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Grotzooka wrote:I once read some fluff (on the old website, I think) about a Tau army and one of their first encounters with Chaos forces.

The Tau figured out that the enemy forces were worshiping some being called "Slaanesh." So, the Tau start trying to pinpoint the location of "Slaanesh" so they could kill him and defeat the leaderless army...

I guess GW said "OK, we've got this race. They're the closest thing to good guys this setting has got, so we gotta make them undesirable somehow... I've got it! Let's make them really stupid!"

That could be considered a very reasonable approach, especially since the Tau weren't aware there are actual gods in the galaxy. If we were fighting a battle and were told that the other side worshiped a certain being, we wouldn't assume said being really existed and was capable of mopping the floor with us.

Explains why we haven't caught Bin Laden. Too busy looking for Allah.

Digganob wrote:

BrotherStynier wrote:Is this Codex writen by the guy that brought us the Space Marine Codex? You know the one that gives us the White Scars and Raven Guard, rivals, joining forces with little question. With Khan and Shrike holding hands, skipping through fields of flowers and decapitating Chaos Marines?

The 5ed Marines Codex was written by Matt Ward. I think the Nid Codex was written by Robin Cruddace, who did the 5ed Guard Codex.
And if I'm not mistaken, the rivalry (not a blind mutual hatred) between the two chapters was established in the 5ed Codex.

I recall the rivalry being before the 5th Ed book, and it stemming from their shared task. Similar to the rivalry with the Iron Warriors and the Imperial Fists, though rather than the two hating each other they dislike working with one another.

Manchu wrote:

Ketara wrote:Y'know, I make it a principle to never blindly trust skeleton robots that glow green just for situations such as this.

That's a pretty good rule of thumb. Remember kids: don't talk to strangers, especially an army of robotic skeleton strangers.

Sigged. :thumsbup:

Manchu wrote:Explains why we haven't caught Bin Laden. Too busy looking for Allah.

At least we didn't welcome him with open arms for anything. Tau would've thought he was just misguided and fighting for the wrong greater good.
As for the Necrons avoiding 'Nids, I only recall reading it the other way around. Necrons actively hunt all bio life, including 'Nids, yet 'Nids avoid 'Crons because the cost of getting such a minuscule amount of biomass on the Tomb World is not worth it.

LiberatedObject wrote:

Manchu wrote:Explains why we haven't caught Bin Laden. Too busy looking for Allah.

At least we didn't welcome him with open arms for anything. Tau would've thought he was just misguided and fighting for the wrong greater good.
As for the Necrons avoiding 'Nids, I only recall reading it the other way around. Necrons actively hunt all bio life, including 'Nids, yet 'Nids avoid 'Crons because the cost of getting such a minuscule amount of biomass on the Tomb World is not worth it.

TAU (to Bin Laden): Our Good is Greater Than Yours.
Then they break out into an epic kung fu style battle to see who's good is greater.
The winner: Tyranids. (Because they ate both parties)
Then the Necrons come and own them all
Finally they're nuked from orbit by the Imperium and we all lived happily ever after!

Aduro wrote:Tyranid Hive Fleets go out of their way to avoid Necron Tomb Worlds. My guess is the moon wasn't a full on Tomb World and just some form of forward base or staging area, and that wiping out the Hive Fleet was just the Necron's way of saying "dibs".

That might have been the reason.
OR GW simply changed the fluff. Wouldn't be the first time.
There are other fluuf things that seem odd to me in the new nid dex, for example:

warriors are created out of the tyrant's biomass, to enable some kind of bond between them.
I always thought every being was absorbed to the (same) biomass, but now in the last phase of absorption a tyrant with bun, horn-rimmed glasses and a clipboard walks across the place and states:
"Tyrants go into absorption pool 1 , Carnifi and Trygons go into pools 2 to 7. Hey, you hormagant over there! Don't dare you jumt into the Tyrant pool, or i have to sort out your DNA by hand tonight. Your pool is number 13..."

I’m not a huge fan of Tau but the excerpt is somewhat vague.

It is completely conceivable that the Necron Lord in charge of the battle sent communications to the Tau that professed the good intentions of the Necrons in coming to the aid of the Tau.

Even though the rank and file Necron warrior is a mindless automaton for the most part, the lords themselves are nothing of the sort. One might assume they’re quite savvy in the ways of deception. If the Earth was attacked and some alien race emerged from our moon to wipe them out than sent an email to every man, woman, and child on earth that read;

“Hey, we’ve been here for a long time watching you. Love what you’ve done with the place. Let’s be friends. Be there is 3 days. Much Love, Lord Terminator.”

I think there would be widespread celebration and the leaders of the earth, skeptical as they may be, would proceed with good faith. When the glowing green Monolyth portal vomited forth robot killing machines, I think the party would get ugly fast… and we too would be taken by surprise.

Conversely, maybe the Necrons said nothing. Maybe they just moved their ships into position over vital Tau military instillations. Meanwhile, the Tau Fire Warriors were screaming at their Ethereal leader; “this is BAD JUJU!” The Ethereal in charge said; “Ah, it’s all good. We’ve made friends with Kroot and Vespids and all sorts of other alien races. This is an opportunity to make new friends! Don’t be so paranoid.”

Then the Necrons vaporized the Tau defenses and began harvesting the helpless civilians.

I lol'd

Later...

080011.M41
Imperial forces in the sector seek to cleanse Ka'Mais of Necron threat. Tau survivors rejoice.

080012.M41
Exterminatus order given and exacted on Ka'Mais.

It's just not their lucky day/month/year is it?

Emperors Faithful wrote:It's just not their lucky day/month/year is it?

On the contrary, dear faithful servant of the Emperor.
His holy vengance is executed in one stroke, they should feel honored.
If they were unlucky, orks and chaos would also come by....

1hadhq wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:It's just not their lucky day/month/year is it?

On the contrary, dear faithful servant of the Emperor.
His holy vengance is executed in one stroke, they should feel honored.
If they were unlucky, orks and chaos would also come by....

Could be worse. Could have been Slaanesh. So instead of Dying, they would just have a very messy clean up job.

Darth Bob wrote:Later...

080011.M41
Imperial forces in the sector seek to cleanse Ka'Mais of Necron threat. Tau survivors rejoice.

080012.M41
Exterminatus order given and exacted on Ka'Mais.

080008.M41
Eldar forces in the sector seek to cleanse Ka'Mais of Necron threat. Tau survivors rejoice. Eldar kill then 50% of the Tau

080009.M41
Slaaneshi forces in the sector seek to claim the Eldar souls for their god. Tau survivors rejoice. Chaos enslaves the Tau

080010.M41
Ork forces in the sector start a massive WAAAAGH!!! and chop up the Slaaneshi forces. Tau survivors rejoice till 50% of the remaining get chopped up as well

080011.M41
Imperial forces in the sector try to get rid of the rising WAAAAGH!!! Tau survivors rejoice. Imperials decide it too costly to fight for the planet

080012.M41
Exterminatus order given and exacted on Ka'Mais

Here. Fixed

Cheese Elemental wrote:From the new Tyranid codex:

Hm, that actually almost sounds like a reference to the pilot episode of the Battlestar Galactica (the original one). War between Colonies and Cylons had ended to peace treaty, Humans held a huge welcoming ceremony for the Cylons...only to have Cylons invade and shoot up everything.

aka_tizz wrote:

080008.M41
Eldar forces in the sector seek to cleanse Ka'Mais of Necron threat. Tau survivors rejoice. Eldar kill then 50% of the Tau

080009.M41
Slaaneshi forces in the sector seek to claim the Eldar souls for their god. Tau survivors rejoice. Chaos enslaves the Tau

080010.M41
Ork forces in the sector start a massive WAAAAGH!!! and chop up the Slaaneshi forces. Tau survivors rejoice till 50% of the remaining get chopped up as well

080011.M41
Imperial forces in the sector try to get rid of the rising WAAAAGH!!! Tau survivors rejoice. Imperials decide it too costly to fight for the planet

080012.M41
Exterminatus order given and exacted on Ka'Mais

Here. Fixed

LOL

I can't believe I was the only one who saw the Mars Attacks! joke.

Oh those silly old Tau, trying to be inclusive.

Kind of funny too, the local Necron player hates facing Tau, he's always so crestfallen in turn 2 when his monoliths are smoking craters

Even as a Tau player, I think that's funny...

It's good to not take yourself to seriously. I actually like it.


It's like saying the Eldar know what's going to happen before it happens....and get killed off anyway. Or the Spessh Mehrehns being all bad arse, and getting nomnom'd by the Nids.

Everyone gets a butt whuppin every once in a while.