Thank you for the reassurance! I'm honestly thankful that so many people from this passionate community reached out to me through the comments, and are willing to help fill in the gaps that Bricky couldn't get to.
Don't know about you but I think I'm up to 50+ times watching people react to just Bricky. It's always nice to see people appreciate, if not fall into, a hobby I've been apart of for 30 years now.
@@paddywop918I thought I was tweaking out doing the exact same thing lmfao. Idk how many times I've seen this vid, but I just love seeing people get into the universe. Judging by the views I guess the entire 40k community does
@ironduke5058 I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot hope they join their faction in one way or another. Unfortunately, my Legion of the Damned doesn't get a lot of love
There's been a consistent joke in the 40k fandom for a couple decades (and probably even earlier) that every other sci-fi nerd wants to live in their favourite universe, but if you ask a 40k fan that the only answer you'll get is 'fuck that'
Khorne: I hate you and everything you stand for and on. Fight me, 1v1, bitch. Tzeentch: We do a little trolling...Or do we? *Vsauce theme plays* Nurgle: Painfully optimistic nihilism and the circle of life. Slaanesh: Safe word? What's that?
16:46 Fun fact: Though the name Angron is obviously some derivative of "Anger", it may also come from the Latin "Angor" meaning Anguish. Knowing the love of Latin 40k writers have that was probably a purposeful double entendre, which I find super cool knowing his story. Angron was the kid that'd carry a random, hurt dog back home with tears in his eyes and take care of it, all because he felt bad. Dude was an empath, a real one. The nails were forced onto him and jammed into his head when he refused to kill his adoptive dad. Anguish is a fitting name for him unfortunately
The twist with the Tau is that you don't get to opt out of joining the Greater Good. You either join the empire or you die. Also I like that the Tau get to discover how fucked the 40k universe is and the many stories that come from that.
43:44 We don't know, that's the worst part. Currently there are 2 prevailing theories as to why they're moving into our Galaxy: 1. They ate everything else and there truly is just Tyranids outside the bounds of our Galaxy, drifting towards us in their trillions. They've consumed other galaxies before and we're just next up on the plate. They're predators 2. They're running from something... The *Tyranids* are running from something... And whatever it is, is gonna come sooner or later...
One thing that Bricky forgets to mention about the Necrons is that they are not just "regular" robotic space terminators. Their metallic bodies were conjured by literal Gods of realspace, it's not normal metal. The metal that makes their bodies is literal "living" metal, it is extremely durable and automatically regenerates all damage caused to it.
I've always viewed the Tau as a young idealistic race being thrown into this grimdark universe and was hoping their story would show how this race that wants to be the Good Guys slowly starts to decay and become corrupted. It seems thats how they are starting to go with the lore lately, but we'll see if they keep it up.
If you are interested in Necron, I can recommend two absolutely awesome books : The Infinite and the Divine, and the duology Twice Dead King. The Infinite and the Divine is absolutely awesome, hilarious and epic at the same time. This is the story of the millenia spanning war between two immortal Necron lord over an artefact. One of the protagonist is Trazyn the Infinite, probably one of the most beloved character in the fandom in general.
53:39 He is not kidding or exaggerating by the way. The Necrons literally had a game rule called "We'll be back". And their silvery exterior repairs themselves similar to silver-ish fluid. Yeah...
Some of my favourite stories about Orks, because they need to be said: 1) One time a group of orks was walking insede a relic of a space station; at one point, one ork pointed out that there was no atmosphere, so the other orks noticed it and pointed it out as well: then the group died, because as long as they didn't know that oxygen was an issue, it wasn't an issue to begin with! 2) One ork went back in time and killed his younger self, so he could have a double of his favourite gun; orks have no clue of what a time paradox is, so that ork is still alive. 3) In a fight between Imperium and orks, a regiment of guardsmen ran out of ammo: so in desperation, the commisar pointed his gun and yelled out "BANG" and an ork head was blown off; the entire regiment started doing the same, even throwing immaginary grenades that would make real explosions. After a while some orks approached, and the guardsmen did the same, but this time nothing happened. And as the orks got closer, they could hear them mumbling "I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank"
Also story of Waagh of Tuska Deamonkilla. One Ork Warboss found out that killing chaos demons is especially funny. So he get whole Waagh and flied it right into Eye of Terror. Gigant group of greenskins was making mess and attacking Chaos planets. Finally they landed on one owned by Khorne. And as Orks they started murdering demons (including removing private parts of one Demon Lord.) Khorne saw it and was like "Oh! ME LIKE!" - and put those Orks in his personal relam, making them fight forever and reviving them when they die. And Orks seem to enjoy it...
Hate to be the 'Uhm Ackshually' person, but unfortunately these are all just funny memes the community has come up with; none of them are things which have happened in the setting and the power of the WAAAGH! isn't that strong. The best way it can be described is that the Ork power of imagination is like the WD40 of reality. An example would be Ork weaponry. If a human engineer cracked open an Ork's slugga, they'd see the basic components of a gun: there'd be somewhere to load ammo, a chamber to hold the bullet, a hammer to trigger it, and a barrel to propel the bullet. On paper, it is a functional gun. ...Except it shouldn't work. Not anywhere near as reliably as it does. The barrel is just a pipe, there's no rifling or anything and the bullets should be flying all over the place; the sights are useless for actually aiming the gun; the chamber isn't built to discharge the gasses properly and should jam or explode after a couple shots. If a human picks up that gun and tries to shoot it, it probably would explode in their hands from a backfire. In the hand of an Ork Boy though, that slugga works because why wouldn't it? Bullet goes in, the Mekboy said that all the bits inside are working and there's a barrel for the bullets to come out with. It has all the stuff to make a gun work so that power of belief warps reality just a little bit and makes that gun work. Orks believe that a vehicle painted red goes faster, so that engine is gonna work better than it should do. A lootwagon made of a Leman Russ smashed into an Eldar Fire Prism shouldn't work because they're fundamentally different technologies; but da Mekboy plugged da glowy Eldar battery thing into da 'umie tanks engine so why wouldn't it work? If a human made a finger gun at an Ork and said "Bang!" the Ork wouldn't die. He'd laugh thinking "look at dis stupid 'umie who finks 'iz hands a slugga", give him a good bash and move on. The Ork accidentally going back in time and killing his past self is absolutely canon though and I love it. (Also I do sincerely hope we get the Ghazghkull Angron showdown, but we have no official confirmation that Angron killed Yarrick (we only have a short snippet of his memorial/grave in an IG codex), nor that Ghazghkull even knows he's dead. Last we saw Ghaz, he was siphoning up the remnants of the Octarius sector's WAAGHs and making headway or Armageddon at the head of the largest Ork fleets since the WAAAGH of the Beast.)
@@Derenyxthe story of an ork going back in time is actually real. It’s talked about in the 4th edition codex and there is no indication that it’s been retconed.
The whole Ork power of imagination is similar to the Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars and the Omnisiah. Basically they have two Gods called Gork and Mork, it's the Orks belief that uses their power to make things work that shouldn't. The Imperium don't understand it so they think it's imagination magic.
Just so you know, there's a lot of info he didn't mention or was outdated (Space Dwarves are a new faction now) and this is because the "Factions Explained" videos were created prior to his 40K podcast, Adeptus Ridiculous, which he co-hosts with DKDiamantes (who started out as a newbie to the world and his first entry was through the suicidal guardsmen known as the Krieg) and QuiteShallow/Shy (the sarcastic mute one on the sidelines, who's probably slightly more knowledgeable in 40K than Bricky, being the Ork main that she is). His podcast is where he does actual research and explains any featured topics. His 40K timeline video is likely the more updated in terms of his knowledge in 40K lore, and he crunched all of the major events in that one video....because explaining everything would lead to 2-3 hours at minimum. Orks are sentient fungi btw. If they die, they spread spores and those spawn new Orks. To get rid of them, you have to comb through and incinerate their corpses. As for the GW-Blizzard thing, the OG people of Blizzard were fans of Warhammer and they were apparently contracted by the owners of the IP to make a game for them. Somewhere and sometime later, GW bailed out and left for some reason. The devs were left behind with the leftover scraps and constructed a game out of it. That game was called "Warcraft" (based on Warhammer Fantasy). It wasn't Starcraft, although it was based off of 40K...no matter how many times they will deny it.
Glad you enjoyed it! I don't enjoy reactors that just kinda sit there like a dead fish then tell me to like and sub so I try my best to not be like that. xD
Playing the orks is wonderful. It's one of few armies that you can throw actual junk on the board and play a game, and actually do some decent damage! It's also an army you can really make your own with conversions and creativity. A buddy of mine once said a games workshop isn't a model shop, it's a giant ork bits box!
Harlequins are more than "demonic clowns" - they are keepers of memory, that reminds all Eldars why things are how they are. They replay fall of Eldar. They are like "world is a scene" and when they fight it see as show. They put into fight all types of meaning and story - every kill is turned into theatrics, being reference to something from Eldar history or myths.
@@TheLegitWeebsthe lore behind the Harlequins is honestly REALLY involved, which needs like a whole other video to set up, so I can see why he didn't go into it too much. It's an entire rabbit hole I remember falling into a while back when I looked into just 1(ONE) Craftworld (Ulthwe, they are so cool!) that led me to learning WAAAAAAAAY more about the Aeldari as a whole than I was prepared to. It's the same with the other factions too, currently I've just about finished with the Adepta Sororitas (and like the entire Imperium, because holy moly, these girls actually almost destroyed the Imperium) and I'm terrified because I'm getting more curious about the Necrons...and the snippets of their lore I got from my accidental deep dive with the Aeldari is on some OTHER bs.
@@TheLegitWeebsit worth mentioning that Harlequins have a special position called a Solitaire. When the do plays of how Eldar got where they are, Solitaire plays Slaanesh themself. They basically pull Slaanesh hair and piss them off extremely, and also take power from them so they are extremely powerful, basically Primarch level. But in turn their souls are not protected by Kegorath unlike other Harlequins, so when they die they go to Slaanesh, who have like a special pot for them for all the mockery. But until Solitaire is alive they are a great asset to Eldar and like the greatest protectors.
I’m sure someone else has said it, but a great complimentary video to follow this two-parter is Bricky’s video on “space marine legions” and how the 20 legions work in lore. Besides that, he did another video called “what 40K faction you should play” that goes over almost exclusively the tabletop mechanics. Great for if you’re gonna pick between your boys
One point with the Eldar was also that they are basically immortal and had the technology to reincarnate into new bodies. So having a bit of torture sex with a side of death wasn't an issue to experience. If you are immortal there will be a point where you tried everything, have mastered every art, fighting style and every hobby has been done so much it isn't interesting anymore.
I know you like SCP, so you'll appreciate this. There is a smaller version of 40k (called Kill Team) where you control like a squad instead of a company. So I want to make one of each kill team, and so I came up with lore for a lot of them. My Mechanicum team are members of the cult of Titanicus Premeri. They are from an Agrocultural/Knight World and believe there used to be a gargantuan titan, known as the Titanicus Premeri, that sacrificed itself to defend the planet. So they are devoted to find its broken pieces and reawaken it (sound familiar)? Their planet though has been infiltrated by a Genestealer Cult that has begun a rebellion and are trying to take the world. The cult came to be known as the Unifying Hunger. Members preach of Yaldabaoth (their name for the Tyranid hive mind) and the Unifying Hunger that binds them. They say things like "Your oppressive lives can be cast aside. Satiate your hunger for peace and embrace the collective and complete. Give yourself, so you may be consumed and reborn as part of the whole." So cult members literally cheer and run towards the tyrandis when they invade and fight over who should be eaten first. I know it is shamelessly just the SCP stuff being brough into 40k, but I think I merged the lores well.
I think it's awesome when you can take inspiration from another amazing story and apply it to your own. I'd say all good stories do. I recognize that your team is definitely referencing a particular group of machine worshippers, but other parts of the story make me think of SCP-5000 and SCP-3007. They're probably not your direct inspirations for it, but that's what popped into my head first.
Tid bit about ork's; (image-wise) They have Kustom shoota's, each "gun" is unique is both look and function. A chain fead auto cannon... With a scope... A hip heald heavy flame thrower.... With a bi-pod... A sniper rifle with scope, laser...iron sights .... Little dude sitting on the barrel yelling back at you to aim a bit higher.... Oh, and its also fully automatic... And a rokit lonchah. . Cheers 😊
Suggestion for reaction: the "If the Emperor had a Text-to-speech device" series by Bruva Alfabusa. It's an amazing series of abridged-or-is-it set in the 40k universe. Even for newcomers to the 40k franchise (like myself) it's still veerrrryyyy entertaining.
Speaking of Orc’s power of imagination, there are quite a few funny stories about them. 1. One time there were a bunch of Orcs repairing their broken ship while out in space. A second ship of Orcs arrives and decides to help the others out with their repairs. So they put on their spacesuits and hop on over to the first ship, only to notice that none of the Orcs from the first ship are wearing spacesuits. So they go, “Oi lads, why aren’t cha wearing spacesuits? Don’t cha know you can’t survive in space?” And then all the Orcs from the first ship immediately decompresses and dies. 2. A group of Orcs is fighting the Imperial Guard. Eventually the Imperial Guard runs out of ammo. But then their commander has an idea, he points his gun at an Orc and shouts, “BANG!” And then the Orc falls over dead. The rest of the Imperial Guard sees this and they all start shouting, “BANG!” And the Orc’s continue to die. Only for a little while later more Orcs show up and they aren’t dying from all the banging. And as these new Orcs get closer, the Imperial Guardsmen can hear the Orcs chanting, “I’ma tank, I’ma tank, I’ma tank.” 3. An adeptsus mechanicus, manages to get their hands on an Orc car. Curious to see how it possibly worked they popped open the hood only to find that there wasn’t an engine. But instead there was a large rock that had the words, “Vroom Vroom” written on it. 4. In the Imperial Guard there is a man named Commissar Yarrik. Yarrik was really good at combatting the Orcs, so good in fact that the Orcs started to believe that he was unbeatable. Which thanks to the Orc’s power of imagination, Commissar Yarrik officially became unbeatable. So no matter how hard the Orcs tried to beat Yarrik, Yarrik would always win. There are a lot more but these are my personal favorites. Edit: I have just learned that Yarrik is officially dead. He was killed by Angron the chaos primarch of the world eaters. And now Yarrik’s arch-enemy Ghazkull, is leading his entire army of Orc’s in a waagh (war) against Angron to avenge him.
Hate to be the 'Uhm Ackshually' person, but unfortunately these are all just funny memes the community has come up with; none of them are things which have happened in the setting and the power of the WAAAGH! isn't that strong. The best way it can be described is that the Ork power of imagination is like the WD40 of reality. An example would be Ork weaponry. If a human engineer cracked open an Ork's slugga, they'd see the basic components of a gun: there'd be somewhere to load ammo, a chamber to hold the bullet, a hammer to trigger it, and a barrel to propel the bullet. On paper, it is a functional gun. ...Except it shouldn't work. Not anywhere near as reliably as it does. The barrel is just a pipe, there's no rifling or anything and the bullets should be flying all over the place; the sights are useless for actually aiming the gun; the chamber isn't built to discharge the gasses properly and should jam or explode after a couple shots. If a human picks up that gun and tries to shoot it, it probably would explode in their hands from a backfire. In the hand of an Ork Boy though, that slugga works because why wouldn't it? Bullet goes in, the Mekboy said that all the bits inside are working and there's a barrel for the bullets to come out with. It has all the stuff to make a gun work so that power of belief warps reality just a little bit and makes that gun work. Orks believe that a vehicle painted red goes faster, so that engine is gonna work better than it should do. A lootwagon made of a Leman Russ smashed into an Eldar Fire Prism shouldn't work because they're fundamentally different technologies; but da Mekboy plugged da glowy Eldar battery thing into da 'umie tanks engine so why wouldn't it work? If a human made a finger gun at an Ork and said "Bang!" the Ork wouldn't die. He'd laugh thinking "look at dis stupid 'umie who finks 'iz hands a slugga", give him a good bash and move on. (Also I do sincerely hope we get the Ghazghkull Angron showdown, but we have no official confirmation that Angron killed Yarrick (we only have a short snippet of his memorial/grave in an IG codex), nor that Ghazghkull even knows he's dead. Last we saw Ghaz, he was siphoning up the remnants of the Octarius sector's WAAGHs and making headway or Armageddon at the head of the largest Ork fleets since the WAAAGH of the Beast.)
@@DerenyxThe meme stories are part of the fun though. Yes they are already fun and stupid without the memes, but as an Orc Player myself, I full heartily argue you cannot fully enjoy the Orks without embracing some of the meme culture. Whenever people talk about the Orks, almost half of the time it’s a meme story. Know why? Because the meme culture is what people remember the most about the Orks. Because it takes an already fun and stupid faction and multiplies it. Hell I got into 40K because of their meme stories. Now I’m not saying you have to like the meme stories, I’m just saying don’t go around and ruin the fun that others are clearly having.
Orcs are fun for a simple reason: in a universe of misery and pain, they are the only faction that are enjoying themselves. Absolutely, completely, having fun, all the time. A friend of mine described it best: "They have absolutely no existential angst, and they make that everyone else's problem".
Hurray, Chaos! A thing that is worth knowing that he didn't really go into with the four Chaos Gods is that they are always at odds with each other, competing in something called The Great Game for control over the Warp. The main reason Chaos has not been able to really make a dent in the real universe is that they're constantly fighting each other and they also can't win, or they as beings cease to exist. Their essence is fueled by mortal souls, so if they kill and take over the material world, they have no more beings to funnel power from. Basically, the only faction that is united as a whole are the Tyranids. No, not even the T'au Empire. Every other faction engage in infighting to SOME degree, which leads to no single faction really being able to outright win the galactic war over the Milky Way. Some things to note from when this video was made: World Eaters are now their own separate tabletop army with Angron being given a model for gameplay, and there's a new faction that was introduced called the Leagues of Votann. Just like how the Aeldari are elves in space, Votann are dwarves in space. They hold grudges and all that stuff that dwarves do. If you want to continue looking at Warhammer 40K, I recommend watching Bricky's two other videos, the one about the Space Marine Chapters and the comprehensive video about the Timeline which has been released recently. If you want something a bit more popcorn action, there are the different trailers for the tabletop game, the video games and for Horus Heresy. Astartes Project is great, but I personally find it tiring to watch as reaction content, and Emperor TTS is something I just don't find appealing, but it is a fan favorite in the WH40K meme circles. If you want some REALLY deep dives into specific topics that interest you, I'd check out a channel called Luetin09. He has hour long video essays about lore and speculation on pretty much any topic you can think of. Do keep in mind that lore is everchanging, so some information might be outdated or incomplete, but the videos are all good to watch regardless. If you're interested in Fantasy or Age of Sigmar, there's a video by a channel named Discourse Minis that did a similar All Factions Explained for Warhammer Fantasy, and HeyWoah did a video about Age of Sigmar, granted it's moreso from a tabletop wargamer's point of view than a lore one. If you want popcorn stuff, the Total War Warhammer 1-3 trailers are a great watch. Glad you enjoyed the video, it was fun watching. :3
Ironic how Chaos must maintain a careful balance in order to continue existing. It makes a lot of sense though. And thank you so much for the suggestions! I appreciate you taking the time to give me extra details on each of them as well! I'll save this comment and see what interests me.
Not even the Tyranids are fully united, there _have_ been cases where two different Tyranid Hivefleets have met and they fought each other. However, conversely, Hivefleet Leviathan and Hivefleet Kronos have also been shown to cooperate.
Nurgle also represents rebirth, in his garden everything is in a process of dying and blooming with new fungi sprouting etc. Bricky also doesn't mention that chaos isn't everything in the warp. There are minor warp gods and entities it's just that the big 4 have become prodominant because of the amount of how much they've been fed. So chaos and the warp are not interchangeable.
Here's a few fun facts; - When the Necrons went to sleep for eons, some of them woke up early and stayed locked in their tombs, only to go mad with boredom. They later re-developed their souls and longed for the warmth of their flesh they once had, so they skin enemies and wear their skin as cloaks. Even the other Necrons are afraid of them. They call them "The Flayed Ones". - Some Necrons have forgotten that they are no longer flesh and blood. There is a Necron lord who basically has dementia and will often hold elaborate feasts for his men, despite all of them being mechanical and not having mouths. His right hand man doesn't have the heart (pun not intended) to tell him that they're all machines now. - Orks aren't actually flesh and blood. They're mushrooms. They're literally a fungus that grows off violence. A tiny Grot will grow and grow during wars and will grow indefinitely. - Orks understand currency. They use teeth to buy goods off other orks. Many orks will sucker punch or kill other orks to gain more teeth to get more stuff. - Up until his canon death, a human commisar named Yarrick was functionally immortal when facing orks, as orks believed that his glare alone could kill and that he was a sort of avatar of their god(s), Gork and Mork.
the third party market for tyranids are insane. In the early 2000's when I was just a kid that liked the cool models, Tyranids were my first favorite faction but I fell out of love with them because they started to feel very same-ey. Now I'd be all about it because you can get some real diversity in your army!
Bit late but just something to keep in mind about our space elves and why they went so crazy with the depravity. At their peak they had mastery over themselves in every aspect, down to the soul. They basically created their own heaven/afterlife and could easily reincarnate themselves whenever they died. So if someone murdered you in a super fucked up way, "eh, whatever. I'll be reborn in a few years or in a decade after chilling in a perfect elf heaven that is protected by elf gods we basically control." It's been a while, so if I got anything wrong, let me know❤
To explain the ork better, here's one of my favorite stories about them: A group of Guardsman was stuck in a pillbox, dealing with an ork WAAAAAH. They finished all their ammo on the last ork charge, so they were boned. When the next charge started, one of the guardsman got up, pointed his empty gun at the charging orks and went "BANG BANG BANG" with just his voice. 3 orks immediately fell to the ground, dead. Seeing the ork's immagination backfire, the other guardsman picked up their gun and started doing the same thing. They managed to push back the charge with that strategy. One hour later, another Ork charge began, so the guardsman got back to their "bang bang bang" strategy, but strangely, there was a group of orks that wasn't dying. As they got into the pillbox and started slaughtering everyone, the guardsman could hear a single phrase: "I'm a tank, i'm a tank, i'm a tank"
You should give "If the emperor had a text-to-speech device" a go. It has its own story but there's a lot of humor derived from the emperor (and others) explaining the lore in a humorous way, and poking fun of weird or silly things, odd retcons, etc. If you like abridged series at all it's the same type of humor.
Really appreciate that you remembered my Nurgle comment from the last vid😊. Also love how out of all the Chaos Gods, he's the only one who isn't maidenless, although that whole situation is its own kind of messed up.
Nurgle do be packing that dump truck, so it's no surprise that he's got maidens... but ofc it's gonna be in a super messed up way that'll make me regret even asking...
the only other surviving Aldari god is Chegorach the Laughing God he often visits Ishtar dancing through Nurgels Garden as to not touch the ground too long but the thorns of the Tree of Life keeps him away but Ishtar will whisper secrets to him during those brief visits
The "War in Heaven" between the Old Ones and the Necron was also what originally created the Warp, if I recall correctly. The Old Ones were the most powerful psykers ever, probably. Everything they did was psychic, using webway transportation, psychic attacks and illusions, so the massive amount of psychic warfare and death ripped a hole in the universe, and all that suffering filled it and created the Warp and the first Chaos gods. Khorne coming from the giant war, Nurgle coming from all the death, Tzeentch coming from all the psychic activity. Also, Orcs are a fungus. They have no gender. New orcs grow from the bodies of dead orcs on the battlefield after the fighting is over. And C'tan eat stars.
The Orks (with "K" because of legal reasons), like most of things in 40k have a reason for being what they are. As Bricky said, they are ancient. They were created along with eldars long before humanity came to be, by the Old ones and the reason for their creation was war. The old ones were loosing war against the C'than and to fight that war they created minor races, but while eldar were more like a sharp edge, the orks were the blunt club. But the old ones ....spoiler alert.... lost, and were not around to turn their bio weapons off. While eldars developed on their own and developed a civilisation, orks just stick to their purpose. they are a sentient fungi and reproduce by spores. This means that they are copied over from their progenitors without any adaptation, but while traditional reproduction leads to mutation and evolution, this copy/pasting only creates errors and degeneration. They were not meant as a long term solution after all, they were meant as a cannon fodder and meat wall. Orks used to be taller, stronger, smarter,.... but after milenia of this inherent corruption they are but a shadow of their predecessors. Just a damaged engine of destruction, whos pilot is long gone. Orks dont learn, their knowledeg is hardwired to their genetic package. Mekboys dont learn engineering, they just at some point experience an awakening of their knowledge and become tribes techicians, and so on. Also Orks are predestined for violence. When an ork experiences a moment of combat superiority, his body gets flooded by growth hormones and he becomes bigger. This cycle of victory and growth continues untill it doesn't. It stops when he is defeated and so the power pirammid is established, with the biggest one on top. This also keeps the population in check. Most orks die getting killed by other orks. All races have reason for what they do, even the tyranids. Orks dont have reason, only purpose. Purpose that has long lost its reason. They are a tool withou master, unleashed upon the galaxy and left to its own devices. A machine running dry and falling apart, grinding itself to dust. post edit: Bricky actualy recently uploaded a video where he gives brief introduction to 40k's timeline and major events, might be a good next step. Also for more indepth lore, check Luetin09
The problem with the chaos gods is they always bring everything to it's extremes because that is what gives them the most power. The more hate and anger somebody feels the better for Khorn. The more emotions, pain, etc you experience the better for Slanesh.
So two small pieces of clarification on info presented by Bricky. 1. The Orks’ collective psychic field doesn’t make things that are impossible occur, it makes things that are unlikely more likely. Ork tech works but it when Orks aren’t using it it breaks way more often Than it does in Ork hands. If you give an Ork a broken laser gun that will break after 10 shots, it will instead break after 15-20 shots, but it will still break. 2. The Tau’s evil twist is the implication that their leaders actively brainwash people who start to question their authority or choices. They do evil shit, they’re just more subtle about it compared to everyone else in Warhammer, also they’re not racist like most other factions in Warhammer 40k. They also have a number of client races and minor Allies that they bring into battle with their big mechs and stuff. These Allies and client races exist more in the lore than the tabletop so a lot of people tend to forget about them.
I see. Makes sense that they wouldn't give the Orks unlimited power, else they could gaslight themselves into believing they won a war and completely wipe out an entire species. Ofc everything has a twist in this universe xD. I suppose the only good guys are the ones who commit lesser evils.
Bricky does a few factions a small disservice here because while he gives a good primer for most factions, he wasn't as well read on Warhammer 40k as he is now since he started running his own Warhammer 40k podcast a few years ago. Case in point? He doesn't really say much about Tzeentch himself outside of his positive aspects, whereas he covers Khorne, Nurgle and Slaanesh pretty well in both their primary and secondary aspects. Tzeentch is the Chaos God of Change, but he's also the Chaos God of Magic, Time, and Knowledge. Why? Because Tzeentch knows literally everything there is to know because he is always focused on what could be and what might have been, and this is epitomized through one of most favored Greater Daemons, a Lord of Change called Kairos Fateweaver. Kairos is unique among his brethren in that he has two heads; one sees all possible futures and one sees all possible pasts, but neither head can perceive the present. So Kairos is incredibly cunning and intelligent, but he's also quite crazy, to the point where he isn't always certain about what's going on around him in the near future or past, sometimes his heads debate and argue with each other, and because he's always seeing the past and future, he also sees himself both in the past and in the future and has to plan around his own decisions. Stories about Kairos say he became this way after Tzeentch flung several daemons into the Well of Eternity, a source of knowledge that even Tzeentch himself dared not delve into for fear of what it could do to him, and only Kairos managed to crawl out of the Well with his iconic two heads, and by Tzeentch's decree he is always attended by other daemons of Tzeentch and mortal sorcerers, constantly writing down all of his rambling conversations with himself as prophecies and secret knowledge to present to Tzeentch himself as counsel for his unknowable schemes. Kairos is also known to be summoned into the Materium from time to time, and he often likes to play a simple game with those mortals who seek his wisdom; one head will tell only truths, and the other only lies, but he never specifies which one is which, or which head is explaining the rules. Now you may think that this all makes Kairos a super interesting and bizarre character, but what does this have to do with Tzeentch? Well daemons, or rather MOST daemons, are extensions of a Chaos God, meaning Kairos is basically a piece of Tzeentch that has developed into its own entity with separate thoughts and emotions, while still being part of Tzeentch. So imagine what Kairos goes through based on all I've just said, and then scale it up from a single entity comparable to a single cell in an organism to a god that permeates an entire universe, and God only knows how many others. That is the difference between a Greater Daemon like Kairos and a Chaos God like Tzeentch. So Tzeentch is arguably the craziest of the 4 Chaos Gods, because he knows literally everything, including the shit that can't possibly happen, and he is obsessed with keeping things fun and entertaining by always pushing the envelope to see what crazy shit he can make happen. So dealing with Tzeentch and his minions is a harrowing experience, because you never know where you fit inTzeentch's mad games of 5D chess. Bricky said Tzeentch is the most Eldritch of the Chaos Gods, and that is definitely the most apt description of him, but he didn't really nail just HOW Eldritch Tzeentch is compared to the other Chaos Gods.
I'm still pretty new to 40k myself and Bricky's videos are a great introduction. I'd recommend his Every Space Marine Legion video for more info on all 20 space marine types and latest What is Warhammer 40k Timeline video for a review and some more info on the history of 40k. For more in-depth stuff I'd recommend Luetin09 & Weshammer's long lore vids, and Remembrancer & Warrior Tier for their immersive voice acted lore stuff. If you want some other media I highly recommend watching the full Astartes fan animation, it was made by 1 dude and they even got the space marines from the animation added to official 40k if i remember the comments correctly.
A great recommendation, as a story, would also be Helsreach. It's basically an actual Audiobook (top tier quality btw) that an artist has turned into a full animated series (has like 13 parts) but he also combined all of em into 1, like a full one hour and something WH: 40k animated movie. The story basically follows a squad of Space Marines from the chapter of the Black Templars (religious fanatics which is rare for Space Marines) who are usually very aggressive and lean heavily towards offense, but they are asked to basically full on defend an entire city, during a massive Ork invasion of an entire planetary system (but a WH:40k city so basically talking about billions of people) which is very much against what they stand for. We follow the main character, his development, feelings struggles, bonds developing with his battle brothers and regular humans, and overall story. That's just a first glance, it's an excellent story, the animation develops as time goes by and it's insanely good, fantastic character development and just extremely satisfying, highly recommended, if you want to check out a great story, with lore aspect but without drowning in it as well.
11:00 it’s not strictly true that Nurgle is about finality, but he’s more about the circle of life. That everything lives and dies, but within that death is the opportunity to create new life and that life lives, and when that dies it creates even more life. He’s stagnation in the sense that the circle of life never changes, and any attempt to change that is abhorrent to him.
Thus the basics and fundamentals of WH40k has been covered! Would there be other media source of 40k that you are interested in doing perhaps? 😊 Or is it strictly lore only for the time being?
I've been personally interested in trying out some of the WH games I've seen on Steam, even before we started this YT channel. So... maybe... if my computer can handle it...
@@TheLegitWeebs WH40k games should be no issue and mostly filled with RTS and action Games (Dawn of War and Space Marine 1), So unless it's the newer non 8-bit FPS games like darktide and space hulk it should be fine spec wise Warhammer Fantasy (Non-40k) games like Total War : Warhammer I-III though, that's tricky
The thing that makes the dual nature of the Chaos Gods so interesting, and what makes them so fun to read about in stories, is that they use the good side of their nature to slowly entice and corrupt people into accepting their evil side. It's extremely Lovecraftian and really horrific, and thus very cool. They reveal only their good side to you to entice your logical mind with benefits and promises of a better life, while simultaneously using their psychic power to slowly corrupt your soul and make you more susceptible to accepting their darker desires. It's also important to know that the vast majority of humanity has no idea they even exist, so when a man is slowly dying of a horrible disease and suddenly starts hearing a divine entity promising that they can take the pain away they might think it's The Emperor coming to save them and not realize it's Nurgle coming to claim them.
if you want to try a 40k RTS that a potato can run, the original dawn of war is a good option. The unification mod also adds a slanesh faction if you want that as well.
Orks are one of the best thing out of whole of 40k. You get all these silly rules, and lore surrounding them. Things like: All devices must have some bolts, screws, and nuts in them. Because that is what they think should be in them, so if there are none on the outside, chances are they threw some loose bolts somewhere in the gun, and then hold it together by wire. Weapons that by the way cease functioning when no orks are arround, and turn into scrap again. You get to shout "WAAAAAAAAGH!!" at your oponents, make silly voices, use smaller orks (grots) as ammo in a gun that shoots them through the warp, and then teleports them out the gun. Might blow a crater sized hole, or the grot will just splat against the target. You get orks in open space with no space suits, cause they did not think something like that is required, untill some other orks mentions it, and they all suddenly succumb to space vacuum exposure, just because they realized now: "Oh yeah, space suits are a thing." When you play them on tabletop, you just have fun with silly rules and bonuses, with funny names like "Sneaky gitz" or good old "DakkaDakkaDakka". Because any good shoota (gun) goes "DakkaDakkaDakka" and there is never enough Dakka, so guns suddenly fire more (those extra shots on 6 Bricky mentions). Some of my favourites are the vehicle names, like "Killa Kans" or "Dakka Jet" and my personal favourite "Boomdakka Snazzwagon". And all this time you know, your orks are just having a blast with the fight.
Hate to break it to you, but the Dark Eldar actually... DON'T have to be heinous sweatgoblins to survive. The craftworld eldar avoid the same grip of slaanesh by putting their souls into either "soul stone" phylacteries, or into massive shared artifical afterlife "infinity circuits" rather than end up in the warp. A dark eldar could renounce their ways and live as a craftworlder if they had a soulstone, but they'd have to renounce being a murdehobo. Dark Eldar are the most evil group because they HAVE a choice, and they chose depravity.
*The orcs slaughter each other, create machines and weapons out of random shit and kill everything and everyone including themselves* Me: DATZ DA WAY OF DE LADZ!
This video is a little onthe old side as the game has come a fair way since. For starters, Kill Team (a smaller skirmish based version of the game) has brought a lot of cool new stuff into the forefront. Things which have always existed in the lore but not been a major feature on the tabletop. So for example The Death Korps of Krieg which was a popular Imperial Guard regiment but expensive as hell to collect has become a lot more affordable and thus more common thanks to Kill Team. Corsairs Voidscarred are a new addition to the Eldar. Chaos now has Chaos Guardsmen thanks to Killteam. The Imperium has Imperial Navy Breachers who raid enemy space ships and the Adeptus Arbites which I believe are a form of Secret Police similar to Inquisitors but less authoritative. (all of these descriptions are massively oversimplified.) And then they reintroduced an older faction in Killteam who are not big enough to be a new army as such but are definitley distinct enough to possibly one day become their own, and that is Beast Men (basically Chaos aligned Goat People.) But the other major change since this video was the answer to a question I long asked. For years I asked, if Humans are just Humans. And Orks are space orcs. And Eldar are space elves. And you also have Demons which are another common fantasy component. And the Imperial Guard have Ogryns (ogres) and Rattlings (Hobbits.) Then where are the space dwarves. The answer was they did have them years before I started the hobby (called squats) and they are coming back. And as of about a year ago, The Leagues of Votaan arrived as a brand new Xenos army of space Dwarves. I don't know much about the lore, but what's interesting is that whilst the original dwarves (squats) were allied to the Imperium, the Leagues of Votaan are completely separate Xenos. And I think they are all clones or something. I forget the ore but I seem to recall they have a genetic template that all dwarves are created from.
45:25 Actually, you're correct. Once a planet is taken over by Nids, they'll purposely wait until they're in the stage of absorbing the biomass. Once they do this, the Imperium will basically light the whole thing on fire with virus bombs and lance batteries. While not the best method, this is the easiest way to wipe out multiple Nids at once, because most of their ships can hold multiple planet's worth of biomass, meaning a single ship can spawn a whole army on its own.
An Adeptus Mechanicus was once inspecting a captured Ork vehicle, only to lift the hood and find a rock where the engine should be, with "VROOM VROOM" written on it.
Orks are the only race in 40k to have made it to heaven. Tuska Daemon-killa is a warlord who led a WAAAGH! right into the Warp, and he wound up in Khorne's realm and fought Khorne's forces until all the Orks died. And Khorne looked over and was like "Oh that's the stuff." So he resurrected them and made them a planet where they're forever fighting in gladiator combat, and everyone involved is fantastically happy with this arrangement. An eternal brawl = ork heaven
Fun fact the black library is the same name for production center for all of wh40k books so the harlequins guard the place where every wh40k book is made
I've always hated Bricky's take on the Harlequins, because he's vastly simplified it. The Harlequins are.. basically wandering teachers and historians for the Eldar; they are performers, rather than clowns, and the shows they put on are toteach the history of their people. Their main defences are to appear as something terrifying to the observers, so yeah - "clowns" makes sense.
The Warp was once the Sea of Souls. Eldar excessed a chaos god into existence and it made huge ripples in the sea. Then crazy stuff happened to humanity and they got paranoid, which in turn changed the Sea into The Warp. The Emperor was such a Big Boi Psyker that he was going to kill ALL FOUR CHAOS GODS and they knew it, which is why they tricked Horus and eight other primarchs. Admittedly, it would have been much harder for the chaos gods to do that if Big E was a better father. He was a terrible dad.
@@TheLegitWeebs Oh absolutely, Magnus made an Oops, Horus felt like Big E was ignoring him, Perturabo was pissed about Dorn getting all the good commissions, Lorgar was told to stop worshipping his dad like a god and had his home burned to the ground... And to be completely fair... Big E was not really good at making his Bois feel like they were loved, so they had very justifiable reasons... Mostly... For betraying him. It's what I love about the setting, everyone is kind of a villain in their own way.
He didn't do the positive aspects of the chaos gods that well apart from tzeentch. Like he said korne will never stab you in the back but that's because he has integrity and a sense of justice. With nurgle you can say that tzeentch provides hope but if there was nothing BUT change then everything would just be a clusterfuck. What nurgle provides is CONSISTENCY and permanency. And the ultimate permanency is death. As for slaanesh yes joy is a part of it. But every extreme emotion is part of it inlcuding love. Without Slaanesh or at least the power that slaanesh represents. The universe would be numb and unfeeling.
35:10 it's said if you see the dark Eldar pulling up on your planet, the best solution to prevent from getting captured by them, is for you to just game over yourself.
I feel like Bricky did the Harlequins and the Tau a bit dirty, but even he doesn’t know everything so I get it. But I’ve got stuff here. Harlequins: Cegorach while we don’t have much interaction with him is actually really interesting. Since he is the Eldar god of Joy and stuff, he would have been prominent when they started getting bored, wich a lot of people don’t consider. Then he, as all the Eldar should, since they all go to the warp when their bodies die and then reincarnate and as strong psykers understand it well, realizes where things were going, and starts laughing hysterically. Then he sees all his comrades and his people getting soulrapevored and runs the fuck away as fast he can. People don’t seem to consider this, but when you look at how 40K has people fall from grace as a trope, I believe that Cegorach isn’t that happy a guy anymore. He’s just putting on a show to his followers. In fact, he is the main person orchestrating the creation of Ynnead, a hypothetical Eldar Death God who would have a claim on the Eldars souls, starving Slaanesh and being able to defeat her. This added with the Harlequins relative neutrality makes him in my opinion the actual least bad guy in the setting. Tau: There IS a catch. It’s implied that the Ethereals, who united the Tau, secrete some form of pheromone that makes people obey them. They are also corrupt, castrate any alien that joins the Tau Empire, have implemented a caste system and banish anyone who questions them. Some people I know also claim there are hints of Necron influence there. Then there’s that time one of their more famous characters encountered what seems to be a minor chaos god created by non-Tau who believe in the Greater Good (the Tau barely have a connection to the warp), wich is basically the god of Ultra-fascism and wants everything to be like itself. People also don’t realize that the Tau become worse over time. They are likely meant to be a show of these aforementioned falls from grace in real time.
I'm not a huge Tau guy, but I'd respectfully disagree a bit with your characterisation. The Tau mind control thing isn't really canon, like you say it's just a suspicion (mainly from an Imperial perspective, and it may have appeared in the, non-canon, Xenology book - can't quite remember, but that got other things wrong about Tau physiology too so it's no really relevant). They also don't castrate other races that come under the Empire - I think that was just something in Dawn of War that came up and, again, isn't canon. Other races, such as the Kroot, do just fine in the Tau Empire for instance. I also don't think 'the greater good' can really be described as 'ultra facism' - I mean there's already at least one faction that does that and the Tau pale in comparison in that regard. It's a hypocritical slogan of course, (and ultimately a meaningless platitude - nearly every form of government or economic system claims what it does is 'for the greater good'), but I don't think sums it up very well. I also think the goddess Tau'va's (a.k.a. the Greater Good) stated goal of the communality of species doesn't fit that description at all tbh - especially as it's heavily implied that she's a creation of races allied with the Tau, including humans, not actually the Tau themselves (as they have next to no warp presence). The Tau have historically been a bit under-developed lore-wise, and that's their major issue IMO, but they're slowly getting to a more interesting place - especially with the Farsight Enclaves and all that. I think what makes them a conceptually fun race is more their naivety and accompanying arrogance. They think they're the peak of civilisation but have barely a clue of what's really out their in the galaxy - and consequently are most likely heading off a cliff without being aware of it. They kind of reflect humanity's hubris in that regard, and in the 40k universe what many of the once-dominant civilisations have thought about themselves. What makes them fit into the grim dark universe for me isn't really their attitude or acts, so much as we know so much more about the horrors of the galaxy than they do and rather like the pre-fall Eldar, or the GAoT humans, we can see they're messing with forces they don't understand and it's really only a matter of time before it blows up in their faces . Like everyone else in the galaxy they're completely doomed, but unlike the other races in 40k, they just don't know it yet. It's like one of those photographs taken just before a disaster where everyone's smiling, but there's a tsunami looming in the background, or something. (I mean the fact that there' a Tau god, which isn't even a creation of themselves already suggests that this idea of 'the greater good' is kind of spirally into a series of unintended consequences for them, and probably not in a good way.) Also, I'd not heard about the Necrons having much to do with the Tau being 'uplifted' - I think they were still asleep at the time, right? I know the Eldar are widely rumoured to have something to do with it based on certain 'sightings' made around the time the Ethereals first emerged.
@@iantellam9970 Mind Control and Castration: Considering this is 40K and the Tau needed to be grimdarker and it’s the only thing they really have going for them in that regard, I believe most generally think of it as canon. Also, this is kinda flimsy so it’s fair if you dismiss it, but it’s also in the Death Watch RPG, and Tau’va: commander Twiceblade from DoW is in fact a canon character in the book War of Secrets and Tau‘vas description here is what informs my view of it. ‘I found it strangely calming to behold, master, But I also felt its hunger to grow, to spread its many limbs from the tip of one of the galaxy’s spiral arm to the other. To remake everything in its own image. I remember feeling that, and then feeling like it peered directly into my soul.’ I believe a lot of people get caught up in speculating about the Emperors ascendancy to godhood that they forget we kinda have this already. But that’s merely my opinion, your arguments are fair.
@@requiemlul3140 I don’t think it makes much sense to castrate a species that you hope to incorporate in your empire as they’ll just go extinct in a few years. Tau have auxiliary species they’ve worked with for a long time. Rather like extermination I’m sure that it’s one of the options the Tau have, but it doesn’t really make much sense as an overarching strategy given their goals. I also think there’s a fine line between grimdark and grimderp, and The t’au fit in with the universe just fine the way they are without adding that. The guevesa are more interesting as a concept without it, just underdeveloped as it stands, like much tau lore. I imagine the t’au have a variety of approaches, depending on the species they encounter and what works best. It’s really not hard to control a human population, tbh, as long as their basic needs are met and they have some form of entertainment. History proves as much. If it’s at all better than life under the imperium, it’s an easy sell for the masses.
@@iantellam9970 It does if you -as Twiceblade does a few sentences after the quote, consider the Tau the “optimal“ form . It also makes sense after seeing the Tau‘va nad their reaction to it, wich is immediate disgust at the human population. I have the book, or at least had, I’m planning on rereading it, but I clearly recall they actually went on to genocide Gue‘vesa.
@@requiemlul3140 I mean it varies (extremely) depending on the story, but there are plenty of accounts of human populations being treated well etc. so even if you find examples of it in the lore it’s not true to say that’s the way they always act. It’s largely dependent on circumstances at the very least. By and large I think they’re treated much like the Kroot or anyone else. Also Gue’vesa auxiliaries have been described as “often being descendants of captured or abandoned Imperial Guard troops”. And you can’t have descendants if you sterilise people. I don’t believe they wouldn’t do it, just that the idea that they always genocide or sterilise populations isn’t supported by the background lore, as well as being generally illogical. I can see the Tau operating a population control policy if necessary. Kinda like the Chinese one child policy. But maybe more stringently enforced…
Here's the thing about the Dark Eldar though while they are technically forced to do this to keep slanesh from stealing their souls these are also the things they were happily cool with doing before slanesh came to existence so they're not necessarily complaining about this deal either they just now have a incentive to just go all in on their already twisted and fucked up nature which was kind of already that bad to begin with
I have to disagree with Bricky regarding the Tau. They acted as a foil which by contrasting with the other races in their naivety and optimism, showed just how shitty the rest of the galaxy was. If everything is "grimdark", it all just kind of bleeds together and you just shrug your shoulders. You don't really have anything to measure that "grimdarkness" against. But if you have a small light of hope that is easily snuffed out to compare it to, then everything feels much more dire and awful. It makes the grimdark look actually grimdark rather than just another shade of grey. And that's the other thing people who hate the Tau forget. They are small, an ultimately weak and inconsequential race in the large picture that, if the Imperium had a brief respite, would be crushed utterly. They are also a reflection of what the Imperium once was, how it appeared when it was founded. No superstition, optimism about the future, and the ability to innovate and create new technology. All of which is almost gone now for the Imperium. It's what the Imperium could have been had the Emperor not been wounded.
Just stumbled on your channel and really like your style mate. Good insights, pretty funny and offer good talking points 👍🏻 I’ve been into warhammer since the late 90’s and seen this bricky video loads of times but it’s always weirdly satisfying seeing someone get hooked on it! Keep em coming 😁
One thing to note too about the Eldar is that before Slaanesh was born, their souls would spend some time in the warp, then reincarnate in new Eldar bodies. This meant that there were no real consequences to their actions since even if someone was debauched to death, they would be fine later, so who cares.
Something Bricky did not bring up, I expect due to them not having models, are the fourth Eldar Faction and my personal favorite from an image stand point, the Exodites. The Exodites were Eldar that noped out earlier than the Craftworlders and fled to space to find the Maiden Worlds, planets that countless years before, the Eldar had terraformed from lifeless dead planets into paradise worlds. These Eldar shunned most advanced technology and instead coexisted with the planets wildlife, which was mostly shown as giant lizard creatures. As a 80's boy this made me think of the old Dino Riders show, and I have always dreamed to have both the skill and the money to kit bash an Exodites army and use as a Craftworld Proxy list. Look up Dino Riders, then think how that would look after a coat of "40k Grimdark " paint. 😁
The problem with chaos space marines is that they’re typically and extremely unpredictable, much Ike chaos itself being random and whilst chaos marines tend to follow the basic principles of their patron god, the fear they can emit on a battlefield is second to none, whilst khornate berserkers tend to be very melee focused, doesn’t mean that they’re stupid and are called of subtlety and tactics, when the need arises and outside of black templars, khornate berserker combat skills are only beaten by few others and being blood maddened makes them even more tougher to deal with and will literally butcher their way through almost any enemy. Slaaneesh marines, much like the chaos cousins are no laughing matter, making use of heavy and devastating weapons such as the much feared noise marines, where they use sounds as a literal weapon, all the while being extremely deadly, being pumped full of combat drugs and stimulants and whilst khornate marines may be skilled in their warrior fighting abilities, Slaaneesh marines are dancers compared to the more bullish styles of other marines, again depending on the marine they might be enhanced with drugs like slaught, which essentially increases the combat awareness and effectiveness of the individual giving them super human accuracy as well as increased aggression and pain killers and whilst a khornate marine may get carried away with bloodlust, a noise marines would ravel in pleasure instead however compared to their kins they’re the weakest of the chaos space marines, by design and accident, being that their body parts tend to be more exposed and as durable as any other marine with a much higher pain tolerant, there’re not the strongest when compared to most of the others. Zeench or thousand sons are extremely small and are numbered to be less that a few thousand or even less than a thousand due to their unfortunate curse, where the thousandth and one marine would simply and literally start to fall apart, however despite their smaller numbers the thousand son tend to make up in raw magical power over overwhelming numbers wher a single rubric marine is worth about a thousand average marines in terms of combat effectiveness, being able to summon demons from the warp at a click of a finger or cause a nuclear explosion with a wave of their hands they are that powerful, however unfortunately most of their marines are known as rubric marines who are effected by the rubric curse where during their infancy, one space marine first captain tried to save his brothers by selling their souls to hell and in return, their mortal bodies eventually withered and died but their souls are now trapped inside of their armor and are little more than mindless ghosts at the beck and call of their masters. The death guard on the other hand are basically walking biological tanks, being more than happy to have half of their head/s, blow off and a third of their brain missing, and despite being both weaker and stronger, their armor being bent, broken and corrupted as time passed, resulting in overflowing internal organs or puss riddled flesh with maggots living inside the pustules, they’re also extremely powerful beings primarily made up of different diseases and all sorts, so being near them is enough to kill any and all unprotected biological organisms where even with the advanced immune systems a space marine has, is capable of being killed by the pure corrupting forces entering their body, all the while as the dead or dying end up as more fodder for the never ending undead legions.
total war warhammer is definitely something to check out, bit expensive if you want everything at once as the games build upon eachother so every race from 1 and 2 are in 3 if you own them aswell as the dlc for each game carries over, every race is on the map but you cant play as them all unless you own them and the games are in kindof a difficult place because of a lot of discourse as the community and developers are at war with eachother over whats the right thing to do while the company just wants more money for less effort
That's an unfortunate situation that's sadly all too common nowadays with games. Still very interested to try them someday though, just to see each faction in action.
Thanks for speaking for the rest of us as if we don't have our own opinions. It's great to drive people away from games by providing a completely one-sided take.
@Nightmare_52 @Nightmare_52 My take is that the games are fine without the DLCs because there are almost no non-faction specific mechanics hidden behind them. They're just expansion packs with additional factions beyond the NUMEROUS main factions you can play as. You make it sound as if the base factions alone won't give you hundreds of hours of gameplay, or that you NEED all three games when you really, REALLY don't. In fact as someone who has put thousands of hours into pretty much all the Total War games as well as competing grand strategy games, I'd point out that boasting about your hours played is a good way of getting your opinion laughed out of the room. The "problems" you speak of aren't major issues and the issues the community does have with Warhammer 3 have almost nothing to do with "greedy company practices" and everything to do with the mechanics themselves. In short, I'd recommend he gets Total War: Warhammer 2 on sale if he wants to dip his toes in the grand strategy game, it's the best of the Total War Warhammer series and is fully developed with a massive amount of mods.
thanks for pinging my name twice but i never said you needed everything to play the games in the first place, i said its expensive if you want everything but all the factions are on the map by default so you can face them in battle just not play as them, i will agree the games are good without the dlcs but several races get big boons from having the dlcs, and seeing as both warhammer 1 and 2 are still full price it still isnt cheap to get into either of the 3 games to begin with thanks for providing your own view on things without being a ginormous jerk about it though
I think my favorite Ork theory is that the Emperor is still alive because the Orks think he can't truly die. I don't believe that's true necessarily in canon, but it's still a fun theory.
I mean, if you don't have the specks to run Total War Warhammer and are more interested in 40k, there's always the first two Dawn of War games, especially 1 and its expansions. Also Space Marine, which is finally getting a sequel!
Dawn of War looks like my kind of game, and I was recently gifted the first Space Marine game, so I might check them out soon. I do remember seeing snippets of the Space Marine sequel, and it looked awesome.
If you want to learn more lore, bricky has a podcast called adeptus ridiculous where he talks about 40K Lore in his humorous manner, while guiding his co host, a newbie to 40K, through the universe. If you want more serious lore videos, I have three recommendations, baldermort for his silky smooth voice, Luetin because that man knows enough 40K lore to the point where if he Could he’d have a PHD in 40K, and finally occulus imperia who does lore from the perspective of an administratum worker going through records and compiling histories in the 41st millennium. If you want to get into the table top, it has never been easier, 10th edition has just come out and brought with it a simplified rule set as well as having a beginner friendly game mode called combat patrol box, you buy a patrol with anywhere from 10-20 models generally, though there are some outliers, and there is one box for every faction, the rules are free to download from the warhammer community website. each box is balanced against each other, and it plays in about 2 hours.
"The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on the road to ruin in their turn. And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude." - Uthan the Perverse, Eldar Philosopher.
Orks are technically the smartest race in 40K, but they have to be united in HUGE numbers under a powerful warboss. And the only way to do that is to start a massive waaaagh, which almost always unites various factions to defeat them.
Harlequins; You questioned the quote of "love and bloodshed" I would simply remind you that in our own culture, Romeo and Juliet took their own lives as a sign of pure love. Love and bloodshed. So far, you have been great for your own part. I will finish and applaude you. Cheers.
I actually really like your reaction videos im a new subscriber and i just finished watching part 1 of your reaction and if you remember him saying 20 then 18 primarchs is because two of them are missing but we only know one is seen as a tragedy and the other is seen with shame
My favourite fact from 40K is that no matter how brutal and violent the universe gets it wont compare to how devistating the war in heaven was! Also ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS
A couple of minor lore points that people often miss: Papa Nurgle. Followers of Nurgle feel next to no pain and can live with their collection of horrendous diseases for a looong time - some are effectively immortal unless killed. So this is one reason why some people convert - if you have a life-threatening disease and will die in agony, what have you got to lose? If medicine and all alternatives have failed...well Papa Nurgle is offering you a way out. One reason for the dislike of the Tau is actually real-life lore. 40k was always for adults, the grim, dark future, endless suffering and eternal war was something that appealed to teens and adults alike. Then some genius at Games Workshop spotted things happening in the real world such as Pokemon and thought to himself "Wow children have a lot of money to spend and like Japanese stuff." So suddenly in this Grimdark game is a race of Gundam good guys, at the same time a lot of the more child-unfriendly lore was quietly dropped, ret-conned or forgotten. This pissed off a lot of the former fans who were adults and had fallen in love with the horrible 40k universe and they rabidly hated the Tau. Then GW got another lesson in what children like - novelty - and they are not loyal to a franchise, a lot moved on to the next fad. So GW tried to roll back the lore, adding in sinister overtones to the Tau and restoring the outright evil of the other races. But for many adults who had been thrown casually aside chasing children's pocket money this still left a sour taste. You have people like myself, who grew up with 40k, adore the lore but will not let GW see another penny of their money.
The thing about Papa Nurgle makes sense. It also very unfortunate when a company tries to chase after more money, but alienates the existing fan base. Happens far too often.
Bricky has quite a few other 40K centric videos you could dive into. Personally I also like his Darktide videos and while the game had a bit of a rough start it's just such good 40K fun and one of the most immersive 40K experiences. If you do them I recommend both the How To Play Darktide and the How Well Does Darktide do 40K one. The latter of course exists because there have been alot of 40K games that sorta failed at getting 40K right. A bit like alot of media fails to get H.P. Lovecraft stuff right.
The Tau fit a lot more than it seems at first glance. It's not because there is some evil twist to them (though there are some really good theories to that end), but rather to show what being 'good' gets you in the 40k universe. Curb stomped, that's what it gets them. They struggle and are defeated and abused by literally every other faction. The only reason they are able to survive at all is because they have gotten into that niche where they are too small to be a legitimate threat to anyone, while simultaneously just large enough to defend themselves effectively, so conquering them would be a significant expendature of resources for not enough gain. They are a living example of a race meeting the rest of the galaxy and having their hopes brutalized by the reality before their eyes, and that loss of innocence is a thousand percent 40k.
I went Grey Knights then Orks. Great minds think alike. Orks sadly dont have the bonus shots on 6s as of commenting but theyre due for new rules in a couple months so they might get it back! Believe with me
Well if you need recomendations... Bricky 40k legions Bricky 40k timeline Russian Badger FOR THE EMPEROR and HEAVY FLAMER HERESY Bricky all 40k Darktide vids Then...we get into some more deep stuff Emperor TTS is good, but you must understand its a half truth half meme series. Kitten and Shadowun is !Canon! though😂 Simultaneously Lutein09 Dark Origin series and Emperor/Imperium of Man series, also some Majorkill, Arch (Warhammer) Siege of Vraks series and Why is There Melee in 40k (2part series) and him talking about armor and weapons of 40k. I think i just set you up for...a good while. Welcome to the community and NO PITY NO REMORSE NO SURRENDER!
It's actually very simple to understand why Chaos Daemons are seen as evil and do evil things, instead of being the more positive aspect of themselves. Daemons at the end of the day are essentially Predators of Warp space, and as Predators their natural instinct is to hunt for more food. What are their food? Emotions and the psychic energy created from said emotions. So, what would generate the MOST emotion? A casual date with your lover? Or a murder orgy where every narcotics are used? You get the point. The creatures of Chaos craves that energy, and thus they will try to get the most of it as quickly as possible so they can grow stronger. Also, if you can somehow convince or make enough people believe in a magical cotton candy entity giving out presents to good children, that actual entiry will manifest in the Warp and do just that, since it is now a creature that eat positive emotions.
I genuinely cannot believe how long I had to pause and think about the comment about Monokuma disliking Tzeentch. It sent me down this mental rabbit hole trying to figure out whether the big despair fans of Danganronpa would prefer Nurgle or Tzeentch. You'd think it would be easy; Tzeentch hope, Nurgle despair, simple as. Except it gets way more complicated and I could easily see it going the other way. Since to them despair really does seem to represent unpredictability; the excitement born from the inability to predict the actions of someone pushed to the ultimate limits. And therefore Nurgle would be the opposite; the static unyielding boredom and inevitability that led to them falling into despair in the first place. I'm kinda shocked at how interesting a question that is.
One of the funniest Memes is that The Emperor of Mankind is alive and a God, because the Orcs believe he is. The Orcs always hear the Imperium's troops shout "For the God - Emperor!", so they believe he exists, so The Emperor lives to this day.
I love Bricky, I love his videos, that being said, he does not really do the Harlequins justice I will say. They are more horror thespians than horror clowns. Their purpose is to be play actors essentially, with their greatest duty being putting on performances of the Fall of the Aeldari and the Birth of Slaanesh. Bricky got a lot right, war as art, and they do have clown motiffs, they do cackle, but they are essentially just method actors. They are handpicked from the ranks of the Craftworlds and the Dark Eldar and the Exodites as elite special forces and they travel between these places and factions, putting on their performances. Cegorach is a trickster god in the same vein as Loki in Norse Mythology with an emphasis on taking the prideful down a peg, and the Harlequins who follow him are just like that and they are working tirelessly to save their race. They're so cool and one of my favorite factions.
Nah, the Warp, and by extension the Chaos Gods, being evil and scary AF is rather easy to explain: Millions of years of war and suffering visited upon each other by the sentient beings in the galaxy. Before the War In Heaven the Warp was actually known as the Sea Of Souls and, for the most part, rather calm with some dangers here and there but not this big of a clusterfuck. The War In Heaven alone was thousands of years of galaxy-wide war where multiple species got eradicated entirely. And while nothing will ever come close to this war humanity and the other species have been busy as well. ....so yeah, it's basically our fault. As in sentient life's fault.
So the warp reflects the state of the world, as in the actions of all sentient life. And with how horrible everything is, it tracks that the Warp would also become twisted. Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation!
@@TheLegitWeebs Yep. The easiest way to think about the Warp is the whole Materium and Immaterium thing. The Immaterium is in essence the spiritual reflection of the physical reality, shaped for the most part by thought, emotions and souls... so Sentient Beings. In essence Khorne for instance is just a mirror held up to the sentient beings of the galaxy who have killed each other in war for millennia.
One of the best things as a 40k fan is watching people learn about it. You can expect this video to perform as good as the first one. ^^
Thank you for the reassurance! I'm honestly thankful that so many people from this passionate community reached out to me through the comments, and are willing to help fill in the gaps that Bricky couldn't get to.
Don't know about you but I think I'm up to 50+ times watching people react to just Bricky.
It's always nice to see people appreciate, if not fall into, a hobby I've been apart of for 30 years now.
@@paddywop918I thought I was tweaking out doing the exact same thing lmfao. Idk how many times I've seen this vid, but I just love seeing people get into the universe. Judging by the views I guess the entire 40k community does
@ironduke5058 I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot hope they join their faction in one way or another.
Unfortunately, my Legion of the Damned doesn't get a lot of love
@@paddywop918 Irrelevant, the Imperium of man is the only correct faction to join. Also, based Legion of the Damned enjoyer
There's been a consistent joke in the 40k fandom for a couple decades (and probably even earlier) that every other sci-fi nerd wants to live in their favourite universe, but if you ask a 40k fan that the only answer you'll get is 'fuck that'
There is no amount of money you could pay me to get me to spend even 1 day in the 41st millennium
Khorne: I hate you and everything you stand for and on. Fight me, 1v1, bitch.
Tzeentch: We do a little trolling...Or do we? *Vsauce theme plays*
Nurgle: Painfully optimistic nihilism and the circle of life.
Slaanesh: Safe word? What's that?
lol
I wouldn't call nurgle optimism. It's just leaning in to the inevitable and accepting it.
16:46 Fun fact: Though the name Angron is obviously some derivative of "Anger", it may also come from the Latin "Angor" meaning Anguish. Knowing the love of Latin 40k writers have that was probably a purposeful double entendre, which I find super cool knowing his story. Angron was the kid that'd carry a random, hurt dog back home with tears in his eyes and take care of it, all because he felt bad. Dude was an empath, a real one. The nails were forced onto him and jammed into his head when he refused to kill his adoptive dad. Anguish is a fitting name for him unfortunately
I'd bet money that it was an intentional choice.
There is also the story of Angrons name being derived from a nickname that a local bouncer in Nottingham had which was "Angry Ron"@@TheLegitWeebs
The twist with the Tau is that you don't get to opt out of joining the Greater Good. You either join the empire or you die. Also I like that the Tau get to discover how fucked the 40k universe is and the many stories that come from that.
43:44 We don't know, that's the worst part. Currently there are 2 prevailing theories as to why they're moving into our Galaxy:
1. They ate everything else and there truly is just Tyranids outside the bounds of our Galaxy, drifting towards us in their trillions. They've consumed other galaxies before and we're just next up on the plate. They're predators
2. They're running from something... The *Tyranids* are running from something... And whatever it is, is gonna come sooner or later...
The possibility that they're running from something is a truly terrifying thought, and a great way to introduce a new faction in the future.
Orks are technically and practically the happiest faction in WH40K.
you should read the story of Tuska the Daemon Killa the only Ork to get a happy ending
One thing that Bricky forgets to mention about the Necrons is that they are not just "regular" robotic space terminators. Their metallic bodies were conjured by literal Gods of realspace, it's not normal metal. The metal that makes their bodies is literal "living" metal, it is extremely durable and automatically regenerates all damage caused to it.
They also get back when they die on the table top!
I've always viewed the Tau as a young idealistic race being thrown into this grimdark universe and was hoping their story would show how this race that wants to be the Good Guys slowly starts to decay and become corrupted. It seems thats how they are starting to go with the lore lately, but we'll see if they keep it up.
If you are interested in Necron, I can recommend two absolutely awesome books : The Infinite and the Divine, and the duology Twice Dead King.
The Infinite and the Divine is absolutely awesome, hilarious and epic at the same time. This is the story of the millenia spanning war between two immortal Necron lord over an artefact. One of the protagonist is Trazyn the Infinite, probably one of the most beloved character in the fandom in general.
53:39 He is not kidding or exaggerating by the way. The Necrons literally had a game rule called "We'll be back". And their silvery exterior repairs themselves similar to silver-ish fluid. Yeah...
Some of my favourite stories about Orks, because they need to be said:
1) One time a group of orks was walking insede a relic of a space station; at one point, one ork pointed out that there was no atmosphere, so the other orks noticed it and pointed it out as well: then the group died, because as long as they didn't know that oxygen was an issue, it wasn't an issue to begin with!
2) One ork went back in time and killed his younger self, so he could have a double of his favourite gun; orks have no clue of what a time paradox is, so that ork is still alive.
3) In a fight between Imperium and orks, a regiment of guardsmen ran out of ammo: so in desperation, the commisar pointed his gun and yelled out "BANG" and an ork head was blown off; the entire regiment started doing the same, even throwing immaginary grenades that would make real explosions. After a while some orks approached, and the guardsmen did the same, but this time nothing happened. And as the orks got closer, they could hear them mumbling "I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank"
These stories are incredible. Had to tell them to others in the group lol.
Also story of Waagh of Tuska Deamonkilla. One Ork Warboss found out that killing chaos demons is especially funny. So he get whole Waagh and flied it right into Eye of Terror. Gigant group of greenskins was making mess and attacking Chaos planets. Finally they landed on one owned by Khorne. And as Orks they started murdering demons (including removing private parts of one Demon Lord.) Khorne saw it and was like "Oh! ME LIKE!" - and put those Orks in his personal relam, making them fight forever and reviving them when they die. And Orks seem to enjoy it...
Hate to be the 'Uhm Ackshually' person, but unfortunately these are all just funny memes the community has come up with; none of them are things which have happened in the setting and the power of the WAAAGH! isn't that strong. The best way it can be described is that the Ork power of imagination is like the WD40 of reality.
An example would be Ork weaponry. If a human engineer cracked open an Ork's slugga, they'd see the basic components of a gun: there'd be somewhere to load ammo, a chamber to hold the bullet, a hammer to trigger it, and a barrel to propel the bullet. On paper, it is a functional gun.
...Except it shouldn't work. Not anywhere near as reliably as it does. The barrel is just a pipe, there's no rifling or anything and the bullets should be flying all over the place; the sights are useless for actually aiming the gun; the chamber isn't built to discharge the gasses properly and should jam or explode after a couple shots. If a human picks up that gun and tries to shoot it, it probably would explode in their hands from a backfire.
In the hand of an Ork Boy though, that slugga works because why wouldn't it? Bullet goes in, the Mekboy said that all the bits inside are working and there's a barrel for the bullets to come out with. It has all the stuff to make a gun work so that power of belief warps reality just a little bit and makes that gun work. Orks believe that a vehicle painted red goes faster, so that engine is gonna work better than it should do. A lootwagon made of a Leman Russ smashed into an Eldar Fire Prism shouldn't work because they're fundamentally different technologies; but da Mekboy plugged da glowy Eldar battery thing into da 'umie tanks engine so why wouldn't it work?
If a human made a finger gun at an Ork and said "Bang!" the Ork wouldn't die. He'd laugh thinking "look at dis stupid 'umie who finks 'iz hands a slugga", give him a good bash and move on.
The Ork accidentally going back in time and killing his past self is absolutely canon though and I love it.
(Also I do sincerely hope we get the Ghazghkull Angron showdown, but we have no official confirmation that Angron killed Yarrick (we only have a short snippet of his memorial/grave in an IG codex), nor that Ghazghkull even knows he's dead. Last we saw Ghaz, he was siphoning up the remnants of the Octarius sector's WAAGHs and making headway or Armageddon at the head of the largest Ork fleets since the WAAAGH of the Beast.)
@@Derenyxthe story of an ork going back in time is actually real. It’s talked about in the 4th edition codex and there is no indication that it’s been retconed.
The whole Ork power of imagination is similar to the Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars and the Omnisiah. Basically they have two Gods called Gork and Mork, it's the Orks belief that uses their power to make things work that shouldn't. The Imperium don't understand it so they think it's imagination magic.
Just so you know, there's a lot of info he didn't mention or was outdated (Space Dwarves are a new faction now) and this is because the "Factions Explained" videos were created prior to his 40K podcast, Adeptus Ridiculous, which he co-hosts with DKDiamantes (who started out as a newbie to the world and his first entry was through the suicidal guardsmen known as the Krieg) and QuiteShallow/Shy (the sarcastic mute one on the sidelines, who's probably slightly more knowledgeable in 40K than Bricky, being the Ork main that she is). His podcast is where he does actual research and explains any featured topics.
His 40K timeline video is likely the more updated in terms of his knowledge in 40K lore, and he crunched all of the major events in that one video....because explaining everything would lead to 2-3 hours at minimum.
Orks are sentient fungi btw. If they die, they spread spores and those spawn new Orks. To get rid of them, you have to comb through and incinerate their corpses.
As for the GW-Blizzard thing, the OG people of Blizzard were fans of Warhammer and they were apparently contracted by the owners of the IP to make a game for them. Somewhere and sometime later, GW bailed out and left for some reason. The devs were left behind with the leftover scraps and constructed a game out of it. That game was called "Warcraft" (based on Warhammer Fantasy). It wasn't Starcraft, although it was based off of 40K...no matter how many times they will deny it.
Love how you react to these videos, you dont just laugh and watch the video, you actually try to understand the lore and add your opinion on it.
Glad you enjoyed it! I don't enjoy reactors that just kinda sit there like a dead fish then tell me to like and sub so I try my best to not be like that. xD
Playing the orks is wonderful. It's one of few armies that you can throw actual junk on the board and play a game, and actually do some decent damage! It's also an army you can really make your own with conversions and creativity.
A buddy of mine once said a games workshop isn't a model shop, it's a giant ork bits box!
As the saying goes, “Every kit is an Ork kit.”
Harlequins are more than "demonic clowns" - they are keepers of memory, that reminds all Eldars why things are how they are. They replay fall of Eldar. They are like "world is a scene" and when they fight it see as show. They put into fight all types of meaning and story - every kill is turned into theatrics, being reference to something from Eldar history or myths.
That's actually really cool. I didn't get that info from the video, but I suppose Bricky's comparison to Jhin from LoL makes sense now.
@@TheLegitWeebsthe lore behind the Harlequins is honestly REALLY involved, which needs like a whole other video to set up, so I can see why he didn't go into it too much.
It's an entire rabbit hole I remember falling into a while back when I looked into just 1(ONE) Craftworld (Ulthwe, they are so cool!) that led me to learning WAAAAAAAAY more about the Aeldari as a whole than I was prepared to. It's the same with the other factions too, currently I've just about finished with the Adepta Sororitas (and like the entire Imperium, because holy moly, these girls actually almost destroyed the Imperium) and I'm terrified because I'm getting more curious about the Necrons...and the snippets of their lore I got from my accidental deep dive with the Aeldari is on some OTHER bs.
@@TheLegitWeebsit worth mentioning that Harlequins have a special position called a Solitaire. When the do plays of how Eldar got where they are, Solitaire plays Slaanesh themself. They basically pull Slaanesh hair and piss them off extremely, and also take power from them so they are extremely powerful, basically Primarch level. But in turn their souls are not protected by Kegorath unlike other Harlequins, so when they die they go to Slaanesh, who have like a special pot for them for all the mockery. But until Solitaire is alive they are a great asset to Eldar and like the greatest protectors.
In the years since that video, the lore about the T'au has gotten a lot more grimdark
and Farsight has become an anime protagonist lol
I’m sure someone else has said it, but a great complimentary video to follow this two-parter is Bricky’s video on “space marine legions” and how the 20 legions work in lore. Besides that, he did another video called “what 40K faction you should play” that goes over almost exclusively the tabletop mechanics. Great for if you’re gonna pick between your boys
One point with the Eldar was also that they are basically immortal and had the technology to reincarnate into new bodies. So having a bit of torture sex with a side of death wasn't an issue to experience. If you are immortal there will be a point where you tried everything, have mastered every art, fighting style and every hobby has been done so much it isn't interesting anymore.
I know you like SCP, so you'll appreciate this. There is a smaller version of 40k (called Kill Team) where you control like a squad instead of a company. So I want to make one of each kill team, and so I came up with lore for a lot of them.
My Mechanicum team are members of the cult of Titanicus Premeri. They are from an Agrocultural/Knight World and believe there used to be a gargantuan titan, known as the Titanicus Premeri, that sacrificed itself to defend the planet. So they are devoted to find its broken pieces and reawaken it (sound familiar)?
Their planet though has been infiltrated by a Genestealer Cult that has begun a rebellion and are trying to take the world. The cult came to be known as the Unifying Hunger. Members preach of Yaldabaoth (their name for the Tyranid hive mind) and the Unifying Hunger that binds them. They say things like "Your oppressive lives can be cast aside. Satiate your hunger for peace and embrace the collective and complete. Give yourself, so you may be consumed and reborn as part of the whole." So cult members literally cheer and run towards the tyrandis when they invade and fight over who should be eaten first.
I know it is shamelessly just the SCP stuff being brough into 40k, but I think I merged the lores well.
I think it's awesome when you can take inspiration from another amazing story and apply it to your own. I'd say all good stories do. I recognize that your team is definitely referencing a particular group of machine worshippers, but other parts of the story make me think of SCP-5000 and SCP-3007. They're probably not your direct inspirations for it, but that's what popped into my head first.
Tid bit about ork's; (image-wise)
They have Kustom shoota's, each "gun" is unique is both look and function.
A chain fead auto cannon... With a scope...
A hip heald heavy flame thrower.... With a bi-pod...
A sniper rifle with scope, laser...iron sights .... Little dude sitting on the barrel yelling back at you to aim a bit higher.... Oh, and its also fully automatic... And a rokit lonchah. .
Cheers 😊
Suggestion for reaction: the "If the Emperor had a Text-to-speech device" series by Bruva Alfabusa.
It's an amazing series of abridged-or-is-it set in the 40k universe.
Even for newcomers to the 40k franchise (like myself) it's still veerrrryyyy entertaining.
Speaking of Orc’s power of imagination, there are quite a few funny stories about them.
1. One time there were a bunch of Orcs repairing their broken ship while out in space. A second ship of Orcs arrives and decides to help the others out with their repairs. So they put on their spacesuits and hop on over to the first ship, only to notice that none of the Orcs from the first ship are wearing spacesuits. So they go, “Oi lads, why aren’t cha wearing spacesuits? Don’t cha know you can’t survive in space?” And then all the Orcs from the first ship immediately decompresses and dies.
2. A group of Orcs is fighting the Imperial Guard. Eventually the Imperial Guard runs out of ammo. But then their commander has an idea, he points his gun at an Orc and shouts, “BANG!” And then the Orc falls over dead. The rest of the Imperial Guard sees this and they all start shouting, “BANG!” And the Orc’s continue to die. Only for a little while later more Orcs show up and they aren’t dying from all the banging. And as these new Orcs get closer, the Imperial Guardsmen can hear the Orcs chanting, “I’ma tank, I’ma tank, I’ma tank.”
3. An adeptsus mechanicus, manages to get their hands on an Orc car. Curious to see how it possibly worked they popped open the hood only to find that there wasn’t an engine. But instead there was a large rock that had the words, “Vroom Vroom” written on it.
4. In the Imperial Guard there is a man named Commissar Yarrik. Yarrik was really good at combatting the Orcs, so good in fact that the Orcs started to believe that he was unbeatable. Which thanks to the Orc’s power of imagination, Commissar Yarrik officially became unbeatable. So no matter how hard the Orcs tried to beat Yarrik, Yarrik would always win.
There are a lot more but these are my personal favorites.
Edit: I have just learned that Yarrik is officially dead. He was killed by Angron the chaos primarch of the world eaters. And now Yarrik’s arch-enemy Ghazkull, is leading his entire army of Orc’s in a waagh (war) against Angron to avenge him.
Hate to be the 'Uhm Ackshually' person, but unfortunately these are all just funny memes the community has come up with; none of them are things which have happened in the setting and the power of the WAAAGH! isn't that strong. The best way it can be described is that the Ork power of imagination is like the WD40 of reality.
An example would be Ork weaponry. If a human engineer cracked open an Ork's slugga, they'd see the basic components of a gun: there'd be somewhere to load ammo, a chamber to hold the bullet, a hammer to trigger it, and a barrel to propel the bullet. On paper, it is a functional gun.
...Except it shouldn't work. Not anywhere near as reliably as it does. The barrel is just a pipe, there's no rifling or anything and the bullets should be flying all over the place; the sights are useless for actually aiming the gun; the chamber isn't built to discharge the gasses properly and should jam or explode after a couple shots. If a human picks up that gun and tries to shoot it, it probably would explode in their hands from a backfire.
In the hand of an Ork Boy though, that slugga works because why wouldn't it? Bullet goes in, the Mekboy said that all the bits inside are working and there's a barrel for the bullets to come out with. It has all the stuff to make a gun work so that power of belief warps reality just a little bit and makes that gun work. Orks believe that a vehicle painted red goes faster, so that engine is gonna work better than it should do. A lootwagon made of a Leman Russ smashed into an Eldar Fire Prism shouldn't work because they're fundamentally different technologies; but da Mekboy plugged da glowy Eldar battery thing into da 'umie tanks engine so why wouldn't it work?
If a human made a finger gun at an Ork and said "Bang!" the Ork wouldn't die. He'd laugh thinking "look at dis stupid 'umie who finks 'iz hands a slugga", give him a good bash and move on.
(Also I do sincerely hope we get the Ghazghkull Angron showdown, but we have no official confirmation that Angron killed Yarrick (we only have a short snippet of his memorial/grave in an IG codex), nor that Ghazghkull even knows he's dead. Last we saw Ghaz, he was siphoning up the remnants of the Octarius sector's WAAGHs and making headway or Armageddon at the head of the largest Ork fleets since the WAAAGH of the Beast.)
@@DerenyxYou good sir must be real fun at parties.
@@CS-ge2fm I just think Orks are plenty fun and stupid already without the fandom making shit up about 'em.
@@DerenyxThe meme stories are part of the fun though. Yes they are already fun and stupid without the memes, but as an Orc Player myself, I full heartily argue you cannot fully enjoy the Orks without embracing some of the meme culture. Whenever people talk about the Orks, almost half of the time it’s a meme story. Know why? Because the meme culture is what people remember the most about the Orks. Because it takes an already fun and stupid faction and multiplies it. Hell I got into 40K because of their meme stories. Now I’m not saying you have to like the meme stories, I’m just saying don’t go around and ruin the fun that others are clearly having.
I love the Bro-enemy-ship that Ghazkull and Yarrik had. Doesn't at all surprise me that Ghazzy's going after Angron for that.
Orcs are fun for a simple reason: in a universe of misery and pain, they are the only faction that are enjoying themselves. Absolutely, completely, having fun, all the time.
A friend of mine described it best: "They have absolutely no existential angst, and they make that everyone else's problem".
That's a great description of the Orks xD
Hurray, Chaos!
A thing that is worth knowing that he didn't really go into with the four Chaos Gods is that they are always at odds with each other, competing in something called The Great Game for control over the Warp. The main reason Chaos has not been able to really make a dent in the real universe is that they're constantly fighting each other and they also can't win, or they as beings cease to exist. Their essence is fueled by mortal souls, so if they kill and take over the material world, they have no more beings to funnel power from. Basically, the only faction that is united as a whole are the Tyranids. No, not even the T'au Empire. Every other faction engage in infighting to SOME degree, which leads to no single faction really being able to outright win the galactic war over the Milky Way.
Some things to note from when this video was made: World Eaters are now their own separate tabletop army with Angron being given a model for gameplay, and there's a new faction that was introduced called the Leagues of Votann. Just like how the Aeldari are elves in space, Votann are dwarves in space. They hold grudges and all that stuff that dwarves do.
If you want to continue looking at Warhammer 40K, I recommend watching Bricky's two other videos, the one about the Space Marine Chapters and the comprehensive video about the Timeline which has been released recently. If you want something a bit more popcorn action, there are the different trailers for the tabletop game, the video games and for Horus Heresy. Astartes Project is great, but I personally find it tiring to watch as reaction content, and Emperor TTS is something I just don't find appealing, but it is a fan favorite in the WH40K meme circles. If you want some REALLY deep dives into specific topics that interest you, I'd check out a channel called Luetin09. He has hour long video essays about lore and speculation on pretty much any topic you can think of. Do keep in mind that lore is everchanging, so some information might be outdated or incomplete, but the videos are all good to watch regardless.
If you're interested in Fantasy or Age of Sigmar, there's a video by a channel named Discourse Minis that did a similar All Factions Explained for Warhammer Fantasy, and HeyWoah did a video about Age of Sigmar, granted it's moreso from a tabletop wargamer's point of view than a lore one. If you want popcorn stuff, the Total War Warhammer 1-3 trailers are a great watch.
Glad you enjoyed the video, it was fun watching. :3
Ironic how Chaos must maintain a careful balance in order to continue existing. It makes a lot of sense though. And thank you so much for the suggestions! I appreciate you taking the time to give me extra details on each of them as well! I'll save this comment and see what interests me.
these are excellent suggestions.
Not even the Tyranids are fully united, there _have_ been cases where two different Tyranid Hivefleets have met and they fought each other.
However, conversely, Hivefleet Leviathan and Hivefleet Kronos have also been shown to cooperate.
Nurgle also represents rebirth, in his garden everything is in a process of dying and blooming with new fungi sprouting etc. Bricky also doesn't mention that chaos isn't everything in the warp. There are minor warp gods and entities it's just that the big 4 have become prodominant because of the amount of how much they've been fed. So chaos and the warp are not interchangeable.
So he's saying Orks are top tier gaslighters.
This assessment is not wrong
Here's a few fun facts;
- When the Necrons went to sleep for eons, some of them woke up early and stayed locked in their tombs, only to go mad with boredom. They later re-developed their souls and longed for the warmth of their flesh they once had, so they skin enemies and wear their skin as cloaks. Even the other Necrons are afraid of them. They call them "The Flayed Ones".
- Some Necrons have forgotten that they are no longer flesh and blood. There is a Necron lord who basically has dementia and will often hold elaborate feasts for his men, despite all of them being mechanical and not having mouths. His right hand man doesn't have the heart (pun not intended) to tell him that they're all machines now.
- Orks aren't actually flesh and blood. They're mushrooms. They're literally a fungus that grows off violence. A tiny Grot will grow and grow during wars and will grow indefinitely.
- Orks understand currency. They use teeth to buy goods off other orks. Many orks will sucker punch or kill other orks to gain more teeth to get more stuff.
- Up until his canon death, a human commisar named Yarrick was functionally immortal when facing orks, as orks believed that his glare alone could kill and that he was a sort of avatar of their god(s), Gork and Mork.
Tyranids are my favourite faction in 40k, and are the largest army I own for the tabletop.
Love my bugs
the third party market for tyranids are insane. In the early 2000's when I was just a kid that liked the cool models, Tyranids were my first favorite faction but I fell out of love with them because they started to feel very same-ey. Now I'd be all about it because you can get some real diversity in your army!
I do prefer the official sculpts, especially the new 10th ed models. But I do have a few unofficial models from Etsy, which are great.
Bit late but just something to keep in mind about our space elves and why they went so crazy with the depravity. At their peak they had mastery over themselves in every aspect, down to the soul. They basically created their own heaven/afterlife and could easily reincarnate themselves whenever they died. So if someone murdered you in a super fucked up way, "eh, whatever. I'll be reborn in a few years or in a decade after chilling in a perfect elf heaven that is protected by elf gods we basically control."
It's been a while, so if I got anything wrong, let me know❤
To explain the ork better, here's one of my favorite stories about them:
A group of Guardsman was stuck in a pillbox, dealing with an ork WAAAAAH. They finished all their ammo on the last ork charge, so they were boned. When the next charge started, one of the guardsman got up, pointed his empty gun at the charging orks and went "BANG BANG BANG" with just his voice. 3 orks immediately fell to the ground, dead. Seeing the ork's immagination backfire, the other guardsman picked up their gun and started doing the same thing. They managed to push back the charge with that strategy. One hour later, another Ork charge began, so the guardsman got back to their "bang bang bang" strategy, but strangely, there was a group of orks that wasn't dying. As they got into the pillbox and started slaughtering everyone, the guardsman could hear a single phrase: "I'm a tank, i'm a tank, i'm a tank"
You should give "If the emperor had a text-to-speech device" a go.
It has its own story but there's a lot of humor derived from the emperor (and others) explaining the lore in a humorous way, and poking fun of weird or silly things, odd retcons, etc.
If you like abridged series at all it's the same type of humor.
I was waiting for the reaction of the Eldar. The "WHAT?!" in response to them being responsible for Slanesh is just a wild ass story.
Really appreciate that you remembered my Nurgle comment from the last vid😊. Also love how out of all the Chaos Gods, he's the only one who isn't maidenless, although that whole situation is its own kind of messed up.
Nurgle do be packing that dump truck, so it's no surprise that he's got maidens... but ofc it's gonna be in a super messed up way that'll make me regret even asking...
@@TheLegitWeebs basically enslaved the eldar's goddess of life, and keeps feeding her the vilest of shit.
the only other surviving Aldari god is Chegorach the Laughing God he often visits Ishtar dancing through Nurgels Garden as to not touch the ground too long but the thorns of the Tree of Life keeps him away but Ishtar will whisper secrets to him during those brief visits
@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 Khaine is arguably also some sort of alive I'd say.
The "War in Heaven" between the Old Ones and the Necron was also what originally created the Warp, if I recall correctly. The Old Ones were the most powerful psykers ever, probably. Everything they did was psychic, using webway transportation, psychic attacks and illusions, so the massive amount of psychic warfare and death ripped a hole in the universe, and all that suffering filled it and created the Warp and the first Chaos gods. Khorne coming from the giant war, Nurgle coming from all the death, Tzeentch coming from all the psychic activity. Also, Orcs are a fungus. They have no gender. New orcs grow from the bodies of dead orcs on the battlefield after the fighting is over. And C'tan eat stars.
The Orks (with "K" because of legal reasons), like most of things in 40k have a reason for being what they are. As Bricky said, they are ancient. They were created along with eldars long before humanity came to be, by the Old ones and the reason for their creation was war.
The old ones were loosing war against the C'than and to fight that war they created minor races, but while eldar were more like a sharp edge, the orks were the blunt club. But the old ones ....spoiler alert.... lost, and were not around to turn their bio weapons off. While eldars developed on their own and developed a civilisation, orks just stick to their purpose.
they are a sentient fungi and reproduce by spores. This means that they are copied over from their progenitors without any adaptation, but while traditional reproduction leads to mutation and evolution, this copy/pasting only creates errors and degeneration. They were not meant as a long term solution after all, they were meant as a cannon fodder and meat wall. Orks used to be taller, stronger, smarter,.... but after milenia of this inherent corruption they are but a shadow of their predecessors. Just a damaged engine of destruction, whos pilot is long gone.
Orks dont learn, their knowledeg is hardwired to their genetic package. Mekboys dont learn engineering, they just at some point experience an awakening of their knowledge and become tribes techicians, and so on. Also Orks are predestined for violence. When an ork experiences a moment of combat superiority, his body gets flooded by growth hormones and he becomes bigger. This cycle of victory and growth continues untill it doesn't. It stops when he is defeated and so the power pirammid is established, with the biggest one on top. This also keeps the population in check. Most orks die getting killed by other orks.
All races have reason for what they do, even the tyranids. Orks dont have reason, only purpose. Purpose that has long lost its reason. They are a tool withou master, unleashed upon the galaxy and left to its own devices. A machine running dry and falling apart, grinding itself to dust.
post edit: Bricky actualy recently uploaded a video where he gives brief introduction to 40k's timeline and major events, might be a good next step. Also for more indepth lore, check Luetin09
"Chaos is unstoppable"
Watches as the Necrons casually close the Eye of Terror...
The problem with the chaos gods is they always bring everything to it's extremes because that is what gives them the most power. The more hate and anger somebody feels the better for Khorn. The more emotions, pain, etc you experience the better for Slanesh.
So two small pieces of clarification on info presented by Bricky.
1. The Orks’ collective psychic field doesn’t make things that are impossible occur, it makes things that are unlikely more likely. Ork tech works but it when Orks aren’t using it it breaks way more often Than it does in Ork hands. If you give an Ork a broken laser gun that will break after 10 shots, it will instead break after 15-20 shots, but it will still break.
2. The Tau’s evil twist is the implication that their leaders actively brainwash people who start to question their authority or choices. They do evil shit, they’re just more subtle about it compared to everyone else in Warhammer, also they’re not racist like most other factions in Warhammer 40k. They also have a number of client races and minor Allies that they bring into battle with their big mechs and stuff. These Allies and client races exist more in the lore than the tabletop so a lot of people tend to forget about them.
I see. Makes sense that they wouldn't give the Orks unlimited power, else they could gaslight themselves into believing they won a war and completely wipe out an entire species.
Ofc everything has a twist in this universe xD. I suppose the only good guys are the ones who commit lesser evils.
Bricky does a few factions a small disservice here because while he gives a good primer for most factions, he wasn't as well read on Warhammer 40k as he is now since he started running his own Warhammer 40k podcast a few years ago. Case in point? He doesn't really say much about Tzeentch himself outside of his positive aspects, whereas he covers Khorne, Nurgle and Slaanesh pretty well in both their primary and secondary aspects.
Tzeentch is the Chaos God of Change, but he's also the Chaos God of Magic, Time, and Knowledge. Why? Because Tzeentch knows literally everything there is to know because he is always focused on what could be and what might have been, and this is epitomized through one of most favored Greater Daemons, a Lord of Change called Kairos Fateweaver.
Kairos is unique among his brethren in that he has two heads; one sees all possible futures and one sees all possible pasts, but neither head can perceive the present. So Kairos is incredibly cunning and intelligent, but he's also quite crazy, to the point where he isn't always certain about what's going on around him in the near future or past, sometimes his heads debate and argue with each other, and because he's always seeing the past and future, he also sees himself both in the past and in the future and has to plan around his own decisions. Stories about Kairos say he became this way after Tzeentch flung several daemons into the Well of Eternity, a source of knowledge that even Tzeentch himself dared not delve into for fear of what it could do to him, and only Kairos managed to crawl out of the Well with his iconic two heads, and by Tzeentch's decree he is always attended by other daemons of Tzeentch and mortal sorcerers, constantly writing down all of his rambling conversations with himself as prophecies and secret knowledge to present to Tzeentch himself as counsel for his unknowable schemes. Kairos is also known to be summoned into the Materium from time to time, and he often likes to play a simple game with those mortals who seek his wisdom; one head will tell only truths, and the other only lies, but he never specifies which one is which, or which head is explaining the rules.
Now you may think that this all makes Kairos a super interesting and bizarre character, but what does this have to do with Tzeentch? Well daemons, or rather MOST daemons, are extensions of a Chaos God, meaning Kairos is basically a piece of Tzeentch that has developed into its own entity with separate thoughts and emotions, while still being part of Tzeentch. So imagine what Kairos goes through based on all I've just said, and then scale it up from a single entity comparable to a single cell in an organism to a god that permeates an entire universe, and God only knows how many others. That is the difference between a Greater Daemon like Kairos and a Chaos God like Tzeentch. So Tzeentch is arguably the craziest of the 4 Chaos Gods, because he knows literally everything, including the shit that can't possibly happen, and he is obsessed with keeping things fun and entertaining by always pushing the envelope to see what crazy shit he can make happen. So dealing with Tzeentch and his minions is a harrowing experience, because you never know where you fit inTzeentch's mad games of 5D chess.
Bricky said Tzeentch is the most Eldritch of the Chaos Gods, and that is definitely the most apt description of him, but he didn't really nail just HOW Eldritch Tzeentch is compared to the other Chaos Gods.
I'm still pretty new to 40k myself and Bricky's videos are a great introduction. I'd recommend his Every Space Marine Legion video for more info on all 20 space marine types and latest What is Warhammer 40k Timeline video for a review and some more info on the history of 40k.
For more in-depth stuff I'd recommend Luetin09 & Weshammer's long lore vids,
and Remembrancer & Warrior Tier for their immersive voice acted lore stuff.
If you want some other media I highly recommend watching the full Astartes fan animation, it was made by 1 dude and they even got the space marines from the animation added to official 40k if i remember the comments correctly.
A great recommendation, as a story, would also be Helsreach. It's basically an actual Audiobook (top tier quality btw) that an artist has turned into a full animated series (has like 13 parts) but he also combined all of em into 1, like a full one hour and something WH: 40k animated movie. The story basically follows a squad of Space Marines from the chapter of the Black Templars (religious fanatics which is rare for Space Marines) who are usually very aggressive and lean heavily towards offense, but they are asked to basically full on defend an entire city, during a massive Ork invasion of an entire planetary system (but a WH:40k city so basically talking about billions of people) which is very much against what they stand for. We follow the main character, his development, feelings struggles, bonds developing with his battle brothers and regular humans, and overall story.
That's just a first glance, it's an excellent story, the animation develops as time goes by and it's insanely good, fantastic character development and just extremely satisfying, highly recommended, if you want to check out a great story, with lore aspect but without drowning in it as well.
11:00 it’s not strictly true that Nurgle is about finality, but he’s more about the circle of life. That everything lives and dies, but within that death is the opportunity to create new life and that life lives, and when that dies it creates even more life. He’s stagnation in the sense that the circle of life never changes, and any attempt to change that is abhorrent to him.
Thus the basics and fundamentals of WH40k has been covered!
Would there be other media source of 40k that you are interested in doing perhaps? 😊
Or is it strictly lore only for the time being?
I've been personally interested in trying out some of the WH games I've seen on Steam, even before we started this YT channel. So... maybe... if my computer can handle it...
@@TheLegitWeebs WH40k games should be no issue and mostly filled with RTS and action Games (Dawn of War and Space Marine 1),
So unless it's the newer non 8-bit FPS games like darktide and space hulk it should be fine spec wise
Warhammer Fantasy (Non-40k) games like Total War : Warhammer I-III though, that's tricky
@@TheLegitWeebs Boltgun is a doom style shooter that has pixel graphics u might be able to run that.
@@TheLegitWeebs there’s always bolt gun, a retro boomer shooter style game in lines with doom released last year.
The thing that makes the dual nature of the Chaos Gods so interesting, and what makes them so fun to read about in stories, is that they use the good side of their nature to slowly entice and corrupt people into accepting their evil side. It's extremely Lovecraftian and really horrific, and thus very cool. They reveal only their good side to you to entice your logical mind with benefits and promises of a better life, while simultaneously using their psychic power to slowly corrupt your soul and make you more susceptible to accepting their darker desires.
It's also important to know that the vast majority of humanity has no idea they even exist, so when a man is slowly dying of a horrible disease and suddenly starts hearing a divine entity promising that they can take the pain away they might think it's The Emperor coming to save them and not realize it's Nurgle coming to claim them.
if you want to try a 40k RTS that a potato can run, the original dawn of war is a good option. The unification mod also adds a slanesh faction if you want that as well.
Orks are one of the best thing out of whole of 40k. You get all these silly rules, and lore surrounding them. Things like: All devices must have some bolts, screws, and nuts in them. Because that is what they think should be in them, so if there are none on the outside, chances are they threw some loose bolts somewhere in the gun, and then hold it together by wire. Weapons that by the way cease functioning when no orks are arround, and turn into scrap again.
You get to shout "WAAAAAAAAGH!!" at your oponents, make silly voices, use smaller orks (grots) as ammo in a gun that shoots them through the warp, and then teleports them out the gun. Might blow a crater sized hole, or the grot will just splat against the target. You get orks in open space with no space suits, cause they did not think something like that is required, untill some other orks mentions it, and they all suddenly succumb to space vacuum exposure, just because they realized now: "Oh yeah, space suits are a thing."
When you play them on tabletop, you just have fun with silly rules and bonuses, with funny names like "Sneaky gitz" or good old "DakkaDakkaDakka". Because any good shoota (gun) goes "DakkaDakkaDakka" and there is never enough Dakka, so guns suddenly fire more (those extra shots on 6 Bricky mentions). Some of my favourites are the vehicle names, like "Killa Kans" or "Dakka Jet" and my personal favourite "Boomdakka Snazzwagon".
And all this time you know, your orks are just having a blast with the fight.
Hate to break it to you, but the Dark Eldar actually... DON'T have to be heinous sweatgoblins to survive. The craftworld eldar avoid the same grip of slaanesh by putting their souls into either "soul stone" phylacteries, or into massive shared artifical afterlife "infinity circuits" rather than end up in the warp. A dark eldar could renounce their ways and live as a craftworlder if they had a soulstone, but they'd have to renounce being a murdehobo.
Dark Eldar are the most evil group because they HAVE a choice, and they chose depravity.
*The orcs slaughter each other, create machines and weapons out of random shit and kill everything and everyone including themselves*
Me: DATZ DA WAY OF DE LADZ!
This video is a little onthe old side as the game has come a fair way since. For starters, Kill Team (a smaller skirmish based version of the game) has brought a lot of cool new stuff into the forefront. Things which have always existed in the lore but not been a major feature on the tabletop. So for example The Death Korps of Krieg which was a popular Imperial Guard regiment but expensive as hell to collect has become a lot more affordable and thus more common thanks to Kill Team. Corsairs Voidscarred are a new addition to the Eldar. Chaos now has Chaos Guardsmen thanks to Killteam. The Imperium has Imperial Navy Breachers who raid enemy space ships and the Adeptus Arbites which I believe are a form of Secret Police similar to Inquisitors but less authoritative. (all of these descriptions are massively oversimplified.) And then they reintroduced an older faction in Killteam who are not big enough to be a new army as such but are definitley distinct enough to possibly one day become their own, and that is Beast Men (basically Chaos aligned Goat People.)
But the other major change since this video was the answer to a question I long asked. For years I asked, if Humans are just Humans. And Orks are space orcs. And Eldar are space elves. And you also have Demons which are another common fantasy component. And the Imperial Guard have Ogryns (ogres) and Rattlings (Hobbits.) Then where are the space dwarves. The answer was they did have them years before I started the hobby (called squats) and they are coming back. And as of about a year ago, The Leagues of Votaan arrived as a brand new Xenos army of space Dwarves. I don't know much about the lore, but what's interesting is that whilst the original dwarves (squats) were allied to the Imperium, the Leagues of Votaan are completely separate Xenos. And I think they are all clones or something. I forget the ore but I seem to recall they have a genetic template that all dwarves are created from.
Bricky also has a brief history of Warhammer video. Luetin is good if you want the Master's Thesis on a Warhammer topic.
45:25 Actually, you're correct. Once a planet is taken over by Nids, they'll purposely wait until they're in the stage of absorbing the biomass. Once they do this, the Imperium will basically light the whole thing on fire with virus bombs and lance batteries. While not the best method, this is the easiest way to wipe out multiple Nids at once, because most of their ships can hold multiple planet's worth of biomass, meaning a single ship can spawn a whole army on its own.
An Adeptus Mechanicus was once inspecting a captured Ork vehicle, only to lift the hood and find a rock where the engine should be, with "VROOM VROOM" written on it.
Orks are the only race in 40k to have made it to heaven. Tuska Daemon-killa is a warlord who led a WAAAGH! right into the Warp, and he wound up in Khorne's realm and fought Khorne's forces until all the Orks died. And Khorne looked over and was like "Oh that's the stuff." So he resurrected them and made them a planet where they're forever fighting in gladiator combat, and everyone involved is fantastically happy with this arrangement. An eternal brawl = ork heaven
Fun fact the black library is the same name for production center for all of wh40k books so the harlequins guard the place where every wh40k book is made
When Tzeentch decides you have too few eyes, for example, you'll sprout those extra eyeballs.
I've always hated Bricky's take on the Harlequins, because he's vastly simplified it. The Harlequins are.. basically wandering teachers and historians for the Eldar; they are performers, rather than clowns, and the shows they put on are toteach the history of their people. Their main defences are to appear as something terrifying to the observers, so yeah - "clowns" makes sense.
The Warp was once the Sea of Souls. Eldar excessed a chaos god into existence and it made huge ripples in the sea. Then crazy stuff happened to humanity and they got paranoid, which in turn changed the Sea into The Warp.
The Emperor was such a Big Boi Psyker that he was going to kill ALL FOUR CHAOS GODS and they knew it, which is why they tricked Horus and eight other primarchs.
Admittedly, it would have been much harder for the chaos gods to do that if Big E was a better father. He was a terrible dad.
Its funny thinking about how the Horus Heresy was caused by daddy issues xD
@@TheLegitWeebs Oh absolutely, Magnus made an Oops, Horus felt like Big E was ignoring him, Perturabo was pissed about Dorn getting all the good commissions, Lorgar was told to stop worshipping his dad like a god and had his home burned to the ground... And to be completely fair... Big E was not really good at making his Bois feel like they were loved, so they had very justifiable reasons... Mostly... For betraying him.
It's what I love about the setting, everyone is kind of a villain in their own way.
He didn't do the positive aspects of the chaos gods that well apart from tzeentch. Like he said korne will never stab you in the back but that's because he has integrity and a sense of justice. With nurgle you can say that tzeentch provides hope but if there was nothing BUT change then everything would just be a clusterfuck. What nurgle provides is CONSISTENCY and permanency. And the ultimate permanency is death. As for slaanesh yes joy is a part of it. But every extreme emotion is part of it inlcuding love. Without Slaanesh or at least the power that slaanesh represents. The universe would be numb and unfeeling.
35:10 it's said if you see the dark Eldar pulling up on your planet, the best solution to prevent from getting captured by them, is for you to just game over yourself.
"I'm not that into it"
For Slanesh your consent is completely optional.
I feel like Bricky did the Harlequins and the Tau a bit dirty, but even he doesn’t know everything so I get it. But I’ve got stuff here.
Harlequins:
Cegorach while we don’t have much interaction with him is actually really interesting. Since he is the Eldar god of Joy and stuff, he would have been prominent when they started getting bored, wich a lot of people don’t consider. Then he, as all the Eldar should, since they all go to the warp when their bodies die and then reincarnate and as strong psykers understand it well, realizes where things were going, and starts laughing hysterically. Then he sees all his comrades and his people getting soulrapevored and runs the fuck away as fast he can.
People don’t seem to consider this, but when you look at how 40K has people fall from grace as a trope, I believe that Cegorach isn’t that happy a guy anymore. He’s just putting on a show to his followers. In fact, he is the main person orchestrating the creation of Ynnead, a hypothetical Eldar Death God who would have a claim on the Eldars souls, starving Slaanesh and being able to defeat her. This added with the Harlequins relative neutrality makes him in my opinion the actual least bad guy in the setting.
Tau:
There IS a catch. It’s implied that the Ethereals, who united the Tau, secrete some form of pheromone that makes people obey them. They are also corrupt, castrate any alien that joins the Tau Empire, have implemented a caste system and banish anyone who questions them. Some people I know also claim there are hints of Necron influence there. Then there’s that time one of their more famous characters encountered what seems to be a minor chaos god created by non-Tau who believe in the Greater Good (the Tau barely have a connection to the warp), wich is basically the god of Ultra-fascism and wants everything to be like itself.
People also don’t realize that the Tau become worse over time. They are likely meant to be a show of these aforementioned falls from grace in real time.
I'm not a huge Tau guy, but I'd respectfully disagree a bit with your characterisation.
The Tau mind control thing isn't really canon, like you say it's just a suspicion (mainly from an Imperial perspective, and it may have appeared in the, non-canon, Xenology book - can't quite remember, but that got other things wrong about Tau physiology too so it's no really relevant). They also don't castrate other races that come under the Empire - I think that was just something in Dawn of War that came up and, again, isn't canon. Other races, such as the Kroot, do just fine in the Tau Empire for instance. I also don't think 'the greater good' can really be described as 'ultra facism' - I mean there's already at least one faction that does that and the Tau pale in comparison in that regard. It's a hypocritical slogan of course, (and ultimately a meaningless platitude - nearly every form of government or economic system claims what it does is 'for the greater good'), but I don't think sums it up very well.
I also think the goddess Tau'va's (a.k.a. the Greater Good) stated goal of the communality of species doesn't fit that description at all tbh - especially as it's heavily implied that she's a creation of races allied with the Tau, including humans, not actually the Tau themselves (as they have next to no warp presence).
The Tau have historically been a bit under-developed lore-wise, and that's their major issue IMO, but they're slowly getting to a more interesting place - especially with the Farsight Enclaves and all that. I think what makes them a conceptually fun race is more their naivety and accompanying arrogance. They think they're the peak of civilisation but have barely a clue of what's really out their in the galaxy - and consequently are most likely heading off a cliff without being aware of it. They kind of reflect humanity's hubris in that regard, and in the 40k universe what many of the once-dominant civilisations have thought about themselves.
What makes them fit into the grim dark universe for me isn't really their attitude or acts, so much as we know so much more about the horrors of the galaxy than they do and rather like the pre-fall Eldar, or the GAoT humans, we can see they're messing with forces they don't understand and it's really only a matter of time before it blows up in their faces . Like everyone else in the galaxy they're completely doomed, but unlike the other races in 40k, they just don't know it yet. It's like one of those photographs taken just before a disaster where everyone's smiling, but there's a tsunami looming in the background, or something. (I mean the fact that there' a Tau god, which isn't even a creation of themselves already suggests that this idea of 'the greater good' is kind of spirally into a series of unintended consequences for them, and probably not in a good way.)
Also, I'd not heard about the Necrons having much to do with the Tau being 'uplifted' - I think they were still asleep at the time, right? I know the Eldar are widely rumoured to have something to do with it based on certain 'sightings' made around the time the Ethereals first emerged.
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Mind Control and Castration: Considering this is 40K and the Tau needed to be grimdarker and it’s the only thing they really have going for them in that regard, I believe most generally think of it as canon. Also, this is kinda flimsy so it’s fair if you dismiss it, but it’s also in the Death Watch RPG, and
Tau’va: commander Twiceblade from DoW is in fact a canon character in the book War of Secrets and Tau‘vas description here is what informs my view of it.
‘I found it strangely calming to behold, master, But I also felt its hunger to grow, to spread its many limbs from the tip of one of the galaxy’s spiral arm to the other. To remake everything in its own image. I remember feeling that, and then feeling like it peered directly into my soul.’
I believe a lot of people get caught up in speculating about the Emperors ascendancy to godhood that they forget we kinda have this already. But that’s merely my opinion, your arguments are fair.
@@requiemlul3140 I don’t think it makes much sense to castrate a species that you hope to incorporate in your empire as they’ll just go extinct in a few years. Tau have auxiliary species they’ve worked with for a long time. Rather like extermination I’m sure that it’s one of the options the Tau have, but it doesn’t really make much sense as an overarching strategy given their goals. I also think there’s a fine line between grimdark and grimderp, and The t’au fit in with the universe just fine the way they are without adding that. The guevesa are more interesting as a concept without it, just underdeveloped as it stands, like much tau lore.
I imagine the t’au have a variety of approaches, depending on the species they encounter and what works best. It’s really not hard to control a human population, tbh, as long as their basic needs are met and they have some form of entertainment. History proves as much. If it’s at all better than life under the imperium, it’s an easy sell for the masses.
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It does if you -as Twiceblade does a few sentences after the quote, consider the Tau the “optimal“ form . It also makes sense after seeing the Tau‘va nad their reaction to it, wich is immediate disgust at the human population. I have the book, or at least had, I’m planning on rereading it, but I clearly recall they actually went on to genocide Gue‘vesa.
@@requiemlul3140 I mean it varies (extremely) depending on the story, but there are plenty of accounts of human populations being treated well etc. so even if you find examples of it in the lore it’s not true to say that’s the way they always act. It’s largely dependent on circumstances at the very least. By and large I think they’re treated much like the Kroot or anyone else.
Also Gue’vesa auxiliaries have been described as “often being descendants of captured or abandoned Imperial Guard troops”. And you can’t have descendants if you sterilise people.
I don’t believe they wouldn’t do it, just that the idea that they always genocide or sterilise populations isn’t supported by the background lore, as well as being generally illogical. I can see the Tau operating a population control policy if necessary. Kinda like the Chinese one child policy. But maybe more stringently enforced…
Here's the thing about the Dark Eldar though while they are technically forced to do this to keep slanesh from stealing their souls these are also the things they were happily cool with doing before slanesh came to existence so they're not necessarily complaining about this deal either they just now have a incentive to just go all in on their already twisted and fucked up nature which was kind of already that bad to begin with
I have to disagree with Bricky regarding the Tau. They acted as a foil which by contrasting with the other races in their naivety and optimism, showed just how shitty the rest of the galaxy was. If everything is "grimdark", it all just kind of bleeds together and you just shrug your shoulders. You don't really have anything to measure that "grimdarkness" against. But if you have a small light of hope that is easily snuffed out to compare it to, then everything feels much more dire and awful. It makes the grimdark look actually grimdark rather than just another shade of grey.
And that's the other thing people who hate the Tau forget. They are small, an ultimately weak and inconsequential race in the large picture that, if the Imperium had a brief respite, would be crushed utterly. They are also a reflection of what the Imperium once was, how it appeared when it was founded. No superstition, optimism about the future, and the ability to innovate and create new technology. All of which is almost gone now for the Imperium. It's what the Imperium could have been had the Emperor not been wounded.
Just stumbled on your channel and really like your style mate. Good insights, pretty funny and offer good talking points 👍🏻 I’ve been into warhammer since the late 90’s and seen this bricky video loads of times but it’s always weirdly satisfying seeing someone get hooked on it! Keep em coming 😁
Appreciate it! Hope you enjoy the vids.
One thing to note too about the Eldar is that before Slaanesh was born, their souls would spend some time in the warp, then reincarnate in new Eldar bodies. This meant that there were no real consequences to their actions since even if someone was debauched to death, they would be fine later, so who cares.
Something Bricky did not bring up, I expect due to them not having models, are the fourth Eldar Faction and my personal favorite from an image stand point, the Exodites.
The Exodites were Eldar that noped out earlier than the Craftworlders and fled to space to find the Maiden Worlds, planets that countless years before, the Eldar had terraformed from lifeless dead planets into paradise worlds.
These Eldar shunned most advanced technology and instead coexisted with the planets wildlife, which was mostly shown as giant lizard creatures.
As a 80's boy this made me think of the old Dino Riders show, and I have always dreamed to have both the skill and the money to kit bash an Exodites army and use as a Craftworld Proxy list.
Look up Dino Riders, then think how that would look after a coat of "40k Grimdark " paint. 😁
its very common that in 40K you have your favorite faction and the orks as your 2º favorite faction
I can see why. The orks are just too good not to like.
The problem with chaos space marines is that they’re typically and extremely unpredictable, much Ike chaos itself being random and whilst chaos marines tend to follow the basic principles of their patron god, the fear they can emit on a battlefield is second to none, whilst khornate berserkers tend to be very melee focused, doesn’t mean that they’re stupid and are called of subtlety and tactics, when the need arises and outside of black templars, khornate berserker combat skills are only beaten by few others and being blood maddened makes them even more tougher to deal with and will literally butcher their way through almost any enemy.
Slaaneesh marines, much like the chaos cousins are no laughing matter, making use of heavy and devastating weapons such as the much feared noise marines, where they use sounds as a literal weapon, all the while being extremely deadly, being pumped full of combat drugs and stimulants and whilst khornate marines may be skilled in their warrior fighting abilities, Slaaneesh marines are dancers compared to the more bullish styles of other marines, again depending on the marine they might be enhanced with drugs like slaught, which essentially increases the combat awareness and effectiveness of the individual giving them super human accuracy as well as increased aggression and pain killers and whilst a khornate marine may get carried away with bloodlust, a noise marines would ravel in pleasure instead however compared to their kins they’re the weakest of the chaos space marines, by design and accident, being that their body parts tend to be more exposed and as durable as any other marine with a much higher pain tolerant, there’re not the strongest when compared to most of the others.
Zeench or thousand sons are extremely small and are numbered to be less that a few thousand or even less than a thousand due to their unfortunate curse, where the thousandth and one marine would simply and literally start to fall apart, however despite their smaller numbers the thousand son tend to make up in raw magical power over overwhelming numbers wher a single rubric marine is worth about a thousand average marines in terms of combat effectiveness, being able to summon demons from the warp at a click of a finger or cause a nuclear explosion with a wave of their hands they are that powerful, however unfortunately most of their marines are known as rubric marines who are effected by the rubric curse where during their infancy, one space marine first captain tried to save his brothers by selling their souls to hell and in return, their mortal bodies eventually withered and died but their souls are now trapped inside of their armor and are little more than mindless ghosts at the beck and call of their masters.
The death guard on the other hand are basically walking biological tanks, being more than happy to have half of their head/s, blow off and a third of their brain missing, and despite being both weaker and stronger, their armor being bent, broken and corrupted as time passed, resulting in overflowing internal organs or puss riddled flesh with maggots living inside the pustules, they’re also extremely powerful beings primarily made up of different diseases and all sorts, so being near them is enough to kill any and all unprotected biological organisms where even with the advanced immune systems a space marine has, is capable of being killed by the pure corrupting forces entering their body, all the while as the dead or dying end up as more fodder for the never ending undead legions.
The Ynnari (another Eldar group), Eldar Pirates, and Drukhari are my favorite factions. Especially Ynnari and Drukhari.
total war warhammer is definitely something to check out, bit expensive if you want everything at once as the games build upon eachother so every race from 1 and 2 are in 3 if you own them aswell as the dlc for each game carries over, every race is on the map but you cant play as them all unless you own them and the games are in kindof a difficult place because of a lot of discourse as the community and developers are at war with eachother over whats the right thing to do while the company just wants more money for less effort
That's an unfortunate situation that's sadly all too common nowadays with games. Still very interested to try them someday though, just to see each faction in action.
Thanks for speaking for the rest of us as if we don't have our own opinions. It's great to drive people away from games by providing a completely one-sided take.
provide your take then, i said what i said from my view of the games after playing them for over 2000 hours combined
@Nightmare_52 @Nightmare_52 My take is that the games are fine without the DLCs because there are almost no non-faction specific mechanics hidden behind them. They're just expansion packs with additional factions beyond the NUMEROUS main factions you can play as. You make it sound as if the base factions alone won't give you hundreds of hours of gameplay, or that you NEED all three games when you really, REALLY don't. In fact as someone who has put thousands of hours into pretty much all the Total War games as well as competing grand strategy games, I'd point out that boasting about your hours played is a good way of getting your opinion laughed out of the room. The "problems" you speak of aren't major issues and the issues the community does have with Warhammer 3 have almost nothing to do with "greedy company practices" and everything to do with the mechanics themselves.
In short, I'd recommend he gets Total War: Warhammer 2 on sale if he wants to dip his toes in the grand strategy game, it's the best of the Total War Warhammer series and is fully developed with a massive amount of mods.
thanks for pinging my name twice but i never said you needed everything to play the games in the first place, i said its expensive if you want everything but all the factions are on the map by default so you can face them in battle just not play as them, i will agree the games are good without the dlcs but several races get big boons from having the dlcs, and seeing as both warhammer 1 and 2 are still full price it still isnt cheap to get into either of the 3 games to begin with
thanks for providing your own view on things without being a ginormous jerk about it though
I think my favorite Ork theory is that the Emperor is still alive because the Orks think he can't truly die. I don't believe that's true necessarily in canon, but it's still a fun theory.
I mean, if you don't have the specks to run Total War Warhammer and are more interested in 40k, there's always the first two Dawn of War games, especially 1 and its expansions. Also Space Marine, which is finally getting a sequel!
Dawn of War looks like my kind of game, and I was recently gifted the first Space Marine game, so I might check them out soon. I do remember seeing snippets of the Space Marine sequel, and it looked awesome.
If you want to learn more lore, bricky has a podcast called adeptus ridiculous where he talks about 40K Lore in his humorous manner, while guiding his co host, a newbie to 40K, through the universe. If you want more serious lore videos, I have three recommendations, baldermort for his silky smooth voice, Luetin because that man knows enough 40K lore to the point where if he Could he’d have a PHD in 40K, and finally occulus imperia who does lore from the perspective of an administratum worker going through records and compiling histories in the 41st millennium.
If you want to get into the table top, it has never been easier, 10th edition has just come out and brought with it a simplified rule set as well as having a beginner friendly game mode called combat patrol box, you buy a patrol with anywhere from 10-20 models generally, though there are some outliers, and there is one box for every faction, the rules are free to download from the warhammer community website. each box is balanced against each other, and it plays in about 2 hours.
"The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on the road to ruin in their turn. And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude."
- Uthan the Perverse, Eldar Philosopher.
Orks are technically the smartest race in 40K, but they have to be united in HUGE numbers under a powerful warboss. And the only way to do that is to start a massive waaaagh, which almost always unites various factions to defeat them.
Harlequins;
You questioned the quote of "love and bloodshed"
I would simply remind you that in our own culture,
Romeo and Juliet took their own lives as a sign of pure love.
Love and bloodshed.
So far, you have been great for your own part. I will finish and applaude you.
Cheers.
Bricky misses half of what nurgle is.
he's not the god of death and rot.
he's the god of life and death.
13:28 mood kindred
He actually did get this wrong. Nurgle legitimately does love you and gives gifts. Just sucks when he thinks his lovely gifts are deadly diseases
Reject Eldar, embrace Monkeigh
xD This video taught me a new way to insult my friends
I actually really like your reaction videos im a new subscriber and i just finished watching part 1 of your reaction and if you remember him saying 20 then 18 primarchs is because two of them are missing but we only know one is seen as a tragedy and the other is seen with shame
Bricky Also has a video on every main spacemarine chapter.
I think I know which vid you're talking about. Might check it out when I can.
@@TheLegitWeebsIt's called "Every Space Marine Legion explained"
My favourite fact from 40K is that no matter how brutal and violent the universe gets it wont compare to how devistating the war in heaven was!
Also
ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS
A couple of minor lore points that people often miss:
Papa Nurgle. Followers of Nurgle feel next to no pain and can live with their collection of horrendous diseases for a looong time - some are effectively immortal unless killed. So this is one reason why some people convert - if you have a life-threatening disease and will die in agony, what have you got to lose? If medicine and all alternatives have failed...well Papa Nurgle is offering you a way out.
One reason for the dislike of the Tau is actually real-life lore. 40k was always for adults, the grim, dark future, endless suffering and eternal war was something that appealed to teens and adults alike.
Then some genius at Games Workshop spotted things happening in the real world such as Pokemon and thought to himself "Wow children have a lot of money to spend and like Japanese stuff." So suddenly in this Grimdark game is a race of Gundam good guys, at the same time a lot of the more child-unfriendly lore was quietly dropped, ret-conned or forgotten.
This pissed off a lot of the former fans who were adults and had fallen in love with the horrible 40k universe and they rabidly hated the Tau.
Then GW got another lesson in what children like - novelty - and they are not loyal to a franchise, a lot moved on to the next fad. So GW tried to roll back the lore, adding in sinister overtones to the Tau and restoring the outright evil of the other races.
But for many adults who had been thrown casually aside chasing children's pocket money this still left a sour taste. You have people like myself, who grew up with 40k, adore the lore but will not let GW see another penny of their money.
The thing about Papa Nurgle makes sense. It also very unfortunate when a company tries to chase after more money, but alienates the existing fan base. Happens far too often.
Bricky has quite a few other 40K centric videos you could dive into.
Personally I also like his Darktide videos and while the game had a bit of a rough start it's just such good 40K fun and one of the most immersive 40K experiences.
If you do them I recommend both the How To Play Darktide and the How Well Does Darktide do 40K one.
The latter of course exists because there have been alot of 40K games that sorta failed at getting 40K right. A bit like alot of media fails to get H.P. Lovecraft stuff right.
The Tau fit a lot more than it seems at first glance. It's not because there is some evil twist to them (though there are some really good theories to that end), but rather to show what being 'good' gets you in the 40k universe. Curb stomped, that's what it gets them. They struggle and are defeated and abused by literally every other faction. The only reason they are able to survive at all is because they have gotten into that niche where they are too small to be a legitimate threat to anyone, while simultaneously just large enough to defend themselves effectively, so conquering them would be a significant expendature of resources for not enough gain. They are a living example of a race meeting the rest of the galaxy and having their hopes brutalized by the reality before their eyes, and that loss of innocence is a thousand percent 40k.
I went Grey Knights then Orks. Great minds think alike. Orks sadly dont have the bonus shots on 6s as of commenting but theyre due for new rules in a couple months so they might get it back! Believe with me
Highly recommended bricky's timeline and space marine legion videos. Just found your channel a few days ago , great work keep it up.
Well if you need recomendations...
Bricky 40k legions
Bricky 40k timeline
Russian Badger FOR THE EMPEROR and HEAVY FLAMER HERESY
Bricky all 40k Darktide vids
Then...we get into some more deep stuff
Emperor TTS is good, but you must understand its a half truth half meme series. Kitten and Shadowun is !Canon! though😂
Simultaneously Lutein09 Dark Origin series and Emperor/Imperium of Man series, also some Majorkill, Arch (Warhammer) Siege of Vraks series and Why is There Melee in 40k (2part series) and him talking about armor and weapons of 40k.
I think i just set you up for...a good while.
Welcome to the community and NO PITY NO REMORSE NO SURRENDER!
It's actually very simple to understand why Chaos Daemons are seen as evil and do evil things, instead of being the more positive aspect of themselves.
Daemons at the end of the day are essentially Predators of Warp space, and as Predators their natural instinct is to hunt for more food. What are their food? Emotions and the psychic energy created from said emotions. So, what would generate the MOST emotion? A casual date with your lover? Or a murder orgy where every narcotics are used?
You get the point. The creatures of Chaos craves that energy, and thus they will try to get the most of it as quickly as possible so they can grow stronger.
Also, if you can somehow convince or make enough people believe in a magical cotton candy entity giving out presents to good children, that actual entiry will manifest in the Warp and do just that, since it is now a creature that eat positive emotions.
I genuinely cannot believe how long I had to pause and think about the comment about Monokuma disliking Tzeentch. It sent me down this mental rabbit hole trying to figure out whether the big despair fans of Danganronpa would prefer Nurgle or Tzeentch. You'd think it would be easy; Tzeentch hope, Nurgle despair, simple as. Except it gets way more complicated and I could easily see it going the other way. Since to them despair really does seem to represent unpredictability; the excitement born from the inability to predict the actions of someone pushed to the ultimate limits. And therefore Nurgle would be the opposite; the static unyielding boredom and inevitability that led to them falling into despair in the first place. I'm kinda shocked at how interesting a question that is.
One of the funniest Memes is that The Emperor of Mankind is alive and a God, because the Orcs believe he is.
The Orcs always hear the Imperium's troops shout "For the God - Emperor!", so they believe he exists, so The Emperor lives to this day.
I love Bricky, I love his videos, that being said, he does not really do the Harlequins justice I will say. They are more horror thespians than horror clowns. Their purpose is to be play actors essentially, with their greatest duty being putting on performances of the Fall of the Aeldari and the Birth of Slaanesh. Bricky got a lot right, war as art, and they do have clown motiffs, they do cackle, but they are essentially just method actors. They are handpicked from the ranks of the Craftworlds and the Dark Eldar and the Exodites as elite special forces and they travel between these places and factions, putting on their performances. Cegorach is a trickster god in the same vein as Loki in Norse Mythology with an emphasis on taking the prideful down a peg, and the Harlequins who follow him are just like that and they are working tirelessly to save their race. They're so cool and one of my favorite factions.
Bricky recently uploaded a video about the entire timeline of 40k!
for the emperor (algorithm too)
Nah, the Warp, and by extension the Chaos Gods, being evil and scary AF is rather easy to explain:
Millions of years of war and suffering visited upon each other by the sentient beings in the galaxy. Before the War In Heaven the Warp was actually known as the Sea Of Souls and, for the most part, rather calm with some dangers here and there but not this big of a clusterfuck. The War In Heaven alone was thousands of years of galaxy-wide war where multiple species got eradicated entirely. And while nothing will ever come close to this war humanity and the other species have been busy as well. ....so yeah, it's basically our fault. As in sentient life's fault.
So the warp reflects the state of the world, as in the actions of all sentient life. And with how horrible everything is, it tracks that the Warp would also become twisted. Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation!
@@TheLegitWeebs Yep.
The easiest way to think about the Warp is the whole Materium and Immaterium thing.
The Immaterium is in essence the spiritual reflection of the physical reality, shaped for the most part by thought, emotions and souls... so Sentient Beings.
In essence Khorne for instance is just a mirror held up to the sentient beings of the galaxy who have killed each other in war for millennia.
Im old so I played what I like in lore and minis -not wining but I love it and played dark eldar in 40k
Helsreach The Movie (2019) IMO the best 40K from the visuals to script,and its only "2.30 hours long"
Looks interesting. I think I'll take a look at it once I'm more familiar with the lore.