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2019/12/16 23:57:58
Subject: Why is there barely any complaining about Tau?
FezzikDaBullgryn wrote: I'm not going to lie, I complain constantly as my Custodes are getting shot off the table everytime by skinny blue aliens. But it's not their fault their army was built well.
As a matter of fact, you could make the argument their army has been one of the consistently best in the entire edition.
Disagree, Tau has been consistently above average in the entire edition, it's because their faction archetype simply can't be bad under the 8th edition system. They do horribly against negative modifiers and for the past months 2 of the strongest builds have -2 modifiers all over the board: elf planes and plaguebearers. And with the new Faith and Fury supplement, 10 night lord warptalons have a decent chance of crippling an entire Tau army. Tau have very polarizing matchups, they are not consistent enough to even compare to pre-nerf castellan soup, ynnari, or current space marine.
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Martel732 wrote: Those of us who wanted cheaper marines are looking pretty prophetic now. The "make them feel elite" crowd got their wish, though.
Wanting to make them feel elite is a desire to readjust their playstyle to fit their background fluff, it has nothing to do with jacking their stats up so much that it breaks the game. An over-adjustment in either direction is bad, and doesn't make the other side correct in any way.
That's like if GW kept that stats unchanged but cut point cost for the entire book by half or something, it also breaks the game but the "elite" crowd can't turn around and go "see I told you guys making them cheaper was a bad decision"
