VLOG: Expanding the Tau Empire
July 23, 2015 by warzan
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Name of the detachment could be a ‘Band’ after a group of Gorrillas. Name their squads after things like ‘Silverback’ or maybe that would be their vehicles?
To Wiki!
Bring back AT-43!
The name for ‘Group of Apes’: ‘Grapes’….
The Grapes of Wrath?
collective noun for Gorillas – Whoop (or sometimes Troop)
I thought YES! You are giving AT-43 a fair spin :p would be cool if you could make a segment on the show where you test older, even defunct systems .. in the spirit the of “the system isnt dead system isnt dead just because its been abandoned” 🙂
And i must have started to stutter without anyway to edit .. sorry
Planet of origin: Argentum tergum in the Clyde sector
Detachment is led by a ceaser and is organized into troops. A troop can be either a Hear, See or Speak roughly correlating to Assault, Heavies and All Rounders.
Should have a berzerker rule when they go ape…
Prefered Enemey should be Bad Moons ork clans, on account that they look like nearly ripe bananas from a distance, but clearly are not when seen up close which triggers a rage in them (see previous go ape rule).
Have mist generators which makes them surprisingly stealthy.
Imperial Fists would have to run away as they are yellow also. That’s not a banana you want to peel in a hurry lol.
they could be minions? the natural enemy of the banana?
I thought I’d have a bash at this one: “It has been postulated that the Gilaero are an offshoot of the Jokaero species. Where the latter are regarded as one of the most highly technologically advanced races in the galaxy who are also generally peaceful and only create for their immediate needs. The Gilaero like thier cozens, are a nomadic species wondering through the galaxy seemingly at random and possess in innate understanding of technology. Here all similarities end. Rather than being creatures capable of incredible acts of engineering, the Gilaero are regarded as fierce warriors who will offer their… Read more »
it would make sense for them to be an offshoot, if they have similarities
Love the direction your taking with 40K, keep it up.
I’d say name them Cryptid.
Species: Mir-Ka (also Mirka, Mirchar, or Mirankar) Planet: Kigoma I think it would be interesting if women and men had different tones of hair (I know they are pre-painted so that saves you painting them, but maybe wash the fur with an ink) I think females are the warrior caste while males are the ‘pilot’ cast. So the technical stuff is male caste and the brute force is female. To that end: A warrior cast is a: Graueri (Gr-ow-er-eye) A Pilot cast is a: Beringei (Bear-ing-eye) A squad of warriors is a: Horn A squad of Pathfinders is a: Claw… Read more »
I second @apocryphal suggestion, that all sounds really cool
I used AT-43 Karman Wendigo’s as count-as Chaos Terminators in an Apocalypse game, they single handled held the entire left side of the board. Of course, there we kept out of sight of most big guns, and a squad of 15 in a formation doesn’t hurt.
The Karmans also have a unit with large guns mounted on their backs, perfect for Broadsides if you count the sold cannons as APFSDS rounds.
Race Name : Gora!!! ( Gorilla 😉 ) Vocabulary : Every name has just two syllables. For example Broadside -> Brode ; Stealth Suit -> Steit; Piranha -> Pra . The reason is they don’t like long words but rather short and punch talks ( literally sometimes ) since they were used to always run constantly thought the jungle and scream specific sounds when something important happened around them. Planet – Jun’l : Obviosly mostly jungle un the centre and two icy poles with big oceans that cross the entire planet around with a lot of small rivers everywhere. A… Read more »
A group of apes is called a shrewdness ( sorry a group of monkeys which technically not Apes is a Whoop (soz)) So the shrewdness could be its name. The planet is a huge rain forest world. (Not a death world like the Catachan probably spelt wrong.) Verdant and humidity ridden trees grow to hundreds of feet in the race for sky light. This is where the Shrewd live a race of extremely advanced which was brought forwards and above the other species in an attempt by the Tau to keep the world in its state of complete jungle to… Read more »
I don’t like the idea of these apes coming from an “Imperial Gothic”-named planet. They are a Tau faction from within the Tau Empire.
How about planet Macauqe (Like Macragge, but a Maquaque is a type of monkey.)
The apes are mainly white so they could be from Macauqe. 😉
I’d argue that in 40k most planets are named by the imperial explorators. As the xeno names would probably look like xzyyyqkvvfu. Plus don’t all tau units go by imperial designations?
Somehow “journey to the west” popped into my mind when Lloyd mentioned monkey because the tau are from the eastern fringes of the galaxy. Monkey king learned the way of the Tao 😉
The “Kong”
THEY ARE FROM AN ALTERNATE PLANET EARTH ITS SO OBVIOUS!!!!!!!!!
and its a TROOP of APES so its perfect DAMN DIRTY APES!!!!!! DAMN DIRTY TROOP OF APES!!!!! DDTA army DDTAA !!!!!!! AWESOMENESS!!!!!!! AWEEEEESOOOOOMEE!!! ok this was one of the best vlogs so far, i am truly fired up 🙂 thanks guys
I prefer Troop to perhaps a Shrewdness, but a troop applies mostly to gibbon’s, soz don’t like being all rivet counterish and proper, so lets just stick with what anyone wants to call them. Call the planet Rhesus.
As far as the gorilla thing ,Planet name :D’Fossey VII, Race: Rwan-Dains: Military units: Troop, Platoon: Band, Sergeant: Silverback
[b]The Karmans[/b] Karmans are an alien simian, once subservient to the old ones, their “creators” but soon emerged as an independent force on their own. Originally intended as a project of the Old ones to strip planets of resources rapidly through the “seeding” of rapidly industrialising societies, the Karman experiment failed after the race came to “Enlightenment”. After seeing the destruction their own evolutionary path was taking them, the Karman race entered a period of soul-searching meditation that birthed a new philosophy of Karma, from which they are named. In this philosophy, all a person’s actions cause a reaction in… Read more »
Planet name: Greystoke (c’mon, that’s an awesome reference). That or planet Kong lol.
Species name: The Guu Rii Haa 😉
Special rule: Spanked the monkey, the money spanks back! If the Guu Rii Haa have taken a massive spanking and lost half their forces (that’s by model count), all remaining Guu Rii Haa gain the preferred enemy rule against all enemy units for the remainder of the game.
Guu Rii Haa Grenades. The Guu Rii Haa don’t use frag grenades, they use the tried and tested method of flinging… You know what… Instead of grenades… Still counts as frag grenades. Doesn’t effect models or daemons with the mark of nurgle (because they are way more gross).
Nice been trying to think how to bring flinging in 😉
I’m guessing if the don’t have frags they have kack grenades instead
Banana bombs?
Vanguard warriors should wear blue and yellow and be heralded by a spontaneous flock of crows…
… Who drop banana bombs!!
Gorillas live in groups called troops. Troops tend to be made of one adult male or silverback, For other uses, see Gorilla (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Guerrilla. “Blackback” and “Silverback” redirect here. For other uses, see Blackback (disambiguation) and Silverback (disambiguation). Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Africa. The eponymous genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorillas and the western gorillas, and either four or five subspecies. They are the largest living primates by physical size. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, from 95–99%… Read more »
You need an Orangutan cheif, who wears robes and armour like an ethereal, have the same special rules but tweak its stats to be a little tougher. Have them as council members who act as liasions to the Caste’s.
some conversion work may be in order. 🙂
As for nameing i’m not very good, so can’t help with that haha.
This is exactly what I’ve done with my Karmans. I’ve simply been using them as stand ins for Tau, Crisis Suits, Broadsides, Pirhannas, and the flyer. And I often use them as Jokaero in my Inquisition, and ally them to Grey Knights, to represent Jokaero in larger force. I do like your enthusiasm and look forward to what you finally put forth as the background for your Apes!
The Hokeigh are devolved descendants of Jokaero that were stranded on a distant planet.
As everyone knows the Jokaero were great apes capable of amazing feats of engineering. As degenerate fallen descendants, these troops are merely Hokeigh Apes. 😉
A lot of creative posts! Wow, active community collective imagination.
Looks like a great fit for 40k.
there are so many amazing ideas already, I hope that my suggestions help to feed the fire name: you guys have so many already, maybe post a poll? race: I like the offshoot from the jokaero, makes a lot of sense from a fluff point of view. Homeworld name: again, a lot of ideas already planet location: perhaps in the zone of silence? a place that hasn’t been explored by the tau, and perhaps it was because of some piece of technology, or some mineral element that was present on their homeworld? Other points: that first “flyer” definitely looks like… Read more »