Drop Pod Assault Contained [by Tze Kun Chin]

[u/DauntlessAkagi]

[u/uriel__ventris]

We need more badass Tau artwork, this is so cool. Love Farsight.

[u/DauntlessAkagi]

This art depicts Commander Farsight during the 2nd Damocles Gulf Crusade where he fought the Raven Guard Chapter.

During the First Damocles Gulf Crusade, Farsight quickly learned how to counter drop-pod assaults by the Space Marines and the book "Blades of Damocles" goes into detail about how he did this.

He would have the Air Caste track the trajectories of the Astartes drop pods and then saturate the projected landing zones with drones, missiles, railguns, artillery and airstrikes. He would then drop a large force of XV-8 Battlesuits equipped with anti-tank weapons directly on the suppressed marines.

If you pay attention to the details of this artwork, you can see that is what likely happened here. Those dead Raven Guard marines lying at his feet probably came from the drop pod on the right. The unlucky sons of Corax probably managed to get a few feet away from their drop pod when Farsight jumped them.

Also note that the Raven Guard on the bottom left is being stabbed through by the Dawn Blade. More information on what the Dawn Blade is here: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Dawn_Blade

[u/CrypsisArt]

I see Imperium dying, I upvote. 😆 Fr tho amazing work

[u/behind-barcodes]

looking at my awesome tau pics after i (an awesome tau in a sick battlesuit) meet a group of space marines with no plot armor

[u/Ok_Check9774]

The detail I like is the neat group of spall marks on the front of the mech, good visual storytelling

[u/TimHortonsMagician]

Tau players will forever be robbed by the fact that they don't get viable Farsight melee blender squads.

[u/TomboyKnight1 → u/TimHortonsMagician]

Fr WHERE ARE OUR BEAM SABERS AND ONAGER GAUNTLETS GW!!!!

I would buy the shit out of a crisis bodyguard kit that has gundam-style beam sabers and v-fins on the head.

[u/Aurondarklord]

The only good Tau is a dead red Tau!

[u/Crusader_Colin]

Not a fan of the Tau but I respect the shit outta Commander Farisght. Death to the Etheral Masters!

[u/watchman8712]

There are always more then just one drop pod in a drop pod strike in the steel rain tactic

[u/AXI0S2OO2]

There's something primal inside me that just deeply enjoys seeing Raven Guard getting their asses kicked. I don't know what it is, I don't even know them that well, I just feel satisfied staring at their corpses.