The Taros Campaign tells the story of the Imperium’s disastrous intervention against the forces of the Tau Empire on Taros, and it changed the way Forge World and the Imperial Armour series operated
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Thanks Ian.
[Spoiler] absolutely love it when the imperium gets their ass handed to them. Also this style of video is amazing, I hope you do more of these, these may be my favourite type of warhammer lore videos
Awesome vid and an excellent example why 40k is satire. the Imperials are just completely idiotic
well if you're doing this, mind as well do the damocles crusade
Love this! I always thought this book was one of the coolest, and the forge world models that came from it were/are extremely awesome.
Had never heard of that, thank you.
great stuff
I hope the Tau end up taking Terra and stop the lunatic fascism off the Imperium
This was awesome. Really well made like a real history documentary about a battle. The Imperium really payed a heavy price by not being properly prepared. Thank you for keeping the video concise. Looking forward to the next video. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic work. Got me motivated to start a campaign.
TL;DR the Tau did well because the Imperium actively made bad decisions from people who wouldn't feasibly make bad decisions and the Tau had plot armor. Such as sallying out of a fortification to engage the Guard and not being blown apart or bean up in melee or simply gunned down while they were dicking around in the open, flat ground. Stuff like that.
This video series is great
We need more
Loved the Taros Book as Ive been a Huge Tau fan since release. Still have my original 1st printing of this book (in somewhat good condition)
I bloody love 40K. Great video, I would love to see more of these campaign stories!
If I could subscribe again I would!
I will definitely be giving that Imperial Armour book a read after watching this, great video!
I loved these imperial armour books. I just find the military history style of presentation and focus on limitations from requisition and logistics to be much more immersive and compelling that GW's more usual epic/heroic style. Thanks for the refresher!
Excellent video. One small correction though. The Imperial Aereonautica Book you mentioned is actually a full sequal to the original Taros campain you just covered and follows the Imperium coming back to taros spearheaded by some of those forces that never made it to the battle in the first place.
Awesome .. Definitely Do Them all ✌️💚
What a brilliant concept. I hope you do more of these. Perhaps a sabbat’s crusade one??
Really enjoy this series, glad to see it back
I love hearing about pre-"backlash" T'au lore. Taros, Damocles, Fire Warrior, that's the good stuff. Back when GW knew they had to sell model kits and thus give every faction wins (and losses) in the narrative.
Fork yeah! I see victory to the Greater Good I click!!!
Yeah, the Taros Campaign book is awesome, I really love how it prefectly shows how the Tau prefer to fight. Hit & run with their superior ranged capability, tactical withdrawals rather than trying to hold insignificant ground, ambush supply lines. They know full well the immense manpower and resources of their many opponents would prevail in a head-on brawl, so instead they choose to fight smart and frustrate their opponents until they make mistakes.
A different Ravenor?
Honestly I don't mind the Tau beating the Imperial Guard badly. However they used the desert specialist the Tallarn and made them act like noobs who didn't have any idea how to fight there. It's was just bad writing and made no sense it was there to make the Tau look good and nobody cared to even use correct Imperial lore. Should have used a new Regiment they made up or Kreig or someone who doesn't deviate from orders period not the highly independent Tallarn that are good at gorilla fighting and assassination as well as experts of tank warfare.
They deployed thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening
Brilliant, really enjoyed this. Are you going to cover Siege of Vraks?
The WORST camping in whole Imp. Armor series.
Imperium as always is shown like dumb idiots without brain and understanding "how to fight" and of course tau is shown OP as HELL. That's why everyone hates them
Great video Ian. Really enjoy these campaign videos. Great breakdown and editing between pictures and pages of the book, the short excerpts etc.,
Fantastic video. Love it when these drop!🎉
I really like this, but it's sad to me, they didn't include the humans from Tauros fighting alongside the Tau, especially the miners and the ogrins.
I remember this book coming out and the reading of it for the first time. I loved the story and all the intricate parts to it. I still have the original and still enjoy reading it even now.
The presentation of the pages is lovely tooo
I regret selling my tau
I have physical copies of both editions of The Taros Campaign. I know the long descriptions of logistics and planning around limitations can seem a little dry, but they help the campaign feel "grounded" in a way that the big epics about personal heroics don't always sell as well. I also really appreciate a lot of the pictures made for this book, with models painted and posed for the purpose, done on little dioramas with drawn backgrounds, framed in the book as though they were photos taken by an Imperial war chronicler documenting the front. That also helped to make it feel grounded.
RIP Imperial Armour 14: Fires of Cyraxus
The Sabbat Worlds Crusade when
A really great video, in-depth but leaves enough juice so the viewer can read it for themselves. And you had the little graphics too!
I loooooooved this. Please do more.
Day 2678765 asking about warzone pandorax lol
Would anyone know where to find that pic used for the Sareinnian Assault Engineers? Love the look.
This is really cool! Love the maps used for unit deployment.