Tau are clearly teh best.

So the light caste stands for the bringing of the greater good to others, mostly by force. Because the water caste already spreads the Greater Good peacefully?

a darker thone to the Tau that I like! I think they need it too, if you see they are competing with the ruthless Imperium. As a result, the light caste follows(/leads) the expedition, sort of like the Inquisition does in the Imperium?

> ☠ARFeh☠ wrote:

> Tau are clearly teh best.

Except for the necrons obviously... cause they pwn

They're not uberweapons I think.

The new guns are just so the Tau are a better match for space marines, since the normal Tau are weak against marines. This leads more to, for example 'codename panzers' gameplay than dawn of war, since a good shot will wound/kill the target, or doesn't hurt it at all.

Am I missing some of the Tau's anti-armour weapons, though?

Tau can outshoot most Space Marine Chapters. It's only in close combat that they get massacred. But fluffwise, everybody gets their butts kicked by the Space Marines, so you shouldn't feel bad about it.

I'd use creative writing, tactics and a large dose of Kroot and Vespids if you want to make a believable story. It's not hard to write a story in which the Tau beat Space Marines, if you write the conditions properly.

But if you want to make it believable, a lot of Cyan blood should flow before the final victory

I think the space marnies can still wipe them out. The Mass driver is not supposed te be a super long range weapon. Its more something to use in urban combat.

Its just that the Tau could for me do extremly well in urban combat, anything but one of those

Biefstuk you're right

There aren't any superweapons for the Tau, but the railgun is just a downsized version of a canon they already have. And the story is situated in late 41st millenium, so they have evolved a bit, especially at the development rate of Tau.
The railgun still can't instantly kill a marine, but it is a challenge for the astartes, so they need to use improvised tactics themselves.

Isn't anyone interested in playing Marines? They really aren't sheep that get slaughtered by godlike Tau. If a would-be player wants to make some changes to the background story, go ahead!

Since it's the near future, tha space marines can evolve a bit also

In melee vs Tau are they good enough, but maybe upgrade their devestator and terminator squads?
If, for example, a deathwatch killteam with all the specialist equipment joins or leads the fight, there would be hell to pay. Since I'm Chaos, the grey knights can also participate.

Would be great to have a Space Marine player join the story ;-) !!

we'll play honest :-)

Since we seem to be heading to our first battle I think Lynceus would get their first since he has full control of the warp or he could go somewhere else in the system or not at all.

> SkyWarp wrote:

> Then so be it... I shall join as a Space Marine shortly

Good you've joined, mate!! :-)

Nice to have the black templars with and foremost against us!

some info on them:

The Black Templars favor close-quarters combat, drop pods and Thunderhawks for orbital insertion, and do not use Librarians because they distrust anything associated with the warp.

Since the Black Templars have no homeworld, all of their recruiting is done via the Chapter Keeps. New recruits are 'apprenticed' to a full Battle Brother (known as an Initiate), under whom they complete their training.

The Black Templars have a few unique units, including Sword Brethren who use Tactical Dreadnought armour, the Land Raider Crusader, and the Emperor's Champion