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Tau. It's always been Tau and it will always be Tau. Eldar are a fad hate right now due to their insane codex and imbalanced rules. Tau are hated at all times and will be hated for all time.

   
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 Happyjew wrote:
In my local group, no army really seems to get any hate. Online however, it seems everyone except CSM players complain about Eldar, while CSM players complain about CSM.

I think this hits the right note. Online there is TONS of Eldar Hate. Tau too for sure, but the online Eldar hate is WAAAAAY more vocal.

In the actual gaming environment, I don't really see much hate for any particular faction, just spam of certain things (like triple WKs, or Gladius)

   
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Wasn't 5th ed tau like horrible?

i forget.

it was when Tau lost the Fish o Fury ability, and was stuck with a 4th ed codex till 6th or 7th IIRC.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
 Scott-S6 wrote:
And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.

Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!

 
   
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It doesn't matter how strong or weak the Tau are. They are Tau and they will be hated. That seems to be the reasoning of all the hate.

   
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 gmaleron wrote:
Honestly if the Necron option had been here from the start I would have voted that


OK that explains why it polled so poorly.

   
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Yeah i recall there being basically no hate for tau during 5th.
Not as much as parking lot or leafblower IG.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
 Scott-S6 wrote:
And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.

Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!

 
   
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 JohnHwangDD wrote:
 gmaleron wrote:
Honestly if the Necron option had been here from the start I would have voted that


OK that explains why it polled so poorly.


Eh, this is about the twentieth "most hated" poll I've seen. Necrons usually get about 20% or so while Tau/Eldar get 30ish% each. Necrons are hated because people like removing models and you don't get to do that against us. Eldar are hating for being OP. Tau are hated because they don't play 40k. They play Tau.

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So late poll options make it rather void.

I am wondering what would be a positive thing to take from this thread...

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I would say Tau. They get a thread hating on them almost every week although at times it's coded.

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Eldar get the most hate, Tau second. Space Marines don't get nearly enough.

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 EnTyme wrote:
Eldar are hating for being OP. Tau are hated because they don't play 40k. They play Tau.


This seems quite accurate.... Especially the second one.

The thing about Eldar that has been explained to me, is that they have always been designed as an "elite" army, the fluff balancing of them being a dying race, meant that there were supposed to be low numbers on the table at a given time. IMHO, GW have got this balance down pretty good in Grey Knights. The Eldar seem to have never gotten the balance right, and always end up being OP, or IIRC in editions like 5th, they end up with a world beating build and the rest of the book is kinda "meh"
   
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 TheCustomLime wrote:
I would say Tau. They get a thread hating on them almost every week although at times it's coded.

And this is the polite forum with polite hate. When you take it to the less savory places of the internet its downright hate mob levels of stupidity.
   
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Gamgee wrote:And this is the polite forum with polite hate. When you take it to the less savory places of the internet its downright hate mob levels of stupidity.


A tau player recently refused to play against me because he didn't have his stormsurge and riptide on hand.

He had other models he could have played with (kroot, crisis suits, etc) at a smaller points level.

But nope. It's not worth playing without a riptide or stormsurge.

That's certainly his prerogative. But let it be known that he is, indeed, a tau player.

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 Gamgee wrote:
It doesn't matter how strong or weak the Tau are. They are Tau and they will be hated. That seems to be the reasoning of all the hate.


I disagree that the Tau suffer from the Nickelback syndrome of being hated just because. In hindsight, I disliked 6th Edition Tau because there was a distinct lack of melee options (especially viable ones) and the armies focused too much on ranged. Now with 7th, they became more overpowered and even less melee-focused, and thus deserving of my hate as well as many other people's hate.

If you are one of those people that hate Tau for the sake of hating Tau, I'd start questioning why if I were you.
   
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Oh yeah I hate Tau. Definitely. Just because. I think my stealth suit is too good guys.

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 IllumiNini wrote:
If you are one of those people that hate Tau for the sake of hating Tau, I'd start questioning why if I were you.


What if you hate the Tau because of the Tau players, not because of the Tau army?

   
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 JohnHwangDD wrote:
 IllumiNini wrote:
If you are one of those people that hate Tau for the sake of hating Tau, I'd start questioning why if I were you.


What if you hate the Tau because of the Tau players, not because of the Tau army?


haha then you have a reason and thus got no reason to worry
   
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 Traditio wrote:
Gamgee wrote:And this is the polite forum with polite hate. When you take it to the less savory places of the internet its downright hate mob levels of stupidity.


A tau player recently refused to play against me because he didn't have his stormsurge and riptide on hand.

He had other models he could have played with (kroot, crisis suits, etc) at a smaller points level.

But nope. It's not worth playing without a riptide or stormsurge.

That's certainly his prerogative. But let it be known that he is, indeed, a tau player.

And I've played plenty of unsavoury Marine and Necron players. Are all SM and Necron players TFG? I hope not.

Your issue is not a problem with Tau as a whole, but should be with your opponent. Don't generalise one person's asshattery to those unfortunate enough to play the same army.

As for the thread - either Eldar, Tau, or Space Marines. I'd say Eldar.

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