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Yes, his stuff is some good literature, not just for 40K, but for novels as a whole.
Fire Caste shows both humans and Tau at their lowest, throwing bodies in a useless shithole for no other reason than to dispose of broken soldiers.
Speaking of literature, check up Trial of the Mantis Warriors, aka the one good thing C.S. Goto wrote.
Shame there is no Votann in the Trailer, other than Mechanicum 2, I don't think we got a proper animated visual of them. I did like the short Craftworld shot.
The Tau make for boring lore and so get fuck all for novels/etc even as antagonists. Nobody cares about them off the tabletop and I've never even met a Tau player who liked them for their lore vs their gameplay/aesthetic.
It's a dead end as a faction and so they never bother updating their lore or answering questions like 'so how do the Tau deal with necrons, tyranids, chaos, etc' because nobody likes the dorky looking blue faggots.
And everyone hated early Tau lore so much they sort of just hand waved them to be more evil like everyone else, so fuck em. Wanting Tau books is like wanting Dark Eldar novels.
The Tau make for boring lore and so get fuck all for novels/etc even as antagonists. Nobody cares about them off the tabletop and I've never even met a Tau player who liked them for their lore vs their gameplay/aesthetic.
I’ve been enjoying assembling the Legions Imperialis starter box. It’s 30K so only Imperial Army and Space Marines though. Does anyone know of any good sources for models GW hasn’t released for that line? I’d like to find similar scale 40K stuff.
The Tau make for boring lore and so get fuck all for novels/etc even as antagonists. Nobody cares about them off the tabletop and I've never even met a Tau player who liked them for their lore vs their gameplay/aesthetic.
It's a dead end as a faction and so they never bother updating their lore or answering questions like 'so how do the Tau deal with necrons, tyranids, chaos, etc' because nobody likes the dorky looking blue faggots.
And everyone hated early Tau lore so much they sort of just hand waved them to be more evil like everyone else, so fuck em. Wanting Tau books is like wanting Dark Eldar novels.
As a relative newcomer who likes the guard, Fire Warriors and some of the mechs are cool tbh, i think the vehicles are my only miss when it comes to the fish people
I thought the new animation trailer hyping the release of 11th edition was neat. It was cool to get another official visuals of the emperor, especially in 3d form. I do wonder if they're teasing he'll do another rare action of nudging some big event or are they hyping him up for a newer model.
I probably missed it, but I didn't notice any primarchs show in the trailer, both loyal or chaos corrupted ones. Cause I do wonder if we'll get the Guilliman and Lion meet up in 11th edition era or be something way further down the line.
I have mixed feelings on it. I don't regret reading it, there is some good shit here, and one EPICLY good scene in the last book but its uneven in quality I think. ill try to get my thoughts organized.
It starts out as a direct sequel to Blade of damocles which is great. We get the full progression of Farsight going from loyalist to renegade and that's definitely one of the better parts of the series. The whole thing really starts out as a disagreement in policy. The Ethereal's keep sticking their noses in Farsight's face and making tactical decisions he doesn't agree with. It starts out as doubt, leads into a vote of no confidence in their ability to lead and eventually outright becomes hate at the end.
Blade was probably the best one, followed by Crisis and empire of lies. My biggest problem was probably the pacing with the flashbacks, and odd sense of timing. There's sort of a disconnection between certain scenes because the Tau make heavy use of cryotech as they slowly crawl across the galaxy. One thing I haven't really talked about in the Tau books is the odd terminology they have for time that got kinda annoying in this. Things cant simply be described in hours/days/years. No they have to have some made up language of cycles that you have to look up in the glossary. Made things a bit disjointed. The biggest pet peeve I had was them teasing FS getting to the demon planet a full book ahead of when it happened.
Character wise The continuing relationship between Farsight and his half dead squad of Frankenstein creations is interesting. but I couldn't help but wish there was a bit more there in-between all the fights and action. Just a little bit more Angst from the guy who constantly gets cloned, or the living dreadnaught covered in burns about how to live in peacetime. There's a token human character in this brought over from blades. a secret inquisitor chick that full on defects to Farsight. I kept getting frustrated , because she really doesn't do that much. Part of it is the Tau's reluctance to make another race part of the command structure and part of it is her constantly getting hounded by tzeentch. There is some ambiguity on how much of her desire to help Farsight is genuine and how much of it is influenced by Tzeentch which was interesting. I just felt like her character didn't do that much despite being in all the books. Oh and there's a minor lesbian reveal at the end that had me going "was this really necessary?"
She had a cool death though.
The big problem for me was while blade of truth had the best scenes in the series, it also had some of the dumbest lore retcon's I was having trouble excusing. I really was hoping we would get a firsthand look at what the Farsight enclave's government looked like and we don't.
So get this: Farsight silently rebels by not going back to Tau space after being mandated to do so with his entire force when his Ethereal's die. This is less of an outright act of succession and more of a desire to escape their meddling and create a successful colony that will thrive without restrictions. FS basically lost faith in their ability to lead when they made the dumbass decision to land on a demon planet against his recommendation, hide intel on what exactly he was fighting and get themselves killed ( this is building on top of a bunch of other questionable decisions they've made,.) Near the end of his presumed lifespan and not wishing to be a dictator, FS goes into exile and tries to live out his remaining days as a hermit. this goes on FOR 100 YEARS.
Yeah, so it turns out Farsight hasn't been leading his enclaves for very long. His buddies are all still alive due to nanomachines and being in Cryo until war shit happens, but how the hell are the Enclaves still running? what's the system of government? Beats me. I think the implication is they didn't change a dam thing from before, they just let people keep going without the Ethereal's to watch over their backs and be a bit more liberal. So anyway, people are like wtf Farsight? how are you still alive? And he just assumes its
Now the best part in the series. The part that made me wish there was a whole dam book about it, was the Trial of Farsight.
That shit is worth reading by itself. So FS is in the middle of trying to repel a Nid invasion after a 100 years of hanging out in the desert. But while everyone is getting eaten, the homeland decides now is a good time to pick him up for an indictment.
What follows is some of the coolest and most illuminating shit about the true nature of the Tau government and leadership. This really is the moment that pulls back the curtain on what's really going on with them and I loved every second of it. They first try to get FS to kill himself by showing every campaign failure he ever had and whispering in his ear that suicide is cool bro. Farsight for probably the first time in their races history tells them
No.
He meets the leader of the Tau Aun'Va and tells him to his face in front of the elemental council that he is a tyrant.
It's awesome. The Aun gets so pissed off and flustered he straight up confirms that he's a warmongering dictator that uses the pretext of the greater good to get what he wants. A petty tyrant that obsessively thought polices the population and is completely unwilling to tolerate the slightest bit of rebellion in thought or deed. The peaceful first contact with humanity via the silken conquest? Nothing more then a pretext to incite the imperium into attacking the empire and overextending themselves. The Aun is arrogant enough to think the ultramarines aborted their attack on damocles because of superior Tau response rather then the nids attacking ultramar.
So much expanded lore is answered and debated in this scene. Psykers are even mentioned at one point when the Aun dismissively refers to the ally xeno races being enough to handle the dangers of chaos.
FS pisses this guy off so much he drops any pretense of fairplay and orders him killed in trial by combat. Then the coolest scene happens in the book. A scene so badass it completely elevated my opinion of a certain character.
Farsight gets saved by Aun shi. The Ethereal who knows how to melee. Dude basically proves to FS that while their leadership is corrupt, The average Ethereal's are mostly just people. The Aun was keeping the elemental council in line with lies and threats. The verbal sparing FS got into basically exposed him as a piece of shit in front of the entire council. Really great bit of world building from Kelly and it disproves allegations that he overtly makes the Ethereal's evil.
Just a fantastic scene overall.
Chaos was interesting. They have the best showing in first book when they outright corrupt a water caste guy and he becomes a demon. He had to directly touch an active warp drive and be the Tau equivalent of a bullied autist for it to take, but it was cool. He killed a bunch of random people for shits and giggles and was able to harness the warp. But FS manages to kill the shit out of him by somehow seeing into the future and carving a ward into his flesh. The whole theme of Chaos trying to play the long game of corrupting Farsight was neat. They really try to pull a Horus on him and get royally pissed off when he takes a third option, remains independent and hangs up his sword. But at the end they seem pretty happy to see him get back in the saddle.... It was interestingly subtle but there's a clear indication chaos is slowly trying to use or corrupt the enclaves for their own ends.
They have no religious or institutional safeguards to protect themselves against it, there should be Chaos cults running ragged all over the place in their joke of an empire.
The religious safeguard basically is the ethereal's. they are the thing that calms their people down when shit goes south. There's a scene in one of the books where there's a colony drop about to happen at a train station and all the tau panic and trample one another until the Ethereal's show up and calm everyone down (and basically allow themselves to die)
I'm very close to the end of this one and have enjoyed it so much I've bought both Dark Coil collections. The insidious nature of chaos is done really well.
I kinda like how chaos is so fucked up in these books that it comes across as a whole other entity separate from the norm. There's a moment where a chaos sorcerer in a night lords short story looks at a kid infected with this shit and is uncomfortable with the prospect of recruiting him.
I thought the new animation trailer hyping the release of 11th edition was neat. It was cool to get another official visuals of the emperor, especially in 3d form. I do wonder if they're teasing he'll do another rare action of nudging some big event or are they hyping him up for a newer model.
Rare? He inhabited Guilliman's body and fucked up Mortarion in the Dark Imperium books, I thought? From what I've seen, he's been pretty active all things considered.
