In a galaxy filled with an entire race of nihilistic, murderous, (literal) edge-lords, we can all agree the worst among them is an overbearing shitty boss.
even Necrons hates Szeras, they respect his art, they respect his inventions, but the bastard is one arrogant prick with the most highest list of demands that even Deathmarks can't take up. kinda reminds me of another sick surgeon by the name of Fabius Bile who holds the same reputation among Chaos forces.
@@m-w-y7325 as a Necron Player, everything this person has said about Szeras is 100% correct. I believe there was an instant once, where Anrakyr the Traveler was working with him, effectively loaning Anrakyr some beefed up Immortals. Szeras made a demand of Anrakyr after the battle for some captives, but the Immortals he’d loaned had gone beyond what Anrakyr had wanted them to do, and when Anrakyr tried to reprimand Szeras for the incident, Szeras waved the whole thing off, clearly not caring one jot about overstepping his bounds and thus disrespecting Anrakyr’s authority. In response to this, Anrakyr had the captives Szeras wanted for his experiments, executed right there and then, and walked off like a boss without another word. Needless to say, Szeras and his Immortals were not at the next battle.
He trying to kill the zombies while also trying to not expose himself to bolter fire, while his boss is calling solely to whine at him. Its not him merely being slow
And here we see the Deathmark's earlier criticism get proven right. Szeras basically hired the world's best neurosurgeon and told him to saw a tree in half. Sure, the guy is renowned for his ability to cut things, but there's a time and a place. Plus, you're doing that while the guy who carries his custom Woodhacker 50000 everywhere he goes, and spends all his time not sawing trees in half wishing he had more trees to saw in half, standing right next to the surgeon.
@@CafeLiquerstreams He cant give orders to preatorians, those are basically necron inquisition and answer only to Silent King. He can maaaybe ask them for help, but thats it.
@@nightlock826However, in this case Szeras’s orders are literally “Go kill everyone who’s still alive.” Which practically defines what destroyers are thrilled to do.
I am curious if anyone knows, why did the zombies attack the death mark? Is the thing controlling them just on a ‘kill everything’ command or something?
@@insaneyoohooMore than likely, considering how nonchalant Szeras is about their presence and how they are more or less literal human garbage, he probably instilled a "attack anything." basic command to tie down imperial survivors, and fully expecting his warriors or the destroyers to be more than capable of handling them. A lone deathmark however is the unaccounted for case of "Overspecialized failing to massed problem" kind of matchup that Szeras more than likely didn't care to consider.
@@insaneyoohoo Szeras' job is to find a "cure" of the Necrons plight and turn them back into organic forms. Either by having artificially created Necrontyr bodies or by replacing the minds of another species with that of a Necrons. He probably tried to look into if the human body is compatible with the Necron mind, e.g at the beginning expierement. I would guess he cut out parts of the mind of the people or replaced them with basic Necron ones and the Humans function on a pretty much lobotomized level with varying degree of mentall activity - as can be seen after the crash when the Zombie Guard attacke Sa'kan, one of them pleaded him to be killed. Which would explain why they attacked the Deathmark with such ferocity - especially the Kriegsman who ran after him preventing his escape
They were a victim of the stilling, not mindshackle scarabs. Basically this is what happens to people when the necron pylons activates its warp nullifying mode, reducing the souls of the locals into hopeless drones
I would say less panicked, more pissed. I mean, imagine you are just trying to make a get away and then your blankets decided to keep you in bed when you need to go to a party you been looking forward to forever. Sure there is a LOT of zombies, but without any weapons capable of hurting a necron they are essentially just blanketting him.
@@theterribleanimator1793 Humans can be pretty strong when they don't have anything preventing the maximal use of their muscles. Most of the damage done appeared to be by forcible hyperextension of the joints and by ripping out loose cables/pipes, which seems a reasonable extrapolation of what would happen if a robot (even an particularly durable one) were swarmed by dozens of people all clawing at any potential handhold/weakness. Also, iirc, necrodermis is not particularly *hard*, so it wouldn't be as difficult as trying to, say, rend steel with one's bare hands.
Let me get this straight: so this one lonely Deathmark is fighting one Firedrake elite Salamander, one slightly mental but still lethal Sister of Battle, one horde of zombies created by his boss, plus his boss constantly tries to Facetime him through his eyeball💀💀💀, asking him why the Salamander and the Sister aren't dead and telling you he doesn't care about the zombie problem. This Deathmark really can't catch a break. Wtf Szeras you can just wake up a squad of three Deathmarks and tie up all of these loose ends.
Szeras is horrible at being commander. Even deathmark himself said he isn’t required for the operation like this. Destroyers dude, destroyers. And your “precision is required” is such a bullsh
@@LordCatG Search for Imperial Armour Volume 10 The Badab War Part 2 (free PDF online). Jump to the Salamander chapter. There's a picture of a Firedrake Terminator that reads "Veteran Terminator Brother Sa'kan, Firedrake and Protector of The Promethian Cult". Now there could be two different Salamanders that named Sa'kan. But I think it's reasonable also to believe that there's just one Sa'kan, and this is him.
Szeras is literally the WORST kind of overbearing micromanaging boss. He gets pissed that things take to long and best of al his fucking pet projects that he left half finished fuck up YOUR project and he is the one that acts inconvenienced.
It’s always the bosses that fail the most that hate when their underlings can’t compete impossible tasks (that said bosses failures directly hamper more often than not).
Isn't that his crucial flaw though? He has endless contingencies but never thinks that once he's chosen a plan it can ever fail because he's too brilliant?
Oh boy if you think this is bad, wait until you check out Perturabo from the Iron Warriors. That guy will just throw Marines at a problem; and if you fail a mission, he forces your team to draw lots and whoever loses gets beaten to death by the rest as an example.
It's even worse. It's 1 SNIPER vs a horde, something a sniper isn't supposed to go up against. If it was a Destroyer or something then yeah sure no problem. But a Deathmark by himself.... This ain't it Szeras.
Anyone else get the feeling that Szery wants the deathmark to fail? Not just the task he has given, but the attitude he shows whenever interacting with the deathmark. This is an individual that sets you up for failure, just so they can get a thrill when they blame you for the end result. However - it embodies the egotistical nature of a Necron lord very well.
It wouldn't be surprising if he was using the deathmark as a means to further his studies by seeing how the survivors adapt against certain variables that he introduces. It would explain why he bothered to converse with Sa'kan at the end of the 3rd episode.
He could just make him to repair immidiately, but he just prefer to say to him "lol, die loser i wont bring you back" at the end. So actually they showed necron being petty pretty accurate. They would rather troll each other than just crush other races.
@@theotv5522 same for dark eldar, technology to capture stars, safest ftl travel, an live forever but the pricks can't help but murder grape each other at any given chance.
@@lokensicarius9347 Dark eldar dont have population to conquer Galaxy, even if their tech is second only to necrons, there is just nit enough them to do it.
@@Mastercio they have the tech to make their population explode if they really want it to. They vat grow dark eldar in bulk and then just dump them into the worst parts of the city. Imagine if they really cared about them.
Szeras - You haven't killed those two yet? Deathmark - I have time. You hired one assassin, you get a one man assassin time frame. You could have hired like, half a dozen and we'd have wrapped this up by now. Szeras - You're pissing me off. I don't want to hire more, I expect you to get it done. Deathmark - It'll get done. Szeras - Oh, I see the mindless zombies I accidentally created have found you. Yeah, just kill them, I don't need them. Deathmark - Yeah, will do as soon as I can get a moment to think. Szeras - Uh huh. Sure. Honestly, Szeras might be the worst Necron out there. Between all the horrible shit he pulls in his experiments and the way he treats his employees, he's certainly in the running. Typical upper management. Causing problems for the employee and them blaming them for not reacting.
I'd like to point out Szeras literally created the Necron race as Warhammer 40k knows them. The C'tan gave him the knowledge of transference, but this dude MADE THE NECRON WAR MACHINE. He had Necrontyr peasants' limbs broken and then they were forced into the soul forges.
It does bear mentioning that I believe literally no one likes him. Not one Necron actually wants to interact with Szeras, but he is very smart, so they are occasionally forced to do so.
The one downside of the necrons is that they're too damn spiteful and petty. Alright, let's say Szeras still needs the precision of a deathmark. Fine, send him in then, but can't you at least spare a couple destroyer or pair him up. You can even order the destroyer to stay on standby just to protect the deathmark if something like this happens. Realistically, the Necrons would wipe every single faction in 40k if only they can just stop being so damn stubborn and act as logical as they think they are 💀
With how he referred to the Deathmark as "your kind" when saying he didn't want to wake another up, someone else here had the idea that he simply wanted to test the remaining survivors at how effectively they do against a Deathmark.
Necrons as units lore wise are too strong (at least as strong as Krork and prime Eldar faction combined) and usually they have to make them "stupid" or making them face bad or at least "balanced" odds instead of the curbstomp that should happen if necrons arent tied up by the narrative most of the time
@@masterblaster5186they're strong, but not super strong, they still die by basic weapons like bolters and even meltas, sometimes lasgun CAN kill them. But factions like the imperium are practically very capable of fighting them by supreme tactics and constant persistence, which they never had to deal with like the Eldar or Kroks.
@@vothbetilia4862 they had to deal that with the war in heaven, fucking several races at once. Nekrons fully powered up win at attrition warfare cause of their never dying and always regenerating bodies. But yeah, they are nerfed till they are unified and properly organized
@@markobucevic8991 yes but they bickered with eachother during the war heaven and didn't exactly achieve anything other then planets blowing up left and right. Also the generating bodies is over exaggerated because the reanimation protocol doesn't always work and it's because both the monolith and the necron itself don't function properly whether it's destroyed or badly maintained. Plus don't act like the imperium hasn't done attrition warfare, when practically every army they have specialized pretty much anything and not just one criteria. And by army I don't mean just regiments, but factions inside the imperium.
@@ehsond8160 If you think about it, their race originally was put in a planet system that's all negative traits, being shooed by the Old Ones when they begged for help. Then tricked by Deceiver, lost their souls/bodies, lost the War In heaven. And now they woke up and saw all these primitive aliens on their lawn.
@@lokensicarius9347 Didn't exactly win either, since everything else got swarmed by enslavers, they were forced into hibernation after screwing over the C'Tan, and the Eldar took over the galaxy in their absence.
@@CountKibblesNBits True, I'd call it a stalemate, perhaps even a pyrrhic victory, its just that original reason for the war in heaven was to exterminate the old ones for not sharing immortality, they got what they wanted but in a vey monkey paw esk way. 🤣
bro fighting a war while on a discord call with the boss, amazing although im kind of surprised that even the smallest necron isn't capable of just punching it's way out of a few zombies
Yeah weird, especially since lanklet nerds like Trazyn & Orikan easily could smash metal to shit w/ their normal punches etc due to their Necrodermis bodies, despite as meatbags being essentially 2 old fart nerds w/ like 1kg muscle strength
@@skebaba918To be fair, they where both Necron lords, while this is a Necron equivalent to a sniper. He also slight spoiler, does eventually kill all the guardsman in hand to hand, it just takes for ever and he is badly damaged.
Honestly my biggest issue with this scene. Necron Deathmarks might not have the strength of a space marine, but they sure as shit should be stronger than a human. He should have kept going when the zombie guard grabbed his arm.
Even as a bunch of brain washed zombies they still do the Emperors work. If they know what they are doing that is. I’m sure the Kriegers and Cadians can take a bit of happiness from this little encounter if they do
most of them do know what they are doing, but the Mind Shackle Scarab just overrides their brain and forces their body to move and do things against their will
@@johndane9754I’m not familliar with mindshackle lore but they still might have a teeny tiny bit of control if they have a lot of willpower. Like the soldiers trying to communicate with the salamander earlier in the series. They might attack whatever they see, but if they see a human and a necron they might just be able to force their bodies 1 step closer to the necron over the human
@@daanstrik4293 Me neither, I made my judgement from their actions and behavior. Both tell me they are still in their bodies but are forced to take a back seat.
Imagine trying to hide as a sniper, but your boss face times you full volume not only exposing your position, but attracting a whole ass horde to jump you
Easily my favourite episode. Seeing a deathmark fighting zombies was something I didn’t think I’d ever see. The bit where he talks to himself and is terse with Szeras is nice; they hit the mark with the level of intellect I imagined deathmarks retaining and their character (above immortals but just below lychguard). That being said, hands damaging necrodermis and a single human being able to restrain a Necron in an immortal-class chassis is bull since they’re at least as strong as as armoured astartes (in the Damnos book an immortal strangles a sergeant near to death with one hand before he’s saved). A synaptic disintegrator severing a piece is rebar is a little out of narrative as well.
The zombie was unable to restrain him but hindered him long enough for more to pile on the deathmark, before he was able to teleport away. Individually a human would lose easily even in melee, but dont underestimate the power of throwing enough bodies at something
I remember when the deathmark tells to Szeras “if you wish their destruction, why don’t you leave it to the destroyer class?” Funny enough, it is a destroyer who almost kills Sa’kan
Remember the lesson learned from the siege of Terra. Even an Astartes can be dragged down and torn apart by a hundred unarmed civilians if they're dedicated enough.
To be fair it can be argued that he already had a portal charged up and was ready for the Ultramarine who was running at him from a pretty hefty distance, he did NOT expect a bunch of tumbling zombies to interrupt him while he's also in the middle of a firefight.
That same one is now under attack by an enhanced giant green man, an overly devoted nun, and a distracting berating boss, all while being suddenly surrounded by mind-controlled people. Of course, it'll eventually have a slip-up.
I think it is heavily hinted that his body and weapon are not working correctly. Misfire is an obvious give away but also strength issue. We can assume that Szeras baited Deathmark with insufficient time and power for testing purposes.
to be fair, this is a sniper that got engaged by an unrelated horde while they were alrerady in the middle of a firefight while at the same time having your CO breathing down your neck demanding updates and further exposing you(as well Sakan hit the hologram implying others can see it too). in fact it was probably Szeras's call that 1st alerted the horde toward the Deathmark.
I love the way they portray the traces of "humanity" left in the Necrons, like their margin for error and their ability to express emotion in dialogue.
Fun Fact, the synaptic disintegrators that deathmarks use are special in that each shot is an individual hecatic command made by a cryptek, which essentially "commands" the brain of whatever has been hit to "turn off". For beings like orks it can be as simple as "this mind has stopped" but for more complex creatures with greater willpower a more intricate, specific command is needed. While this suits a deathmark in their typical role perfectly, you can see how the one here could run out of "ammo" and further appreciate how wasteful it is for them to be using these shots on what are essentially zombies.
At 3:17 when he hears the first footstep he reacts INSTANTLY and that shit gave me goosebumps, never been into warhammer before SM2 came out but I’m eating up all the lore I find and I love it
Poor deathmark, facing off against an elite space marine and a sister of battle, while a hoard of zombies pushes you from cover and the whole time his boss is FaceTiming him with “did you kill them yet? What about now?”
AND this right here is why Necron's often don't really accomplish much. The higher-ups are almost always max level petty, spiteful and full of unfounded pride. I love the genuine frustration in the Deathmark's voice too like he is just done with Szeras's shit.
Guy is just literally going: I am not qualified for this job YOU assigned me, but I'm trying to do it. Could you please stop bothering me for five minutes?
Dude szeras did this on purpose and did the death mark dirty. Let's be real he did fantastic for being 1 soilder and fighting everything he did and still almost coming out on top. I feel this would have been diffrent with a legit squad of marks.
Would have been different if his damn gun didn't misfire, lmao. That mass of tombs Szeryboi is sitting in needs to get a serious refresh and refurbish on its standing wargear.
0:37...imagine scoping an unaware enemy from hundreds of meters away, and then he suddenly just knows you're there. The necron must've panicked a little bit there
I know it would never have happened but I was rooting for the death mark to get picked up by some rogue traders and together they would have hijinks amongst the stars.
In this scene the deathmark looks to be struggling with the zombies, in my mind i expected all necrons to be able to punch their way through normal humans. I suspect he is not fully maintaned, his weapon is faulty and his boss just wants him to fail to please his own ego after being talked by at the beginning.
I assume also that the zombies would be as strong or stronger than someone extremely high on adrenaline because they don't have to worry about not tearing up their muscles apart (they will but who cares) so they can possibly do some crazy shit like bend metal from its hinge
@@KalashVodka175a human on adrenaline is not going to do anything to a space marine the death mark not being able to fight back against a couple of zombies is bad writing
@@ShadyWizardude The deathmark is able to fight back against them and he does, it's just not his specialty and I imagine he's more annoyed than anything else
How much damage could the Death Korps “zombies” really have done to the deathmark though? I don’t think they could have pulled it apart with their bare hands.
Deathmark seems so physically weak when fighting those zombies. I would expect Necron could throw average human body away with one hand without too much trouble. After all they are robots.
The Deathmark panicked, you can feel it fear for its life being surrounded as the guardsmen got all around it. Don't matter how physically strong you are"; the moment you're caught frozen in fear is the moment the enemy can bring you down.
@@leaveeeevee5762 also with how Necron normally treat other life forms like humans, i imagine this scenario for one is kinda like how you or I would respond if we were covered in leeches. Like its not a "lethal" situation, just really not a pleasent one.
Imagine how aggravating this was for that Deathmark though 😆. Guy is literally made to be a precision instrument, sniping single targets from afar. And then he gets send in against someone who can dodge his shots. On top of dealing with his super annoying boss literally spawning out of his eyeball and said bosses zombie horde
Yes! Even when zombified, Kriegers still charge after the heretics! ^_^ Though, RIP Deathmark. Must be aggravating to have your boss continuously harass you while you're trying to do the job that HE sent you to do.
Might be wishful thinking, but I think those corrupted human soldiers knew what they were doing, targeting the Deathmark like that. I think in some part of their damaged minds, they finally saw an opportunity to direct their involuntary actions against a Xenos scum.
In a galaxy filled with an entire race of nihilistic, murderous, (literal) edge-lords, we can all agree the worst among them is an overbearing shitty boss.
even Necrons hates Szeras, they respect his art, they respect his inventions,
but the bastard is one arrogant prick with the most highest list of demands that even Deathmarks can't take up.
kinda reminds me of another sick surgeon by the name of Fabius Bile who holds the same reputation among Chaos forces.
@m-w-y7325 I thought Bile worked for the dark angels and deathwatch.
i think bile is a emperor's children mad scientist am i mistaken?@@christophermarkee5445
@@m-w-y7325 as a Necron Player, everything this person has said about Szeras is 100% correct. I believe there was an instant once, where Anrakyr the Traveler was working with him, effectively loaning Anrakyr some beefed up Immortals. Szeras made a demand of Anrakyr after the battle for some captives, but the Immortals he’d loaned had gone beyond what Anrakyr had wanted them to do, and when Anrakyr tried to reprimand Szeras for the incident, Szeras waved the whole thing off, clearly not caring one jot about overstepping his bounds and thus disrespecting Anrakyr’s authority. In response to this, Anrakyr had the captives Szeras wanted for his experiments, executed right there and then, and walked off like a boss without another word.
Needless to say, Szeras and his Immortals were not at the next battle.
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I love the aggravation you can hear in the deathmarks voice as he says "This one is attempting to do so"
Yes I felt that to my very core 🥲
Szeras response was great as well though. Both a "don't give me sas, boy!" and "well, I guess you're right" at the same time.
Bruh is like, You bring your big ass out here and fight him then.
@@noxflo897 pov the real enemy is your own boss
Szarez: are you encountering difficulties?
Death mark: SHUT UP AND LET ME DO MY JOB!!!
He trying to kill the zombies while also trying to not expose himself to bolter fire, while his boss is calling solely to whine at him. Its not him merely being slow
"Excuses are the refuge of the weak" - The Inquisition.
@@theotv5522Not everyone here fixes their problems with a bolter round on the back of the head of some unamed guardsman
@@theotv5522That explains why The Inquisitions is creating more problems than the ones they solved
And here we see the Deathmark's earlier criticism get proven right.
Szeras basically hired the world's best neurosurgeon and told him to saw a tree in half. Sure, the guy is renowned for his ability to cut things, but there's a time and a place.
Plus, you're doing that while the guy who carries his custom Woodhacker 50000 everywhere he goes, and spends all his time not sawing trees in half wishing he had more trees to saw in half, standing right next to the surgeon.
to be fair destroyers ignore orders 90% of the time because of their cult so...
@nightlock826 even warriors or praetorians would have been better for this job
Great metaforical description of a Destroyer hahaha
@@CafeLiquerstreams He cant give orders to preatorians, those are basically necron inquisition and answer only to Silent King. He can maaaybe ask them for help, but thats it.
@@nightlock826However, in this case Szeras’s orders are literally “Go kill everyone who’s still alive.” Which practically defines what destroyers are thrilled to do.
Gotta love how the Salamander tries to snipe the hologram in the face 0:57
Would've been a hit though
A decoy I'd say
Didn't just try. He hit, but his target was just light.
Literally, worth a shot
Duuude, I would have noticed that if it wasn't for you, nice catch
Probably the first thing those mind shackled guardsmen actually WANTED to rip apart this time.
the fact that the guardsman never tried to run over the others and only the Necron. yeah.
I am curious if anyone knows, why did the zombies attack the death mark? Is the thing controlling them just on a ‘kill everything’ command or something?
@@insaneyoohooMore than likely, considering how nonchalant Szeras is about their presence and how they are more or less literal human garbage, he probably instilled a "attack anything." basic command to tie down imperial survivors, and fully expecting his warriors or the destroyers to be more than capable of handling them. A lone deathmark however is the unaccounted for case of "Overspecialized failing to massed problem" kind of matchup that Szeras more than likely didn't care to consider.
@@insaneyoohoo Szeras' job is to find a "cure" of the Necrons plight and turn them back into organic forms.
Either by having artificially created Necrontyr bodies or by replacing the minds of another species with that of a Necrons.
He probably tried to look into if the human body is compatible with the Necron mind, e.g at the beginning expierement.
I would guess he cut out parts of the mind of the people or replaced them with basic Necron ones and the Humans function on a pretty much lobotomized level with varying degree of mentall activity - as can be seen after the crash when the Zombie Guard attacke Sa'kan, one of them pleaded him to be killed.
Which would explain why they attacked the Deathmark with such ferocity - especially the Kriegsman who ran after him preventing his escape
They were a victim of the stilling, not mindshackle scarabs. Basically this is what happens to people when the necron pylons activates its warp nullifying mode, reducing the souls of the locals into hopeless drones
I love the Deathmark's little panicked run as he tries to reach the portal.
I would say less panicked, more pissed. I mean, imagine you are just trying to make a get away and then your blankets decided to keep you in bed when you need to go to a party you been looking forward to forever. Sure there is a LOT of zombies, but without any weapons capable of hurting a necron they are essentially just blanketting him.
The portal was a bit too far
@@funkmantim2661 They did manage to hurt him - pretty substantially, too.
@@fishworshipper what? how?
@@theterribleanimator1793 Humans can be pretty strong when they don't have anything preventing the maximal use of their muscles. Most of the damage done appeared to be by forcible hyperextension of the joints and by ripping out loose cables/pipes, which seems a reasonable extrapolation of what would happen if a robot (even an particularly durable one) were swarmed by dozens of people all clawing at any potential handhold/weakness. Also, iirc, necrodermis is not particularly *hard*, so it wouldn't be as difficult as trying to, say, rend steel with one's bare hands.
Let me get this straight: so this one lonely Deathmark is fighting one Firedrake elite Salamander, one slightly mental but still lethal Sister of Battle, one horde of zombies created by his boss, plus his boss constantly tries to Facetime him through his eyeball💀💀💀, asking him why the Salamander and the Sister aren't dead and telling you he doesn't care about the zombie problem. This Deathmark really can't catch a break.
Wtf Szeras you can just wake up a squad of three Deathmarks and tie up all of these loose ends.
For real!!!
Szeras is horrible at being commander. Even deathmark himself said he isn’t required for the operation like this. Destroyers dude, destroyers. And your “precision is required” is such a bullsh
The way you explained it 🤣🤣
How do you know Sakan is a firedrake? In episode 1 he says he is from the 3rd battle company no?
@@LordCatG Search for Imperial Armour Volume 10 The Badab War Part 2 (free PDF online). Jump to the Salamander chapter. There's a picture of a Firedrake Terminator that reads "Veteran Terminator Brother Sa'kan, Firedrake and Protector of The Promethian Cult".
Now there could be two different Salamanders that named Sa'kan. But I think it's reasonable also to believe that there's just one Sa'kan, and this is him.
Szeras is literally the WORST kind of overbearing micromanaging boss. He gets pissed that things take to long and best of al his fucking pet projects that he left half finished fuck up YOUR project and he is the one that acts inconvenienced.
It’s always the bosses that fail the most that hate when their underlings can’t compete impossible tasks (that said bosses failures directly hamper more often than not).
Isn't that his crucial flaw though? He has endless contingencies but never thinks that once he's chosen a plan it can ever fail because he's too brilliant?
@@Awwscrewit Like a skaven basically?
Oh boy if you think this is bad, wait until you check out Perturabo from the Iron Warriors. That guy will just throw Marines at a problem; and if you fail a mission, he forces your team to draw lots and whoever loses gets beaten to death by the rest as an example.
One soldier versus a horde of mindshackled zombies. Yeah, that's REAL fair, Szeras.
It's even worse. It's 1 SNIPER vs a horde, something a sniper isn't supposed to go up against. If it was a Destroyer or something then yeah sure no problem. But a Deathmark by himself.... This ain't it Szeras.
‘’This one believes it’s job would be easier If you CLIMBED OUT OF MY ASS.’’
Who gives a hooooot - necrons
@@theotv5522 Send a flayer in there... He'd love to have all of those pretty little skins.
@@Trehlas Even Szeras wouldn't do that.
Sees zombies
"This one wishes it was equipped with a higher rate of fire."
"this one regrets its choice in career path."
"This one wishes to retire and hit his boss in the face"
“This one wishes to file a complaint”
"This one demands a raise"
“This one should have brought a sidearm on the job”
The definition of a hostile work environment literally, figuratively, and metaphorically.
@@TrehlasI hear Deathmarks under the employ of Lord Zahndrekh were having the times of their lives, not doing shit and still get paid
Anyone else get the feeling that Szery wants the deathmark to fail?
Not just the task he has given, but the attitude he shows whenever interacting with the deathmark. This is an individual that sets you up for failure, just so they can get a thrill when they blame you for the end result. However - it embodies the egotistical nature of a Necron lord very well.
It wouldn't be surprising if he was using the deathmark as a means to further his studies by seeing how the survivors adapt against certain variables that he introduces. It would explain why he bothered to converse with Sa'kan at the end of the 3rd episode.
Death marks are also universally despised by necron dynasty’s. So losing one wouldn’t be a problem for him.
@@AlphariusHydra20wait why? I thought the necron dynasties value their troops regardless of rank, but why hate the deathmarks specifically?
@@vothbetilia4862 some dynasties see using death marks as cheating due to how op they are
@@crusty5525 that's werid, if they're op they should be valuable not expendable.
As soon as Illiminor thinks the Deathmark is toast, he dips, lol.
He could just make him to repair immidiately, but he just prefer to say to him "lol, die loser i wont bring you back" at the end. So actually they showed necron being petty pretty accurate. They would rather troll each other than just crush other races.
@@Mastercio It's one of the main reasons why Necrons haven't rule the Galaxy already. Endless in-fighting, much like Orks.
@@theotv5522 same for dark eldar, technology to capture stars, safest ftl travel, an live forever but the pricks can't help but murder grape each other at any given chance.
@@lokensicarius9347 Dark eldar dont have population to conquer Galaxy, even if their tech is second only to necrons, there is just nit enough them to do it.
@@Mastercio they have the tech to make their population explode if they really want it to.
They vat grow dark eldar in bulk and then just dump them into the worst parts of the city.
Imagine if they really cared about them.
Szeras - You haven't killed those two yet?
Deathmark - I have time. You hired one assassin, you get a one man assassin time frame. You could have hired like, half a dozen and we'd have wrapped this up by now.
Szeras - You're pissing me off. I don't want to hire more, I expect you to get it done.
Deathmark - It'll get done.
Szeras - Oh, I see the mindless zombies I accidentally created have found you. Yeah, just kill them, I don't need them.
Deathmark - Yeah, will do as soon as I can get a moment to think.
Szeras - Uh huh. Sure.
Honestly, Szeras might be the worst Necron out there. Between all the horrible shit he pulls in his experiments and the way he treats his employees, he's certainly in the running.
Typical upper management. Causing problems for the employee and them blaming them for not reacting.
I'd like to point out Szeras literally created the Necron race as Warhammer 40k knows them. The C'tan gave him the knowledge of transference, but this dude MADE THE NECRON WAR MACHINE. He had Necrontyr peasants' limbs broken and then they were forced into the soul forges.
It does bear mentioning that I believe literally no one likes him. Not one Necron actually wants to interact with Szeras, but he is very smart, so they are occasionally forced to do so.
The Guardsmen really took "Only in death does duty end" to the next level
What i like is that you can hear his frustration with the "this one is attempting to do so" line
He sounds like he's so fucking done with szeras
"Are you winning son?"
Most everyone who interacts with him for more than a couple of seconds is done with Szeras
The one downside of the necrons is that they're too damn spiteful and petty. Alright, let's say Szeras still needs the precision of a deathmark. Fine, send him in then, but can't you at least spare a couple destroyer or pair him up. You can even order the destroyer to stay on standby just to protect the deathmark if something like this happens.
Realistically, the Necrons would wipe every single faction in 40k if only they can just stop being so damn stubborn and act as logical as they think they are 💀
With how he referred to the Deathmark as "your kind" when saying he didn't want to wake another up, someone else here had the idea that he simply wanted to test the remaining survivors at how effectively they do against a Deathmark.
Necrons as units lore wise are too strong (at least as strong as Krork and prime Eldar faction combined) and usually they have to make them "stupid" or making them face bad or at least "balanced" odds instead of the curbstomp that should happen if necrons arent tied up by the narrative most of the time
@@masterblaster5186they're strong, but not super strong, they still die by basic weapons like bolters and even meltas, sometimes lasgun CAN kill them. But factions like the imperium are practically very capable of fighting them by supreme tactics and constant persistence, which they never had to deal with like the Eldar or Kroks.
@@vothbetilia4862 they had to deal that with the war in heaven, fucking several races at once. Nekrons fully powered up win at attrition warfare cause of their never dying and always regenerating bodies. But yeah, they are nerfed till they are unified and properly organized
@@markobucevic8991 yes but they bickered with eachother during the war heaven and didn't exactly achieve anything other then planets blowing up left and right. Also the generating bodies is over exaggerated because the reanimation protocol doesn't always work and it's because both the monolith and the necron itself don't function properly whether it's destroyed or badly maintained.
Plus don't act like the imperium hasn't done attrition warfare, when practically every army they have specialized pretty much anything and not just one criteria. And by army I don't mean just regiments, but factions inside the imperium.
Imagine being in an active firefight but your boss is still breathing down your neck.
"Are you winning slave?"
@@theotv5522 "looks like you missed"
Looks like you are failing to deal with my zombie horde with a single shot weapon.
"Must be a skill issue"
Of all things I didn't expect...
a Necron showing FEAR
Oh all the things I didn't expect....me sympathizing with a Necron.
@@ehsond8160 If you think about it, their race originally was put in a planet system that's all negative traits, being shooed by the Old Ones when they begged for help. Then tricked by Deceiver, lost their souls/bodies, lost the War In heaven. And now they woke up and saw all these primitive aliens on their lawn.
@@theotv5522 They didn't lose the war in heaven. 😅
@@lokensicarius9347 Didn't exactly win either, since everything else got swarmed by enslavers, they were forced into hibernation after screwing over the C'Tan, and the Eldar took over the galaxy in their absence.
@@CountKibblesNBits True, I'd call it a stalemate, perhaps even a pyrrhic victory, its just that original reason for the war in heaven was to exterminate the old ones for not sharing immortality, they got what they wanted but in a vey monkey paw esk way. 🤣
Love how Sa’kan and the Sister are shooting at Szeras’ projection. They even hit a guardsman. Great detail
0:55 I love how hilarious this scene and how accurate the Sa'Kan is, he thought the hologram is the deathmark and shoot straight through his head XD
bro fighting a war while on a discord call with the boss, amazing
although im kind of surprised that even the smallest necron isn't capable of just punching it's way out of a few zombies
very sad, my headlore is that he still lives tho, he can soldier it
@@LittleSilva422 Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology
Yeah weird, especially since lanklet nerds like Trazyn & Orikan easily could smash metal to shit w/ their normal punches etc due to their Necrodermis bodies, despite as meatbags being essentially 2 old fart nerds w/ like 1kg muscle strength
@@skebaba918To be fair, they where both Necron lords, while this is a Necron equivalent to a sniper. He also slight spoiler, does eventually kill all the guardsman in hand to hand, it just takes for ever and he is badly damaged.
Honestly my biggest issue with this scene. Necron Deathmarks might not have the strength of a space marine, but they sure as shit should be stronger than a human. He should have kept going when the zombie guard grabbed his arm.
Even as a bunch of brain washed zombies they still do the Emperors work. If they know what they are doing that is. I’m sure the Kriegers and Cadians can take a bit of happiness from this little encounter if they do
most of them do know what they are doing, but the Mind Shackle Scarab just overrides their brain and forces their body to move and do things against their will
They know but have no control over themselves.
@@johndane9754I’m not familliar with mindshackle lore but they still might have a teeny tiny bit of control if they have a lot of willpower. Like the soldiers trying to communicate with the salamander earlier in the series.
They might attack whatever they see, but if they see a human and a necron they might just be able to force their bodies 1 step closer to the necron over the human
@@daanstrik4293 Me neither, I made my judgement from their actions and behavior. Both tell me they are still in their bodies but are forced to take a back seat.
They are xenos tainted heretics and deserve the Emperor’s mercy.
The feeling when a Guardsmen infantry squad manages to tie up a unit of Deathmarks and neither can really kill each other well in melee
0:13 little cool atention to detail the guardsman dont get highlighted like sakan and the sister for being a ilusion
Imagine trying to hide as a sniper, but your boss face times you full volume not only exposing your position, but attracting a whole ass horde to jump you
1:37: The guardmens on the left is shot by the sister before the deathmark can shoot him.
"This one is attempting to do so ! " I never knew I needed sassy necrons in my life until I watched this
Szeras is that boss that constantly interrupts your work and blames you for not doing a good job lol
Easily my favourite episode. Seeing a deathmark fighting zombies was something I didn’t think I’d ever see. The bit where he talks to himself and is terse with Szeras is nice; they hit the mark with the level of intellect I imagined deathmarks retaining and their character (above immortals but just below lychguard). That being said, hands damaging necrodermis and a single human being able to restrain a Necron in an immortal-class chassis is bull since they’re at least as strong as as armoured astartes (in the Damnos book an immortal strangles a sergeant near to death with one hand before he’s saved). A synaptic disintegrator severing a piece is rebar is a little out of narrative as well.
in the Damnos book the sergeant is saved by a average dude who's given up on life with a bog standard bayonet.. 🤣
you underestimate the strength of humanity, foul xenophile.
@@lokensicarius9347I assumed it's probably because this deathmark was already weakened and sustained damage from his previous encounters.
The zombie was unable to restrain him but hindered him long enough for more to pile on the deathmark, before he was able to teleport away. Individually a human would lose easily even in melee, but dont underestimate the power of throwing enough bodies at something
@@masterblaster5186 "but dont underestimate the power of throwing enough bodies at something..."
Oh wow a fellow guard player, HI!
I like that Szeras has a metal bit at the top of his eye.
It makes him look like he is doing an angry face.
I remember when the deathmark tells to Szeras “if you wish their destruction, why don’t you leave it to the destroyer class?” Funny enough, it is a destroyer who almost kills Sa’kan
1:55 the pause when he sees the weapon malfunctions and decides it's not his fault and bails xD
I like how every time the Deathmark fires at something and misses, he recoils in what appears to be shock. Like "I missed? I'm not supposed to miss!"
1:47 love how annoyed he sounded 😂 I mean I can’t blame him.
My favorite thing about Szeras, he's so smart yet so aware of it, that he always tends to go full round to being outright stupid.
Remember the lesson learned from the siege of Terra. Even an Astartes can be dragged down and torn apart by a hundred unarmed civilians if they're dedicated enough.
Key part being hundred, not 8.
That’s what happened to rogle dorn too
@@99Plastics
Deathmarks aren't the strongest Necrons.
Deathmark: fast enough to dodge Ultramarine with chainsword.
Also Deathmark: slower than zombie guardsman.
To be fair it can be argued that he already had a portal charged up and was ready for the Ultramarine who was running at him from a pretty hefty distance, he did NOT expect a bunch of tumbling zombies to interrupt him while he's also in the middle of a firefight.
That same one is now under attack by an enhanced giant green man, an overly devoted nun, and a distracting berating boss, all while being suddenly surrounded by mind-controlled people. Of course, it'll eventually have a slip-up.
I think it is heavily hinted that his body and weapon are not working correctly. Misfire is an obvious give away but also strength issue. We can assume that Szeras baited Deathmark with insufficient time and power for testing purposes.
to be fair, this is a sniper that got engaged by an unrelated horde while they were alrerady in the middle of a firefight while at the same time having your CO breathing down your neck demanding updates and further exposing you(as well Sakan hit the hologram implying others can see it too).
in fact it was probably Szeras's call that 1st alerted the horde toward the Deathmark.
He didn't get distracted by his boss in the previous encounter. The deathmark could win if szeras wasnt being a dick.
I love the way they portray the traces of "humanity" left in the Necrons, like their margin for error and their ability to express emotion in dialogue.
The headshot on the hologram cracks me up every time.
Kind of cool how you get to see the personality of the necrons here. They aren't just soulless, they feel frustration and emotion and everything.
Fun Fact, the synaptic disintegrators that deathmarks use are special in that each shot is an individual hecatic command made by a cryptek, which essentially "commands" the brain of whatever has been hit to "turn off". For beings like orks it can be as simple as "this mind has stopped" but for more complex creatures with greater willpower a more intricate, specific command is needed.
While this suits a deathmark in their typical role perfectly, you can see how the one here could run out of "ammo" and further appreciate how wasteful it is for them to be using these shots on what are essentially zombies.
At 3:17 when he hears the first footstep he reacts INSTANTLY and that shit gave me goosebumps, never been into warhammer before SM2 came out but I’m eating up all the lore I find and I love it
1:33 did anyone else think this was a Callidus assassin, at first? It looks like he's wearing a gray suit of padded armor.
They really did say that Phaerons and the upper ilk have a tendency to ramble and squander their advantages constantly 😅
At 1:47 the Deathmark sound frustrated... he's thinking like...
"For the love of God, someone stab me or end me..."
Zombie Krieger: "OKAY!"
Even in death, they still serve the God-Emperor!
EVEN IN DEATH WE SERVE!!
Don't you just hate it when your boss's former experiments interrupt your work (that you are doing for him) and start attacking you?
Not as much as having his former experiments do a big ol' group hug moment, while people are shooting at you.
This entire series should just be called "Upper Management"
Poor deathmark, facing off against an elite space marine and a sister of battle, while a hoard of zombies pushes you from cover and the whole time his boss is FaceTiming him with “did you kill them yet? What about now?”
Deathmark: I am literally a unit of precision and stealth, you said it yourself, BE PATIENT with me for that, awaken destroyers
Szeras: "Are you winning slave?"
Be it 2023 or 40k, shit boss will always nags at you while you work smh
Either though I really shouldn't, I kinda feel bad for that Deathmark
i love the single round passing through the hologram XD
Space Zombie Terminator Egyptian being attacked by actual Zombies. Only in 40k ladies and gents.
I love the idea of a Necron being manhandled by guardsmen
Now i just imagine a necron to just take one step and they get called for update
Props to those guardsmen, even in that zombified state they did their duty to the emperor
Me when i get swarmed by family members 2:00
AND this right here is why Necron's often don't really accomplish much. The higher-ups are almost always max level petty, spiteful and full of unfounded pride. I love the genuine frustration in the Deathmark's voice too like he is just done with Szeras's shit.
Nice to see my bois getting vengance even when fucked up.
The Krieg "even in death I serve...or whatever mindless state this is"
Guy is just literally going: I am not qualified for this job YOU assigned me, but I'm trying to do it.
Could you please stop bothering me for five minutes?
1:43 this shit is so funny. just the casual body-check and the flat fall of the zombie
Dude szeras did this on purpose and did the death mark dirty. Let's be real he did fantastic for being 1 soilder and fighting everything he did and still almost coming out on top. I feel this would have been diffrent with a legit squad of marks.
Would have been different if his damn gun didn't misfire, lmao. That mass of tombs Szeryboi is sitting in needs to get a serious refresh and refurbish on its standing wargear.
It's funny to think that deathmark look at the left side because he think the salamander might switch the cover 0:40
Deathmark mind in the entire videoclip:(sighn)"I am to old for this shit!"
That poor death mark is getting a FaceTime from his boss 😂
Necron equivalent of “shut up and let me work”
0:37...imagine scoping an unaware enemy from hundreds of meters away, and then he suddenly just knows you're there. The necron must've panicked a little bit there
I know it would never have happened but I was rooting for the death mark to get picked up by some rogue traders and together they would have hijinks amongst the stars.
*sad noises* yes QwQ it would have been so amazing
Shit. I never thought I'd feel sorry for a Necron but holy hell, Pariah Nexus found a way.
In this scene the deathmark looks to be struggling with the zombies, in my mind i expected all necrons to be able to punch their way through normal humans. I suspect he is not fully maintaned, his weapon is faulty and his boss just wants him to fail to please his own ego after being talked by at the beginning.
Material strength still makes him immune to them
I assume also that the zombies would be as strong or stronger than someone extremely high on adrenaline because they don't have to worry about not tearing up their muscles apart (they will but who cares) so they can possibly do some crazy shit like bend metal from its hinge
@@KalashVodka175 iron and steel not a super tough metal
@@KalashVodka175a human on adrenaline is not going to do anything to a space marine the death mark not being able to fight back against a couple of zombies is bad writing
@@ShadyWizardude The deathmark is able to fight back against them and he does, it's just not his specialty and I imagine he's more annoyed than anything else
Really did the deathmarks dirty
I think we've all had days like this.
I never noticed until now but at 1:38, Danica snipes a Detritus (i think that's how it's spelled) in the head.
How much damage could the Death Korps “zombies” really have done to the deathmark though? I don’t think they could have pulled it apart with their bare hands.
Yeah, they shouldn't be able to. He appears later.
Deathmark seems so physically weak when fighting those zombies. I would expect Necron could throw average human body away with one hand without too much trouble. After all they are robots.
They have few enhancements thanks to szeras' experiments.
The Deathmark panicked, you can feel it fear for its life being surrounded as the guardsmen got all around it. Don't matter how physically strong you are"; the moment you're caught frozen in fear is the moment the enemy can bring you down.
@@leaveeeevee5762 also with how Necron normally treat other life forms like humans, i imagine this scenario for one is kinda like how you or I would respond if we were covered in leeches.
Like its not a "lethal" situation, just really not a pleasent one.
@@giloguy101i would say thats lethal but i would panic even harder nonetheless
@@henrycooper3431you would....but you're not a necron
Working retail in the 40k universe.
I never imagined I would relate to the literal soulless killing machine, but here we are
Imagine how aggravating this was for that Deathmark though 😆.
Guy is literally made to be a precision instrument, sniping single targets from afar.
And then he gets send in against someone who can dodge his shots.
On top of dealing with his super annoying boss literally spawning out of his eyeball and said bosses zombie horde
You ever have one of those days at work? Tech problems, assignments piling up, and a boss that just won't get off your back?
Yes! Even when zombified, Kriegers still charge after the heretics! ^_^
Though, RIP Deathmark. Must be aggravating to have your boss continuously harass you while you're trying to do the job that HE sent you to do.
That's just scary slowly but being overwhelmed by dead
For someone who is the architect of the Necron's predicament, he should definitely curb his ego.
"NEXT TIME, KILL ME PROPERLY YOU COWARD!"
- Kriegsman, probably
Actual footage of me trying to work while my boss hounds me about working as I am working.
Warhammer has some pretty awesome villains that you can actually choose to be
Y’all seem to be forgetting he’s being chased by Krieg zombies, he never stood a chance
i like how the astartes saw him last minute and the speed he is able to dodge being that damn heavy will never not surprise me
Surely, Szeras, one can calculate micro-management to be the highest form of inefficiency 😂
And once again the Guard does the job of the Marine.
Love hearing the deathmark getting annoyed at Szeras.
That salamander heard the windup on the gauss flayer.
Never thought the day would come i'd actually feel bad for a Necron.
Boss talking shit to an employee while they working 😭😭😭
Even in zombification, they still serve!
Might be wishful thinking, but I think those corrupted human soldiers knew what they were doing, targeting the Deathmark like that. I think in some part of their damaged minds, they finally saw an opportunity to direct their involuntary actions against a Xenos scum.
They can see what they're doing, but they can't control their body because of the plague.
@@vothbetilia4862 they do have some awareness. And looks like they weren’t hesitating or fighting to hold back like with the SoB and Salamander
@@huydang5955 well yeah, because the plague is doing that to them.