Originally by: Whitehound

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If I think, but I do not.

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Originally by: Finnroth

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Edited by: Finnroth on 03/08/2009 22:29:52
Tau of course, overwhelming firepower > all.

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Originally by: Zyck

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Originally by: Finnroth

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Tau of course, overwhelming firepower > all.

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Except of course when an enemy soldier gets lost, wanders into your line, and all of your guys die when he accidentally sneezes on them and the concussion rips them apart.

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Originally by: Paulo Damarr

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That is a most Excellent Drake fitting, you are lucky to have survived.

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Originally by: Kirra Liu

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If I had to choose I would have to say the Romulans.

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Originally by: Wendat Huron

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Wouldn't that be faction? Space Marines and Imperial Guard are both human are they not?

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Originally by: Irida Mershkov

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Originally by: Wendat Huron

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Wouldn't that be faction? Space Marines and Imperial Guard are both human are they not?

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No, Space Marines are the pinnacle of generic Mary Sue culture. The Guard are awesome.

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Originally by: NEWB SKWAD

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Dark Eldar. :)

I get the weirdest looks when I go to stores and ask about new stuff. Most of the workers at my local store haven't even seen any DE stuff, outside of pictures and my own collection. Kind of sad, really.

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Originally by: Zeba

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[...] and the Tau firepower is simply devastating when properly microed. Plus a Knarloc can take out a Monolith solo and still eat the rest of the leftover army for dessert. This is based on the rts games though as I don't have the desire to literally build my army from scratch at a cost of hundreds or even thousands of dollars then find someone else who arsed themselves to do the same thing so we can meet somewhere to fight on a big table moving one unit at a time and maually doing every calculation to determine the outcome.

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Originally by: Istvaan Shogaatsu

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DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR!

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Originally by: Finnroth

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Edited by: Finnroth on 04/08/2009 14:29:03

Originally by: Zeba

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[...] and the Tau firepower is simply devastating when properly microed. Plus a Knarloc can take out a Monolith solo and still eat the rest of the leftover army for dessert. This is based on the rts games though as I don't have the desire to literally build my army from scratch at a cost of hundreds or even thousands of dollars then find someone else who arsed themselves to do the same thing so we can meet somewhere to fight on a big table moving one unit at a time and maually doing every calculation to determine the outcome.

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While my experience comes form TT AND DoW, i find Tau in general have pretty nice tactical options to deal with nearly anything. Most times you can rescue your units with a good equipped crisis team and your commander (HQ in TT) or outmaneuver your enemy with your kroot troops (which is not that easy in the TT because the more Kroot the less firepower you have left). Also every Firewarrior troop needs its own transport vehicle.

Edit, as a logical consequence, my second most played race is Eldar.

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Originally by: Irida Mershkov

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Originally by: Finnroth

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Edited by: Finnroth on 04/08/2009 14:29:03

Originally by: Zeba

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[...] and the Tau firepower is simply devastating when properly microed. Plus a Knarloc can take out a Monolith solo and still eat the rest of the leftover army for dessert. This is based on the rts games though as I don't have the desire to literally build my army from scratch at a cost of hundreds or even thousands of dollars then find someone else who arsed themselves to do the same thing so we can meet somewhere to fight on a big table moving one unit at a time and maually doing every calculation to determine the outcome.

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While my experience comes form TT AND DoW, i find Tau in general have pretty nice tactical options to deal with nearly anything. Most times you can rescue your units with a good equipped crisis team and your commander (HQ in TT) or outmaneuver your enemy with your kroot troops (which is not that easy in the TT because the more Kroot the less firepower you have left). Also every Firewarrior troop needs its own transport vehicle.

Edit, as a logical consequence, my second most played race is Eldar.

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This, pretty much, Tau are very good at mobile firepower, once seen a Tau player in TT try to Outgunline an Imperial Guard player.

Basalisks sorted that out in short order, was painful to watch.

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I have yet to see a single person collect Dark Eldar in the flesh, over here not even the guys at Games Workshop bother with them, it's like they were the uber mistake. The codex still has "SECOND EDITION!!" printed on the side.

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Originally by: NEWB SKWAD

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When I started, they were brand spankin' new. I really like them- the flavor appeals to me, and the tactics either work amazingly well or amazingly poorly. The ability to move my entire army around the board at will, in a single turn, is far too awesome for me to pass up. I use the maneuverability to counter the extreme paper-thin-blow-down-in-a-strong-wind-I-hope-they-don't-spit-on-me stuff they call "armor". That, and DE give me something different than everyone else, and that gives me an edge. There's something to be said for that.

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Originally by: Brujo Loco

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I must say I have never ever seen, on my limited experience anyone play Dark Eldar, only once, and against an ork army of mine. A group of lousy filthy goblins killing centuries old bladed wielding witches in one fell swoop was the most demoralizing thing ever that happened to my opponent, specially after I remarked it , he tried the same psychout on me later when using orks against my space marines, but he never ever tried the dark eldars again

Yeah, dark eldars are kinda rare. Fun background lore tho, and the edge of using a diff army on some people is something that I admire.

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Originally by: Dau Imperius

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one of their ships utilising some other form of space travel then the warp. That in itself is something the Imperium needs.

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Originally by: Jhagiti Tyran

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Originally by: Dau Imperius

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one of their ships utilising some other form of space travel then the warp. That in itself is something the Imperium needs.

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Gonna be really geeky and explain this the Tau dont have any psykers which precludes any Tau having the navigator gene so they have no way of navigating through the warp, instead of using geller feild technology and thier starships fully entering the warp they make short skips between the boundary layers of the material universe and the warp and consequently it takes them much longer to get anywhere.

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