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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2004 14:29:33 GMT -5
Soon, hopefully, possibly i shall be creating my Chaotic Tau army. Before you all start jabbering away about how it's not legal, it is (sort of). Look below: Tau are cruising through space and discover an artifact. Unbeknown to them it is a Chaos artifact. They take it aboard for further study. The scientist subtley start to get corupted by Chaos. They then place the artifact where everyone gets a 'dose' of corruption. The ship is carrying a Tau battalion and they then get corrupted. Tau turn towards the Eye of Terror, gain a demon and some supportin marines, end of story.
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Post by Sheepz on Mar 16, 2004 13:45:39 GMT -5
And how would you field this army?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2004 20:48:09 GMT -5
The only way that I could see would be to take Tau and ally to CSM by taking two force charts. You would of course need to get your opponents permission and it defiantly isn't tournament legal.
What kind of Chaos alignment would they be?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2004 18:30:39 GMT -5
the choas should be undivided, tzennech or slannesh
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2004 12:38:44 GMT -5
As far as I know Tau have almost no psychic potential and they have almost no warp refelction so the dark ones don't really have a use for them as they give a god little power.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2004 8:12:41 GMT -5
chaos can only corrupt a race with psychic potential and/or weak minds. tau have no psychic potential and their minds are extremely strong and focused.
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Post by Woz on Dec 11, 2004 17:08:31 GMT -5
Space marines aren't exactly weak minded. Yet some worship Khorne - a chaos god that doesn't use psychic powers to corrupt people
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2004 3:15:37 GMT -5
yes but space marines also have unswerving loyalty - in the case of CSM their loyalty was to their primarchs, who led them to chaos. tau arnt combat mad, they follow the greater good.
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Post by Woz on Dec 13, 2004 21:30:58 GMT -5
Yes but whos to say that killing everything in sight isn't for the greater good.
What would happen if they got sucked into the warp and were driven insane. Thousands of years later they may re appear as blood crazed loons who beleive that to destroy everything is for the greater good.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2004 2:38:03 GMT -5
im sorry to say this but the chances of them being sucked into the warp are minimal, unless we are talking about another 1000 years into the futures when the tau empire has expanded to a lot closer to the eye of terror than ever before.
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Post by Woz on Dec 15, 2004 17:05:33 GMT -5
The eye of terror isn't the only way into the warp. The warp is all around us which is why "warp travel" is used to travel around the galaxy.
The entities in the warp are always trying to breach into real space and this can happen anywhere. (This is why the Imperium hunts people with psychic abilities, as these people can be used as gateways).
I've not got the Tau codex so I don't know if they use warp travel anyway here's two flufy way that Tau can get drawn into the warp.
1 - A Space Hulk appears in Tau space. Having never seen anything like it before the Tau send a fleet to investigate it. Now this thing is big and takes several years to explore by which time there are thousands of tau crawling over it and hundreds of Tau ships docked or near it when suddenly it disappears back into the warp taking with it all the Tau on board and all the near by ships.
2- The Tau have just won another world for the greater good. Winning is the wrong word because the population welcomed the Tau with open arms. But unknown to the Tau this world has a high number of psychic people who had fled Imperial persecution. Most of these psychics are already possesed and there are many cults who worship the dark gods.
Many years later all communication is lost with this world. The Tau send people to find out why. When they get there they discover that everyone has vanished Tau, Human (+squats).
(The warp entities used the psychic humans to enter real space to drag others into the warp).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2004 18:55:32 GMT -5
As far as I understand it the tau have developed engines to begin the entry into warp space, this causes a massive acceleration, resulting in large movments through space (although not as far as true warp travel). The tau cannot* enter the warp due to a lack of navs, therefore they turn the engines off before the full jump is completed and allow the ship to deccelerate to normal space drive speeds. They use this technique to planet hop across space, hence the small region currently occupied by them.
*cannot isn't really accurate, they can, but they cannot navigate once within the warp, and cannot protect against the beings living within. Should a tau ship not "turn off" the engines at the right time they would find themselves in the warp for real, and would drift as space hulks do. This means that at the moment they reactivate the engines or are dropped (in a similar manner to space hulks) they will exit somewhere. This could be anywhere, so a small tau force could exit the warp in a region not normally occupied by them.
as for chaotic tau, the char in the book, cmdr farsight, has a large close combat weapon on his suit, no ethirel (whatever) guidance, and appears to be under the influance of the close combat weapon itself.......
maybe they are not targets for full possetion, but perhaps hapless pawns.....
sorry bout the essay, i kind of like the tau, my missus plays them now and i'm currently losing out 3-1
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2006 11:54:30 GMT -5
actually if you read the book fire warrior it intoduces an intersting idea. the Mon'tau or some other spelling of it is like the dark side of the tau fire warrior in which they enjoy the killing they do. so you can have a cunning blood thirster corrupt these tau to bring out there inner deamon
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2006 12:45:44 GMT -5
i dont see a problem with it..and it seems like you all have made some nice fluff, tournament legal doesnt really matter if you just waatn to have fun
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2006 12:59:25 GMT -5
i think though slaanesh would also be tempting for tau. tau society does not allow the individual to prosper. everyone works for the community. slaanesh is the complete opposite. its offers will be very attractive to those not completely convinced by the greater good and the need to serve society for the tau race.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2006 18:00:34 GMT -5
Let me spell it to you this way. For all their lives the Tau believe that there is no other way than the greater good. So there is no evil that they can behold. The only remotly evil concept among the Tau knowlage is Commander Vior'la. And at that you would have a more likly chance of converting an ork to chaos with their extreme psycic abilities. But they are VERY strong to the ways of chaos. And so with no psycic abilites, at all. The Tau are not able to be chaotic. Waaagh for the Greater Good.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2006 21:25:21 GMT -5
Tau can not become possesed because their race posseses no phsycic abilities. Period.
No warp travel. No Possesion. No Chaos.
That being said, it would be cool to see a chaos Tau army. The conversions would look extremely cool. I personally don't care if an army doesn't work with fluff, except for female space marines. It is just when someone AGRUES with the fluff.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2006 22:16:11 GMT -5
you can make tau phickec (boy i seplt that one worng) is for the chaos to chop off their heads and replace the, with some other things
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2006 10:03:55 GMT -5
In The Last Chancers books, by Gav Thorpe, the Tau actually have pyskers.
And to travel between space, the Tau have an invention which I will dub hypergates(because I can't remember exactly what they're called).These hypergates are like big rings in space. A Tau ship cannot enter the warp without using one of these hypergates, and can only leave the warp through another hypergate. Before you ask how they got to places to build hypergates there, refer to the previous planet-hopping info.
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Post by Colonel Grammissar Azalar on Jan 16, 2007 11:40:35 GMT -5
Necrofood, if you mean the book "13th Legion" or whichever one it is, I dont recall the Tau being in that one. Chaos were, A Alien Life Form much like 'Nids, 'Nids were in, but no Tau.
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Post by knight (M.I.A) on Jan 16, 2007 12:51:18 GMT -5
Well if the Tau don't want to come to the Warp, the Warp... erm Chaos can still come to them in form of prophets, Alpha Legion and the other Space Marines and Warp Storms...
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Post by Colonel Grammissar Azalar on Jan 20, 2007 13:41:25 GMT -5
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Post by Sappmer on Jan 20, 2007 18:25:15 GMT -5
yeah, but that isnt the Tau as a whole, thats just a leader being corrupted. Just like the German troops did for Hilter in the second world war and wat the Soviet Secret Police did for Sterlin,
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Post by knight (M.I.A) on Jan 20, 2007 18:33:27 GMT -5
The Chaos can't corrupt a race as a whole. It will always only affect parts. Some of the Space Marine Legions fell to the Chaos, some of the Titan Legions, some Imperial Guard regiments, some Orc Waaaaghs. This list is endless. but never will a complete race fall under the influence of the Chaos. Some races tried to surrender to the Chaos gods, but where destroyed in return after something that helped the Chaos (for example the Kai, the who produced deamonic weapons for the Chaos forces). And I think you can't compare it with troops from earths history. There were "traitors" (counts for those who betrayed and those who were resitence fighters) and that's the point that doesn't apply to Chaos. Either you are Chaos or you're not. There is nothing between. It's the choice if you'll live or you'll be dead.
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Post by Sappmer on Jan 23, 2007 7:42:53 GMT -5
Commander Farsight could be with Chaos. He has the Dawn Blade which could be linked to the C'tan and the C'tan could be communicating with him. Or the Dawn Blade is the creation from some deamons of the warp. So inother wards to control the Tau you just give them a nice big weapon and tell them that if they want the weapon then they should obay you. Tau are easy to control without Etherials too!
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