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Has anyone seen the thread on tau fluff?

It got lost when someone mentioned Dorn. I'm trying to revive it. Speaking of which, who are Farsight and Shadowsun?

TheAngrySquig wrote:It got lost when someone mentioned Dorn. I'm trying to revive it. Speaking of which, who are Farsight and Shadowsun?

Farsight:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Farsight
Shadowsun:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Shadowsun

Lexicanum is your friend.

U are the true master of google Coolyo, I can only hope to one day atain your power. So is Shadowsun trying to hunt down Farsight or what, doesn't say in the article.

TheAngrySquig wrote:U are the true master of google Coolyo, I can only hope to one day atain your power. So is Shadowsun trying to hunt down Farsight or what, doesn't say in the article.

Yes and no.

There would fairly likely be conflict if they were to meet, but at the same time she had bigger fish to fry. Like the Imperium of man, Orks and Tyranids

Lol. So he's a disgruntled fire warrior who deserted the Empire and runs around with a like minded warband going "Ethereals are dicks!" And shes the new commander of all Tau forces?

TheAngrySquig wrote:Lol. So he's a disgruntled fire warrior who deserted the Empire and runs around with a like minded warband going "Ethereals are dicks!" And shes the new commander of all Tau forces?

...Basically.

And he has a pimpin sword

Daemonblade or not?

TheAngrySquig wrote:Daemonblade or not?

Most likely not.

The Codex kinda hints to a C'tan Phase Weapon.

Someone buy TheAngrySquig a Tau Empire Codex!

I looked on Scribd... could only find 5th ed fan dex's


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I am also a lost primarch, I epitomize the Emporers fail

Check ebay.
I got my Tau 'dex for £4 inc P&P.

Also I think the Tau stealth tech is a mix of counter electronic suites and optic camo.

Also an ethereal for £2.50 but I'm not sure if anyone cares about them apart from me

Ethereals always seemed kind of meh to me when you could have a monster sized walking weapons platform as an HQ instead

There's a simple reason I want to run and bought an ethereal.
People said no to. It's also cheap money and points, and boosts my fire warriors.

Sure it's a fire sponge, but oh well. I'll also have shadowsun, as either shadowsun or a badass looking crisis commander.

I dont really like the Shadowsun mOdel tbh, I like the stealth suit, but painted white it looks kinda silly imo

Fair 'nough.

I'm doing a Bork'an force so everythings white anyway.
Wanted something the complete opposite of my other armies.

What are the Septs and their colors?

These are the ones in the Codex I could see.
I was initially going to go with White and Red, but the Bork'an Sept colours I liked more tbh xD

The Sa'Cea and Kel'Shan look pretty cool, but so does the Au'Tal

TBH, all of them apart from T'au and D'yanoi I rather like.
But being I wanted a white army, Bor'kan were the best choice.
Sa'cea would probably be my second choice.

I like the dark blue. Maybe a home made one though, dark purple and red

Dark purple and red would be cool. My Kabal is Dark Purple and Cyan.
Half of why I went Bor'kan is I couldn't be bothered thinking of another custom name/force etc as with my 2 DE armies and Skaven.

Nice mine is white and green, so I don't think I could handle painting another white army.

Coolyo294 wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:It got lost when someone mentioned Dorn. I'm trying to revive it. Speaking of which, who are Farsight and Shadowsun?

Farsight:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Farsight
Shadowsun:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Shadowsun

Lexicanum is your friend.

TheAngrySquig wrote:Daemonblade or not?

Iur_tae_mont wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:Daemonblade or not?

Most likely not.

The Codex kinda hints to a C'tan Phase Weapon.

I had a few questions about Farsight myself.

First, I haven't read through the fluff in quite some time, where does it make hints that Dawnblade is either of these two?
Second, I've heard that in addition to hating the mainstream Tau, Farsight is also a racial supremacist. They use one of his quotes:

“Each must find their own way. If those in our heartland had witnessed the savageries of the void as have we they would know this. The hand of each of the great starfarers is turned against the other, none will join their strength together just to see their ancient enemies prosper. Neither should we."

Is this why Farsight Enclaves can't use auxiliaries? I can understand the Vespid who are loyal/enslaved by the Tau, but aren't the Kroot Mercenaries who work for everyone?

Another thing I wanted to ask, is I remember reading somewhere that some Kroot, after eating Eldar, gained psychic powers. Does anyone know the source of this?

acekevin8412 wrote:
Another thing I wanted to ask, is I remember reading somewhere that some Kroot, after eating Eldar, gained psychic powers. Does anyone know the source of this?

The Kroot have a thing where they absorb the genetics of what they eat, he could get Psychic powers from Eldar, muscles from Ork, or whatever

Yeah,I know about the Kroot's special evolution method. I even found a pdf of the old CA Army where you could take evolutions like +1T for Ork Hybrids. My question was whether or not their Eldar Kroot existed, because I think I remember hearing it somewhere, probably from one of the novel, none of which I have read yet.

The reason I asked, is because if they did have psykers, it'd be a good excuse to bring psychic abilities/defense to the Tau Empire.

I don't know, it's definitely reasonable.

TheAngrySquig wrote:The Sa'Cea and Kel'Shan look pretty cool, but so does the Au'Tal

The general opinion is that T'au and Sa'cea look the best.

My army is Sa'cea

But you can paint any army any colour because each of those is a camo scheme the tau use, and mostly associated with a certain sept because that is the dominant environment on that sept.


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acekevin8412 wrote:Yeah,I know about the Kroot's special evolution method. I even found a pdf of the old CA Army where you could take evolutions like +1T for Ork Hybrids. My question was whether or not their Eldar Kroot existed, because I think I remember hearing it somewhere, probably from one of the novel, none of which I have read yet.

The reason I asked, is because if they did have psykers, it'd be a good excuse to bring psychic abilities/defense to the Tau Empire.

They have shamans.

Also, the tau have nicassar, a psychic race on par with or superior than an eldar.

How many races are in the Tau Empire?

TheAngrySquig wrote:How many races are in the Tau Empire?

Tau, Kroot, Vespid, Demiurg, Human traitors... and that's about it.


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TheAngrySquig wrote:I looked on Scribd... could only find 5th ed fan dex's

Torrent is your friend, + it's free.