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>>98145778
Same way GW always cycles around popularity of the not-marine factions.
>make an OP codex and new models
Tau specific things that would likely market well are a variety of alien auxiliaries you can chose special characters with powerups from like any of the endless waves of fps battle royal games kids play.
Big tits are unc, cover that shit up.
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>>98145787
THE TAU'VA WILLS IT!
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>>98145861
>Big tits are unc
Damn the rumors of zoomers all being fags are true.
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>>98146195
I mean people draw fanart of stuff that's been long dead. Big blue titties won't go away. Honestly when something dies, and truly dies, the gooner shit is often the only thing that sustains it in the public memory. Not that 40k is gonna go away, it's more popular than ever, but still.
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>>98145990
No, you made that shit up on your own.
I mean if you want a thing to be more popular you have to appeal to your audiences.
For GW thats
>pay pigs via Waaac and fomo
So the pattern of a powerful codex to sell new models is a guarantee.
Whatever coomer stuff you're on if your own fault.
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>>98145778
>How do we make the Tau more popular?
By going back to what actually made Tau cool in the first place, being a more grounded approach to future warfare, emphasising a combined arms approach, autonomous drones, mid sized battlesuits used in a fire support role and mechanised and armoured assets supporting integrated infantry.
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>>98150902
They're not paying you for this you know.
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>>98145861
>big tits are unc
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>>98151929
Flat's good too.
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>How do we make the Tau more popular?
1. Return to the more noble version of the Tau, it was literally their only defining feature that set them even remotely apart from the other factions. Not necessarily making them the "good guys" but they really severe hell-turn GW made them do after 8th was kinda stupid
2. Dramatically increase the viability and amount of client races. They're supposed to be this grand coalition of races but the most effective way to play them is just T'au, give the other races more flavor and models
3. Fucking give them something to do, them wandering around "expanding" is just nothing, the Plague Wars thing was alright but it just sort of ended
4. Expand the Tau'va or cut it, stop waffling
5. Make them hot girls with huge tits
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>>98152869
Best James can do is a man-faced bull dyke special character model who's a total girlboss (read: the reason something catastrophic goes wrong) in a novel, and copious amounts of more waffling for the rest of the faction.
You know, I'd prefer if they either went more towards the naive new kids on the block who blindly stumble into things and try their best, not realizing just how terrible the galaxy is and their propaganda department writing off all of their failures as learning experiences. Daemons consumed a colony world? Or go full Ming the Merciless where the Ethereals rules with an iron fist over an empire of different people. Everyone's equal (Ethereals are just more equal) and all the aliens who don't like it suddenly disappear. Of course all filtered through their propaganda and philosophy of the Greater Good.
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>>98145778
Add Gue'vesa, and other auxillaries to give them more of a Covenant style union of various aliens.
Also give them a serious win against the Imperium, something that the Imperium can't just brush off as not being important.
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>>98151929
>I'll bite this obvious bait because it reaffirms my hatred of the younger generation
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In a weird way, it feels like the Tau end up devaluing a lot of the stuff in the setting, because they're supposed to be the 'weak faction' that the Imperium doesn't take seriously, so anything that the Imperium ends up throwing at the Tau suddenly becomes not very important.
Titans? Supposedly rare. Gets thrown at Tau and blown up even in the most minor of conflicts against them.
Space Marines? Also supposed to be rare, yet most conflicts against the Tau see the involvement of multiple chapters (including First Founding chapters) and entire chapters have been lost fighting them.
Exterminatus? Supposed to be a rare method of last resort when a planet is truly lost forever, yet the Imperium has used it multiple times against the Tau.
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>>98153865
They've been accelerating with the timeline. They're one of the only factions that still innovates, so they're a more serious threat now then they were when they were released.
The first time the Imperium interacted with them they were basically bovine monkeys, now look at them.
You also can't really consider the presence of the first founding chapters, they're goddamn everywhere just because they're the one people recognize but the logistics of it never made sense. Basically add a zero or two to their chapter size if you want to be realistic about how often they show up.
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>>98153865
Also if they couldn't stand up to space marines they wouldn't be on the tabletop, there would be a lore blurb about "The Tau Genocide" in some codex.
I don't know where you got the impression that they were truly weak, it's more that they're not a "drop everything" threat like a hive fleet or waaagh.
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>>98154035
It's also meant to be a statement on the Imperium's hubris. They never expected the tau to be a credible threat and kept dismissing them until they were impossible to ignore. It's like that guy who kept trying to warn people of a massive horde of wild boars and everyone dismissed him as "being scared of a few pigs" until a massive horde of wild boars swept through the countryside destroying everything in their path.
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>>98154035
>I don't know where you got the impression that they were truly weak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R66Rqe_hrI
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>>98152869
That last point being the most important.
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>>98145778
They're commies, the marxists are the only ones that care about them. Maybe the woke otakus too. The that samurai one that rebel from the tau is often what the Otakus pick as their army over the Tau itself.
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>>98153865
Not taken seriously? They are the most inteligent and advanced alien species of the setting after the Old Ones themselves, the only reason why they will never ever win is because they lack psykers, they can't move fast enough to have something like the Imperial Guard and hold a million planets sized empire.
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>>98158857
How do you know they dont? No way any Gue'la would be allowed to see such a thing.
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>>98145778
I want Soviet Tau. If they're going to be commies can they at least be aesthetic about it?
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>>98145778
Easy.
>Stop with the suit spam. Bring back tanks and aircraft and drones as the main heavy hitters. Suits are armoured infantry at best.
>Tau are now the scifi military enthusiast army for people actually with a brain. Unlike the Guard, who just wear the aesthetics.
>Make Water Caste Tau tit-cau's. Every Caste practices eugenics to best fulfill their role, and the species they deal most frequently with is humans. It makes sense for, if not all, a good number of Water Caste to have that Asari-esque 'alien, but kinda hot' look.
>Stop the boring 'Ethereals are acktually ebil tyrants' inferences. Instead, make the system actually popular and successful and work really well for the Tau.
>While, simultaneously, making it clear that while it's a utopia for the Tau, Human psychology and nature means we, and other races, would struggle in it.
>Lean into the fact that physically, they're at the bottom of the pole in the galaxy, and how they compensate with good tactics and technology.
>The fire caste (correctly) prefers to use expensive materials and munitions over risking their personnel in an engagement.
>Introduce tension not by 'Evil Ethereal masters', but by different Sept's, with varying populations of different species, having different specific interpretations of the Greater Good, according to those demographics.
>Channel some old-school scifi and come up with some truly weird technology (Spin drives, Electron laser cannons, Bioengineered plants, or pathogens in artillery shells), to get around specific issues.
Tau, from their Ochre days, are actually one of the coolest factions in 40k, because while looking the weirdest, they're arguably one of the most grounded, realistic, and unpretentious factions there.
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>>98159570
Not what I said anon.
The army for genuine military enthusiasts who want an army that can support that interest. Not larpers who think guard are the irl military-like faction because they look most similar.
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>>98159576
But they're also just right about everything militarily, and live in an unironic utopia.
>Stop with the suit spam.
>scifi military enthusiast army for people actually with a brain.
lol. "I want to fix this faction by making it a different faction"
>Electron laser cannons, Bioengineered plants, or pathogens in artillery shells
Those already exist in 40k, I'm starting to think you're a refugee from somewhere who wants the red carpet rolled out for you.
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>>98159610
1. You never know on 4chan.
2. The post stated that their "fixed" Tau would be a Tau-tailored utopia that other species don't entirely get. That's really boring unless you REALLY lean into the idea they are nearly soulless bovine bugmen, which is depressing.
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>>98159576
>>Tau are now the scifi military enthusiast army for people actually with a brain. Unlike the Guard, who just wear the aesthetics.
But it already kind of does that, and more so, who would have thought that having a billion different types of drones really was the future of warfare.
Anyways I love my Armored interdiction cadre, they specialize in Orbital drop assaults.
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The force is split up into two wings, both are deployed in seperate manta's. In a typical mission the Manta's will deploy from the capital ship and then begin to enter orbit, after completing a re-entry burn and decelerating and dropping to a more reasonable altitude, the bottom hangar will open briefly to Deploy the two Commanders.
The two commanders will then have a birds eye view of the battle field while also being able to provide cover for the manta's. Once the commanders have determined a suitable drop site the Manta's will drop open completely and the first drop elements will deploy. The drop package is mission dependent and can either be one wing (either zeta of kappa wing), or a mix of both. Usually its just the armored vehicles who deploy first, being able to weather the incoming ground fire. Zeta wing is more about Seek and destroy, while Kappa wing is more about capture and control.
The suits remain in the manta until specific crisis events require their deployment. And they drop as required.
In game this means I use Kauyon and the Projection unit enhancement to keep all my suits and any two gunships of my choice in reserve so that they can deepstrike or come on the board and get good ambush angles on turns 2/3 depending. Its lots of fun. Kauyon is a great armored vehicle detachment since ignoring hit modifiers goes great with big guns never tire.
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>>98160186
Dude the Tau in-canon are extremely ugly, flatulant bovine-people. I guarantee their popularity would fucking skyrocket if GW hated beauty less and made these blue losers actually attractive.
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>>98160372
>I don't like it, so it's not canon
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>>98160677
One fell off.
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>>98160310
People who want to get into the grim dark battle church vs double hell vs giant dinosaur bugs vs space samurai elves vs cenobite elves vs rowdy football fans setting see a faction whose fanbase posts nothing but anime girls with big tits standing around having big tits and think "this is not grim dark or brutal. These guys just jerk off all day."
Its the same reason the people who constantly post mouse girl porn don't make skaven more popular, they just make everyone else think every skaven fan is a chronic onanist.
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>>98160831
The people attracted to 40k's aesthetic appreciate beauty. Attractive women are appealing in a sense beyond just your dick; they are visually harmonious, whereas what we have now is visual garbage. Also did they put wrinkled ass butt-ugly bitches on power album covers? Do hot women and uhhh every male-coded thing you described not mix?
Skaven gooner furshit is obviously seperate from the mainline appeal of Skaven being actually ugly evil rodents. They are gross in a cool way, like traditional monsters. By contrast, Tau are not only "good guys" but they're overtly pulling their aesthetics from mecha anime.
This is like arguing that Sisters of Battle or Eldar should be ugly. You're just destroying part of their appeal. Tau should be beautiful.
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>>98160310
Anon, everyone knows Shadowsun canonically looks like this.
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>>98161019
>Catachans can move and shoot heavy weapons
>orks cannot
Checks out.
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>>98161091
So you're nogames on top of being a lorelet.
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>>98161651
Show me the rule that lets Orks ignore Heavy.
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I still remember when this shit came out and how it was so fundamentally different to the Tau Philosophy purely as response to the Imperium and the Tyranids, has there their crunch layout changed since then?
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>>98160677
All my rockets are magnetized so that they can be used as counters. Skyrays used to be one shot only (but in some editions could dump them all at once) so i magnetized every single one.
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Yeah, the stormsurge was so ugly, that I made the king crab. I still don't use it because I do like my mobility.
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>>98162634
Forever!
Tau drones ubiquitously developing a love for tau cows seems based and greater good(s) pilled.
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>>98162841
I love my army too much to ever abandon it.
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>>98162896
The idea was a huge assault gun, but also something that could be in a 2d shoot em up as some sort of mid stage boss.
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>>98162899
What a rape machine
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>>98163266
They'd execute those milkers for tech Heresy, which is why you know the Tau are superior.
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>>98163733
Yea, consorting with xeno tech is Heresy. Leave it to the professionals.
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>>98163810
I guess not being featured means they're less likely to be destroyed by the GW writers?
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>>98163840
>L O N D O N
Sorry, Ultima Segmentum.
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Here’s two colour test minis for my new cadre, for thread consideration.
One is much more sloppy than the other, but the lettering does translate using the official alphabet.
Will have to lean freehanding to paint pinup art on a vehicle or somewhere on my ghostkeel.
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To weigh in on a dead debate with a third angle, I think making tau, if not all hyper-busty anime shortstacks, at least softbody shortstacks, is a good design choice as it distances them from other factions.
Almost every other faction, species, and organization in 40k that is militant, is always depicted as some uber-fit peak specimen in their lore, absolutely mogging everyone else around them 94% of the time.
>Guard are, in their writing, all strong and fit and made tough and leathery by age, who mog the local PDF in fitness and competence, and only lose individually to literal superhumans.
>Assassins are that, taken to the limits of biological and physiological possibility, with huge sums of money and resources.
>Marines are literal marines.
>Orks can beat marines by being stronger.
>Eldar beat both by being fast and nimble beyond human capacity.
>Custodes pull the arms off marines, orks and eldar.
Veteran Fire Caste, outside of a need for fitness to handle high G's ala an F1 driver, don't need to be physical. Their battlesuit handles the physicality. Their technology picks up where brainpower falters.
They have narrative room to not be peak uber-fit athletes. So depicting them as such would just make them stand out less, and draw away from their unique attributes.
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>>98164541
i prefer the left if only because i like the brighter yellow and I prefer cleaner colors.
but i think they're cool. I also feel like my freehand has improved immensely and also want to do some pinups, but i keep balking at the idea.
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