They Will most likely add Tau. They're always #1 on the polls, with Necrons a piece behind. I never had much interest for Necrons, but I feel with your guys that like them. Imagine if they added them as an NPC faction, while as much I would totally be up for that and that seems to be the general mindset, you guys would most likely be gutted. I just don't think Necrons would work, to be honest. Never can I imagine that they would be propably balanced and playable, let alone this game coining in so many players that a 6th faction can be filled up. Tau is a whole other story, but they definantly have their hard sides aswell. How will you deal with Melee, how will you do this and that. Same goes for Necrons, but their incredible low amount of customization and personality options (Yes, I know they're not all Mindless machines. A fuck-ton of them has personalities and what not. Most of them do.) but I personally don't think they'll be able to chain up Necrons with Player Names and balanced faction. I don't think a player controlled Necron faction, would ever feel close to Necrons. Would have a hard time making your insane durability (No, not the durability that the Ultramarines showed us.), insane weaponry and seemingly unstoppable nature. Unless you want Gauss peeling off Power armor colour again. Necrons would have to be balanced, not just a wet-dream of total Necron dominance and uber-strength, however Awesome that would be. But of course, Necrons could turn out to be a really well-balanced faction, sacrificing speed for durability and strength. And sacrificing some more, of course, but something along those lines I guess. In all honesty, I'd love to see them as a Final-Tier PvE. With Tyranids being the common PvE, there'd be "Dungeons and Raid Parties" with something like a Lobby where you could retrieve Artifacts or something. With Necrons being a hardcore PvE faction, dishing out unreal punishment and would be a difficulty along the lines of Super Insane or something and it'd force superior teamwork - That'd be awesome in my mind. Oh and with the Tau? It's been hinted we won't just fight on Arkhona and there'll be other options to include the Tau Empire. They assured it would be possible, atleast.
To be fair I think that all the factions (bar orks and to a lesser extent chaos) in this game will have severe lore butchery. I mean, Space Marines are known to be mostly highly disciplined warriors who will stick with their squad and chapter to the end. That's not going to happen in this game. There is a similar issue with Chaos but at least there they have a reason to be insane. I'm not too well versed in Eldar lore, but from what I can remember aren't war-hosts not highly specialized with similar numbers of each number of whatever aspect warriors. This could turn out to be the case in EC but very easily could not. And lets not even get into the numbers problem, which ironically enough the Necrons get around. Necron customization is a tricky one yes granted especially for warriors and immortals, but it wouldn't be incredibly difficult to make variations on the existing Gauss and Tesla weapons (think different rates of fire,accuracy etc). Gauss could just decent all-around against anything although best against infantry, and tesla devastating against infantry but a short range. As for flayed ones, give some more spikey bits. Higher ranking Necrons all mostly will have access to customization in some manner. As for Necrons as a PVE faction, I guess I wouldn't mind seeing maybe possibly Necron dungeons controlled by insane Lords or something. Buff their power level tremendously like in Winter Assault, but then have the playable Necrons like in Dark Crusade much weaker. As well as this, I wouldn't mind seeing us playable Necrons fighting them (thanks to Ward infighting is common enough now). Now for Tau, it's the fact that have already had an FPS (albeit a bad one) AND the fact they got a commander for Last Stand in DOW2 that irritates me. This is not the Tau's fault obviously, and I know with Fire Warrior being terrible and that they were not a full race in DOW2 they haven't had the best of luck either, but at least there was something for Tau players. I mean, Dark Crusade is awesome and all but I would just like to see another game (especially this one) where I can enjoy some cleaving of mortals.
The Koronus-Expanse (adjacent to Calixis-Sector in Segmentum Obscurus) and the Jericho Reach (fringe of Segmentum Ultima) are connected by two respective warpgates. There could be similar devices/circumstances for Arkhona.
I guess that works but a bit convenient for my liking. Why would the Tau want to be on the other side of the galaxy. We know there is something of great power on the planet, but the Tau usually ignore that sort of thing instead concentrating on the defense and expansion of their "empire".
How about this: The Etherals have received intel that a space-ship with evidence that the Eldar created the Etherals by genetically manipulating ordinary Tau with Q'orl-genes has crash-landed on Arkhona. They send an army to destroy said ship and cover it up for the Greater Good. Is THAT important enough for an invasion halfway across the galaxy?
Kind of, although they could just blow up the ship from orbit, or just rely on it being destroyed by the war to come.
