Warhammer 40'000 fire warrior intro

[190shepard]

not even star gate verse doenst stand change against imperium of man replicators are nothing comare to c tan like night bringer rape replicators and star gate verse alone

[CommissarASSHOLE]

Both the Imperium of Man and the Galactic Empire are ruthless, oppressive regimes known to commit genocide, crush freedom and champion military-prowess. Neither ranks higher on a scale of living conditions, I reckon. I will give 'this' to the Empire however: its citizens are not obligated to offer supplication to its leader as the citizens of the IOM must (somewhat akin to medieval Europe). In that sense, there is just a LITTLE bit more freedom yonder there in the GE.

[aromardu]

@Deyyhayederaned

The Galactic Empire also acted like a threat that hangs over all existence, unlike the IOM, which has a dozen of those hanging over its head at all time. It may sound strange to say this, but the IOM is more like the Rebel Alliance. Except totalitarian and encompassing a galaxy. :P

[Toloran1]

Call the inquisition, purge these heritics in the name of the god Emperor, if that fails we still have the billions opon billions of guards men to happily throw away

[DieserBenuterIstCool]

Could you folks ever believe that there are some Trekkies who truly think that the Federation could fight the Imperium, and beat it?

LMAO what the blazes must they be smoking to write such shit? I mean, the Galactic Empire is one thing, being equal to the Imperium, but the fucking pussy FEDERATION?! One Emperor-class battleship will fuck those heretics up.

MEGA LOL hahahaha

[CommissarASSHOLE]

I deem myself to be a follower of the Imperium of Man, but I must admit that it is somewhat handicapped against the Galactic Empire for several reasons. 1)Hyperdrive is by far faster than warp drive, and 2)the Galactic Empire's industrial capacity and logistical mobility surpasses that of the Imperium by several orders of magnitude, unfortunately. That said, the Imperium is more than capable of fucking up the Empire, should it ever invade.

[CRuXR1ner]

Dude, I remember playing this almost 8 to 9 years ago. The one thing that I learned from this particular edition of the 40k series is that there's treachery and sedition where you would least expect it. I am always and forever loyal the Emperor and the Imperium of Man but at the same time ANYONE is prone to unethical acts such as deceit and cold blooded murder. I can assure you, mate, no deed goes unpunished. Long live the Emperor. c("c)...

[SinDawg030]

Earth, better known as Holy Terra in 40k is essentially a temple the size of a planet. The better part of a Hemisphere is taken up by the Imperial Palace. Only Mount Everest's peak is exposed. The Beurocracy on Terra alone employs 10 BILLION adepts. Luna, Terra's moon has an entire quarter devoted to a giant defence cannon which decimated Horus' fleet during the Heresy. Many trillions of people on Terra live in absolute destitution, never even seeing sunlight. Grimdark is it not?

[CodraZ]

We should really stop comparing WH40K with any other universe, because let's face it, WH40K would always win, most of the time without even accounting for the warp and it's daemons.

[randomusernamemygod]

@CodraZ Star Destroyer = 1.3km long. Imperial Navy Cruiser = 8km long. 8ft Super soldiers with redundancy organs, concrete + metal armour in the ton with power assistance armed with .75cal rocket propelled bullets all with nightmarish training were failure means death and all battle hardened veterans vs white plastic armour soldiers picked for dedication who were virtually wiped out in 40 years of war against a ragtag force.

[randomusernamemygod]

@randomusernamemygod I agree however with the comparing crap. I love sci fi universe lore (bit of a geek) never played GW games, but I do play SW games. However I do read the 40k books aswell as SW books and love both universes lore so I wont consider myself a fanboy because I love both for what they are. But with that said all facts presented no sci fi universe comes close to beating 40k in a fictional battle.

[LordSia13]

@randomusernamemygod True. Unfortunately (since I'm a Loyal Servant of the Emperor of Man), I don't give the Imperium good odds in a War against the GE. Two reasons;

1) They are busy enough as it is, Chaos & Co.

2) Strategic Mobility and Communication. The GE has fast, RELIABLE FTL drives and comms. They'll win against the Imperium, because they can pick and choose their battles.

And then they'd be brutally raped by Daemons, Nids, Necrons, Dark Eldar and the rest, but that's another story.

[Jarheadftw]

@LordSia13 what is Co... Chaos & Co... wtf is Co. You talking about another table top game dude? Haha.

[LordSia13]

@randomusernamemygod Why bother with Astartes? Throw in a squad or two to assassinate that so-called "emperor" and his right hand, "lord" Vader. Leave the rest for the Guard - grinding is what they do best, and besides, they deserve some R&R after fighting nightmarish horrors for ten thousand years.

A decade or two purging a backwater galaxy from pansies ought to do it.

Seriously, we could just let loose one regiment of Catachans and sit back - ten Gelt on the Moffs shitting themselves in fear.

[CommissarASSHOLE]

@randomusernamemygod

Although battleships are around 8 km long, they are outclassed by the super star destroyers which are 19 km long. That doesn't go to say that the Imperium of Man could not build ships of that size (they have, as a matter of course), but even that example can not compare with the sheer size and immensity of the Death Stars which are by far larger than any thing that the Imperium could build.

[chaostheory626]

Earth's population in 40k: 100,000,000,000,000 humans.

[billyboyjennings]

@Deyyhayederaned Beaten by teddy bears with sticks and rebel teenagers.

[Luy22]

I just discovered that the narrator for this is Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor. Holy shit.

[Beriorn]

@Luy22 Correct. The Doctor was kind enough to provide the narration and the opening shots for this intro.

[gygyman64]

Why is everyone fighting over about who will beat up who? XDDD Both universes are equally kewl and why would someone want one to destroy the other? :(

[inespie]

This is the main shit about the imperium. tech dont move, at the very least, steal tech (necrodermis blade ). so every damage to the technology ressources is not repairable.

and the imperium dont expand anymore, he dont care about a single planet, but he dont will gain another one.

versus the tau, they just counter attack and re-take their own world.

the empire is more alive, shitload of prototype of new thing, weak army but as numberless as the ig, and better ship who are faster and secure.

[SSeth123]

@inespie some factions of the adeptus mechanicus develope new technology aquires new xeno technology and recover the old technology of the dark ages,

the imperium of men still expands they conquer world from xenos or colonise new ones, how do you think old and battle weary regiments of the imperial guads men retire? they are given land on a new planet to colonise

one hive world of humanity as are large polulation then the whole tau empire the tau army numberless as the ig? in your dreams,

[SSeth123]

@inespie the imperial ships are stronger then the tau ships

and the human ships are faser, a lot faster

the tau empire just travels along the border of the warp thats saver but very slow

they have no navigators and no Astronomican like humanity so they cant travel within the real warp

get your facts straight

[inespie]

@SSeth123 faster than the tau yes, but it is hard to be slower. I was saying slower than the Empire. who can get at the others side of the galaxy in few week and doesn't got a big chance of be "lost" or "retarded".

And some faction of the adeptus mechanicus would be see as heretic and traitor for puritain inquisitor, and the mainstream mechanicus.

FYI, i was talking of the SW Empire, after a fanboy trolling, i agree for the fact the weeaboo commie smurf dont stand a chance vs the imperium.

[sidaharta]

@DEMIGODofWAR7 Contemno Xenos, Caedo Xenos, Defaeco Xenos

[SinDawg030]

Space Commies. THATS EXTRA HERETICAL!!!

[inespie]

Dont forget the soulless.

[inespie]

@DEMIGODofWAR7 did you just read ? plot armor ? talk of the universe, not the film ?

If not, obvious troll is obvious.

[inespie]

more tech, more powa, faster, and bigger ressource, ( wihouth a fking rotten to the core Administratum and a batshit crasy pseudo sciencepriest )

This i why i love the WK40 universe, all race are powerful, but also near extinction.

the imperium wait for the necron arise, now the tyranids will finally eat the galaxy, fear the dark god, see the tau expending their little empire when their is shattering, can every time be wipe by a galaxy scale Waaaght, and the space elve are nearly extinct.(die!)

[inespie]

the others ? who would steal the tech of the other side faster ?

a emperor class ship is 8 kilometer, the executor is 19. and the empire got bigger shit. the eclipse class has a superlaser like the death star.

The death star was build in two/four years, size of a moon, blast planet or capital ship with three minutes of recharge.

The Emperor class battleship are made in century, and aren't 900km long.

the empire got a entire galaxy, and a safer and faster way to move.

[inespie]

@DEMIGODofWAR7

did you read ? you talk of the SW film. If i talk of the talk of the tabletop game, SM miss half their shoot at ten metters.

titan are kinda cool, but so hudge you cant miss them with orbital artilery.

and think a what would be a ground battle if one side have the space control :

Olol super soldier ? i got lot of bomber/arty/ and fking cruiser IN THE ATMOSPHERE

so the real battle would be in space.

No, the real battle would be in industry and tech.

Who can build more than

[sentinel501]

The star wars universe has hyperspace travel, they can go from one end of the galaxy to the other in a couple weeks, thats like light years ahead of any technology the imperium has.

It would take the imperium a hundred years to send a fleet to fight a war across the galaxy with warp travel.

Although WH40k would whoop any SW guys in a ground war.

One word: Titans.

[inespie]

the teenager and the tedy bear has plot armor. The ig don't.

The fluff and the tabletop / movie differ

If you take the imperial army of the film, they are a bunch of dumbass who can't stop a teenager do his little trip in the most secure space station of the galaxy.

( and their fighter craft are less manoeuvrable than a smuggler transport )

If i take the tabletop army, the imperium has a army of soldiers who can't aim before fifty meter ( and even manage to dont hit a 2m tall guy) .

[inespie]

the mechanicus wouldn't allow any salvage of the empire tech, or kept it secret for a thousand years. The empire vehicle are like... a 20 years weapon is obsolete ?

the empire has the dark trooper for match with the marines. If they got just one for each planet of the imperium..

furthermore, a great war would be more a spacial war. the imperium got bigger vessel, but so build very slowly, the empire maybe haven't so many ships, but a shitload of prototype, and faster. but mainly build on kuat.

[inespie]

All the game (and video), comic, book.

And for a battle empire Vs imperium, i think the war would be more Well-balanced than that.

The SM would crush the stromtroopers, but the stormtrooper would crush the IG

In the Sw fluff strom are fking elite soldier. but it would be bad if they kill luke after 15 min of movie (plot-armor ftw ! ).

the imperium is more "warrior" than the empire, but corrupt, slow. they got the imperial navy, and gard, and astartes, and the inquisition who will mess.

[billyboyjennings]

@inespie

" the stormtrooper would crush the IG" my ass.

The majority in the Imperial Guard are highly trained soldiers and they have been fighting FAR worse than the mere storm troopers of the Galactic Empire for the last 10,000 years. Daemons of the Warp, Chaos Marines, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Orks, Necrons, Tyranids, Tau, etc etc. The elite of the storm troopers got messed up by rebel teenagers and teddy bears. Fighting storm troopers would be like a fucking vacation for the Imperial Guardsmen.

[inespie]

@gtgoskate after all, Warhammer 40k lore is based for play a tabletop game.

Explain me, if the imperium dont care on humain losse, why they dont nuke (Death Strike) every fking army who face them ? at least, dumber race like ork/chaos who won't stop them.

And who can stop them ? Ingame, no race can stop a Death Strike, so why would the smarter race have earth/air antimissile ?

The wk40 world have big flaw, but we dont care, cause " rule of awesome".

Sw lore has been expanding too, with...

[SSeth123]

@inespie because the planet would be damaged?

the dont care about human lifes, but about industry, technology ressources etc

[Crappy1441]

That Narrator is a Tau spy

[hanson666999]

No Heretic or Alien force shall EVER breach Holy Terra! The bastion of our faith.

[TheKollav]

"Here is Terra -the cradle of mankind" Goosebumps! :D

[Beriorn]

Fun fact: the narration was done by Tom Baker, aka the Fourth Doctor. And the video you see? Shot from the TARDIS.

[Lordofthenipplerings]

Earth has become a wondrous planet. A citadel spiraling through space, encapsulated with iron and steel. There are no oceans, no trees, just concrete and steel fortresses.

[SuperTechmarine]

Is Taht Battlefleet Solar?

If It Is, It Sucks

I Thought It Was Even More Powerfule Than A Tyranid Hive Fleet

[GeneralSturnn]

@SuperTechmarine No, that's just a small portion that orbits above Terra, Battlefleet Sol is the most powerful of the Imperium's warfleets, because it protects the Homeworld of Mankind, where the Immortal God-Emperor lies in his Golden Throne.

and he will stay there unless he dies, as even if technology to heal him did exist, the high Lords and Inquisition enjoy their power to much to give it up so easily, they know if he got back up, he'd kick their ass for destroying all he built.

[LoboalphaMASTER]

@GeneralSturnn So all of that Exterminatus, eresi, and bla bla bla is just paranoi of the inquisition? Not direct orders from the emperor. Humm intresting, exactly like the mid ages... But what if the emeror dies, What happen? Will the Imperial guard, space marines and etc from the imperium fight each other for control, or there is a sucessor?

[GeneralSturnn]

@LoboalphaMASTER Humanity would basically have a very hard time communicating, true, Humanity did well before the Emperor, but look at technology levels, Humanity back then were way more advanced, thedarg ages however blew Humanity backwards, basically without the Emperor now, the Imperium itself will fall, but Humanity will continue, Humanity itself is to vast to exterminate without special procedures, the Military arms of the Imperium would do what they always do: fight for Humanity.

[AVIATIO]

Earth in the year 40K is wholly militarized, not to mention that it is also covered completely by an urbanized landscape. Though I have a question for all: who else believes that the Imperium of Man can fuck the Galactic Empire from SW hard in the arse?

[kakoroto]

@AVIATIO space marines would own all storm troupers and ther ships would destroy all in its path...even the death star

[warhead2121]

@kakoroto ya seeing how the imperium has lasted for 10,00 year and the empire only lasted probaly 30

[TK4528]

@kakoroto Devestate . And why did the guy above write that space marines whould own all stormtroopers , does he know there are more stormtroopers then space marines + there are even stronger troops then stormtrooper + this is kinda stupid compearing Star Wars with W40k

[CodraZ]

@TK4528 So what there are more STs than SMs, a SM could easily dispatch dozens of human soldiers and survive almost any injury.

But yeah, comparing universes like that is stupid, see my post below.

[Berstalin]

@kakoroto Indeed in comparison with those SW Imperial forces. Warhammer 40k armies would crush the Empire and Rebel Alliance like it was nothing. 40K troops and ships are badass. They would clusterfuck all the alien Races in SW because Emperium of Man is quite xenophobic :D

[solwen]

@AVIATIO

In fact the galactic empire was defeated long before the Imperium of man conquered the new republic during the great crusade. Corruscant is now a back water hive world belonging to Him.

The same can be said with all the alien (scums) befriend by the United Planet federation: They were all purged during some xenocide campaign.

The only thing not conquered by the Imperium was the Babylon 5 station: It know belongs to an ork Mekboy who turned it into a killkroozer (with a LOT of big gunz)

[Hellfire918]

@AVIATIO Wait the Galactic Empire wouldn't even be able to exist if the Imperium of Man Existed

[Panczekolada]

@AVIATIO

In all honesty, the Holy Terra in Warhammer 40,000 is almost wholly covered by the Emperor's palace itself :P

[gtgoskate]

@AVIATIO Well of course it does, the galactic empire in SW is but a movie script. The imperium of man was 20+ years of developing lore, meaning its far more interesting.

[ldmaggi]

@AVIATIO

I say only one thing on this question

the imperium must build an entire moon to destroy a planet

the space marines need only one of thousands of ships

[DaWaaghboss]

@AVIATIO of course what the fuck would a ATAT do against a warlord-titan?^^

[epicdude61388]

@DaWaaghboss die

[OrkSlayer156]

@AVIATIO dude fuck SW its so lame. 40k is SO much better. A Psyker would kik a Jedi's ass in a matter of seconds

[EWGFus3r]

@AVIATIO WH40k armies can only beat each other. other universes dont stand a chance.

[PNDRazor]

@AVIATIO Well good luck invading Earth..

[DrOktobermensch]

The thing is that nothing decisive will ever happen because everyone is perpetually stuck at the end of the forty-fisrt millenium.

Welcome to the most stagnant galaxy ever known.

[kuribayashi84]

@DrOktobermensch Yeah, high time to create a game called "Warhammer 50.000". I've had enough of stories set in the year 999 M41.

[phocjame]

@DrOktobermensch Yeah, because god forbid a tabletop game not advance a thousand years every time a new edition is released.

[LordBifford]

I like it that the Tau are nicer than the Imperium, because it highlights just how badly mankind has fallen. In contrast to the declining Imperium and it's rotting Emperor is this new, vibrant and optimistic race.

Of course, the Tau have some disturbing traits, like the fact their harmonious society is enforced by the mind control powers of their ruling caste.

[SSeth123]

@LordBifford and dont forget they kill everybody who doesnt want to join

they are like the empire but with a smile

[02gabolaf]

Soooo that´s why Taus hates the imperium?

wtf?

[IDyce88]

is it me or did "The Tau" sound kind of gay n anti climactic, i love the Tau n what they stand for they are probably my favortie race (though i like most for one reason or another) n i think saying "The Tau Empire" would have been a little more impressive.

[DrOktobermensch]

you can tell the difference between the Imperium and the tau narration: The solar system is shown in bleak, dark colours, with giant, slow moving ships. the tau are shown in light, and bright colours with small agile ships. nice contrast of two empires and their age.

My guess is that before the 26th millenium Earth and humanity probably looked like the tau in the intro ( bright colours, blue planet, gleaming, fast moving ships).

[SSeth123]

@DrOktobermensch you know human ships are much faster then tau ships

[boomheadshotyeah]

i never played fire warrior but this intro looks nice

[AnotherAussie101]

the tau are not a violent they only fight for "the grater good" if the human race wernt such a facist group they woulda been alies even the kroot joind forces with the tau.

the space marines only stoped fighting coz of the chaos and even then the space marines where planing to undermine the tau. yeah thats all from this game

[SSeth123]

@AnotherAussie101 yes this facist humans bastards wont surrender to the tau to be put in concentrations camps and be sterilized

i dont get why the humans dont want to be part in this greater good

[Sl1f3rDrag0n]

i love the Fire Warrior's Pulse Rifles, they are quite strong and effective

[bretttumosa]

tau didnt get owned they had 2 fire warrior's for protection, it was massacre

[CommissarASSHOLE]

Hail the God-Emperor!

Mankind over All!

[MatsudaFan88]

Wow Star Wars aint got shit on them.....

[Shoreyoo]

yup, those stormtroppers can't even look at the space marines without shittin themselves

[superstrok99]

oh and if you lot care, the guy that plays the narraration at the begining used to be one of the doctors on doctor who.........the more you know

[Terrorkarel]

@superstrok99

he your right. That sounds like th 4th doctor

[kakoroto]

its tom baker and also Brian Blessed is also voices in this game

[SoapClawtooth]

@Terrorkarel that's cause it is.

[IronIG88]

As a Imperial Guard player I know that the Imperium is...fanatical when it comes to every other race. Thats why my guard side only with Tau 100% of the time, and well...orks have no f-ing strategy so they are useless, and screw the Inquisition no one tells me how to throw my endless waves of troops at people but me. The Tau deserve a friend and same with the tyrainid, who said you couldn't befriend a biomatter consuming, endless producing, mindless horde? I sure did, its good to have friends :)

[CurseCreep]

because tyranids can only think about killing stuff around them, sucking it dry for life and giving it to their big ass shop in outah space

[Soratris]

Lets just face it the Orks are the only race being honest to themselves and the Tau are the only good guys. Don't say the Eldar are good because they only care about themselves and pretend to fight for a greater good like the Tau. Although the Imperium is the protagonist of Warhammer 40k it is largely evil, xenophobic and paranoid.

[superstrok99]

but if you see the backgorund of the human empire like after the age of strife, the aliens like orks and eldar and chaos deamons, thats when humans learned that you cant be a peaceful or kind race, or your dead, the only reason why tau seem good is because their technology hasnt terned on their creators......yet

[ProfSebastian]

@Soratris

I cound not understand why people thumbs down your comment. It's true, the Orks are victim of his own nature, and the Tau, well, they are the "good guys" in the sense that they warn you before conquering you :)

Warhammer always will be about facism. And defending the Imperium as the "good guys" only for being humans (and be a very cool army :P) it's retarded. I hate the kids who talks about the Imperium like they were the marines in Halo o something similar. It really ruins the point

[iPopcorn]

the imperium reminds me Nazi germany, how there goal is to eliminate the aliens, while nazis goal was to eliminate the jews.

[pigsdofly6]

The Imperium is still better than most of the alternatives. Sure, the Tau are morally 'better', but they'll still throw you into a concentration camp and have you sterilised before allowing you to join their 'greater good'

[CurseCreep]

Elder clean up the crap all the other races leave behind - like on Lovn V winter assault where they destroy the titan

[LoboalphaMASTER]

@CurseCreep agree with you, in my opinion, the Eldar are th only "good guys", they saved th galaxy from the Necrons, try to prevent Caos from raising their deamons and clean the crap that the imperial, marines... Leave behind. Despite all of that, everyone shoot the Eldars, it make me laught, they save the day just to get shot by everyone else.

[GeneralSturnn]

@LoboalphaMASTER Funny, I almost thought you were serious, tell me, if they try to prevent Chaos from raising their Demons, which race birthed Slaanesh? of course being a Warp God, and the warp being all sorts of confusing, Slaanesh was always there, yet was not, the Eldar brought Slaanesh full Godhood with their decadence, and, what mess's do the Imperials leave behind? and the Eldar shoot first, need an example?

[DrMlieko]

@GeneralSturnn

Some of the older fluff suggested that the other three chaos gods were actually created by humans, but I give that the benefit of a doubt

Still the Imperium helped Chaos greatly by providing it with 9 whole legions of spacemarines after the Horus Heresy

Also the Eldar's attack was an attempt to stop the forces of Chaos that were taking over the Imperium

[CurseCreep]

@LoboalphaMASTER Well Eldar and Tau then. All other races are just being Bastards : Space Marines and Empire hardcore racists, Orkz wanna smash stuff, Necron want to conquer life, Tyranids want to eat all and so on - But Eldar pretty Nazi towards other races, but they do it for a greater good in the end

[GeneralSturnn]

@CurseCreep Tau aren't all that good either, everyone is a bad guy in their own way, Space Marines if possible don't actively fight Tau unless the Tau attack Imperial worlds(defending Humanity) some chapter's actually have a sort of respect for the Tau, truly Tyranids aren't evil, as their driven by instinct, Tyranids literally are the only ones who aren't evil by choice, Eldar sacrifice a million Humans for a thousand Eldar, good guys? my ass.

[CurseCreep]

@GeneralSturnn well if they killed millions of humans for destroying a hive fleet they save the galaxy from loads of shit, and also judging on how DoW 2 turned out they would have been better of allying the Blood Ravens

[GeneralSturnn]

@CurseCreep No, it's more like: a Hive fleet is approaching one of their maiden worlds(not a craftworld need I mind you) and this is just a scenario, anyway, a hive fleet approaches, and if the Eldar can help it, they divert the Hive fleet to an Imperial world, thus saving a thousand for but a million, and, the eldar fuck up alot of shit, instead of saying:"Hey, Mr. Space Marine, there's a Nid fleet on it's way here" they go instead and do:"Ok, the imperials can't stop it, so lets send in Orks!"

[GeneralSturnn]

@CurseCreep but then, guess what? the Imperials come in and ruin the Eldar's plans because unless a Psychic Choir detected a void in the warp heading their way, the Ork invasion is seen as it normally is: a completely random invasion, then Space Marines or tons of Guardsmen are dispatched to fight the Orks, and by the time the Nids get there, OHHHH, everyone is to weak to fight, shame on the Eldar for their "plans"

[DrMlieko]

@GeneralSturnn

Actually, the first action the Imperium took after encountering the Tau was an attempted genocide.

Imperial law commands the extermination of all no-human life-forms in the universe. The reasons why they prefer to leave the Tau alone nowadays was due to the huge losses the Imperium suffered during their initial invasion of the Empire.

The Eldar may sacrifice other races to save their own kind, but they at least leave others alone if there's no real danger.

[GeneralSturnn]

@DrMlieko I don't really count the attempted colonization much of an encounter, and they got wiped out because of warp storms caused by Tzeentch, Earth had Warp Stotms surrounding it a looong ass time ago to save it from the Eldar, and the Chaos Gods were created by all races, they are emotion incarnate, but Slaanesh was created by the Eldar.

[DrMlieko]

@GeneralSturnn

Actually I was referencing the time when the Imperium first discovered them, back when they were still on stone-age level

That's when the warp storm happened

The second time was when the Tau made several Imperial words join them, what followed then was a huge war, interrupted by the arrival of a hive-fleet

The Eldar and the Imperium are very alike in that they only want to survive, It's only that the Imperium goes into even greater extremes.

[GeneralSturnn]

@DrMlieko I know, but that was an attempted colonization of the Tau world, at the time it was a surprise to find the Tau in their primitive state, the second war the Tau started("Hai Imperial wurldz! wanna join us?! we gonna bomb you into oblivion if ya don't!" the second war would have meant the obliteration of the Tau if the Hive Fleet did not arrive.

[DrMlieko]

@GeneralSturnn

The Tau still managed to catch the Imperium off-guard but putting-up a much stronger resistance than they intended.

Of course, in the long-run the Imperium would have won, since they could afford much greater losses than the Tau, but there is always something to distract the Imperium.

[GeneralSturnn]

@DrMlieko Also, as I mentioned, the Damocles Crusade wasn't planned out well, it was your general Imperial Tactic:"Overcome the enemy with a wave of bodies" if the Imperium had actually thought it out, losses on the Imperial side would have been far less.

[argonad]

@Soratris the tau are not half as good as you think XD

[ImperatorDerGalaxis]

One day the Imperium ought to ram its dick up the Tau's ass.... AVETE IMPERATOR

[argosime]

never have a loved a comment more XD

[saberslash127]

so does the Tau help the impurium or hate them and the same with the impuruim

[kakoroto]

well to start with they fight each other then call a truce then fight chaos together

[svennekutt]

In the books Tau and the Imperials have a semi-truce of a sort because of the approaching doom of a Tyranid Hive Fleet. None can afford a full war with the Tyranids coming so any warfare is reduced to small skirmishes.

[brokenhalo2001]

@kakoroto it was also coz they had a massive Nid hive fleet entering Ultrama

[killaute]

@kakoroto FAILING THO chaos will always remain mwahahahahaha

[deseanzinho]

both tau and empirium see each others as the least of evils, theres others far more dangerous to each other

Anyways i think the tau and the empirium have a temporary truce atm, altho there must be loads of border skirmishes

[StevoE26]

in warhammer 40k cannon the tau and the impirium have an uneasy truce that was formed after the damoclies gulf crusade, neither side could win so peace was declared although the tau have recently started attacking impirial planets due to the third phase expansion!!!!

[BrotherTanthius]

@StevoE26

Actually, the Third Phase was stopped by guess who, the Ultramarines of course, and the Tau main army routed by 1000 SM. However the SM were recalled and the Tau Empire's core words remained untouched.

[deseanzinho]

no one loves anyone in the warhammer 40k universe, although some tolerate other more easily then others, thus exists the groups of order(empirium, eldar, tau) and chaos (chaos, orks, dark eldar) but these 'tolerances' reflect themself in uneasy truces, the only time this changed was in the sabbat war when eldar and empirium united against chaos

[concernedubi]

@saberslash127 The Tau think that the Imperium are oafish brutes who can't understand the benefit of submitting to the greater good. The imperium think the Tau are disgusting alien scum who are inferior to and an affront to humanity in their very existance. Both will work together to defeat a greater threat, but they genuinely hate each other and the Imperium would destroy them in a second given the chance to do so decisively.

[GeneralSturnn]

@concernedubi The Imperium nearly destroyed the Tau in the Damocles crusade, it was a war of attrition the Imperium could afford but the Tau could not, and it wasn't even a well planned crusade, the Tau would have fallen if Hive Fleet Behemoth didn't show up.

[man0204]

terra is so fucking bad assssssssssssss

[PaxImperious]

Yeah I saw the ending and it was awesome too XD

It's way epic when you see the Space Marine Battle Barge just bombing the living soul out of the planet and hearing the epic goth orchestra, but then you see the tau guys on their ship, hear the non-epic flute music, then see the tau ship fly away in a "happily ever after" type ending. Pretty much the same problem.

All in all though, they were both good anyway.

[PaxImperious]

The Imperium's dark narration is awesome at the beginning!

But near the intro's end when it switches over to the tau, it has this "happy" mood to it which makes it just seem kind of.... cheesy, like a happy star wars intro or something; this last half just doesn't fit the grim Warhammer 40k atmosphere unlike at the beginning.

[kakoroto]

check the vid response

[jspinac1]

Terra from an orbital eye view, look's like the planet Coruscant from Star Wars, pretty funky huh?

[Potatonaught]

coruscant with a massive network of orbital batteries and ships bigger than newyork

[Enzo012]

@PaxImperious but then the Tau are a young naive race who haven't been yet been fully exposed to the terrors of the 40K universe so the happier Star Wars tone is appropriate for them.

[PaxImperious]

@Enzo012 It still ruined the badass mood that the intro's first half set up. That ain't cool.

[dedrakan]

hmmmm...the intro looks very good, now i'm gonna see the gameplay if good i'm gonna download it

[hanson666999]

An awesome intro & its narrated by Tom Baker which is a plus, its really cool to see what Terra looks like without having to use your imagination, personally i really enjoyed playing Firewarrior on the PS2, it was interesting to play the game from the Tau perspective.

[1Buttonmasher]

Psh the Tau are nought compared to the sheer might of the Imperium of Man! how can you stand before an Empire of a million worlds, with legions vast and innumerable, with weapons of planet destroying power, and even hope to live?

[Jpipooly]

I know tau suck soooooooo muuuucchhhhhh!!!!

[tehpevis]

The Imperium is too distracted with the greater threats - Chaos, the Necrons, the remnants of the Tyranid Hive Fleets, etc. - to annahilate the Tau empire.

[Thalanox]

The Tau can stand before the Imperium and live because the Imperium has many, many, many more things to worry about. Eliminating the Tau just isn't that high on their priority list.

Besides, the Tau are probably going to be eaten by a Tyranid scout fleet, so why should the Imperium do the work?

[Tyruun]

if the tau were in segmentum obscrurus near the eye of terror and the cadian gate, they would have been wiped out ages ago by either force

[Supremehydra]

haha.. true true

[Luciferdesrea]

The Tau are my boys.

[Soulspan]

WOOT GO TAU lol

[jspinac1]

Fire Warrior 4ever

[kakoroto]

gonna have too see if there is anything else i could put on from this game

[jspinac1]

Ok I'll wait

[laupiaslammas]

in miniatyres they shoot god dam good but if IG comes wth couple basilisk's they lose but kill allmost all IG infantry

[KnoxyMcKnox]

if you have a basilisk problem then invest in a railgun or two ;p

[GhostRiderLSOV]

Such a nice intro (and other cutscenes). Too bad the game itself wasn't that good. :/

[kakoroto]

but it could have been if they sorted all the problems out