Vaults of Terra - (Tau Empire) Overview
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- The Vaults of Terra return with an overview of the Tau, one of the newest races to enter the galactic stage and conversely one of the most advanced, whose technology is only matched by their tolerance of others, and in this grim dark universe is one of the few bright lights before the encroaching night.
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Tau - We suck at close combat, shame you'll never get there.
wetdogism
Dude, the Kroot are up their with Da Orkz in terms of close combat capacity, and what about Vespids??
MrPiccolop
The Kroot and Vespid are not Tau though, are they?
Allies of the Tau, fight with the Tau but not the Tau
archlorddestin
Well, u got me there!! :D
aww you are so cute. DEEP STRIKE BLOOD ANGLES!
Loki Ragnarok ULTRA SMURF SUPERCEDED DEEP STRIKE!!!!!!!
Even without the bling, the massive shoulderpads, the gritty look or the grimdark weaponry I still like the Tau. Just like every faction in 40k they bring something unique to the table; and what's more unique than asian-inspired fish people with mechas n' shit? Is good.
PUNY TAUZ, DA ORCZ A DA BEST. SMASH DEM! WAAAAAAAAAAGH!
In the grim darkness of the 41st millenium, there are only pauldrons
because shoulders are vulnerable
Zajin13 the orks suck blood for the blood god!!!
gary cooper If you look closer, you notice that the orks are one of the best servants of Khorne ;)
The most interesting thing about the Tau is that when you think about it, they are basically the embodiment of every single trope/clichés that humanity usually have in most space opera and sci-fi stories.
I mean just look at the list: The youngest and newest member to the galactic stage, idealistic and wish to explore the galaxy, prefer to use diplomacy when dealing when alien races, have a quick rate of technological and social advancement when compared to everyone else in a stagnant galaxy... etc.
So the next time you see an Imperium fan dismissing or hating the Tau for being annoying and naive, you are getting a perceptive of how humans look through alien eyes in most other sci-fi settings. You will finally understand why the romulans and cardassians fight the Federation in Star Trek, or why the asari look down upon humans as brash and ignorant in Mass Effect.
They're definitely the only real Sci-fi race in the otherwise train-wreck setting that is 40k, yeah.
***** Thanks! I am glad that you find my thoughts on this interesting.
***** The Tau as a whole suffers from what TVTropes refer to as 'Wrong Genre Savvy'. They act as if they're the protagonist in a space opera or traditional sci-fi setting, not realizing that they are in fact in a cosmic horror story. In which hope and happiness can only be born from ignorance of what true horrors lurk beyond.
chankljp that's what makes the Tau the only interesting race in the setting. Space Opera and Sci-fi are interesting. Cosmic horror isn't.
***** Oh, PLEASE tell us how you are the arbiter of what IS and what ISN'T interesting. I (and many, many others) love 40k because it's this dystopian cosmic horror and NOT just another cliché sci-fi where everything is fine and dandy.
"The most open and accepting" can also be said as "the least grimdark"
They weren't "grimdark" at all when first introduced. GW only added some of the nazi-like behavior later so that people would shut up about them and not complain so much.
***** Mind controlling Ethereals, cultural Imperialism, a restrictive caste system. It's far from being friendly.
rottenfinger
They do, at least for Humans.
AnAmbientGrey still better then a theocracy.
they are just tyranid chow. Hate up close battles? Target armor first aye? how do you like deep strike with swarms of Termagants.
Best race in warhammer world...Love them since i saw them first time.
HERESY!!!!!
Sry, i'm gamer and not big on table top.But I like extended universe and this videos.
Stevan Sibincic The Ordo Hereticus Will deal with you!
hehehheeh, bring it on!
Stevan Sibincic Bring it on...from a distance is what you mean.
Please More!
That was a great way to introduce Tau, you left so much out giving it ability fo fiev more videos, which i would love to see.
Watching video, it gets to the point where he says that there are some humans amongst the Tau, and the video crashes.
DAMN INQUISITION!
For Greater Good?
EMPEROR IS ULTIMATE GOOD!
The0Stroy his Imperium nowadays, however, not so much >w>
+VYxFrost Heresy!
a true heresy, but yeah kinda >w
Die to the false emperor, fools...!!
Aby Awimba fools! thinking with their foolish brains, like fools fooling their foolish selves!
also in them having humans fighting for them.... totally would join them if i were in the 40k universe
If you like being castrated/being made infertile then you are welcome. I dont know if it is Imperial propaganda or not but in some lore it is said they dont like humans outnumbering their ranks or something thus the reason of being made infertile when you join their ranks.
Mighty Roogna no price is too high for the greater good
Mighty Roogna They only do that if the humans have resisted against them for so long. For Example, the Tau would sterilize the human population if they win the planet Kronus in the game Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, but before the planet had been ruled by the Tau for at least 200 years and for that entire time, the majority of humans had violently resisted them, despite every diplomatic tactic the Tau tried. So, yeah, the Tau will do something like that in order to end further resistance, but if there is no or little short-term resistance to begin with, then they have no real reason to sterilize an entire population.
HERETIC
KILL THE XENOPHILE
BBURRNNN!!!!
***** GAH ANOTHER XENOS
KILL IT WITH FIRE
BBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Talks about future Tau videos... still waiting.
For The Grater Good
you cheesed it
For the Greatest Good.. The Emperah!!
I want to know more about "Farsight Enclaves"
The Enclaves were one of the expansion outings of the tau in which they managed to cross an extremely inhospitable warp storm barrier to get to the other side. when they got to the other side they were faced with a multitude of enemies from ork to chaos. In one chaos battle they wandered into a demon sacrifice alter surrounded by giant beast statues, but when a tau touched one they found these to be hundreds of sleeping bloodthirsters, farsight defeated them and took the leaders blade as a prize not realizing that the blade took the soul of those he killed and added their life energy left to his own ultimately meaning he is now hundreds of years old where as a normal tau lives to 150. after this battle farsight saw the truth and confronted the ethereal sent with the expedition because chaos had shown him that their was something fishy about the ethereals, in the end the ethereal died and the standing orders of such an event is to retreat and go back to tau space, but farsight now disillusioned of the ethereal way and with the support of his troops as he was the best commander the tau had ever fielded turned his back on the tau empire and forged his own, hence the name farsight enclaves. The enclaves have been a thorn in the taus side and even have the most advanced tech the tau has made meaning they have spies in the greater tau empire. They continue to struggle for survival and have legends of their legendary warrior founder who much like the imperiums legion of the dead appears when the time is most dire and Utterly Crushes the enemy and then disappears without a trace for a few hundred years. Theres alot more info but thats the basics, so their rebel tau who saw the hollow ways of the ethereals and are stealing tech from their brothers and their legendary leader is effectively immortal after killing thousands of beings with his demon sword unknowingly.
I am glad y'all are mixing things up! :)
Anyone else notice how the Tau fire caste symbol looks almost exactly the same as the marathon symbol?
i know right, bunige.
Pillar of Autumn was my first thought, but I guess it’s insignia was a reference of marathon.
The first time I got into warhammer... I was looking threw the armies, then I came across the tau, and wooow freaken amazing. Greater good
Awesome! I always kind of liked the teachings of Tau empire, and the supposed cause of their rapid technological growth is very interesting :)
Ah, thank you, thank you. Second only to Chaos itself, the Tau will always have a place in my heart. In short, it's easiest to sympathize with them, as opposed to, as it was explained, the more amoral factions.
Sets out to make the kinda sorta good guys. Comes up with a society based on a cast system/eugenics. Nice work GW.
Hey, since you are doing overview videos of different races throughout the Warhammer 40k universe, can you please do the Necrons next if possible.
The Tau sound pretty damn awesome. i can't wait until we hear more about them
Love this channel I always get excited when a new vid comes out. One thing I would like is to see a video about the squats.
10:01 thank you so much for including something from Warhammer 40,000 Fire Warrior
great video, and these wallpapers are amazing as well
It'd be pretty cool if you did more Tau videos. Otherwise, great channel, it's very helpful for people who want to understand the WH40K universe better!
Probably going to do a Tau army next. Lots of great paint schemes in their dex, but until then, for the emperor and his exceedingly bloody throne.
It would be nice to see more Tau lore videos as Farsight stuff. Especially on clien species of Tau Empire.
cant wait for more tau videos!!!
As far as interbreeding between the Tau species in the book "fire warrior" there is a reference to a Ethereal ran selective breeding program between the castes.
This is perfect. I literally just bought a Tau army box set (and several other boxes of units). I'm trying to learn 40k, so I will be watching your videos and hoping to learn how to play
Just follow these two simple rules and you'll always be victorious.
Rule 1: Don't let anyone close.
Rule 2: DON'T LET ANYONE CLOSE.
Also, lore videos are a bad place to learn tactics. I recommend advancedtautactica.com/
PelletProof Rule 3 Railguns Lots and Lots of Railguns ;)
What about 2 broadsides or 2 piranhas? What is better?
***** They have very different uses. But, in general, if I already had an equal amount of both already... Broadsides, without a doubt. The ability to deliver a S8 AP1 (if I'm not wrong and it's AP2) hit *anywhere* on the table is hilarious. Not to mention that you can use markerlights to boost that to be BS5 and Ignores Cover.
And it's not just the ability to snipe things on the ground, but you can also *easily* take out flyers with one as well, by giving the Broadside Skyfire.
Now, there's always the question of whether to take the missiles or the rifle. As a rule of thumb, you generally want the rifle against flyers and heavy infantry (think GK and marines in general), as you can deny almost all of the board to the enemy aircraft, simply by just sitting in your own side. You may also be able to pick off single-model high value squads.
missles are great for basic infantry tho but if there is any advice i can give make it an all round army something that can take care of flyers and armour and can deal with infantry with out to many losses (have a fuckton of kroot incase)
Love the Tau. Keep up the good work.
On DOW, the Tau are easily the best on long range engagements, who needs defense turrets when all you need a 4 squads of upgraded fire warriors, a couple of broadside suits and a squad of vespids just in case the enemy tries using stealth tech
Vehicles wise, I do like using the Barracuda as it is a fantastic air support tool
Can you do Necrons soon? I know it is a kind of "niche" faction, but the quality of your story telling is marvelous and it may just put me over the edge to start a new army... thanks and long live vaults of terra!
Not that people are likely to care but some shellfish have blue blood, its caused by copper instead of iron (Haemocyanin instead of Haemoglobin). so it does work just not with cobalt.
Brilliant video!!!Have you covered the farsight enclave yet, if could you consider covering it in a future video as I'm a massive fan of tau and would love to know more about them.
They should change the metal in the Tau blood to "Trace elements of Tungsten" as that actually can cause "Tungsten Blue". It even sounds just as cool as Cobalt.
The Tau shall now be my new alien race mostly for the their technology and how it looks, what they stand for though a bit harsh but I am willing to work with them. I just wish they looked a little bit better that is all.
What? The Greater Good is harsh? So far they treated their empire subjects better than everyone else.
+Erron Black HERESY! *blam* ...huh, I get what you mean.
nicely done cant wait to see vids of the dark eldar and of course the Necrons but guess u will have to do the new Necron codex which i haven't read but know that it basically screws over the original codex by changing tons. FOR THE GREATER GOOD!
Short version: They used to be slave race to their gods but as of 5th edition they have taken control after they have destroyed their masters.
Francis-Olivier Toba some of the old stuff still applies now that the Necrons have different factions in them as well. Being that some are still slaves to the Star Gods.
AlphaBiggitz
I didn't know that. Who would they be?
I hope you're going to do a video on all of the races the Tau have saved and allowed them into their realms no matter how little fluff there is on them
Tau. Our race even has Space Marines in it.
All things dies and all will fall for the glory of Chaos and Papa Nurgle. It is the way of life, inevitable truth, useless to deny it. Only if you accept it, you accept Nurgle and you can stand against the test of time.
Personally I like Tau being the sort of "light in the darkness", but don't like how the can completely destroy any close combat army, but beside that I like this race and can't wait for more on them.
Love the video and love the Tau. :)
Think I remember reading in their new fluff that they only recently discovered a way to go at near warp speed, and are now getting ready to launch a 4th expansion. that was years ago however so IDK if I'm remembering it correctly.
They also allow some gundam style fighting, the riptide can be used like the ZZ gundam. I know of one tau army user who uses gundam seed invoke as its theme song.
Dude's basically reading verbatim from the lexicanum :P Which is fine, whatever works :)
In terms of the game universe, this is a wildly underutilized species. The inquisition alone should use them as corruption by chaos isn't possible making them perfect potential judges.
Also clearly it would be possible to use them to actually mount a war against chaos on it's home turf.
I often like to imagine what I would do if dropped into various game universes as myself knowing what I know now and what I would do (currently) if dropped into the WH40K is haul ass for the tau empire and start debating strategy. Since Tau cannot be corrupted, are very technological, and adept at trap setting they should create a portal into the warp by whatever means, and then start up a demon killing machine.
Just slaughter demons by the millions constantly by means of this awesome trap. War of attrition, set up these warp cleaners everywhere. The imperium would be hard pressed to object honestly.
Suffer not the alien to live.
The thing is the Tau would never gain anything on war, and they have no use of the imperium anyways, since their main enemy who is disturbing them IS the imperium.
Expax Exactly. The objective would be two fold, serve the greater good, by making the warp and the universe less dense with cruelty. And in the short term give the imperium every reason to further lower the Tau on the target list.
As the Tau weakened chaos, I believe the imperium of man would be more rational. Right now humanity is a cornered terrified degenerate (literally) species.
The Tau are utterly free to do the wise thing, whatever that is, they are not cornered by arbitrary dogma or pride or species impulse. At least not to the degree any other species is.
I can work with that.
Well as Che babb said, Suffer not the alien to live.
But the females might want the 'greater goods' if u know what I mean
For the greater good. Or else.
The greater good.
Hey, on the subject of Tau blood, they probably have hemocyanin in their blood, which is copper based. Hemocyanin, for example, is found in the blood of horseshoe crabs, which is baby blue, or a cancer productus crab, where it's purplish.
tau are my fav by miles, love the lore and i played the tabletop tau for years. Can you do more in depth tau videos like their sects and weaponry
Heresy and Sin, lurks deep from within!
hi ed I would like to ask if you could a video on the vehicles and battle suits of the tau. Could you include some more information on the Supremecy Suit? Great Videos I am really enjoying learning about the 40K universe.
More Tau please! I want to learn about the Kroot.
One of the goals of a codex should be to hype players up and make them want to play as that faction. While this can be taken too far (many would accuse the recent grey knight and ultramarine codexes of this) the latest tau codex has the opposite problem. Every victory they had now has basically an asterisk after it in the new codex implying they just got lucky, ex the first Imperial crusade against them went from being a stalemate that was ended by the imperial forces being recalled to fight elsewhere and having to negotiate with the tau to pull back to being an imperial victory only averted by being recalled. Yes the Imperium is way bigger than the Tau empire and if they ever brought their full might down they would be f'ed (much like the Eldar) but who would want to get invested and play a faction who's own codex makes clear are only still around because no one has taken the time to squish them yet as appose to the new guys on the block capable of standing on their own?
Also wasn't a fan of the grimdarkening in the latest edition as I didn't think it was necessary other to try and silence some whiners. There was already quiet a bit of grey to the Tau and I think the concept of dropping a faction that would be among the good guys in most other settings into the 40k universe was already pretty grimdark because everyone can already see how f'ed they are.
so I can live in and fight for the tau empire as a human? sign me up they sound cool!
Despite the Tau not being able to have a presence in the warp or know anything of Chaos, they stand to have a high chance of beating the Chaos Masters back if the Imperium would ever enter into a peace treaty or alliance with them, but it is the Imperium for you.
Its possible that instead of cobalt in their blood, the tau has copper which would mean they have some form of hemocyanin or copper based respiratory pigment. Many marine animals on earth have blueish dexoxygnated blood due to hemocyanin
The Tau are definitely my favorite race in the Warhammer 40K universe.
Harrison Zember 3:37 Definitely a wallpaper worthy shot.
Only in 6000 years Tau has risen from hunters and gatherers to Interstellar force? Man, that's quite a leap.
Tau empire really feels like it was based on Asian philosophy, especially their caste system reminded me of Sun Tzu's Art of War or Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five rings
Hail the God-Emperor. Slay this filthy xenos.
Wow, these guys are amazing! Why am I a human?
Hey Vaults of Terra, could you do a, maybe 5- or 6-minute, video specifically about the specialized infantry of the imperial guard. Like the stormtroopers, ogryns and ratlings? That would be interesting, cuz it goes into the human-sub-species stuff.
ive waited so long for videos on the horus heresy i just bought like seven fuckin books on it.I still look forward to these though.
tnx you for making the video :D
I picked the tau do to their high race technology and air suppository . I'm also pairing them up with the necrons cause they have the scout units
I was watching this with Fire Warrior "It's Quiet" quote loading XD
Edit: As soon as he said Imperial all I could hear was "It's Quiet!" n_n
The Tau is the conception of Japanese Robot Anime and Trade Federation Starwars fused together. Pretty much.
The Tau are awesome I want to play as them when I startout
When I first saw the Tau I thought they were just a race of robots. But now I know they are much more awesome!
They brainwash and sterilize humans to join there army as cannon fodder
Scattman101 It's pretty cool to know that the Tau are just servants of Chaos, and that some Tau have discovered the truth and cut themselves off from the empire.
SerRompalot in the end, we are all servants of chaos..
Scattman101 that's deep
Skyrim brothers they do that only to humans who actively fight them when under the Tau rule. Otherwise there are legions of Gue'vesa fighting fo the Greater Good while still believing in the Emperor of Mankind.
we demand more tau videos!
Although anything about the ethereals is idle speculation at this point in the races lore development. An interesting hypothesis is that the tau were allowed to develop as a weapon against the warp taint in the galaxy. Perhaps by remaining Old One's or another unseen force that wishes to protect the material world, potentially at the expense of psychic races that currently catalyse the affects of/in the empyrean and allow it to manifest. Humanity was corrupted before it could master it's powers like the Eldar had; and although the Orks are physically effective against Chaos incursion, their blood lust still indirectly powers a fraction of the creatures of the warp. The Tau passification of other races would seem to counter that dilemma. At least this is how i've interpreted the introduction and nature of the race.
The Tau were introduced to apeal more to the Asian market, it was quite a mistake as they just don't fit into the 40k universe.
For the Greater Good!
Are we going to see some hearesy videos soon ed? Keep up the awsome work btw still making my job worth doing :) :)
Conflict lasting for decades, thousand of death and they call it the terror
I'm sorry but I think you should reserve that name for a conflict a little bit more challenging, in the setting they are , a conflict that obnly last decades and kill under a million people is what they call a vacation.
Any conflict that kills people can be considered an horror. Also you should take in consideration that this conflict probably had no end goal other than kill enough people rather than take control of the situation.
Additionally, the Tau race was almost annihilated. Certainly a war that was the most destructive in their history and almost resulted in the total annihilation of their race would qualify for the moniker "the terror."
lets just say they had their own dark age
Just got my first warhammer 40k figures, Tau fire warrior team
FOR THE GREATER WEEABOO!!
If the Tau had hemocyanin in their blood rather than hemoglobin their blood would be a light blue color. Some crustaceans do posses blue blood because of it.
Today is high five a Tau day.
William o'brien Not good idea. Not only Tau are too short to high five with any other race, but given their physical strenght, high five would probably break their arms.
dude when you live a 1.G planet you is Gue'la the hulk..!!
I liked the book a lot. Thought it was a genuine good read. Long live Shas'o Kais.
DELICIOUS BLUEBERRIES
Please do the Adeptus Custodes !
So damn good!
Off topic for a minute are you going to go back and do any more space marine chapters, specifically the exorcists
The Tau Empire is my preferred faction in the WH40K franchise.
Maybe a video about the farsight enclave ? or commander farsight himself
tau armory video plss !!!
YES! For the Greater Good!
Can you do a video covering all the battlesuits and there combat function?
Great video
I wish life was like 40k. I would worship Nurgle and be a Plague Marine.
The Tau empire is on the Eastern fringe Segmentum Ultima. The first line of defence falls on the Astra Militarum seconded by Lord Commander Guilliman of the Ultra Marines. The Emperor does not see them as a major threat, infact is hoping that they may ally in the future. The thing is they are similar to the Eldar and when their civilization unfortunately fell it left a power vacuum that was filled. The Orks first then the Tau. To combat the Tau the Imperium must rely on psychic mastery the ultimate expression being the Emperor himself. The Tau Ion beam weapon is the most dangerous to the Imperial Fleets. Proper use of space ports and higher class vessels inc infiltrated rogue traders and navigators will also turn the tide. The Assasinorum will help but Chronus forces too allowing undermining from within. Ordo Sicarius
oh man i love the Tau they rule
Can you talk about the knight orders of the Impirium? They are fairly new in the table top game, but supposedly have existed since the time of the Emperor so it messes up the cannon a little.
Thank you
Such fantastic lore for the cause of the Greater Good =3
Another race for the Grist mill. All mortals, The Tau included, are but pawns in a game of suffering and doubt. Poor Eldar, Poor Orks, Poor Tau, Poor Humans...Playthings of “god’s” until discarded and forgotten.
Hello, add the kor´vattra (if possible all fleet including spaceships, dropships and fighter/bombers), please. Nowhere on youtube is a lore regarding the Tau navy.
Will you be doing a Necron overview video next?
Their blood is possibly copper-based. I'm just saying that because octopuses (not octopi) have blue copper-based blood.
One of my favorite non so hostile Xeno races in Warhammer 40 k.
The Vaults of Terra are there going to be more videos on the tau empire?