Editing Kor'Vattra (section)

== Final Note ==

While this article sounds like a giant fan wank for the T'au, don't begin to believe for a microsecond the T'au stand a chance against the Imperium on a broad scale. The Imperium hasn't squashed them yet because they are too tough to kill and would be a waste of resources better used elsewhere. In the end, as it stands currently, the T'au are horribly outmatched at the naval game, and hence why massive spending goes to the Kor'vattra in the first place.

It matters not if your ship is 10% faster 20% shootier and has a shiny coating: you have one and the enemy has twenty-something. The T'au are sort of in the same situation that the Dutch and Danish navies were in during the Napoleonic Wars: yes, the major powers could beat them, but it be such a bloody and difficult affair it is not (yet) worth the time, treasure, and blood to do so. There are [[Abbadon|bigger]] [[Tyranids|fish]] [[orks|to]] [[necrons|fry]]. If and when the Imperium has a spare sector battlefleet lying around, expect them to [[Warship|Copenhagenize]] the entire Tau fleet in short order.

This is perhaps best shown in the first version of the Damocles Gulf Crusade, where the Imperium wiped out the entire fleet (or at least all of the ships that had any ability to defend themselves) and then the Tau had to rebuild everything once the Imperium left, realizing in horror that [[warp]] drive technology allows the enemy to strike at any system without prior notice, and arrive en masse.