Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150220210346/@comment-6078851-20150227182122

when i said humans and eldar were friendly ally's i didn't mean the bestest of bosom-buddies, but just allies who's relations weren't hostile. the eldar would still have considered themselves superior but they carry with them still a remnant of the old ones' ethos of helping 'lesser' species (or at least they did but are probably too few these days to give a damn about anyone but themselves and thwarting chaos). again i can't give a direct source but i definitely read about this alliance on this wiki.

and yeah there are a lot of 'ifs' :) but as i say it's an idea and i'm playing devils advocate. but i didn't say non-warp travel but non-astronomican travel: warp travel is still usable as long as they have gellar fields. the problems arise from the distance/time travelled within the warp - neighbouring systems can utelise warp travel relatively safely with very small 'dips' into the 'shallows' of warpspace, whereas long journey's have to travel through the 'deep' warp and need the astronomican (or any device mimicing it) as a reference point to avoid being lost.

i think we've discussed this enough though, and since i can't remember sources my points are just opinion until/unless i find the relevant articles.

i have to disagree that the tau were lucky in the tyranids showing up though, all that did was give them a reprieve. the bulk of tyranids in the milky way are entering from the 'eastern/south eastern' direction, and the tau occupy a very small area in the 'southeastern' quadrant. yeah they didn't get pounded by the imperium but now they have to watch, in considerable anxiety i'd think, as the surrounding sectors of space are consumed by tyranids, and are surely awaiting when they start to home-in on tau territory. at which point mr wolf says 'it's dinnertime' :P