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Races within the Tau Empire: *exist* Games Workshop: "I'll ignore that."

Gaurdsman on Tau races: “Xenos, xenos, filthy xenos, flying poky xenos, crunchy xenos, BIG xenos…”

Tau have so many races in their empire. Except for the fact that more than half of them only about a paragraph of lore at most and only a single sentence at least.

Honestly the tau only having 2 auxiliary races in their table top army is one of GW's biggest missed opportunities.

Another funfact about the Kroot: they basically don't really understand xenophobia at all to the poiint that a lot of really dark humor's derived in the books where they appear that basically amounts to some of the most fundamentally decent sapient beings in the setting make everyone uncomfortable because for literally every other sentient race in the setting cannibalism or just consumption of sentient beings has some very good reasons not to happen not limited to merely squicking people out, but the Kroot keep trying to offer them a taste of whoever they're eating as a genuine attempt to be friendly even offering to cook it so it's more palatable to non Kroot. The Kroot also view consuming the bodies of their own or friendly fallen with a sort of religious reverence and as a means to keeps friends or even honored enemies alive in a sense. But at the same time they can't eat other Kroot to often or it'll potentially trap them in a form instead of allowing specific Kroot to further evolve. Sometimes it's even implied that Kroot who eat to much of a certain species can in essence become posessed by the psychic remnants of who or what they've eaten and that's part of why this occurs. One specific Tau commander thought so highly of his Kroot allies and came to appreciate their customs so much that after a difficult campaign where many Tau fire caste warriors were killed he actually flat out ordered his Kroot allies to eat him after he'd been severely wounded, purely as a show of appreciation for what they'd accomplished and it's heavily implied as a sort of attempt to quite literally keep a part of himself with Kroot who had become good friends. Really it's just an interesting concept for a culture that games workshop kind of sleeps on as of late.

The Tau are a really cool "covenant" like faction. I like the idea of multiple alien races cooperating and using each others strengths to cover their weaknesses.

Let's be real, we may love our Kriegsmen, Cadians and Astartes, but if you or me were to go the 40k Universe, we'd pray we landed in the Tau Empire.

"But the races that joined the Tau Empire cannot even melee! Just like those blue fish faces!" - Captain-General Little Kitten who still never got over Commander Shadowsun leaving him.

We really need some piece of media exploring this aspect of the Tau empire. I do not care if it is a book, or a game, or whatever, just tell me about the 3 different crab species and the space slugs in the empire.

The tau collecting all these races like pokemon lol

"What if the Tau recruited the orks" would be a hilarious "What if" style video.

Covenant: I am interstellar alien Empire that is made out of 11 different alien species! T'au Empire: Those are rookie numbers! I have way over 48 different aliens as part of my faction! Covenant: Well shit that is impressive. Are they just as fleshed out as ours? T'au E.: LMAO, NAH! All of them putt together have roughly the same amount of lore and art as the Drones.Remove the Kroot and the freaking Yonhet have more stuff than them! Covenant: Damn, that's...very sad actually. Seems like a complete waste of potential as well T'au E.: It really is.

I love that piece of fanart of the Quarians from Mass Effect meeting Tau diplomats. I weirdly think the Tau would fit into pretty much any sci-fi setting so I wish there was more fanart depicting that.

Giant, floating bears? Models when?

You forgot to include the catachan jungle fighters on that forbidden dinner menu for the Kroot, eating them turns Kroots into obnoxious second hand Rambo's.

A pacific rim then invincible artwork back to back??? Impressive stuff MK

Any faction with awesome railguns already have my blessing but I also do love how the Tau are set up with as a faction that tries to integrate a bunch of different races.

Space Marines: "The T'au have HOW many different Xeno species among their ranks?c Magos Biologis: "At present, we count 37 distinct Xenos races among the ranks of the T'au Captain." Space Marine: "Ship Captain! Chart a course for T'au space! We have some cleaning up to do and we're going to be EXTREMELY productive!" *_LOADS BOLTER WITH EXTREME XENOPHOBIC INTENT_*

Yes! Another T'au video! I don't know why, but I just can't get enough of those blue guys.

A Tau army with one of each race in the empire would be fun.

Honestly I would love for minor xeno races get some attention too. Despite all the death and destruction, the galaxy is STILL full of diverse life. But focusing on the space orks, space elves, space humans and space robot zombies irronically makes it feel rather small.

The most INCLUSIVE race in 40k will always be the Tyranids

The Tau are how I play Stellaris. Attempting to go pokemon style through the galaxy and get as many races as possible in the empire I'm playing

Fifth time asking Majorkill to create a “How Bruva Alfabusa and TTS shaped 40K” video. Please make one.

9:17 that's Leatherback from pacific rim wasnt expecting him to be here

I hope that someday the Tau Empire will actually be the T'au empire in game and not just in name. This edition certainly took a small step towards that with the new kroot units, but since their rules are still in one detachment only, they are basically like a mini army within the army and not truly included in the faction. There's so much potential for different alien species filling different holes in the T'au roster (especially in the melee category) and leading to not only a very interesting faction, but also one that doesn't suffer from the balance issues Tau has had in the past as much.

That is some awesome Gue'vesa art!

I think a video explaining the Plague Wars would be pretty cool.

If they ever make Tau an edition headlining race like the Nids were for 10e and Crons were for 9e, they should really add in a bunch of the other Xenos than kroot and vespids. Hell, the latter would even benefit from more variety as well.

what about a vid eo about what each faction knows about the Galaxy? like: do all humans know about the great rift

It’s cool to learn about all the other Tau Races. I didn’t know they had so many in there empire! Hmmm. Wonder if you could make custom models of a few of these 🤔

A video of the forces of the Mechanicum/dark mechanicum/Mechanicus would be cool

Superb video as always @majorkill. Could you make a video dedicated to the Navigators, the major houses, their politics, relation to the overall Imperium and factions,

Hello Majorkill, Would you kindly make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy? Pretty please? Thank you.

Random invincible insert kinda spooked me

Glad you’re back 👏🏻

I just got started on Tau, great timing!!

Hey, we got the new Kroot box. Maybe GW realizes auxiliaries are awesome and will start making more?

Whenever I think of the Brachyura, I think of Experiment 287 (Shortstuff) from Lilo and Stitch. The Brachyura could be really easy to incorporate into the game, without giving them a dedicated unit. Since they're so small, you could just have one perched on the outside of combat suit, fiddling with it. They could be like astromech droids in Star Wars. Then maybe we could get a character mounted on top of a fancy drone.

You should do: Which AOS faction would each primarch play

I was waiting for the explanation of the image and “Basically they’re just giant floating bears.” 😂

A video of the top ten community made wholesome moments would be great

"Love Death and Robots vibes." That's a good way of making Storiaverse sound interesting.

The tau model line really needs to expand to include a lot of their races... And the empire needs to split into warring factions (as does the empire) with fun different flavors and alliances.

Not always a huge fan of the Tau, but they are definitely a spot where I look forward to seeing some diverse models, or lore. It actually still pisses me off that, with the Votann being introduced as a Xenos race, and not another faction in lockstep with the Imperium, and basically confirming that they ARE the Demiurg, that Tau can't take a unit, or two, like the Imperium gets Assassins, Inquisitors, and cheap squads of those Agents. I also sometimes wish that a few of the other mentioned, but rarely used, odd space creatures of the lore could show up here. A Lone Operative Lacrymole infiltrator could be really neat, and they don't all have to flop, like DEldar Courts of the Archon did. Oh well.

I wish GW would make models for some of these. I remember as a kid when Tau were new and I was reading about all the lore about the Empire and the speed at which the Tau was growing. And I remember that the general feeling was that the Tau were going to become the next big threat to the Imperium. I always felt like If the Imperium is the present and the Eldar and Necrons are the historic races which ruled the galaxy long ago, Tyranids represented the future if things went to shit whilst Tau were the future if things also went to shit but in a less gruesome way. Either way, the Imeprium would fall, it just depended if you wanted it to be devoured by giant bugs or incorporated into a giant empire. But GW has never really developed this idea. The Tau Empire feel less like an actual Empire and more like a Tau/Kroot collaboration. There are vespids but they are kinda old now. I thought Leagues of Votaan would have made for a good addition to the Tau instead of being it's own force. And I think having seen some of these race, If they adapted a couple of them, updated the vespids and officially absorbed LoV into the Empire, I could see a future for tau where they get split into 2 armies. Tau and The Empire. Allied in the same way the Guard and Marines make up the Imperium. I think that could be a cool new development for 40K, but i've long argued such a stance and GW don't seem to want to do this. Which is a shame.

Will you make a video on each legion's best accomplishment/battle/victory? Counting unification wars, crusade and heresy

The Nicassar are described as brightly coloured ursines with incredible telekinetic and telepathic ability. That's right they're literally the care bears.

Majorkill, I'm not sure if you're gonna see this but I've been watching your channel for a long time. Is there any chance you'd revisit/finish the fixing the endtimes series? I loved it so much, I don't know if it'd be as popular today but it was definitely my favorite series of videos from you.

As goofy as the tau can be portrayed the variety of species in their empire is pretty dope! A ton of opportunities for lore expansion and miniatures

These other minor xenos races should be fleshed out. Also, it wouldn't be surprising if some of the alien species thought to have gone extinct during the Great Crusade to be still alive and a member of the Tau Empire - perhaps even under a new name like those of the unknown races of the Tau Empire.

Im hopinjg with the new Kroot Range, GW will wise up and figure out the whole alien coalition idea is one the Tau players can get behind. Dont get me wrong i like my Armored Cores but the auxiliaries can provide a wholoe range of new combat options

Finally! More T'au content! Thank you Gue'la!

Warhammer's The Exodite got me intetested in Tau Navy. Please make a video about them, their strategy and battles they fought against Imperium Navy.

I freakin love the Kroot. Gonna go back and watch your vid on that after this.

Thanks storiaverse

GW needs to start fleshing some of these out, even some art for at least Demiurgs would be handy.

Please do a video about the 8!

@majorkill A video on each of the primarch’s favourite food would be cool. Also a video on how each of the pirmarch’s would react to being implanted with the butcher’s nails would be cool as well.

@Majorkill where do you stand on Orks? They were my first 40K army back in Second Ed. Have you ever heard of something known as "Da Big Party"? I've only just heard of this. It's apparently where The Blood Axes were dethroned as the most powerful Ork Clan forever. Something to look into perhaps? Love your stuff. Keep on, keeping on! 👍

That's a lot of Aliens in a relatively small empire, which implicitly hints at the almost inconceivable number of genocides the Human imperium is responsible of.

Kind of funny how they miss double dipping when they could just toss in a Tau weapon sprue to some Age of Sigmar sprues to expand the line.

Most of these species should have their models and tabletop rules, especially the dinos

I am not a tau player but even I would love to see more xeno's show up in there model line. It be wicked cool

huh I didn't know the kroot were forbidden to eat the tyranids. "I'll ingnore that"

The psychic bears need to be a model for the Tau. It would fill a much needed role on table top. GW what are you doing. And where's my Greater Knarloc and new Vespid models.

Right off the bat, Majorkill says something that's likely going to happen in the far future.

Tau mentioned, i am happy

Now I'm intetested in those alien dinosaur race!

Yes! I asked for this. Let's go! For the greater good!

Solid topic

Literally googled this the day before, perfect.

The vorg is just straight up Leatherback from Pacific Rim with Tau armor 😂

Id love to see n know more about these xenos especially the kroot

Ordered my first Major Mini! Son of Iron, Barabas Dantioch!

9:37 did you said Ragdan? Lion is very interested in this…

My headcanon is that DRG - Deep rock galactic, is set in 40k. Workign for the Tau

Attempt 47: What if the Emperor found the Primarchs in order. JOIN ME ME BROTHERS!!

Day three of asking for a video about if Perturabo is actually a Daemon Prince??

Brooo Love Death and Robots are goated af

would be funny to have a Skaven like race join the Tau.

Day 49 of asking for a dedicated series of videos detailing in depth the Lion El'Heresy

Hey thanks for giving love to all the factions, even if its to keep the major-snowball rolling

Ancient Human Vocoder: Red Bull gives you wings! Kroot: No, birdmen give you wings nomnomnomz

Every playable race in a Tau army (besides Tau). There’s Kroot and Vespids, then there’s… Kroot, and Vespids, oh and did I mention there’s Kroot?.

The tau empire, the Covenant at home

It's nice to see Leatherback from Pacific Rim in Majorkill's video

so you say there is space lizardmen as part of tau empire, time to convert some AoS lizardmen to Tau auxiliary units:D

I’m kitbashing/printing some alien models for my army to show how diverse they are.

Just wait till i paint up these major minis

Lol they got sentient Hypno-shrooms from PVZ.

"Greetings annexed human planet. You have the honour of being..." "Xenos scum!" "Ahem, you have the honour of being the snu-snu planet" "Oh well I never liked the Emperor anyway..."

Do a Saul Tarvis video next

Make a video on a primarch landing on modern day earth as a baby

9:18 Isn’t that the kaiju leatherback from pacific rim with tau armour stuck to it

Rebel Kroot eating Tau: "Mmmm..... Sacrilicious....."

The Tau just need to catpure 1 Human hive world to 2x their empire's power. With all those people trained to work ACTUAL high tech skilled jobs and re distributed to colonize many new worlds. Tau is the greatest threat to the Empire. They just don't know it yet.

Wow, humans of the imperium. I bet if you gave them a telephone book they'd also start worshipping it after a while. If you wanna know what a Nicassar looks like, imagine Falkor from the Neverending Story. And BOOOOYS That's a Rak'Gol and not whatever you described at 7:30 !

Would be funny if the tau got to see a emperor class titan