Nope, Orks are the only race Tau doesn't try to convince to join to the greater good, they think they should be exterminated from the galaxy. On topic... bug and problem fix first, adding the missing weapons and class later, maybe 1 vehicle and new nids and after that they may look into add a new race, huge emphasis in look into because the new race may not have enough population and be a huge faillure or may drag to much population from other factions and cripple them.
rule book I got shows them as allies of convenience, which is as good as orks can have, elder have both tau and dark elder as battle brothers.
It could go either way really, specifics will probably depend on player pop and theoretical player pop, of course the new edition (in theory out in 2015) is rumored to have a new allies chart too, so it may be revised a bit.
It's 4 because that's the number that works. Too high and you dilute the playerbase too much. Risk vs reward - with 4, it's a safe bet. With more, it's not.
In the first year I think a bunch of guns and skins and maybe a vehicle or two is the most likely additions. They'll probably be spending most of the first year fixing bugs and sorting out technical difficulties and whatnot while scrambling to make new content as well I mean yeah I'd love to see a new faction 1 year after launch but I doubt it! A new faction should be a huge update for the game and it will change the landscape amongst the factions a lot so no need to hurry that along imo
Yeah... that's the same with Blood Angels allies with Necrons, someone fucked up big time in GW doing that... the lore in the Tau codex say they HATE the orks and they want to erase them from the galaxy.
True but warhammer has a good fan base already, how long will a Necron player play a Spacemarine, for a bit to see the world but I imagine they will tire of the game faster than races who already satisfied off the start.
But I think the ork says they will sometimes not destroy a race on a world but rather subjugate them and add them to their army, maybe sometimes following the greater good means shutting up and doing what your told.
Got it "the Ethereals themselves eventually conceded that these aliens were a lost cause and amended the protocols to forego any attempt to integrate the Orks, declaring at last that the Greater Good would be better off without them", someone in GW just said "fuck the lore" and came up with that rule, not the first time that happens and definitely not the last. I'm a Tau player and i'm gonna play the game for as long as i have fun with it.
I'd like to see them flesh out the existing factions a bit more before moving on to new ones. CSM just won't feel finished to me until the God specific troops and abilities are there and the other races will probably have some gaps as well. I'm looking forward to playing Daemons or DE eventually but not at the current factions' expense.
