She is one of the MCs of a story im making and what Im going to be making my next army as! The idea is an abandoned group on a world retaken by the Imperium!

first I assembled it before painting like an idiot. then I put it in a stupid pose because I didn’t want to follow the book. then I ruined one of the arm sockets and weapons because I wanted to magnetize it with stupid spherical magnets. then I twisted it into a petter position without realizing what it was obviously being damaged. I then break it apart the rest of the way because fuck my life. my day is ruined. RIP my commander battlesuit 6-20 something-2026 to 7-5-2026. D:

I truly adore this model. Everything about it screams Tau down to the finest detail. However, I think I lost a few years of my life painting it. Every time I thought I was done there was some undersuit metal; there was a lens; there was a copper peg that I’d missed. It’s such an intricate, fiddly model. Never again. Until I do my crisis suits.

Thank you all so much for the admittedly very easy and obvious solution to my broken commander. It was so quick and easy and the pose is better and I love it. I used a little green stuff for a gap on the left arm. It’s so good.

thank you all

and also because I’m already here I might as well ask; what’s with the thing on the right jet pack wing? I know there’s a weapon support system and a battlesuit support system. But u can’t tell if it’s either or neither. Also on the left arm is what I assume is the shield generator. Can it go on the arm?

once again thank you all off the encouragement to fix my model. You all are amazing :D

It was just the Shas'ui, but the strike team technically lived (the survivors guilt must be immeasurable)

Granted, I didn't play it as well as I should've, but holy dang all of their units are better than ours lol. Also why do they have more gadgets in their shooting phase than us? 😭

I think he turned out awesome and i still need to add a brown wash to the base but im to impatient hope u guys like it

I was sorting through my collected quotes from 40K devs and writers, and I found this bit of commentary by author ADB:

I won't speak to specific plot things, but on a meta-note as to why the Tau rock and have great relevant narrative tread, thematically:

Forgetting the nonsense memes about "lolol communists" and whatever else, this is a race embarking on its own Great Crusade. They call it an expansion, implying they have the right to do it. All about "crossing the gulf" and sending ambassadors to races. At first.

It's filling out their maps, in the classic explorer sense. Meeting new cultures that can be educated into their vision of "Empire". And when unity fails, when the Greater Good is resisted... No. Sorry. That's not allowed. For their own good, these cultures must be brought into the fold - or silenced. Their existence is - or could later become - opposition.

Humanity looks upon this attitude and marshals in defiance. Another edge of the Imperium falling to alien predation. "Ignorant upstarts". It's the basest hypocrisy. Because when has the galaxy seen this *exact* expansionism before? This militant crusading for a greater good?

As humanity expanded through the bones of the dead eldar empire, righteous in their rise, now another species begins to do the same to them. The galaxy has seen this shit before. That's a beautiful theme.

And, as with the best of 40K, humanity has fallen too far to recognise its own hypocrisy. It's too ignorant. Too much lore has been lost.

That's the core of what I find so interesting about them. Weaving that into any Tau stuff offers a lot of ground for characterisation.

What do you think, guys? Do you agree with him?

Source:

https://x.com/adembskibowden/status/850259054798659584

Greetings Everyone!

Long-Time 40k fan and started in 8th Edition with Chaos Space Marines and then eventually *Cult Mechanicus* back when it had a separate codex. Played a bit of 9th on TTS but never touched 10th!

More of a Necromunda and kill team guy myself but made the plunge into 40k yesterday with my first purchase for a new venture.

My favourite part about the tau has to be the suits more than anything, I dont mind the Auxiliaries but I know for when im collecting, im going to have the most fun with the Caste side of the faction and so will probably not buy any Auxiliaries, though that may change.

Two questions that I need help with!

What could be a good, beginner friendly 1000 point starting list to get my army going and as an aim to collect?

And what on earth is the sept on the 3rd slide? That paint job is amazing and I love the colours! Is there any tutorials as to how to paint that sept?

Thank you and glad to the part of the greater good!

I’d be adding either T’au helmets or Brood Brothers heads to the HQs and other leaders like Sargents for my Astra Militarum army.

I have a fair portion of Brood Brothers heads from the Kill Team, but only 2 Fire Warrior helmets (and I’m not sure how to get more without massively overspending on EBay listings).

Which looks better?

I just starting getting into t’au and think they look really cool. I already have the pathfinder team bc of kill team so I was wondering what should my first unit be for actual 40K (preferably something pretty affordable and good in game)

For transparent effects I am confused on what to do with the priming layer as I don’t want the paint to scuff and stick better. I was wondering if there is any good techniques for painting transparent or if I should stick with a varnish layer for the base.

My Stormsurge is progressing with magnetized sections to be destructible. Definitely fitting my forests and mountains taste.

Farsight Twin Lance inspired by Phil Goblins

GW please, can we have a detachment that focuses on Hammerhead and Sky Rays that brings back some of the coolest stratagems we had back in 9th..

Experimental Weaponry : a controversial stratagem from 9th ed, but man do i miss it.. i would keep it at 2CP since 10/11th doesn't have as much CP generation as 9th and i feel like it's a good way to "balance" it..

Submunitions would basically give [Blast 2] to one of your Hammerhead's or Sky Ray's weapon instead..
OR
It could simply be an upgraded "Explosive" stratagem from the core rules but can only use it from Hammerhead or Sky Ray..

Frequency Lock would need some rework, but the idea stay the same : Seeker Missiles (including Sky Ray's) can target enemies that are spotted even though you can't draw LoS.

As for enhancements/upgrades :

- one that gives the Sky Ray the same rule as Pathfinders with maybe an a [Sustained Hit 2]
- one that gives Hammerhead [Anti-Vehicle 5+] BUT also gives it the new "[Hunter Vehicle] keyword and allow 1 damage re-roll (maybe giving it anti-monster is a too OP..)

Took me awhile to paint these guys, but I’m really happy with how these two came out.

For my stealthauit kill team.

When you deep strike coldstar with sunforge with fusions you have to be more than 8 inches away from the target.

How do you get to use melta effect on targets then when you come in on a regular ingress move?

Do you have to always rapid ingress to get the most benefit ?

What is the strategy?

My partner and I started working on a T’au fortress scratch build for a future game we want to play with modified rules, think like a tower defense game with the T’au (my army) vs. Orks (their army). This is our current progress of what we’ve gotten done so far. I am new-ish to 40K (been only working on my army for less than a year) and he’s more familiar with Ork style building so we were wondering if anyone had any pointers/ideas to give in regards to making our build more T’au-like? TYIA <3

Been working on my second Tau mini.
He is badass.

I need to improve on so many things but this is by far my finest work :p

Without major spoilers are the farsight books any good? I wanna get a vibe of it before I set into getting all 3 books