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YOU'RE Wrong About the TAU: Building/Painting/Collecting

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20 Comments

@AnnieAturday 4 years ago

The fact that they "look like they come from a different universe" is part of why I think they're perfect for 40k. having something different and new helps make everything else look good as well. Contrast is good in most things, from both paint jobs to aesthetics in the wider game. I'm really happy you gave some tau a chance, they're great for modeling and a joy to paint.

As for deep diving on factions, I think Alpha Legion would be really fun to figure it all out on. Less corrupted, pretending to be other faction units and so on.

@klobbson 4 years ago

I like the ceremonial wrap trick. Could look really nice on Black Templars or Eldar to add that kinda religous/ritualistic flair to the models.

@rainers8853 4 years ago

As someone who’s recently got back into the hobby after a 15 year hiatus, I love and appreciate the videos you put out!

@Kingoldntired 4 years ago

I think you really need to appreciate all aspects of the lore to really enjoy the tau. I have always seen the tau as a 'control variable', where you can compare them as every other sc-fi sterotype or even every race, including humans today who are optimistic and ignorant of becoming space faring, to some of the baffling shit like a chaos space marine running at them with two axes screaming

@matthewgagnon9426 4 years ago

Tau are my third favorite army after Orks and Necrons. I've never really understood how people call them lame while then going back to painting their fifth Space Marine army of Buzz Lightyear rejects.

@wiseoldwyrm765 4 years ago

It's crazy to me that the first Halo game and the Tau range were released within a month of each other. They and the Covenant are so similar

@KabinMiniatures 4 years ago

Wow, that bamboo really makes for a cool silhouette and works well with the anime/Asian theme, especially together with the ceremonial wraps. Way to go, you made the T'au look cool!

@AzureWingly 2 years ago

I LOVE the wrap on the Tau’s rifles. It adds so much more character to their little tiny models.

@TheKingsPride 4 years ago

I got stealth suits and fire warriors for Kill Team and I’m honestly loving them. I used a pearlescent colorshift paint on the stealth suits and they look so cool

@shadowcaptaincain 4 years ago

I've been painting my Tau based on the Deep Eyes soldiers from Final Fantasy: Spirits Within. I'm really really thrilled with how they are turning out. Armor panels are grey over black fabric/joints, and bright blue for eyes, Sept icon, and rifle glowing bits. Glad to see you falling in love them. They really do feel like the true "good guys" of 40k.

@keef920 1 year ago

The wraps on their rifles reminds me of one of the alternate skins for Izanagi’s Burden from Destiny 2

@tannergee 4 years ago

I know you're mainly a 40k channel, but to see you paint some of the necromunda gangs would be awsome! They feel so much more diverse than the 40k models and would be interesting to see what you do with them

@ravenRedwake 4 years ago

12:39 in 7th edition where with the farsight supplement you could take crisis suits as troops, every army list I made started with 18 crisis suits usually with dual missile pods or plasma rifles. If I was facing down a lot of tanks I’d take dual or triple fusion blasters.

You know what survives 18 fusion gun shots? Not even primarchs. I fought against Horus heresy lists with my 7th edition “Four Finger Mont’ka” army and killed the hell out of anything I faced. I was totally unimpressed with primarchs just because I typically could kill them and any attending guard as easily as anything else.

@CJWproductions 4 years ago

"the eastern reaches of the galaxy"

@pep7890 9 months ago (edited)

Here's a fun game to play: Take a shot of you favorite beverage every time "The Greater Good" or "T'au" is said, lol. T'au were the first army I started collecting. They have a special place in my heart.

@johnfarscape 4 years ago

I think the Admech are one of the most interesting armies, it still feels like it should be several seperate armies though as it really doesn't seem to fit well rules or lore wise mixing different cults in the battlefield. . Even seperate cohorts work better together,

@odharrison23 4 years ago

I like the foliage for the basing. I’ve always liked the tau, I like the mech suit. Do some more Tau. They got some cool stuff

@laflecack 4 years ago

the patreon and merch plug segways are getting so damn smooth, big ups

@MaiHand 4 years ago

I moved to another country and with a big change in my situation I decided to do a big change in my warhammer army so went from AoS back to WH40K and I’m going for Tau! Great video :> it’s nice to see insight and painting!