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Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:I'm amazed the compelling evidence that supports the Tau and Necrons hasn't resulted in a landslide voting victory of said same chums.

It all started when the Necrons popped in to see if they could borrow a can of WD40....

@ VSE:
So how many times did someone not logged in vote?

Its sadly no surprise to see a poll driven down the road of no return to usefulness.
Poor OP....

BloodQuest wrote:

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:I'm amazed the compelling evidence that supports the Tau and Necrons hasn't resulted in a landslide voting victory of said same chums.

It all started when the Necrons popped in to see if they could borrow a can of WD40....

Do the Tau drink tea? I wonder if they have inbuilt inverters that would power a kettle.........

Mind you a lot of the tau stuff looks like it was made by Russell Hobbs. Curious.

Imperial Guard and Space Marines.

I can has cookie?

1hadhq wrote:@ VSE:
So how many times did someone not logged in vote?

Its sadly no surprise to see a poll driven down the road of no return to usefulness.
Poor OP....

I did try this tactic but it doesn't work. You have to use different computers and different work terminals don't thingy either. Probably an IP address thingy or some other quasi Necrau tech.

I am pretty sure you can vote once per day if not logged in from a mobile phone with web access...


And a Cookie for Henners91. Please choose 1:

( and 0 cookies for the Necrau/taucron faction )

1hadhq wrote:I am pretty sure you can vote once per day if not logged in from a mobile phone with web access...

Nice one. Tau/Necron for the win.

Of the ones you listed the only ones I could ever see happen "knowingly by both parties on a somewhat regular basis" would be: Eldar and Tau; Dark Eldar and Chaos Marines; Daemons and Dark Eldar. The Dakr Eldar will team with anyone if pain and torture were involved. The Tau would team with Eldar or Imperium if the end result would be for the greater good.

Of the others I could see these occuring only in a truely desperate situation: Orks and Chaos Space Marines; Imperial Guard and Eldar (Only if no Commisars or Inquisition forces were anywhere nearby); Eldar and Space Marines. The Orks hate/want to fight everyone and the Imperium trusts nobody, even other Imperial Troops. However, based on some fluff these have, on a limited scale, appeared to have occured on occassion.

The others I cannot see happening under any circumstances, unless one side is unaware of the actual identity and nature of who they are allying with.

Orks will ally with anyone if the promise is of a better fight than they'd have otherwise; you just have to make yourself scarce before they eventually run out of fighting and turn on you.

I said Eldar and Space marines,een how it happens alot not for long but it still an alliance no matter how short lived.

People actually voted for Tau and Necrons? That hilarious.

There are only 3 forces that would ever consider allying themselves (temporeraly) in very desperate times.
Eldar.
Imperium .
Tau .

Mordoskul wrote:People actually voted for Tau and Necrons? That hilarious.

I should think that anything so glaringly obvious as the Tau/Necron alliance would have garnered at least 75% of the vote. Frankly, I'm concerned about Dakka Dakka's grasp of the 40k fluff.

Monster Rain wrote:

Mordoskul wrote:People actually voted for Tau and Necrons? That hilarious.

I should think that anything so glaringly obvious as the Tau/Necron alliance would have garnered at least 75% of the vote. Frankly, I'm concerned about Dakka Dakka's grasp of the 40k fluff.

Dark Eldar and Daemons is a bit farfetched too.

Tau+eldar all the way.

nickmund wrote:There are only 3 forces that would ever consider allying themselves (temporeraly) in very desperate times.

You should re-read Codex: Dark Eldar then, especially the part where DE and Tau ally...

I think the alliance with the "(seriously? WTF)" thing next to it should be the Space marines and Chaos space marines. That will just never happen...... EVER

No reunion then?

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:

nickmund wrote:There are only 3 forces that would ever consider allying themselves (temporeraly) in very desperate times.

You should re-read Codex: Dark Eldar then, especially the part where DE and Tau ally...

That sounds like some of the most rediculous fluff written. Why would the Tau and Dark Eldar ally with each other? The Tau for the greater good and Dark Eldar for pain and suffering, the two just dont mix. The Dark Eldar dont have any interest in allying themsleves with anyone, they would rather enslave than form an alliance.
And the Tau would'nt ally themselves with the Dark Eldar because they would be so horrifide at what the dark eldar do, it goes against everything they stand for.

nickmund wrote:

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:

nickmund wrote:There are only 3 forces that would ever consider allying themselves (temporeraly) in very desperate times.

You should re-read Codex: Dark Eldar then, especially the part where DE and Tau ally...

That sounds like some of the most rediculous fluff written. Why would the Tau and Dark Eldar ally with each other? The Tau for the greater good and Dark Eldar for pain and suffering, the two just dont mix. The Dark Eldar dont have any interest in allying themsleves with anyone, they would rather enslave than form an alliance.
And the Tau would'nt ally themselves with the Dark Eldar because they would be so horrifide at what the dark eldar do, it goes against everything they stand for.

The Dark Eldar offered to help the Tau out of a tight spot, and all they asked for in return was a contingent of Tau to come and live with the Dark Eldar in a sort of cultural exchange. Of course, the Tau that went were never heard from again... though the Dark Eldar force was seen sporting a lot of off-coour blue Grotesques not long afterwards...

You see, the problem with over-simplifying the racial motivations of an entire species spread over multiple worlds is that you forget that the proverbial devil is in the detail. In this particular instance, the Tau likely had no idea just how horrific the Dark Eldar are, and were really in need of a saviour.

So its more of a ruse rather than an alliance.

nickmund wrote:So its more of a ruse rather than an alliance.

Depends how you define "alliance", who's perspective these things are looked at from etc. As I say, boiling races down to a few stereo-typical attributes and governing every dealing they have with the universe from that little island is only going to upset you. You can *always* rationalise the fluff if you are willing to do a little imaginative legwork.

Im just amazed the Tau could be so stupid.

Oooh look at that sinister looking spikey armoured psycopath
he seems like a nice enough chap.

I still think that chaos space marines would ally with basically anyone, if the opportunity came up. Unfortunately, most chaos space marines are disturbingly efficent killers, and the mere sight of their slaughter and power would scare most inferior soldiers to death.

Eldar would be petrified
Tau would be petrified
Imperial guard would just die at the sight of them
Loyalist Space Marines would probably just try their best to kill them, even though it's hopeless. Chaos is immortal
Inquisition would probably do very little to hinder them
Dark eldar....Hmm......It's possible that the DE might not actually be bothered too much by them...But that would bother the CSM, and they would kill the little ers.


You guys should seriously read Dark Apostle....Best 40k book I've ever read. Anthony Reynolds is a wonderful writer, and I hope he writes more word bearers stuff.

nickmund wrote:Im just amazed the Tau could be so stupid.

They were stupid in that they weren't with their #1 ally, the Necrons!

TAUCRON!

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:

nickmund wrote:Im just amazed the Tau could be so stupid.

They were stupid in that they weren't with their #1 ally, the Necrons!

TAUCRON!

Who writes this crap?!

BloodQuest wrote:It all started when the Necrons popped in to see if they could borrow a can of WD40....

The Tau came to the door wearing a tiny negligee...

BloodQuest wrote:

BloodQuest wrote:It all started when the Necrons popped in to see if they could borrow a can of WD40....

The Tau came to the door wearing a tiny negligee...

....and fishnet tights.

BloodQuest wrote:

BloodQuest wrote:It all started when the Necrons popped in to see if they could borrow a can of WD40....

The Tau came to the door wearing a tiny negligee...

"Is that a Warscythe you're holding... or are you just pleased to see me?"

You want to hear a joke?

Necrons allieing with anyone.