>>547981
Plot armor kind of. It makes sence out of the countless victims of Exterminus, one would survive to become something contestable.
Tau are literally 19-20 century USA
>start off vulnerable
>have decent military track record
>relatively secular
>controlled by omnipotent upper caste that have total control over lesser races.
>treat other countries former colonies relatively well
>have no real history of close combat
>succeed due to pure retard luck and a pinch of pragmatism
>>547985
Not true, I actually like how they are used. As a tactical /k/ fag, they are as good as they get when it comes to representing modern maneuver warfare in this fucking game.
also
>riptide fucking Imperium shit in
mfw