet to deny a victory, is still a loss.
On tabletop, if you have multiple titans, blowing up one starts a chain reaction of titans blowing up each other one after the other
why the fuck is everyone in this comment section losing their shit lmao
its just a meme about dice rolling chill tf out people
I wonder the same
@@ulforcemegamon3094warhammer fans when asked to simply appreciate a joke without going into a fit of autistic rage challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
When one encounter heresies the pure must not remain silent!
Its marine fanboys throwing a conniption
@@Oppen1945 oh look, more Sigmarxism-tier delusion
That was actually funny
The show sucked, but this meme is absolutely legendary
I liked it
@@mandke23 me too
Woulda been better if GW didn't force 'em to do whatever they wanted.
Wait, what show is this?
@@shumpiremadness2372 exodite
Why did they ever get rid of AV? It makes perfect sense that a tank might have different levels of protection on different sides and that sufficiently strong personal weapons could defeat vehicle armour from the sides and back. Universal save on all sides is silly.
On the one hand, saying Tau aren’t doing great in the meta is an understatement. On the other, I’ve had a group of Termagants charge and consume my full wound Bloodthirster in one turn. Either way could happen and good meme
I have both Tau and Astra Militarum armies, and this made me laugh so hard I was dry heaving.
I was kind of expecting a giant dice from the sky to crush him
Where did all you people come from?
Walls
2d10+3 AP4 in Dark Heresy.. That shit is crazy powerful. God forbid you give them to a Kroot hunter team.. RIP the party.
You see, Tau can fight long range, but since the Imperium is basically just melee, they get cooked
All I see in this comment section is alot of bitching. Neat meme.
I agree
Most of it from an Imperium fanboy named Dogeatsdog
@@lorenzocassaro3054 not what im seeing, most of it is unironically from tau fans.
this why we need vehicle facings back
Nah it’s a leman Russ, which are toughness 9 armor 2+
If it was a chimera…on the other hand..
Bruh Leman Russ's ain't T9. Not even a Warhound Titan is T9.
@@CoronelPanic They are T8, which wouldn’t make a difference as it’s still 2x the strength of the pulse pistol.
@@CoronelPanic hahaha how does toughness like 14 sound mother fucker
10Th edition is here
Update: as of tenth they’re fucking toughness 11.
@@CoronelPanicit’s T11
Good one, really good obe
A Pulse Pistol is Strength 5 and 1 damage. Imperium tanks are higher toughness and more than 1 wound.
But the tanks are smoking already so theyve probably got wounds on them
Also those Sherman's are at best equivalent to a Chimera with an autocannon. Side hit from a pulse pistol could still pop one.
In previous editions most vehicles would be immune to tau pulse rifle fire.
@@Bluegender88 they weren’t, something impressive to do is 20 shots s5 ap 4 d1, rerolling to hit and wound, with exploding and auto wounding on 6s, even vehicles could fall with that combo. (9th ed. Btw)
@@Nose-cv5to they're referring to 3rd-7th edition.
My guardsman sneaking round the rear of a landraider (not played in about 15 years)
Save Private Ryan was a glorious touch
Just like that spacemarine did survive the plasma MG
That's why I love Tau. XD
Try this before 8th edition where a leman russ was immune to pulse rifle fire from the front and sides.
Can you not emp grenade tanks on table top anymore?
@@wombatgirl997 Depends on who you were fighting.
Also: I did a lot of Fire Team and Inquisitor.
In =][= EMP affects power armour as well whichj suddenly made them every fire warriors best friend.
@@wombatgirl997 All old school RPG's were like that.
Essentially, just choose if you would like to emphasize the RPG elements or just run it like a more in depth kill team.
@@wombatgirl997 To be fair, in the old white box D&D even a level 4 character was only 2 or 3 hits away from death.
And in CyberPunk we had "punk with a 9mil syndrome" where any character regardless of how powerful they had become could be taken out with a single shot to the head.
=][= does work best with some disposable wounds (cannon fodder) to insulate the real characters. For larger groups (3-5) I would suggest only a pair of additional henchmen and encourage team play tactics.
Another option is to start the team on a higher power level, or just give the 'heroes' double the wounds. it does make for action hero esque bullet sponges though.
The tone of your game is yours to determine, just make sure everyone is on the same page.
Entirely off topic but I have to know: To which does your name refer, The common, norhtern or southern hairy nose?
@@wombatgirl997 OK; let me gush fan boy like all over CyberPunk 2020.
Cyberpunk is a great system for gritty tactical shootouts.
-hitting a target isn't determined by a magical number they generate.
if a target is close it's DC10
If a target is at long range its harder.
-modifiers are kept simple. most are a simple +/-1
-Armour actually does its job
-cover takes the hit for you if it would.
By the same token, if you want to shoot through the wall into the guy behind it go ahead. Cyberpunk provides rules of how stuff breaks down while being shot.
-your stats really matter, the difference between 8 strength and 9 strength is huge.
More than that though the game clearly defines the social system.
Skills like wardrobe and style and common sense rulings on your fashion choices make it very hard to wear full body armour every day.
Face down rolls simulate the stress of pre-combat measure, or allow a subtle cat fight to occur in the polite talk between frenemies.
That being said they technology is hilariously out of date, there are options to receive fax in the field.
And if you do get into the real big guns, you will have to decide, rules as written to give your punks some chance. Or real life type destruction, in which case a near miss can wipe your punks off the map.
Wombats are really interesting, although they bite, all the time. and they smell. unfortunately the southern hairy nose is critically endangered.
I hope this helps.
that's one heck of a shot.
I think bro failed the save
If Tau so powerfull? Why Tau a 100 world backwater?
Still working on the FTL tech
@@PikachuLittle yet somehow they're just too strong for the imperium to beat.
@@tarektechmarine8209 The Imperium just lost almost literally half it's territory in the lore. It's not remotely got the forces to fight any war that's not absolutely critical. It's basically stuck in a state of desperate survival, and has the least leeway to make offensive actions of any faction in the setting. Their last major action against the Tau, was to exterminatus one of their own Hive Worlds that they lost to the Tau, and then using a rare Mechanicus relic weapon to "ignite" a wide expanse of space, to block and delay the Tau advance.
They can't beat the Tau, because they don't have the forces available to fight them with. Simple as that.
Hehe tau pistol go brrrr
But to kill Leman Russ you need to shout from pulse pistol to the back in 7th edition (not to the side). Only then you can get penetrating hit and explode it on 6.
"Oh! That was fun!"
I had no idea
I would subscribe to your channel, but as of posting you have 420 subscribers
I can't ruin something as perfect as that
And this is why its so difficult to enjoy the setting, the novels, and everything related to 40k. The amount of wanking for the boring imperium is just tasteless and bland, only serving to make them more mediocre and less interesting by the day.
So a setting made by humans which evolves around humans fighting against aliens and demons to maintain a galactic spanning empire worth millennia is “boring” because it’s somehow humanocentric?
When you started digging the lore wasn’t this so obvious to you? And you blame humans for choosing the IoM as a faction? Never considered a lot of *humans* may prefer a faction to which they relate to because that’s their own fucking species? The Imperium of Man are literally the protagonists of the setting and always has been, get over it.
@@tanaka601It starts to get very boring and samey when the ‘crumbling, decaying galactic empire’ conveniently wins almost every battle it’s in. The Imperium might be the protagonist faction but at the same time it has a habit of stifling the creativity and potential of the setting.
@@tanaka601 Look if the IOM is a crumbling mess of a decaying corpses dreams currently stuck on a giant golden shitter then perhaps actually show that and have the other factions slaughter the IOM ruthlessly and without problem almost all of them time as the IOMs tech is laughable badly maintained and understood by the toaster fuckers.
@@joshwenn989 that depends in my opinion, i red the entire horus heresy except a bunch of fillers and i never get bored, but i know xenos players who got bored really fast.
There’s tons of books out there displaying imperium forces get defeated, killed, destroyed and i get that these aren’t the majority but that’s literally it, the Imperium is the overall “protagonist” of the setting and somehow it has to win, people want this and i can’t lie to myself, i want my favourite toys to win, but that doesn’t make them loosing less interesting also considering the fact that yeah these are “toys” but the setting isn’t your star wars family friendly story, this is warhammer and here everyone Dies in cruel ways.
I play black templars but my favourite book is Helsreach, a book where black templar forces get literally wiped out at the end of it, i really enjoyed “black legion” series where the chapter first founder dies (sigismund), the duel between Helbrecht and The stormlord is fantastic because it shows that there are some beings out there who can absolutely destroy Individuals like chapter masters and the fact that being a space marine hero doesn’t make you “the best of the best in everything”, Helbrecht is probably the greatest naval commander the imperium ever had outside primarchs and a bunch of few, but he’s a terrible duelist and he’s better at strategy than fighting.
@@tanaka601 "a setting made by humans" lmfaooo fucking DUHHH BRO
I wish the Pulse pistol was that good
I just got back in for the first time since 4th ed. What the * happened to tank front armour being completely immune to all but anti tank weapons?
He is never going to lift that gun considering where the hole in his breast plate is. All the supporting bone structure and muscle would be broken, torn and bruised making the lifting of an arm with a weight on it impossible.
He's an alien, who knows what his musculoskeletal structure is like?
@@averhan Well, he is a bi-pedal creature with two arms fitting into a shoulders with a torso that is very similar to human. He is portrayed as having a braincase in a head at the top of his body which points to a central nervous system. But the thing is, they are not considered strong in the meta, physically that is, I mean I took out a whole squad with 8 Storm Guardians last time I played against them. And that hole in his breast plate is at least 10cm long. They could have had him use the uninjured side to shoot.
@@averhan He's a Tau, which we understand plenty well enough. They're not that exotic physically.
did he win?
Yup. One of the many reasons i dont play 40k anymore and stick with HH.
No one in the comments has actually played the game smh, S5 pulse weapons still need to roll at least a 5 to wound light armour, they dobt even have any AP
This is from 9th edition, Tau used to be able to stack ridiculous AP on literally anything
cool but pulse pistols arent that strong
Before 8th that pistol could mission kill from the side and take it out from the rear armor.
@@TheRyujinLPwhat rule was that? It sounds awful. Imagine getting your 180 point tank one tapped by a sidearm.
@@rivenarchon333 With a roll of a 5, a ST 5 weapon can glance AV 10 vehicles and penetrate on a 6. With a roll of a 6 then could glance AV 11. All tau have is shooting and combined arm tactics. They don't have easy access to krak missiles (hunter missiles needed at least a marker lighter to fire just one off and they were pricey). Fire Warriors need to be able to handle anything that isn't a MBT.
All things considered, for most additions they were balanced more or less to everyone else. So no, it wasn't awful. Unless you think just playing Imperium should equal insta win.
@@TheRyujinLP No, I don't think playing Imperium should be an instant win. I just don't think vehicles should be getting one tapped by sidearms. Evidently, they could not.
Wait, what happened to my 2+ armor save?
Yeah guard units are pretty much made of wet paper
I see no moldlines!
Read the books... instead of crying
This is Tau propaganda, that xenos scum would've had to hit that tank 12 more times for it to explode like that!
@DogseatDogs You look like the kind of person no one would want to play with
@DogseatDogs Why should I? I already have you.
Rear armor on a tank is paper thin, the impuruim is not know for its quantity, technology or logistics
According to the rule set this is in refance to it could have worked, but also who knows what that tank had already been though and what was with it before deploy
I wan't expecting it and now I had to explain Tau to my Partner cause I laughed so hard!
made my day 🤣
No respectable Leman Russ Tank would even DARE to get downed by a single puny fishface with a nifty lightgun ... NO sir.
PS : I do not like T'au and am a proud member of the Ordo Xenos!!
DO NOT SUFFER THE ALIEN TO LIFE!!!! FOR THE EMPEROR !!!
Sounds like you need to touch grass.
Whit the new rule of guards tank is stupid
I love reading comments in literally anything warhammer related. We all share the same niche hobby, but nah, lets all fight because my little imaginary figurines hate your little imaginary figurines
Wow imperial players really are the most butt hurt snowflakes.
Aww Tau loving weebs coping in the comment section and wishing there was more Tau winning content. Don't worry, I'm sure we'll get another Fire Warrior game any day now 😆
Wow, what a nice person you are.
I bet everyone enjoys your company :)
Technically, the Eldar are more Japanese-like
Could just not act like cancer
@@Maynarkh no xenos scum