Comments on: Courage and Honour Fiction Review http://www.flamesrising.com/courage-and-honour-review/ Horror and Dark Fantasy Webzine Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:03:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: alex http://www.flamesrising.com/courage-and-honour-review/comment-page-1/#comment-90590 alex Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:20:43 +0000 http://www.flamesrising.com/?p=2555#comment-90590 While I agree the nolvel was very good plot- and character-wise, I just wish to say that if you are a Tau lover, do not buy this book. As soon as you start reading the Tau codex and compare it to this novel, there are somany blatant disregards to the Tau it is almost insulting. Here are three things that the author should have known before writing: 1) Tau do not hold their ground. It is consistent in every other novel except this one. They will disengage and do ambushes rather than pointlessly lose lives. 2) Tau do not make frontal assaults and charge up through the no-man's land. For all the tactical idiocies we see in this novel, it might as well be orks disguised as Fire Warriors. Tau systematically destroy their ennemie's defences at long range before surging in for the killing blow. 3) Tau value their sodier's lives. They do not send them marching up a klling field, neither will they throw their soldier's lives away. The attack on Brandon Gate smacked of impracticality. If you just pause for a minute, the whole attack was pointless. The tau lot everything they sent at Brandon Gate. The author calls it a diversion from Olzetyn. However, the Tauleave pleny of time for the defenders of Brandon Gate to bolster Olzetn's defense, so the whole attack on Brandon Gate did abslutely nothing except give the Space Marines a chance to cutcher the Tau. If you do not know Tau or do not care about them, you will like this novel.If you like Tau, you will hate the novel. So this is a warning for all those Shas out there who want to know more about Tau. Do not buy this book. While I agree the nolvel was very good plot- and character-wise, I just wish to say that if you are a Tau lover, do not buy this book. As soon as you start reading the Tau codex and compare it to this novel, there are somany blatant disregards to the Tau it is almost insulting. Here are three things that the author should have known before writing:
1) Tau do not hold their ground. It is consistent in every other novel except this one. They will disengage and do ambushes rather than pointlessly lose lives.
2) Tau do not make frontal assaults and charge up through the no-man’s land. For all the tactical idiocies we see in this novel, it might as well be orks disguised as Fire Warriors. Tau systematically destroy their ennemie’s defences at long range before surging in for the killing blow.
3) Tau value their sodier’s lives. They do not send them marching up a klling field, neither will they throw their soldier’s lives away. The attack on Brandon Gate smacked of impracticality. If you just pause for a minute, the whole attack was pointless. The tau lot everything they sent at Brandon Gate. The author calls it a diversion from Olzetyn. However, the Tauleave pleny of time for the defenders of Brandon Gate to bolster Olzetn’s defense, so the whole attack on Brandon Gate did abslutely nothing except give the Space Marines a chance to cutcher the Tau.

If you do not know Tau or do not care about them, you will like this novel.If you like Tau, you will hate the novel. So this is a warning for all those Shas out there who want to know more about Tau. Do not buy this book.

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