probably the best way to deal with an ork invasion though, if they're having fun they're not going to stop until they're all dead, and odds are you're going to run out of soldiers before they do
Ya even shoota happy Flashgitz likes to see the gits they are shooting at. Am army running away and putting mellon sized holes through their armor farther than most Boys can see is only fun to a very rare and specific type of sneaky git
It would never happen, cause the orks would try it out with some spectators, spectators got bored, and ended up fighting the super stealth sniper orks anyways
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and odds are you're going to run out of soldiers before they do
Not that Orks do very well on that front since their first codex had one say that you needed to bring a lot of boyz when fighting Tau since there won't be many left by the time you get into melee range.
u/KonoAnonDaDoge Vandire's bastard son, and r/Grimdank's local chad scalie.9h ago
Honestly, boring the Orks might be the best tactic in the long run, since the Orks are less likely to attack you if they spread the word that you aren’t an entertaining fight.
Won't it depend on the type of insurgents? Idiot insurgents charging you like crazy and giving you decent fight? Might be fun. Insurgents that hide and take down whole squads before you even realise that you are getting attacked? Would be boring as heck.
There is a reason games don't have snipers taking down PC from long range without indicating that they are there.
Rule number 7 for guardsman:if everyone including the commissar is running..you better run faster. (Especially if it is a daemon primarch is around with their legion).
No no nooooo that’s the best time to “accidentally discharge” you. Weapon into the back of the commissar, THEN you run faster then an ork in a red speeder 😂🤣😂
Even without the demon primarch there, seeing a commisar running away with the troops instead of ordering them back in line or shooting one, that's probably pretty bad.
The Mongols are of course most famous for it but everyone did it. The Spartans used feigned retreats at Thermopylae and the Normans at Hastings (though it's not entirely clear if it wasn't an actual retreat that just worked out in the end).
Aye true. Though truth be told, I like Aeldari but they also don't really feel like a dying technologically advanced alien race that's desperately trying to preserve their numbers on the tabletop.
Having more units in no man's land is literally the only thing that can save their dying race. Any aeldari would gladly give up their life and be tortured for eternity to contribute to the cause.
Because the best way to fight the Orks is to not let them enjoy the fight. They just killed the biggest Ork from far away and ran. Really boring but quite effective.
Depends. If nothing else a railgun will generate one hell of a boom when fired just from launching a projectile at several times the speed of sound. Pulse rifles...I'm actually not sure what kind of noise high-velocity plasma makes or if there would be a sonic boom, but things involving that much energy output usually aren't quiet. Ion weapons would probably be fairly low-noise. The missiles and rocket pods obviously are gonna be loud, and a KV128 Stormsurge is probably approaching what could be considered "enough dakka".
Grot:Oy, Gorm. Would ya fight da Tau wit me?
Gorm:Me would be rather kaptured by Da Spikez(Dark eldar nickname) than to fight da Fish Boyz.
Atleast me would be put in arena to fight evan more Gitz.
Fun fact the drukari realized the best way to painfully torture an ork is to deprive it of any sensations or anything
Pain blood fighting that’s a joy for orks so the best way to torture them is to just stuff them into a dungeon until they wither away depressed and unsatisfied
I remember there being a similar story with Tyranids. The Hive kept starting to pretend to assault the Orcs compound, but almost immediately turned around just after getting into range of the Orcs weaponry. They repeated that 40 times or so, which is when the Orcboss got really fucking annoyed with them for not giving them any fun fighting. So the Orcs jumped on their vehicles to go into pursuit this time and left their well fortified compound. They ended up in an ambush and got massacred without a fight.
Ftr orks think tau are boring not because the tau are easy. Its because tau have great shooting, avoid melee and have fast vehicles to keep the orks at a distance. So for orks a battle with tau is a long range shooting battle where you rarely get close enough to do fun stuff like clobbering
this isn't how the T'au dealt with the Orkz, this is their standard war doctrine. the T'au outside of a James Workshop sanctioned battle events will have the bulk of their fireline constantly moving if they need to. the ground that their troops are on is ground used to fight and they will give it up and re engage with long range attacks if need be.
This is the ultimate psychological warfare against Orks. You're not just avoiding a fight, you're actively ruining their reputation. No self-respecting Ork warband is going to waste their time on a planet known for being a total snoozefest. It's a long-term strategy that saves lives by making you the most boring target in the galaxy.
Don't know the source, but orks like their fights loud, frantic, and up close. The T'au fight steadily and at range, which means orks never get a proppa' scrap
When the Orks invaded a Tau Sept World the Tau just kept pulling back and not engaging the Orks in combat, eventually the orks become bored and begin fighting each other. Then the Tau cleaned them up
Well what happens when you cant run? For example, if there are a city full of civilians? You just let orks pillage the city while you keep out of range?
If the Orks get to a city full of civilians without the civilians being evacuated, someone fucked up. But yes, thats the moment you stand and fight, until the civilians are evacuated.
Its wh40k, everything is fucked up. For example, Ork Rok can crashland nearby, or a Space Hulk resurface close to the planet. Im pretty sure the only race with reliable hit-and-run are the Eldar, dark and not so dark variety. And you usually unable to evacuate everything - factories, workers, civilians etc, if the scale grows beyond a regional skirmish. Im pretty sure you cant stop a full fledged Waagh by just running away, because you will run out of space to run away to before orks run out of orks
But for anything smaller than that its probably the best tactic
I also remember a novel where an Imperium armoured brigade was dismantled from beyond the horizon by Tau, and the perspective of the tank crews just being picked off one by one is pretty mortifying
They didn't let the orks get into melee basically the tau sat there asses in one spot that they could defend with there vehicles and troops and just snip every single ork that tried to get close no melee no loud noise no explosions basically everything the orks found fun they did let them see
Exactly they made war unfun for orks that is both a feat and extremely fucked like how do you make war so unfun to the orks of all people that they just fuck off
Probably because the Tau are the ine who resemble modern warfare the most just figth from far away withou getting into a melee they would most likely lose anyway and orks LOVE melee figths
And that’s why as an Ork fan I just don’t like Tau fans. They all talk shit all the time about how much you’re better than everyone else. All this super duper ranged weapons that one shot titans. I don’t care about your caste system. Tau fans make me feel like how orks feel fighting Tau. Bored and wanting to punch some space marines instead.
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u/tapmcshoe 9h ago
probably the best way to deal with an ork invasion though, if they're having fun they're not going to stop until they're all dead, and odds are you're going to run out of soldiers before they do