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I voted other because I think it would be more effective if they just yelled at the other tau to keep them in line.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

Once again, they all did side with The Etherals. Tau can grumble but note how none of them actually went against the Etherals when it came down to it.

It says that Etherials do the best effords to Fire caste but it hasnt got any point.they were still untrasted. And of counse they could go against the Etherials . Its like a Commader of the Impeial go to a full-in-belief-to-God-Emperor Govenor whith his priest aside ( aside to the govenor i mean) and say :screw Emperor, lets join the Chaos.
In one word only : killed as traitor in sight.

OK, the reason why the Pheremone thing is just stupid wrong is that you have a species that has mastered interstellar and ftl travel, they have an earth caste that create communion helms and understands biology of both their own race and that of other races. They would figure out the pheremone thing, probably accept it as natural and it wouldn't be a big secret.

When fluff or, for that matter, any story tries to make the reader accept the absurd without explanation then it is poorly written. We as customers have the right to expect better for what we are shelling out in monies.


Now, what would have made sense, is if "that piece of Tau fluff written from the Imperiums pov" about the artificial dna enzymes was used to explain genetic manipulation of the Tau to make them inclined to following the Greater Good (You know, less susceptible to personal desires and temptation, this would also dovetail nicely into why the Tau are resistant/immune to chaos corruptiuon).

If your theory was in the codex, and the Eldar did do this to help the Tau and the universe, than I would accept it and love it. That would be beautiful if the Eldar and their allies the Alpha Legion were helping protect the Tau and were setting them up to inherit the galaxy.

There would be no mind control and no manipulation here, only the ancient ones doing what must be done to help the race who is and will become the best hope for our galaxy.

Sadly no current fluff supports it, but I would like it if it were part of a reboot of their origin story in 6th.

FR33Kandy wrote:If your theory was in the codex, and the Eldar did do this to help the Tau and the universe, than I would accept it and love it. That would be beautiful if the Eldar and their allies the Alpha Legion were helping protect the Tau and were setting them up to inherit the galaxy.

There would be no mind control and no manipulation here, only the ancient ones doing what must be done to help the race who is and will become the best hope for our galaxy.

Sadly no current fluff supports it, but I would like it if it were part of a reboot of their origin story in 6th.

The stuff about the synthetic enzymes and protiens are in the tau empire codex. Its on page 20, the ad-mech document by Zachary Santiago.

Again, I feel that this would be a better starting point than the pheremone thing. The artificial dna protiens could easily be missed by the Tau, dismissed as natural to their species or a health supplement that they take to prevent cancer or something of the sort.

Which leaves me excited for the next codex, cause 3rd to 4th I don't remember having a whole lot of new material. Sure, it had some, but I feel like GW has been producing more quality products as of late.

I would like it more if they noticed and reffered to the Eldar as the architects of their empire. Even if they no longer agree with the Eldar's secretive and xenophobic ways, they could see themselves as the rightful inheritance of the once great Eldar empire.

Except there's no connection between the two.

I know there isn't, but I would be more receptive to that then confirmation of the pheromone theory.