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1hadhq wrote:So the point of Necron/Tau consists wholly of misunderstood background and crappy pics?
Why am I not surprised?

If this isn't a "most likely to join" thread anymore, let me vote for SM and CSM just because both have "marine" in their names.

That's certainly feasible as all the loyalists would have to is turn traitor. Unfortunatley they would still be no match for the Necrau Alliance.

1hadhq wrote:So the point of Necron/Tau consists wholly of an indisputable mastery of fluff knowledge and awesome pics?
Why am I not surprised?

Fixed that for you.

Monster Rain wrote:[snip]definition spam[/snip]

No. I'm not buyin' that argument. Nor is anyone else apparently.

Ennkay wrote:You see a race of metal zombies and view them as mindless zombies.

No. I see an oppressed race of alien beings which had been forced into servitude by powerful deity-like beings after being doomed by the galactic community at the time to live on a planet that was dangerously harmful to life. Used by these beings to harvest souls for food, the Necrontyr likely have some level of hatred for the C'tan, and the rest of the galaxy in general, probably existing in a mental state of extreme spite whenever they aren't under the direct control of a C'tan (And with most of the C'tan dead and the living ones greatly weakened by so much time spent slumbering, there could be a relatively large number of them free of said control). From what I can tell, the Necrontyr whom have free will probably want to force the C'tan to starve and greatly weaken if at all possible, so that they can kill them and be free to exact their revenge out on the galaxy at large, after hatred built up from aeons of servitude.

What do you see?

This discussion on an alliance between Tau and Necrons is... Interesting.

While we're at it, I'm sure we can all agree that the Grey Knights would totally ally with Chaos Daemons.

Necroman wrote:This discussion on an alliance between Tau and Necrons is... Interesting.

While we're at it, I'm sure we can all agree that the Grey Knights would totally ally with Chaos Daemons.

And orks are just big softies, really. They totally believe in flower power.

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:And orks are just big softies, really. They totally believe in flower power.

Someone needs to paint this army.

NOW.

Monster Rain wrote:

Fixed that for you.

No, you didn't fix those badly modified and ( maybe thats just my browser ) only partially loading pics.

In fluff, there are 2 most unlikely allies, and one of them is a undead themed horde of metallic painted green glowing space robots....

Seems youre right and its irrefutable that necrons may conquer but never ally as you surely wanted to point out with your gracious explanation of
40k background which I am looking forward to.

I just changed the size and color of a few words, it shouldn't be too hard for your browser... ah well.

And leave it to Melissa to argue with a dictionary.

I'm not arguing with a dictionary.... and I'm not completing that thought.

Necroman wrote:Someone needs to paint this army.

NOW.

Does Hello Kitty Orks count? I've seen that army before.

Melissia wrote:

Necroman wrote:Someone needs to paint this army.

NOW.

Does Hello Kitty Orks count? I've seen that army before.

IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FUTURE, THERE IS ONLY HELLO KITTY!


Whoops, wrong army.

Melissia wrote:I'm not arguing with a dictionary.... and I'm not completing that thought.

Necroman wrote:Someone needs to paint this army.

NOW.

Does Hello Kitty Orks count? I've seen that army before.

OHGOD.

Melissia wrote:I'm not arguing with a dictionary....snip

You're arguing with a dictionary definition of a word. My how you love semantics.

Wings of Light wrote:Eldar and orks and marine...Watch the last stand of DoW trailers

orks would never stay in an alliance. i cant even imagine an ork not fighting for more than a month.

You could take advantage of that though.

"ok if you join the greater Good, We will give you hundreds of thousands of drones to 'krump' as you say. All we ask is for you to hurt any 'Big Armor Humies' that threaten us."

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:

Chill, dude. Those pics are meant to be ironic.
In any case, I've stated why i don't think it's a likely pairing. Now I'm hungry because these jokers keep bringing up salmon.

They are not ironic pics. They are prophetic.

1hadhq wrote:So the point of Necron/Tau consists wholly of misunderstood background and crappy pics?
Why am I not surprised?

If this isn't a "most likely to join" thread anymore, let me vote for SM and CSM just because both have "marine" in their names.

No, chaos space mans and space mans are fighting.

The fish and the zombie team is best.

Remember, Necrons and Tau came in dark crusade together.

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:Remember, Necrons and Tau came in dark crusade together.

I really don't think it gets more airtight than that.

I vote other for Eldar and Space Marines, since it's been done before.

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:
They are not ironic pics. They are prophetic.

Seems your prophetic skills aren't that good...

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:
No, chaos space mans and space mans are fighting.

The fish and the zombie team is best.

Remember, Necrons and Tau came in dark crusade together.

The the fishy cow-people are too annoying to ally with, even for undead.
Sadly, there is no ancient zombie team where you look, but zombies in space powered by chaos. So youre saying Tau and Nurgle will be close friends.

Remember : Necron = Tomb Kings in space ( skeletons, NOT zombies ).

Monster Rain wrote:

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:Remember, Necrons and Tau came in dark crusade together.

I really don't think it gets more airtight than that.

Tell that those Tau fans when their 'end-sequence' is mentioned...

To add someting supporting MY case:

Space Mans and Spiky Space Mans were best friends for centurys and followed the same creed.
There are dozens of canon sources of their glorious past as undivided force when they conquered the galaxy.
Nothing comes close to the brotherhood they shared.

Care to provide anything as valid as this for your claim?


Actually ( M41-42 ) the Eldar would be the way to vote in this thread if you deem their manipulative works as 'alliances'.

Necroman wrote:This discussion on an alliance between Tau and Necrons is... Interesting.

While we're at it, I'm sure we can all agree that the Grey Knights would totally ally with Chaos Daemons.

Maybe not by choice. The four powers are very crafty and if they trapped enough of them on a daemon world and turned them it's certainly possible.

Is there any fluff evidence of the Tau fighting the Necrons by the way?

No? I didn't think so.


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There just no way Eldar would ally with any race. Maybe squats but unlikely. Eldar are too proud to accept help from such a fledgling race as the Tau.

Necroman wrote:

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:And orks are just big softies, really. They totally believe in flower power.

Someone needs to paint this army.

NOW.

just go look at Dash of Pepper's army. "the Pink Waaagh"

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:Is there any fluff evidence of the Tau fighting the Necrons by the way?

I don't know of any BL books, but then Tau and Necrons are both very new as far as fluff goes.

Still, allow me to repeat a timeless, beloved phrase: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". Just because there have been few (I would hesitate to say no, depending on the canon-icity of the various DoW games amongst other pieces of fluff) examples of such happening doesn't prove a thing. Especially since most of the time when Necrons attack usually nothing is left alive to report back afterwards anyway.

Melissia wrote:

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:Is there any fluff evidence of the Tau fighting the Necrons by the way?

I don't know of any BL books, but then Tau and Necrons are both very new as far as fluff goes.

Still, allow me to repeat a timeless, beloved phrase: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". Just because there have been few (I would hesitate to say no, depending on the canon-icity of the various DoW games amongst other pieces of fluff) examples of such happening doesn't prove a thing. Especially since most of the time when Necrons attack usually nothing is left alive to report back afterwards anyway.

Tau + Necrons= Antichrist
Seriously? Necrons hATE ALL LIFE!
They don't care who the you are if your organic bye bye.
If your an iduiot bye bye.
If you are tau uhh they are organic. Necrons strive to destory all life NO EXCEPTIONS!
Your dog! Blown to hell
Your Wife! Thrown into a fusion core
Your entire planet! Blown up by a World Engine.
The Tau! Blown up 50 x over.
AI! Lets be friends! (then kills them all)
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Anyway it is wrong to believe that Necrons would ally anyone.
The only two races I could see working together are the Eldar and the Tau.
But the Eldar would most likely just use the Tau and exterminate them later. As the Tau have no warp capabilities.

Melissia wrote:

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:Is there any fluff evidence of the Tau fighting the Necrons by the way?

I don't know of any BL books, but then Tau and Necrons are both very new as far as fluff goes.

Still, allow me to repeat a timeless, beloved phrase: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". Just because there have been few (I would hesitate to say no, depending on the canon-icity of the various DoW games amongst other pieces of fluff) examples of such happening doesn't prove a thing. Especially since most of the time when Necrons attack usually nothing is left alive to report back afterwards anyway.

Yes, i see. Maybe the Necrau Alliance got rid of the evidence. Any BL authors missing?

Seriously though, i think the fact they are the only 2 non-old ones derived (Nids don't count as they're from another galaxy) races is evidence enough.

As far as phrases go, check this one out: "Presence of the abnormal, absence of the normal". A saying that is apt for the unsuspecting galaxy not aware of the birth of the Necrau Alliance.

I hope the Necrons kill the Kroot first though and those wingy things named after an Italian moped.

My good friend plays tau so I always try to come up with ways to justify our tabletop allainces. I was thinking maybe they trade tech or something. My lord wants to restore the necrontyr and recover his buddies' memories and such so the tau might help there. He also enjoys raiding forgeworlds and messing up eldar.

Vet Sgt Ezekiel: Seriously? THAT is the reasoning you're going with.

Whelp, this thread's jumped the shark.

Again.

asimo77 wrote:My good friend plays tau so I always try to come up with ways to justify our tabletop allainces. I was thinking maybe they trade tech or something. My lord wants to restore the necrontyr and recover his buddies' memories and such so the tau might help there. He also enjoys raiding forgeworlds and messing up eldar.

Sound reasoning there. Trade is a def motive. Even the orks trade with the Imperium so why not the Necrau?




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Melissia wrote:Vet Sgt Ezekiel: Seriously? THAT is the reasoning you're going with.

Whelp, this thread's jumped the shark.

Again.

Why not?

Whelp indeed. Not very nice and outdated by about 100 years. i may be close to middle age but I'm not that old. Rapscallion would be fine though.

Jumped the shark? Lost the plot maybe but why sharks?

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:

asimo77 wrote:My good friend plays tau so I always try to come up with ways to justify our tabletop allainces. I was thinking maybe they trade tech or something. My lord wants to restore the necrontyr and recover his buddies' memories and such so the tau might help there. He also enjoys raiding forgeworlds and messing up eldar.

Even the orks trade with the Imperium

..............................no.......... What hersey is this?
*Pulls out hersey stamp*
HERSEY!




Jumping the shark is an idiom used to describe the moment of downturn for a previously successful enterprise. The phrase was originally used to denote the point in a television program's history where the plot spins off into absurd storylines or unlikely characterizations. These changes were often the result of efforts to revive interest in a show whose audience had begun to decline, usually through the employment of different actors, writers or producers.

Asherian Command wrote:

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:

asimo77 wrote:My good friend plays tau so I always try to come up with ways to justify our tabletop allainces. I was thinking maybe they trade tech or something. My lord wants to restore the necrontyr and recover his buddies' memories and such so the tau might help there. He also enjoys raiding forgeworlds and messing up eldar.

Even the orks trade with the Imperium

..............................no.......... What hersey is this?
*Pulls out hersey stamp*
HERSEY!




Jumping the shark is an idiom used to describe the moment of downturn for a previously successful enterprise. The phrase was originally used to denote the point in a television program's history where the plot spins off into absurd storylines or unlikely characterizations. These changes were often the result of efforts to revive interest in a show whose audience had begun to decline, usually through the employment of different actors, writers or producers.

And i quote:


"The Blood Axes are an Ork clan and were the first to encounter the Imperium. During their exposure and battles they picked up many human tactics, such as using camouflage (although often it is too bright to actually disguise the Ork) and retreating when they're losing. They trade with humans for equipment and vehicles, and have even worked as mercenaries for the Imperium at times (such as the Battle at Big Toof River). All of these things lead followers of other clans to brand them as dangerously treacherous, cowardly, and downright un-Orky. Most Blood Axes are back-stabbing Kommandos. Their clan symbol is two crossed axes".


Never heard of that shark phrase before so thanks for the info. Flogging a dead horse would be my analogy of that fine idiom.

the reason the Phrase works is because of this.


When you jump a shark, Where are you?

in front of its mouth.


it works to represent a show, or person, who has done something so absurd and is about to pay for it.

I realised why, after reading the definition in Wiki, that I'd never heard of it. It originates in the USA. Now I understand why i'd never heard it before.

If one wants to jump a shark one might not be in front of it. I might jump it from the side. if I'm underwater I won't bother as the drag created by the water won't constitute what i would define as a 'jump'. More like a star fish impression.

Another omnidirectional animal pestering would be the art of cow toppling. But this is best done at night.