Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Peachcurl]

genocide glorious Dakka Dakka.

Tau = Space commies.

Dude.

Dakka is an Orc term.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Remember that time when Orks outshot the fucking Tau? Good times.

 

[Cryomancer]

Dakka is an Orc name.

Orcs are low IQ guys which reproduces like rabbits and turn every planet with a bit of them into shitholes. They and Tau(Space Commies) should be killed in sight and any planet discovered with a few of them needs to be turned into space dust ASAP.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Yeah, but they funny spesse football hooligans tho.

 

[Peachcurl]

Dakka is an Orc name.

Orcs are low IQ guys which reproduces like rabbits and turn every planet with a bit of them into shitholes. They and Tau(Space Commies) should be killed in sight and any planet discovered with a few of them needs to be turned into space dust ASAP.

They do not reproduce like rabbits. They reproduce like mold. Big difference.

 

[Reinhardt]

also even their casters are way cooler than some chaos dresswearer trannies.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

It amusing that Cyromancer is just so gung ho on real world politik on a parody setting.

Orks are basically natural disaster (like Nids) but funny. Supposedly based on footbal hooligan. Parody faction in parody setting.

 

[Cryomancer]

also even their casters are way cooler than some chaos dresswearer trannies.

In WH fantasy :
And honestly, Bright order is the most boring order in fantasy

In WH40k

It amusing that Cyromancer is just so gung ho on real world politik on a parody setting.

Parody or not, all Orcs and Tau must hang

 

[Reinhardt]

opinion of dresswearer is irrelevant.

 

[Camel]

Tau Empire is a fascist state with rigid castes ruled by the Ethereals with an iron fist where interbreeding is forbidden.
The Codex right-wingers: Tau are goddamn commies.

 

[Parsimonious cook]

fuck tau

Yes. They sure love them some Big Human Cock.

 

[Fedora Master]

Tau = space commies

More important than a orc genocide is an tau genocide.

My wishlist for this game :

1. Cool psyker gameplay
2. Tau genocide
3. Orc genocide
4. Cool chaos path

Shut the fuck up about magic

 

[Cryomancer]

dresswearer

As I've said to you. Imagine going to valhalla and saying "I got transformed into dust", everyone would accept. Now, "I got transformed into dust by a nerd wearing dress". Then everyone will mock you forever and ever, this is why SOME casters wear dress. The wizard of Grey Order doesn't need to worry about it as they are masters of illusion.

Tau are goddamn commies.

They are slaves to the ""great leaders"", have no individuality, no propriety, no meritocracy and subvert other societies into adopting their """greater good""""

Yes. They sure love them some Big Human Cock.

OK, This Tau can be enslaved. The rest must hang.

 

[Ryzer]

Is this the thread for unsociable nerds? It's nerdy cringe upon cringe upon cringe.

 

[Fedora Master]

Is this the thread for unsociable nerds? It's nerdy cringe upon cringe upon cringe.

No it's just a normal Codex thread

 

[mediocrepoet]

Is this the thread for unsociable nerds? It's nerdy cringe upon cringe upon cringe.

No it's just a normal Codex thread

That's what he said, Fedora.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Tau are goddamn commies.

They are slaves to the ""great leaders"", have no individuality, no propriety, no meritocracy and subvert other societies into adopting their """greater good""""

That's just totalitarianism though. Greater Good isn't even a commie line, it's Utilitarianism in origin and is often abused by tyrants.
Genestealer Cults are closer to commies, really.
They seek to create a stateless society (because the state will be destroyed when the Hive Fleet arrives) and the leaders of the Cult target and agitate the disenfranchised masses.

 

[Reinhardt]

Is this the thread for unsociable nerds? It's nerdy cringe upon cringe upon cringe.

no, that would be russo-ukrainian war thread... oh, pretty much same people.

 

[Tyranicon]

I don't know why Games Workshop even made the Tau to be honest. Was it some market research group that told them they should cash in on anime and weebs?

If so, they should've made the Tau an all-female race a la the Asari, instead of just giving them firing lines. Big booty mecha bitches will round out the space nun, space elf, space demon fodder for rule 34ers.

They also made them apparently annoying to play against and OP as hell for a while, so both lore nerds and game nerds hate them.

Confounding.

At least they were fun in the old Dawn of War games. Pew pew.

 

[lightbane]

don't know why Games Workshop even made the Tau to be honest. Was it some market research group that told them they should cash in on anime and weebs?

Supposedly this. They were meant to lure the Gundam crowd. Of course they failed and got an army only weaboos play. Worse, unlike regular mecha anime, they DO NOT have many melee weapons and instead have the nerve of using firing lines.

Even worse, GW sacrificed the Squats to shove in the Tau, but at least we have them back, to some degree.

 

[Fedora Master]

GW doesn't do market research. They just assume something is the case and act on it.

 

[Tyranicon]

GW doesn't do market research. They just assume something is the case on act on it.

I still don't know which cretin in GW thought that space dwarfs weren't cool enough or whatever.

 

[Fedora Master]

Camel
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Games_Workshop#Blind_Deaf-mutes

In their 2015 Financial Report, they stated:

"The Group does not undertake research activities."
In the same report, the words "market" and "research" never referred to the same subject. They claim their main audience is teenagers, although they also state that the hobbyist crowd is their main fanbase. Furthermore, they make assumptions about their fanbase despite admitting that they do not research about them.

So what can be learned? Games Workshop has absolutely no long-term plan other than to make more expensive models, and cater to those who can drop thousands in a single impulse buy. Rather than expanding and reaching out to new customers, they are intentionally becoming a niche market for an elite crowd. In other words? "Fuck you, you smelly hatless Irishman."

 

[EvilWolf]

Strawman will strawman.

Literally just scroll up, from your post, for an example of their Mary Sue status. Melting a space marine, let alone a Chaos space marine, with a single burst of ion fire isn't Mary Sue status? Okay.

 

[Trithne]

Strawman will strawman.

Literally just scroll up, from your post, for an example of their Mary Sue status. Melting a space marine, let alone a Chaos space marine, with a single burst of ion fire isn't Mary Sue status? Okay.

Space Marines are just bigger tougher faster humans in Power Armour. As tough as an Ork, as quick as an Eldar. They're not god-warriors. They die just fine. It's the combination of strong, tough, fast, skilled, and armoured that make them the best, rather than having one or two like Orks/Eldar.

Also, if you take the current version of the tabletop rules:

A Tau Fire Warrior (BS 4+) is armed with a Pulse Rifle (36" S5 AP-1 RF1) and shoots at a Space Marine (T4 W2 Sv3+).

The Fire Warrior has a 50% chance to even hit the target to begin with. Then comparing S5 vs T4, they need a 3+ to wound them (66%). Assuming they wound, the Marine now gets a 3+ Armour Save, which would be modified to 4+ by the Pulse Rifle's AP, but Marine Armour ignores the first point of AP so they still get the 3+ (33% chance of the wound sticking). Now assuming that fails, you've dealt 1 Wound to the Space Marine. He has 2. Do it again.

0.5 * 0.66 * 0.33 = 0.1% chance for a given Fire Warrior to wound a Space Marine with their rifle once.

So no, Tau are mechanically fine. On the other hand, GW writers have spent the last 10 years believing the shit they write about Marines and crawling up their asses. Let's not even start on Primaris Marines, the Suest of Sues.