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Lexx wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:We call them cattle grids in the UK. Quite often, sheep work out how to get across them, so the farmers still have to put a gate there anyway.

I've seen sheep doing their great escape on these. They roll over on their backs!

But yes. Haven't actually seen many Tau = awesome threads this year...

I honestly don't think I've ever seen a Tau = awesome thread that wasn't either a joke, or written by someone very young and new to the game.

Off-Topic: Galatic Defender, your display picture looks like the medal you get when you spartan laser someone in Halo.

On-Topic: LOL!

"My dear Ethereal, we have encountered...a problem"


"What is it firewarrior?"

"A cattlegrate my lord"

"....god help us all"

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!

Another way to defeat tau:
Get in CC.
One of my 40k phrases is "chop da shooty stuff, shoot da choppy stuff."
Works well.

Melissia wrote:But if they're stuck in once place, that means they're in a position to be bombarded by Guard artillery, which is better than Tau artillery

We have artillery?

Catyrpelius wrote:With all of the recent Blah Blah Tau are Awsome threads that have been poping up, I though I'd post one of my own.

So without further adue, I give you How to Defeat the Tau in One Easy Step... Patten Pending of CourseSilly Space Cows.

Laugh while you can, earthling


BTW there are only two kinds of Tau threads:
Those full of hate and those full of pity.

A friend of a friend of my dads once filled the cattle grid at the bottom of his drive with fireworks. He was jealous of his friends brand new car, so when his friend drove over the cattle grid, he detonated them. The driver didn't have a scratch on him. Can't say the same for the car.

What i'm saying is, this isn't just good vs Tau.

(The guys name is Hugh Kennedy. A true English eccentric. See his trebuchet at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY )

Kroothawk, that's how markerlights SHOULD work! (now that I have mentioned something wrong with the current Tau codex, this thread shall be hijacked as all who own the army debate about what should be updated)

KilKrazy, your picture looks kind of like a Steak. Mmmmmm, space commie steak.

I see no problem why a cattle guard would prove any problems at all for the Tau. That's why we have Kroot!

Cattle guard? Which cattle guard?

Tau don't handle fisticuff well. I think most close combat with Tau looks like this:

Live in Kansas, had no idea what that was.

Also, unless the cattle guard's behind them to catch them as they run away from the fight, don't think it's going to see much use.

I find it hard to believe that people are trying to analize the joke and explain why its illogical. ITS A JOKE!!!!
stop behaving like Sheldon from "the big bang thery"

Catyrpelius wrote:With all of the recent Blah Blah Tau are Awsome threads that have been poping up, I though I'd post one of my own.

So without further adue, I give you How to Defeat the Tau in One Easy Step... Patten Pending of Course



Silly Space Cows.

Patten? Is he hiding underneath?

Seriously now, that has to be the most pointless cattle grid ever, how long before the livestock work out that they can slip past through the massive expanse of grassland to either side?

Typically, there will be a barbed wire fence on either side. However, I can't make one out in this picture. So, yeah. Pretty dumb.

In addition to cattle guards (or grids), you can also put a cattle catcher on the front of trains and trucks:





But the ones I see on trucks are rarely for farmers. Just donkey-caves with little peckers that want to compensate by putting them on their dualies.

Final comment to everyone, you don't neccessarily have to be from the south or an uneducated redneck to see these (Cattle Guards, Grids, or Catchers). I saw these growing up and am a chemical engineer. Likewise, not seeing these in your formative years would tend to make you a city slicker, but not neccessarily.

We call them child killers in Britain. They are set at just the right height to make sure of children crossing the road.

Cattle 'catchers', lets be honest, they're more like cattle ploughs. And yes, Bull Bars, as they were called over here, were banned because of their unpleasant effect on pedestrians.

Yeah . . the only problem would be getting the Cattle Guard behind the Tau . . . perhaps we could outflank it, but that would take some kind of Tactical Genious . . .