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Just curious what worlds both Tau players and the community at large have latched on to.


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I have become quite partial to Vior'la, the idea of ork fighters that are revered warriors appeals to me. I also like their proximity to the Enclaves and the Western Veil Nebula,

I'm not much for fluff. I went with Vash'ya because I view my army as more of a mobile response unit than actually tied to any one system.

Tau'n or Bork'an for me. I love white color schemes on Tau.

K'sim'yen. Piranhas and Pathfinders are the boss, and nobody does Piranha Rush like K'sim'yen.

D'yanoi, because... that's what I've got! I know there should be more logic than that involved, but there just isn't.

I really thought the Enclaves would get more love.


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And there it is.


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Sadly with absolutely no explanation.


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 Furyou Miko wrote:
K'sim'yen. Piranhas and Pathfinders are the boss, and nobody does Piranha Rush like K'sim'yen.

Do you use a lot of piranha? I always fantasized about using 15 piranha in a single game.

Bringing three full units of Piranha will probably be my next goal. Brought a unit of 5 to a game and it was hands down my favorite unit just because getting a squad of 10 intercepting drones on top of all those fast moving hull points really helped control the field.

I don't even know if there would be enough field to block with 15 of them.

 OzTeG8ndPwRfl wrote:


Do you use a lot of piranha? I always fantasized about using 15 piranha in a single game.

I only play Tau on Vassal, but yes. I double FoC at 2k so I can have two units of Pathfinders, three units of Piranhas, and then a TX-10 squadron. I back them up with Skyrays. The Piranhas are usually set up so that I have a full squad of 5 with burst cannons, then two teams of two with fusion blasters.

They murder anything less than TEq, because I unleash Seeker Hell on anything I can get a markerlight in LoS to. Everything else is mopping up. Use a scratchbuilt female Darkstrider as my HQ. Not optimal, but I love the special ability and the concept of the character (Even if I do then genderflip it, but eh, Tau society doesn't care, and Myamoto is a terrible name for a Tau, so whatever).

Could be epic though, I mean 15 are only 600 points 900 tops with upgrades. That is amazing!

Had to go with Sa'cea. I like the premise of Vior'la, but I can't stomach the colors, and I do like the Enclaves, but I don't think I can technically count them as a sept. At least my brain wouldn't let me lol.

 DragonOfAsh wrote:
Had to go with Sa'cea. I like the premise of Vior'la, but I can't stomach the colors, and I do like the Enclaves, but I don't think I can technically count them as a sept. At least my brain wouldn't let me lol.

Tau change their camo to fit their field of battle. The colors of a sept as shown in the 4th edition codex were the camo patterns that worked best in the biospheres common to those individual sept worlds. They are not the colors worn by the sept's worriers at all times, or for that matter even the most frequently.

Other.

Dan Harden's White Dwarf Tau.

9 votes for Farsight, and no posts. Guess I'll start it off then.

Honestly, I think it just started with my love of the idea that Tau could run an HQ unit that was upwards of 20+ models - in one army, you could have Farsight, a Crisis Bodyguard team of 7 suits, and 2 drones for each one. Plus, I think I was just really curious to see what was going on with Farsight and his renegades, since it wasn't fleshed out much in the 4th Edition book. I was incredibly happy when the 6th Edition book came out and I discovered that the Farsight Bomb was not only viable, but with the right mixture of units, incredibly effective.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Other.

Dan Harden's White Dwarf Tau.

That is a paint scheme... not a sept...


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 Locclo wrote:
9 votes for Farsight, and no posts. Guess I'll start it off then.

Honestly, I think it just started with my love of the idea that Tau could run an HQ unit that was upwards of 20+ models - in one army, you could have Farsight, a Crisis Bodyguard team of 7 suits, and 2 drones for each one. Plus, I think I was just really curious to see what was going on with Farsight and his renegades, since it wasn't fleshed out much in the 4th Edition book. I was incredibly happy when the 6th Edition book came out and I discovered that the Farsight Bomb was not only viable, but with the right mixture of units, incredibly effective.

So you picked your sept for play style reasons? Works I guess, thought never occurred to me that was an option though. I read the fluff, picked the sept I liked, and then made that sept a reality. Though I did use codex Fasrsight Enclavesas my primary detachment with allied Tau to make my Vior'la army.

Au'Taal. Though I have an alternate color scheme, the emblems are green

 OzTeG8ndPwRfl wrote:

 Locclo wrote:
9 votes for Farsight, and no posts. Guess I'll start it off then.

Honestly, I think it just started with my love of the idea that Tau could run an HQ unit that was upwards of 20+ models - in one army, you could have Farsight, a Crisis Bodyguard team of 7 suits, and 2 drones for each one. Plus, I think I was just really curious to see what was going on with Farsight and his renegades, since it wasn't fleshed out much in the 4th Edition book. I was incredibly happy when the 6th Edition book came out and I discovered that the Farsight Bomb was not only viable, but with the right mixture of units, incredibly effective.

So you picked your sept for play style reasons? Works I guess, thought never occurred to me that was an option though. I read the fluff, picked the sept I liked, and then made that sept a reality. Though I did use codex Fasrsight Enclavesas my primary detachment with allied Tau to make my Vior'la army.

Well, that's the main reason I never cared much for Farsight in editions prior. I thought the character was kinda cool and enjoyed the mystery around him (which they've pretty much ruined with the new supplement as they explain damn near everything about him), but the FOC restrictions when running Farsight were ridiculous and crippled the army to the point where it was practically unplayable, which put me off. Not to mention the "Farsight Bomb" was nowhere near as viable as it supposedly is now and was generally a really stupid idea, as was intentionally gimping your Tau force to build an army around it. Now that those restrictions are gone, and they made crisis suits troops, and the Farsight Bomb is sort of viable, I'm kinda giving it a second look.

Anyway, since they pretty much came right out and said that the ethereals are basically all lying to and generally manipulating the Tau race now, which was only hinted at before, and there's really no difference between all the other Tau septs other than a different color scheme (which is kinda sad, GW can make red Space Marines so vastly different from blue ones that they need their own codex and rules, but with xenos it's just a different paint job and nothing more), I voted for the Farsight Enclaves because they're probably the most interesting now, being the only Tau that are operating completely independently without a questionable leader caste exerting its influence over them.

Some of the fluff is just kinda goofy though (which I guess is true of a lot of GW fluff anymore), like how the four Enclave worlds they showed off in the book were basically representative of the different castes...one's a hot planet, the other's a dirt ball, one has a giant water bubble encasing it...just seems kinda stupid to me. Though I do find it funny that the Tau have the technology to carve a planetoid into a desired shape (basically a giant fething hexagonal ball), which they basically only did as a form of dick-waving and because it gave them something pretty to look at from orbit. For some reason I love that.

Before the supplement came out though I guess I would have said Sa'cea, just because I wanted to paint my Tau blue or grey and give them orange stripes.

Do you still have restrictions in the new edition? I think the only one is that he cannot ally with a detachment including Shadowsun and/or Aun Va and doesnt have access to the Tau relics like the PEN?

I actually liked the restriction in the old codex as Farsight and his bodyguard is a major boost to any Tau force, nevermind that you can take crisis suits (arguably the most flexible unit in the warhammer 40k game) as troops.

If there are no restrictions, everyone will play farsight enclaves.

Sa'cea because of the paint scheme mainly, and because they are a non-specialised Sept and close friends with Kroot (they fought on their homeplanet Pech).

 Sir Arun wrote:
If there are no restrictions, everyone will play farsight enclaves.

If Farsight still had his old restrictions, no one would play Farsight Enclaves.

Also, the book's been out for quite a while now, so they already would be if that were the case. Are they? I haven't been paying attention and don't really care about the state of the 40k "meta" anymore, so I don't know if everyone's playing Farsight or not.

The three biggest restrictions in the old book:
-Costs on everything was higher, taking an expensive HQ and bodyguard unit that was extremely vulnerable to Battle Cannons would drain points elsewhere in the list.
-Weapons before were either single or twin-linked. Being able to purchase two of the same weapon is a huge huge bonus. Just consider the difference between a squad with plasma rifle/fusion blasters and a couple target locks to a squad with 2 dual plasma rifles and a dual fusion blaster with target lock.
-Farsight would scatter. This is what really made it unplayable for me before.

When I see online that Farsight is being ran, it's usually with allied Tau to get the best of both wargear options. I tend to run it in smaller games just because crisis troops are fun and versatile.

 OzTeG8ndPwRfl wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
Other.

Dan Harden's White Dwarf Tau.

That is a paint scheme... not a sept...

Yes, a paint scheme for an un-named Sept.

Or at least if they did name which sept it was supposed to be, I missed it.

In any event, whichever sept it's supposed to represent is my favorite. Point being here is that the Tau septs aren't really fleshed out well enough in the fluff to have any appreciable differences other than the paint scheme and maybe a one sentence blurb buried in the codex. (Farsight Enclaves excluded, obviously. )

So, like pageant queens, we'll vote on which one looks the best and try to justify it on how much we like their 'winning personality.' Me, I like this enigmatic sept-with-no-name's air of mystery.

Yeah, I actually was going to ask where most people were getting this detailed fluff. Aside from a few odd mentions of abandoned septs or retirement septs (I'm so going to make a unit of retirees now) the mentions are all the same.
Two septs use lots of prototype weaponry
The majority of septs are known for their honorable, well trained, and/or fierce Firewarriors
a few are known for trade planets. That's really all I got.

I agree with Jimsolo though. The paint scheme is very nice. Though the Seeker Missile Crisis suit heads always looked a bit off.

 Sir Arun wrote:
If there are no restrictions, everyone will play farsight enclaves.

I would never play traitors of the Greater Good

 Kroothawk wrote:

 Sir Arun wrote:
If there are no restrictions, everyone will play farsight enclaves.

I would never play traitors of the Greater Good

This exactly. Splitter scum!

Tau because Orange and White go so well together. Plus I have my Army Painted like them.

The farsight enclaves... because they know what's up.

Ke'lshan for XV-9 they rock. Love the looks but my favorite paint job is Sa'cea

 R3YNO wrote:
Tau because Orange and White go so well together. Plus I have my Army Painted like them.

I know right?

How come nobody made a "portal" scheme army yet?


Though I'm enclavist myself, with a DA color scheme to make things worse

Farsighted enclave, because I like deep red colours.

Would definitely have to be these guys!




Seriously though, i don't know what scheme you would call it or if it is custom but I like the jungle style tau. They look more battle hardened to me.