We want to see more Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2. :)

You need to know when it's time to warp out your ships. Doesn't matter that they get points; giving them half the points of a retreating ship is better than full points of a destroyed ship.

in case you were not aware PE, Tau merchant battleships fire their missiles (they r not torpedoes) sideways... from both sides so in the first salvo you fired, half of the missiles you fired slam into your own ships as they were side by side. And i don't know about keeping your range with Tau here... i mean you are facing Chaos fleet with massive amount of lance... while you don't bring nearly equal amount of ion cannons to match them... in which case you are going to LOSE the long range engagement... the chaos (pun intended) in the late game at short-mid range is where the rails are going to beat the lance in dpm. Tau railguns are good ... but fighting Chaos lance heavy fleet with them... at long range is... still suicidal.

You really need to start paying attention to what ships upgrades apply PE. Only ion cannons on your flagship were affected by the range upgrade. Other upgrade was fine as you had lot of escorts and it only worked for them.

Great game, I love the merchant fleet. Also, I really do like your sportmanship and polite behaviour with your opponents, good vibes in this channel!

Was worth noting that the ion cannon range increase states it only applies to the Flagship, and the lock-on passive you chose only applies to escorts.

Nice. We need more Tau

very nice gameplay it been interesting seeing your progress from your first videos to your latest seeing your tactics and skill improve keep up the good work man

Lovin’ it. You got me into the game and I’m wanting to see more!

Props for throwing up a loss, always nice to keep us guessing. Good game!

Damn i love some good lance-heavy builds fighting at range

Thank you, i've been looking for a reason to buy this game You've helped a lot!

Really enjoy your Gothic Armada content

A joke inspired by Party Elite: Party- "I'm Tau so I won't worry about boarding maneuvers" -Gets closer to enemy Party- "Well might as well board" -Boards enemy ship as Tau - Party- "Well that isn't ideal obviously"

I didn't even know this was a thing, cool. Thanks

I didn't understand much of this but it was still fun to watch :D

Haha! Excellent defeat. Highly entertaining 😁

Great play from your opponent!

Hey man, The upgrade that gives escorts exceptional accuracy when in lock on stance is wasted when you sit in stealth for that long with them. When I play Tau, as soon as my main force is exposed I switch to lock on with them to get in higher damage, sure they'll get picked off, but with the number of escorts you had there, you should have gunned down a ship or two with ease.

MORE !!!! Awsome content !!

Only mentioning it because I’ve seen it a few times(and I know being vocal and playing are hard) Don’t execute if you can rally off your flagship. Rally can bring Munity back without a critical hit and a loss of Troop level. Additionally, lanes have 100% accuracy, so range isn’t necessarily the best place for you as Tau.

that was an awesome battle!

Really interesting game. Enjoy your content!

I'd love to see guides for each faction.

Really appreciate your content even though I don't really plays game anymore

Good shit, keep it up.

Thanks for posting. I would enjoy seeing more BFG.

Great video keep it up. New subscriber here

You just keep making content on Battlefleet Gothic and on Warhammer Total War, both games are amazing and any youtuber with decent content on them is a treat.

Such a great fight!

How cool is it to be recognized online?! :P A bit of a oopsy whoopsy when you fucky wuckied the torpeedoes right to the sides of your own ships D: You certainly tried! Good luck and keep up with the entertaining content! xD

Keep up these Nice video ! I'll buy this game when it is more stable, I really enjoyed the first games's campaign, but it was really lacking and too slow to progress in MP/Skirmish.

Has it really been 4 years since we first started seeing Battlefleet Gothic content?

OK, that's usually how it goes with me using the Tau. At least I don't feel that useless. Still, I really need to find a way to make them work better. Every faction seems to have an easy way to counter "keep your distance". Worst time I had was against a Tyranid carrier. I didn't even know what hit me. Suddenly all my ships were without a crew and blowing up.

Love your BFGA content PE!!!!

Great match.

This is such a cool looking game, wow

This is a beautiful game. I wonder why it never caught on. I am starting to play it just now and did not even know about it.

Good to see some tau play

Great game! I’m enjoying this content! Please make more. Some questions... I always have a hard Time with micro intensive games. Is it possible to lower the sleep in multiplayer? (In SP I play on slow speed a lot) Also have you tried using the independent stances on the lower left to help with the micro load? Do they actually help? Also is there a fleet you would recommend for slow people like me? Eldar is kind of my favorite but I’m guessing they are really micro intensive.

You know, all I want every time I play space strategy titles now is Homeworld.

more tau please i love them and this channel

"it was a little chaotic" no shit its chaos!

Are there Orca class escorts available in this fleet? The ones that could be attached to bigger ships like Tau drones onto their vehicles?

Good stuff

As I just posted on the other video, love them but you need to read the upgrades better. Coated lenses apply to the flagship only, so checking which other ships have ions does not help really. :D

Get 3 tau carrier, use the passive that make bomber inflict broading and boarding inflict crit and fire. 1 bomber wave will down cruiser

Never even looked at this game, watched the video because I was starving for TW content, and suddenly there was a new game in my library. Thank you for excellent showcase!

Do the Tau Merchants just have that bad damage output, or were you not focus firing? Or, maybe a little from column A and a little from column B? I noticed a lot of enemy ships were low/no shields and ~50-60% hull

Aye, would like to see some more Ork gameplay :)

Looks like the torpedoes were firing out of the sides of the tau battleships; having them next to each other meant you shot yourself a few times with torps I think

love the content, and I am not even playing the game haha

Roll out those guides. Maybe do one against cheese build? ;)

Are you THE Party Elite? :P :P

At around 10:30, why don’t you focus down one of those ships vs scatter fire at a few vessels? I’m new to the game.

Scaring to play but Enjoying to watch your video :D

Beautiful battle!! Glad to see some Tau gameplay. Curious, why are there 2 different Tau factions, and some of the other species have multiple groups as well??

Make a ramming focused necron or tyranid fleet named Necrams and Tyramids respectively

NEED MORE BGF2!

I hope they do other campaign games

GG WP!

Is there a reason you generally don't use interceptors or torpedoes for area denial on early strategic areas?

More More!

How is this game not represented in e-sport competition? It's far more exciting to watch then match of LOL or DOTA..

Is the priority order system still in play in BFGA2? You should be able to set the target priority so that your fleet always shoots at that ship if they can. That would have helped you a lot in this battle if you had been able to use it!

We've come to deal - a free greater good for all!

Why didnt you use your attack squadrons?

The Tau factions just don't seem to put out enough damage, and their ships aren't fast enough to make their range worth it. Every faction gameplay I've seen the opponent just doesn't take enough damage initially to preclude using a rush strategy effectively. Even when you've won with the protector fleet it becomes a grind with just the Kroot Sphere left.

Throughout that entire match you switched targets so, so many times. Look at the state of the enemy fleet by the end- pretty much no capital ships destroyed, with multiple of them having moderate damage. That's not good, you need to focus on targets and bring them down. By changing targets so many times throughout the game, your opponent had more guns online, more bodies to cap points with, and more ability to get a crossfire going than if you'd focused down 2-3 of his cruisers. Not to mention if you'd fully destroyed just one of them, you'd have had enough points to win.

U should make builds and guides for all the races

Tau boarding action.... on a chaos vessel

i don't know if it's been mentioned but i found a way to fix the movement bug where your ship seams to be a way-point during combat, if you toggle off the "stay locked on target even while move order" button and give the ships an order it breaks the bug

Disruptor bomb - taken, never used

Has the mega-roks ork ship been used in a video before either?

Moooar BFG2!!!

Are you having the same issues with resolutions upon start up?

Chaos is too fucking tanky. You fucking pound the shit out of them and nothing but they shoot you one time and 15% of your armor is gone.

Very close

I feel as though you could've used the fleet's fighters more effectively for things like identifying enemy ships and disabling their weapons.

What's the difference between the Tau Protector Fleet and the Tau Merchant Fleet?

Isn't the double amount of escorts a bug? You have 12 when you bought 6. Bad form using them all.

Would like to fight you at some point. You're the first player I see being decent at T'au. Add 'Karl V' on steam.

This would've been easy had the disengage button been liberally applied xP

Woot. Ty based PartyElite

more more more BFGA 10/20/20

Seemed like you were too fixated on chasing that one damaged cruiser and lost a lot of ships going up against their deathball when you would have been better off focusing on holding as many points as possible with your escorts and denying the enemy points.

More please

I'm interested in this game but I'm holding off on buying it for now. I'm not a huge WH40k guy but my understanding is that Tau's doctrine is range superiority, mobility, and precision strikes. Higher damage, lower durability. It's weird to see Chaos ships matching/outranging Tau ships, and seemingly putting out more damage. Is this an issue of fleet composition? Did PE put too much of his fleet comp into escort ships and not enough into heavy hitters? A little disappointing to see Chaos chunking Tau at range and just getting tickled in return. From casual observation, it seems like TAU damage is low, and their range advantage probably isn't strong enough to compensate if Chaos can still chunk you from halfway across the map. Tau in Dawn of War were one of my favorite RTS playstyles ever... overlapping fields of fire with skirmishers at the front disrupting and locking down targets. Like some kind of weird sci-fi Pike and Shot. Super fun.

BGFA 2 and more Total War Warhammer, pls

*F I L T H Y X E N O S*

As others pointed out, you should really pay more attention to the tooltips for the upgrades. I noticed this in many of your Beta videos as well. You often pick things that only apply to one ship (or none at all!) but assume it applies to all.

What are the differences between the Tau and the Tau merchants?

Good video, I'd only add though that it's I-on not ion as a single word . . just sayin'

man tau just did no damage to them

I don't think i've seen anyone play merchant fleet

More demiurg!!!!

Chaos seem to be dominant in chaos v tau

Can you play against the AI in this game?

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What's the point of you assigning groups if you never use the hot keys to control them. I always see you dragging to select ships