Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150406151006/@comment-201.227.2.17-20160614130230

I really don't understand why Tau is held in so much contempt. The Tau Empire is awesome: amazing plot-line, advanced mecha, unique approach to warfare - tactics and strategies resembling true military techniques used in modern day warfare, by that I mean 21st century. The best part of all -IN MY PERSONAL OPINION - is that they are also a highly evolved species; technologically rather than biologically like the Tyranids.

On another matter, the Tau had defeated the nids twice before: Hive fleet Gorgon and most recently by the Farsight Enclaves. See Farsight Enclaves Codex approved handbook.

which states:

997.M41 The Jaws of the Kraken

The Tyranids of Hive Fleet Kraken penetrate the boundaries of the Farsight Enclaves. War is joined against the Tyranids on Vior’los, most populous of the enclave sept

worlds. Commander Farsight comes out of exile in order to lead the defence, and sees that the Tau need heroes now more than ever before. Farsight’s favoured Mont’ka tactics prove largely ineffective against the Tyranid hordes – their leader figures are so common as to render the strategy moot. The Earth caste scientist O’Vesa persuades Farsight to try Kauyon, the strategy of the Patient Hunter, and Farsight reluctantly agrees. Whilst defending an Earth caste research facility with seven of his most trusted commanders, Farsight buys O’Vesa enough time to develop a bio-toxin that kills the entire splinter fleet.



998.M41 The Revelation of Kauyon

In finally mastering the greater scope of Puretide’s teachings, Commander Farsight acquires insight into the tactics of Shadowsun and Aun’Va. He meditates long on the fact that the entire Damocles Gulf war was in fact one giant application of Kauyon, drawing the Imperium into Tau

space and then hitting it hard whilst it was overstretched. O’Shovah learns a new respect for Aun’Va, though he knows that the truth of the Ethereal’s great plan must never be revealed to the populace.

Conclusion: I do think that with their ever evolving technology The Tau Empire can come up with some serious firepower to stop the nids on their tracks like their newly developed Tau'nar Supremacy Armor designed for static defense with overbearing firepower plus their unusually flexible approach to warfare allows them to engage the foe applying the maximum amount of damage while mitigating their loses with unerring accuracy - not unlike the Imperium whose approach to war is as blunt as a power hammer plus the overall Imperial Guard tactics means free buffet to the Nids. So yeah the Tau stand a chance against the Nids.