Tau are badass and I'm SICK of pretending otherwise.
>>94361808I’d finish my Tau army if it wasn’t so goddamn expensive. I want a riptide but I can buy 2 MG gundams for the price with still some money to spare.
Have they done anything even remotely relevant in the past 5 years?
>>94361836The only thing that has happened in the last 5 years was Lion coming back.
>>94361808>>94361836Reminder
>>94361844I'd eat a Tau burger
Lots of new spam threads. Refreshing your weekly bumper crop of mod protected garbage spam, huh?
>>94361808I think they can be cool but badass is not the word I'd choose.
>>94361808blue berry
>>94361808Tau are Eldar for unattractive people.
>>94362001That sort of implies attractive people play 40k. >but Henry Cavill The exception that proves the rule.
>>94362030You're right, I don't. But when I did I played Eldar.
>>94361844Imagine the smell
>>94361844>>94362193>Imagine the smellEspecially when an otherwised sealed battlesuit is damaged enough to crack the cockpit after hours of combat
>>94362209Anon, maybe stop gooning for a moment and realise the battlesuit pilot would be dead of asphyxiation by then in your scenario
>another Tau-lust thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENyxseq59YQ&ab_channel=0STrackTau need to lean into the Evil Commie thing more
Say Space Marine brosDefend this
>>94361846>Ate TauSimple as.
>>94361808Gee, I sure do love having 3 tau and 6 elf threads on this board at any given time.
>>94362954>Janitor applications are now being accepted.Do something or shut the fuck up generalfag
>>94361808They don't lean far enough in either direction for my taste. I'd rather Tau either be a proper alien alliance with lots of diverse troop types and vehicles or go full mecha and have tons of battlesuits.Their weird middle of the road approach wrapped around modern combined arms doesn't really do it for me.
>>94363593they seem to lean mostly on the battle suits
>>94363593>there is an entire army built around giant stompy mecha>those are their only choices, they have no other troop units or vehicles>they have heavy ones, scout ones, fast ones with shields>it’s a fucking Imperium army and not the TauI will never not be infinitely assblasted about Imperial Knights.
>>94361808Given they're physically weak, diminutive, and short-sighted I can see why you relate to them so strongly OP, but your deep kinship with their inferiority doesn't make them "badass", unfortunately.
>>94361844how come there isnt any fan art of tau with udders and farting uncontrollably during combat? wtf
>>94361844hilarious, but I think this is an extract of imperial propaganda given to the imperial guard, as it also describes other shit that the tau doesnt really do, like cowering and surrendering at the first sight of combat and shit like that
>>94363735>I'm a secondary who didn't read Tau lore at all and thus don't know they hate Imperial Titans/Knights and their entire concept
>>94363765That single forehead slit indicates that “she” is a man, female ones are a Y shaped slit instead
>>94364030>yeah actually, the army we deliberately designed to get in on the western mecha craze>they think giant robots fucking suck and are stupid>here’s the Ta’Unar and Stormsurge btw, they exist to counter those equally giant robots they hate the concept ofBrilliant lore
What do you guys think about splitting the tau up into multiple books like the imperials and the eldar do? Like one book for the mecha and tau themselves and a book for all of there auxiliary alien ally's. They are both more than complex enough to need books of there own. I mean that is why we got the Gene stealer cults back in the first place right?Hell there is even an page on 1d6chan that is all about a old fan made tau auxiliary codex that is just a huge mixing pot of random human and alien units working together trying to survive all the bullshit of this setting.
>>94364146Don't think it will work, Imperium is giant and its myriad of forces work alone as often as together, eldar are outright different factions
>>94364146The only problem with splitting auxes off into their own book is they’re second class soldiers. For all their talk about the Greater Good and unity every single auxiliary army is attached to Tau one and commanded by Tau Fire Caste. You just aren’t going to see an independent Vespid or Gue’vesa army operating without Tau.Kroot could do that but only because they often fight as mercenaries. Even then when they’re fighting for the Tau, it’s under their direct command more often than not.
>>94364399m8 WHAT the fuck are you on about?
the coomer fem-tau shit is retarded. the only official female tau artwork, shadowsun, looks like a blue California Raisin. hat tau are 100% fanfic coomer slop and people kind of will it into existence. SoB on the other hand are humans, so hot SoB are at least believeable. The battle hardened fire-caste tau ARE cool contrarily. people forget that the rank and file fire warriors are like better trained and equipped guardsmen. their job is to fight and die, and they have some horrible gruesome deaths in official artwork. A lore blurb from DoW has journal entries from a fire warrior whose cadre got captured by Deldar and tortured to death. They famously had a huge war with the DG during one of their spheres of expansion.
>>94364081>Tau busty-boysFantastic
What is it about sexy tau that makes spergs, errr, sperg out?Every thread I see about them, there will come some random anon, post a picture of shadowsun from that one book and then yell "see? Tau women are ugly!"
>>94364495I think it's a distinct lack of ability to distinguish between people just having fun (or doing a cheeky shitpost) and people being serious. They see someone post sexy Tau girls with fat tits and assume they're being serious about like "this is canonically how Tau look" when we all know it's not actually true and that Tau females for all we know don't have tits at all. But people like >>94364444 literally can't make the distinction between the two.
>>94361808They sterilized the human race, so NO
>>94364399>he doesn't know that tg has fetishized sisters of Battle or eldar since the creation of this board Newfag
>>94362570>defend honor
>>94362570PEAK grimDERP
>>94364399How do people like this even get into this hobby? /tg/ hobbies have been horny since the first nerd put thought to pen.Like I remember me an the lads going over the ad&d monster manual and all throughly enjoying the naked monster girls.
>>94362570....why have I never seen this before? Was a white scar space marine actually lusting over shadowsun?What kind of a space marine imagines a what if life drinking wine and playing chess with a female alien?
>>94366162hes a tourist thats it came in to 40k during 6th editions edge lord supreme era
>>94361808I like playing one in DoW2 Last Stand, he's actually pretty racist too>Orks, fierce as Kroot yet even more "savage">The Earth Caste would be amused by this "technology">Submit, Orc, even SAVAGES have a place in our empire>Citizen militia, Fire Warriors they are not
titillation is okay on a blue boardporn derailment is cancer
>>94364533>>94364533>Having funYou mean spamming the same thread with the same images each month? Atleast find a new faction to jerk it to like Eldar or SoB, it doesn’t have to be warhammer, pick some coombait battletech art to fap to.But that won’t happen will it? Because you guys are too busy circlejerking in your private discord server to do anything but post softcore Tau porn on tg.
>>94364146great idea, the more standard sci-fi stuff in warhammer should get more attention for them to do their own twists on thembut i think most people just aren't that excited on them even if they had more lorethey just need cooler races, because the kroots are not cool
>>94364030Games workshop is equally comfortable pissing all over their own fluff if the Ta'Unar is anything to go off of.
>>94363735>I will never not be infinitely assblasted about Imperial Knights.Where are the Imperial Knights Big Fat Titties? Burgomeister Titania, order the dames of the house to presentation immediately.
>>94364399Kink shaming is my kink.
>>94363735There's nothing stopping you from building a Tau army composed entirely of battlesuits, anon. Troop taxes aren't a thing anymore.It may not be the most optimal army since you aren't taking any cheap objective-holding fodder units or big tanks, but it's still a totally legal army to build.
>>94371697
>>94361836>Have they done anything even remotely relevant in the past 5 years?Farsight got an entire Arks of Omen campaign book dedicated to him at the tail end of 9th, their codex in 10th has come out and probably has new shit but I don't have it so idk the specifics of what changed. They also just got a new Vespid Kill Team with a plot advancement for that game as well
C..Can we see some Tau Mecha..?
The tau line is suuuuuper boring and samey. The kroot don't fix it because people who like tau don't want something completely different and unrelated, they just want more variety than the tau have but within the tau aesthetic. I don't want to have just 30 crisis suits.
>>94361808Why did you pretend otherwise? Are you that ruled by your need to fit in?
>>94361836Why does the human have bat ears
>>94361808Tau are space gooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3F6IQCWJY
Tau truly are the best. Offering the most variety in biology, culture and even models. Think the ONLY faction in 40k wich offers a wider variety of models wich look nothing alike another yet still match together is Chaos demons but that one is cheating due to being actually 4 armys in one. They also offer the most variety of racism in 40k for your homebrewing. Most variety for homebrewing total really. Every day knowing the Tau exists makes me wish I could learn how to thin my paints properly so I could start bulk painting the 50 infantry models I have.
I think battlesuites and fire warriors look good. I also don't like 40k in the least and I hate GW with a passion.
>>94375279Actually true one thing I dislike about the current Kroot is not enough acessorys to make them look like part of a Tau army. Vespids got 2 helmets and 2 chest plates. Would it really cost that much more to add a Tau unique helmet for Kroot too?
>>94361808>>94361836>>94362606>>94363370>>94363569
>>94363735Because Tau are not fucking reddit-tier anime mecha dogshit, its a generic sci-fi army, with grav tanks, drones, skimmers, and mechs if you want to include them
>>94375257No, im not a nigger, and not a fag, only conventional combined arms for me please
>>94376089>And mecha if you want to include themThis is the most disingenuous description of the tau that I've ever seen.
>>94377671You can just replace the big ones with tanks, and stealth suits are not mechs, only irreplacable ones are crisis suits, and ghostkeel, but thats like basing your perception of space marines on dreadnaughts or terminators alone
>>94364005Yes, this is from the book that tells guardsman to come at Chaos Marines with their combat knife.
>>94371770is there a 3d model?
>>94381843You mean an STL for printing? Probably, but I don't know where you'd find it.
>>94361836Nobody in 40k has done anything even remotely relevant in the past 5 years.
>>94381872
>>94381891Abbaddon collected a key wich leads to another key
>>94381904>Abaddon is playing Chaos gacha
What are the best cute tau prints?
>>94361808Mechas are badass, not Taus.
>>94361836Why is she expressing breastmilk if she's nor pregnant?
>>94382559Who says she isnt? Just cause you aare pregnant doesnt mean you get a day off.
Guys, seriously is there any better pinup tau model than this one? The rest are either silly or weird looking.
>>94382619You gotta define pin up cause nearly every single model by Greater Good proxys is a pinup one.
>>94383364Any tau on part with that level of cute/sexy. The ones that are just huge boobs and giant 3d nipples are stupid. I want skinny waif tau being cute, not bimbo tau.
>>94382619Yes. Here >>94371770>>94381843It's by minigames miniatures.
It is literally impossible to talk about tau without stumbling into an advanced hyper-goon-sesh.Why?They're not BDSM like DEldar or Slaanesh. They're not conventionally attractive. They're just blue people who don't have noses.
>>94384209The Tau are the weeb factionWeebs like cute anime girls
>>94384209Attraction to blue women in science fiction has been around as long as there has been science fiction. Throw in a little mecha that draws in the anime adjacent and the internet does the rest.Of course it doesn't help that it's a prevalent shitposting topic. When trolling doesn't pan out the bat-signal goes up and blue boobs just start popping out everywhere.
tau look ugly and their feet are strange
>>94384606But they aren't though. Eldar shit looks more anime.
>>94375332Must be with the Night Lords.
>>94361844>citing the uplifting primer
>>94382231The ones involving you printing a gun and shooting yourself in the face
>>94384772Its hooves and thats also one of the best things about Tau cause it makes them looks alien enough to clearly not just be humans with a gene defect but also human enough to be relataable to people who have the IQ to imagine how others could feel or think. and it removes feetfag from the coomshit
>>94384828Nah tau have the mecha aesthetic.
in another thread the observation that the kroot look awfully a lot like kappa came upthis observation probably isn't new, and kroot weren't made to resemble the kappa. but what if tau auxiliaries were based off different japanese yokai
Can I get a non meme tldr on Tau?
>>94389726Huh. Interesting. I never put that together. I wonder what else inspired their auxiliaries. Like are vespids based on giant hornets?
>>94389896>imperium finds tau homeworld where they are still in the stone age, assigns them for extermination but a warp storm cuts them off before it is accomplished>few thousand years later they reappear as a multi-planetary space empire, developing incredibly quickly>during that missing time the tau have developed a caste society (the castes strictly only apply to their own species) with the ethereal caste at the top>one of the two factions who still believe in diplomacy and co-operation, have joined up with dozens of minor xenos species to create the modern tau empire>older fluff implies the eldar might have had a hand in the creation of the ethereal caste by hybridizing certain tau with pheromonal organs from another alien species to unite the species>while being an expansionist space empire they utilize soft power more than most, subsuming worlds via trade and diplomacy as much as warfare which is especially effective against fringe imperial worlds>in recent centuries have expanded from a dozen major worlds to hundreds, integrating so many ex-imperial humans that the humans worship of the tau "greater good" ideology has created a minor warp deity>the greater good is essentially just a collectivist ethos about everyone contributing for the sake of everyone etc>GW still can't decide when they developed FTL travel with retcons in every edition, currently the tau magically developed a multi-system space empire without FTL somehow>focuses on more "rational" means of war aka long range combat, air power etc and are kinda bad in melee>big focus on mecha jump pack shooting which is obnoxious to play against if you aren't running a shooty army too>aesthetically space india/china/japan hybrid
>>94390593tau ship cant enter the warp reliably yet (their warp shield technology is shitty at best) but they have the technology to "surf" on the warp. its much slower but much safer.
>>94391393>inb4 Tau invent Warp travel that's 100% safe and not dumb, but it's also super grimdark and fits 40k perfectly
>>94391393They can enter it just fine in M42, it's what happens once they're in there that causes problems.
>>94391511>>94391393And they developed the tech after Damocles Crusade.
>>94391520The Tau really need to discover the lost technology of window blinds.
>>94391511>no cartographyIn theory, can't anybody entering the Warp use the Astronomican? It's not like it's exclusive to humanity, it's a giant psychic lighthouse, you don't have to be human to have it as a reference point.
>>94391638You'd have to be psychic to see it, anon.
>>94391653Tau have mercenaries, none of them are psykers?
>>94391638It's still a psychic beacon, so you need someone who's psychic to sense it. It also depends on the type of psyker. If any psyker would do, the Imperium wouldn't need people with the navigator gene. It's seem some psykers can use it, as one of the Nid fleets entering the galaxy has done a sharp 90 degree turn straight for Terra. But at the same time they were relatively close to Terra, so if they did sense it, it didn't attract them from 50,000 light years away. So maybe navigators are tuned enough to sense it across the galaxy while also being sensitive to the motions of the Warp itself, while regular psykers with proper abilities can use it at a closer range. There's also the fact that merely sensing it doesn't do you much if you don't know what or where it is. An outsider would have to study it for a while to figure out that the beacon is a fixed point and then start calculating coordinates to make use of it.
>>94391638They can use any of the many beacons. There's the Astronomican, which is the biggest and works from Terra, but Rogue Trader also lists a bunch of other smaller ones. There's one in the Dioskouri system, described in Faith and Coin, that is even a Chaos version, they use sacrifices so the psychic "choir" of their Beacon is actually a "screaming howl of the tortured and damned" and it's apparently dangerous for a Navigator to use it because of corruption risk. Then there's the DAoT era artificial ones, and even the Eye of Terror can be used in a pinch as a marker.You usually need to be a Navigator to use them all properly, and know what you're looking at (so you need to know Terra's position in the galaxy and to know the Astronomican originates from there) but regular psykers can, depending on their strength and talent.
>>94391687The Tau straight up have a psyker xenos species they don't use.
>>94361844Okay but that's kinda stupid since all their original lore has their tactics and shit named after hunting.
>>94389932Cute Tau.
>>94361808Back when I still played 40k, a Tau battlesuit was statistically identical to a Space Marine Devastator with a jump pack. So to me they'll always be posers.
>>94391520>see human ships diving and emerging from another dimension like it's no big thing, they're so much faster than you are>lol we can learn how to do that too, dumb gue'la>learn how>do that>OH FUCK WHATTau are funny in their naïveté.
>>94385133Kind of a rude thing to say just because I want cute space goat girls to paint.
>>94392575You know it's fake rightLike it's from the Uplifting Primer
Tau are NOT cows.
>>94385133nice try, fed
>>94369843I don't know my browser is shit.
>>94362378>what is rebreathers and life support >calls others brain damaged For fucks sake.
>>94391413They did. The Tau ripped off Imperial Warp engines and saw that they were inefficient as fuck so they said let's make it 9000x better! Unfortunately there's a good fucking reason why warp drives don't breach the warp too deeply, the Tau's first experiments were extremely promising using drones and very small Tau crews the ships made excellent time, traversing distances in days what the Imperium takes months to do. So the Tau built up a fuckton for the Fourth Sphere Expansion fleet, loaded up huge vessels with non Tau auxiliaries (mostly humans) and turned them on all at once. This RIPPED open the warp on live Tau TV, where the Ethereals had to due a whole "experiencing technical difficulties" censorship deal while the Fourth Sphere fleet got to have the authentic "Event Horizon Experience".The human and other psyker active crew got chaos spaw-ACK or turned into daemon fleshlights while the Tau looked on in utter horror and eventually the daemons got tired of playing with the humans and started playing with the Tau.Suddenly a Tau goddess entity called Tau'Va appeared and btfo the daemons. Later when the rest of the Tau caught up to the Fourth Sphere Expansion fleet they were purging humans and non-Tau to a degree that a Black Templar would clap approvingly, so much so that they couldn't be deployed near non Tau.
>>94394743O'pai sure is.
>>94391511>>94391520damn tau, they develop so fast im not up to date with the lore, hehehe.
>>94391638before the astronomican, humanity used A.I. to navigate the warp. since A.I. is not outlawed for the tau, its possible they could go that way.
>>94395469>The human and other psyker active crew got chaos spaw-ACK or turned into daemon fleshlights while the Tau looked on in utter horror and eventually the daemons got tired of playing with the humans and started playing with the Tau.Doesn't sound very safe and not-dumb.
>>94396858Humans used Navigators or just went into the Warp and hoped for the best. How does AI help you navigate a sea of souls and dreams that you need a special psyker to even sense?
>>94397555DAoT had beacons. Literally, they were Astropathic beacons that used tech to send signals into the Warp along DAoT humanity's shipping lanes. There were a bunch of them, weaker than the Astronomican but they existed then and are still established now.The Warp also has stable landmarks in it as well as stable currents and routes (per Rogue Trader), and the BF Gothic rule books also describe publicly accessible warp gates left behind by old xenos empires that had stable passages through the Warp (non-Webway). Even now you can jump 4-5 light years at a time and that's with the Warp stirred up into total shit, back when it was calmed and predictable in DAoT era you could go much further.AI could access data for all of these things.
>>94397555Nags are really Psykers. They're their own thing. It's like their third eye is definitely connected to the warp, but they aren't. They are still mutants.
I really enjoy the Tau. I wouldn't say they're my favorite faction, but they're
>>94397611Where the fuck are you getting all this from?
How do the Tau travel FTL again? They bounce off the side of The Warp like a man bouncing off the side of a bouncy castle? Wouldn't you think some inquisitor would see that and think "We can do that but better AND faster" as a way to get around the Warp?
>>94397652Rogue Trader and Battlefleet Gothic books for some. Dark Heresy books for others, there are smaller beacons described there. Faith and Coin even has a beacon created by a bunch of Chaos reavers, they just fuel it with sacrifices and sorcery instead of all the Warp tech and spy Kees that the Astronomican or its many relay stations do.
>>94397690>3rd partyFigured as much.
>>94397677The skipping method the Tau use is extremely slow compared to how the Imperium does it. The Imperium could do what the Tau do extremely easily, they don't because it takes too much time to travel that way.
>>94397652>>94397693>A skilled Navigator can steer a ship anywhere through the warp, in theory at least. However, this task can be made much easier, and even allow vessels without a Navigator to make longer warp jumps, along certain shipping routes. These routes have a relay of Astropathic beacons along them, giving ships’ captains and Navigators guidance along a pre-set path. Some shipping routes are part of a system of warp gates which link areas of the Gothic Sector together through stabilised warp tunnels. During the Gothic War, as the warp storms made travel through any area of space around the region extremely difficult, the control of the shipping routes became vital. Important meeting points of the trade routes, such as Port Maw and the Lysades sub-sector, were the site of several major fleet battles, as whoever dominated these areas could move their ships around the sector much more quickly and with greater accuracy.>BF Gothic core book>manufactured, produced, published by Games Workshop
>>94397711And where's the part where DAoT humans had these across the galaxy acting as mini Astronomicans that AI could tap into?
>>94397700That's what I'm saying. The Imperium could expand on skipping or, at the very least, spread it throughout their VAST non-warp traveling merchant, cargo, and hauler fleets. Helping them move just that much faster.
>>94397730>Although the guidance beacons used during the Age of Technology have long since been lost, the Astronomican provides a steering reference, allowing Navigators to pinpoint locations.>8th edition Warhammer 40,000 core rulebook>also manufactured, produced, published by Games WorkshopRogue Trader and Dark Heresy also talk about Void Abacus and cogitator technology that allows safe Warp jumps long term without Navigators, but you already said you're seething over them so there's no point in quoting those. Leagues of Votann stuff also talks about their creation of tech-based beacons, but I think I've humoured you enough at this point.
>>94397743Non-warp ships are used for in-system travel anyway. If the cargo is in a hurry, they'll use a warp capable ship. Otherwise it can take the long way. Compare planes to ships today. If it needs to be somewhere fast, put it on a plane. If it's not important, it can take the long way around the world in a cargo ship.
Honestly I just like how efficient the Tau are. They're like the equivalent of booting up a game of Stellaris and deciding to play very Tall instead of super wide.
>>94397774
>>94397763>eternally buttblasted when he has to actually give sources for his claimsYou do realize even with the discovery of Warp travel in early DAoT it wasn't until the Navigator Gene that human exploration and expansion into the galaxy really took off, right? There's no mention of AI navigation anywhere in the GW lore. If they could use AI, why did they ever bother with Navigators even in the DAoT?
>>94394506If its published by GW or BL, it is canon. It just may not be 100% ture. Tau being bovine-based is likely true, the rest is exaggeration.
>>94361808Yeah, they're a lot of fun. Shame their lore is such a fucking mess, Phil Kelly's interpretation of Ethereals was fun, give them a bit of a dark edge, but it is so undercooked.
>>94391511What book is that from? Didn't know that there were any tau books other than the fire warrior one
>>94397805I want to say I read something AI warp jumps too but I can't for the life of me remember where. It might be fan lore that leaked into popular consciousness like the Leman Russ tractor theory.The only possible thing I can think of is the AI of the Spirit of Eternity in Death of Integrity which was capable of making warp jumps by itself, but there's also no indication that was standard operating procedure in the Age of Technology.
>>94397937Nothing really stops ships from doing Warp jumps without a Navigator, they're just doing it blind. After all, Warp travel is older than Navigators.
>>94397961Yes, but Spirit of Eternity had a crew and seemed to know how to navigate rather than doing it blind Until they were caught in a warpstorm and ended up in the future during the Horus Heresy
The one on the left is your canon female, cumbrains.
>>94397970Would.
>>94397970That's fanart anon
>>94397970Also fanart, isn’t it?
>>94397970>look, mom, I posted it againNext post the "female marines were totally a thing in RT, you guys" one.
>>94397979>>94397980Okay here you go.
>>94397991Even when they make them hideous, they give Tau women big fat dick sucking lips for some reason.
>>94397994Actually true, seemingly the only difference between the male and female in >>94397970 is the man has no lips like all Tau men and the woman has some serious suckers.
>>94397966>GW puts a fun little fluff bit in one of the rulebooks>some hack writes a whole fanfic about its even more awesome sister ship that's way cooler with blackjack and hookers
>>94397743but that could be seen as innovation and thats heresy anon! now face the wall.
>>94398001They recently included a blurb that Cawl ex Machina found the ship somehow and bested it in a game of wits.
>>94397991Damn Shadowsun used to look like THAT?
>>94361836Since tau have hoofs, wouldn‘t it be more realistically for them to have udders?
>>94397828War of Secrets. Mostly about Dark Angels Primaris, but it also features some Tau stuff. Including Kais, as in the one from Fire Warrior, being let out of a 300-year stasis to rampage.
>>94397805>If they could use AI, why did they ever bother with Navigators even in the DAoT?The DAoT was over 10k years. There's plenty of time for all sorts of stuff to exist in tandem. Or the story about human expansion happening only after the Navigator gene is just bullshit and a propaganda story.
>>94384209Humans are motivated by sex. Tau know that and it would be weird if they're NOT using some pin-ups propaganda for recruiting humans. That said, they would probably use sexy female humans instead of tau most of the time.
Are you enjoying the goon sesh, Imperials? Better re-harden your cocks. You'll love this next cycle.>exert of xenos propaganda caught by PDF vox-thiefs in the lower hives
>>94398009How can anyone defend BL writers. Literally how is this possible, what form of mental derangement spurs such behavior?
What would a Tau wife actually be like? Does BL provide any glimpse into the home life of the average Tau?
If Tau are space goats, does this mean they mostly appeal to imperial humans of muslim descent?
Do T'au favour fusion, antimatter, or another power source?
>>94398700Fusion is the most common with trademark 40k retarded science jargon energy being second.
I hate you faggots so much
>>94398364>everything GW has told you is lies and bullshit>this 3rd party RPG supplement is where the real shit is at
>>94399220Anon, the core rule books are what GW says, and the other anon posted quotes from them.
>>94399304None of the rulebook quotes talks about AI Warp navigation.
>>94397970>>94397991Yamero, not even I would hit that...I love it the most when xenos hit that sweet spot where they look uncanny but still erotic. Like that female Zerg in Starcraft 2 (not Kerrigan, the advisor)
>>94397537There's a reason why the Fourth Sphere dudes turned into the Tau KKK.
>>94397805>you need navigators to warp jumpNo the fuck you don't, the only thing you need is a geller field, a navigator just means you can ACCURATELY jump to a destination rather than jump into a sun or a light year away from your destination. The DAoT was on the verge of making navigators completely obsolete before warp storms and AI fuckery destroyed everything.
>>94397970>posts fanart You fucking retard.
>>94397991>vs model
>>94398654They don't have families, all children are taken after birth and raised in creches, except for the farsight enclaves where they even caste mix.
>>94400600Do Tau women get pregnant or is it like artificial womb shit?
Reminder that all the "Tau don't look like that" posts always post Fire caste or Earth caste Tau, and the Water caste may very well look like that since they're designed to be diplomats.
>>94400600They do have familys and the literal first Tau book is about Kais with daddy issues proving that being a terrible father makes your children incredible killing machines
This fanart is even funnier considering Tau and the Dark Angels have both allied to kill each others allies without seeming suspicious.
>>94361808Needs more auxiliaries
>>94402429Based. I fucking love the covenant. Wonder if there are any good stls for them I could use in an army...
>>94400579>literally said that Warp jump technology came before NavigatorsNext time read, motherfucker.>The DAoT was on the verge of making navigators completely obsoleteYet this has never been brought up in a single GW publication. Best anyone could do is steal the Webway for themselves from the Eldar.
>Tau are badass thread>Devolved to porn immediatelyvgh...
>>94361808*were badass
>>94398356>dark Angel's >primarisWell that's unfortunate, is it any good?
>>94362570I can't. Did he just let a xeno totally destroy the body of his commander, destroying above all the precious gene-seed that ensures the future of the Chapter?
>>94361808Like there concept, never liked their aesthetic.
>>94400810Why is nobody wanting to bone the air caste? Weird.
>>94404010Shortstack board.
>>94402429Actor Squids fucking when?! NO really I like all the minor races and I wish we had more of them.
>>94402429I remember when I needed some Tau auxs for Deathwatch I just grabbed some random race from Lexicanum (I think it was the Hrenni) and skinned them into jackals. My players absolutely hated them since they were dodge machines.
>>94404010Lowest representation in game.
>>94404198FW made plenty of Air Caste models. There was one Water Caste model in Inquisitor as well. Think Earth Caste is the only one with no official models of any kind.
>>94404215ayy lmao
>>94404198
>>94404276Taller
>>94404276Not skinny enough.
>>94367412The way i see we can work with the auxiliary's is to turn them in to the Mos Eisley cantina faction of space drifters, outlaws, and smugglers. A real scum of the galaxy vibe. Where there tau fire warriors take the place of the imperial storm-troopers patrolling the streets on the lookout for trouble and out of control law breaking. But the scumbag auxiliary ally's of the tau provide them such irreplaceable services and goods from across the rest of the galaxy. What with them stowing away on the ships of rouge traders, ork freebooters, eldar pirates, space hulks, and more. That they get all over the place and drag back with them all kinds of random crap they can trade with there tau ally's.Also they are always getting into endless fights and small wars all over the galaxy like the space hobos and petty thieves they are. So there is no reason for them not to be on the tabletop as a army in there own right. If just a small one that is trying to survive most shootouts rather than win them outright. So a bunch of cowardly skittish peddlers and robbers hiding behind trash heaps for cover and taking pot shots at everyone trying to kill them for the scams and thieving they have done.
>>94367637at first the tau thought titans were a bad idea. Then they got stomped by a bunch of them. So now they make there own titan sized mechs so as not to get stomped on anymore. War changes your thinking and priority's vary fast. It just is how it is my man.
>>94389397I mean he is not wrong tho.
>>94404304>the Mos Eisley cantina faction of space drifters, outlaws, and smugglers. A real scum of the galaxy vibe.Ironically this describes Commorragh to a T except for the Storm Troopers. Dark Eldar really should have an alien mercs detachment and not just a handful of Court of the Archon units.
>>94404010weird proportions maybealso theres like no interesting fluff about them ive always wanted a story about pirate tau who get split off from the greater good and heavily use auxiliaries as foot troops since they lost most of their fire warriors
>>94394743Then why do I want to touch them?
>>94404334I see the auxiliary units more like the kinds of guys to be sitting at a bar drinking there weird drink of choice. Just waiting quietly for the heat to die down after there last illegal job ether went bust or paid out big time. Waiting for the fire warrior patrol to pass them by so they can unload there stash of highly illegal goods onto there black market fence. Or sneaking aboard a rouge trades ship so they can steal stuff from imperial worlds to sell back to the tau for a big pay day.You know stuff like that. Unlike the dark eldar the auxiliary's are not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll until your balls explode and your dick gets cut off. They are about being the biggest losers of the galaxy. To the point you have to live under and work for the damn tau of all people just to survive. And the one real hope you have is that one day you can work smart and hard enough that you can make a real name and future for yourself.
>>94403599>be Space Marine>train 24/7 for centuries to destroy the enemies of mankind>stride the battlefield clad in priceless archaeotech relics >some teenage xeno with a mass produced gun comes and 360 noscopes you
>>94404433Do you want to do it now?
>>94404464Such is the threat of being outdated and stubborn about it. Enjoy your plasma rounds and mass driver shells to the face Mr, space moron. I how you enjoy sleeping forever in a dreadnought sarcophagus loser.
>>94404488YES!
>>94404215I don't get why they need similar armor as their firewarrior counterparts. Even their captains seemed to resort to stuff like fireblade capes. I picture with something closer to Cerberus uniforms from Mass Effect.
>>94404535Why wouldn't they have clothing/body armour similar to other members of the military? They're not civilians. The ones on the right are ground crew while the rest are pilots. Think the ones on foot were from back when FW rules allowed pilots to eject.
>>94404535it's probably because GW's entire design schtick boils down to>this army has this one theme and EVERY unit must have itand I bet it's entirely the fans' fault because otherwise they wouldn't get the Pavlovian dopamine hit from recognizing the thing
>>94404555Because pilots and fleet crewmen don't need body amor?
>>94404555>air force (service) uniforms should look almost indistinguishable from the army or the navyretard alert
>>94404535Probably because GW didn't care enough to put more thought into it. Tau units like that are an after thought compared to the human factions which rake in the real money.
>>94404562Flak jackets were worn by aircrew specifically to protect against flak from enemy AA.>>94404565Meanwhile, in real life...
>>94404535It's clearly different though?
>g-suit for managing g forces>harness with a plug on the back for locking into a pilot's seat>all in the very homogenous, unified tau style>retards: "why are they wearing this?"Is this why GW switched over to nothing but battlesuits, or just a consequence of it. I should check the IA3 and the air war book to see if they talk about the air caste uniform at all.
>>94404775Do fleet admirals need g-suits?
>>94361808I've always wondered—are the finger-like shapes at the end of the mech's arms actual folded hands, or are they merely evocative of them and not actually functional? Can the bigger suits extend the wrists and grab stuff?
>>94404825Good question. Do Tau ships have some kind of G-inhibitor? Do they perform the kind of G-manoeuvres that would justify filling the whole ship with some kind of breathing fluid to fight against deadly inertial forces?
>>94404825If shit goes wrong the whole crew will need space suits not to get fucked by hard vacuum. So there normal uniform may be a g-suit designed to be as none interfering with there normal duty's as possible. While there space suit can be quickly put on over there g-suit so as to protect them from the hard vac of space as well as any other expected hardship the crew can be expected to face if things go wrong on the ship. Like every sailor on a real life ship must have a life vest and other such things just incase right? That is just a normal safety standard right?
>>94404893Would a vacuum suit really help that much? Eventually, you'll run out of oxygen anyway unless you are immediately rescued. Escape pods and lifeboats seem more sensible for long term survival. I guess you could use your short-term vacuum suit to get into one while whole sections of the ship have been depressurized.
>>94404215Its a fucking shame we dont get any minis of the other castes outside of extinct kits and dead sidegames. GW should just make some Inquisition style Kill Team for Tau where we get those and some lesser known auxilliarys.
Yeah they are 'bas ass' haha....
>>94405010
>>94405017How does anybody find this attractive?>inb4 IrishNo.
>>94405021>not IrishJust gay then?
>>94405029If her arse is bigger than my chest then she is fat.>b-b-but t-thicNo. She is fat. FAT. FAT.
>>94403570Perfectly mediocre. Kais massacring a fortress-monastery and causing space marine fans immense butthurt at the time was the best part.
>>94404846I've always thought of them as very primitive folder fingers, yeah. Just in case there's an occasion they need to push a button or otherwise move small objects around without leaving the suit.
>>94404958Everything kind of depends on exact numbers and technologies available, but conventionally speaking space escape pods aren't really viable.If your spaceship is fucked, chances you can survive in a tiny, lightly stocked, barely mobile version of it long enough to reach safety are basically non-existent. In battle situations, the enemy can snipe escape pods easily, so you pretty much have to surrender and hope they honor it and not fire upon you.Basically, even in a lifeboat you're banking on being immediately rescued. You might as well use the more versatile vacuum suits. In a vacuum suit you at least can conceivably do other things than just wait to be saved.
>>94405178Ah so it is just Kais being Kais then. Dis he get a new and more powerful suit at-least. Or is he still trying to be a crazy one man army shadow sun rip off still?You got to watch out for those dawn of war veteran commanders. They do not play by the settings normal rules for zenos and chaos. They work on space marine rules. What with them all having fully realized character growth, personality's, easily identifiable identity, and best of all heroic presence. Which all comes together to make a batch of badasses that can kick the shit out of anyone in the setting. Even the space marines.
>>94405214He was using a Ghostkeel so even if he wasn't a Main Character, ripping through marines in confined quarters makes sense. Plus he's spent centuries in semi-stasis being endlessly trained in battlefield simulations so he's both a battle savant and kinda nutty. There's a neat bit where a hole is shot in his suit so he points his pistol out of the hole and starts blasting.
I have always liked the XV-25 stealthsuit design. Gives me Zentraedi vibes.
>>94405294Yeah. Sigh yeah that sounds like Kais alright. When will space marines learn to stop picking fights with him. Its not health for you you know.
>>94404962I always toyed with the idea of Earth Caste combat engineers with all sorts of engineering vehicles and demolition gear. For Kill Team, I would imagine Air Caste to serve more as an objective to transport out of the warzone. Captured by the enemy or something. Water Caste could act as a buff to nearby units. Maybe even demoralize the enemy with propaganda.
>>94361808>Tau are badass But they're not supposed to. They're supposed to be wide-eyed naïve optimist newcomers who don't realise how fucked up the galaxy is.
>>94405402I figure Water Caste deal with logistic and pen pusher stuff, organising supplies etc.
>>94405536(Yet.)
>>94405541They're also diplomats.
What's the origin of the T'au auxilliary fandex on 1d4chan/1d6chan? I always liked it. Wondering what the creator(s) imagined for the Morallians and some of the other units/races since there's no images
>>94404850Them filling it with some kind of fluid would be great defense against boarding enemies like space marines and that's why it definitely won't happen, it would make too much sense.
This is reminding me of when I was talking about how I thought tau were cool and a guy jumped in to start fantasizing about tau being raped to death by emperor's children or dark eldar. Like it wasn't just a joke, he did it for like several paragraphs. I pointed out he sounded like the neo nazi store owner in Falling Down, who kept fantasizing about how the protagonist would go to jail and be raped by 'big nigger dicks'. He got very mad
Tau are the only faction to have killed a space marine chapter master without using Chaos bullshit.
>>94406675And then everybody clapped.
>>94406718>no 40k fan has ever said something gay and retarded
Tau are gay because they were originally Lizardmen in Space and they ruined it to make weebs. Like I enjoy the suits and all of Tau, but I find Tau as a race to be annoying.
>>94406714Why does she have a nose
>>94409768Shadowsun has a nose.
>>94409861Don't some of the female - and only female - Fire Warrior and pathfinder heads have, too?
Everytime i go into my LCS for comics I'm tempted to get into warhammer everytime i see pic rel. I don't know much about the series or faction but their aesthetics remind me a lot of 70's sci-fi art and old heavy metal magazine alien designs
>>94361808They're just battletech but gay and blue.
>>94396858That was also when the warp was a lot more calm though. >>94397555No, they even still exist and don't require AI. https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Void_AbacusThey're just worse than Navigators, and suppressed by the navigator houses.
>>94410050>t. 3rd party RPG
>>94410063What's the farthest the T'au have ever traveled? Like not in one jump, I mean period. Are there any canon examples of T'au explicitly outside of Ultima Segmentum?
>>94410340Yeah, the Wormhole Nexus has allowed them to set up colonies in the other side of the galaxy.
>>94410344How about before that? I hate tranny nu-lore
>>94410347I like it. It gives another FTL option for T'au expansion that it is more sci-fi than usual. It's a thousand times more realistic than the Warp.
>>94410347A portal wich let them colonize the literal other side of the galaxy in the Koronus Expanse
>>94410344
>>94410374>Warp hole is more realistic than the Warp
>>94410392I don't think there is any modern theory that describes a parallels dimension populated by soul-eating interdimensional demons.
>>94410021They're just battletech but blue.
>>94400590>select all the squares with commander shadowsun
>>94410374I like it too, but it's post Great Rift. I hate most of the new trannylore and when I DM for friends I always set shit back in 999.M41 or earlier
>>94410405Correct, Christianity is not a theory, it is Truth. Christ is king.
>>94410405I don't think there is any modern theory that describes an FTL hole created by a god of Greater Good saving a bunch of blue aliens from the parallels dimension populated by soul-eating interdimensional demons once they fired their engines for surfing the parallels dimension populated by soul-eating interdimensional demons.
>>94410456kek
>>94361808No, they aren't.
>>94410532Yes, the are.
>>94405536Just like any other faction in any form of Warhammer, they are supposed to be played. People want to play factions that can be badass. Ergo, they can be badass.The "Tau are naïve" perspective isn't their fundamental nature, it's something that GW eventually adopted because some people disliked the concept of Tau. And whether you agree with them or not, you don't "improve" a playable faction by making them more lame. ... Although, if written well enough, it's completely possible for them to have naïvety as a flaw AND be badass at the same time. For instance, you could have the Tau be unaware of what's waiting for them if you still give them and their ideals a chance to endure in spite of that
Wow, a non coomer tau thread for a cha-it's just a coomer tau thread again...
>>94411532Retard.The other factions exist solely so that Marines players have people to fight. They don't exist to be badass.
>>94411564Janny's little spergout is putting a damper on things.
>>94411612>The other factions exist solely so that Marines players have people to fight.But Marine players wouldn't have any other faction to play against if said factions weren't attractive to other players.
Btw to all Imperium defenders Tau are the only faction wich offer videogames for everyone to play.
>>94411612Lies, Marines fighting other Marines is so awesome they made an entire game about it called Horus Heresy.
>>94412237And that is why Primarchs are the main characters of 40k.
>>94412254>>94412237nobody cares about lorefags
>Why does your penis look so weird Gue'vesa?
>>94413233do tau perform genital mutilation as part of their insane religion?
>>94413384NoTheir just a different species and didn't expect the differences
>>94413384I mean they are commies.
I don't know the canon but I've picked up drawing Tau chicks, though I'm probably going back to greys for a few reasons. Can you actually stick a finger into the Y thing or is it skin deep? I already draw it with a clit-like stub at each end and the more I draw it, the more it looks like something you wanna stick a finger in.
What would be the ideal drone to drop behind enemy lines? What would be the ideal drone to deploy on an enemy's airfield once you have bombard it, so they have to remove the drones first to use it again?
>>94414043we will never RTS again
>>94413657The facial slit is a bioengineered olfactory orifice that compliments the grafted Q'oorl pheromone gland the Aeldari implanted in the Ethereals for control over the other castes. So it would be like putting your finger in a nose, which, appropriately, is (nose hooking) a fairly accepted Japanese fetish act. So you're all good bro bro.
>>94406714Leviathan killed a few on Baal.
>>94414195Small aside: The T'au nose is located INSIDE of the mouth and it's unlikely that the "facial slit" has any considerable depth or interconnectivity to the primary facial/oral cavity as it's simply a feature to support the mucous membrane that is receptive to the species' bioengineered pheromone receptors.
>>94414195The extra bit Ethereals have in their skull fuck hole is (allegedly) engineered. The slit is just their normal nose hole. It's on the pre-historic Tau.
>>94414245The entirety of the T'au race is bioengineered. Every "caste" is bioengineered such that no one individual caste could split off and gain dominance, and that they are only a "threat" when in cohesion, under (Aeldari backdoored) Ethereal control. T'au are an Aeldari bioweapon that are designed to counter all the shortcomings of the Old Ones Ork bioweapon, gleaned from the Aeldari's own experience with their and their fellow bioweapon's faults.There are no "prehistoric Tau". The Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator Fleet """"""theory"""""" of divergent evolution is a red herring.The T'au are the Aeldari's "uncorruptable swarm" (literal bug people) that the Aeldari use as a vector of dispersing their "Greater Good" propaganda (as a means of "calming" the sea of souls and manifesting a "Greater Good God" that they can sacrifice in an attempt to retrieve the final Crone Sword/Kill Slaaneesh).
>>94362030Back when they were doing interviews, a cute girl who worked at GW said she played Eldar (not Sugden, I think it was the artist who drew the famous SoB pointing at gun at you).
>>94414043I wish 40k games weren't all imperialslop. A tau battlesuit game akin to armoured core would be amazing. Same for an eldar movement shooter
>>94414313>tau are bretonians That's bullshit but I believe it.
>>94414313>>94414195>Eldar for some reason create Tau>Tau now go around killing humanity who are the only chance the Eldar have of surviving>regularly fight Bieltan on maidenworlds the Eldar consider their own despite obviously belong to the Greater Good>go around blowing up Necrons who are one of the most effective forces the Galaxy has against the Tyranids Guys I think the Eldar are kinda retarded
>>94414313>There are no "prehistoric Tau".So what are these?
>>94414240>The T'au nose is located INSIDE of the mouthDoes that imply the Tau are mouth breathers?
>>94414613>the Eldar are kinda retardedThat's their whole deal.
>>94414613>Tau now go around killing humanity who are the only chance the Eldar have of survivingEh, the Tau don't really 'kill' humanity, more like upgrade their gear.
>>94414240So it's going to be like sticking your finger in someone's ear, except it's a nose.
>>94414043I want a devilfish support variant that serve has either a medivac with medical drones or a mobile workshop with drone mechanics.
>>94404958It stops a single hole from causing the crew to suffocate long enough to either patch the hole, evacuate the section or wait to get rescued.There is a reason pressure suits are worn by fighter pilots and astronauts.It should be common practice for crew to be wearing pressure suits when in a combat zone.
The hammerhead, devilfish, and skyray are kino. Especially when its Kopinski drawing them.
>>94415425True as fuck. God, Tau are awesome. They really suffer from the shitty nature of most of GW's newer artists
>>94414313Craftworld Aeldari either don't have the capability of doing something like this or retain it but refuse to do so for some gay moral reason, otherwise they'd do it to themselves to increase their chances of survival.My own, gay headcanon """theory""" (in that I'd like it to be the case but it probably wouldn't ever happen), is that the Tau were created by a hidden enclave of DaoT humanity that is located outside of the galaxy but manages to affect certain things throughout it via subterfuge and stealth.DaoT humans are absolutely capable and willing of genesplicing on a mass scale evidenced by the Votann and a leftover enclave of them would see both Chaos and the Imperium as massive issues that need to be destroyed over time.The Tau seem almost purpose built to accomplish both given enough time. They're resistant to chaos and are preternaturally gifted at pulling human worlds off the Imperium's control.Also, I just want a DaoT human faction(not votann) that represent Humans at their most capable but are limited to such few worlds and numbers that they can't stand against any other faction outright.Imperium needs a villain that isn't alien, isn't chaos, yet also isn't just "better" than them. A hyper pragmatic faction of DaoT humans that have their own flavor of dystopian grim durpness would be my preference.
>>94361808If you remove the sylable 'bad' then that sentence becomes correct.
How deep is the forehead hole
My pet peeve is gue'vesa conversions that are just imperial guard stuff with tau guns bolted on. This shit would be so inefficient
>>94415470>CraftworldI just thought of something interesting. The Dark Eldar have more than enough technology and motive to prop up the Tau empire. >Pheromone control allowing easy control of slaves. >Acts as another drain on Imperial military/other rivals, leaving more of the backlines free to pillage.>able to fill in territory the Imperium loses, rather than harder to torment Necrons or Orcs. >Xenophilia making them easy to trick and manipulate.The best part is that the Tau ethereal could just be a pet project of a long dead Haemonculus. The Dark Eldar manipulated the Tau army such that they could safely make off with an entire planet's population.
>>94414240Female T'au have noses.
>>94416796It always made more sense to me that the Tau were a pet project of the Deceiver. It is baffling they didn't go with that. The Oldcrons had set up the C'tan as the new big bads alongside Chaos and the Deceiver had his hands in a lot of pies, including creating pariahs in Humans.The Tau are nearly pariahs, have very advanced technology, and came out around the same time as the Oldcron 'dex. It's the most obvious thing.
>>94417234>>94417234It could be both. Have the Deceiver play a role in the Eldar pet project.
>>94404198>thin waist>prominent iliac crest>wide hips>DFCby the Emperor, the things I'd do to her are too heretic to type
>>94416540Well, that camo is working, because it took me way too long to notice the railgun.
>>94405995I always got the feeling it was just one of those random projects old 4 chan got up to all the time back in the day. Now adays stuff like that and 8-bit dystopia do not happen any more. Ether the creativity of this site has run out. Or now adays everyone is to chicken shit to post any of there own ideas for fear of it getting torn apart by the fat assess on this site now.I can not even remember the last time something new and fun came out of this board. And its not like i have any creativity to give myself even if i had the balls to try. So i guess we all ran out of both creativity and balls at the same time. Sucks to be us i guess.
>>94418680Shame. I really dig a lot of it. Love the Dogfish stuff and most of the Morallian fluff.
>>94361844I like to imagine that some Imperial researcher was sent to study the Tau, got sent to the wrong world and unironically thought some space-cows were the Tau.
>>94418680why would anyone share anything that isn't extremely low effort shitposting here? this place is just an AI training ground and 90% of the catalog on any board comes from one autistic spammer/bot just bumping threads forever. the bumpspam pis not a /tg/ problem, it happens all over the sitezoomers are functionally not human and I doubt they are capable of anything but slurping slop as long as it's free
>>94416803I think only Shadowsun has a nose
>>94416540With some training and maybe some adjustments for human anatomy, I dont see why humans couldnt just use a regular hammerhead.
>>94420327Exactly. Using imperial tech converted would be what tau-funded insurgencies do. The tau's auxiliaries would just use tau tech, because, well, the tau make it, and it's cheap, and it fits into their doctrine
>>94397970I really like this design. In basically every sci fi humanoid race the females are made to look attractive to humans for no lore reason and it's getting boring. Aliens looking this uncanny makes them so much more believable and actually alien
>>94405536>picmetal as FUCK yo
>>94364495people get annoyed when it's one autist with trash taste who posts badly drawn shortstack goblins with zero quality standards
Tau are too obviously evil for me
>>94420432Kroot don't use T'au tech. Neither do Vespids. Not exclusively, anyway. The Highlocks don't use T'au tech, if I recall.It definitely seems the T'au let their auxiliaries maintain their martial traditions. Which, you know, kind of makes sense. Why bother training a Kroot or Gue'vesa to fight like a T'au when you, you know, can just use a T'au for that?
>>94397611>>94397642Human ships have always used multiple types of psykers to go through the Warp, if nothing else they need the psykers for the gellar fields to work. Navigators showed up in M22, but humanity was using psykers to power their gellar fields for thousands of years before then.
>>94397774I can't get into Stellaris after I realized how fucked the labor economy is. The game basically penalizes you for not being as globohomo as humanly possible because of how valuable foreign labor is and how seamlessly and easily they integrate into your empire. You have to go out of your way (and play very inefficiently) to play space racists.
