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I'm looking for the most major conflicts/events (in the fluff) of some of the least explored Xenos relations.



What was the most major conflict/event between:

Chaos & Tau

Eldar & Tau

Dark Eldar & Tau

Necrons & Tau

Necrons & Orks

Chaos & Dark Eldar

Dark Eldar and Tau would be when Urien Rakarth and the Tau tag teamed a Tyranid splinter fleet. The Tau found out the price of making a deal with, in this case, the literal Devil and ended up with a depopulated Sept world for their troubles.

 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
Dark Eldar and Tau would be when Urien Rakarth and the Tau tag teamed a Tyranid splinter fleet. The Tau found out the price of making a deal with, in this case, the literal Devil and ended up with a depopulated Sept world for their troubles.

haha that one was funny.

I really can't find anything on Chaos Space Marines and Dark Eldar.

And Eldar and Tau fluff is so scant. Almost nothing.

Maximus Bitch wrote:

 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
Dark Eldar and Tau would be when Urien Rakarth and the Tau tag teamed a Tyranid splinter fleet. The Tau found out the price of making a deal with, in this case, the literal Devil and ended up with a depopulated Sept world for their troubles.

haha that one was funny.

I really can't find anything on Chaos Space Marines and Dark Eldar.

And Eldar and Tau fluff is so scant. Almost nothing.

If the Soul Drinkers count as Chaos, they kick the gak out of some Dark Eldar.

Wasn't there a part in one of the Word Bearers novels with when they were under attack by Imperial, Dark Eldar, and Tryanids? I think it was the first or second novel in the series

The only battle I can think of between Craftworld Eldar and Tau was the time Iyanden knocked over one of their worlds in vengeance for them messing with a maiden world or something.

A bit of wraithbone was left behind, and the Tau were studying it and basically going 'wtf even is this mate' until the Eldar came back and took it from them, as I recall.

I can dig up the quote if you'd like, pretty sure it was from the Iyanden 6th ed codex.

There have also been a couple of conflicts between the Tau and the Masque of the Frozen Stars, if you're counting Harlequins.

I can't actually recall of any conflict between the Tau and chaos. Being on the Eastern Fringe the Tau are fairly out of the way of most chaos forces and having nearly no presence in the warp they are mostly ignored by Daemons.
Saying that, there is some art of chaos vs Tau: most promonent is that of the Posessed entry in the CSM codex where I fire warrior is in the process of having their head torn off by a possessed, so maybe there has been a conflict.


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Scratch that, I've found 'the blood tithe' within the CSM codex where the Tau try to enforce peace on a world dedicated to slaughter in the name of the Dark Gods. Suffice to say the Tau ran into some trouble when the Word Bearers showed up to enforce the Tithe.

Eldar and Tau: The war between Iyanden and the Tau Empire over a colonised Maiden World. Tau lost the battle, but recovered some artefact. Peace was later achieved and the artefact restored to the Eldar if I am not mistaken. There were very few major conflict between the two of them.

Dark Eldar and Tau: Tau and Dark Eldars fight Tyranids together only to discover that Dark Eldars are...well...huh...Dark Eldars. Grotesque were made out of sacrificed Tau ad Ethereal.

Chaos and Dark Eldar: Forces of Nurgle breach into Commoragh during a Disjunction (a quasi apocalyptic event and civil war), but are defeated by Vect allied forces in short order, but they nearly destroyed one of the 7 stars of Commoragh.

The rest, I can't say.

Chaos and Dark Eldar I'd say the most major one would be the on going fight detailed in GS2.

Old one so probably ret-conned but in the 6th edition codex (I think) before Necron's were overhauled. Necron's destroyed a small fleet of Tyranid vessels inbound for a Tau populated moon. Necron's wake up and stomp the Tyranids. Tau hold a celebration for their metal saviours only for Necrons to slaughter the entire region.

Maximus Bitch wrote:
Chaos & Tau

There's a short story I've seen where a Tau commander and his Cadre, supported by kroot auxiliaries end up fighting a mob if deranged and debated gue'la. He's somewhat disturbed by their apparent taste for pain and their fanatical devotion to someone called 'Slaanesh.' As per normal, he reminds himself that while it may be disgusting to him that his kroot allies want to eat the fallen enemies, he will be tolerant for the greater good.

Later, they come across the bulk of the fanatical cult's forces. Lead by a massive gue'la wearing powered armour. They continue to sing praises to Slaanesh.

As the battle is joined, a number of kroot start screaming and lashing out at each other, bursting into horrible monstrosities, and the Tau and kroot survivors fight a battle on two fronts to survive.

When the smoke has cleared, the surviving kroot are gathering the dead and burning them. The Tau commander notes they do not eat anything this time. And though it was a harrowing struggle, he takes heart that the mad mob of gue'la, and their leader: the armoured warlord named Slaanesh, are dead.

 Robin5t wrote:
The only battle I can think of between Craftworld Eldar and Tau was the time Iyanden knocked over one of their worlds in vengeance for them messing with a maiden world or something.

A bit of wraithbone was left behind, and the Tau were studying it and basically going 'wtf even is this mate' until the Eldar came back and took it from them, as I recall.

I can dig up the quote if you'd like, pretty sure it was from the Iyanden 6th ed codex.

There have also been a couple of conflicts between the Tau and the Masque of the Frozen Stars, if you're counting Harlequins.

please do, thank you

Maximus Bitch wrote:

 Robin5t wrote:
The only battle I can think of between Craftworld Eldar and Tau was the time Iyanden knocked over one of their worlds in vengeance for them messing with a maiden world or something.

A bit of wraithbone was left behind, and the Tau were studying it and basically going 'wtf even is this mate' until the Eldar came back and took it from them, as I recall.

I can dig up the quote if you'd like, pretty sure it was from the Iyanden 6th ed codex.

There have also been a couple of conflicts between the Tau and the Masque of the Frozen Stars, if you're counting Harlequins.

please do, thank you

Here it is:

The maiden world of Lilarsus is destroyed by expansionist Tau forces. This provokes a bloody response from Iyanden, and the Ke'lshan sept colony of Ka'mais is reduced to rubble during the reprisals. The Tau counter-attack, though slow to mobilise, is determined and well-coordinated, and the aliens recover the wreckage of several Wraithguard as the Eldar withdraw. Earth caste scientists are fascinated by the prizes, thinking them to be more sophisticated versions of their own battlesuits. However, the secrets of psycho-conductive wraithbone prove to lie far beyond the Tau's clumsy grasp, and the wreckage is soon recovered when the Eldar return in force.