Captain of the Elysian Drop Troops: "Ok men, we are going into hell and fight for the Golden Throne!" One new trooper who recently transfered before the mission: "And For Managed Democracy!"
Elysians are my fav to play tabletop because they let you do so many meme strats, like dropping a squad of plasma guardsmen directly on top of enemy space marines so they can blow themselves up when their plasma overheats
The closest thing you'll ever get to ptsd from 40K audiobooks is listening to the Scions of Elysian audio drama series from Zachariah's perspective as he watches recruits with failed grav suetes helplessly turned to mush potatoes (including sound effects) around him.
Paratroopers suffering heavy casualties is not just a 40K problem, it's been a problem since they were invented. The German paratroopers had great success early on in the first year of the war, but after that it was just disaster after disaster every time they were used. Even the paratroop drop during D-Day in Normandy was a disaster. Hardly anyone landed in their assigned drop zone and it was only thanks to the slow response of the Germans that they weren't wiped out and were able to accomplish their missions. And even then Allied officers had to just grab whatever soldiers had landed near them as everyone was spread out all over Normandy. It's widely accepted now that paratroopers will be quickly wiped out when deployed in areas with organized defenders unless they are immediately linked up with regular forces. Look at the Russian VDV forces wiped out in the opening attack on Ukraine for a modern example.
LGOPs are official doctrine and have been since Neptune, BECAUSE of that. But when used properly paratroopers are capable of doing what no other type of soldier can. The vdv wasn’t an example of paratroopers being cannon fodder, it was a reminder that Russia doesn’t know how to properly conduct combined arms offensives.
Finally, my favorite Guard faction. The aesthetic is peak. I love the concept of jet pack drop troops, whether it be Mandalorians, Helldivers, ODSTs, etc.
The harkoni Warhawks fit the heavy air borne more for me. Much closer to Mando or ODST in look than the Elysian. Both are cool and under represented guard.
The Elysian Drop Troops are the constant personification of the Operation: Market Garden; a lot of effort for little gain and a disappointing end. Also, I love how the Cyclops demolition tank is just a bigger IRL Goliath.
I worked a summer in Landscaping back in the day to Get some Elysian Drop Troops, and lo and behold the day I went to buy myself some minis, they were discontinued two weeks prior. I was beyond devastated and swore to never buy into 40K until either they came back, or they brought the Harakoni Warhawks in or, gave me some sort of equivalent. Like I would use the Cadian Models if they gave us some Grav Chute extras to stick on them or something.
Not gonna lie the Elysian Drop Troops feel way more T'au than Imperium in their aesthetics: Tactical compact gear, weaponry that feels very modern inspired rather than WW2 inspired, and even their tactics feel less WW2 Airborn Divisions and more modern spec ops units. Honestly, it just makes me want to see some kind of T'au equivalent with Pathfinders or hell revive the old XV1 stealth suites and give them this kind of role. Even if its something that only exists in the novels I think I would be really cool.
@@alfatazer_8991 yeah, that’s true. But you’d still have to deal with the Armpit reload. Otherwise it might not be that bad for a laser gun with almost no moving parts. Still doesn’t help the ergonomics issue, but the 40k weapons aren’t exactly designed with the comfort of the shooter (who will likely die before they fire let alone empty the weapon) anyways. I will endlessly trash on bullpup firearms though, and I’m glad that they’re being phased out of most of the militaries who use them. Far too many tradeoffs for a slightly smaller package with comparable muzzle velocity to a rifle length weapon, which wouldn’t matter at the ranges they were designed to be used in anyways. Just use a Carbine length weapon system.
@@byro_But then the question is: why bother with a bullpup laser? It's not like you need to feed the lasing mechanism at the back (and even if you did you could just use a cable or busbar). IMO the only purpose would be if you regularly use bullpup bullet guns and want the reloading reflexes to carry over. That said, I figure bullpup weaponry has a place in spacefuture combat. You could solve the trigger problem with an electronic primer like the EtronX mechanism, and have a magazine like the P90 or G11 prototype...
@@NXTangl There are a lot of answers to this question. Some of which open up a few cans of worms. The real answer is simple: It’s an aesthetic choice for the faction, plain and simple. An in universe answer requires me to ask another question which has no real solid answer. Is it actually firing a laser? If yes, then barrel length would be irrelevant, and a heavy Las-Pistol should actually be the standard issue weapon for the guard, as lasers wouldn’t be affected by barrel length, nor recoil and thus could be kept in a compact package. (Star Trek Phasers for example) If no, then what is it shooting? How does barrel length affect the “ballistics” of the “projectile”? There are many instances of the lasgun being described or shown to have recoil. Is it plasma? Highly compressed gas? A projectile? Nobody really knows, not even in the lore due to the backwards nature of the Imperium. They probably only use it because that’s what they’ve always used. It’s what their forge world has patterns of so they just make it and don’t ask questions or wonder why. To do such is heresy after all. TL;DR: Bullpup looks cool on cool space guys on the tabletop. Lore can explain it away by saying that the reason why was lost to time. To question is to doubt, and to doubt is Heresy.
I like the idea that 10k years in the future a hyper advanced alien species will excavate the ruins of earth. They find the meme about the sun and how many Tigers would be needed to beat it. Using mass cloning technology, they create the amount of tigers needed according to the meme, launch them into the sun. After witnessing the results, they write the answer down and bury it next to the meme.
T'au on the tabletop: "Our Ethereal is Dead! It's all Joe'ver!" T'au on in the books: "Shas'la our Ethereal has moved on to the afterlife, let's make sure he isn't lonely there." edit "box" ==> "books"
The grav chute reminds me of the gm nightseekers own back pack except it can use it to jump back onto the ship that it deployed from after completing its mission.
For those of you who don't know and would like to know the difference between a standard rifle layout compared to that of a Bullpup the only difference is between the two is that while both of them both have 16 in barrels one of them is actually I guess you could say length to 16 inch barrels while the other one is because the magazine is in the rear where the stock is you get the full 16-in Barrel but in a much smaller frame there therefore you are able to paradrop and clear buildings much much more effectively and efficiently because you don't have that Barrel picking out and a being encompersome while in close confined spaces and also doesn't pick you out or show where you are in the vicinity so then you can properly clear out a room or building and not give away your position just food for thought for people who would like to know 😊
So bulpup not so much smaller as it is adjusted to incorporate the barel and ammo back so that theres not a long ass rifle with "dedspace" between the chber and the end of the buttstock. Makes it possible for a 14" barrel rifle to compact down from about 30ish" total length down to about 18ish".
Managed Democr-what? Hell-Pod? Wake up Trooper, we're Halo-chuting in 30 seconds! Also, for DK, some paratroopers use compact weaponry: the Bullpup has the same barrel length as its cousins, but with less stock, it takes up less space :)
@@enovos3138 there that yeah, but also like I already said, their aesthetics is a mix between multiple real uniform of paratrooper, the French paratrooper is one of them, their insigna also look alike. and, but I personally did not find this information, some person says that in a book with Elysian, which I did not find, they speak a language which would be French
GW not supporting the things they create and expect them to perform on the battlefield before abandoning them because they have lost value? Its starting to make sense why Big E is the way he is.
Funny story, I was part of a 40k IG themed clan and I first entered it by joining their Elysian division. Eventually that division got disbanded (lack of recruits and people kept leaving) and I joined the ST division, which eventually left the larger clan to become its own thing.
Elysian models look goofy for a reason: they are 40k scale versions of the Imperial Guard assault squad from Epic back in the day. Honestly it's a role that the -Guard- could use filling, especially seeing as Valkyries aren't much use these days, because they are sorely lacking on the light melee front.
You can't keep the Elysians down, there are DOZENS of Elysian fans. BAKERS DOZENS. (Fr though, I love the elysians, made an Elysian army, and love to see them covered)
The 72nd Elysian Storm Troopers - Part of the Imperial counterattack to liberate Tanakreg from the Word Bearers. Were definitely interesting. They are mentioned in the word bearer omnibus series. A really good read. I hope you guys can read it eventually.
The four wheel buggies the Elysians have remind me of DPVs (Desert Patrol Vehicles, basically stripped down and heavily armed dune buggies) U.S. special operations use.
in the fiction, the packs can actually fly on par with a marine jumpack (for as long as their limited battery packs last, so a couple minutes), but ruleswise they're treated as just hi-tech parachutes. the Gaunts Ghosts use some in the novel 'Guns of Tanith" to insert a commando team into a chaos held 'city in the clouds' on Phantine. (the Phantine Skyborne are presented as another drop trooper regiment, because their world is a venus like toxic hellscape where there is basically just endless expanse of clouds, and the people live on mile long zepplin airships or domed cities on top of tall mountains)
Elysians are my favorite Guard regiment, but they were always doomed. Paratroopers are reliant on their grounded comrades to relieve them quickly. So a highly well trained and mobile force that use unconventional means of getting around left hoping the rest of the generally slow moving Guard gets to them. Not going to end well. At Taros the Cadians were something like a day late.
Fun fact, I remember reading somewhere how an Elite remarked how ODSTs come with their own coffins so yeah, drop troopers with coffins is standard slander.
54:00 yes and no with the deathwatch question. Its is both volunteer but also semi-forced volunteer too. Its not unknown for certain chapters who send personnel to the Deathwatch to send brothers of more problematic or disgraced heritage out into the service as both a way of penance, but to also give them forced discipline at the hands of other brothers and for some chapters… as a way to potentially get rid of that problem marine in a very… high risk way for said marine.
I always remember the Rimmy Downunder gaming Arma 3 operation where they play as the Elysians. The last guy that didn’t manage to escape used a melta bomb kill several word bearers. Actually I was wrong, they were cadian drop troops.
The elysians always make me sad.... when they were first floated at roughly the same time as 'Krieg', i was overjoyed!. All the army's were expanding even if it was only on forgeworld. They were exactly the 'guard' i wanted to collect and even gave me the idea to collect a 'Dropship Specialist' Force, so like steel legion mostly mechanised. I even went so far to desgin a 'Tyranid V Guard' mini game {Pre-Lost Patrol}, and even designed a 'Modded Valkyire' that drops a small 'Zodiac' and six man team, and small 'Nam' like 'Whirlybird' Choppers to drop teams. Then GW seem to decide "Nah, cant be bothered"....... My biggest grumble these days is, Despite the vastness of the 'Grimdark Universe', they seem to have become almost entirely 'Terra' Focused......😒 P.s. I'm sorry bricky the original 'Mad Max' Trilogy is better, 'Fury road' was Terp......😁
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Thank you for making a video about one of my favorite IG regiments.
you suck
"Captain, we're surrounded."
"We're drop troopers Private... we're supposed to be surrounded."
Captain of the Elysian Drop Troops: "Ok men, we are going into hell and fight for the Golden Throne!"
One new trooper who recently transfered before the mission: "And For Managed Democracy!"
*Droop Troops
@@Lu-db1uf huh ?
@@kerianndoassanswatch the video and you will get it
The commissar turns and executes them. "I wish they would stop letting them spread ideas!"
“WE ARE GREEN, AND VERY, *VERY* MEAN”
Bricky clearly has covid because he lost his taste if he doesn't like Elysian models.
He absolutely lost his taste.
Enjoying those models and Furiosa....we can only hope for his swift recovery
Elysians are my fav to play tabletop because they let you do so many meme strats, like dropping a squad of plasma guardsmen directly on top of enemy space marines so they can blow themselves up when their plasma overheats
I just use a big old 15 man Scion squad for that. 2 pistols and 2 plasma guns with First Rank Fire, Second Rank Fire.
The internet: "You need 3 octillion tigers to defeat the sun."
The Hive Mind: "Oh, EZ."
As an ork player I basically summarize this entire video as “DARE DA HUIME STORM BOYZ!”
As someone who can't afford to play Warhammer, but desperately wants to play orks, I am stealing that
@@rustyshackleford6906you don't need to buy new, and can buy slowly over time. There's a lot of ork stuff you can get for fairly cheap.
19:53 I was flashbanged with the knowledge of Bricky owning a bullpupped shotgun. What accursed beast is he withholding from his people
We’re so close to talking about my favorite guard regiment, the Harakoni Warhawks
Ah yes, the Elysian Drop Troops, but Better
I love them too
I doubt they could do a full episode. Since there is like less than a quarter elysian size of lore there.
@@mastershangchi3410Yeah… the injustice in that fact is heartbreaking.
Elysian drop troops with heavy weapons and carapace armour!
The Harakoni Warhawks. Everything the Elysian wish they could be... if only they were not press ganged, aged out pdf troopers.
I’m not even mad at that raycon ad
The Segway made me giggle
Segue into a segway! With this mobility tool, *sudden segway ad*
It was a great Dean Kamen.
The Chaos Gremlin energy of DK at the start of this episode is giving me life.
My favorite drop troupe story is them dropping through the gap in the shield and a weapon beam, disabling the shield and some getting away
The closest thing you'll ever get to ptsd from 40K audiobooks is listening to the Scions of Elysian audio drama series from Zachariah's perspective as he watches recruits with failed grav suetes helplessly turned to mush potatoes (including sound effects) around him.
The production value in the mini series was amazing
I have been collecting and repainting Elysian models for years. My favorite regiment by a country mile
"How many 8 year olds can you defeat?"
"That depends, are we in a mall?"
Paratroopers suffering heavy casualties is not just a 40K problem, it's been a problem since they were invented. The German paratroopers had great success early on in the first year of the war, but after that it was just disaster after disaster every time they were used. Even the paratroop drop during D-Day in Normandy was a disaster. Hardly anyone landed in their assigned drop zone and it was only thanks to the slow response of the Germans that they weren't wiped out and were able to accomplish their missions. And even then Allied officers had to just grab whatever soldiers had landed near them as everyone was spread out all over Normandy. It's widely accepted now that paratroopers will be quickly wiped out when deployed in areas with organized defenders unless they are immediately linked up with regular forces. Look at the Russian VDV forces wiped out in the opening attack on Ukraine for a modern example.
That kinda explains why Helldivers players can't retake the Creek.
They got absolutely wrecked by the Word Bearers in the Omnibus lol
I just think of that scene where they used paratroopers in army of the dead, just replace the zombies with Tyranids.
LGOPs are official doctrine and have been since Neptune, BECAUSE of that. But when used properly paratroopers are capable of doing what no other type of soldier can. The vdv wasn’t an example of paratroopers being cannon fodder, it was a reminder that Russia doesn’t know how to properly conduct combined arms offensives.
For Super Ear- I mean the Imperium of Man!
Super Terra!
Finally, my favorite Guard faction. The aesthetic is peak. I love the concept of jet pack drop troops, whether it be Mandalorians, Helldivers, ODSTs, etc.
The harkoni Warhawks fit the heavy air borne more for me. Much closer to Mando or ODST in look than the Elysian. Both are cool and under represented guard.
@@Earliersphere I’ll have to check the warhawks out then!
The Elysian Drop Troops are the constant personification of the Operation: Market Garden; a lot of effort for little gain and a disappointing end. Also, I love how the Cyclops demolition tank is just a bigger IRL Goliath.
I worked a summer in Landscaping back in the day to Get some Elysian Drop Troops, and lo and behold the day I went to buy myself some minis, they were discontinued two weeks prior. I was beyond devastated and swore to never buy into 40K until either they came back, or they brought the Harakoni Warhawks in or, gave me some sort of equivalent. Like I would use the Cadian Models if they gave us some Grav Chute extras to stick on them or something.
27:42 love that vultures and Valkyries are legal, but somehow the vendetta is banished to legends 😢
I wasn't expecting Bricky to reveal he owns a bullpup of all things. My money's on a KSG.
He strikes me as a mdr or aug type of guy.
Still remember that odst ad fron halo 3… one, if not the best, ad i have ever seen from a video game and i watch it basically multiple time per year.
Not gonna lie the Elysian Drop Troops feel way more T'au than Imperium in their aesthetics: Tactical compact gear, weaponry that feels very modern inspired rather than WW2 inspired, and even their tactics feel less WW2 Airborn Divisions and more modern spec ops units.
Honestly, it just makes me want to see some kind of T'au equivalent with Pathfinders or hell revive the old XV1 stealth suites and give them this kind of role. Even if its something that only exists in the novels I think I would be really cool.
AdRid: "I know nothing about guns"
Me: "I bet that thing has a garbage trigger"
bullpup transfer bar moment
@@byro_ Tbf las guns can just have electronic triggers since they don't need mechanical parts to function unlike stubbers.
@@alfatazer_8991 yeah, that’s true. But you’d still have to deal with the Armpit reload. Otherwise it might not be that bad for a laser gun with almost no moving parts. Still doesn’t help the ergonomics issue, but the 40k weapons aren’t exactly designed with the comfort of the shooter (who will likely die before they fire let alone empty the weapon) anyways.
I will endlessly trash on bullpup firearms though, and I’m glad that they’re being phased out of most of the militaries who use them. Far too many tradeoffs for a slightly smaller package with comparable muzzle velocity to a rifle length weapon, which wouldn’t matter at the ranges they were designed to be used in anyways. Just use a Carbine length weapon system.
@@byro_But then the question is: why bother with a bullpup laser? It's not like you need to feed the lasing mechanism at the back (and even if you did you could just use a cable or busbar). IMO the only purpose would be if you regularly use bullpup bullet guns and want the reloading reflexes to carry over.
That said, I figure bullpup weaponry has a place in spacefuture combat. You could solve the trigger problem with an electronic primer like the EtronX mechanism, and have a magazine like the P90 or G11 prototype...
@@NXTangl There are a lot of answers to this question. Some of which open up a few cans of worms.
The real answer is simple: It’s an aesthetic choice for the faction, plain and simple.
An in universe answer requires me to ask another question which has no real solid answer. Is it actually firing a laser?
If yes, then barrel length would be irrelevant, and a heavy Las-Pistol should actually be the standard issue weapon for the guard, as lasers wouldn’t be affected by barrel length, nor recoil and thus could be kept in a compact package. (Star Trek Phasers for example)
If no, then what is it shooting? How does barrel length affect the “ballistics” of the “projectile”? There are many instances of the lasgun being described or shown to have recoil. Is it plasma? Highly compressed gas? A projectile?
Nobody really knows, not even in the lore due to the backwards nature of the Imperium. They probably only use it because that’s what they’ve always used. It’s what their forge world has patterns of so they just make it and don’t ask questions or wonder why. To do such is heresy after all.
TL;DR:
Bullpup looks cool on cool space guys on the tabletop.
Lore can explain it away by saying that the reason why was lost to time. To question is to doubt, and to doubt is Heresy.
"Helljumper, Helljumper where you been? Feet first into hell and back again!"
WHEN I DIE PLEASE BURY ME DEEP
PLACE AN MA5 DOWN BY MY FEET
"When I die, please bury me deep! With my MA5 down at my feet!"
Bricky sweating out his demons in that ad read.
Who else wants the next poster to be a metric butt tonne of tigers falling out the back of a Valkyrie?
Tigers in guardsman combat armor.
Tigers in guardsman combat armor and big booba.
Of course 40k is just full of boxes: Land Raiders, Dreadnaughts, Saint Katherine, list goes on.
You're telling me OUR ENEMIES HIDE IN METAL BAWKSES?
@@thehansenman68DA COWARDS DA FEWLS!!!
The question about the respawning 8-year old reminds me of how Vulcan fought Magnus.
I like the idea that 10k years in the future a hyper advanced alien species will excavate the ruins of earth.
They find the meme about the sun and how many Tigers would be needed to beat it.
Using mass cloning technology, they create the amount of tigers needed according to the meme, launch them into the sun.
After witnessing the results, they write the answer down and bury it next to the meme.
T'au on the tabletop: "Our Ethereal is Dead! It's all Joe'ver!"
T'au on in the books: "Shas'la our Ethereal has moved on to the afterlife, let's make sure he isn't lonely there."
edit "box" ==> "books"
There was a brief edition where the t'au got a one turn buff when the ethereal died, followed by massive debuff rest of the game.
This episode reminded me of my original desire to start 40k as a guard player and go HEAVY into Valkyries... I'ma do it one day.
18:13 the bullpup las carbine allows for quicker maneuvering and aiming, but you have to take you aim away from the target when changing clips
*mags
not necessarly
20:03 Thank you, DK; as an Australian, we have strict gun laws, and I had no idea a Bullpup was a thing.
As Ex-ADF our rifles are bullpup, all good not too many people are aware of that. We have been using bullpup firearms since 1988
Our defense forces use the styre.
"Fired" one at a sim range and paraded with one when i was in cadets
Bullpup sounds like an energy drink that causes some kind of digestive issue.
"It's only a warcrime if you loose." That rings uncomfortably true
Putting the bodies in “we will crush you under the weight of our dead!” Nothing like getting bird striked by a guards’ man.
Drop troops will be the reason I buy a 3D printer
Them and Emps Children are literally the entire reason I did.
Same TBH.
Ok but how many drop troops will you need to print to defeat 3 octillion tigers?
YES ELYSIANS! I own so many FW Elysian models, theyre one of my favorite Guard regiments. Love this!
Yes, EDT finally. I hope inquisition allows them to mention D99
18:37 technically a bullpup is when the firing mechanism is placed behind the trigger
Petition for the next guard regiment to be the Tallarn Desert Raiders?
Second
There is one enemy that no one has the courage to destroy.
She sends us cataclysmic cancer from her castle in the void
She blinds our children, burns our skin
Dries our crops and rivers thin
You already know her name
3 Octillion Tigers
God I love a good Jonathan Young reference
The grav chute reminds me of the gm nightseekers own back pack except it can use it to jump back onto the ship that it deployed from after completing its mission.
Fulgrim: I can take all the Imperial Guard at the same time😀
Imperial Guardsman: In a fight, right.
Fulgrim:😈
Imperial Guardsman: I-in a fight r-right
Imperial Guardsman: OH SWEET EMPER-
Local primarch breaks record for most humans involved in an orgy (eldar still hold the first place galactically)
For those of you who don't know and would like to know the difference between a standard rifle layout compared to that of a Bullpup the only difference is between the two is that while both of them both have 16 in barrels one of them is actually I guess you could say length to 16 inch barrels while the other one is because the magazine is in the rear where the stock is you get the full 16-in Barrel but in a much smaller frame there therefore you are able to paradrop and clear buildings much much more effectively and efficiently because you don't have that Barrel picking out and a being encompersome while in close confined spaces and also doesn't pick you out or show where you are in the vicinity so then you can properly clear out a room or building and not give away your position just food for thought for people who would like to know 😊
HELLDIVERS NEVER DIE!
Narrator: "They all died."
Dk should look into the harkoni warhawks, they are basically elesians only their gravahutes alow them to do raptor things, thought he may like that
Definitely the best poster so far.
Of course YT recommends this after yesterdays teaser
What teaser?
Bullpup guns are also better for CQC. So as a shock troop regiment it makes sense for the elysians to use them
Nah mate, been awhile since I head Drop Bear myself. Good chuckle and joke.
Just found ya….that bullpup explanation was hilarious, I may or may not be able to confirm I was yelling in the kitchen
What the hell was Azriel on to come up with this horrible looking gun, I’m not even sure the bolts could even get to the receiver.🤨🐱
That sounds like a terrifying FPS movie about drop troops surviving a ork WAH! I'd see that movie.
So bulpup not so much smaller as it is adjusted to incorporate the barel and ammo back so that theres not a long ass rifle with "dedspace" between the chber and the end of the buttstock. Makes it possible for a 14" barrel rifle to compact down from about 30ish" total length down to about 18ish".
Yeah we Australians do a head slap all the time, it's how we get the drop bears off.
Managed Democr-what? Hell-Pod?
Wake up Trooper, we're Halo-chuting in 30 seconds!
Also, for DK, some paratroopers use compact weaponry: the Bullpup has the same barrel length as its cousins, but with less stock, it takes up less space :)
I Read the "Word Bearer" trilogy, and these guys made the first book the best one.
"Your dissapointment encompasses the sun" legendary
One of the only faction of 40K that as aesthetics from my country, also always good to see your video. 👍
What country? France?
@@enovos3138 yep
@IronHoundTius Is it because the Accatran Pattern Lasgun looks like the FAMAS or is there more to it that I don't know about?
@@enovos3138 there that yeah, but also like I already said, their aesthetics is a mix between multiple real uniform of paratrooper, the French paratrooper is one of them, their insigna also look alike. and, but I personally did not find this information, some person says that in a book with Elysian, which I did not find, they speak a language which would be French
By the Emperor, this episode was a fucking mess. Keep up the good work as always lads!
"Pool cues stolen from pubs" killed me
No tigers were harmed in the making of this episode. Or, well, not that many tigers anyways.
GW not supporting the things they create and expect them to perform on the battlefield before abandoning them because they have lost value? Its starting to make sense why Big E is the way he is.
Ok, so the Elysians exist to be a named company that loses so xenos and chaos have a win once in a while lol
Guard loses to those more often than they win
War crimes? You mean a to do Checklist? Signed every Guard Commander ever.
Hell jumper hell jumper where have you been? Feet first into hell and back again!
Lets gooo! So glad to see my second favourite Guard Regiment get some spotlight time!
Shy hard carried that one. 💪
That vehicle transport variant of the Valkyrie has a bit of a real life counterpart: the CH-54 Tarhee.
As does the Cyclops: the Goliath Remote Bomb from WWII.
Hell yeah, I love the Skycrane for how it's built to sling-load and nothing else.
Oh baby, one of my fave guard units! Can't wait for a Tallarn vid!
The most baller of IG regiments. Thank you, gentlemen.
Funny story, I was part of a 40k IG themed clan and I first entered it by joining their Elysian division.
Eventually that division got disbanded (lack of recruits and people kept leaving) and I joined the ST division, which eventually left the larger clan to become its own thing.
They sold the Elysian drop troops uniform in darktide a while back. Had a lot of fun putting it on an Ogryn. The Dropbear lives!
As a Californian, I understand alot about firearms due to the worms in my brain. Also paratroopers are just cool while questionably useful.
"he was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright.."
I freaking love this channel.
It’s been a while since I heard of a new regiment. I like these guys!
I remember thinking about ordering some back when Forge World was regularly making metal guardsmen.
On the topic of Azraels old gun, it totally works if you imagine the action cycling back to pick up a new bolt cartridge.
To quote a certain gunnery sergeant
"We are dropping into hell troopers, time to grow a pair!"
Elysian models look goofy for a reason: they are 40k scale versions of the Imperial Guard assault squad from Epic back in the day. Honestly it's a role that the -Guard- could use filling, especially seeing as Valkyries aren't much use these days, because they are sorely lacking on the light melee front.
You can't keep the Elysians down, there are DOZENS of Elysian fans. BAKERS DOZENS.
(Fr though, I love the elysians, made an Elysian army, and love to see them covered)
The 72nd Elysian Storm Troopers - Part of the Imperial counterattack to liberate Tanakreg from the Word Bearers. Were definitely interesting. They are mentioned in the word bearer omnibus series. A really good read. I hope you guys can read it eventually.
The four wheel buggies the Elysians have remind me of DPVs (Desert Patrol Vehicles, basically stripped down and heavily armed dune buggies) U.S. special operations use.
Came here for Warhammer stayed for tiger vs the sun
in the fiction, the packs can actually fly on par with a marine jumpack (for as long as their limited battery packs last, so a couple minutes), but ruleswise they're treated as just hi-tech parachutes.
the Gaunts Ghosts use some in the novel 'Guns of Tanith" to insert a commando team into a chaos held 'city in the clouds' on Phantine. (the Phantine Skyborne are presented as another drop trooper regiment, because their world is a venus like toxic hellscape where there is basically just endless expanse of clouds, and the people live on mile long zepplin airships or domed cities on top of tall mountains)
I know in the Dark Heresy RPG, it doesn't allow for flight at all, as opposed to jump packs.
Elysians are my favorite Guard regiment, but they were always doomed. Paratroopers are reliant on their grounded comrades to relieve them quickly. So a highly well trained and mobile force that use unconventional means of getting around left hoping the rest of the generally slow moving Guard gets to them. Not going to end well.
At Taros the Cadians were something like a day late.
Fun fact, I remember reading somewhere how an Elite remarked how ODSTs come with their own coffins so yeah, drop troopers with coffins is standard slander.
You guys should do a video on the Shattered Legions! They’re pretty cool and I’ve seen maybe two people ever talk about them!
Bullpup laser? Yea... gotta have mag in the back to make barrel longer to have... laser spin better.
And a stock to .... absorb laser recoil.
Stock also stablizes your aim. Barrel length is probably focusing th laser but idk
1:09:34
*Slaps roof of the Sun*
This bad boy can fit octillions of tigers in it
Yes! One of my favorite regiments!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This episode goes up there with the assassin one where the bois are just completely off the fucking rails.
54:00 yes and no with the deathwatch question.
Its is both volunteer but also semi-forced volunteer too.
Its not unknown for certain chapters who send personnel to the Deathwatch to send brothers of more problematic or disgraced heritage out into the service as both a way of penance, but to also give them forced discipline at the hands of other brothers and for some chapters… as a way to potentially get rid of that problem marine in a very… high risk way for said marine.
You guys should do a video on all the GSC character models and what they do - especially sense a good third of the army is characters
I always remember the Rimmy Downunder gaming Arma 3 operation where they play as the Elysians. The last guy that didn’t manage to escape used a melta bomb kill several word bearers.
Actually I was wrong, they were cadian drop troops.
This is the most unhinged episode by far, cant wait to see where we end up next week
I haven't gotten there yet, but I remember the Armageddon episode.
Ive been waiting for this for years. Glad to see it though
The elysians always make me sad.... when they were first floated at roughly the same time as 'Krieg', i was overjoyed!.
All the army's were expanding even if it was only on forgeworld.
They were exactly the 'guard' i wanted to collect and even gave me the idea to collect a 'Dropship Specialist' Force, so like steel legion mostly mechanised.
I even went so far to desgin a 'Tyranid V Guard' mini game {Pre-Lost Patrol},
and even designed a 'Modded Valkyire' that drops a small 'Zodiac' and six man team, and small 'Nam' like 'Whirlybird' Choppers to drop teams.
Then GW seem to decide "Nah, cant be bothered".......
My biggest grumble these days is, Despite the vastness of the 'Grimdark Universe', they seem to have become almost entirely 'Terra' Focused......😒
P.s. I'm sorry bricky the original 'Mad Max' Trilogy is better, 'Fury road' was Terp......😁