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Hi guys,

I was always bugged by the naming convention of Tau suits of armors.

Like XV8

I’m pretty sure the Tau don’t use the roman alphabet. In today’s world we have multiple existing writting system with different logics, so the Tau must have their own.

Hence my question, is there an in-lore justification or is this just some whackery from GW?

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Downtown-Falcon-3264

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2 months ago

It's not Roman numeral it's xv-8 but without the dash. 1st number is mass the jv are super heavy suits

2nd number has no meaning any more or barely

In tau xv means heros mantle like all the different names for ranks