>drone swarms the astra militarumEh, nothing personal kid.
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>>64701056>gets his stupid worlds exterminatedIts personal, xeno scum.
Shi'ur.With this most recent achievement, fate has in a single stroke, marked the decline of the Imperium and spelled a new era of wondrous prosperity and peaceful galactic dominance for the Greater Good, which promises to firmly stand in sharp contrast to the historically bloody ascent of the Imperium and the cruel subjugation it brought to the humbler xenos of the galaxy. With the blessings of T'au quantum direct-current Ethereals, quantum drones and quantum enhanced railguns will be the instruments with which the T'au affirms its noble stewardship of 42nd Millennium galactic politics and offers the non-Imperial worlds a different option; a T'au'va alternative to the depredations of Imperial leadership and the opportunity for a more equitable and dignified Greater Good.
>>64701153It would thought. Space communism would be better for the individual imperial citizen than techno serfdom.
>>64701137>Imperium has exterminated less Tau worlds than Imperium worlds>>64701163Almost anything is better than than the life of your average Imperial citizen.
>inb4 a bunch of copeReminder that the Tau are modeled on NATO per word of god (and matches it in combat doctrine).The Imperium has like a million different inspirations but the closest country it resembles today is Russia, right down to using poorly equipped meatwaves as its main tactic.
>>64701137>gets his stupid worlds exterminatedFun fact: Thus far both instances of the Imperium using exterminatus against the Tau both involve them using it on their own Imperium planets to delay their advance. Exterminatus isn't like nukes, it's not a WMD you lob at the enemy. It's scorched earth you use on your own territory when you're losing.
>>64701056https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtb10ZwbReY
>>64701237The Imperium mobik fears the dronechads
>>647012483 Day Imperium SMOs be like:
>>64701221Pretty much everything the Imperium does starts making a lot of sense when you notice that they're largely based on the Russian Empires (both Tsarist and Soviet). Burning down their own shit en masse in an attempt to slow the enemy down is their entire shtick, with mixed results.
>>64701221Akshully the Imperium do use Exterminatus offensively. Its just that most battles in 40gay happen in Imperial territory what with the whole "beleagured shitty empire" narrative the Imperium has.
>>64701260>Damocles Gulf: when you forget that you're not supposed to believe your own propaganda
>>64701318Sure but to actually use exterminatus you have to control a significant amount of the space around the planet (since the ordinance can often be intercepted otherwise) and a lot of exterminatuses can be blocked by sufficient defenses (Necron tomb worlds won't care much about a virus bomb, Tau worlds have powerful shields for their cities, etc.)
For your consideration.
>>64701189>billions of Imperial worldsNot every world is Necromunda. Most are comfy, but they don’t make for interesting books so they don’t get written about unless they get invaded
>tau controlled space is so small that The Imperium as a whole basically ignores itThe who?
>>64701422>Most are comfyThey're not. Ultramar is considered to be unusually prosperous by Imperium standards and it had a life expectancy of 35.
>>64701422even if that is true (its not) the vast vast majority of the Imperiums population live in hive worlds and forge worlds which have absolute shit tier conditions that would make living in the most overcrowded pajeet slum look like a paradise
>>64701422Nulore is kinda trash but they've really gone out of their way to crack down on this. E.G. making aggri worlds explicitly horrible and not relatively unpolluted feudal worlds.
>>64701427This is just Imperium cope desu. The Imperium has sent Titan Legions, Space Marine Chapters, Assassinorum Execution Forces, and irreplaceable archaeotech WMDs against the Tau. These are rare resources, and the High Lords of Terra themselves were aware of their deployment.
>>64701473>sends a token strike force to deal with literal who xenos race that only gets to be a tabletop army because of insufferable weebs>"OMG the tau are so awesome they win every fight no matter what!"the t*u empire has reality bending plot armor that prevents the imperium from mustering an actual crusade force to destroy them, or stops any xenos race from wiping them out. their plot armor is so great that instead of annhiliating the tau, the deathguard fleet that showed up at the startide nexus left for no reason other than "the deathguard can't win because that would mean no more tau army to sell", and they beat a tyranid splinter fleet that was highly adaptable by.... changing what guns they used faster than the tyranids could evolve to counter them. they don't even follow their own NATO/GWOT doctrine anymore and went all in on giant battlesuits because that's what makes GW money.
>>64701116why is the X15 stealthsuit giving orders to the X25s?
>>64701499>blah blah blah i hate tauI just think they're neat.
>>64701499Ah yes, as we all know, vastly larger countries with more resources and manpower never lose to smaller but more efficient nations with superior tactics
>>6470149940k is just capeshit for a different breed of nerd, insofar as nobody is ever really dead for good. You want to talk about plot armor, explain ultramar still existing.
>>64701508I also think they're neat, but the constant tauwank is tiresome as is imperiumwank.>>64701510if this was pidorstan invading liechtenstein and getting its shit kicked in to an even worse degree than what's happening in ukraine, sure. the conflict was essentially a stalemate and the imperium fucked off to go deal with their own tyranid invasion after signing a ceasefire with the tau which monke would never stoop to doing.
>>64701599>the conflict was essentially a stalemateIt really wasn't. The Imperium had ran out of steam and was going to be pushed back. The Tyranid invasion pretty much saved the asses of everyone in the crusading force by giving them a reason to retreat that wouldn't get them all shot for it. >which monke would never stoop to doing."I wasn't even trying to win, so losing to you doesn't count" is EXACTLY the sort of cope monke is known for.
>>64701588even when you take into account the blueberries plot armor, ultramar still existing makes sense given the fact said blueberries are one of the few chapters that actually developed their world and by extension its defensive abilities instead of keeping it a 24/7 hellhole just so they can get a few extra sociopaths as recruits
>>64701639>one of the few chapters that actually developed their worldThere's a huge asterisk here in that it's only by the standards of the Imperium. They still only have a life expectancy of 35, it's just that the rest of the Imperium is even worse. And both of those are pathetic even in comparison to Russia which even with its shitty peasant lifestyle still manages to eke out a life expectancy of twice that of Ultramar.
>>64701616>The Tyranid invasion pretty much saved the asses of everyonebut that's exactly my problem with the tau in how they're portrayed, and it's more a problem of how 40k writers don't understand scale. every time the tau are in over their head fighting a foe that should by every right win, they either leave or become pants on head retarded and fumble hard. why did the deathguard leave instead of fucking them up? how does changing what gun you use suddenly beat tyranid adaptation (tyranids making poisons that can kill deathguard is equally retarded)? why do they now have their own chaos god of the greater good that, instead of becoming twisted like all warp entities, is ostensibly benign despite having nowhere near the population of even the craftworld eldar? ultramar controls more worlds than all of the tau empire, why haven't they decided to either exterminate them or at least open negotiations to prevent either from getting fucked by tyranids or deathguard again? there's just to many head scratchers for my liking and that's coming from an eldar player.>the sort of cope monke is known forwe all know monkey wouldn't sign shit unless it was massively in his favor and preferably from a golden ox cart. but then he would probably invade 5 years later after getting high off his own supply again, just like what the imperium eventually did.
>>64701667You misunderstand, the Tyranid Invasion didn't save the Tau, they saved the Imperium's invading force. The Tau were receiving reinforcements and were pushing the Imperium back, the Tyranid's crusade was going to fail no matter what. However, if they did retreat most of them would get executed for failing their duties, the Tyranid Invasion saved the crusading force by allowing them an excuse to retreat in the face of inevitable defeat.>why did the deathguard leave instead of fucking them up?The Deathguard was never going to survive the other side of the Startide Nexus, it was the most fortified area in all the Tau Empire and had basically the entire concentration of the Tau's military there ready to fight. That they got shredded by the Tau'va before ever getting there ultimately didn't alter their end outcome.>how does changing what gun you use suddenly beat tyranid adaptationBecause tyranids can adapt to anything, but they can't adapt to everything at the same time. Besides even Space Marines use special ammo against Tyranids, the Tau aren't unique in this.>ultramar controls more worlds than all of the tau empire, why haven't they decided to either exterminate themBecause Utramar is a destitute shithole by the standards of the Tau. It's the Moscow to the Imperium's Russia, a slightly shinier turd on the dung pile.
>>64701667The industrial output of an Imperial world is pitiful relative to what it ought to be, because of the hideous inefficiency of the Imperium
