Warhammer 40K Fluff Question (Orks)

[Thunderclap]

Listen, you dirty space-commie collaborators, you do remember that the Tau have no souls, right? Like, this is objective fact. Straight-up stated in fluff. They are genuinely soulless monsters... and, more importantly, filthy, filthy communists.

Also remember that once the Emperor "acended" (ie got his ass kicked so hard he had to spend 10,000 years on the toilet) he wasn't around to give orders like "change the dating system".

Uh-uh. And what happened to Horus in that fight? Oh, that's right. His head exploded.

EMPEROR: 1
HORUS: 0.9*

The Emperor owned that encounter.




*I feel that's a fair scoring for putting your opponent in a coma.

 

[Ennui]

Tau don't have souls cause the Ethereals handle having souls for them

However I pretty much side with the Imperium in all aspects because let's face it, the Imperium of Man is ****ing badass.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I have a squad of Gue'vesa I use sometimes.

But mostly I just field 12 battlesuits.

Spoiler

hammerheads are for causals

 

[ríomhaire]

Damn. You guys are making me want to take up Warhammer, but I don't have nearly enough patience, time or money.

 

[Bob_Marley]

Get DoW, be happy that you didn't spend years of your life and far to many monies buying 28mm figures.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I have a 2500-3000 point Tau army.

I'm content with my purchases.

 

[knut]

Assembling, converting, painting, modifying, building terrain, assembling environments and getting together with friends to battle > DoW.

Not that I dislike DoW (eh, it's okay), but it doesn't even compare in my opinion. I used to adore 40k and if I had the money or the space, I'd still collect.

 

[Bob_Marley]

true, but the problem is it never leaves you. I havent played since the release of 5th edition, but I still keep up with the hobby, read the fiction around it and have my old armies making the place look untidy.

Without doubt its great fun but I'd never reccomend it to someone. Its like crack in plastic and white metal form.

 

[Ennui]

It is like crack. I started when I was about 10, maybe a little younger, and have more or less constantly had tons of Warhammer shit lying around since then. For me, actually playing tabletop is fun but not the important part - I just love painting, assembling, and customizing models. I only have a handful of friends who play 40k, and I love our all-night painting sessions.

Ace, post your army list? I'm not up to date on rules or the Tau codex but I still have a decent idea of what's what. I'm gonna guess there are a handful of Broadsides in there... and Crisises... maybe Stealth suits? Is your main army just the battlesuits, no pathfinders or krootox or anything?

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I think my favourite thing was creating landscapes. I had a few Space Marine squads, but I gave them an undercoat of black and some gold trim and that's it. They were just a catalyst. I did make some pretty wonderful half destroyed buildings though

 

[knut]

Environments were always my favourite part, too. I had (have: I use it for other stuff now) a board I would spend hours building stuff up on only to knock it down happily a day later to build up another idea. I'd savalge anything and everything, from rocks, grass and plants outside to found objects from around the way such as junk and scrap metal then put aside old toys I no longer played with like lego painted in detail or old electric train sets.

Seriously considering going back at it over the summer before I head out to uni. Every now and again I'd get all my Cadian armoured corp. out just to admire the machinary. I had a ****ing badass armoured unit. My entire battleplan was just to overwhelm the enemy with armour and then deploy wave after wave of infantry into the heart of the battle from behind the tanks.

I collected Tau for a while but then I always started out buying armies when they first came out, but as a fan of marines from Halo, Starship Troopers, etc, the Tau and IG always appealed most to me. I broke all my models down for conversion parts, though, and as a result I have IG dropships ready for when I eventually get enough money to buy Elysian drop troops from Forge World. I'll get 'em one day, the expensive sons of bitches.

 

[Acepilotf14]

It is like crack. I started when I was about 10, maybe a little younger, and have more or less constantly had tons of Warhammer shit lying around since then. For me, actually playing tabletop is fun but not the important part - I just love painting, assembling, and customizing models. I only have a handful of friends who play 40k, and I love our all-night painting sessions.

Ace, post your army list? I'm not up to date on rules or the Tau codex but I still have a decent idea of what's what. I'm gonna guess there are a handful of Broadsides in there... and Crisises... maybe Stealth suits? Is your main army just the battlesuits, no pathfinders or krootox or anything?

It really depends on if I play in an Apocalypse game or not. I play at Games Workshop stores, since none of my friends have the patience or money(all vidya gaemerz).

I've also got two Hammerheads, but I seem to have misplaced them. ;_;

If I play in an apocalypse game, I just use the rapid deployment battle formation (9+ battlesuits plus one stealth team) and kill stuff. My commander took two shells from a baneblade, and survived.

Also, true story, I converted my commander from the Shadowsun model. I added hair. Yet another female commander.

Typically, it goes like this, not posting any specific points since I hand-write my army lists, and apparently cannot upload stuff I've done in EoTI. This one is rather battlesuit-lite.
2000 pointer
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Shas'O 388
-Bodyguard
-Cyclic Ion Blaster
-Plasma Rifle
-Other shit

Three fire warrior teams, all with Pulse rifles, except one team which has 6 of each.
157x3

Kroot team. Canon Fodder. 131

Stealth Team. Kills vehicles from behind enemy lines. 152

Battlesuit team. Mainly anti-infantry/anti-light armor. Missile pods and fusion blasters.
213

Sniper Drone team. Points filler, also good at harassing terminator(MY HATED ENEMY WHO ALWAYS ASSAULT AND ONE HIT MY FIRE WARRIORS) or assault squads.
80

Broadside team(Destroys land raiders in first turn.) Only two of them, because 3 just makes for a 'OMGKILLME' team.
220

Pathfinder Team for marking terminators or commanders, also for hunter seeker delivery from their Devilfish.
241

and a Vespid team for either supporting the kroot/fire warriors or capturing points depending on mission.
102


Also, a big note for any Tau players.

FIRE WARRIORS ARE NOT LINE INFANTRY
THEY ARE MOBILE INFANTRY.
MAKE THEM RUN AWAY, THEY'RE GOOD AT THAT.
IT'S IN THEIR CODEX, THERE IS HONOUR IN RETREATING IF YOU COME BACK TO WIN.