IMPERIAL GUARD - GLORY TO THE FIRST MAN TO DIE! | Warhammer 40k Lore
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The Astra Militarum, also known as the Imperial Guard in colloquial Low Gothic, is the largest coherent fighting force in the galaxy. They serve as the Imperium of Man's primary combat force and first line of defence from the myriad threats which endanger the existence of the Human race in the 41st Millennium.
It is comprised of countless billions of men and women -- hundreds of thousands of different regiments, supported by a vast array of light and heavy armoured vehicles that provide the Guard's primary offensive punch. The Astra Militarum are usually the first Imperial force to respond to a threat if a world's Planetary Defence Force (PDF) fails to suppress it.
Sergeant Lukas Bastonne is such a Badass.
He's a Cadian noble, which granted him automatically a high rank in the Imperial Fleet, but said "Fuck that" and joined the Guard as a rank and file guardsman.
Due to his excellent memory, Lukas managed to bring victory to every battle he was in, by basically doing the Lord Commander's job for him on the ground. He remembered the orders with pinpoint precision.
This sounds like an OP MF, you might say. And indeed, the Lord Commander recognized his awesomeness and put him in the lead of a Stormtrooper squad.
But his excellent memory is also a terrible curse, since Lukas remembers every single faces of the soldiers he could not save from terrible deaths.
One such was when he dragged a Stormtrooper back to a dropship in order to get medical attention for his men. It turned out that Nurgle had tainted him, so Lukas had to execute the man himself.
Rumors have that his back is filled with tattoos of the names of his dead comrades, each and every one he couldn't save, as a mark of respect to the dead.
He's an old-school Guard character that stopped getting rules/being mentioned after 5th Edition, which is a darn shame if you ask me.
Sound lika an awsome dude
God damn. And here I am with bugs whose leader just exists to get the shit beat out of him by named characters.
@@timothywillox8564 Tyranids are sad to me, such an interesting concept, but they need, in my mind, a story, an overarching goal to be revealed that makes sense (no Pacific Rim 2 BS). Maybe I'm to used to Imperial stories (most of the armies I play are Imperial), but I can't help but look st the nids and feel like all they need is either a goal or a history (they technically have a goal: eat everything, but I mean like motivation. Are they truly animals that never stop consuming? Or are they pawns for another race? Are there more Hive Minds attacking other galaxies, or is there only one that consumed the rest of the stars?).
Maybe I should go back to my Guard stories, not interfere with other races and factions stories.
yeah, he is the one who inscribe/tattoo the name of his dead soldier on his chest to remember to avange them. he is baddass.
they really should bring him back in some way, Black library novel would be cool, piece of wargear in the new codex, awesome, a proper model and rules though, Emperor help me I would gladly accept him into my ranks because I know he will get shit done.
The thing you need to understand about that "try charging into a 100 lasguns" quote is that this wasn't said by some Imperial Guard commander; it was said by a champion of Chaos. The enemies of Man know the might of the Astra Militarum all too well.
Not just something like a chaos marine but a chaos *CHAMPION* that says it all really
When it is serious even the Chaos champion says it. Imagine las guns getting more stronger with the 100 guardsmen still on it. Oh boy , the chaos marines straight up fuck with astartes than the Militarum.
"They once named a bridge after Sly Marbo. They had to re-name it once they realized no one would cross Sly Marbo."
Rambunctious Koala slymarbo is just all the warp fuckery of the emperor personified
@Rambunctious Koala AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The chaos gods still exist because Sly Marbo is merciful and give them a chance for redemption
WRONG! They had to rename it because no one was able to find that bridge!
Accurate
Wasn't "The planet broke before the guard" come from the fact that as the planet was falling apart you could still see lasguns firing on the chunks as they were drifting away?
yup
continent sized pieces of rubble scattering from the impact, and you could still see lines of guard firing at the enemy
Yep.
Planet was being torn to shreds from a Blackstone Fortress, an ancient supermassive space station the size of a small moon, crashing into the planet so hard the planet literally cracked in two. Fucking asteroid size chunks just flying off into space, magma spilling everywhere, the entire planet turning into a volcano while everything chaos and their inbred nurglite mother is trying to murderfuck everyone into nonexistence, *_and the Guard still stood their ground, even when the ground literally seized to exist._*
@@Volvith even when the line itself broke, they grabbed it in their bloody, calloused hands and *fucking held it.*
@@Volvith god that is so fucking cool
Cadian Trooper: "My world was besieged thirteen times, more than once those sieges reached the surface. They tried to wipe us out and failed. Every time. It took them crashing a superweapon into my planet to destroy it, and we still fought on the surface as the planet was breaking up, and had broken up. I am one of the few whose unit got boarded on the evac ships and offworld before that. I watched it happen. As the planet had been destroyed, the atmosphere going away, you could see the las fire on the ground, either going towards the traitors still there, or to the traitor ships in space. The planet broke, but we didn't. So how dare you tell me I don't know your pain. I know it, I _watched my world die_. And we still fought, and we will still fight. And as long as one Cadian still lives, Cadia Stands. What do you have to say, coward?"
“I have lost 50 men in this past hour. They wore the name of my regiment, they cried out our creed, each of them feared death but still marched onto the field as if it did not exist. Armed with plasma and las they fought the enemy. Each one of them a veteran in their own right. The enemy lost 10 of their marines. Such a defeat on their part must have been so embarrassing.”
No lie, losing 10 CSMs to take out 50 Guardsmen is incompetence at the highest degree.
@@ngominh259 plasma weapon teams are no joke
"Guardsman. Do you see that enemy stronghold?"
"Yes, Commissar."
"I don't want to."
"Understood, Commissar!"
*covers window with shades*
There now you don't see them anymore
@@ryanadams0922 gets blamed for being a smart ass
*proceds to fix bayonet and charge the fortress *
Just press the *Death* button
*sounds of PURE IMPERIAL BOMBARDMENT INTENSIFY*
Imagine being a 10,000 year old chaos space marine, that has centuries of battle experience, but you get dunked on by some dirty peasant with a flashlight and a dream.
Imagine trying to destroy those dirty peasants home world and failing twelve times
And faith in the Emporer
Failbadon the armless be like.
Imagine losing to hit and run tactics of a bunch regular humans
*cough* iron *cough* warriors *cough*
And a fuck ton of artillhery shells
Fans: Can we get some new Imperial Guard models?
GW: Sure, here's some Ultramarines.
Fans: No, I wanted Imperial Guard.
GW: You spelled Ultramarines wrong.
How about a range refresh for Eldar, new Tyranids, new Khorne Berserkers and Noise Marines, or two wound CSM?
GW: Oh yeah here's your new Ultramarines Primaris Leiutenant you asked for. 😉
"Ultramarines are from the Imperium, they probably guard stuff, therefore they are the imperial guard. Now buy or fuck off"
Don't be Silly GW just doesn't give us Ultra Marine models. They also stop production on older Imperial models and ban them from the game. All hail the Primus Marines! The most broken thing since the blast template was removed.
I just checked there’s no firstborn marines anymore on the gw store so I’m going full banana bois
@@19kp. don’t forget to 3D print them!
In the first Dawn of War game your space marines find two guardsmen surrounded by ork and eldar bodies. The guardsmen are deep in enemy territory, lost contact with high command, missed the order to withdraw. So they decided to just fortify the hill they were on, and sat there for a week fending off ork and eldar attcks. From the bodies it looks like there was a full squad but the two guys are the only ones left by the time you find them.
I think its a week, but still : chads
@@talenloracus7891 yeah i think you're right 👍
Absolute gigachad energy was radiating from those guardsmen.
Are they a heavy weapons team?
@Falcone45 nope just two dudes with lasguns and lots of sandbags
I'll never forget this time I played Imperial Guard against Chaos Daemons and it was such a slaughter, by the end of it there were only TWO models on the 6'x4' board; a Daemon Prince and the last guardsman of the last squad. For 3 turns, the Daemon Prince kept whiffing its attacks, and this single guardsman took wound after wound out of the Prince. In the end, the Daemon killed the guardsman, but only had a single wound left, and I still think about that brave little guardsman who went toe to toe with this giant prince and just wasn't taking any of his shit.
The death of that guardsman was enough to make Sly Marbo cry.
Daemon Prince: Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Why can't I hit him?! Shit!!!
Guardsman: For Creed! For Cadia! For Holy Terra! For the Emperor!!!
@@ShawneeLad117 LOL damn right! One in a million game, that one. We still occasionally bring it up many years later.
Dark souls in 40k
Reasons why 40k needs roleplaying :0
It's a well known fact that in the movement phase sly marbo's figure is lifted and the player is required to move the table 6 inches in the appropriate direction then the figure is placed back down.
And if playing on the floor, you must move the house
@@korvincarry3268
*planet
Because nobody moves Sly Marbo except Sly Marbo.
I remember a joke about the differences between Guard regiments.
Three Commissars, a Cadian, a Catachan, and a Kriegsman, are discussing which one leads the bravest men.
The Cadian Commissar explains that his soldiers daily stare down the horrors of Chaos and hold the line and fight.
The Kriegs Commissar says that his work is trying to keep them from charging against the enemy and dying.
After a bit, the Catachan Commissar says "Watch this" and tells his troops to do 100 jumping jacks.
All at once, the Catachans respond "Go fuck yourself."
"Three Comissars enter a bakery..."
catachan was my least favorite regiment, today that has changed
Thats pretty funny
Then they pounded off in unison.
You aint gonna beat the catachan mfs
One of my all time favourite Guard badasssness stories: Pavel Leforto, random ass guardsman from the Erebus Defence Legion, fighting against 'nids on Tarsis Ultra alongside Ultrasmurfs and Mortificators. Just a regular dude with a lasgun, a wife and kids, not even specially talented or brave, goes against endless waves of biomass-eating bugs. He holds the line, gets knocked down a bit, picks himself up minus the lasgun, picks up a rocket launcher from the dead hands of another guardsman, and shoots a feckin' Carnifex in the face point blank, saving Uriel Ventris' ass in the process, knocks himself out from the blast. Eventually, he recovers and gets a purity seal from Ventris.
I was wondering who was going to mention the adamantium balls of this badass. Even Ventris was like "Shit, we missed one."
This old man was an absolute chad, really loved his scenes in the book
Getting a purity seal is like getting a participation medal.
Getting a purity seal when you're just a regular human, from a company commander of one of the First Founding chapters, however...
@@mortemtyrannus8813 A purity seal as a regular guardsman is a massive deal. It would make even the toughest members of the Astartes look at him twice in shock, especially when they hear HOW he got it.
Which book please?
There's a story of a guardsman fighting a chaos cult.
A saint wakes him up from his slumber. His head aches and he complains he unable to lift his sniper rifle. The saint produces a bolter and tells the guardsman to fire his sniper rifle. He musters the strength to do so. When he looks through the scope, he sees the cult's leader with a clear path. He pulls the trigger and the leader's brain matter decorates the surroundings.
The guardsman looks around, and he sees the statue of a saint, the same saint who "encouraged" him to shoot. The guardsmen takes satisfaction in this, and lays back down to sleep.
Later, when Imperial forces discover the dead leader. They determine the shot came from a sniper rifle, however, a corpse with the back of its head blown off still gripped the rifle.
"Even in death, I still serve..."
What story is this?
Damn any source?? Love to read it
Was that in gaunts ghosts?
@@imnotbobbarker idt it was gaunt's. That named character had ran from the battle, the statue chastises him into shooting the enemy leader with a piece of her clothing she gives him to wrap around his custom sniper rifle.
When his friends come to pick him up, they excuse his absence as him getting a better vantage point, and he goes along with it. When he looks back, the stone statue has a torn piece of fabric the same as the one she gave him.
I remember a book called Fifteen Hours about a guard regiment holding the line against the Orks, called fifteen hours because that was the life expectancy for a fresh soldier into the front line. The story is told from the perspective of a fresh soldier joining a squad to replace a member that was KIA and the Orks definitely were not comic relief in that story, absolutely savage.
As monumentally depressing as that book is, the opening hits the hardest of anything I've ever read. "It's not like these numbers matter." - The Administratum scribe who set the books plot in motion.
@@Sorain1 yeah, that was so fucked. Honestly, though, it really makes you think about war irl as well. Like, just think about the people who are actually *sending* the soldiers into the meat grinder. They're sitting happily in their homes, often rich as hell, enjoying life while people sacrifice their lives on the front line.
Kinda deep.
@@RepKyle95 15 hrs is higher than what the life expectancy of pilots in the air was during points of WW1 and WW2
First book imperial guard omnibus my fav guard story
I can't remember the name of the dude, but there was this Vostroyan Colonel who led a tank regiment that was on this big 'ol battleship that was being absolutely OVERRUN with daemons. Seeing this situation, this absolute chad called up the battleship's commanding officer and got permission to conduct a RUNNING TANK BATTLE INSIDE OF THE SHIP. The conversation went something like this iirc
Vostroyan: "Sir, my boys and I are sitting on our asses outside of our tanks and want to muck in"
CO: "Of course! Pick up some lasguns and come help out!"
Vostroyan: "HA, I meant in our TANKS, Sir!"
CO: "...FUG it, why not- HAVE at it!"
Vostroyan: "HAHA, BLOODY GOOD"
They all were ultimately torn to shreds, but that's beside the point.
hey, it frikkin worked.....
@@bladestormviking As a last middle finger and show of defiant badassey? Absolutely. As a method of actually clearing the ship? Less so.
It was never explained how many they killed or if they successfully cleared any of the ship, but I like to think they made a good show of themselves and dished out some punches before their sub-optimal demise. In their defense there were a LOT of daemons on the ship. I'm surprised they could even maneuver considering how those tanks had to carry the extra weight of their massive balls. Even though it ultimately didn't work, it's still BY FAR one of my favorite stories of the IG.
"They all were ultimately torn to shreds, but that's beside the point." This line appears a LOT in imperial records.
@@joshuamarvin7400
if we're being honest
that's essentially Krieg in a nutshell lmao
@@JackwagonInc Omg, I fuckin LOVE this story. I've never heard of it and now it's up there as one of my favs because holy shit those guys were badass! What a way to go down!
"Look if you charge that chaos dreadnought you have a 99.9% chance of death but if you don't charge you have a 100% chance of me shooting you, so your choice." -Commisar orison during the battle of reggal 199-7
the numbers don't lie
@@francescolombardi3438 And they spell disaster for you! At sacrifice!
Sergant Reddac was later captured by the Inquisition and sentenced to five consecutive death sentences.
Though after bringing him back to life the fourth time, the Psyker got a bit tired. So they showed some leniency for his prior good conduct and let him off the last one. And threw his corpse into an incinerator. This is an example of the great kindness of your Inquisitorial betters, so be thankful and generous this Sanguinala.
In the book Eisenhorn: Xenos, a few guardsmen conscript newbies survived against an alien race called the Saruthi who could bend space around them. After a while Deathwatch Astartes veterans were called in by the Inquisition. While the newbies were now used to the warped space around them and could kill Saruthi effectively, the multiple 100 year old Astartes forged to perfection couldn't hit anything. One guardsmen, again this guy is like 16, jokingly gave advice to the Deathwatch marines. They were livid. Absolute bad ass.
Expirience outranks everything
"In my book experience outranks everything."
Space Marine: OH JUST SHUT UP! (Switches to full auto)
Imagine being an astartes.
Decades of Combat experience.
Master crafted for war.
Stuggle against this Xeno species.
A young guard walks up to you.
Tells you to just ‘git gud’
@@HeroAndReporter id rage quit
“Fear old men in a profession where men die young.”
Then an old Kriegsman must be fucking terrifying.
No country for an old Kriegsman
In the Rogue Trader campaign I'm playing in, my Arch-Militant is a kriegsman who lived long enough to earn settlement rights. Aside from my most loyal protector, he's also my vintner.
God. That’s a fucking cryptid right there.
The only kind of man who could earn the respect of someone like Sly Marbo.
cant get scared of something that doesnt exist
"Some think of Ollianus Pius,
and some of Ciaphas Cain,
Of Yarrick and Sly Marbo,
and other greats the same.
But of all the world's great heros
There are none as glorious
as the row row row row row row row row row row of the Imperial Guard."
~Commissar Digby
The greatest commissar to ever serve our glorious emperor.
@@adenkyramud5005 gotta destroy those captured heavy bolters. There might be heresy afoot.
One guardsman is not a big threat. The problem is, it's never just one.
One man alone may not a chance against the horrors of the galaxy, but no man fights alone when he stands for the God Emperor.
Isnt this the exact same quote for Orks?
@@GrimReefa808 Would work for nids too. Any swarm army really.
Hummiez **snorts** wer derz wun derz a hundrad of dem
"you are but one, we are many"
Ciaphus Cain, the man who was so badass he's the only man who despite being buried with full military honors, is still listed as an active service member.
Listen he doesn't stay dead like every one else does
If I recall correctly, They listed him dead so many times that they made a special exception: He is not to be listed dead, even if stated otherwise.
Ah yes, Commisar Cain
Who's dodge rolls would land him straight into enemy lines and would put a Kriegsman to shame.
Who survived a melee with a Kornate space marine, Tyrannid Patriarch, and Ork warboss. Who tried to shoot himself and killed a dark eldar. Who leads a regiment that actually is two regiments in one(Male/female), and actually doesn't take heavy casualties.
This is not even mentioning the juicy bits.
The Imperial saint of Luck: CIAPHAS CAIN HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
Yeah Im surprised they didnt talk about Commissar Cain, those books would be right up their ally
@@rerako4755 don't forget about smashing a sister of battle
The Tallarn Desert Raiders defeated the Iron Warriors during the Horus Heresy.
The Iron Warriors determined Tallarn was a strategically important base and virus bombed the planet trying to get rid of them. They didn't realize though that Tallarn had an extensive bunker network across the whole planet, but most of Tallarn's people survived the exterminatus. The Iron Warriors landed expecting there to be no one, but they landed in a planet wide hornets nest and this started the largest tank battle in Imperial history still 10,000 years later. Tallarn won the battle and kicked them off the planet.
Also Tallarn is allied with Craftworld Biel-Tan because of some ancient war they fought on the same side in against Chaos, so they're probably the least xenophobic Imperials... they have a mutual defense treaty with them.
Biel-Tan of all craftworlds? color me impressed, those guys are almost as xenophobic as regular imperials
Plus they're all a big bunch of Pious fucks
@@jamesm783 and tallarn is also noted for being even more fanatical then normal.
@@jamesm783 Rogue Trader-era stuff was funkier. It wasn't weird to meet a space elf at the bar.
@@SusCalvin I'd also call it more interesting. Like, the Imperium are usually a bunch of fascist fanatics, and the Eldar are usually a bunch of racial supremacists, so what's different here with this space elf and this space bar?
I've always liked the idea of random Orks showing up in Rogue Trader retinues and/or Guard battalions, too. If you're recruiting and an 8' Ork stomps over to your desk and demands you let them fight for you, who the hell would be suicidal enough to say "no"?
"any who scoff at the power of a lasgun has never run through a field of a thousand of them"
I was literally playing a game against a friend the other day. I had 30 gaurd arranged in front of the cover he was hiding behind, and a leman russ and two sentries flanked behind it pointed directly at him. To quote him, "I'm more afraid of the storm of lasers on that side, than i am of the mechanized war machines on this side, I'm staying here". Never underestimate the humble lasgun.
Ollanius Pius
, Hero of the Imperium, and the man who stood before Horus to defend the Emperor himself when the Emperor was wounded. The man who when he was cut down by Horus causing the Emperor to finally let loose on Horus. He stood up to an absolute god, the CHOSEN SON OF CHAOS AND THE EMPEROR. AND HE HELD THE LINE. The Imperial Guard holds the line, never give up, never surrender. Ollanius Pius is the absolute most badass Guardsman of all time.
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING GUARDSMAN.
He's spent months fighting a grueling war in which his enemies are demigods allied with daemons, and now he's found himself in the closest thing to Hell he's ever known. He probably wasn't even supposed to get teleported up to the arch-traitor's battle barge in the first place, and just ended up in the wrong place at the worst possible time.
Somehow he's survived horrors beyond comprehension to make his way to the very bridge of Horus' flagship. He saw a veritable angel call upon Horus to answer for his crimes, and he saw that angel die as messily as any guardsman. His Emperor - who he fervently believes is a god incarnate, even if he's not supposed to - lies mortally wounded, and Horus, perhaps, has taken a moment to gloat before he strikes the killing blow.
And yet there he is, standing, all alone, between the Warmaster of everything humanity have ever fought against and the greatest beings amongs all humanity, if even not godhood.
His armor is slightly more effective than tissue paper, his weapon slightly more powerful than a flashlight. A single electrified claw from Horus' weapon is bigger than his entire body. He stands before a being infused by the dark gods with incalculable power, that can and will obliterate his soul with no more effort than it would take him to swat a gnat. Nothing he can do could possibly make a difference.
He could run. He could turn his weapon on himself. He could give in to the insidious whispers that echo from the ship's corridors into his mind.
Ollanius Pius does the duty his Emperor requires of him. He dies standing and holds the FUCKING line.
Sourrounded By Giants, He Stood The Tallest!
If we live it means we win and we can do it again
If the enemy kills us then we died gloriously for the Emperor
If you guys accidentally explode us then we probably deserved it so it's fine
WE LITERALLY CANNOT LOSE
Its even more badass because Ollanius stood against the literal Satan worshipping demigod that is Horus, knowing full well that he is gonna get punted into the floor, while he couldve easily joined Horus and stayed alive, and maybe became a daemon prince or some shit but no. The fucker was like "fuck you Horus imma give Emps a reason to spank you!"
You mean ollanius “big balls” pius?
Fun Fact: Commissars are not exclusive to the Guard. They also oversee Planetary Governors, ensuring Imperial orders are carried out regardless of local customs.
Example:
Commissar: "Governor! Segmentum Command needs a Guard Regiment ready to be shipped off world by sunset. See to it!"
Governor: "But thou shalt not take up arms on Emperor Day"
Commissar: [Draws pistol] "... Vice Governor, see to it!"
Source: 6th edition Codex: Militarum Tempestus. It also gives a look at life in the Schola Progenium as well. for those who want to read it themselves.
Navy has commissars too.
"What is the strongest weapon of mankind? The god-machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus? No! The Astartes Legions? No! The tank? The lasgun? The fist? Not at all! Courage and courage alone stands above them all!" - Lord Solar Macharius
Nope; tanks may crush men, artilary may crush armies and exterminatus may crush worlds. However infinate paperwork is the anvil on which the imperium crushes souls.
@@antonymash9586 beautiful bureaucracy
@@derekharris5625 Infinatly complex, ever shifting and dencer than a neutron star; truely the great work of the Emperor.
Awesome quote
Nope. It’s Sly Marbo.
There once was a Chaos Knight, a Dark Eldar, and a Guardsmen around a campfire. The Choas Knight bragged about how he killed three space marines with one bolter shot. The Dark Eldar bragged about getting a sister of battle to consider the emperor wasn't a God for a whole minute. The Guardsman didn't say anything, he just walked away from the corpses he was with.
Damn
Metal
The "all guardsmen party" made me respect the guardsmen.
Ciaphas Cain said something very telling about Guardsmen and Commissars. If the guardsmen really hate their commissars, the commissar will die a glorious death in battle miles away from the enemy.
"Whenever Saint Celestine is on the battlefield all the guardsmen are like reinvigorated with this HUGE HOLY FEELING" 😏😏😏😏
Nah. They all get this „Oh shit! We all gonna die!”
If Celestine shows up, it means the shit is fucked. Bayonet charging a chaos titan has bigger survival chances than fighting with Celestine in battlezone.
And Cadia Falls 😏
Emperor help me, for the sins these guardsmen are about to think up.
@@michasalamon8315 *crying intensifies*
They all be simping for celestine
There's one story about a pdf trooper who saved a space marine. This madlad ran through mortar fire multiple times to get ammo for the marine, while fighting chaos insurgents. Guy got severely injured but after the battle the marine found the trooper and gave him one of the marine's purity seals, since marine couldnt have maintained the position without the help of the pdf trooper.
You can bet your ass that Marine has his name as part of the Chapters histories and is damned respected for it. That's a level of dedication and courage that even the marines respect above anything else
Do you know what story that is?
@@Mistheart101 from other comments I’ve seen, it appears to be from Warriors of Ultramar, with the Marine in question being Uriel Ventris
A great character that was omitted would DEFINITELY be one Commissar Cain. HERO OF THE IMPERIUM, and walking imposter syndrome!
Perfect.
mood kindred
His books are so much fun too. I feel like they would have a ball with them on the show.
@@TheSkeletonVA literally blackadder in 40k, so much fun
I imagine he might be one of the characters that will get their own episode
My favourite guard story is from the Jopall Indentured Squadrons during the third War of Armageddon (Quoted from their wiki page):
A small squad of low-ranking Jopall officers managed to isolate a tribe of Orks who had somehow obtained several Imperial vehicles. These troop transports were painted with crossed axes and hung with skulls, but unlike the rusting, smoking heaps the Orks normally employ, these were well-maintained and comparatively clean, hinting at the presence of a somewhat technically-oriented Ork leader. Masquerading as liaisons from Von Strab's (Former planetary governor of Armageddon who sided with the orks) Personal Guard, the Jopall officers negotiated the unauthorised transfer of three Imperial Basilisks and a substantial amount of artillery shells with a high-ranking Ork mechanic. The Mek, as it called itself, was allegedly frothing at the mouth with excitement, and after thoroughly checking the Basilisks it paid the Jopall cadre substantially for the artillery pieces.
However, the Basilisk's undercarriages were each strung with thin lines of plastic explosive covered in dust and grime. As soon as the cadre of Jopall officers were safely ensconced in the spires of Tartarus, observing the Mek proudly parading his newly bolstered artillery battalion to the Greenskin Warlord Morbad himself via a satellite camera, the remote devices each officer carried detonated the plastic explosives. This triggered an explosion just destructive enough to detonate the Basilisk's ammunition, causing a chain reaction that consumed a full sixth of the Orks' artillery. Despite this success, Armageddon High Command deemed the voluntary loss of three Imperial Basilisks unforgivable, and the officers were summarily stripped of their rank. However, the soldiers in question now number among the most popular of their entire company.
I forgot about this story! Man, Jopall's soldiers are some bad motherfuckers.
Damn bureaucrats. Tanks can be replaced, entire worlds not as well
Today I learned that the Jopall Indentured weren’t just made up by TTS.
"Sly Marbo is believed to be the reason the Tyranids have fled to our galaxy. He got here first"
"Tzeentch made thousands of plans to slay Sly Marbo, all of them have failed."
"Nurgle hates Sly Marbo with a burning passion, because he will never rot and die."
"Khorne both loves and fears Sly Marbo, he loves the bloodbaths he causes but fears the day it's only him and Sly Marbo left."
"The orks don't believe Sly Marbo exists. The fact that he does regardless is terrifying."
"It's speculated that the silent king did not see the Tyranids in the dark void outside the galaxy, instead he met a ship that sent a message, "My name is Sly Marbo, I am the last of the old ones. RUN""
"Alpharius and Omegon created the marine look alikes to hide from Sly Marbo because they owe him money."
I'm gonna ask it
Slaanesh?
@@marsultorem3207 “Slaanesh admires yet despises Sly Marbo for the fact that he can cause excessive pain to an enemy without killing them, yet do it so quietly.” I don’t know. This is my go at a Sly Marbo joke.
@@marsultorem3207 i mean
slaanesh is both extremely horny for and extremely terrified of sly marbo
@@imperialguardsman5726 yes
here are some guardsmen and commissars with a brief description:
-Second Lieutenant Miranda 'Mira' Nero: Held the guard together after the command staff had been killed by a ork WAAAGH
-Commissar Ciaphas Cain: A heroic Commissar that thinks himself a coward, thou many of his actions contradict this
-Mentioned Ciaphas so Gunner Jurgen: the aid of Commissar Cain, is very overpowered and a Blank
A blank with a porno slate addiction. XD
ah yes, best girl Mira.
In the future of 40K, Cain's Valhallan regiments should operate as a combined-arms division: 597th Infantry, 425th Armored, and 12th Field Artillery. Stick Sulla in overall command...
@@windwalker5765 Sulla retired. I suppose a novella detailing a joint op between all these elements would be cool. Holding a transportation hub and mounting counterattacks against heretics, then reclaiming the city would be a great campaign. The Commissars in charge should probably all be Cain's students.
Bricky: * talks about taking 10 guards and using special strategies to shoot 37 times *
DK: OOoooOoo
Bricky: yeah that only kills like 2 space marines
DK: OH
Considering space marines are equivalent to living gods to them, thats a pretty big deal.
Those guards was obviously heretics!
@@xyzen9673 Basically this.
Astartes can YEET tanks, move fast enough to dodge live fire and are tough enough that a direct hit from a tank doesn't necessarily take them out of a fight. But ten guys with flashlights can kill'em by bringing in enough dakka to cover them in lasgun fire until they find the one weakpoint they can poke through.
@@lyravain6304 dude, i know.
@@xyzen9673 I know and agree. Expanded as to why so much as killing 2 Astartes is so hard.
Hippit hoppity this trench is now my Property -Krieg Guardsman
Yes
Korpsman
always has been
Indeed
and it only cost 250,000 guardsmen to get it
Honorable Guardsmen: Storntrooper André from the armageddon steel Legion. Only Guy which survived beside exclusiarch Grimaldus from the Black Templar when the entire Chappel came down on them after they where making a last stand against the Orcs in Hellsreach. Later on he was tricked onto the BT Battlebarge acompanig Grimmaldus onto the next Crusade. Also the only guy which does not give a fuck about speaking his mind in Grimaldus presence. Kind of a guy you simply cant get rid of which can crack jokes with a funny french accent in every situation. It takes a lot to get respected by not just some normal Chaplin but the damn Exclusiarch of the Black Templars.
André was invited to the Battlebarch for sightseeing by a Black Templar when the Barch left for its next Crusade without him noticing. Grimaldus was glad to (finally) get rid of André when leaving Armageddon. So it was prank from a fellow BlackTemplar when inviting André. So now hes still stuck with him. It is said that even Highmarshal Helbrecht thought it was funny. And damn, stuff that Helbrecht finds funny, you can count on one Hand. So we now have a simple Stormtrooper which has the honor to accompanie the BT on a Crusade (even if it is against his will).
What book is this from
Elder Maxson the book is called Helsreach
@@lordfarquad8913 there is a helsreach video by Richard Boylan which is a cutdown version of the book. read or listen to the book first then watch the movie.
This has already been commented I'm sure.
And I'm gonna paraphrase heavily.
But a commissar stared down a demon, and was like, you're a millennia old paragon of woe and war, immortal and powerful beyond anything we can imagine, fighting alongside superhumans with hundreds of years of war experience.
This guy is a baker. That one's a farmer. They're regular people, and they're holding the line.
What's your excuse? Demon.
Pity the Guardsman? Ha! The guardsman pities you, warp-thing!
We are going to shell that position and charge but don’t stop the artillery-Krieg guardsmen
Director what are you doing here, Class A personnel are forbidden from going into the field.
@@krillnyetheshrimpguy6152 if bright can post memetic images on 4chan I can comment on UA-cam videos
"We are going to shell the battlefield and charge, but not in that order."
Alright how can you have 3 hours old comment when the podcast ended
31 minutes ago + 80 min podcast lenght ?
@@milesadelman3342 no argument to that, damn...
Official petition to start calling the fans of this show the "Adeptus Actualis"
How could you have done this?
I can't believe you've done this.
Signed
You've got my vote
agree
Signed
As the old comic strip pointed out "While a single lasgun don't do diddly... 50 lasguns, that's a whole lot of diddly." (slightly paraphrased)
Haha loved that one. Tsoalr?
"The killbots had a preset kill limit, knowing this I sent wave and wave of my own men after them until they shut down." -Zapp Brannigan
Story for Tallarn Desert Raiders:
Back in the Horus Heresy, the Iron Warriors required another staging ground planet, which happened to be the planet of Tallarn. Rather than invade the planet, the crazy Marines decided 'screw it, just bomb'em' and dropped a Virus Bomb on it.
The Iron Warriors had to wait days for it to be habitable for them to even walk on it (as the Virus can penetrate Power Armor), and when they did, the planet was turned from a lushious world into brown sludge, gasses sparking explosions at the nearest fire, turning it into a desert world.
And the Tallarn were still there.
Reinforcements arrived as fast as they could, landing the safest thing they could: Tanks and Guardsmen with masks. But these are Space Marines, specifically the siege Legion, this should go one sided, right?
No, the Tallarn lashed out with more ferocity than a Mother Bear for her cubs, striking key targets before hiding freaking Leman Russ Tanks in the sand.
The Battle of Tallarn was less a battle for strategic value, and more a battle for revenge, hurt the marines who dared kill your family, your friends, your livestock, your homes, *your planet* .
The Guardsmen of Tallarn, now called the Tallarn Desert Raiders, pushed back the Iron Warriors, after they were virus bombed from orbit and driven underground to survive even the first day.
Talk about a shameful day for Chaos Space Marines
How much year did the war in tallarn last ?
@@AhmedMostafa-ir2bl I assume anywhere between 1-2 years.
@@Dragonspirit223 I seriously doubt it have to at least took 10 years
For the spacemarines to give up right
@@AhmedMostafa-ir2bl Problem is, I can't find any official 'start/end date' seriously, I just skimmed the Wiki for an estimate and the best I could find was 193 Days in the fight for when the Imperial Fists ran a special mission that would 'decide the fate of the battle'. Because that's a little more than half a year, I made the estimate of 1-3 years due to reinforcements and the like, as well as Warp Travel being dodgy to say the least.
Edit: I said 1-3, I originally said 1-2, figured I'd make a point about how this is just an estimate, it should also be noted that this was during the Heresy, they might not have had 10 years to fight, even if they wanted to.
@@Dragonspirit223 ok m8 I see your point
Don't forget Commissar Cain! The hero of the imperium. The man, the myth, the legend. He believed himself to be a coward despite being one of the best swordsmen in the guard (he scratched a techmarines armour in a sparring match), he frequently worked with Inquisitor Vail, and he worked with the Valhallan 597th. Classic imposter syndrome with this one.
And, forgot to mention, while he believes in the emperor, he firmly believes that the emperor has better things to do. Except for when it comes to making his life difficult
When you hate yourself but are too noble to let people die
My suspicion, is that he is secretly as good a man as people think he is
Don't forget that he was probably in a (as close as a inquisitor and Commissar can get) romantic relationship and is worshiped as a Saint by some Tallarns
(probably meaning there is a small Cain warp entity moving around)
He took out an Ork warboss in single combat and went toe-to-toe with khorne berzerkers.
"As they left that blighted battlefield behind, a clear and proud cry could be heard, over the howling winds and the cannon roar. It was a shout of defiance, bowed but unbroken: CADIA STANDS!"
About Guardsmen basically attacking their commissars is honestly not unheard of. It's one of the reasons why Ciaphus Cain always tries to be inspiring instead of threatening. As he mentioned that commissars have a tendency of being found dead at camps with las-shot wounds, because the regiment he was part of got tired of their shit.
Rather have 20 guards rush into battle because the look up to you, than out of fear.
And about Ciaphus Cain. There was a story where he literally stared a deamon princess in the face and didn't even flinch. Mere inches away from her and he remained calm (Mostly thanks to Jurgen)
All while another commissar beside him was shitting his pants from fear and could barely even stand.
Or the time when Cain single handedly takes on a Ork Warboss. A Warboss who've been leading the charge on an entire planet. An Ork who was several times larger than a regular ork. He knew he had to take him alone as well, as Jurgen didn't want to step in. Because if Jurgen had, all the orks surrounding them would have jumped in and attacked them both in mass.
There's literally a religion following Cain because the imperium thinks he's such a massive badass and it's even sanctioned by the ecclesiarchy.
Or the fact that even when dead, he's is listed as "On active duty" since he's survived so many presumed deaths.
Frak this. [The book of Caiphas Cain]
Caiphas Cain the Chad
Good to know that!
During Horus Heresy, when the Big E couldn't bring himself to give the final belt spanking on his son, a singular guardsman tried to protect the Emps, Horus laughed it off and killed the guy effortlessly but it gave the Emperor the will to use the belt on Horus. This singular guy became an Imperial Saint for the Guardsman, I think.
Yup. Ollanius Pius, who, despite GeeDubs attempts to retcon him into something waaaay lamer, like a Custodian or a Perpetual, is still basically the patron saint of the Imperial Guard
@@nedcurfman3486 him being a custodes kinda kills the whole thing tbh... Ollanius Pius being a perpetual should be alright if he had no flashy powers or anything, just a dude but even so he knew he would die the moment he faced Horus so despite it all he died like a true guardsman, what a legend
Imperator Class Titan sized auramite balls on him for sure.
@@battlesister1559 Yeah. The whole reason thst his death snapped Big E out of his reluctance to go full ham on Horus was *because* he was just a guardsmen. He was an ordinary human who, on his best day, and on Horus' *worst* was absolutely no threat to Horus. Horus killed him for no other reason than the fact that he could. And that was what made the Emperor realize, in essence "the son I loved is gone and is never coming back" and he just obliterated Horus' soul there and then.
" I Dont even knwow ho that guy was..but im so fucking angry" big E- seconds before beating horus into a pulp
Guardsmen in a nutshell
“Fear the old man in the jobs where young men die”
If a guardsmen lives long enough, they can come up with more effective plans of attack compared to their bosses.
Yeah those that survive are hard mfers
That's just the military.
I mean look at creed he has his white hair, and what did he learn to do in his long guardsman life? Hide a titan in a fucking bush
@@dancingimmortal448 a hudred baneblades waiting to ambush behind a light post.
I´d imagine a 40-year old guardsmen is sometimes more competent than space marines. Because space marines are accustomed to power. Normally even if their plan isn´t perfect they´ll still win simply through power.
Whilst the guardsman is accustomed to fighting impossible odds again, and again, and again. If they survive so long they´ll have to be the most cunning bastard in the universe.
The Kreig and Catachans are awesome but the unit that made me completely want a guard army is Colonel Bane and the Mordant Acid Dogs. Chased Chaos into the warp and returned. Too angry to be corrupted.
Man *didn't cry at Titanic
Girl "do men even cry."
Man *the planet broke before the guard
FUCK YOU! I'M NOT CRYING! YOU'RE CRYING!
CADIA STANDS!
*CADIA STANDS!*
Caida stands....for now
@@morrogin5986 maybe nuke it again to make it even more dead?
"You either get really good at smoking meats or you become a huge WWII buff."
Guilty on both counts. To be fair I loved WWII history even in high school, so I guess I always had the soul of a thirty year old and now my body has finally caught up.
Same here, but I'm only a bit past the halfway point.
You mean you loved the american version of ww2
@@The80sWolf_ You meen like the exploits of Polish resistance fighters and British mad science lab devoted to inventing weapons of sabotage? Yes, very American
Amen dude 😅
There was this one Cadian tank commander in the battle of Iax in the Book Godblight who rammed his tank against the greater Demon of Nurgle Ku'Gath pinning him to the ground and then jumping out of it and stabbing the SECOND FAVORITE DEMON OF NURGLE in the eye with his power sword and banishing him. Absolute Chad
You want a story? Sure:
The fight between Scout Sergeant Mkoll & Dark Eldar Mandrake Skarwael.
Excerpt (Spoilers for Gaunts Ghosts Novels):
He passed through shadow and firelight, bending light and sound around himself as he moved. His chameleon powers segued him into walls and doorways, like a specter from the afterlife.
'There!' Skarwael turned and flowed back through the night. At last his peerless skills as a stalker had paid off. There was his adversary, huddled down behind a railing, trying to hide.
You were good, Skarwael conceded. A pleasure to hunt, a pleasure to test my skill against. But you are no match for a mandrake. Don't move. I will honor you with a slow, delicious death.
Skarwael lunged with his sacred knife. The boline stabbed through the railings and speared through lifeless cloth.
Surprised, Skarwael dragged the cloth through the bars and sniffed it. A cloak, an empty cloak, made of some camouflage material. He turned and saw a rifle aimed at him.
"You're good"' said Mkoll grudgingly.
The single las-round hit the mandrake between the eyes.
The Gaunts Ghost series is amazing. My favorite one is Necropolis. Where they have to defend that hivecity against this chaos army that took over every single citizen of that other hive city.
I have not read those books, but damn, that was hype!
@@AzelRavenWood Gaunt's Ghosts are a great series. It follows the Tanith First-and-Only, which is a Celtic-themed Imperial Guard regiment. Bunch of cool stories and moments like the above-mentioned one.
Don't forget the time Mkoll took down a chaos dreadnought by himself.
@@IceLizardsUnited you had me at Celtic guard
Prior military here, ammo troop. Cleaning is what you do between operations to keep the troops busy. You don't want the troops to have spare time if you can help it. We get in trouble if given too much time to think.
Marines also play naked sleeping bag chicken when left to their own devices.
@BenjaminTheRogue HUA
@BenjaminTheRogue wait you're an NCO? If China or some alien race invades us can you launch a giant bayonet charge into the enemy while making your troops scream "for the emperor"?
Got to make sure those Axe Wielding Enlisted Deviants can have time to do drugs
Bored soldiers do unfortunately have a nasty habit of entertaining themselves with very fragile and very expensive peices of equipment. If your soldiers are bored you will run through your budget with frightening speed.
You forgot the Chem-dogs, but that's ok everyone does
The Emperor's stoned!!!
Also penal legion
Also elysian droptroups, and tanith, and even harkoni warhawks if we´re going that far. There are so much you cant cover them all...
GW made up a bunch of wonky little regiments as examples. I think they would be happiest if you made your own regiment, built a few cool stories over a couple games and wrote in to White Dwarf with the tale.
*Cries in Miasman Redcowls and Terrax Guard*
Books about the imperial guard are some of the best books out there, my favorite has to be Gunheads, which is just about a leman russ armored regiment fighting against orks and at one point a kasrkin (who are better than scions imo) was ripping ork teeth from bodies saying that when orks find bodies with no teef they see it as bad luck
One of my favorite books of all time. You think Lenck deserved to get his ass beat by Sergeant Wulfe?
I just remembered one.
A small strikeforce of Ultramarines were sent planetside to aid the Imperial Guard. A squad of Ultramarines got lost in transit and stumbled across a unit of Guardsman and their Chimera transports, the Guardsman agreed to take them to the outpost base and became very chummy with one another. When they finally reach the outpost, the Commissar is a real hardass whose about ready to discipline them for their tardiness, not shoot, just work them hard into the ground, and one of the Ultramarines stands up and starts making a point on how important it was that they work together and just how much of a service they had provided and that it would be remiss of him to punish such fine Guardsman. And after the Commissar leave, they agree that standard line troopers hate being chewed out by superiors, regardless if they're Guard or Space Marine.
Demigods and regular men both agreeing that upper management is shit. That's just peak 40k lmao
The mental image of billions of men entering a D-Day style fucking apocalyptic warzone to fight literal gods and devil's, it's crazy even crazier when you realize that these soldiers will win, as regardless of the casualties these men fight with humanities only indestructible sword and shield. Courage.
Not to mention the fact that that apocalyptic level battle with millions of men charging head first into hell fire is considered regular.
*Guide to getting the most likes in a 40k comment section:*
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- Say the Planet Broke before the Guard did *(Guaranteed to get the most likes)*
- Yes Inquisitor this [insert] right here
- Fix bayonets
- Something-something Exterminatus
- Something-something Krieg
- Something-something Heresy
- Praise the Emperor with any quote from the wiki
- Scream any quote from the wiki
- Scream any quote from DoW
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I'm sure I missed a few but its pretty much every comment I see in 40k videos so lol
welcome to a fanbase where every insidejoke has at least 3 books of lore behind it.
@@andiwandfahren7876 or its a throwaway joke from tts
@@Aconspiracyofravens1 or never changed since ages and is becoming seriously dull
Yeah it's fucking tiring to scroll down a 40k video's comment section and read the same shit every time no matter what the subject of the video is.
To be fair the imperial guard ones work with the topic this time around
Ah, the Imperial Guard. In a universe where everything else is a genetically-modified super soldier, an alien race with technology indistinguishable from magic, actual demonic horrors from Hell, or an intergalactic eating machine, these men take to the field with a flak jacket, a glorified laser pointer, and _balls of steel._
I don't play Guard myself, but I remember reading one of the Codexes and there was a crew roster for the Baneblade. There's a squad of like twenty people operating those things. One of the crew positions is a _cook._ Baneblades are so big they have a _kitchen_ in there.
I don't know if they changed the models, but the old Catachan Command Squad was a bunch of movie references: the Captain was R. Lee Ermey, the heavy gunner was Arnold Schwarzeneggar from Predator, the radio operator was Willem Defoe from Platoon, etc.
Sly Marbo is literally Rambo. Literally, just switch the R and M.
And the Sly is because Stallone's nickname is Sly.
My favorite guard related quote is from a lord militant iirc. He was told that for every square foot of a planet it would take 10 guardsmen. He simply asked, "How big is the planet?"
Do the story of the Guardsman who stood between Horus and Big E. Absolute hero he was.
Too bad he got fuckin' Annihilated.
@@monsterhiddenfromthesun210 bought the emperor enough time though
Already done in the Horace Heresy episodes
@@RustyKnightGaming He didnt bought the time for Empy but rather served as a nudge in right direction for the Emperor was hesitant to kill his beloved son and didnt fight back at full force. After Horus killed that guardsman Emperor accepted the
fact that he was beyond redemption.
*CADIA STANDS*
The planet broke before the guard did
Amateurs
Cadia will never truly fall, as long as we hold it in our hearts.
Kriegboys: *LAUGHTER*
@@aesthetics8230 wow you want a medal krieg fanboy?
Lasgun volleys are like building a bonfire entirely out of matches.
perfect analagy.
My favorite IG quote is actually from one of the video games, said by Lord General Castor to Sergeant Merrick, one of his subordinates.
"Merrick, a Guardsman's life is to die. My job has always been to send them where they can die. I'm not afraid to spend men, but I never waste them!"
IGs are often kinda joked and memed on for literally doing the Zap Brannigan "Throw wave after wave of men at them!" jokes. It's both more true and less true than it seems. They will often be sent to their deaths, but a smart general who uses the Guard well will make sure every single one of those deaths is worth it in the end.
"Glory to the first man to die!"
*Bang*
"Glory to the commissar!"
Fat Geralt was a chad and he punched that child out of self-defense.
Chad, based and redpilled
@@JustAJauneArc based and fatpilled
@@aetherius6221 Turkey based and fatfilled
@@chefyboy2748 good one lmao
Commissar Jaes "Jellyfish" Quallen - Poor lad got send by his rich aunts to Catachan, who betted how long will he survive. He outlived them bolt.
Where hes from ?
@@mharizsaifuddin7059 Terra probably
Where I can find this lore? 😮
Source on this? I could use more Catachan vs Commissar conflict. Cain's audio drama interactions with them are great.
Enemies of the Imperium, HEAR ME. You have come here to die! The Immortal Emperor of all Mankind is with us and we are invincible! His soldiers will strike you down! His war machines will crush you! His guns, will very sky itself down upon you! You cannot win, the Emperor is our greatest weapon! THIS! IS! OUR! DAY! FOR! VICTORY!
So did Rimmy
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
@@hiddenhundred8565 I see you’re a Rimmy fan as well.
Imperial Guards when the see Sisters of Battle show up during a fight "DUDE THERE ARE CHICKS WATCHING!"
Let me share my favorite Guard story, Bricky.
During the Sabbat Worlds Crusade the Tanith Ghosts were deployed to a planet named Phantine as part of an effort to take out a Chaos Warlord named Saggitar Slaith. The first leg of this involves dropping in to this city on a mountaintop to retake it. There are a few problems with this, though.
Problem One comes in the form of the drop itself. To catch the enemy by surprise and so they have the best chance possible the Ghosts are airdropping into the city *at night* in pitch black darkness. The book this operation takes place starts with them drilling and practicing this constantly.
Problem Two would be who is currently holding the city: the Blood Pact. Now, most of the Chaos forces the Ghosts had fought up until now during the Crusade were by and large cultists. The Blood Pact were different. They were a Khornite cult that was organized, equipped and trained as a proper military fighting force, putting them on par with Guard forces in terms of competence and tactics. Each one of them each one was sworn to their Archon's service in a ritual where they would slice open the palm of their hands on the Archon's sharp, jagged power armor. These are hard motherfuckers down to a man.
Third is a bureaucracy screw-up. Before the operation the wrong type of lasgun batteries were requisitioned for the regiment. Essentially they got supplied with D cells when their guns took Cs, so on top of everything else now the Ghosts don't have ammunition for the assault. Stashes that individual soldiers have are gathered and divided across the regiment so everyone ends up with on average *two clips of ammo* for the entire assault. After that it's going to have to be all sidearms, "trophy weapons" anyone happened to have and just plain knives.
So the Tanith Ghosts are dropping from the sky in the middle of the night, are fighting a well trained and drilled Chaos army and have *no goddamn bullets*. And they win ANYWAY. They resort to close combat with bayonets and knives when they run out of ammo, they scavenge from the enemy. One Tanith Scount in particular- MkVenner- held a staircase *by himself* as the rest of his squad advanced by using his lasgun with bayonet as a staff to fight the Blood Pact to a standstill.
The Tanith First and Only get spat on a lot by their fellow Imperials for looking dirty and seeming like a bunch of backwater yokels but time and time again they display skill and competence and get the job done against overwhelming odds.
*Guard Story*
If you want a sweet story about the Guard, the tale of General Graf Toschenko and the Vostroyan 9th during the invasion of Nimbosa and their final stand at the city named Polia. Basically the Tau layer siege to the Vostroyan, who were the only forces in the planet capable of fighting the Tau, and started to systematically taking the Guard out bit by bit. General Graf Toschenko, realizing that if he did not do anything.. he would lose everything, decided to sally forth with everything at his disposal. Unfortunately, the Tau ambushed him and basically destroyed all of his armoured support and killed everyone in his command squad besides himself. Alive and bleeding, General Graf Toschenko rose to his feet, hoisted the company banner over his head and drawing his sword rallied his troops against the Tau and charged them! Seeing their commander charge forth, the Vostroyan 9th rallied with insane fury and attacked the Tau. The Tau, seeing that their enemy was weaked decided it was a good idea to enter close combat with fucking fanatical Guard! This lead to a brutal and savage battle of close combat and small arms fire. The battle only ended when the Vostroyan 9th and General Graf Toschenko finally were all killed to a man!
This battle can be seen in the art for the City's of Death rulebook, where you have a Guardsman stabbing a Tau through the chest and in the background on a spire, you can see the shadowed figure of Graf Toschenko leading his troops. One if my favorite pieces of art and of Guard stories. Also, if you play Vostroyan in game, like I do, you can equip your Company Commander with Graf Toschenko's armour as a relic, which is AWESOME!!!!!!!
I was playing a friend's guard army in 7th edition, and my favorite incident was a sergeant who just wouldnt die. He death or gloried a predator tank for 3 rounds
Calls magazine a clip.
Machine spirit detonates magazine.
Its neither, its a battery. Curb your pedantry.
Power pack would be more accurate.
@@brilobox2 gonna call the Mechanicus on me patrician? This lowly guardsmen doin his duty.
I pray to my flashlight and red grenade box like everyone else.
Back in the 80s nobody could understand. I challenge you to say something starting with "alexa". That is the early example of a machine spirit. They use robots to build robots, and the machine spirits are remnant semi-intelligences from those days. So yes, we pray to our gun. So do you when you forgot your keys in your car. "Alexa unlock car".
Sisters of Battle not only are regularly fighting alongside the guard, but also their medics are regularly what functions as guard medics. Sister of Battle Hospitaller function like apothecaries, basically. Minus cutting you open for gene seed. They genuinely go. " Your arm is too wounded to be fixed? Here's some local anesthetic. I'm cutting it off at the elbow and giving you a quick prosthetic, then sending you back into the field after you adjust to it. "
This one is from the table top:
A lone Krieg guardsman, rolling a 2 on insane heroism and killing a genestealer in melee. The battle was a blood bath. Above the hill stood a severely wounded Hive Tyrant. Staring down on the last remaining soldier. The tyrant charges, the guardsman over watches. A 6 to hit and a 6 to wound. A 1 on a 2+ armor save from me to fell the beast.
I can just picture the Krieger swapping lasgun cells and calmly reporting "Position secured." Because it's Krieg, this is just the everyday, nothing special.
@@Sorain1 all you hear from the Vox line from that area is just "Position secured. Trooper requesting orders."
If you want to laugh your ass off, look up "The All Guardsman Party" it's presented as a series of war stories from a group of guardsmen who were conscripted into the Inquisition as muscle.
"Have you ever seen violence against kids and it made you laugh"
Finally, something i can get behind
I have 3 kids and I laughed hard.
trazyn is gonna be inspecting his collection one day and just find a baneblade popping out from behind Creed's now empty stasis pod.
There is one part in Cadian Blood where a squad of IG destroyed a DeathGuard dreadnought, but throwing explosives at the plasma gun as it vents, igniting the fumes. After crippling it, one guy run behind it and climbed to the front and placed the lazgun in the nought's viewing slits, unloading the whole mag into the pilot.
Imagine being a century old beast of metal and pain made from the cream of the crop alien hunting superhuman. And having some hairless halfway climb on your holy body before lighting up a flashlight in your visor
@@evilsclone2499 Death guard. Bloated heretical mutant.
@@evilsclone2499 (laughs in kronate) it’s blasphemy! I Love It!! (
Wouldn’t that be in the hundreds of shots? Depending on how much he shot and setting of the lasgun.
@@SimonCarl93 Tuned to maximum strength setting, you would be lucky to get more than 20 shots.
The Praetorian Guard, where during Big Toof River they were forced into a last stand and arranged their vehicles into a circle and fought against an Ork onslaught to the last man. The commanding officer Ter-Ay would survive the battle and 10 years later, charge a giant Tyranid by himself saying "Let me go to my fate brothers... I must have peace from the ghosts that haunt me."
TERRY NO
“Alone, faced up against all the horrors of the galaxy, one guardsman can do nothing.
But a guardsman is never alone.
He has his squad, his fireteam, his platoon, his company, his battalion, brigade, and regiment.
Behind him, tanks grind mountains to dust as artillery shatters the sky and jets slice the clouds.
The crack of millions of lasguns ring out, letting the enemies of the Imperium know that they have come here to die.”
Ciaphas Cain who once stopped a brawl to the death between two regiments by yelling about how much of a mess they'd made and ordering the ringleaders to go get mops and buckets. They were all so confused they complied. Oh and once tricked a Drukhari into leading a hoard of Tyranids into Commorragh via a webway gate.
So here is something from an Eldar Farseer, talking about the might of the guard. Basically, a single guardsman is not a threat to the Eldar, because of their foresight a thousand guard aren't a threat, or a million guard. Most of them are unskilled cowards. However, inside those useless masses, are the heroes. the guard who will not run, and stand on the machine gun despite their wounds, the guard who will dive on the plasma grenade and save his entire squad. The tank driver who will sacrifice themselves ramming into danger. The hardest job of a Farseer when fighting the guard is finding and accounting for these heroes, before they can do something you don't expect, and turn the tide of battle.
In the "Let the Galaxy Burn" Story collections there is a short story where a guardsman kills his Commissar to save a planet of mutants that were loyal to the Emperor. It's a really early story, but I think it shows guard do have choice in their lives.
I remember that one, was the minotaur dudes in the heavy gravity planet, if I recall correctly, the commissar got eaten by something, though the guardsman didn't help him either.
The lasgun is actually pretty powerful, it’s just that the foes it was originally made for were far weaker. It’s not that the gun is weak, it’s just that what it is going against tougher enemies.
Fun Fact about the planet Armageddon. It used to be called Ullanor and it was the capital world of the largest Ork Empire since the days of the Krork... then Big E found them.
A smaller story from within the lore event known as "The Seige of Vraks":
Extremely simplistic overview is that there is a traitor bishop controlling the populace of the heavily fortified armory planet known as Vraks, and the Imperium really doesn't want to lose the tons of wargear in the vaults of said armory world.
Anyway... After an ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE multi-day artillery bombardment, followed by a charge by the entire Kreig frontline, one infantry regiment manages to take an enemy frontline bunker structure. Unfortunately for these guys, the previous bombardment left the artillery in a state of being incapable of providing support fire (in order to prevent more enemies from piling in from their side). These guys were locked in for weeks with a large permacrete complex full of a neverending supply of people that wanted them dead, and the fighting was brutal. When their lasguns ran dry, the Kreigers looted the enemy autoguns. When the autogun ammo ran low (and the autoguns themselves had their barrels warp beyond use from the heat of the sustained fire), they started allowing the enemy to get as close as they could afford so that they could run out to loot more armaments and munitions. Of course they were forced to engage in melee on many occasions when they were completely out of ammo or the enemy got too close. By the time rescue arrived, they were down to a single squad with only a flamer that was falling apart and makeshift melee weapons (as their bayonets and shovels had broken from overuse long ago).
Never thought a kreig shovel could even break?
@@rachnussouldrinkerlibraria5640 I guess it goes to show how long the fight was
@@rachnussouldrinkerlibraria5640 The shovels broke before the Kriegers cared...
Surrender... To the heretics? Shovel that.
You summon a daemon? I Raise you one shovel
oh you like warhammer? name every guy who has canonically lost a limb.
oh you like memes, post every, and i mean EVERY meme that has ever come out, funny or not
Yes.
@BenjaminTheRogue that's the point, it's a meme that can counter itself
It would basically form the Eye of Terror
What about the Commissar that fought an Ork war boss lost an arm and still won
They say upon completing training for the Imperial Guard, soldiers are given 3 things, a T-Shirt, a Flashlight, and a Wheelbarrow to carry their massive balls.
13th penal legion is one of my favorite bits of Imperial Guard lore. Basically, they round up the criminals and run them through trials by fire where they go through shitty battlefields and if they live long enough, they get to partake in a suicidal mission where if you survive, you get a pardon.
If you die, you also get a pardon, so that tells you about the survival expectations.
The best part is that the sort of guys who end up surviving long enough to get a pardon tend to be so fucked in the head that they will tend to relapse to their old habits and Colonel Schaeffer who runs the penal legion keeps a keen eye on these guys with the hopes of dragging them straight back to the penal legion the moment they slip up because they are so useful.
Of course, if you do slip up, you are stuck there for life till you die for the Emperor.
Just like he wanted in the first place.
The books on the 13th penal legion are fantastic, especially when during an assassination mission they talk about how degenerate the Tau are for having motion sensors on doors and water faucets.
Talking about the loyalty of the guard always makes me bring up my favorite Regiment, The Miasman Redcowls.
Other guardsmen, who will charge to their deaths without question, will revolt outright when paired with the Miasman's for the simple reason that the Redcowls stink to high heaven.
They utilize flamers with special fuel that burns green and is absolutely intolerable to people are aren't from their own regiment.
Miasman....... stinky bois........
Ah, they have a MIASMA of stink.
best intro to the guardsmen is the "All Guardsmen Party" Darwinian Character creation is the name of the first episode
Future video wishlist:
Assassin temples
Mordian Iron Guard
Also MIG fun fact: they are known to pick on commissars for discipline infractions
This absoluetly! Mordian Iron Guard are incredible! When they come back from a battle, they immediately change into a new uniform and reshine their boots, just to get ready to head out again.
Additional fun fact: They wear their dress uniforms *over* their flak armour. Fully starched and shined and everything.
Oh you're an Imperial Guard fan?
*Name every regiment.*
EDIT: Good job, I'm proud of you all.
110th Cadian
122nd Cadian
122nd Cadian
13th Penal Legion (Last Chancers)
Kaledon Hunters
Kanak Skull Takers
Karlack 1st
Kasrkic
Krourk Ogryn Auxilia
39th Cadian
412th Cadian
417th Cadian
7th Cadian
85th Vendoland
8th Cadian
Armageddon Ork Hunters
Armageddon Steel Legion
Asgardian Rangers
Astra Militarum
Athonian Tunnel Rats
Attilan Rough Riders
Brimlock Dragoons
Brontian Longknives
Cadian 81st Armoured
Cadian Shock Troops
Cantican Colonial
Catachan Jungle Fighters
Death Korps of Krieg
Dhonovar Heavy Armour
Dieprian Mountain Men
Drookian Fenguard
Elysian Drop Troops
110th Cadian
122nd Cadian
13th Penal legion
39th Cadian
417th Cadian
7th Cadian
85th Vendolan
8th Cadian
Armageddon ork hunters
Armageddon steel legion
Asguardian ranger
Athonian tunnel rats
Attilan rough riders
Brimlock dragoons
Cadian 81th armored
Catachan jungle fighter
Death Korps of Krieg
Dieprian mountain men
Elysian drop troops
Faeburn vanquishers
Ghreddask iluminators
Harakoni warhawks
Kaledon hunters
Kanka skull takers
Kasrkin
Luggnuam sewer rats
Minerva tank legion
Monglor ogryn auxilia
Mordant acid dogs
Mordian iron guard
Praetorian guard
Saval chem dogs
Tempestus Scion
Valhalan ice wariors
Vostrian firstborn
@@silverbloodborne9495 an impressive list, that’s for sure, but I think you forgot Mordant Acid Dogs. Also, I’m fairly certain that ‘Astra Militarum’ is just a copyright-able name for the Imperial Guard as a whole.
Edit: Ah, there we go
1st Combine Replenishment Battalion
3rd Devash
4th Grey Phantoms
5th Columnus
6th Canadal
7th Cartigian
8th Cadian
9th Cardosian
9th Regiment
13th Penal Legion
13th/5th Imperial Army
13th/23rd Tiger Lizards
17th/21st Tiger Lizards
19th Grey Lancers
24th Grenadiers
43rd/65th Heidrun
55th Arnaud Fast Attack
61st/320th Orenian
81st Malfi Light Infantry
85th Vendoland
87th Bluebloods
93rd Lost Hope
122nd Bushrats
181st Wolfpack
194th Parsus III Regiment
282nd Light Colonial Guard
584th Firestarters
Abyssian Regiments
Aegina Prestige
Aegis Regiments
Afghali Ravagers
Agathon Regiments
Agripinaa Home Guard
Al'Arach Regiments
Alasia Prime Mobile Infantry
Alba Highland Militia
Aldarriss Regiments
Alderia Royal Guards
Alloran Regiments
Amaquan Regiments
Ambrosian Regiements
Amerigo Secundus Wolverines
Amistel 24th Cavalry
Antari Rifles
Anvarisian Ice Rangers
Arborean Prime Regiments
Arcadian Regiments
Archite Palatines
Arcturuan Dragoons
Arcturan Regiments
Ardelan Rangers
Ardelean Colonials
Arkaddian Irregulars
Arpadis Mortant Regiments
Arkhan Confederates
Armageddon Ash Wastes Militia
Armageddon Ork Hunters
Armageddon Steel Legion
Arminiun Honus Squads
Arphista Penal Legions
Arxan Regiments
Asgardian Rangers
Asarkin Mobile Infantry
Athanos Regiments
Athonian Tunnel Rats
Attilan Rough Riders
Attredan Regiments
Augusta Regiments
Aurech Irregulars
Aurelian Regiments
Avalon Regiments
Avar Regiments
Avellornian Gunners
Azin Regiments
Balakovo Guards
Baldackian Fusiliers
Bale "Highlanders"
Bannan Regiments
Bar-El Penal Legions
Barac Regiments
Barbarossan Regiments
Bastian Ward Regiments
Bavarian Regiments
Bekulian Levy Reserves
Belis Corona 55th
Belisar 34th
Bethus Regiments
Bifrost Regiments
Birmingham Regiments
Bolshev Guard
Borkellid Hellhounds
Borodian Regiments
Boroeal Regiments
Bravanda Centennial
Brevian Centennials
Brimlock Dragoons
Britan Regiments
Brontian Longknives
Bushmen of Serica
Byzant Janizars
Cadian Shock Troops
Calax Regiments
Calderon Rifles
Calexian Regiments
Caliban Jaegers
Caliguan Motor Rifles
Calmonian Regiments
Calth 2nd Irregulars
Calth 3rd Infantry
Cambreadth Regiments
Camden Regiments
Canteral Regiments
Canopus Heavy Foot Regiments
Cantican Colonial
Caracan Regiments
Carillian Regiments
Carnelian Light Foot
Carolon Guards
Carothian Regiments
Carthago Regiments
Castellans Regiments
Castobel Reborn
Catachan Jungle Fighters
Charon Regiments
Chelsean Regiments
Chenovian Regiments
Chonlhan Regiments
Chudian Regiments
Cimmerian Regiments
Clovis Regiments
Coban Regiments
Cochise Regiments
Comagran Regiments
Corican Regiments
Corthasian Regiments
Corvus Regiments
Crescent-Sind Sixth Torrent
Crinan Regiments
Cromaryn Regiments
Cthonian Armoured
Cthonol Regiments
Dalarian Regiments
Daltigoth Irregulars
Darien Regiments
Darillian Regiments
Darrague 676th
Death Korps of Krieg
Deneb 5th
Dernhelm Regiments
Descaal Lancers
Descedniain 2nd
Desert Devils 153rd
Dhonovar Heavy Armour
Diddiane Dragoons
Dieprian Mountain Men
Dnieper 9th Tank Corp
Dolgan Regiments
Dominicus Regiments
Donian Regiments
Drepanan Regiments
Drookian Fenguard
Drusus' Own Hussars
Dterian Regiments
Dulma'lin Regiments
Durellian Regiments
Eisen Irregulars
Elite Gharkas
Elitor Regiments
Elysian Drop Troops
Epsilon Tokugawa Regiments
Erawan Freelancers
Erebus Defence Legion
Erland Regiments
Faeburn Vanquishers
Falterravan Regiments
Farset Lancers
Fasadian Regiments
Fellesian Airborne Auxiliary
Finreht Highlanders
Flotte Coloniale
Forax Binary Mobile Infantry
Fornus Lix Fire Drakes
Fortis Binars
Framlingham Rifles
Fremas Regiments
Frumunda Regiments
G9K Division Kill
Garlatan Drop Legion
Garnthes Regiments
Gate Keepers
Gathalomor Heavy Grenadiers
Geno Five-Two Chiliad
Geno Seven-Six Spartocid
Ghreddask Illuminators
Glacemaw Ridgeholders
Glavian Skirmishers
Gleastonian Regiments
Golokov Regiments
Gracian Regiments
Grinnuth Regiments
Guardia Regiments
Gudrunite Rifles
Gryphonne IV Regiments
Gudrunite Rifles
Gunmetalican Regiments
H2656 Feral Dogs
Hadley's Hope Regiments
Hadris Rift Regiments
Hallicon Armoured
Hallowmas Regiments
Hammeront Regiments
Harakoni Warhawks
Hasdrubel Regiments
Heliothrix Combine
Hernovan Grenadiers
Heronian Regiments
Hesperan Lancers
Holding Regiments
Hussaria Regiments
Hyperion Guard
Hyrkan Regiments
Iaxian Tithe Guard
Iberian Regiments
Imbrium Dragoons
Indigan Praefects
Interfector Regiments
Ionian Dragoons
Ionis Regiments
Iorgan Regiments
Iron Tower Regiment
Irridian Regiments
Ishan Regiments
Istanian Regiment
Ivinia Regiments
Ivlordian Regiments
Jaggedpanzor Regiments
Jantine Patricians
Janus Regiments
Jarhardy Shock Regiments
Jjojos Regiments
Jopall Indentured Squadrons
Jouran Dragoons
Jumael Volunteers
Juno Grand Fusiliers
Justus Regiments
Jyhaddic Regiments
K'phrani Regiments
Kado Regiments
Kaledon Hunters
Kalevala Regiments
Kallistan Rifles
Kanak Skull Takers
Kandorian Regiments
Kantael Regiments
Karis Regiments
Karrack Las
Kaslon Regiments
Katakurika Regiments
Kataran Lancers
Kaurava Conservators
Kaylen Lancers
Keldian Regiments
Kellersburg Irregulars
Keltaxana Regiments
Ketzok Regiments
Khorporovka Regiments
Khulon Huscarls
Khumium Militia
Khymer Regiments
Kiridian Regiments
Kirvan Light
Knovian Gharkas
Kolstec Regiments
Konig Regiments
Kortoth
Kovnian Regiments
Krassian Regiments
Kreigars Regiments
Kronus Regiments
Kroshin Grenadiers
Kruegers' Reapers
Kynskite Dragoons
Kyshakkian Penal Legions
Lacunan Lifewatch
Landrian Militia
Lanthan Drop Troops
Last Reach Regiments
Latarii Gundogs
Lexxian Regiments
Lieran Rifles
Logres Regiments
Lorentian Regiments
Loriar Regiments
Lostock Regiments
Luann Lineholders
Lucian Regiments
Lucifer Blacks
Luggnum Sewer Rats
Lunari Regiments
Luther McIntyre Regiments
Maccabian Janissaries
Macharian Regiments
Madeus Regiments
Magdellan Regiments
Mako Regiments
Malcador's Chosen
Mandalay Regiments
Manninen Rangers
Maninninan Rangers
Manth Grenadiers
Mariner Regiments
Mercutian Regiments
Merov Penitentiary Indenture
Mershan Regiments
Methuselan Regiments
Miasman Redcowls
Minervan Tank Legions
Miral Regiments
Mirra Nomads
Miskolc Prime City Rats
Mistian Para-Troops
Mistralian Windborne
Mnenomite Regiments
Moloch Rifles
Molov Regiments
Molovian Guard
Monras Regiments
Moradia Regiments
Morax Regiments
Morbidian Skull Takers
Mordant Acid-Dogs
Mordian Iron Guard
Mordion Regiments
Morloc Regiments
Mortant Regiments
Mortessan Highlanders
Mortimer Regiments
Mubraxis Dustdogs
Mulsarian Regiments
Munisipice Fusiliers
Mycenean Regiments
Mykran Rifles
Naga Regiments
Narmenian
Narsine Yeomanry
Nebian Regiments
Necromunda Regiments
Neocassan Regiments
Neride Regiments
New Crobuzon Militia
New Klondike Regiments
New Phraxian Regiments
Nimbus Regiments
Ninth-Ward Angeloi Adamantiphracts
Noctan Strike Forces
Noctus Regiments
Nomulan Wolves
Nordian Berserkers
Novgorod Regiments
Numinus Regiments
Ocanan Phalanx Troops
Octavis Regiments
Omicron Rangers
Ontanople Regiments
Oran Jaguars
Orcallian Regiments
Orn's World Militia
Orthos Regiments
Oudinot Irregulars
Ouranti Draks
Outremar Regiments
Palladius Regiments
Pannonnian Regiments
Paragon Regiments
Pardus Regiments
Patria Regiments
Patrian Regiments
Peraxxian Regiments
Petrostok Besiegers
Phantine Regiments
Pheonix Regiments
Phobos Regiments
Phonosar Regiments
Phyrian Auxiliary
Phyressian Regiments
Phyrgian Regiments
Phyrus Regiments
Phyrussian Regiments
Pinolus V Regiments
Pintax Regiments
Polaron Defence Force
Polax Shock Regiments
Polisian Regiments
Polladen Regiments
Praetorian Guard
Pragar Regiments
Prospero Spireguard
Pyotorgors Arctic Rifles
Pyran Dragoons
Qartad Regiments
Rardonian Regiments
Rasak Bloodpools
Rassiosan Regiments
Razacks Roughnecks
Regnault Thorns
Remus Regiments
Rigan Rifles
Rimini Regiments
Ritzos Regiments
Riverine Founding
Roane Deepers
Roskan Regiments
Rough Riders of Attila
Rygarian Regiments
Rygol Centurions
Saharrian Regiments
Saint Khoran Regiments
Salizar Pike Regiments
Sallarn Regiments
Samothrace Regiments
Sancon Regiments
Sarenian Regiments
Sarpoy Regiments
Saturnine Hoplites
Savarene Harriers
Savlar Chem-Dogs
Scintillan Fusiliers
Scintillan Guard
Sebastian Regiments
Seced Regiments
Selucid Thorakite
Sempernox Regiments
Semtexian Bombadiers
Sentrek Freemen
Serennian Irregulars
Shehunid Raiders
Shenk Auxiliaries
Sidoneon Regiments
Sidthu Barat
Silar Regiments
Skarran Guard
Sloka Regiments
Solus Regiments
Sonnen Guard
Sons of Mjolnir
Soran Regiments
Sphynxium Diamonds
Stalinvast Grenadiers
Studka Rifles
Sturm Pioneers
Tachoman Regiments
Tahnelian Airborne Regiments
Talasan Regiments
Tallarn Desert Raiders
Tanagran Dragoons
Tangar Woad Warriors
Tanhollis Highlanders
Tanith First and Only
Tanner Regiments
Tantris Regiments
Tarentum Regiments
Tekarn Regiments
Telluride Regiments
Temujin's World Regiments
Terran Praefects
Terratus Strike Regiments
Terrax Guard
Teryaskian Red Guard
Teutonian Regiments
Tharinga Regiments
Therion Cohort
Thracian Guard
Tollinbraders Regiments
Torlean Armoured Guards
Tralian Regiments
Truskan Snowhounds
Tturas Regiments
Tuigan Marksmen
Tupelov Lancers
Turian Regulars
Ulani Regiments
Ulantii Regiments
Urdesh Regiments
Uriah Regiments
Urslavic Regiments
Uthman Regiments
Utican Desert Foxes
Valdian Rifles
Valeria Regiments
Validian Regiments
Valhallan Ice Warriors
Valstadt Regiments
Van De'Man's World Redbacks
Vandeen Guard
Vandorian Regiments
Vannheim Regiments
Vanth Defence Legion
Vardan Rifles
Varolian Regiments
Varseen Enclave Heavy Drop-Legions
Vastadt Regiments
Vastadtian Regiments
Vednikan Rifles
Vellurian Regiments
Vendoland Regiments
Ventan Regiments
Ventrillian Nobles
Victarian Regiments
Vigilant Guard
Vintor Regiments
Vitrian Dragoons
Vittorrian Regiments
Volcania Regiments
Volg Regiments
Volpone Regiments
Volscani Cataphracts
Vorgarn Regiments
Vorradion Regiments
Vostroyan Firstborn
Vresh Grenadiers
Wahation Guard
Weylond Fusiliers
Wrawbach Regiments
Xenonian Regiments
Xenophonian Guard
Yamin Regiments
Yamnin Volunteers
Yontisgrod Volunteers
Zantinian Infantry Regiments
Zanzibari Hort
Zenonian Free Companies
Zouvan Skirmishers
Zuvenian Light Foot
Bullet point summary of the life of a Cadian girl (think her name was Lesk) from the Cadia books
- as a small child: stare into the Eye of Terror and tell Abaddon to get lost (failure = probably death)
- childhood: not stated, but most likely basic training as you said
- age 15/16: get shipped out as a white-shield (private/recruit) and fight off chaos marines
- age 17/18: see your planet get destroyed and be the laughing stock of all other regiments
- age 18: be the Sergeant of a squad built from whatever random survivors the higher-ups could find from other destroyed squads, and then deal with their trauma and insubordination without getting yourself and your men executed by a commissar, who hasn't sated his bloodlust properly for a few years
All this is also commonly known as "Tuesday"
Lesk is hands down my favorite character. Imo best book series especially about IG. Hope they come out with book 4
This is why I love the Guard. They are the true heroes of the Imperium.
Everyone loves the Space Marines cause they are super soldiers and basically machines build for war. They have no fear, feel no pain, and are designed to be the best and blessed.
But the Guard isn't 'built' for anything. Against impossible odds, horrifying monstrosities and literal gods, normal mere mortals with nothing special, specs on the ground, drops in the ocean, indistinguishable from each other, fight through and win.
For 10.000 years they held the line and not brake. Go ahead, say the line broke.
Honestly the fan story/ rpg retelling the all guardsman party is such a good look at guardsmen mentality
Sucks there was no Ollanius Pius, but I get it since GW keeps fucking with that to the point of it being a myth.