The ''You`re Banned'' Game

I ban NH because it's okay.
As to Mike, that's why you need to see further than DoW to understand WH40K. Tau actually can be reasoned with as they are in most books (calling a desperate alliance against Nids, Crons or Chaos), and they have diplomats. Once they even allied with Dark Eldar to fight back Nids! (And got betrayed later.) Anyway, in "For The Emperor" and "The Greater Good" books by Sandy Mitchell main protagonist agreed to call the truce with Tau against genestealers/tyranids... and said protagonist is frickin' Imperial commissar!
Lower races are cannon fodders for Light Eldar as well, big surprise... but Tau aren't a "lower race" for them. Of course they can be reasoned or negotiated with as well, and they also consider Chaos, Tyranids and Necrons to be a danger to everything, but they, with the probability of 95%, will betray you in their own benefit. However... I personally don't consider them monsters as there is the reason (and there is still 5% chance of them actually being nice), look below.
The only reason why Eldar don't rule the universe? I gave you Lexicanum link to "Fall of Eldar"! That reason is because they ruled once. How it ended, you know, and now they struggle for the race survival. And moreover, that fall also was a part of the reason why humanity is so flakked up... hell, why almost EVERYTHING is flakked up. Except for Tyranids who aren't their fault. And Necrons who have been here before them.

I ban you cus tl;dr

Kidding, but anyway, Tau ARE a lower race, they are stll the same human waste mentioned as the rest That they're not monsters ? Their ways flak planets up more than orcs or d eldars lol. But well, the Guards and such aren't much better with their Exterminatus. The only ones here that didn't do, or try to, destroy whole planets or systems are the Eldars. Exterminating lower races like Orcs is another thing.

I ban Mike 'cos, lolwut? Imperial Guard and Exterminatus?

Imperial Guard's tactic has always been and will always remain the infantry rush, WWI style, lurk for "Siege of Vraks". Okay, serious artillery shellings and tank spam if you're lucky. Exterminatus is allowed only to Space Marines or Inquisition, and ONLY in cases if planet is captured by daemons and/or eaten by Tyranids and is lost anyway, that even dropping 10-20 billions of Guardsmen with Space Marines and/or Adepta Sororitas support won't reclaim it. Hell, even Necron tombworlds are usually quarantined, but not destroyed. Okay, Kryptmann rolled out a series of Exterminatuses to deny a Tyranid hivefleet biomass and lure them into Orks territories, but he got much flak for that.
However there was that one time when Guards indeed pulled off Exterminatus.
Also, Tau flak planets up, O RLY? Sandy Mitchell, "For The Emperor". If they did, they'd captured Gravalax long ago and Commissar Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!) would never fortify his (undeserved in his vision) hero reputation further and meet his Ordo Xenos Inquisitor sweetheart. But nope, Tau have diplomatic mission there!
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The Tau are the most open and tolerant of the races in the galaxy, which means that they prefer not to destroy all other races on sight and are nowhere near as xenophobic as the Imperium

Sauce.

I ban you cus, you first post that image, then admit they did pull off Exterminatus, no matter if once or many, they did and can/will do, either it's space marines or guards or their mommas, it's the "humans" we're talking about

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Agreed, agreed, it's what I'm saying to the tank-obsessed Ajay for a while now xD

Cus armor x, cus armor y, cus Baneblade... etc.

I ban Mike 'cos, they're still factions, and Exterminatus just isn't Guard's Modus Operandi. Also reminder: Spehs Mehreehns are superhumans.
P.S. Yes, humans and their tanks:

Also, have you ever heard about Blanks and/or Pariahs in WH40K? They are the people with antipsyker aura, No other race except humans can have them, and their presence can harm daemons, tyranids and psykers. For example, Commissar Cain's aide Ferik Jurgen is a Blank.

I ban you cus, see ? There are a lot better things to do for humans that shut themselves in death boxes, where the "death" is for the guy inside when the box starts going fubar.

I ban Mike 'cos, there's death everywhere for Guardsmen.

I ban you cus that (death everywhere) is only cus of humanity's infinite supply of "stupidity".

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

― Albert Einstein

I ban Mike 'cos, calling a peace with those enemies that want to devour the Galaxy/plunge it into an eternal war/torture the flak out of its population/let it burn/kill everything, that's what stupid. Tau and Eldar aren't these.
But, indeed, it was stupidity that flakked it all up (Like I've never heard this quote, mhm). Lorgar's and Horus's (Astartes primarchs that fell to Chaos) in particular, for falling to the Dark Gods. tl;dr below.

P.S. Yes, it might be mankind's stupidity, but average Guardsman doesn't give a flak:

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a Guardsman is a man, just like you, though he grew up in another culture. He has no millennia-old genetic engineering, no prophetic leader, no miracles of faith. He has his lasgun, his orders, and his fellow soldiers.

And he will hold the line.

Whether (s)he drives a tank, mans a heavy bolter or spots targets for a Basilisk, (s)he is fighting to protect the mankind. Even when there's barely any hope.
(That's actually the reason why I like the Guard more. Because they're simple humans, not some superidealistic or greater-good-obsessed peeps. Also that "Expendable and proud of it" looks on the life, reminds of anyone?)

I ban you cus, nobody said about making peace with monstruosities. But, wouldn't it be easier to, instead of Exterminatus or even "controlled beams" to only shoot practical targets without wiping the planet, make a genetically perfected virus that only affects those with those xenon genes ? Using the Exterminatus flee to launch those all over the planets... at once. Then thermo scan the surface and fire some lazors in where they seem to have underground lairs. Afterall, we can do thermo scans inside Earth and we don't even have a real space travel system. All that advance and we lose our tactics ? But well, if the game would solve itself, there'd be nothing for us to play, so, yeah, go the simple way, put your foot down, shoot dem in da' head and done.

I ban Mike 'cos, if the Exterminatus is called, more likely that there are Tyranids covering all of the planet and eating it. Or the planet is slowly becoming a Warp portal due to the daemons.

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make a genetically perfected virus that only affects those with those xenon genes

A revelation for you: Daemons don't have the genetic code, their human followers mutate due to the Warp, Tzeentch Rubric Golems don't have bodies at all (They're souls fused with the armor) and Nurgle followers don't give a flak about diseases, 'cos they are already dead. And Tyranids just adapt to everything.

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Then thermo scan the surface and fire some lazors in where they seem to have underground lairs

Surprise, it's Tyranids we're talking about, and they're already everywhere by that time (even f you destroyed one of their lairs, it'll be back in no time). Remember how Protoss were destroying Zerg-infested worlds? Or that's Daemons who don't give a flak about your thermo scans.

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All that advance and we lose our tactics

Not tactics, but technology. All those tanks, lazors and other stuff? Mainly built by ancient schematics aka STCs (Standart Template Constructions), and no one understands how exactly it all works, thus they think it's machine spirits. It all happened due to AI riot and inability to do FTL thanks to Slaanesh's birth long ago, in the Dark Era of Technology.
BTW the Baneblade STC was marked as the STC for a LIGHT TANK.

Poor Ajay, I ban you cus the Baneblade news might've been a hit for you xD Since you're a baneblade fan for mentioning it around.

I ban Mike 'cos, not that much. Most of the time it's either no less venerable "Leman Russes", powerful Basilisks, humble Guardsmen and Vance Motherf*cking Stubbs himself (with 2 Commissars, 1 Psyker and 1 Priest in command squad) that win me fights. But still, the Baneblade is an epitome of "Who's the Redshirt Army NOW???", with its tons of weaponry (I remember: Baneblade Cannon with coaxial autocannon in the turret, hull-mounted Demolisher siege cannon, two Lascannons, three twin-linked heavy bolters, in tabletop also can mount pintle-mounted Heavy Stubber (read: HMG) or Storm Bolter, which is dual-barrelled). It's the point when a simple human can make the difference. But still, the Baneblade is a beautiful vehicle.

I ban you cus you do need an entire crew for those tanks, you know, right ? You can also see it clearly in DoW 2 Ret, how you take out the crew of a tank by the middle of the campaing, and well... the Baneblade is the first thing you destroy in the 1rst mission in the game Baneblade bites the dust.

I ban Mike 'cos, that's in DoW II. In fluff and books it still has an entire crew and even living quarters... as well as "machine spirits" that on ocassion even keep fighting without a crew (Okay, Rynn's Might was a Land Raider, but still that stuff is put into every tank or APC).
Also, sending Big BB alone is stupid - it's Guard we're talking about. In DoWI its driver even says:

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All guardsmen! FOLLOW ME TO GLORY!!!

It kinda means you still have to keep at least squad of them just in case. With a Psyker as a commander, in case of meeting stealthed troops.
Also, I'd like to see you trying to take out the crew of a Plaguereaper variant, hehehe.

I took out everything, my heroes are untouchable gods, and I ban you for that.

I ban Mike 'cos, the average Guardsman faced your gods and their followers, and he doesn't give a flak. And you can never take out the Guardsman, because for each fallen, there are thousands more ready to take his place. Besides, untouchable gods? You're about these four that hate each others? Two other "gods" I know work for different sides, being a Ceogorath and the Emperor. If yes, it's LOL, 'cos they never help you in person and their support is known to backfire. Oh, I forgot about C'Tan! They are all broken in different pieces by Necrons. Except for one.

I ban Ajay cus that's false, humans are gods in the virtual universe/world. But I ment that my heroes are untouchable gods because they ARE untouchable (and so... "god-like" ) thanx to TRUE "God" intervention, aka modification of their reality to make them immortal, for real.

I ban you again cus you just edited your post so much that my reply doesn't make sense anymore. I'm not fixing this mess, stop removing and replacing stuff you say, lol

I ban Mike because even if there is a TRUE God, he's never gonna intervene. Unless it's the end of the world, or some special case.
And who am I to judge about if there is someone out there? Huge surprise: I don't care.

I ban you cus, well, it IS the end of the world, all worlds in that solar system (cough exterminatus cough), so any human who is a true god for their universe can intervene, so as said before, I "modified" their reality to make the Eldar heroes immortal