EVERY Variant of the TAU BATTLESUITS

EVERY Variant of the TAU BATTLESUITS | Warhammer 40k Lore

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Thank you all for watching.
Narrator: AI
Contents:
Alien Empires: 0:00
Fledgling Empire: 4:31
Early Battlesuit Design: 8:19
XV8 Crisis Suit: 23:40
XV8 Commander Variants: 34:33
XV88 Broadside: 42:30
Stealth Suits: 48:02
XV95 Ghostkeel: 52:24
XV104 Riptide: 59:04
XV9 Hazard Suit: 1:04:08
XV128 Stormsurge: 1:08:10
KV107 and KV109: 1:12:13
KX139 Supremacy: 1:17:59
Conclusion: 1:21:09
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@The7Purplekirbies Ай бұрын

The XV8 is the workhorse of the T'au Empire in lore if not on tabletop, in order to achieve the rank of Shas'ui (basically a Seargent) you need 4 years of experience and to pass the requisite trial by fire, this is also true for XV25 Stealth Suit teams. Assuming that only 1 in 10 succeed in either of these suggests that on a T'au world with a population of 1 Trillion assuming an equal split in the population of the five castes (The most unreasonable statistic here given that Fire and Earth caste individuals canonically have a higher population that the air and water castes not to mention the Ethereals.) 1 Trillion divided by 5 is 200 Billion, 200 billion divided by 10 is Twenty Billion so at minimum that one world has twenty billion soldiers qualified to operate an XV8 and considering how important they are to T'au doctrine you'd better believe they have those suits on hand, hell even if they could only equip half their qualified pilots with an XV8 that's still 10 BILLION suits. How many Space Marines are there in the galaxy again? 1 million? 2 if we're being REALLY generous. And they typically come to battle at company strength (if that) and rarely at full chapter strength so for a codex compliant chapter that's 100 marines of 1000 total (happy to see guilliman agrees the codex needs some updates) Yeah the Imperium can TOTALLY take the T'au empire you guys it'd only need like, 5 chapters of space marines and a couple billion guardsmen NO WORRIES right?

@lostbutfreesoul Ай бұрын

Ah, but big numbers are hard for writers to understand!

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

The numbers of 40k are far from accurate, but I do agree that there are probably far more XV8s out there than the lore would portray

@Grengis Күн бұрын

Seems like Scott Steiner math

@Fastwunz Ай бұрын

Honestly, I think if I was an imperial citizen, I would probably try and go live with the Tau

@punxrancid124 Ай бұрын

Heresy! You shall taste the emperors wrath!

@kai_plays_khomus Ай бұрын

I was looking for a 40k analogue of the concept of _"class enemy"_ for my reply - and would almost have typed something about a _"race enemy"_ before I realized the unintended undertones and abandoned the idea.. 😅

@Ny-kelCameron Ай бұрын

Sadly, me too. The Tau had me at 'labor saving devices'😂

@twistedgrin3510 Ай бұрын

Face the wall.

@LazzarrusLong Ай бұрын

@tharkunableLoL, your response was both affirming and punitive. I like your style.

@jurj97 Ай бұрын

Tau get meme'd on a lot but it's genuinely impressive how they've managed to not only survive but thrive in the grim dank of the 41st

@Erebusdidnothingwrongish Ай бұрын

It is right to say they have been enslaved by their ethereals? they are the reason for the progress, perhaps? That's perhaps me seeing what is not there. Love to all 💯❤️😈🤖🇬🇧🫡

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Indeed, most other aliens get squashed fairly early on in their stories, but not the Tau

@sagenod440 Ай бұрын

Tau battlesuits are some of the the most fun to homebrew imo

@lostbutfreesoul Ай бұрын

Tau-Slaanesh, anyone?

@sagenod440 Ай бұрын

@@lostbutfreesoul Well if the Farsight Enclaves can get a little Khorne in em, I don’t see why not. Personally I’d rather see Tzeentch take the initiative with the Tau Empire though. I don’t think Nurgle and Slaanesh would find it as easy to gain a foothold

@bustavonnutz Ай бұрын

@@sagenod440 I think the ethereals actively discourage or outright prevent chaos corruption within the Tau. Makes sense considering their lore, but I guarantee GW will retcon this when it's time for more money.

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Indeed, there's a lot of freedom to be found in building up your own versions

@CalledTurnAGundam Ай бұрын

I think Battlesuit ZZ is an underrated sequel to Zeta Battlesuit, but honestly Battlesuit 0083 Stardust Memory is still my favorite.

@armin8306 Ай бұрын

I like Cha's Counterattack

@CalledTurnAGundam 28 күн бұрын

@@armin8306 Have you seen the newest movie Battlesuit H'a T'au Wai? Talk about a greater than good movie.

@howardblueraven1133 7 күн бұрын

Battlesuit 0083 where an Inquisitor stole a Battlesuit with cyclonic torpedo

@sotiriospeithis6659 Ай бұрын

I love tau fire warrior armor. Fell in love with it since the video game so many years ago.

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Me too, I haven't played that game in years, but it was very fun back in the day

@87Kyrosan Ай бұрын

30:25 Dedication to using hard points? Well, not quite so dedicated anymore. In the new 10th edition codex, our crisis suits now come premade and with very little customization options. Great Video!

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Ah I didn't actually know that, what a shame! I always try to keep the vids fairly in line with tabletop rules, but I wasn't aware of that change, damn!

@87Kyrosan 29 күн бұрын

@@Scholarslore Oh, I didn't mean there was anything wrong with the statement. Technically, in the lore, the XV8 suits still use hardpoints as it's the same chassis just equipped with different loadouts. It's just that in previous codex editions with the tabletop rules, we players were always free to design our own crisis suits using hardpoints and weapon/equipment options. In 10th, they now only give use predefined and named configurations now which is a bit of a shame because it feels like we lost a bit of our flavor with the latest codex.

@shirghazaycowboys 26 күн бұрын

@@87Kyrosanyes and no, honestly I never saw anyone run anything save for Cyclic Ion Blasters. The new profiles are actually pretty useful but I do agree in that units of 3 without shield generators is a high risk high reward situation

@M82Predator Ай бұрын

I am loving the monday uploads and at this length. Makes the morning work drudge bearable

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@bairrfhionndalcassian5181 Ай бұрын

A Leagues of Votann video would be great 👍🏻

@haraldbredsdorff2699 Ай бұрын

I do not think, they have enough lore yet. I do not understand why GW even bothered to bring them back, when they did not give them anything, no books, hardly any lore. And you find almost more lore in Necromunda than in the rest of 40K on Votan.

@johnsavage9633 Ай бұрын

@@haraldbredsdorff2699I think because it’s so limited that you could fit literally all of it into a single 40 minute video rather than multiple videos for the more fleshed out factions - in and out, SHORT and sweet

@Cthulhuwarlord Ай бұрын

@@johnsavage9633SHORT!?

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

There's very little official lore on them at the moment, but I am waiting intently for some new stuff to come out to really flesh out a video on them

@Cthulhuwarlord Ай бұрын

@@Scholarslore we’ll get another 200 imperium novels before we get a squat novel

@Romir0s Ай бұрын

Riptide in lore: extremely expensive prototype deployed by Ethereal personal orders Riptide in game: go-to workhorse that is taken as much as the army size allows, with the cost similar to regular Hammerhead.

@lostbutfreesoul Ай бұрын

It made me sad when the Tau went... bigger. I fell in love with the rail-gun vehicle and infantry... Felt so betrayed when it all went 'what large model can we sell them today?'

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

100%, the lore:tabletop relationship doesn't really work with riptides

@shirghazaycowboys 26 күн бұрын

I always bring at least two in my lists. They have never let me down

@gijs4824 Ай бұрын

Thank you! What I appreciate is the way you tell the sermon and the use of words. With a nice voice in the ear, soothing and relaxing, the story carries your thoughts.

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it

@seansteele6532 Ай бұрын

"NOOO YOU CAN'T BLOW MY MOSTLY MELEE ARMY OFF THE TABLE FROM ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE MAP!" "Haha Riptide goes brrrrrr"

@Corey_Lee_Slater 4 күн бұрын

Okay, marathon over, I'm on my fifth beer, and I think I'm gonna save this for the morning. Thanks.

@Wintermist-SWE Ай бұрын

Man, I love these guys!

@GreytGame-be9wi Ай бұрын

The Tau are my favourite by far. So versatile

@johnstuart1338 22 күн бұрын

This reminds me of David Attenborough. Very soothing to listen to.

@emil7336 Ай бұрын

Mate your videos are ☝🏻. Please more longer form content like this, the emperor demands it.

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Thank you, and will do, plenty more of the longer stuff to come

@one2ruebro737 Ай бұрын

Ahhh a sermon to accompany a coffee ☕️

@alexstan414 Ай бұрын

Ahh what I'd do for a cup of recaff now. Nope, just training, sermon, then more training for this Guardsman.

@stevefrench3397 Ай бұрын

Cheers mate ☕

@pillepolle3122 Ай бұрын

Good idea.

@TheGreatAuk Ай бұрын

these xenos are an enigma, they advanced rapidly in a blink of a geological eye, they managed to take many of our rightful worlds in the eastern fringe and the gulf, and now they have mech suits and are advancing within imperial space.

@ZajVR Ай бұрын

This was so fascinating to listen towards, and I really like it how venerable the voice became at 33:17 - 33:38 (Well done on this!) Would love to see more of calmer talks in the future!

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Thank you, I'll try to adjust the model to be more in line with that!

@ionlywantedone Ай бұрын

I was literally just thinking a new video should be up sometime soon.

@NGorso1 Ай бұрын

Thanks @Scholar's Lore As somebody who remembers DoW: Dark Crusade, I am a sucker vor them old XV15 stealth suits with a nice XV25 as squad leader. So happy good ol' XV15 get mentioned by our skill adorned and beloved Iterator! :3 Your Lore lullaby never fails to conjure welcome sleep, when all else fails. I hope you love your job. 🥰

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Glad to hear you enjoyed it! The original Dawn of war was my first introduction to 40k, so I do have a real soft spot for any unit/lore which was represented in those games! But I do enjoy this, even though it isn't my job I still get a lot of satisfaction out of making these videos, but again, thank you for the kind words

@sullymanda1971 Ай бұрын

A blessing from the God-Emperor himself.

@willrogers3498 27 күн бұрын

perfect video, the length makes it even better. Hope you're moving into long form. the voice is perfect for it now.

@lukegordon2074 Ай бұрын

Favourite vid so far - and yes I'm biased haha. Great job man!

@Scholarslore Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Grishnag85 27 күн бұрын

out of all of the tau suits i think my favourite by far is the ghostkeel

@hassam363 Ай бұрын

I kind of want to see a Tau version of a Macross battleship.

@Fortunes.Fool. Ай бұрын

Saving this one to listen to while I assemble my Kroot-looted power suits.

@Fortunes.Fool. Ай бұрын

Beautifully done, thank you.

@sampsqwantch4612 Ай бұрын

hell yeah i was just playing boltgun lets goooooo

@nathanworthington4451 Ай бұрын

Its 2024 and you said let's go.

@Commander_Nearsight Ай бұрын

Best game ever hope they make more.

@jurj97 Ай бұрын

@@nathanworthington4451we all know what year it is, Nathan. Someone else's vocabulary won't hurt you, I promise

@nathanworthington4451 Ай бұрын

@@jurj97 Who's vocabulary? DaBaby?

@nokia8707 Ай бұрын

Love listening to your stuff while painting

@Von_Langstein Ай бұрын

Hate on the Tau as much as you want, but their true strength is that they are advancing and actively producing equipment and weapons that are beginning to near the heights of old Imperial tech, while the Imperium is holding on to relics they can rarely replace, let alone have active factory lines of. In attrition wise, and just the fact the Tau nurtures active development in tech means they will out supply / out tech the Imperium eventually. My big question is will their AI and tech turn on their empire like what happened to humanity, and if it does happen, what will the collateral damage be?

@Commander_Nearsight Ай бұрын

Best faction in WH40k.

@Calaban619 Ай бұрын

I had to go back and check the date this was posted. ... broadsides, welding two full bore Railguns. Remember those?

@Picklerick949 26 күн бұрын

Thank you love your content as always 🙏

@DrunkenJinger Ай бұрын

Robotech called and said they want their mechs back...

@hassam363 Ай бұрын

Robotech can't say shit about having original mechs.

@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Ай бұрын

Power rangers zords you say?

@ActionNerdGo 24 күн бұрын

They need to ask Battletech, but they aren't gonna give them back now that Harmony Gold got told off.

@KhroweDontYouKnow Ай бұрын

You're the best mate

@kenny7943 Ай бұрын

I say the scholar knows more about xenos then a good imperial servant should.

@UGNAvalon Ай бұрын

Better to know your enemy so you know how best to destroy them while avoiding their tricks in turn! ;D

@Scholarslore 21 күн бұрын

Hmmmm, a most heretical accusation!

@Sp4wnf3rk3l 27 күн бұрын

Pls make a tutorial on your workflow someday

@simonbrosseau1783 Ай бұрын

I love how most people don’t even realize that the Tau’s "greater good" is no better or less authoritarian than the "imperial truth".

@Rssika 26 күн бұрын

Nobody cares when one provides bread and safe place to sleep and the other makes you a servitor.

@simonbrosseau1783 25 күн бұрын

@@Rssika considering that the imperium of man is thousand and thousand of billions living soul strong, one can only assume that people are fed wouldn’t you think?

@Rssika 25 күн бұрын

@@simonbrosseau1783 Wow, corpse starch. Great.

@Connordaboss45 21 күн бұрын

"Hey do your best to do the best for the whole" vs "If you stand at the wrong place you will be lobotimized or killed"

@Rssika 21 күн бұрын

@@Connordaboss45 Exactly. Being tau empire citizen or maybe living in human enclave in squat space is probably the best deal baseline human can have in 40k, bar none.

@scythebergon418 28 күн бұрын

Xenotic huh? Dropping some random XENOS that sounds awesome on us huh? Okay let's go

@ruddygreatcomedy Ай бұрын

25:09 Never heard of a Tau called Ernest… 😂

@UGNAvalon Ай бұрын

Shirley you just be joking! 😉

@Winston-lf7sb 21 сағат бұрын

you would think they would just place auxiliary sensors behind armor plating that can retract of pop off in case of the head being removed. It would be better than peaking out a slit in the front..... thats not exactly far beyond normal technology there lol

@secretagenttau2233 Ай бұрын

TAU VIDEO! OH YEA BABY! FOR THE GREATER GOOD!!! Could you imagine the Tau and Imperium teaming up? They could defeat anything

@AC20sAkimbo Ай бұрын

The Tau would be annoying to deal with (material and cost of lives) but the imperium could ultimately crush them if the other distractions would leave well enough alone.

@Connordaboss45 21 күн бұрын

Multiple chapters would die, probably several titan legions, and unknown amount of guard regiments as well. Just to destroy an empire that is mostly peaceful with them. The imperium would fall shortly afterwards once any other threat realized how weakened the imperium was

@AC20sAkimbo 21 күн бұрын

@@Connordaboss45 And all would be glorious martyrs for the Emperor. The blood of mankind is His to spend as He sees fit.

@Connordaboss45 21 күн бұрын

@@AC20sAkimbo Emperor would probably face plant that the imperium ended itself to destroy one xenos empire

@AC20sAkimbo 21 күн бұрын

@@Connordaboss45 No. its just a matter of scale. What would be disastrous to a smaller empire is what the Imperium eats up because mass scale casualties is all they know.

@Connordaboss45 21 күн бұрын

@@AC20sAkimbo the imperium lost 3 companies of space marines , 4 guard regiments, and a titan legion to fail to take Taros. Multiply that for every single planet they'd try and take.

@naeloopardayan538 Ай бұрын

There is lore and content in the Warhammer 40k universe for at least 2 decades of game developing but what we have is ...card games, rts games, turn based strategy games, some stupid linear shooting game and a pretty cool co op but not much else...

@Keilink Ай бұрын

1:23:55 I wonder if this is an official artwork. I don't think we've ever seen the actual cockpit of a Crisis suit ~

@louis1111111111111 27 күн бұрын

more than capable enough .....

@Ranger-Cealers 18 күн бұрын

Looks like .ore toys for warch Fortress Fairious point to capture study and intergrate into my forces, my kill teams are highly skilled at using xenos tech, im sure my tech priests will find a way for Astartes to use these battlesuits

@user-nj9mh7ly2n Ай бұрын

Ah, yes. The xxnumbernumber suit. EVEN BETTER than the XV-8. The XV-8 is great, i assure you! A truly magnificent marvel of technology, NEVER to be surpassed... except by... EVERYTHING ELSE. Which brings us to Xsomethingorother! Better in every way than the Xblahblah, which is better EVEN than the Xp87, which IS TWICE THE SIZE and power as the other suit, WHICH IS THE ELITEST, POWERFULLYEST BESTEST EVAR!

@user-nj9mh7ly2n Ай бұрын

Which reminds me of THE NEWEST Astartes models, who are EVEN BETTEREST than THE BESTEST, which, ofcourse, being itself, plunged it into a recursive loop, SWALLOWING OLD GODS AND NEW, which is ok i guess.

@user-nj9mh7ly2n Ай бұрын

Oh, AND it's INCREDIBLY RAAAARE (which make it VAAAAUABLE) so it is naturally BETTER (Not AT ALL an indication of it being a poor fit and phased out). If you have something SO GOOOOD you wouldn't make more than three, right?

@ashray870 Ай бұрын

Is this what an AI having a mental breakdown looks like?

@Spellbound_93 16 күн бұрын

Does the AI Narrator have a name?

@emanflores8983 Ай бұрын

SCHOLAR LOREEE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH 🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️

@travisgordonusmc 23 күн бұрын

Wit bout dem gurlz? Sey now da custodians

@KnightsWithoutATable 27 күн бұрын

No, the Imperium wouldn't have ordered more pilots to be trained if a weapon's system was releasing too much radiation for the operators. That would be inefficient since pilots are a long term training program. They would cybernetically and genetically modify the pilots to tolerate the radiation, like the Skitarri are.

@Connordaboss45 21 күн бұрын

There are guard units that huff paint before battle because it makes them fight better. The imperium would definitely throw lives away to further a military campaign

@KnightsWithoutATable 20 күн бұрын

@@Connordaboss45 Oh, it does, but in specific ways.

@fuchnorris6277 5 күн бұрын

😅the closest thing to the good guys 40k has

@lauriepenner350 Ай бұрын

O wisest of Scholars, why do the Tau choose to name their battlesuits using Earth letters and numbers?

@Cthulhuwarlord Ай бұрын

The Tau hired some guy named James Workshop to make up the names

@UGNAvalon Ай бұрын

Translation Convention? In-universe, they could very well be labeled “Ahks-Veth Shessa” Battlesuits for all we know. 🤷‍♂️

@Connordaboss45 21 күн бұрын

Tau can speak Gothic so its likely ambassador told them their names in Gothic and they have tau names in their own language

@asamanatananana 18 күн бұрын

Somethings not right, these guys developed as a species way too quickly. Them Ethereals are acolytes for something sinister.

@CheapGodiva 8 күн бұрын

Everything in 40K isn't right.

@breakingbadatron8874 Ай бұрын

13:55 helldivers lol?

@shrektheeloquentork1924 Ай бұрын

@Scholar's Lore: You sir, have out done yourself. You are truly blessed...by Gord AND Mork

@stevefrench3397 Ай бұрын

Is that background music from RE4??

@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Ай бұрын

Not quite the save room ambience

@Doctoranthetardis Ай бұрын

Less ads please man I'm trying to sleep.

@FulloutPostal Ай бұрын

this... sounds almost like admiration... could the venerable scholar have turned to heresy? I shall inform the nearest arbites posthaste!

@robouteguilliman6662 Ай бұрын

How do you build a fission reactor powered battlesuit and not account for all the fucking radiation. That’s a comically massive oversight.

@UGNAvalon Ай бұрын

Skitarii: Cries in binary.

@CheapGodiva 8 күн бұрын

Warp reinforcement

@IDK.Buckaroo Ай бұрын

Ethereals are necrons that have reverted back to flesh