Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-211.26.90.118-20130728064425/@comment-211.26.90.27-20130804092229

I also forgot, to the Tau have orbital defences like the UNSC? Because those would be useless, as the Covenant has been shown to bypass those defences by Slipspace, and they would suddenly appear in their main city in the hundreds, and then glass it.

Think of the Tau as NAZI Germany, and the Covies as the USSR. Except now imagine the NAZI's have all their tech, but with no fuel to run those tech.