Tau Empire: Any News?

[Regime]

Absolutely big fan of the Tau Empire. First knew about it (and actually, it was my first introduction to the 40K universe.) in Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

Is there any news right now on whether the Tau Empire is in DoW 3?

[ell]

doubtful. probably as dlc. anything is up in the air until release because they've announced a 4th race later in development for previous dawn of war games, so who knows.

[nehekno]

well since they are going back to the roots and we already have sphess mehreens,DA ORKS and faggity space elves (memes) we can only expect one more race to be in the start...METAL BAWKSES (oh please bring back eliphas,but then again he is a fan favourite so when chaos comes knocking it's eliphas at the door)

[🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛]

"Oh, we don't talk about that, it's the Eliphas in the room."

As for Tau, speculate away, possibly a DLC in future, likely afetr something like IG or Chaos.

[Regime]

Originally posted by Protocol Aquinas I:

"Oh, we don't talk about that, it's the Eliphas in the room."

As for Tau, speculate away, possibly a DLC in future, likely after something like IG or Chaos.

But information about this is For the Greater Good.

Really looking forward to more news about the Tau Empire. Would love to be able to pilot XV8 Crisis Battlesuits[wh40k.lexicanum.com] in multiplayer mode and play against other players.

The Dark Crusade, as said, was my first foray with the Warhammer 40K universe, and I loved playing the Tau Empire.

Not having them in the game would be a major misstep.

[Erikkustrife]

not really a major misstep considering that it was really really weird to ahve tau in dawn of war 1 anyway. They own like .000001 percent of the galaxy. they are largly ignored by the major factions when they are present are just used and abused by them with no major victories.

[Blitzwing]

Tau just look much better than the other ones.

[TheWizardLizard]

I really doubt we will see them in the core game probably as multiplayer dlc. if you are interested the Battlefleet Gothic game (basically 40k space battles) will feature the Tau fleet in late 2016. It is an excellent game.

[Khoran Gutsplitter]

Even as a huge chaos fanboy and servant, i have to admit that the Tau Empire is a truly unique faction since they are like the only major faction that doesn't care about melee combat since they see it as "barbaric" or "primitive". While the Tau may not have the quantity they sure have the quality and technology to survive + they are allied with a bunch of different xeno races which makes the Tau harder to defeat.

[Necroledo]

I would love to see them! That said, I would also love to see all other factions as well.

[Marty Chonks]

Isn't tau one of those "less favored" races made by GW as a bonus cash in, despised by the "true" WH40k veterans? I doubt tau will be in as a DLC since there are more important additions to consider (chaos, IG, nids etc).
The best chance for tau (if ever) would be a "standalone-DLC" game à la "chaos rising".

[Regime]

Originally posted by Marty Chonks:

Isn't tau one of those "less favored" races made by GW as a bonus cash in, despised by the "true" WH40k veterans? I doubt tau will be in as a DLC since there are more important additions to consider (chaos, IG, nids etc).
The best chance for tau (if ever) would be a "standalone-DLC" game à la "chaos rising".

The Tau Empire was included in the "Dark Crusade" expansion.

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I don't know about other people, but the Tau Empire is what drew me to the Warhammer 40K universe.

The heroic Imperium of Man is interesting, but not really too interesting for me. The chainsaws and the bolt-style gun was pretty boring, and the lack of proper mechs (Things like the Terminator isn't too interesting.) was unattractive. The universe at 40,000 A.D. should have proper futuristic technology (I know that the Imperium used to have it, during the 'Dark Age of Technology'.), but I don't care too much about old-style.

The visuals of the weapon and armour are really clean-cut, minimalistic and properly futuristic.

Furthermore, the philosophy (albeit flawed and perhaps too idealistic and naive) of the Tau Empire is quite attractive.

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Sure, the Tau Empire could be a 'less favoured' space race/a 'bonus cash-in'/'despised by "true" WH40K veterans', but at the same time, it's a fantastic accessible point for new entrants.

If you really want a game to survive (after all, the survivability of Games Workshop and its corresponding IP is based off the ability to generate cash for upkeep and development.), then the existence of the Tau Empire should be tolerated at the very least, as it ensures that "new blood" are able to enter and sustain the IP.

[Marty Chonks]

@Regime I think you somewhat misunderstood what i was saying: i merely pointed out that tau is very unlikely to get a dlc in the near future, since there are "more important" or more followed races missing in dow 3 to begin with.

I personally quite like tau, and they are indeed unique to other races, it's just improbable that they get any attention soon.

Yes, tau were in dark crusade but you have to rememeber, dark crusade was the third game in dow anthology, and it took a while. Also, a race like nids, for example, didn't appear untill dow 2, simply because relic decided the dow 1 engine was not ready for them (although some nids mods worked rather well; ...not saying i would favor nids over tau in a dlc btw).

[Khoran Gutsplitter]

Originally posted by Marty Chonks:

@Regime I think you somewhat misunderstood what i was saying: i merely pointed out that tau is very unlikely to get a dlc in the near future, since there are "more important" or more followed races missing in dow 3 to begin with.

I personally quite like tau, and they are indeed unique to other races, it's just improbable that they get any attention soon.

Yes, tau were in dark crusade but you have to rememeber, dark crusade was the third game in dow anthology, and it took a while. Also, a race like nids, for example, didn't appear untill dow 2, simply because relic decided the dow 1 engine was not ready for them (although some nids mods worked rather well; ...not saying i would favor nids over tau in a dlc btw).

The Tau is the only faction which is developing new stuff and technologies at a fast rate while other factions like the Imperium is either doing it at a very slow rate or they are stagnating. Which makes the Tau slightly more interesting than the other factions since they are creating new toys for us to see.

I can clearly see why the Tau is a great faction to introduce new "fresh recruits" to the 40k universe since they are quite attractive when it comes to both technology, lore and how they look.

If you look at Battlefleet gothic: Armada a ton of players clearly wanted to see the Tau empire integrated into the game as a DLC, it was actually one of the most popular requests so you can't say that with a certainty. They are less favored race in the tabletop, but in videogames they are quite popular.

[Regime]

Originally posted by Chaosmarine55:

The Tau is the only faction which is developing new stuff and technologies at a fast rate while other factions like the Imperium is either doing it at a very slow rate or they are stagnating. Which makes the Tau slightly more interesting than the other factions since they are creating new toys for us to see.

I'm not too familiar with the Space Marines+Imperial Guards lore, but if I recall correctly, the Imperium of Man used to have incredibly advanced technology (after all, it's the year 40,000. The universe should've long moved on from bolt-based weaponry towards more advanced weapons systems like laser and pulse rifles.), during the "Dark Ages of Technology".

Something bad happened ("Horus Heresy"?) and then their technology regressed.

Originally posted by Chaosmarine55:

I can clearly see why the Tau is a great faction to introduce new "fresh recruits" to the 40k universe since they are quite attractive when it comes to both technology, lore and how they look.

If you look at Battlefleet gothic: Armada a ton of players clearly wanted to see the Tau empire integrated into the game as a DLC, it was actually one of the most popular requests so you can't say that with a certainty. They are less favored race in the tabletop, but in videogames they are quite popular.

I'm glad this is the case.

The Tau definitely make entering the 40K universe a lot more accessible and easier.

[Khoran Gutsplitter]

Back in the Age of Technology there was no Imperium, religion or Emperor (as far as we know). Humanity was said to be so advanced at that time that they had access to Black hole weaponry, yes literally weapons that shoots black holes. They were mostly used on their space ships, but there are also mentions of infantry using so called "black hole staffs" that literally shoots out miniature black holes which could also be used as a melee weapon, how they managed to make this weapon work without it sucking up a whole planet or solar system, we can only speculate.

It was also at this period that Psykers began to show up, but they were way less dangerous at that time since Chaos hadn't really come out yet. There is also mentions of "super lasers". It was at this time that humanity as a whole began to praise Science and progression as a "God".

The reason why humanity lost so much of their precious technology at the end of this massive period is namely because of the super intelligent robots known only as the "Men of Iron" which humanity made for one purpose only. To fight their enemies for them, so they don't have to do all the dirty work and also because humanity was so advanced and so mighty that they felt like it wasn't worth to fight their enemies anymore. It wen't perfect for many decades..until they suddenly one day turned their backs on humanity aka their masters, believing themselves superior to the Humans who relied on the Men of Iron to do virtually everything for them.

In the end the Men of Iron were destroyed, but at a huge cost at humanity's side. Most of their Technology was either lost or destroyed, communications between planets was cut short, (because it was after the conflict that the Warp storms began to appear) and untold billions or trillions of human lives were lost.