that's why they carry those ritual blades

first rule of unarmed combat...have a ranged weapon while your enemy is unarmed, preferably in the open, while you shoot at him from behind cover -tau empire fire warrior training manual.

The first rule of writing military rules is that all the rules are first rules. - Isaac Arthur

First rule in melee combat, get really close and personal -Melee users

The tau didn't win the Imperium was gearing up to go into full war against the tau and only reason why the imperium left was because the tyranids showed up and they diverted all the forces they were gonna use to wipe the tau out to defend from the tyranids and when a very very very small splinter fleet showed up the tau crapped their collective pants and lost 12 worlds just to panic had that splinter fleet showed up at an imperial world it could have been killed off by the pdf and local guard forces also the Tau attacked the imperium thinking it was too weak to defend its self and once they did realise they waited 100 years and thought the imperium had let go of the worlds the crusade shocked the hell out of the Tau the only thing is tau learn their lessons fast and choose that poking the bear was the wrong choice when you're that weak

kroot and kroot riders makes chirping and cooing sounds in the distance.

@@thelardmaker6806 *Kriegers get MORE excited*

@@AbyssWatcher745 All you can eat tonight bois!

@@thelardmaker6806 *deploying toxic gas*

​@@AbyssWatcher745 Using their agility to avoid the gas.

Basically the moment they realized. They were only a fledging race.

Same is the case for litteraly evrey other group. If the imperium only fought the eldar they would winn. Same for emperium vs ork or imperium vs necrons

The Imperium could easily win a war against two or three enemies. Thing is they fight literally everyone even themselves lmao.

@@Gutenburg100 they fighting everything the song my enemy fits

@@quartiermeisterf9875 imperium could not fight the necrons

agreed what cowardice

Farsight is using melee

Anton Slavik it's a tts joke

Farsight and The Aun'shi fight in close quarters combat so it might not be far fetched to have Fire warriors fighting in close quarters they might not be effective but they can still fight tho...

@@randomtechpriest they can try and die not actully fight

Mechanicus hearing this: Prepares the dreadnaught.

Luis Alberto Gomez well..you have to be horribly crippled to become one.

Seems you understand the plan. Laughs maniacally while hugging toaster.

@@Luis519RS hugging toasters sounds adorable as fuck

@@Luis519RS Haaaggg, loyal to your false emperor till the end. tzeentch sends greetings to you and you Rusty coffin. Huajajajajjaja

And when they weren't fanatic religious zealots

@@AbyssWatcher745 yes and don't forget about the emperor

@@josephhugotjiong6741 and the Adeptus Custodes actually doing something productive.

@@AbyssWatcher745 yes, instead of "mourning" for the emperor

I’m honest to God convinced they’re doing that on purpose, if they were like humans today they wouldn’t stop inventing no matter who made the most guns.

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/80cn0g/lore_excerpt_echoes_of_the_montau_tau_fight/ heres one

If they did see some demon Gods like khorne or someone i think they wouldnt live to tell the tale

They can’t fall for chaos so they might feel diffrent then people who can fall for it but seeing demons would still be a little unsettling

Wolf lord Rho details Tau meeting the Death Guard. Tau didn't like it. They didn't like it at all.

@@Sasquatch-ff1pj They extremly very did not like it.

Yes but the someone else is a literal demon instead of a normal race

IG: geez dude your melee is actually so bad i feel bad for not dying *_kills Tau trooper with single punch_*

You numbers are off. It your not wrong most guard regiments are 20 to 100 thousand strong and he said 9 companies of space marines which compromise of about 900 marines total but you most definitely not wrong

Considering cadia raises millions per tithe, it's tiny

This ones funny, they formed an alliance against tyranids and the dark eldar ended up kidnapping an entire planet as payment

@@cronotekk9193 I know, that is i want them to tell about it. :)

@@thomasvanhemelrijck8324 xD

The Tau foolishly gave a group of delegates to Dark Eldar. They were turned into homunculus to fight the Tyranids.

Theoreticaly they could Warp in "exterminate" them and warp out. Cause of the lack of Warp technology from the tau.

see i dont know if that could be possible the imperial amarda are space cathedrals whilst Tau ships are fast nimble and long range and yet again tau worlds are clustered together so the tau have alot of space defence

@@matthewswan7760 Tau ships aren't that fast nor nimble, and their defences aren't that strong

@@the_dropbear4392 tau ships are superior compared to imperial ships in all most every factor

it is possible but very unlikely due to the tau's fleet

They haven't had contact

good idea

@@the_dropbear4392 Dark Crusade....Kronus....ring a bell.

@@supersaiyandiclonius3056 is that even canon

@@the_dropbear4392 Yes, games workshop has confirmed the DoW game series to be canon.

Probably vulkan.

Simple, no side lost until the eldar blew up their solar system

WARRGGGGGG KSKSKSKSKSKSK

Anything that involves farsight, go to black library and search for Farsight.

Hmm yea it's not like they are connected to the warp or anything right?

@@vornixsbladeserpent6369 Exactly, they are not

ahh yes peace whille colonizing billions of humans

Sometimes plot armour, others it just tactics.

40k has the issue of “It’s really good, but it’s actually useless.”

Xeno....with an x

If the imperium was willing to work with the Tau and craftworlders they could probably wipe out quite a few threats more efficiently

yes

1 million maybe 2 millions or maybe 10 million nobody know

Latest edition said billions

Most common number that gets thrown around is that there is 1 space marine for every imperial world and before the primaris marines there was maby a million of them.

Entire segmentums

I just watched 40 facts about the bell of lost souls and now I know😌

DASBIGUN necrons first encounter with the hrud

@@OneMindSyndicate ooooooooo, continue.....

REgamesplayer this is coming from the taus perspective for tau players so obviously that would be omitted. Typical imperial fan boy complaint

@@OneMindSyndicate Well, in that case, you are right.

Dude you you even know who's perspective from?

@@edgardeloera2874 Lore videos in general should represent how things went down as I had no clue those perspective it was from. Author missed really a lot of stuff during his lore video like Imperial pushes, assassins, void combat, etc. etc.

The tau werent really pushed to breaking point because they recieved daily reinforcements from nearby planets. As well as a protectorate fleet forming nearby but yes the only reason the tau did survive is because reinforcement did not come thanks to the nids. But the remaining forces could have been trapped on the planet if the Tau decided to just end it instead of trying to learn how strong the enemy is.

It has too be a cool race tho. Tau? Boring pushovers. Necrons? Cool and epic.

Taus is like the reflection of humans during the dark ages.

Necrons be like "wtf dude"

their fleet wouldn't allow that to happen.

@@OneMindSyndicate they aren't in position to decide.

@@OneMindSyndicate But it did happen on the third sphere expansion on a an important world

@@OneMindSyndicate If the Imperium really wanted it to happen, it would happen regardless of anything the Tau did. The Imperium is the largest and one of of not the most powerful faction in the Galaxy barring Chaos. The Tau is relatively small and extremely new. The Tau fleet would not last if they really made the Imperium mad. Also, all it takes is a single shot of some of the Imperium's weapons to destroy a world. The Tau would not be able to stop a single bomb shot towards a planet regardless of their fleet.

@@noneofyourbusiness2437 You are forgetting that the imperium is currently cut in half, at war with all major faction and constantly quelling rebellion all over its empire. The Tau can handle what the imperium has left for them. The reason Damocles Crusade were able to get to the Tau empire unhindered was the fact that the fleet the Tau were using that time was called the SIlken Crusade. A merchant caste fleet, literally merchant ships that are armed to the teeth. They wanted to convert Damocles Gulf with as little tau death as possible. Reason why the 3rd sphere of expansion was more successful in void combat was because the Tau actually sent a proper protectorate fleet (fire caste fleet). If it wasnt for the fact that the Imperium using a plot armor type exterminatus not only destroyed the world but also emit a constant firewall that prevents the tau to bring the rest of their fleet to Damocles then they would have already taken over it.

That's a bonding knife! It's a ritual knife, not a melee weapon (some pathfinders in kill team use it as such, but because of tau biology that's usually not a good idea)

will do

Of course they believe in the greater good, it’s a genuinely a peaceful ideology that have prove beneficial. I like them as well.

I agree

"That's not F***ing cannon!!!" -- Kitten

Who cares about the Tau, except for Orks and Tyranids

Too bad he left to buy nuln oil and never came back

They are either running the f**k away from the Tyranids, or they are expanding in whatever galaxy they are from and absolutely destroy everything. So, either they get obliterated and absorbed by the Imperium, or they obliterate and absorb the galaxy. The fact that they can travel between galaxies says it all.

You can already guess because this is age of everything goes to deep dark shit so tyranids are the right one XD

tyrone jmal yup

There was, almost even broke the tau morale as a whole, then Farsight became COMMANDER FARSIGHT then things changed.

Wrong. There are no facts in this video. It's all fantasy.

Especially since our spiritual liege has returned.

The Tau would have been exterminated long ago except for the fact that every other enemy the Imperium has is more dangerous than the blueberries.

Are the Tau supposed to be good guys or something like, what's the point being good, in a world of carnage.

@@vothbetilia4862 so they are less good, more young and naive. Every other race has learned the hard lesson that kindness and common good doesn’t work. Fall of the eldar, Horus heresy, war in heaven, (orcs don’t count). Because the tau are so young they have a very misplaced belief in their place in the galaxy. Like I’m not even sure they have a full galactic map yet.

@@thesweetbusinessfanclub7072 Honestly this is the most clearest answer I ever heard. Most comments I see are the Tau are more humanne and shit, but I remembered looking something called the man of iron (btw Im still new to warhammer 40k) which they revolted against the makers, because they think used as tools and think they're more superior, I also looked up that humanity used to have Alliances with other Xenos one point, until the xenos started thinking (I think) humans are weak or something, so there became a little war, certains species were extinct after fighting the Imperium and it later came that humanity can no longer trust aliens anymore, since you never known they can betray you. Anyways thank you for a clear answer, I also just realized most races followed the same formula of being good until reality hits hard.

www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/80cn0g/lore_excerpt_echoes_of_the_montau_tau_fight/ tau vs slaneesh cult

Yes their was a whole sphere of expansion where that's all they did

Demiclea I think chaos was more interested in corrupting all the other members of the tau empire like the Kroot and vespids which is why the tau who survived became so xenophobic.

Vengeance for Lilarsus (876.M39) - The Maiden World of Lilarsus is destroyed by expansionist Tau forces. This provokes a bloody response from Iyanden, and the Ke'lshan sept colony Ka'mais is reduced to rubble during the reprisals. The Tau counter-attack, though slow to mobilise, is determined and well-coordinated, and the aliens recover the wreckage of several Wraithguard as the Eldar withdraw. Earth Caste scientists are fascinated by their prizes, thinking them to be more sophisticated version of their own Battlesuits. However, the secrets of psycho-conductive wraithbone prove to lie far beyond the Tau's clumsy grasp, and the wreckage is soon recovered when the Eldar return in force. Despite the innate superiority of the Eldar, the Tau prove themselves incredibly tenacious, and the conflict continues for several weeks, until both sides discover that actions are being manipulated by the Dark Eldar Archon Andross Klax. The Eldar of Iyanden disengage, and the Tau extend the hand of friendship, hoping to learn the technological secrets of their recent foes. The Council of Iyanden icily ignore the primitives' offer and bend their efforts towards making Klax pay for the unnecessary carnage he has caused.

Last time the Astartes did that, the Tau were able to infiltrate a battlesuit inside the ship and literally kicked the exterminatus which wiped out their forces.

Thats easy like litterally meet them in early during spacetravel where they helped fix an Eldar ship damaged ending in temp tech sharing.

@@Zretgul_timerunner But when will this occur? Lol

@@jayrodmurderface however that could easily been retconned. So yeah.

Nuh uh