Quote Originally Posted by chiasaur11 View Post
That's the fun. Even if they were a totally balanced force, heck, even if they didn't have the firepower to drop the Tau, they'd still have the required "worse than ever before" fun that comes with every new race. Everybody'd hate them extra!

Imperium: Man's old sins come home to roost.
Adaptus Mechanus (Heh. AM, high tech and they oppress mankind.): Huh. Looks like the golden age had some issues. Oops.
Tau: Ah. Might want to reconsider those AIs.
Eldar: Crap! We did not see this one coming. At all. Our whole predicting the future game is not working here.
Dark Eldar: No souls, no pain sensors, no nothing to give the slightest relief from she-who-thirsts. Every second we're fighting them is a second closer to eternal torment.
'Nids: These guys taste awful.
Chaos: These metal boxes fear not the might of the chaos gods! This might be bad for us.
Necrons: They aren't life. No warp presence, no souls to feed to the C'tan... but still we want to kill each other because, you know, 40k.
Orks: Oy! This looks like a zoggin good place for a scrap!

Okay, maybe not the Orks. Everyone else though, the point stands.
Let's see how the Space Slaad do:

Imperium: They claim that humanity are the failed creations of foul xenos, and that they are the superior species? Blasphemy!
Tau: These schemers believe that the Greater Good is their plaything, and they must be enlightened.
Eldar: They taunt us with our past failures, mock our foresight by claiming credit for our successes... They should be accounted for.
Dark Eldar: The only ones with Warp sensitivity either blow themselves up before we can use it or are too well defended to be worth the effort. We can't waste time on these serpents!
Tyranids: Hey! Stop jamming our genestealer beacons with your fat frogs!
Chaos: Hey! Stop introducing order to the essence of our pantheon!
Necrons: Such potent beacons of the Warp... So much living energy... The custodians of our ancient enemy... They must DIE!
Orks: Oi! Dey's greener den us! Get 'em!