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  • Noble and honorable in the peace, feral and pacient in the war, wisdom and acceptance is their guide. Each individual is necessary and nobody is discarted. They all togheter conform the Great Tau Empire. Tau' va!

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  • as silly as it may sound i would like some kind of etheral to unify humanity to stop our pointless disputes wars,hunger, destruction of the planet to be selfless and to act for the greater good of humanity not just yourself imagine if the whole world was acting together we would've colonized the mily way by now

  • in the end, Tau are the only good race in 40k, they didnt have reason to kill any other, even more, they have no problem of you joining their forces

  • However the tau have many etherials that are all powerful over the other castes therefor making the tau empire one of the more succsessful totalitarian regimes

  • In my opinion the tau are more of a totalitarian government with the etherial caste at the top , if any of you have ever read animal farm by George Orwell you will understand, I think this because many of you think of the tau as a dictatorship this is wrong as a dictatorship has only one leader such as Stalin Lennin hitler or Mussolini

  • You know that ideological communism is difrent from the one we saw/see in our world? If you compare ideology of communism with ideology of tau you find many resemblance.

  • To those of you comparing the Tau Empire to Stalinist USSR, I would say the Imperium have a far more Communist approach towards things than the Tau. You could argue that the zealous religion of the God Emperor (who isn't even a god, just a powerful psycher) is a Cult of Personality, much like that of Stalin and Kim Jong'il, at it's absolute extreme. The Tau, to my knowledge, are one of the few races who employ tactics that spare as many lives as possible.

  • If you can't chop into pieces using a chainsword and your bare hands and after obliterating its fleeing friends with bolterfire you re not 40k material

    And their souls are not even tasty

  • @MrKotsokotso who needs to get to melee when you shoot the crap out of anything coming towards you with weapons that almost rival necron tech?

  • There's apparently a lot of really high quality Tau artwork out there.

  • what i like about this dudes is that they try to incorporate other races into their empire, the imperium was going to wipe them out because they werent advanced now,now i know the tau cant "win" a war against the imperium (by that i mean push all the way back to earth) but atst i dont see how the imperium could defeat them,a few more centuries,more numbers they could own the universe

  • Utalarian philosophy under religious leaders. Leaning somewhat to socialism. No Tau one questions their leadership, protestors are probably supressed.

    in game tau are huge pussies, they just sit and pew pew

  • Very nice vido i liked the last pic ^^

    On some of the pictures the Tau had 5 fingers :P

    Id like to see a coflict between Tau and Necron that would be realy interisting(Drones)

  • *Yawn* The tiny Tau have no chance in hell of defeating the Imperium or any other major power. No more Warp storms to protect them anymore. Once they really start to piss of the Imperium, it's over.

  • Everyone underesimates the tau. not many favor them and ost underestimate the greater good thing first the tau take prisoners and dont execute them second they can make allys hence kroot and vespid third they have a faith in there cause unlike guad who fear or chaos who are slaves or even dark eldar who are unorganized and are mostly mercanaries the tau are amazing marksmen and look at there battlesuits

  • @Eralun orks have been around the same time as the Eldar just not as many as today. And also ur days are numbered once we set off to do another dark crusade for ur false god.

  • HERESY *BLAM*

  • What he said...

  • if this was real i guess i would probably live in the imperium but frankly i think the tau government system is better for the greated good sounds better than sacrificing millions for a comatose dude,the imperium is too arrogant and racist,(xenophobic) TAU ftw

  • i sorta agree man cuz the imperium would sacrifice hundreds of soldiers for like a commisar or somethin but i would rather be part of them tau empire cuz the have human milita so there would be hundreds more humans aswell as me lol - i like the tau weapons over the gaurds aswell

  • Plus, the Tau don't send thousands or millions of men to their deaths in already lost actions.

  • is it true that tau eat babies? i heard something like that on dark crusade online.

  • good video man 10/10 nice music to can u send link were i kan find it?

  • The tau are neat and all, but they don't have a snow balls chance in hell of coming out on top ultimately. They can't go into the warp and have inferior FTL travel, so defeating the Imperium won't happen. Orks are everywhere and will just come to fight the next biggest threat. The full force of the Tyranids has yet to come into this galaxy. Chaos can never truly die (yet). The Eldar just won't bother with them. And the Necrons are yet to fully wake. Not much to help them then.

  • as a Tau player...I absolutely...positively... affirmatively... hate to admit...

    That you're right

  • But your talking about it as if its everyone vs tau, Tyranids want to eat everything, but no one lets that come easy to them, the orks will kill themselves from clan warfare, the rebels in the imperium are not helping the imperium at all in thier cause, Eldar will die out. Dark eldar will also die out. Chaos....well you got me there. But everyones not gonna gang bang tau, its a huge war. Everyones in it, and unity aint coming any time soon.

  • @Fishbannanas To be fair the orks wont kill themselves, they've been around for god knows how longer (over 10 thousand years at least) if they were gona kill themselves it would have happened ALONG time ago

  • Good artwork love the game

  • The Tau went from stone age hunter gatherers to what you see there in just 5 thousand years, give them another 5 thousands years and how powerful will they then become?

  • @Enzo012 Lets hope the foul Xeons will have been wiped out by his most glorious Emperor's Armies, or more likely break up because of their lack of distance warp jumps, inturnal problems, and ignorance when it comes to the warp/witchcraft, but either way sounds good to me damn XEONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Eralun jerk =( the tau treat humans nicely(relatively) and you imperial dudes just kill anything that doesnt look like you,selfish....you should do things for the greater good,not god(the emperor)

  • You Tau are nothing but children in this war. How do you hope for the Greater Good when you face the God Emperor, The Hive Mind, The Chaos Gods, Eldar, Dark Eldar and the Orks.

  • well, first of all, most of the time we dont go looking for fights, but everyonc in a wjile we feel like gaining some new territory, during the gulf crusade when man tried to steal a series of worlds from us, u sufferd losses in the billions just to take one planet, th hive mind, well though we have little experiance with it our weapons work, chaos armor never stood a chance during the warp storm of the planet of tau, the eldar we have come to respect and try not to fight, and the orks have left

  • Just remember that ignorance can be the downfall of anyone. Tau I respect but still people say that the tau are weak. Ork players that I once knew said that tau are a bunch of long range wuss even with the Kroots.

  • What you say is true but if one of the leading factions had enough resouces to launch a large fleet at the tau then the tau will not survive.

  • Ya so true but get in my crosshairs and its over.

  • TheTryrantDemon is right. The entirety of the Tau Empire is so small that it couldn't last a week in total war with any of the other factions. It only survives because it is not a large enough threat to anyone that the adults can be bothered to deal with it. I mean, most of their military resources are spent just stemming the Ork tide in their space, and that is a relatively small portion of the Ork menace.

  • The Emporors light is fading,Orks fight amongst themselves,The Darkeldar are interested only in slavery,We respect the Eldar and will leave them their maiden worlds,The Chaos gods shall be unthroned in the time of greatest need,The Tyranid tide shall be stemmed and redirected,The Tau shall rule ascendent and Aun'va shall govern the lives of all from T'au

    P.S. my name should be changed to O'Shovah-Commander_Farsight

  • Tau are fucking ugly....

  • The 501st Bone Dragons of the imperial guard will aid you if you need it.

  • for the greater good !!!!!!!!

  • and your strategy works for you, but a tabletop game against yours truly just might go a bit different than normal..... most people really dont know how to play marines, but in my hands they are a tool of destruction. and the tau are equally effective in yours, so lets agree to disagree, no use in fighting because lets face it the 40K community needs to be more unified, we are already a very small group compared to most.

  • finnaly someone understands the depth of the situation we are in, but i have to disagree with the marines part, half the time they are used as a newbie or starter army because they are good soldiers in general, tough, strong, and has high leadership, so yes, lets agree to disagree, you have your marines and i have my fire warriors, hats where the line is drawn, but lets also agree that we need more players, the gamesworkshop i go to is far away, and almost no one goes there.

  • and so lets finish this on the table, alien vs. man, and find out who is the better empire. (to tell the trith i have nothing against marines or imp. guard, i just like the tau better.

  • depends where your at. im based in Texas.

  • well then, nevermind, (VA)

  • honestly, um the Tau are not badass, this given to their weak weak bodies, just remember intelligence is not enought to stop bolter shells. i hate xeno sympathizers.

  • ok, i realize they are weak,but all the marines would be dead before they could get in range to shot,when i play with tau on the table against other players,marines practicly beg for armor saves

  • lol our rail guns wont let u get close enough to use your power swords lol, your tanks and armour will be useless. For the greater good!

  • indeed, railguns are universal can openers :) and Tau like their cans of beans overcooked

  • even if you could get through, and thats a BIG if, you have to deal with kroot and vespids, for da greater good!

  • Despite my silent approval on the Tau, i have some serious difficulties to believe the last picture. Cadian crawling in face of xenos? I dont think so.

  • Agreed, I'd believe it if it were IG in general but not Cadian.

  • you have a point there i cant see them coming out on top if any it will be the CHAOS hahaha

  • you can say what you want about the imperium. just remember that while you worship your "greater good" a couple guardsman just snuck into your foxhole and slit your throat. and a space marine contingent just walked into your "fortress" . so say what you want you little blue bastards, but when it is all over and done with, it is I who spells your doom.

  • did you ever realize that while your space marines walk into the "fortress" youre being followed by a small group of pathfinders planting marker lights on your vehicles and high ranking officers, then in the sky you see a blue light, then nothing, orbital bombardment is easy for tau, and your imp. guard assasins, i would like to see them face of with a kroot warrior, plus tau dont use foxholes, ground is only the place to make the kill, they would be way out of the danger zone by night.

  • im srry, i meant face off with a kroot warrior

  • The Blood Angels will wipe you from the face of the Imperium, You Xenos scum don't stand a chance against the Blood angels and the God Emperor,

    You will see the greater good of my power sword Xenos Scum!

  • *sigh* spess mehrens fanbois

  • The Tau Empire is about as powerful as the Imperium in the terms of technology and they can even use their smaller armies to ambush Imperial forces and quickly retreat before reinforcements can come. And the Fire Caste has the respect of the Ultramarines as well. Tau are very worthy foes indeed. GG on the vid.

  • The only time i like Tau is when their stuck on a Guardsman's bayonet, but its still a good movie, very well done and good job with the music too.

  • Of the entire warhammer galaxy the tau are playing there game right with there greater good scheme.. Good luck to them.. :P

  • Here's what i think, if anyone cares:

    The Imperium could beat Tau for the time

    being, but not for long. As the Tau advance rapidly in terms of technology, the Imperium kills, burns and purges anyone with balls to suggest something entirely new. Lasgun can still drop a Fire Warrior, so why bother improving it? And Tau forces already carry plasma weapons as standard.

    Advance and Triumph!

    Stall and Die!

  • And as someone somewhere said, Imperium should unite forces with other races.

    But Imperials tend to think that universe belongs to Man alone, Eldar outrank even the Imperium in terms of arrogance, and naive Tau dream about peace and prosperity.

    That would be a deadly alliance. Eldar have the greatest knowledge of the surrounding galaxy, Tau have incredible level of technology and Imperium have numbers and biggest balls. Imagine every Guardsman of the IG armed with Pulse Carbine/Rifle.

  • The biggest threat the Tau pose on the Imperium is political. The Imperial citizens are treated like garbage. Under the Tau Empire they would be much better off, and that is why they are enemies of man. A few planets conceed to the Tau, sooner than you think whole sectors will be rebelling against the IG in favor of the Tau.

  • On top of that, leading an extermination campaign against the Tau as a whole would require MASSIVE resources on the Imperium's part. Resources it desperately needs to defend planets elsewhere from bigger threats like Chaos, Tyrannids, Orcs, and the occasional DE raid. If they pooled all their resources together and went against the tau... yes, they could destroy the Tau. But every other enemy of the imperium would have a field day.

  • And necrons. I forgot necrons.

  • IG has commissars and large numbers as the URSS had on WWII, yes. But Tau definetly are like Japanese Budists. Even their english accent sound merged with japanese. They are based on mechas, and beliefs of peace and union.

    Oh and btw you don't need to imagine a Guardsman carrying a Pulse Rifle. They exist according to Tau codex, and are called Gue'sva, translated as "Human Helpers" (Gue'la meaning "Human")

  • He meant imagining Imperial Guardsmen carrying pulse rifles, not the ones that defected to the Tau.

    I just noticed something. Tau are the only faction in warhammer 40k that ever use defected humans in battle.... well except chaos, but that's entirely different.

  • no force of men alien or xenos can stand before the dynamic might of the tau empire, those who are not subsumed shall burn in the heat of a thousand plasma stars, FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

  • Come Xenos bastards, the Vostroyan First Born will show you no mercy.For Him on Holy Terra!

  • If humans wouldn't be as racist as they are, the Empire and the Tau could have joined forces and could kick serious butt. Hell, maybe they could settle even the Traitor Legions or the Necron. But no, humans are racist to the core... dumbasses...

  • hey buddy...them Tau are not nearly as cuddly as they look, either...and of course the Kroot are never mistaken as cute.

    The Tau are not afraid to get their hands dirty in some seriously questionable activity to pave the way for their empire.

    The Tau are supposed to be a parallel of Soviet Russia with an annime/gundam art theme. They have the same "it's okay if it's for the greater good" philosophy too...

    In short, glass houses, stones, EAT BOLTER XENOS SCUM.

  • 40K Soviets? HAHAHAWOW don't think so. They don't have Commissars, which the Soviets had. IG, now they are like Soviets. Just because someone wants to unite every species under one banner for their own good doesn't mean they're commies.

    Secondly, the Tau have some humans under their rule, but since we are a chaotic species, our integration into the Greater Good is not as fast and smooth as it was with the Kroot. Plus the Kroot didn't own a huge Imperium, armed to the teeth.

  • the Soviet army was inspiration for the Imperial Guard...but that is because the Russian army had the "crappy quality but overwhelming quantity" attribute.

    The Tau Empire is very similar to Soviet Russia, with much the same ideals. The Tau are basically a genetically engineered communism, and Humanity worships a single divinity.

    Therein lies another difference; religion. The Imperium has it and the Tau don't...Europe to Russia much?

    It's not really deniable that the tau represent Russia.

  • The Tau worship and obey the Greater Good and the Ethereals.

  • I must protest. If you compare the Tau Empire to USSR you will only find very broad similarities. Both are totalitarian, but where USSR had their single leader, the Tau have a whole caste with leaders.

    What makes the Tau Empire stand out from any society in human history is their utilitarianism. Also, the Tau value the individual's life, the USSR did not.

    One could say something like this:

    Japan + Buddhism + Utilitarianism = The Tau Empire

    Stalinism + Hitlerism = The Imperium

  • then again, people who compare the tau to communists.... really don't know what communism is. they think they do, but really, they dont.

  • and actually... its

    Japan + Buddism +Utilitarianism = Tau

    Stalinism + Hitlerism + Christianity = Imperium. Got to remember the whole God Emperor/theocracy bit.

  • Yes, that is true. I forgot that aspect of the Imperium.

  • @LordEsel88 Whole caste as leaders ? You mean like communist party ? :P :D

    Of all races in war40k Tau are indeed closest to communists. Ofc they are not same as communists they have many major deferences but there is obvious things that are very similar. In the essence of the greater good is the socialistic idea... that is point... socialism and comunism are ofc not same thing. So ye i would call them socialists not communists :P

  • @LordEsel88 You said the Tau are Utilitarianist, but they value the life of the individual. This is a contradiction, Utilitarians only value utility whatever their definition of it is and thus, if sacrificing an individual will maximise utility they will do this, otherwise they are not utilitarian.

  • @SgtBotBot Tau will sacrifice themselves (or are sacrificed by others) if they see no other way to contribute, as shown by a few sources, but they will use all their training and skill first. As all Tau are highly trained, and sacrificing someone is seen as very wasteful if they were still of value.

    So yes, they are utilitarian in my view, even if it is not 'pure' utilitarianism.

  • @LordEsel88

    Reading about the Tau actually helped me adopt a utilitarian philosophy.

  • @LordEsel88 That's a bit of a funny thing, as Fascism is directly opposed to communism, lol :D

    Still though, you're right, the tau are most definitely communist, and the Imperium does have a lot of Stalin and Hitler in it.

  • @commander7890 You misunderstand me or I misread what you wrote, but I don't think Tau has anything to do with communism. To me they are utilitarian, but as I told another person here, not 'pure' utilitarian.

  • @LordEsel88 I think you misread, as I was agreeing with you when you said that tau are not really associated with the USSR or communism.

  • @LordEsel88 in India there is the caste.

  • Tau are warhammer 40k's Communists lol

  • watching this was for the greater good......NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Xenos Sighted.....

    Xenos Eliminated....

  • FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

    Tau or Death!

    ( I do tabletop with Tau and dawn of war)

  • Then Death shall be Your answer Xenos.

  • I have no idea how to make these videos but I think it would be really cool if someone did a tribute to the kroot using music from predator. Since its pretty obvious that the kroot design was influenced by the predator movies

  • Good idea. I myself think that the Predator theme should be used for the Catachans - the commandos that hunt aliens and enemies through thick jungle.

  • For the greater good!!!

  • The last picture always gets me. I just keep wondering how that scene is going to continue? I mean, in the crapsack universe that is Warhammer 40k the Tau are probably the smallest evil around, but still... I wonder what they have in store for the guardsman.

  • The Guardsmen Handbook says that if you're captured alive by the Tau they'll not only sterilize and erase your personality in favor of one more amiable to the Greater Good, but put you in camp making poisons their infiltrators put in Tau goods they smuggle in the Imperium. Undoubtedly in also suggests you'll be responsible for killing your entire family. Therefore avoid capture at all cost.

  • And I wonder how large a percent of that is Imperial propaganda? :D If I've understood correctly, the Gue'vesa ('human helpers') are descendants of guardsmen captured in the aftermath of the Damocles Gulf Crusade. So there goes at least the sterilization bit ^_^

  • for the greater good brothers!!!

  • is that commander farsight at 2:16?

  • i think so because he is just about the only guy in a battle suit with a sword

  • thats not farsight, thats just a random anime robot

  • very nice tribute :thumbs up:

  • For the Greater Good!

  • For the Greater God!!!!!!!!!

  • wat are those bird like creatures called? they like serve the tau rite?

  • their called Kroot and they serve anyone that will pay them and well tau are peaceful and wouldnt destroy them if they wanted money for service

    Well The name and the fact that they get payed is right the rest im not sure but its my best guess

  • Bad ass is what the tau are they own

  • hell yeah Tau rock!. they are the kind of race i like. armed to the teeth, high tech and badass

    btw great tributes i like all of them.

    5/5

  • For the Greater Good and Tau Hunters! Thats my army. XD

  • nice work im loving it check out my tyranid tribute vids to 5/5 for you sir

  • tau ftw :)

    on ebay i just buaght a hammerhead 12 stealth suits 3 crisis battle suits and 2 devil fish :)

    FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

  • 4:20 HAHA! srewed!!!!!

  • Where is the First Song From?

  • read description ;-)

  • i HAVE TO hand it to you man. You do a good job with the pics, a nice job with the music and an AWESOME job with synchronization of the two....you're good man keep it up.

  • thanks, man :D

  • The Tau are more bovine-like creatures.

  • Bovine how?

  • Look at their feet.

  • Are the Tau reptilian?

  • no! the green reptilian guys are called kroot and are the allies of the Tau! Tau are the grey skinned ones!

  • I know the Tau are the grey skinned ones, but I was suspecting they might be reptilian. But I now know they are not. Thanks for the information. I appreciated it.

  • Sorry for taking you for a noob! The Tau ,to be honest....you can't identify them with being reptilian, mammal, etc! They have a quite unique design when it comes to the warhammer universe! They do however resemble the protoss from starcraft, who have reptilian trademarks such as the inverted legs or the scales so maybe they could be reptilian! Unless someone makes a movie, unit or model that depicts a detailed Tau person we can just assume!

  • I always thought them to be amphibian for some reason, but that would not explain the hooves for feet,and if they had noses they would almost look somwhat human

  • actully what most people don't know is that they are really space weasles, long ago left earth in hopes of finding a more accepting planet, they were then injected with AID's and HIV at the same time, and as everyone knows, thats causes you to turn into ugly blue split faced, space fish cow goats. You may now gawk at my awsome knowledge of these xenos scum

  • Tell that to our Ultamar brothers, who would have been crushed without the assistance of the Tau while the Tyrinids destroyed their system. Event their primarch said that the Tau were worthy warriors and deserved careful attention. corse that was before we tried to kick their empire out of existance, only to have them rebound and become even more influential. So i would not underestimate their power in belief, for it is nearly as strong as ours in the God Emperor

  • GOD EMPEROR!? He is a lie! the true emperor is dead and his forces banished to the warp and the weak rule!? Death to all enemies of Black legion!!!

  • Hail Horus !!!

    Our Warmaster will return and take his righteous place as a master of mankind !!!

    Lupercal Lupercal !!!

  • Hey, save it for the Chaos vids, forums, and such.

  • We have right to spread the word of the chaos gods! There voice shall not be silenced!

    For we are favored by our gods!

  • Great Tau vid

  • Is anone else aggrivated by people who build Tau armys based around Krook

  • nope

  • No, its kind of cool.

  • loving commander shadosun

  • Love the Tau syllabic! Great stuff!

  • where did you get the great pictures

  • google and deviantart

  • Epic music, fits with the Tau's patient hunter and killing blow doctrines

  • Gigantisch!!! 5 Sterne!!!

  • great vid, like it!

    buut that thing at 2:18 doesn't look very tau-ish to me?

  • thats O'shovah ^^ and his blade. Its fan-made but it looks so cool

  • Ah, jetzt wo dus sagst... stimmt, kommt hin. Sah auf den ersten Eindruck einfach mehr nach Gundam oder sowas aus ;)

  • take note any other race would have killed the scared human at the end but the tau were trying to help him tau arent racist like the other species

  • There is racism, which is bad, and then there is xenophobia, which is worse. The other races (except the Orks, Tyranids, and Necrons who just do not care) are more xenophobic, a mark of cultural stagnation at best and decline at worst.

  • u know whats tasty? Tau skin!

    Wow arent they tasty!

    (tyranid):p

  • I've got the Tau Tribute too now. Hope it's good, GUNFLASH says it is (in comments) :P

  • Really good vid. I found 3 Tau tributes i liked on Youtube, and that's one of them!

    FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

  • thank you^^. yeah, GUNSHIP's videos are good too. Its like apple versus windows :P

  • U mean GUNFLASH?^^

  • eh, right. my bad

  • i play necs and i have to say although Tau arnt the hardest to beat, it is awful having to advance on the them they have soooo much ranged power. they can quite literally obliterate your forces before you can meet them.

    Scary.... :(

  • try to avoid as much fire and advance on one of the tau's flanks...or use teleport^^

  • ooooo danm it im not a tau fan im a space marine fan XD but have to admit it the tau are a insane foe to beat(i know it from exp.,have loose some battles vs them but anyway i'll said it for this time) FOR THE GREATER GOOD!! and cool vid dude nice work 10/10

  • yeah thx. want me to tell you when the space marine tribute is done?

  • yees that will be great thanks and i'll try that plan sounds good

  • by all that is holy in the emperor... watch out imperium space communists are coming lol. FOR THE GAYER GOOD!!! joking

  • for the greater good !!

    nice images man

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