Anyone has a better relationship with the Orks than the Eldars. If you see an Eldar, you can never assume how they feel about you (beside contempt), and what they plane for you. While if you see an Ork, you know you will very soon be his fight-pal
I mean fomr a certain point of view you can say the same thing about Oblatai-80....i mean sure its an engram ai of a fallen pilot rather than a soul but close enough
I just love the mental image of an Ethereal and a Farsheer arguing in a meeting room and slowly falling to silence as they realize that they both have been bamboozled
Then suddenly from the shadows beneath the table in the meeting room: "It was meeeee, KLAX, all along! Nya nya nya nyaaaaa!" *disappears in a puff of smoke*
After waging wars for so long with humanity Eldar do, even if they dont admit it, semlbence of respect. Beside, 40k humanity may be assholes towards others, but at least they are honest about it
@@macshadow1150 it kinda is funny to know that both races look the most similar in looks but similar in attitude as well and both are great at the same thing, being assholes
@@backpackpepelon3867they are the same things in different stages of their own development. The imperium walk a path tread once by the eldari, and the eldari know as such, yet both refuse to admit how similar they are, and so shall both fall, showing the folly of their respective empires
@@Enrichvid you’d think after 60 million years AND witnessing the fall of their civilization the Eldari would humble themselves at least a little right.. right
Dying race, limited resources to deploy. They withstood their genocide *twice* against the Imperium, which the only reason they won is because GeeDub wants to sell models, because the Imperium would have pulled back and deployed Exterminatus weaponry to prove a point.
@@ColonelSpiritI mean, it seems like (at least what GW tries to do) is that all of the large factions, other than nids, (Imperium, T'au, Eldar, Drukari, Orks, and Skeletor Kings), are relatively equal in total strength. Kinda like there are far less Necrons than Imperium troops, but, all else equal, they would exhaust each other in a total war.
“Oh wait, you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder!” - Eldar ambassador who was alive when the Tau were still banging rocks together when the Tau ambassador offers them to join the Greater Good
- Eldar ambassador who is part of a Race that fucked themselves over by creating a Chaos God, ensuring that their souls suffer for eternity. Who are also on a steady decline towards extinction and are in no real position to decline any potential Alliance.
@@PikachuLittle That is only because they are too young to have had any sort of impact at all. They also have literally nothing to offer the Eldar in an alliance. Especially not when their offer of an alliance was just a clear ploy to obtain more advanced technology. A ploy that the Eldar of course saw right through.
T'au: Ok, sooo... We both may have made mistakes, and we should deal with this diplomatically and as civilised species. But, at the same time, we do not trust you Eldars since the last time we trusted you. You guys turn our people into abomination." Eldar: First of, that's the freaking Drukari who made your people into fleshy looking abomination! Secondly, YOU DESTROYED OUR WORLD YOU FISH VERGINAS! T'au: Well, at least it is a different insult than what the Imperium of man have called us the entire time. But hey, we are sorry, and we should be grateful it isn't the Imperium this time, huh? Necron: Greetings. T'au and Eldar: _Screams._
The young naivitee of the Tau may be what earns them plenty of ridicule, but it's also a terrifying asset: where most factions are stagnant or on the decline, they are still advancing, and QUICKLY. Every time you fight them they learn more about your technology. Every moment you leave them alone they grow stronger.
Kinda sorta. The rate of their advancement is rapidly slowing as they have to devote more and more resources away from science/technology development and towards industry, expansion and warfare in order to not get swallowed up by the many threats surrounding them. Poor bastards have Tyrannids coming at them from the intergalactic void, an Ork empire WAAAGH!!!-ing toward them from the opposite side, and the Five Hundred Realms of Ultramar and a Necron Dynasty to the left and right. The most friendly space they have access to is the Damocles Gulf region, which is contested by the Imperium, so they can't expand through there too fast or else the Imperium might send an actual crusade force, which would doom their species.
And they're completely invested in making alliances instead of conquering, meaning they've gotten other xenos to help them like the tiny crab aliens that work on the small size tech.
And yet they are still helluva away from others to make any viable presence. There will be 2 threats: Eldar and Tau, and Imperium will go fight Eldar. There will be 2 threats: Chaos and Tau, and Eldar go fight Chaos, because Tau are still far away to be significant.
Just recently the Faraight Enclave started a Waagh with the Orks because the Tau had better guns than the group that attacked them and Orks took this as a challenge. They called it the Gun Waagh and dedicated themselves to making better guns and out shoot the Tau. Every time a War Boss died other War Bosses would hear and show up to see if they can’t do better.
Tau: "Wait. We've been tricked into fighting?" Eldar: "Yes." Tau: "Wanna team up and beat the crap out the guy who did it." Eldar: "No, you still suck." *Leaves* Tau: "Dick."
@@IberianCraftsman the fun thing is them inducting humans into their ways is helping them in ways they’ll probably never comprehend. The Humans think the Greater Good is a god and because they have a stronger impact on the warp than Tau a god called The Greater Good is being formed and actually has saved them a few times.
Eldar and Primitives have always been Sworn Enemies. Like the Eldar and the Imperium. Or the Eldar and the Forces of Chaos. Or Eldar and Other (Dark) Eldar! Damn Eldar! They ruined The Eldar!!
Tau Ethereal: It seems we've both been made to look like fools. I suggest we join forces to fight against the one that led us to this. Eldar Farseer: I'm not working with a man that has horse feet. Tau Ethereal: Fair enough then.
The Eldars : "Let's ignore the Tau alliance proposition. They are primitives. They try explain everything with technology and science. How rudimentary to not believe in ghosts."
I mean, this is a universe where these things are not only provable, but so understood that the Eldar used to make gods for specific purposes. To them, pretty much everyone else are banging rocks together and calling if technology.
It's more of the really, really old guy that tells people to get off his lawn and doesn't go out much cause all his friends died years ago He is old as hell, but still refuses to get any help or assistance and is surprisingly sprightly for his age and will fight you if you get close. And has a huge armament in his house
@@JunJun.. Eldar are like Vietnam vets while the Necrons are veterans from WW2 that got to work in the nuclear weapons program during the Cold War. Meanwhile, the Imperium are basically the crayon eating US marines that we all know and love, while the Tau are Gen Z.
I mean when you have been ruling the galaxy for 50 million years and your main setback was partying so hard that you spawned a god, you just learn to ignore the countless overtures from lesser races trying to tech rush into relevance.
Some Farseer probably foresaw an outcome which required them to act like complete assholes. You would think that a race which knows about the existence of Tzeentch would be a little more skeptical of psychic visions. Especially since their Farseers have been leading them to consistent defeat and decline for millennia.
"your main setback was partying so hard that you spawned a god" That has a claim to every Eldar sould, essentially sentencing the entire race to eternal torment. Yeah, no biggie.
This is particularly relevant when you consider Eldar lifespans. For them the empire was a generation or two ago, still in living memory. They arent clinging to long-lost glory, they're still processing that its gone.
I pictured the Eldar just rolled their eyes, turned around and left upon being offered friendship by the T'au, as if those hypersensitive snobs wouldn't see through those fish people and realize their intentions.
Oh that totally uninhabited world perfect for colonization? Oh thats ours. Yeah we claimed it ten million years ago and never got around to rebuilding our empire. Opsie! Guess we have to genocide your colonists now hehe rawr XD!!!
Well, not like the rest of the galaxy will offer much better (the imperium says "we kill the greater threat and then we go back to killing each other, the necrons just kill you if you wake up their tombs, nids just nom you, orks will be orks and so on) a tenuous alliance where one side struggles for superiority would still be better than what the rest of the galaxy offers (which, and I want to emphasize, is death).
@@agentc7020 yeah here you are with a fresh faced young race to manipulate and you DON’T jump on the opportunity? Just point the Tau at the Necron Empire right next to them and watch the fireworks
@@agentc7020 Wouldn't it be even better to just ignore said alliances and just isolate yourself like what the Eldars are doing? Whats the point of an alliance when its just a rivalry with an inferior creature that wants to clearly steal your technology and turn on you after doing so
It is implied in Dawn of War that Eldar might actually not hold that negative view on Tau in general. Iyanden was likely just mad at first for the loss of their maiden world (they are all the rage about them) and then simply got focused on the Dark Eldar.
It’s fascinating that a species a few thousand years old is able to hold its own against one that was supposedly the strongest in the galaxy for millions of years.
Consider the Tau have so little presences in warp that demons basically pass on them + closed minded non superstitious, yeah Tau are way lower than human, maybe even some animals
Tau have no psykers and physically inferior to even baseline humans, while humans have psykers(even when most of human ones in 41st millennium got closest thing to be happy ending in 41st millennium, as cold fusion batteries for golden throne)
they're just like everyone else, dumbfucks who don't know anything fighting for dumbfuck reasons, the only difference being they're a few hundred thousand years late to the party
So eldar tech is millions of years old and psychically locked to them and designed to work in tune with them (does the Shadow of the Warp mess with that conductivity and the War Masks and all? Or other warp/real space anomalies?) they don’t need to innovate because their tech was venerable before many races existed. They have backslid, they can’t think planets and solar systems into being anymore, but tau outrange them by a lot. And whatever a pulse weapon hits is dropping a elf into the soul pokeball they wear.
To be fair, basic shuriken weapons used to have the same range as bolters; but then their range got cut down because one codex rider several editions ago decided they were now SMG equivalents and it stuck. It started to become a big issue once shoot at full range and move in the same turn became universal.
Imperium: I hate you. Eldar: I hate you more. Tau: I hate both of you….wanna hang out? Imperium: DIE XENO SUCM!!! Eldar: PATHETIC SAVAGES!!! [Accidentally kills tau] Eldar: wait. What was that blue thing you killed? Imperium: what blue thing? Eldar: Eh, probably wasn’t important. Hey it’s getting pretty late, wanna pick up again here tomorrow? Imperium: Eeeehhhhh why not? See ya tomorrow Sam. Eldar: Sure thing Ralph.
I like to imagine in some weird alternate universe the tau takes over the universe but the eldar are just still on their worlds refusing to join and somehow not losing their worlds
its crazy that the tau are more allied with the imperials than any other race. I think there is even a secret alliance with the dark angels and ultramarines respectively
There is definitely a tacit understanding on the Imperial side that the Tau are better neighbors than other races. They serve as a great buffer for that Necron Dynasty and Ork Waaaargh
The Eldar really need to get the metaphorical stick out of their collective asses. I don't care how badass they think they are, they're not going to survive without allies, no matter how much they manipulate others to do their fighting for them.
The problem for the Eldar is that allies are usually just a liability to them. The Eldar are a dying race so they can't really risk losing people and weakening themselves to protect any allies. They are already struggling to protect their own irreplacable Craftworlds and Maiden Worlds. Meanwhile, their allies won't be able to help protect the Eldar in most cases. Because unlike the Eldar, those allies won't be able to use the Webway to simply materialize everywhere in the galaxy. So if an Eldar Craftworld or Maiden World comes under attack, by the time the allies finally arrive it will usually be too late. Also, an alliance might draw attention from enemy forces, and the Eldar usually try to avoid drawing attention to themselves as much as possible to avoid putting themselves at risk unneccesarily. In other words, the Eldar have very little to gain from a permanent, standing alliance with anyone. They are much better off continueing as they are, occasionally making alliances of opportunity with the Imperium but not making any permanent commitments.
Tau are so naiive. Its quite profound when they capture an Imperial Dreadnaught and realize he's *thousands of years older than their entire civilization.* Interactions with Eldari and situations like this gave them an epiphany: they are a newcomer on the galactic stage of the Grimdark and very, very much the underdog.
Man i just love the Tau. They’re just like pretty normal dudes in a messed up world. They see this fuckery and go "damn thats a cool robot I wanna tear it open and learn about it" and meanwhile it’s a necromantic living statue writhing with the souls of uncounted beings each of which is older than the entire Tau civilization by factors of magnitude. I love em.
Every offer is self-serving, the important thing is what is being offered in return. The Eldar are dying out fast and stuck in a long decline, is it really a good idea to refuse alliances and friendships, especially with a rapidly growing, energetic and open-minded faction?
Good thing it was Iyanden or the conversation would’ve gone like this “So sorry about destroying your planet, how about we go and-“ *The Tau’s head explodes before the Craftworld Biel-Tan Seer Farseer personally wipes 3 Tau Solar Systems off the map to make it even before telling the Tau that they aren’t interested in helping them fight the Dark Eldar together*
When you consider that Iyanden is one of the more friendly and tolerant Craftworlds and they still didn't want to buddy up with the Tau. Obviously the enslavment stuff they do is a sign that with enough pressure they can be worse then some Imperials.
I think its a bit simpler than that. The Tau don't have anything useful to offer the Eldar in an alliance. Their technology is worthless, their labour and economy arent needed, their ships are too slow to offer meaningful military support and the Eldar don't need to drag chaff infantry around on their craftworlds.
Typical Eldari superiority complex. They basically fought off an empire that was able to hold them off, and still relegate them lower than the Mon Keigh.
To be fair, the Tau did destroy one of their few remaining holy sites. That and what we see aren't an empire of Eldar. The Craftworlds are effectively armed life boats to the old empire and the Eldar know it.
Oh that totally uninhabited world perfect for colonization? Oh thats ours. Yeah we claimed it ten million years ago and never got around to rebuilding our empire. Opsie! Guess we have to genocide your colonists now hehe rawr XD!!!
Too bad for them to eldar technology is useless for them because don't have psychic powers like humans. Howerver its posible to Aurora Warth from which custodians armor is made, it could be a material made from psychic energy with a few other elements.
Eldar and necrons are the only ones that the Tau can fight and actually be blown away by their technology. Not the omg the imperium employs mind stapled slave servitors kind of blown away, but actually impressed by the lvl of tech
@@justinianthegreat1444 You mean that one gun on that one ship that is completely under control by the highly secretive Mechanicum that literally cannot be replaced in any respect? That gun? That one singular gun? That completely unique museum piece and holy relic of a gun that can't be replaced? Buddy, just because they have it doesn't mean they can make more of it or have more of it nor does it mean they'll bust it out every five seconds. They can't afford to let anyone know about it because it will either end in the gun being destroyed, end in being taken and turned on them, or end in it being taken and corrupted by Chaos. Just because they have it doesn't mean it's something they can pull out at any time. They only have one and it's too valuable to use. The average level of Imperial Tech is nowhere near the average level of Tau Tech.
@@Hevno Not really, replace that gun with a titan legion and you will probably see what I mean. 'You mean those titans that are controlled by the Mechanicum? Those titans that are holy relics and can't be replaced,' and so on and so forth, you probably get what I mean, right?
Shame... I was kinda looking forward to the t'au finding out that wraithbone is made from pure warp energy and starting to make mechs powered with the souls of both their own fallen and killed enemies. That could possibly make them something other than an annoyance in the current setting (and give us hilarious stories about the t'au being very surprised when a wraithknight powered by a khornate berserker turns on them XD)
Hmmm nah then youll have the issue of choas like how all there stuff is just imperial but spikey. Anyway even humanity which was much more advanced never tried anything with wraith bone from what we know.
Yep. People act like Tau (or rather the Ehtereals) just wanna be friends but NONE of Tau alliances was more beneficials for the non-Tau races. Every race they “ally” with becomes just a tool for the Ethereals, often times they take all what they want and then “soft lock” the race into obscurity folder. Its a gentle genocide, an obliteration of future in exchange for a short strip of “better” today.
I hate how they write the Tau They have psychic races in their empire like Nicassar and Nagi. they trade and have warp-capable races in their empire Yabi-Yabi and the Phosiab. But don't know how either work. They have space-fairing races with knowledge of the Aeldari like Ji'atrix. Has wared with chaos many times and is aware of cults and warp taint.
The Tau dont really have anything to offer the Eldar in alliance. They can dispatch any threat to a craftworld it is possible to stop, so unless the Tau can magic away Slaanesh, they're worthless.
The Tau and Eldar seem like the only two factions that have an agreement albeit probably something along the lines of a Non-aggression pact that is very loose and can crumble if someone looks at the other wrong.
Honestly though if I was to be any race in warhammer. It would be tau. You get a sick ass battle suit, ac unit, an AI to play chess with in quiet moments, and theyre living standards are better then all others with a young and naive outlook on space travel and not truly knowing the horrora of the galaxy at that point
@@asyanimasi3d184 And? Literally. Communism if done right is a good thing. It certainly would provide better quality of life for the Individual than the sink or swim approach of capitalism.
Being a Craftworld Eldar isn't so bad either. They have pretty idyllic lives doing Elf stuff in their pretty crystal spires and forests most of the time. The only problem is that after you die you either get stuck in a pokéball or your soul gets eaten by Slaanesh.
Honestly, I think Tau are being sport and trying to mend the relationship cause by mistake. Eldar on the other hand, being an asshole. High Elf from Fantasy are more polite and friendly.
Time to blow up tau worlds then mend relationship. This is why imperium makes Tau their betch my brothers 😂 Imperium right again, based every decade tau invasions
Oh but don't forget that someFarseer probably foresaw an outcome which required them to act like complete assholes. You would think that a race which knows about the existence of Tzeentch would be a little more skeptical of psychic visions. Especially since their Farseers have been leading them to consistent defeat and decline for millennia.
@@Meteorknite said invasions aren't always successful so I wouldn't count the tau as the imperium's bitches, you should read Ciaphas cain's "for the greater good", gives a bit of an insight on how a Tau invasion might go if the imperium is unlucky.
@@agentc7020 Not to mention the Tau managed to grind the Damocles Crusade to a halt before the Tyranids showed up. And they've only grown since then. In Part even thanks to the Imperium, who just abandoned Millions of Guardsmen and even a good Chunk of Space Marines during their retreat at the end of the Damocles Crusade. Said abandoned Humans then joined the Tau
How is it not obviously? The tau had never met the eldar before and any other faction they had met before had tremendous appearence dissimilarities even amongst the same faction (mechanicum, space marines and averge humans being the prime exanple) also kroots, who need i remind you that even the krootosaurus rex is just a kroot who ate a big fucking dinosaur? By their inexperienced point of view, these guys were essentially the same as those other ones
Why are they called the Earth Caste? Our planet was named after soil. Soil was named after our planet. Why is nobody else talking about this but will freak out if tbe pauldron on a space marine is not the correct version?
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The Tau should really learn that the Eldar really don't like to be friends with others.
Or themselves.
Curiosly, Iyanden is a bit more inclibedvtowards diplomacy. They even have had dealibgs with the imperium.
Fish people our friends, NOT FOOD
@@leonardovegaolmedo5483 only because the Imperium is a big power house of an faction and can be somewhat trusted.
@@vothbetilia4862 it is implied they had that policy before the imperium existed, it s why their alliance with biel tan fell apart.
The tau have a better relationship with the orks than the eldar
Anyone has a better relationship with the Orks than the Eldars. If you see an Eldar, you can never assume how they feel about you (beside contempt), and what they plane for you. While if you see an Ork, you know you will very soon be his fight-pal
Guilleman, with one elder in particular does have a better relationship then with the orcs
I feel kinda bad for thr Tau cause all they wanna fo is make friends and no one wants to be their friend
Don't Tau have a shoot on sight policy for orks?
@@brundy9300 orks and nids
Tau: you would go to war with us over a few wrecked robots?
Eldar: robots?! Those Wraiths carried the souls of our fallen kin!
Tau: …sorry, what?
Eldar: *"Do I look like I know what an A-I is?"*
@@shikikankillzone4239 I don’t even know what the A stands for.
I mean fomr a certain point of view you can say the same thing about Oblatai-80....i mean sure its an engram ai of a fallen pilot rather than a soul but close enough
They so Atheistic.
“what the FUCK is a soul”
The Eldar soul watching all the Tau fail to understand their suit:
"Is this better Gundam?"
"Please let me go"
"Nice voicelines"
@@xluispx4477 😂😂😂
@@xluispx4477 tau scientists be like this guys got the dlc pack
@@xluispx4477 "I am going to paint adidas strips on it."
"No, please. This dishonors me"
@@MithrilRoshi "yo this Gucci mech is banging tho"
"Where's the self destruct button on this thing"
I just love the mental image of an Ethereal and a Farsheer arguing in a meeting room and slowly falling to silence as they realize that they both have been bamboozled
Pretty much 😂
*Both in unison*
"WE were only defending ourselves after YOU--"
"Wait"
Then suddenly from the shadows beneath the table in the meeting room:
"It was meeeee, KLAX, all along!
Nya nya nya nyaaaaa!"
*disappears in a puff of smoke*
@@kristianjensen5877 Fucking love this and need art of this XD
@@kristianjensen5877the next scene goes..
Tau Ethereal:"Wanna be friends?"
Eldar Overseer:"HMPH" haughtily and walk away with nose up in air
The Eldar don't even treat humans like this LMAO
After waging wars for so long with humanity Eldar do, even if they dont admit it, semlbence of respect. Beside, 40k humanity may be assholes towards others, but at least they are honest about it
@@macshadow1150 it kinda is funny to know that both races look the most similar in looks but similar in attitude as well and both are great at the same thing, being assholes
Imperium and eldars are pretty much the same tbh. Both violent and arrogant. They probably see mankind as somewhat equal.
@@backpackpepelon3867they are the same things in different stages of their own development. The imperium walk a path tread once by the eldari, and the eldari know as such, yet both refuse to admit how similar they are, and so shall both fall, showing the folly of their respective empires
@@Enrichvid you’d think after 60 million years AND witnessing the fall of their civilization the Eldari would humble themselves at least a little right.. right
Dayum the T'au held up against Eldar.
But I swar the Drukari is like a classic villain plays in the shadows
Dying race, limited resources to deploy.
They withstood their genocide *twice* against the Imperium, which the only reason they won is because GeeDub wants to sell models, because the Imperium would have pulled back and deployed Exterminatus weaponry to prove a point.
Plot armor mostly
@@ColonelSpiritI mean, it seems like (at least what GW tries to do) is that all of the large factions, other than nids, (Imperium, T'au, Eldar, Drukari, Orks, and Skeletor Kings), are relatively equal in total strength.
Kinda like there are far less Necrons than Imperium troops, but, all else equal, they would exhaust each other in a total war.
“Oh wait, you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder!”
- Eldar ambassador who was alive when the Tau were still banging rocks together when the Tau ambassador offers them to join the Greater Good
- Eldar ambassador who is part of a Race that fucked themselves over by creating a Chaos God, ensuring that their souls suffer for eternity. Who are also on a steady decline towards extinction and are in no real position to decline any potential Alliance.
“… Dick”
-Tau Water Caste whose races *isn’t* responsible for the absolute shitshow the galaxy has become
@@PikachuLittle That is only because they are too young to have had any sort of impact at all.
They also have literally nothing to offer the Eldar in an alliance. Especially not when their offer of an alliance was just a clear ploy to obtain more advanced technology. A ploy that the Eldar of course saw right through.
Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Shhh.
I have a whole bag of Shhh with your name on it.
- Eldar ambassadors
@@jodofe4879 they were both fooled by the dark eldar at the same rate.
“Yeah the Dark Elder are like that such as that ‘cultural exchange’”
Andross Klax: I learned this trick from a guy called Alpharius, he is pretty cool actually.
Nah, Alpharius sucks. But Alpharius, on the other hand, is a pretty swell guy.
@@randommadman7348 Eh, Alpharius is alright I guess. But my boy Alpharius has got it going on.
@@crusader2412 Sure, you could say that about Alpharius but I think Alpharius is the real deal.
@@crusader2412 i mean they're both fine, but Alpharius? That's the man
@@crusader2412Listen. I know Alpharius has it where it Counts. And Alpharius? Yeah he's alright too. But have you met my brother Alpharius?
Tbh. It’s not like the Tau can use Eldar tech anyway. All the Eldar stuff is psyco-reactive and the Tau are not psykers.
Niccasar and Nagi: Allow us to introduce ourselves
Tzeench (not even going to try to spell it right) :-......Well not yet?????
@@CH3353N1NJ45 it's 'tzeentch', so you were very close. Just missed out the 't' before the 'ch'.
@@brother_sothoth
Well that's because Tzeentch rigged it that way.
Tau Psykers are going to be an interesting thing if they ever get them. Though let's be fair... they don't exactly get new things.
Sounds like the Eldar were just butt-hurt that the youngest civilization was able to hold out that long.
T'au: Ok, sooo... We both may have made mistakes, and we should deal with this diplomatically and as civilised species. But, at the same time, we do not trust you Eldars since the last time we trusted you. You guys turn our people into abomination."
Eldar: First of, that's the freaking Drukari who made your people into fleshy looking abomination!
Secondly, YOU DESTROYED OUR WORLD YOU FISH VERGINAS!
T'au: Well, at least it is a different insult than what the Imperium of man have called us the entire time. But hey, we are sorry, and we should be grateful it isn't the Imperium this time, huh?
Necron: Greetings.
T'au and Eldar: _Screams._
Fish vag is an insult I'll be using on The Tau from now on.
@@DevixianTheOriginal I mean the same can be said about the Tyrannids
Imperium: "watches while eating popcorn*
More likely
Tau: You need to accept our concept of the greater good.
Eldar: No, we won't serve you.
To Tau even have anything in common with fish other than color?
The young naivitee of the Tau may be what earns them plenty of ridicule, but it's also a terrifying asset: where most factions are stagnant or on the decline, they are still advancing, and QUICKLY. Every time you fight them they learn more about your technology. Every moment you leave them alone they grow stronger.
Kinda sorta. The rate of their advancement is rapidly slowing as they have to devote more and more resources away from science/technology development and towards industry, expansion and warfare in order to not get swallowed up by the many threats surrounding them.
Poor bastards have Tyrannids coming at them from the intergalactic void, an Ork empire WAAAGH!!!-ing toward them from the opposite side, and the Five Hundred Realms of Ultramar and a Necron Dynasty to the left and right. The most friendly space they have access to is the Damocles Gulf region, which is contested by the Imperium, so they can't expand through there too fast or else the Imperium might send an actual crusade force, which would doom their species.
And they're completely invested in making alliances instead of conquering, meaning they've gotten other xenos to help them like the tiny crab aliens that work on the small size tech.
And yet they are still helluva away from others to make any viable presence. There will be 2 threats: Eldar and Tau, and Imperium will go fight Eldar. There will be 2 threats: Chaos and Tau, and Eldar go fight Chaos, because Tau are still far away to be significant.
Just recently the Faraight Enclave started a Waagh with the Orks because the Tau had better guns than the group that attacked them and Orks took this as a challenge. They called it the Gun Waagh and dedicated themselves to making better guns and out shoot the Tau. Every time a War Boss died other War Bosses would hear and show up to see if they can’t do better.
@@Broomer52 Wasn't it called the Waaagh of Dakka? But yeah, it was great lol
really like to think the souls within the wraith guards were laughing their asses off as tau tried to understand them
atleast they souls were entertained.
seeing as how souls in the stone would be cold, lonely, depressing & etc.
Tau: "Wait. We've been tricked into fighting?"
Eldar: "Yes."
Tau: "Wanna team up and beat the crap out the guy who did it."
Eldar: "No, you still suck." *Leaves*
Tau: "Dick."
team up... and give all your technology to the greather good... OUR GOOD 😂
Typical eldar.
@@IberianCraftsman Freaking Communists Anime Nerd 😂
@@IberianCraftsman the fun thing is them inducting humans into their ways is helping them in ways they’ll probably never comprehend. The Humans think the Greater Good is a god and because they have a stronger impact on the warp than Tau a god called The Greater Good is being formed and actually has saved them a few times.
@@acevergel1999 no need to talk about the eldar like that
Eldar and Primitives have always been Sworn Enemies.
Like the Eldar and the Imperium.
Or the Eldar and the Forces of Chaos.
Or Eldar and Other (Dark) Eldar!
Damn Eldar!
They ruined The Eldar!!
I both love and hate how accurate this is.
Tau Ethereal: It seems we've both been made to look like fools. I suggest we join forces to fight against the one that led us to this.
Eldar Farseer: I'm not working with a man that has horse feet.
Tau Ethereal: Fair enough then.
Surely the dying race woulnt go war and lose even more numbers like this right?
Shows you how crazy they will defend the maiden worlds!
Elves, not even once
Well, you kind of HAVE TO respond when someone fucks up your maidens.
They don’t they will be doomed even faster.
You assume elves have brains
The tau are like the annoying person who wants to befriend you but secretly wants your PS5.
😂
Fr, their "friendship" are literally you under their command
@@briantarigan7685 hey want some lean for the greater hood?
*FACTS*
@@briantarigan7685 Grimderp retcon is grimderp. 😬
The Eldars : "Let's ignore the Tau alliance proposition. They are primitives. They try explain everything with technology and science. How rudimentary to not believe in ghosts."
I mean, this is a universe where these things are not only provable, but so understood that the Eldar used to make gods for specific purposes. To them, pretty much everyone else are banging rocks together and calling if technology.
@@Mgauge Except the necrons, who made a habit of killing gods while the eldar were still figuring out how to make them.
Ironically, thats exactly where we're at in the real world right now
@@ynpavo It has at most a few similarities. It is far from "exactly" how it is in the real world.
The Eldar really feel like that edgy teenager that likes to play the loner but doesn't know he just ends up looking petty and pathetic.
I think you have to combine a lot of that with the queen bee mean girls cheerleader aloof "I'm better than you" attitude as well.
Eldar admit to themselves they're highly prideful race, due to this rarely make alliance even with xenos
It's more of the really, really old guy that tells people to get off his lawn and doesn't go out much cause all his friends died years ago
He is old as hell, but still refuses to get any help or assistance and is surprisingly sprightly for his age and will fight you if you get close. And has a huge armament in his house
@@magnusbjarni Necrons are more like the old guys telling kids to get off his lawn.
@@JunJun.. Eldar are like Vietnam vets while the Necrons are veterans from WW2 that got to work in the nuclear weapons program during the Cold War.
Meanwhile, the Imperium are basically the crayon eating US marines that we all know and love, while the Tau are Gen Z.
I mean when you have been ruling the galaxy for 50 million years and your main setback was partying so hard that you spawned a god, you just learn to ignore the countless overtures from lesser races trying to tech rush into relevance.
Some Farseer probably foresaw an outcome which required them to act like complete assholes.
You would think that a race which knows about the existence of Tzeentch would be a little more skeptical of psychic visions.
Especially since their Farseers have been leading them to consistent defeat and decline for millennia.
"your main setback was partying so hard that you spawned a god" That has a claim to every Eldar sould, essentially sentencing the entire race to eternal torment.
Yeah, no biggie.
This is particularly relevant when you consider Eldar lifespans. For them the empire was a generation or two ago, still in living memory. They arent clinging to long-lost glory, they're still processing that its gone.
The Exodite was a good indicator on what Eldar/Tau relationship is like.
My favorite is when the tau found out imperial ships are older than their entire race
I pictured the Eldar just rolled their eyes, turned around and left upon being offered friendship by the T'au, as if those hypersensitive snobs wouldn't see through those fish people and realize their intentions.
Oh that totally uninhabited world perfect for colonization? Oh thats ours. Yeah we claimed it ten million years ago and never got around to rebuilding our empire. Opsie! Guess we have to genocide your colonists now hehe rawr XD!!!
Well, not like the rest of the galaxy will offer much better (the imperium says "we kill the greater threat and then we go back to killing each other, the necrons just kill you if you wake up their tombs, nids just nom you, orks will be orks and so on) a tenuous alliance where one side struggles for superiority would still be better than what the rest of the galaxy offers (which, and I want to emphasize, is death).
@@agentc7020 yeah here you are with a fresh faced young race to manipulate and you DON’T jump on the opportunity? Just point the Tau at the Necron Empire right next to them and watch the fireworks
@@agentc7020 Wouldn't it be even better to just ignore said alliances and just isolate yourself like what the Eldars are doing? Whats the point of an alliance when its just a rivalry with an inferior creature that wants to clearly steal your technology and turn on you after doing so
It is implied in Dawn of War that Eldar might actually not hold that negative view on Tau in general.
Iyanden was likely just mad at first for the loss of their maiden world (they are all the rage about them) and then simply got focused on the Dark Eldar.
I was expecting Trayzn for some reason lol
'Wow! These battlesuits are amazing!"
"That _battlesuit_ is my grandfather, you primitive bastard."
Tau and Eldar go to war... (Klax snickers behind his hand)
They always doin my blue boys wrong, damn those dark eldar.
Imagine being so advanced that you’re adversary still refers to you as primitive
It’s fascinating that a species a few thousand years old is able to hold its own against one that was supposedly the strongest in the galaxy for millions of years.
It never fails to make me chuckle at how casually the Tau are brushed off.
Like the Eldar don't even bother to reject the Tau, they are just ignored completely.
lol, do the eldar, view the tau even lower than the humans?
Consider the Tau have so little presences in warp that demons basically pass on them + closed minded non superstitious, yeah Tau are way lower than human, maybe even some animals
Theyre deformed fishes for them.
Tau have no psykers and physically inferior to even baseline humans, while humans have psykers(even when most of human ones in 41st millennium got closest thing to be happy ending in 41st millennium, as cold fusion batteries for golden throne)
They dont really rank them low, they just regard them as promising but irrelevant. "lack derision and scorn for" is a better way to put it.
they're just like everyone else, dumbfucks who don't know anything fighting for dumbfuck reasons, the only difference being they're a few hundred thousand years late to the party
Tau: Wanna work together?
Elder: Id rather revive that mon'keigh God Roboute.
So eldar tech is millions of years old and psychically locked to them and designed to work in tune with them (does the Shadow of the Warp mess with that conductivity and the War Masks and all? Or other warp/real space anomalies?) they don’t need to innovate because their tech was venerable before many races existed.
They have backslid, they can’t think planets and solar systems into being anymore, but tau outrange them by a lot.
And whatever a pulse weapon hits is dropping a elf into the soul pokeball they wear.
That Soul Pokeballs are like Floppy disks for their Matrioshka brains
To be fair, basic shuriken weapons used to have the same range as bolters; but then their range got cut down because one codex rider several editions ago decided they were now SMG equivalents and it stuck. It started to become a big issue once shoot at full range and move in the same turn became universal.
Imperium: I hate you.
Eldar: I hate you more.
Tau: I hate both of you….wanna hang out?
Imperium: DIE XENO SUCM!!!
Eldar: PATHETIC SAVAGES!!!
[Accidentally kills tau]
Eldar: wait. What was that blue thing you killed?
Imperium: what blue thing?
Eldar: Eh, probably wasn’t important. Hey it’s getting pretty late, wanna pick up again here tomorrow?
Imperium: Eeeehhhhh why not? See ya tomorrow Sam.
Eldar: Sure thing Ralph.
I love the Eldar’s approach to everything from the context of “yeah our race is over what do we care”
I like to imagine in some weird alternate universe the tau takes over the universe but the eldar are just still on their worlds refusing to join and somehow not losing their worlds
Tau: we bring love
Imperium: it bring loves get him, break his leg
Klax "Damn, almost worked".
its crazy that the tau are more allied with the imperials than any other race. I think there is even a secret alliance with the dark angels and ultramarines respectively
I don’t think they are allied, imperial rebels join them
There is definitely a tacit understanding on the Imperial side that the Tau are better neighbors than other races. They serve as a great buffer for that Necron Dynasty and Ork Waaaargh
@@PikachuLittle and Tyranids. The necrons trump all but Farsight wrote The Book of the Beast and Tau are a hard counter to tyranids
The Eldar really need to get the metaphorical stick out of their collective asses. I don't care how badass they think they are, they're not going to survive without allies, no matter how much they manipulate others to do their fighting for them.
The problem for the Eldar is that allies are usually just a liability to them. The Eldar are a dying race so they can't really risk losing people and weakening themselves to protect any allies. They are already struggling to protect their own irreplacable Craftworlds and Maiden Worlds. Meanwhile, their allies won't be able to help protect the Eldar in most cases. Because unlike the Eldar, those allies won't be able to use the Webway to simply materialize everywhere in the galaxy. So if an Eldar Craftworld or Maiden World comes under attack, by the time the allies finally arrive it will usually be too late.
Also, an alliance might draw attention from enemy forces, and the Eldar usually try to avoid drawing attention to themselves as much as possible to avoid putting themselves at risk unneccesarily.
In other words, the Eldar have very little to gain from a permanent, standing alliance with anyone. They are much better off continueing as they are, occasionally making alliances of opportunity with the Imperium but not making any permanent commitments.
You bring up excellent points, I hadn’t considered many of those aspects. Thanks for sharing your point of view! 😄
I cant speak for the backward Asuryani zealots on the craftworlds, but me and the boys in Commoragh are doing just fine.
I'm always a fan of seeing interactions between (Craftworld) Eldar and Tau.
1 of the few times im with the space elfs.
Tau > Eldar. Simply because they didn't make a fucking chaos god and still act like they are the smartest beings in the galaxy.
@@jomix7 If you can see the future I think you get to claim being the smartest in the galaxy lol
@@MrDarklord965they can see the future but still manage to get their asses handed to them by most of the other races in the galaxy
@MrDarklord965 I think everyone could see what they were doing was wrong the elves just didn't care until their souls were being eaten.
@@MrDarklord965 seeing the future certainty would’ve been a useful thing when murder-fucking the god of murdersex into reality
Awesome video, bud man. That track is absolute fire. xDDD Holy shit!
Great video keep up the good work.
Thanks!
I'd really like to hear more about those poor Earthcaste who had the unenviable job of trying to reverse-engineer elven poltergeist skeletons.
The Tau are my favorite.
theres something creepy about hearing the tau not being the ones with advanced technology in a sentence
Wonder how many Tau would go insane/"retired" trying to understand if the eldar did just give them some stuff for the lols.
if Tau made Matrioshka Brains, Eldar will calls them as "Chinese bootleg infinity circuits"
Tau are so naiive. Its quite profound when they capture an Imperial Dreadnaught and realize he's *thousands of years older than their entire civilization.* Interactions with Eldari and situations like this gave them an epiphany: they are a newcomer on the galactic stage of the Grimdark and very, very much the underdog.
tau "lets be friends"
Eldar "No childe"
Humans "did that xeno use words?"
Drukari "yessss"
Nurgle "all are friends of Nrgl"
“That truck sure blew. Wanna be friends?”
“No 🗿”
Man i just love the Tau. They’re just like pretty normal dudes in a messed up world. They see this fuckery and go "damn thats a cool robot I wanna tear it open and learn about it" and meanwhile it’s a necromantic living statue writhing with the souls of uncounted beings each of which is older than the entire Tau civilization by factors of magnitude. I love em.
Ignores Tau's obviously self-serving offer, the Eldar are truly wise.
They didn't become the best race bey being fools.
@@purevertonly because of their sugar daddies
Not wise enough to know they were bamboozled tho
Every offer is self-serving, the important thing is what is being offered in return. The Eldar are dying out fast and stuck in a long decline, is it really a good idea to refuse alliances and friendships, especially with a rapidly growing, energetic and open-minded faction?
@@stillwatersrundeep001 But have you forgotten the Eldar's greatest power. Farseer's making them act like obtuse idiots for some nebulous "prophecy".
Tau: "hey are we cool now?"
Eldar: 👍
That’s a cool name for a Dark Eldar guy.
His favorite pastime is fighting spacecraft with a giant replica of his face and hands.
Good thing it was Iyanden or the conversation would’ve gone like this
“So sorry about destroying your planet, how about we go and-“
*The Tau’s head explodes before the Craftworld Biel-Tan Seer Farseer personally wipes 3 Tau Solar Systems off the map to make it even before telling the Tau that they aren’t interested in helping them fight the Dark Eldar together*
Robots: Wack
Golems, powered by the dead: Real shit
Tau:Now there is no reason to fight, can we be friends?
Eldar:Ew no, disgusting.
“Though they have better technology, the Tao hold out for weeks.” Also known as plot armor haha
When you consider that Iyanden is one of the more friendly and tolerant Craftworlds and they still didn't want to buddy up with the Tau. Obviously the enslavment stuff they do is a sign that with enough pressure they can be worse then some Imperials.
I think its a bit simpler than that.
The Tau don't have anything useful to offer the Eldar in an alliance. Their technology is worthless, their labour and economy arent needed, their ships are too slow to offer meaningful military support and the Eldar don't need to drag chaff infantry around on their craftworlds.
I was honestly just thinking about how cool it would be if Iyanden and the Tau teamed up especially since they both heavily rely on battlesuits.
The Tau really strike me as a kid who kick an old man in the balls without realising hes a retired mafia boss
Dude was named Klax.
You know he is evil or destructive by nature with a name like that.
But probably hella fun at a kegger.
Typical Eldari superiority complex. They basically fought off an empire that was able to hold them off, and still relegate them lower than the Mon Keigh.
Yeah, they just destroyed their maiden world 🌎. Let it go 😂
Theres no one in galaxy that helped imperium as eldars. Only thing eldars ever respected outside eldars is God emperor.
To be fair, the Tau did destroy one of their few remaining holy sites. That and what we see aren't an empire of Eldar. The Craftworlds are effectively armed life boats to the old empire and the Eldar know it.
@@roger4845 and why was it destroyed? Tau dont exactly go around and sestroy stuff like imperials or tyranids, there was a reason that happened
Oh that totally uninhabited world perfect for colonization? Oh thats ours. Yeah we claimed it ten million years ago and never got around to rebuilding our empire. Opsie! Guess we have to genocide your colonists now hehe rawr XD!!!
Too bad for them to eldar technology is useless for them because don't have psychic powers like humans. Howerver its posible to Aurora Warth from which custodians armor is made, it could be a material made from psychic energy with a few other elements.
Even humans can't use eldar tech buddy
@@Hevno ...no matter how psychic they are?
@@Masonicon yup
@@Hevnono one said whe can't adapt it.
@@Masoniconwith enough time they will do it if it wasn't heresy.
Eldar and necrons are the only ones that the Tau can fight and actually be blown away by their technology. Not the omg the imperium employs mind stapled slave servitors kind of blown away, but actually impressed by the lvl of tech
The Imperium with guns that shoot black holes: allow me to present you
@@justinianthegreat1444 You mean that one gun on that one ship that is completely under control by the highly secretive Mechanicum that literally cannot be replaced in any respect? That gun? That one singular gun? That completely unique museum piece and holy relic of a gun that can't be replaced?
Buddy, just because they have it doesn't mean they can make more of it or have more of it nor does it mean they'll bust it out every five seconds. They can't afford to let anyone know about it because it will either end in the gun being destroyed, end in being taken and turned on them, or end in it being taken and corrupted by Chaos.
Just because they have it doesn't mean it's something they can pull out at any time. They only have one and it's too valuable to use.
The average level of Imperial Tech is nowhere near the average level of Tau Tech.
@@starhammer5247 Sure, mate.
@@johnkonig865 he does have a point
@@Hevno Not really, replace that gun with a titan legion and you will probably see what I mean. 'You mean those titans that are controlled by the Mechanicum? Those titans that are holy relics and can't be replaced,' and so on and so forth, you probably get what I mean, right?
Shame... I was kinda looking forward to the t'au finding out that wraithbone is made from pure warp energy and starting to make mechs powered with the souls of both their own fallen and killed enemies.
That could possibly make them something other than an annoyance in the current setting (and give us hilarious stories about the t'au being very surprised when a wraithknight powered by a khornate berserker turns on them XD)
Also would give us some fancy new battlesuits models
Hmmm nah then youll have the issue of choas like how all there stuff is just imperial but spikey. Anyway even humanity which was much more advanced never tried anything with wraith bone from what we know.
Aren't the tau like, really bad with psychic stuff? It said that the tau soul is a small dot of light compared to the burning flame of a human
@@phamxuanbach5249 hasn't stopped GW trying to turn Farsight into a Khornite daemon, despite the fact that idea is retarded.
@@tzeentchlordoffates9268 Too many factions already rip off the Eldar already.
So.....did Iyanden actually sort out the archon or did they get stomped by another tyranid hive fleet on the way to trying?
They probably paid off some other Kabal to assassinate him. There's not much else you can do when your targets in Commoragh.
The tau want to be your friend so they can take any tech they want from your alliance.
The fools got Klax'd.
"Hey you guys wanna be "friends" so we can learn the secrets of you and get more powerful off of you?"
Yep. People act like Tau (or rather the Ehtereals) just wanna be friends but NONE of Tau alliances was more beneficials for the non-Tau races. Every race they “ally” with becomes just a tool for the Ethereals, often times they take all what they want and then “soft lock” the race into obscurity folder. Its a gentle genocide, an obliteration of future in exchange for a short strip of “better” today.
eldar be like: did we forget someone? OH FUCK.
Greater good for all but only if it benefits us
Facinating story.
You have more chance of having a temporary alliance with Eldar as a human than having temporary alliances with Eldar as a Tau
Poor Tau! Just want to legitimately talk shit out, but others keep making that difficult. I feel this.
I hate how they write the Tau They have psychic races in their empire like Nicassar and Nagi. they trade and have warp-capable races in their empire Yabi-Yabi and the Phosiab. But don't know how either work. They have space-fairing races with knowledge of the Aeldari like Ji'atrix. Has wared with chaos many times and is aware of cults and warp taint.
They couldn't tolerate being wraithboned
imagine the Tua mastering wraith bone
"Tau are the good guys!" destroy maiden world
Eldar being eldar.
Maan, savage Eldar. The Ta'u wanted peace but this Eldar dude is like nah. What is wrong with that guy!?!?
They did destroy a maiden world kinda on the tau.
The Tau dont really have anything to offer the Eldar in alliance. They can dispatch any threat to a craftworld it is possible to stop, so unless the Tau can magic away Slaanesh, they're worthless.
The Tau and Eldar seem like the only two factions that have an agreement albeit probably something along the lines of a Non-aggression pact that is very loose and can crumble if someone looks at the other wrong.
Not really.
Eldar anything relationship is.
I do what i want.
And often i want to spend your lives to save ours.
Babe, new Eldar slur for lesser races just dropped. Welcome the phii'shea
Why nobody wanna be buddies with the fishies? Also, if not friend, why friend shaped?
Tau have dozens of Auxilaries, I think it was arround at least 50 Xenos species.
Honestly though if I was to be any race in warhammer. It would be tau. You get a sick ass battle suit, ac unit, an AI to play chess with in quiet moments, and theyre living standards are better then all others with a young and naive outlook on space travel and not truly knowing the horrora of the galaxy at that point
They are communist people..
You will go extinct unless imperium takes mercy to keep tyranid necrons chaos marines out
They are learning
@@asyanimasi3d184
And? Literally.
Communism if done right is a good thing. It certainly would provide better quality of life for the Individual than the sink or swim approach of capitalism.
Being a Craftworld Eldar isn't so bad either. They have pretty idyllic lives doing Elf stuff in their pretty crystal spires and forests most of the time. The only problem is that after you die you either get stuck in a pokéball or your soul gets eaten by Slaanesh.
Who? What? Heh? My ignorance makes this a roller coaster to say the very least.
alright then, keep your secrets.
Protocols of the Elder Druchii.
It's a fake document! A clear imperial forgery! This is highly dangerous to our democracy!
Wait till they find out about the bonesingers and lose their marbles.
Honestly, I think Tau are being sport and trying to mend the relationship cause by mistake.
Eldar on the other hand, being an asshole. High Elf from Fantasy are more polite and friendly.
Time to blow up tau worlds then mend relationship. This is why imperium makes Tau their betch my brothers 😂
Imperium right again, based every decade tau invasions
Oh but don't forget that someFarseer probably foresaw an outcome which required them to act like complete assholes.
You would think that a race which knows about the existence of Tzeentch would be a little more skeptical of psychic visions.
Especially since their Farseers have been leading them to consistent defeat and decline for millennia.
@@Meteorknite said invasions aren't always successful so I wouldn't count the tau as the imperium's bitches, you should read Ciaphas cain's "for the greater good", gives a bit of an insight on how a Tau invasion might go if the imperium is unlucky.
@@agentc7020
Not to mention the Tau managed to grind the Damocles Crusade to a halt before the Tyranids showed up. And they've only grown since then.
In Part even thanks to the Imperium, who just abandoned Millions of Guardsmen and even a good Chunk of Space Marines during their retreat at the end of the Damocles Crusade. Said abandoned Humans then joined the Tau
This was such a huge fuck up y the Tau. Just wiping out an entire peaceful world of eldar when its obviously not related to the dark eldar.
How is it not obviously? The tau had never met the eldar before and any other faction they had met before had tremendous appearence dissimilarities even amongst the same faction (mechanicum, space marines and averge humans being the prime exanple) also kroots, who need i remind you that even the krootosaurus rex is just a kroot who ate a big fucking dinosaur? By their inexperienced point of view, these guys were essentially the same as those other ones
Why are they called the Earth Caste? Our planet was named after soil. Soil was named after our planet.
Why is nobody else talking about this but will freak out if tbe pauldron on a space marine is not the correct version?
well played dark elves well fucking played
absolute madlad