Editing Hive Fleet Gorgon (section)

== The war against Gorgon: adapt or die ==

After this first encounter with the tyranid fleet, the Tau authorities were scared shitless. Hive Fleet Gorgon was a threat unlike anything they had seen before: the planet was in ruins. Poisoned and bereft of resources, it barely had any use now for anyone. Most of the forces that fought the Hive Fleet had been wiped out, and most of Gorgon was still out there, attacking nearby Tau outposts, not that much worse for wear. Unlike the Imperium, there was no chance of negotiation, and unlike orks, once a planet is lost it can never be recovered (bad for a massive empire like the Imperium, almost unbearable for the small Tau Empire). To top it all off, Hive Fleet Gorgon was exceptionally apt in changing and adapting its strategy in the face of new threats. The Tau forces, <s>way</s> sometimes more flexible than its Imperium counterpart (a million planets, most producing unique regiments, can and does give incredible flexibility), had fought the nids on Sha'draig with many strategies: massive drone attacks, stealth attacks, kroot charges and traps, stealth suits, kamikaze attacks... And to all of them, the nids had developed a strategy to deal with each one. One of the most important adaptations of the Hive Fleet was the developement of carapace body armour strong enough to deal with plasma and ion weaponry, both favourites of the Tau military, and creating faster and faster creatures to meet the bluies in melee combat, which Tau are too weak against. The Tau kept changing their strategy too, either spamming droids and kroot armies to deal with the swarms, stealth suits to catch the bigger organisms off guards, switching their weapons to older models based on outdated tech once the nids adapted to <s>plasma</s> particle and ionic tech (ion weapons ''are'' the Tau plasma weapons, pulse weapons fire accelerated, charged particles, one per barrel)... The Tau managed to get an edge in their fights thanks to the biological nature of the tyranid weaponry and adaptations. Changing the DNA of your units and then spawning them fast enough into the battlefield took longer than just using normal tech, which limited the size and strength of their units during vital moments, which was then used by the Tau to snipe the bigger synapse creatures from affar and break the cohesion of the tyranid swarms. Which <s>doesn't really make sense given both the sheer number of tyranids, including giant synapse creatures, and that the sheer number of spawning sources for the 'nids would likely outproduce the entire Tau industry. This isn't another minor xenos empire they're fighitng; it's a damn ''Tyranid '''Hive Fleet'''''</s> makes sense given it was a tactic meant to keep the nids away from Sha'draig, not destroy the fleet entirely.