Am I the only one who doesn't see the connection between anime and the Tau? I think Tau look more like they're out of an old sci-fi show (yeah, I know the setting is already sci-fi) or battletech. Why are the Tau considered the weeaboo army?
i once joined this legend of the five rings campaign with some dudes i met through the local gaming store.
rokugan, the setting L5R, is like this pastiche of fuedal east asian cultures, mostly japan but with having strong chinese elements and stuff.
it's a fantastic setting with years of material for it
i saw a dude get bounced from the second game session because the GM got so sick of listening to his weeaboo faggotry bitching about every historically inaccurate point of the setting or characters or whatever in a game that's a frickin' fantasy setting
and anytime people talk about adding Cathay or Nippon as armies to Warhammer Fantasy, that kind of garbage is the first shit that I think of.
Am I the only one who doesn't see the connection between anime and the Tau? I think Tau look more like they're out of an old sci-fi show (yeah, I know the setting is already sci-fi) or battletech. Why are the Tau considered the weeaboo army?
because they have mecha, and their mecha and tech are intentionally designed to actually have an appearance evocative of anime and manga. Jes Goodwin, the guy who sculpted the original Tau units and was heavily involved in their art design, has said openly that this was intentional.
Am I the only one who doesn't see the connection between anime and the Tau? I think Tau look more like they're out of an old sci-fi show (yeah, I know the setting is already sci-fi) or battletech. Why are the Tau considered the weeaboo army?
because they have mecha, and their mecha and tech are intentionally designed to actually have an appearance evocative of anime and manga. Jes Goodwin, the guy who sculpted the original Tau units and was heavily involved in their art design, has said openly that this was intentional.
Oh man really.
That sucks clearly that means they should get rid of the tau we can't go putting anime in with our Gothic sci-fi even if it kinda fits nicely in it's little niche.
imperial guard are a lot, lot more complex to paint.
you can get pretty lazy with Tau.
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edited June 2007
Well, do you want to kill 'nids or be eaten alive by them? Because that is the major difference I have observed.
I hate Tau so much. Not as bad as Necrons or Eldar though. Those two just fucking perforate me. At least I rip through two squads of fire warriors with a single 'stealer.
Even if the guy says it was his intention, I still don't see it. If all it takes is mecha for a race to be labelled weaboo, then atleast half of WH40k is. Orks have Killa Kans, Imperial Guard has Sentinels, Eldar have the War Walker (which looks like Zentradi from Macross), and to a much lesser extent the Space Marines have Dreadnoughts. I'm not trying to start anything on how unaccurately Warhammer is to Mecha anime, but I just don't see why Tau are the weeaboo army for having mecha.
Even if the guy says it was his intention, I still don't see it. If all it takes is mecha for a race to be labelled weaboo, then atleast half of WH40k is. Orks have Killa Kans, Imperial Guard has Sentinels, Eldar have the War Walker (which looks like Zentradi from Macross), and to a much lesser extent the Space Marines have Dreadnoughts. I'm not trying to start anything on how unaccurately Warhammer is to Mecha anime, but I just don't see why Tau are the weeaboo army for having mecha.
uh
he intentionally modelled their mecha and body armor off anime he watched and stuff
the army as a whole was given a visual design aesthetic specifically engineered to appeal to anime fans and stuff because anime is getting pretty big
just because you don't see it personally doesn't mean it's not there and other people see it.
Even if the guy says it was his intention, I still don't see it. If all it takes is mecha for a race to be labelled weaboo, then atleast half of WH40k is. Orks have Killa Kans, Imperial Guard has Sentinels, Eldar have the War Walker (which looks like Zentradi from Macross), and to a much lesser extent the Space Marines have Dreadnoughts. I'm not trying to start anything on how unaccurately Warhammer is to Mecha anime, but I just don't see why Tau are the weeaboo army for having mecha.
The Tau was originally designed by Games Workshop to have a streamlined design to draw Asian markets in. It kind of failed, and Space Marines are by far the most popular army to that market.
My faggotry aside, I think there's probably a better mecha to compare Tau to than the zaku. Aside from the mono-eye and how the infantry has armor over it's shoulder, they look nothing alike.
the tau were intentionally designed to appeal to the asian market and to anime fans, and were given a visual design specifically intended to invoke mecha anime (and, to an extent, chinese foot soldiers for Tau Infantry)
regardless of whatever you think on the subject, that's the fact of it.
that's why people regard them as a weeaboo army, because they were designed to appeal to asians (which they generally don't, anyway) and weeaboos, who actually do play them. I have seen weeaboo fags who play Tau at the local store who got into 40k specifically because of the Tau.
There are old 40k grognards who also don't like Tau because the Tau are bright, futuristic, and have a generally positive, if not somewhat passively sinister, outlook. They aren't in decay, they are on the rise, which puts them in very sharp contrast with basically the entire 40k universe. Which, again, is an intended design thing, but not one that some of the old hardcore 40k fans like. They like the darkness and the decay, and the shiny "Greater Good" types cock that all up.
Alright, that makes sense. It's just that whenever Tau are brought up, people seem to go "it has mecha omg weeaboo" and it didn't make too much sense. I've never really played WH and thus never had to deal with people who got into it because of Tau, but I can imagine what they'd be like if they chose Tau based on what you're saying.
the tau were intentionally designed to appeal to the asian market and to anime fans, and were given a visual design specifically intended to invoke mecha anime (and, to an extent, chinese foot soldiers for Tau Infantry)
regardless of whatever you think on the subject, that's the fact of it.
that's why people regard them as a weeaboo army, because they were designed to appeal to asians (which they generally don't, anyway) and weeaboos, who actually do play them. I have seen weeaboo fags who play Tau at the local store who got into 40k specifically because of the Tau.
There are old 40k grognards who also don't like Tau because the Tau are bright, futuristic, and have a generally positive, if not somewhat passively sinister, outlook. They aren't in decay, they are on the rise, which puts them in very sharp contrast with basically the entire 40k universe. Which, again, is an intended design thing, but not one that some of the old hardcore 40k fans like. They like the darkness and the decay, and the shiny "Greater Good" types cock that all up.
Like two pages later you're still going.
Reel it in there fella.
you've got an army with high mobility, high strength-weapons, and enormous range, and all anyone does is turtle in the deployment zone and pick things off with their 72' inch range S10 Broadsides
I have a pretty even win-loss ratio against Tau, IG and Khorne/Nurgle armies at the only ones I have difficulty with. But every game plays the exact same way. Lord Teleports into their deployment zone with a block of Warriors, Monolith Ports in, and the rest of the army drags it's ass over the board. Usually that block that ports in is enough once they get into close combat. The thing that really bugs me is that 50% of Tau players refuse to play any kind of mission, since that might mean moving.
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edited June 2007
Ehh.. Tau did an odd thing where they sorta co-opted some of the main traits found in other armies and doing them so much better. Being the IG's tendency to be the long-range gunline army which eschews close combat, and the Eldar's ridiculous mobility with their firepower.
not that I'm complaining, because I've taken quite the liking to them since the new codex came out.
When I played 40K, my strategy was all about moving pathfinders around in the transport tank and meltabombing/smart missile-ing the crap out of stuff while my Kroots keep CC troops tied up and the firewarriors pick them off.
Hope you like marines, because it looks like loyalist vs traitor legions. 9.9
Nice. Though I wish the NGage 40k game got ported over.
Also, I like the Tau, they're like a shiny beacon of optimism in a universe of bad shit going down all the time, you just know it's going to end badly for them.
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Hope you like marines, because it looks like loyalist vs traitor legions. 9.9
Nice. Though I wish the NGage 40k game got ported over.
Also, I like the Tau, they're like a shiny beacon of optimism in a universe of bad shit going down all the time, you just know it's going to end badly for them.
by shining ray of hope, you actually mean iron-fisted space communists?
Hope you like marines, because it looks like loyalist vs traitor legions. 9.9
Nice. Though I wish the NGage 40k game got ported over.
Also, I like the Tau, they're like a shiny beacon of optimism in a universe of bad shit going down all the time, you just know it's going to end badly for them.
Hope you like marines, because it looks like loyalist vs traitor legions. 9.9
Nice. Though I wish the NGage 40k game got ported over.
Also, I like the Tau, they're like a shiny beacon of optimism in a universe of bad shit going down all the time, you just know it's going to end badly for them.
by shining ray of hope, you actually mean iron-fisted space communists?
Yeah, but they smile when they're doing it. Of all the races they seem to treat their own the best.
and on a side note, i dig the look of the tau. and when i got a chance to play with them i liked to move around.
i also use a unit of kroot with krootox. get behind a nice wood feature and shoot to your hearts desire..sure they may not hit much but 12 shots + krootox shots..some shits gonna die and if you need to assault roll it.
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Tau players who sit in the deployment zone and pew pew things are just asking to be assualted with turbo boosting scarabs/jetpacks/jetbikes/e.t.c. All the best tau aryms ive seen use the whole hypermoblie thing with lots of kroot and battlesuits running circles aorund people.
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I do not know.
But some weeaboos play them.
It's gay.
rokugan, the setting L5R, is like this pastiche of fuedal east asian cultures, mostly japan but with having strong chinese elements and stuff.
it's a fantastic setting with years of material for it
i saw a dude get bounced from the second game session because the GM got so sick of listening to his weeaboo faggotry bitching about every historically inaccurate point of the setting or characters or whatever in a game that's a frickin' fantasy setting
and anytime people talk about adding Cathay or Nippon as armies to Warhammer Fantasy, that kind of garbage is the first shit that I think of.
because they have mecha, and their mecha and tech are intentionally designed to actually have an appearance evocative of anime and manga. Jes Goodwin, the guy who sculpted the original Tau units and was heavily involved in their art design, has said openly that this was intentional.
Oh man really.
That sucks clearly that means they should get rid of the tau we can't go putting anime in with our Gothic sci-fi even if it kinda fits nicely in it's little niche.
i was actually going to make a tau army before i decided to go necrons
they are appealing
the only problem is they also kind of appeal to people who are
shall we call them
faggots.
that's not a valid reason to dislike them, but hey, ask why people consider them the weeaboo army, that's why
they're both "shooty" armies
imperial guard are a lot, lot more complex to paint.
you can get pretty lazy with Tau.
I hate Tau so much. Not as bad as Necrons or Eldar though. Those two just fucking perforate me. At least I rip through two squads of fire warriors with a single 'stealer.
uh
he intentionally modelled their mecha and body armor off anime he watched and stuff
the army as a whole was given a visual design aesthetic specifically engineered to appeal to anime fans and stuff because anime is getting pretty big
just because you don't see it personally doesn't mean it's not there and other people see it.
The Tau was originally designed by Games Workshop to have a streamlined design to draw Asian markets in. It kind of failed, and Space Marines are by far the most popular army to that market.
that is what i have always thought of
whenever i caught that gundam cartoon with them things in the first picture, and then i saw tau years later, it was like, hey, they look alike
in conclusion you're a faggot geo
the tau were intentionally designed to appeal to the asian market and to anime fans, and were given a visual design specifically intended to invoke mecha anime (and, to an extent, chinese foot soldiers for Tau Infantry)
regardless of whatever you think on the subject, that's the fact of it.
that's why people regard them as a weeaboo army, because they were designed to appeal to asians (which they generally don't, anyway) and weeaboos, who actually do play them. I have seen weeaboo fags who play Tau at the local store who got into 40k specifically because of the Tau.
There are old 40k grognards who also don't like Tau because the Tau are bright, futuristic, and have a generally positive, if not somewhat passively sinister, outlook. They aren't in decay, they are on the rise, which puts them in very sharp contrast with basically the entire 40k universe. Which, again, is an intended design thing, but not one that some of the old hardcore 40k fans like. They like the darkness and the decay, and the shiny "Greater Good" types cock that all up.
and my god in heaven do I hate people pointing out real world inconsistencies in a fake world.
they are actually quite similar.
they are pretty neat
but i can look at them, think of any generic jap shit and say "yep, that's them alright"
and the pictures look pretty similar to me whooooops
oh yeah, I could see that.
Yeah my buddy is thinking about getting into 40k with the tau. Seems pretty cool. Shouldn't be too tough to paint either, by the looks of them.
Like two pages later you're still going.
Reel it in there fella.
you've got an army with high mobility, high strength-weapons, and enormous range, and all anyone does is turtle in the deployment zone and pick things off with their 72' inch range S10 Broadsides
real fun to play against
did I do that?
I just said I don't like the way Tau plays
not that I'm complaining, because I've taken quite the liking to them since the new codex came out.
Saying that a certain race is only played in one manner is a sweeping generalization
yeah, but not about the players
http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/19-06-2007-5753.html
Hope you like marines, because it looks like loyalist vs traitor legions. 9.9
When I played 40K, my strategy was all about moving pathfinders around in the transport tank and meltabombing/smart missile-ing the crap out of stuff while my Kroots keep CC troops tied up and the firewarriors pick them off.
Nice. Though I wish the NGage 40k game got ported over.
Also, I like the Tau, they're like a shiny beacon of optimism in a universe of bad shit going down all the time, you just know it's going to end badly for them.
by shining ray of hope, you actually mean iron-fisted space communists?
i also use a unit of kroot with krootox. get behind a nice wood feature and shoot to your hearts desire..sure they may not hit much but 12 shots + krootox shots..some shits gonna die and if you need to assault roll it.
On the other hand, Orks.