Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-211.26.90.118-20130728064425/@comment-211.26.90.27-20130804085950

Shas'o'Kais wrote: The Tau stomped the Covenant. What are you talking about. Crappy FTL for even in their own respective universe, who are renown for having one the worst FTL in Sci-Fi history. Pitifully small, even the UNSC covers 800+ worlds, the Covies encompass the entire Orion Arm. So small and so slow, that the Covies could cover their entire empire in 8 hours, while they need months or weeks to do the same. Their heavily outnumbered, that even the Jackals outnumber them 10 to 1. Industrial strength, well just no, too unfair to compare. Covie ships field in the hundreds, and they wouldn't even care if they lose 500 ships. The Tau may have firepower in the Terratons to Gigatons, but that won't change much if the Covie ships also has firepower in the Gigatons or high Megatons, and could swarm them 100 to 1.

The only thing the Tau have over the Covies is a bigger stick and more competent ground forces. Unfortunatley, said big stick can only destroy so much Covie ships before being completley drowned in numbers. Those groundforces are considered useless, since Covies always fight in space, and just glass them into orbit. With the further fact that it takes weeks to months for long range communication, the Tau with its pitiful FTL and and small size, would be on the defensive the entire time. I am sorry Shas, but if Sauroposeidon (A Tau Lover and Fanboy) admits that the Tau would get steamrolled in a few months or weeks, then what do you expect? The only Tau world that could survive the onslought for several months are those that are heavily defended.

I mean Shas don't get me wrong, the Tau will cause heavy casulties to the Covies, and they will win most land battles. But in all honesty, they cannot win a war of attrition and numbers. I mean God forbid if it was "Competent Covies". If even Factpile.com (The most bias thread for WH40K) agrees that the Covie wins, then really it shows you, that they WILL win.