You forgot the best part, those bombs weren't even real. They were ration packs that caused one of the White Scars to start gut laughing from the absurdity of the situation.
The scene after this >‘I asked my battle-brothers to shadow us as we played our game,’ said Sar Af. ‘Is that really sporting?’ asked Mkoll. ‘A fair contest?’ Eadwine snorted. ‘Not at all, sergeant,’ said Sar Af, ‘but then when >There was a moment of silence, then Sar Af began to laugh. It was a loud, long and delighted laugh. ‘Well played, sergeant,’ he said. ‘He has us, brothers. He has us cold.’ Holofurnace hissed a curse. Eadwine nodded, his face grim. ‘I will concede stalemate,’ Eadwine said. ‘Thank you, sir,’ said Mkoll. ‘I appreciate the opportunity to test myself against you.’ >He knelt down, and began to rip the packets of explosives from the edges of the deck plate. ‘Throne!’ exclaimed Holofurnace. ‘Be careful with those!’ ‘These?’ asked Mkoll, holding up one of the packs. ‘They’re just bags of powdered caffeine mix.’ Sar Af began to laugh all over again. >‘That’s the other thing about the Guard,’ said Mkoll. ‘We bluff like bastards too.’
@@adrienwatson2179 If we factor in the quality of his actions and the impact it's consequences would have, he'd be a highlord of Terra by the end of the books.
If I recall correctly he started as a Sergeant, although calling him a Sergeant is not exactly accurate as he's also the leader of the Scouts of the Gaunts, the best infiltrators of the regiment (who's already one of the best regiment of infiltrators of the Guard ˆˆ). When a regiment is created, the officers are already designated, even if they have the same experience in the guard than the simple soldier XD
A don’t think the First and Only are one of the units that means that literally, for much of the Guard that’s more of a metaphor and in another incident another Trooper from this regiment has a vision of an actual angel telling him to do his duty and kill a chaos chaplain after he’s almost killed, when he tells the angel that he’s too hurt to make the shot she pulls out a commissar’s hat and a bolt gun and informs him to do his duty or else, leading to him killing the leader of all chaos forces on the world so I think that they have a more traditional view of angels.
I doubt that applies to the First-and-Only. They don't seem to revere Marines like that. Plus, these were White Scars, who are quite chill, at least by the standards of Marines.
Yeah, White Scars believe in the Imperial Truth (Religion is bad) and are one of the three chapters that consider humans as something worthy, with the Salamanders and the Raven Guard ˆˆ
The guard being self aware to their own expendability seems so funny to me. “Hey did you hear Zael died? I’m so sorry for the loss of your best friend.” “Nah I’ll just go make 30 other best friends.”
"This is what we do. We will mourn later, after we win. We will remember the price paid for victory, and carry on in their names. And if victory is not ours to be had, then thankful we shall be to offer up so great a sacrifice to be remembered by friend and foe alike of our tenacity. Anyone unworthy to stand and fight is unworthy of remembrance, and even less worthy to call themselves "human"."
Jf this had happen in 30k, he'd be invited to a Scars feast and probably congragulated by The Khan himself. The Scars really liked spending time with humans and respected them greatly.
If this was 30k he’d be made a space marine. It’s entirely possible for an adult to become one. That’s how half the first captains became space marines
@@CrazedGamer117 This is only half true. There's still a risk of death. The older you get. There's a reason why Luther of the first legion couldn't become a full-fledged space Marine.
We're the SM / White Scars already formed in 30k? I always forget the exact timeline on that... • from the early era of (human)space exploration... • ( the apex and decline of the Aeldari (I think it's somewhere in between here, before the DAOT proper... I think) )... • Federation's "golder age" (?) / DAOT... • the sociopolitical decline of the properly advanced and technological, scientifically-aware* Human spacefaring civilization and the Cyber-Revolt and (the beginning? of the)Warp Storms... • the Earth's/Terra's techno-barbarism period... ( 🤔 I suppose if it weren't for the Warp Storms, somebody else would've come along to conquer Earth/Terra...) • the Emperor making an appearance, at last... making a deal with Mars... • Creation of the Primarchs... near immediate loss of the Primarchs 😅 • setting out on the Crusades... half-cocked as it were 😅 • the Heresy... • the Ecclesiarchy's nonsense... • and the more "recent" events... the exact years of transition always just escape me 😅
To put this scene into context, the guardsman depicted, is literally so adept at stealth, he regularly has to increase the sound of his footfalls, to alert people he is approaching because otherwise, he is just... there all of a sudden. He approached his commanders command cabin once, and upon walking up the wooden stairs, made so little sound, he scuffed his boot on the wood rather than knock on the door jamb, because knocking was too loud, and his approach was too silent. "A warning of approach, from a man who makes no sound" was his commanders thought upon hearing his boot scrape the wood quietly
Remember time they had a meeting with everyone having squeeking chairs and he just Casualy sat down on a chair, lifted his legs onto the desk and hanged back without any sound When asked how he menaged to do that he said "scout training"
@@GreyKnightsVenerable No offense, but I think that is not how blanks work. Blanks totally lack any connection to the Warp, there is no 'in between'. You either are a blank or you are not. Being a minor blank is like being a little bit pregnant.
@@Furzkampfbomber No, blanks are on the negative spectrum of warp ability, so it's actually possible to be a minor blank. So you have blanks who make nearby people mildly uncomfortable, and others who make psykers wish they could kill themselves faster so as to stop being in their presence. Some byproduct abilities do include reduced perceptability, going sometimes as far as complete passive invisibility to all senses. I think there was one sister of silence with that specific ability.
I'm honstely suprised they were even able to have this conversation without constantly being drowned out by the noise this guardsman's balls of steel must've made everytime he moved so much of an inch.
Elysian Drop Troops take the cake with this. Ancient eternal cahos-blessed veteran of the long war vs one parachutey boy with a melta grenade. A Guardsman knows that he's sacrificing the last twenty years of his life, but he's costing the enemy centuries. Those are good odds.
Mkoll is a straight-up badass. In Gaunts Ghosts he also solo kills a (yes wounded and isolated) chaos dreadnought by severely overheating his las-gun and using the environment. Great read! This is dope tho!
Considering what he can do to an ascended chaos adept while infiltrating his very own stronghold in a middle of a whole army of chaos warriors, these space marines are lucky to escape this encounter uninjured.
What did Trevor and Alucard say? 'But you'll still die' 'But I don't care. Killing you was the point. Living through it was the luxury." The perfect human mindset.
The ghosts are possibly the single most lethal guard regiment ever. Despite only being a literally one and only regiment. They beat MEN OF IRON. Galaxy ending threat corrupted by chaos and they won. And that’s literally in the first 3rd of the first book. They get SO MUCH BETTER at what they do. Not to mention some of them literally seem to be chosen by the Emperor or other warp gods to win. I fucking love the Ghosts
And a lot of commanders just wasted their potential in terms of where to deploy them and how to do so. Light infiltrator infantry... and they are used for frontline/penal-legionnaire type suicide missions quite a lot... It'd be like asking for the Catachans to fight on a hiveworld and be the honorguard, rather than the close-in fighting force. XD
This is why Mkoll is my favourite. He also has a scene where he out stealths a dark eldar mandrake. His stealth skills are the best in the Ghosts regiment and he never ceases to impress. He also has a great personality too, overall amazing character.
@@the_lichemaster this... even Mkoll acknowledges he's probably better. I mean the man basically stole out a planets population from under inquisitorial quarantine and nobody had a clue where the hell everyone disappeared to
The man killed a dreadnought and swore the guy who saw him to not speak of it since he didnt want to deal with the issues fame brings. Mkoll is an absolute legend
The Ghosts of the Tanith First and Only were just a whole breed apart among the Guard. A true band of brothers, through and through. Mkoll is one of my favorite among the Ghosts besides Gaunt. Them, and their sniper Mad Larkin who straight up blew a crooked Inquisitors face off with a scavenged slugthrower sniper rifle. Absolute beasts.
Larkin was my favorite character. Kinda why I hate Cuu more than any of the horrible Chaos people around, fether took so many friends from the poor guy. Anyways, while I don't think it was his best shot, the one I like the most was when he took out a tank via shooting into it's tank barrel and I think he shot the shell being loaded or an ammo rack.
He was a scout sergeant if he went any higher in rank he would move from small squad tactics to leading a large group he wouldn’t be able to use his skill to the best ability. He was still highly respected and his voice carried more weight than most higher-ranking members, at one point it was a joke that the commander would ask him what would lord general mkoll or Warmaster mkoll (I can’t remember which) do in this situation.
Mkoll has turned down several promotions so he can stay in the field. His CO, Conenel Gaunt, knows how valuable Mkoll is so he lets him stay where he wants to be.
Don't forget this is the same Mkoll that successfully hunted a dark eldar Mandrake, took out a wounded chaos dreadnought using native vegetation and an overcharged las rifle magazine, and almost singlehandedly took out the commanding officers of the chaos army they were fighting. He's almost as OP as Sly Marbo, but far more sane.
Mkvenner is living rent free in the Sons of Sek and an Iquisitor + his retinue's heads. That man has ascended realms of higher tomfoolery that we can not comprehend.
Mine would be Brin Milo, his latent psyker abilities would get him through anything. Considering Saint Sabbat wanted him as a personal body guard.... He'd get the job done.
@@jeddpires I think it was this same guy, no? Also, in the dreadnoughts defense, it was blinded, and he killed it by using a deadly plant with toxic spines if that's the one I'm thinking of?
You kinda buried the lead there - saying "A Guardsman" and showing a regular Cadian and then moving to SERGEANT MKOLL who's probably the second-stealthiest Guardsman behind Sly Bloody Marbo. But, this is still funny as fuck. Absolute legend.
Not really. The salamanders value human life yes, but they understand that in combat their is always going to be loss. The salamanders just don’t view baseline humans as tools to be used at their leisure or convenience. In this situation/scenario they would view that as just an outcome of war. They might not ask him to make such a sacrifice but if he did they would respect him if he managed to take out one traitor astartes with it. It’s hard to explain but it’s more like the salamander recognize themselves as equal or still human but with more capability and skill and therefore more responsibility for the baseline humans safety and well being. In this situation the SGT showed his skill to be on par with three astartes
Mkoll also managed to get the drop on a Dark Eldar Mandrake who was hunting him. In a later story, he also killed several hundred blood pact while injured, got captured, killed his prison guards, then killed a super human Chaos leader.
And this is only 1 of the many many badass things Gaunts Ghosts have achieved. They have experienced divine interventions and were chosen by saint Sabbat as their bodyguards personally. These mad lads are just something else
If you've read all of the gaunts ghosts books, you know Mkoll is more like a 1-man-army than anything else. Beware of incoming major spoilers and don't read any further if you don't want to know too much of the books yet, including the end. Mkoll singlehandedly killed a chaos-dreadnought, told the soldier who saw that not to tell anybody about it, because he just did his duty and don't wanted to be bothered by the congratulations. He outwitted a dark eldar mandrake, one of the most deadly and cunning hunters of the dark eldar, and told him he was quite good before shooting his brains out point blank. He survived together with gaunt and a special operations team of the first tanith on a chaos-controlled planet, fighting a guerrilla war for a very long time (idk anymore how long exactly, but at least a year), without being corrupted by chaos, which is a feat in itself. He was captured by the enemy (after killing a lot of them), but he escaped and successfully infiltrated the enemy main base, killing even more of them and in the end made the second in command of the whole chaos-army - a being absolutely pumped with chaos-energy - spend their whole energy until he was forced to flee - ONLY to be pursued by Mkoll through the portal and being killed by him on a lonely beach. Mkoll is the real Warhammer 40k, i'm telling you. xD I love this character. Because he's not just absolutely badass, but he is humble and intelligent as well. He's just what i want from a good 40k-story. 😊
Mkoll is Astartes named character levels of badass. The amount of shit he’s done and survived is astounding. Lets never forget that man killed a chaos dreadnaught using cacti lol
Not going to lie this is one of the best military tactical stories I probably ever heard of delivered in a short video. The thing is though because of how outmatched humanity is against its various enemies. I wonder how this will work against an enemy like an Eldar or a Dark Eldar for that matter 🤔?
Lmao Mkoll doesn't give a fuck how pointy their ears are. He's beaten a Dark Eldar mandrake at their own game once he can do it again. Tanith lads are just that good.
@@Angels510 😳 That's still drastically impressive. Those things are chaos abominations, they can practically smell the souls of people they want to crush beneath their gargantuan feet.
_"Had the Kryptonian or the Amazon made that gamble, they would have lost. They do not have the strength of character to destroy an entire planet to achieve success, but you? A human? Youd kill your own kind to win battles; an admirable quality. "_
That's not a lone Gaurdsmen, that's Scout Sargeant Mkoll, dude killed a Chaos Dreadnaught with a plant, he is approaching Sly Marbo in terms of lethality...
It's honestly one of the biggest issues W40k has... Nothing is more powerful than a named character. Put an IG vs a bloodthirster. Thirster wins 100% of the time. Put a named IG vs a bloodthirster. Named IG wins.
They're buoys of light in the grim dark. Levity. Constant grim dark and nothing else and it would probably not be such a popular/loved franchise. Stories need heroes.
@@HidingSleeper A guardsman taking on a squad of space marines is not a hero... it's Imperial propaganda. Seriously. It doesn't add, it simply detracts from the enemies of the Imperium... And if the Imperium can just smash its enemies. It's not grimdark... it's a joke
@@Trehlas no not really, every faction has it's named badasses and it makes sense because why would you tell a story like that if you can't be creative? Would it be better when you have the same situation but the marines absolutely stomp the IG? No because there are already so many stories where that happens.
@@florianhenkel111 Marines stomping IG makes sense... having a single IG stomp a squad of marines doesn't. As for each faction's badasses... Non-Imperial badasses exist so they can get smashed by the Imperium. Chaos is the biggest joke of a faction in the entire setting. Just look at Abbadon... Has he ever won? I mean straight up win, not won by default. Abbadon is a joke character. Or stepping away from Chaos... remember when Eldar avatar's were supposed to be this badass monster that wrecks his enemies... Half the Imperium has beaten one by now... I'm exaggerating... but Christ... there's nothing impressive about Chaos and there's definitely nothing impressive about an avatar of Khaine.
I'm waiting for a moment where something like this happens and the Space Marines just say "It's a shame you weren't made into an Astarted, you'd fit right in."
To quote Trevor Belmont: "Killing you was the point, living through it was just a luxury."
I was just about to say that you beat me to it well played
Good quote!
I love Castlevania
That is cold as fuck
FINE! I'll rewatch Castlevania
You forgot the best part, those bombs weren't even real. They were ration packs that caused one of the White Scars to start gut laughing from the absurdity of the situation.
In their defense, imperium ration packs are known for being lethal. 🤷🏽♂️
Well yeah it’s training
White scars being underrated
It's training
It was powdered recaff
This move is like sacrificing a pawn to get 3 queens. The Guardsman was just playing chess.
I'd say more like 3 knights but yeah definitely mate
with himself
Anyone can sacc a pawn for three rooks. It’s takes a special soul to sacc themselves.
@@leovalenzuela8368 true, though I meant to say knights I just mixed up the names
One was captain… 2
The scene after this
>‘I asked my battle-brothers to shadow us as we played our game,’ said Sar Af.
‘Is that really sporting?’ asked Mkoll. ‘A fair contest?’
Eadwine snorted.
‘Not at all, sergeant,’ said Sar Af, ‘but then when
>There was a moment of silence, then Sar Af began to laugh. It was a loud, long and delighted laugh.
‘Well played, sergeant,’ he said. ‘He has us, brothers. He has us cold.’
Holofurnace hissed a curse. Eadwine nodded, his face grim.
‘I will concede stalemate,’ Eadwine said.
‘Thank you, sir,’ said Mkoll. ‘I appreciate the opportunity to test myself against you.’
>He knelt down, and began to rip the packets of explosives from the edges of the deck plate.
‘Throne!’ exclaimed Holofurnace. ‘Be careful with those!’
‘These?’ asked Mkoll, holding up one of the packs. ‘They’re just bags of powdered caffeine mix.’
Sar Af began to laugh all over again.
>‘That’s the other thing about the Guard,’ said Mkoll. ‘We bluff like bastards too.’
Dude, if I was those space marines he'd never have an empty drink again, officially a chad for life
A real soldier is more careful with their coffee than any explosive :)
@@benaplin9861... can I save this quote? Its metal as hell
@@blackstripes0812 sure
@benaplin9861 thank you, adding that to my dnd campaign
If a guardsman last to sergeant he’s pretty competent.
Mckoll would be a Lord General if he got a promotion every time he did something crazy
And extremely lucky
@@adrienwatson2179 If we factor in the quality of his actions and the impact it's consequences would have, he'd be a highlord of Terra by the end of the books.
@@Luccaluke lol seriously. killing a Chaos Lord alone would net him hinor beyond imagining
If I recall correctly he started as a Sergeant, although calling him a Sergeant is not exactly accurate as he's also the leader of the Scouts of the Gaunts, the best infiltrators of the regiment (who's already one of the best regiment of infiltrators of the Guard ˆˆ).
When a regiment is created, the officers are already designated, even if they have the same experience in the guard than the simple soldier XD
Praise from a Space Marine would really be something amazing. Direct, verbal approval from someone you believe to be an angel.
A don’t think the First and Only are one of the units that means that literally, for much of the Guard that’s more of a metaphor and in another incident another Trooper from this regiment has a vision of an actual angel telling him to do his duty and kill a chaos chaplain after he’s almost killed, when he tells the angel that he’s too hurt to make the shot she pulls out a commissar’s hat and a bolt gun and informs him to do his duty or else, leading to him killing the leader of all chaos forces on the world so I think that they have a more traditional view of angels.
Not quite so much. These guys have met actual angels before. Well, at least if you include Larkin’s psychosis and a reincarnated saint.
@@sleepingbee8997 I count what Larkin met, the fact it put on a commissar hat and pulled out a bolter is always going to be awesome and funny to me
I doubt that applies to the First-and-Only. They don't seem to revere Marines like that. Plus, these were White Scars, who are quite chill, at least by the standards of Marines.
Yeah, White Scars believe in the Imperial Truth (Religion is bad) and are one of the three chapters that consider humans as something worthy, with the Salamanders and the Raven Guard ˆˆ
He hit the marines with “where you see one man i C4”
This is an underrated comment
"when you get to hell tell them Penwood sent you, and then apologize on my behalf for the inconvenience."
HA!
Walter?
...Yes ma'am?
Sir Penwood was a...
*Car collides with a Nazi with a loud "thunk"*
Son of a bitch!
Did not expecr a HUA referance here.
The guard being self aware to their own expendability seems so funny to me.
“Hey did you hear Zael died? I’m so sorry for the loss of your best friend.”
“Nah I’ll just go make 30 other best friends.”
the guardsmen are well aware of their expendability since war is such a nasty thing
@@Hyde-dg7efVice Admiral James Bond Stockdale, Aviator, POW, Stoic
Wrong. It's more like "Nah. Whatever, I'm probably next anyways."
"This is what we do. We will mourn later, after we win. We will remember the price paid for victory, and carry on in their names. And if victory is not ours to be had, then thankful we shall be to offer up so great a sacrifice to be remembered by friend and foe alike of our tenacity. Anyone unworthy to stand and fight is unworthy of remembrance, and even less worthy to call themselves "human"."
A Guardsman's best friend is his lasgun, after that is whoever is handing him more ammo.
Jf this had happen in 30k, he'd be invited to a Scars feast and probably congragulated by The Khan himself. The Scars really liked spending time with humans and respected them greatly.
"I heard you outwitted 3 of my sons, have you considered becoming a legionary?" - The Khan probably
If this was 30k he’d be made a space marine. It’s entirely possible for an adult to become one. That’s how half the first captains became space marines
@@CrazedGamer117 This is only half true. There's still a risk of death. The older you get. There's a reason why Luther of the first legion couldn't become a full-fledged space Marine.
We're the SM / White Scars already formed in 30k?
I always forget the exact timeline on that...
• from the early era of (human)space exploration...
• ( the apex and decline of the Aeldari (I think it's somewhere in between here, before the DAOT proper... I think) )...
• Federation's "golder age" (?) / DAOT...
• the sociopolitical decline of the properly advanced and technological, scientifically-aware* Human spacefaring civilization and the Cyber-Revolt and (the beginning? of the)Warp Storms...
• the Earth's/Terra's techno-barbarism period... ( 🤔 I suppose if it weren't for the Warp Storms, somebody else would've come along to conquer Earth/Terra...)
• the Emperor making an appearance, at last... making a deal with Mars...
• Creation of the Primarchs... near immediate loss of the Primarchs 😅
• setting out on the Crusades... half-cocked as it were 😅
• the Heresy...
• the Ecclesiarchy's nonsense...
• and the more "recent" events...
the exact years of transition always just escape me 😅
Hell, if this were 30k he'd probably have the wolf show up to buy him another drink for just having the balls to do that.
To put this scene into context, the guardsman depicted, is literally so adept at stealth, he regularly has to increase the sound of his footfalls, to alert people he is approaching because otherwise, he is just... there all of a sudden.
He approached his commanders command cabin once, and upon walking up the wooden stairs, made so little sound, he scuffed his boot on the wood rather than knock on the door jamb, because knocking was too loud, and his approach was too silent. "A warning of approach, from a man who makes no sound" was his commanders thought upon hearing his boot scrape the wood quietly
Remember time they had a meeting with everyone having squeeking chairs and he just Casualy sat down on a chair, lifted his legs onto the desk and hanged back without any sound
When asked how he menaged to do that he said "scout training"
With that level of silence, he is probably a really minor blank.
He'd make an excellent Raven Guard
@@GreyKnightsVenerable No offense, but I think that is not how blanks work. Blanks totally lack any connection to the Warp, there is no 'in between'. You either are a blank or you are not.
Being a minor blank is like being a little bit pregnant.
@@Furzkampfbomber No, blanks are on the negative spectrum of warp ability, so it's actually possible to be a minor blank.
So you have blanks who make nearby people mildly uncomfortable, and others who make psykers wish they could kill themselves faster so as to stop being in their presence.
Some byproduct abilities do include reduced perceptability, going sometimes as far as complete passive invisibility to all senses. I think there was one sister of silence with that specific ability.
I'm honstely suprised they were even able to have this conversation without constantly being drowned out by the noise this guardsman's balls of steel must've made everytime he moved so much of an inch.
Nah. As other pointed out Seargent Mkoll makes no Sound.
@@HeinrichMuller-mv6hn Legend says that when Mkoll was born, his mother didn't even realize until there was a Tanith blade at her throat.
@@SpartanMikey This actually made me lol :D .
"But you will kill us both!!!"
"I KNOW!!! ISNT IT GREAT!!!!"
"Bonus Points!"
Live, Laugh, Toaster bath!
Common Guardsman W
If the Raven Guard had made a successor chapter on Tanith, Mkoll woulda been their chapter master.
Allthough Mkoll wouldnt be a common Guardsman:D more like extremely rare legendary.
Mcoll isn't regular 😅
Elysian Drop Troops take the cake with this.
Ancient eternal cahos-blessed veteran of the long war vs one parachutey boy with a melta grenade.
A Guardsman knows that he's sacrificing the last twenty years of his life, but he's costing the enemy centuries. Those are good odds.
Usual author pet mary sue shittery. Fucking Abnett and his fanwanking books.
This is also the scout sergeant that out stealthed a dark Elder mandrake.
Imagine being an ancient being who lives in a place where a knife to the spine is a friendly hello, and a 30 something monkey somehow out sneaks you
@@rory8182Mkoll is much older than 30, he’s somewhere in his late 40’s to early 50’s when the series starts.
Didn't he also said something along the line of "you are pretty good" before he shot the mandrake?
@@kman2384 Yep! Right before he shot it in the face
@@kman2384 *Mkoll twirling handgun.*
Mkoll is a straight-up badass. In Gaunts Ghosts he also solo kills a (yes wounded and isolated) chaos dreadnought by severely overheating his las-gun and using the environment. Great read! This is dope tho!
And he's both one of the oldest Ghost and clinically crazy.
But give him a scope and a target...
@@raznaakthat's Hlaine Larkin
@@saeyabor dude shit himself then headshoted a high ranking Chaos cultist because a statue told him to do so
@tristanmiskwa6830 Hell yes he did! Epic!
@@saeyabor Nailed the birth name lol
I love how they basically went "Look at this fucking chad"
Space marines: We're living weapons.
Guardsmen: And we're the ammo!
“But if you trigger this trap, you will surely perish with us,” said the Space Marine. “ Lol,” said Oan Mkoll. “ Lmao.”
I was surprised at this until i heard "Oan Mkoll". That guy beat a helbrute, of course he can take space marines
I was surprised when I heard Oan M'Koll. I just learned his first name in this short XD
@@krankarvolund7771 I listened to the Gaunt series I thought his name was Owen this entire time
Considering what he can do to an ascended chaos adept while infiltrating his very own stronghold in a middle of a whole army of chaos warriors, these space marines are lucky to escape this encounter uninjured.
"If you activate your trap, you will die"
*And if I don't, you'll kill me, if I'm going to meet the Emperor, I'm not going alone*
"One trooper for three post-human adversaries? That's victory."
God he's so cool
Bro made White Scars laugh. He's one of them now.
What did Trevor and Alucard say?
'But you'll still die'
'But I don't care. Killing you was the point. Living through it was the luxury."
The perfect human mindset.
Gotta Watch that show at some point. Seen snippets and songs made for it but haven’t had the time to sit down and experience it.
The perfect display of the arrogance and 100% spite ❤😂
@@ronaldmcreagann6343 Its great, just don't watch the spin off - its... uhm not so great...
Beware the hate and rage of man, he will carve his nose to spite his own face, imagine what he's capable of doing to kill you?
@@CynicalOldDwarf with the mage belmont? It's fine
Oan Mkoll is such a throne-damned legend. Easily one of my favorite characters from those books.
He should be tested for psychic powers
Man makes no sound if he decides to
Yeah, there's no way that guardsman was buying his own drinks after that.
The ghosts are possibly the single most lethal guard regiment ever. Despite only being a literally one and only regiment. They beat MEN OF IRON. Galaxy ending threat corrupted by chaos and they won. And that’s literally in the first 3rd of the first book. They get SO MUCH BETTER at what they do. Not to mention some of them literally seem to be chosen by the Emperor or other warp gods to win. I fucking love the Ghosts
They suffer tremendously, take a lot of losses and lose a lot of good, decent men in heartbreaking ways. But they ALWAYS Get The Job Done.
I learned about them when a friend of mine showed an astra militarum army he created and explained them to me
Aren't they only 5 left? + gaunt
And a lot of commanders just wasted their potential in terms of where to deploy them and how to do so. Light infiltrator infantry... and they are used for frontline/penal-legionnaire type suicide missions quite a lot... It'd be like asking for the Catachans to fight on a hiveworld and be the honorguard, rather than the close-in fighting force. XD
“But if you trigger this trap, you’ll perish with us!”, said the Space Marine.
“lol”, said the Guardsman. “lmao”
“Of course I will that’s why the guard always” fucking badass
This is why Mkoll is my favourite. He also has a scene where he out stealths a dark eldar mandrake. His stealth skills are the best in the Ghosts regiment and he never ceases to impress. He also has a great personality too, overall amazing character.
Mkvenner was probably the best.
was it back when mandrakes were just drugged up stalkers?
@@the_lichemaster this... even Mkoll acknowledges he's probably better. I mean the man basically stole out a planets population from under inquisitorial quarantine and nobody had a clue where the hell everyone disappeared to
The man killed a dreadnought and swore the guy who saw him to not speak of it since he didnt want to deal with the issues fame brings. Mkoll is an absolute legend
Space Marine:You’ll die too!
Guardsmen:And?
The Ghosts of the Tanith First and Only were just a whole breed apart among the Guard. A true band of brothers, through and through. Mkoll is one of my favorite among the Ghosts besides Gaunt. Them, and their sniper Mad Larkin who straight up blew a crooked Inquisitors face off with a scavenged slugthrower sniper rifle. Absolute beasts.
Larkin was my favorite character. Kinda why I hate Cuu more than any of the horrible Chaos people around, fether took so many friends from the poor guy.
Anyways, while I don't think it was his best shot, the one I like the most was when he took out a tank via shooting into it's tank barrel and I think he shot the shell being loaded or an ammo rack.
@@clonezero_RR Elijah Fething Cuu.....The shit that guy does. One of my most hated characters in fiction. So well written.
My blood still boils thinking about that monster. @@grizzlybear3809
How did that not earn him a promotion and a very big win for the guard
He was a scout sergeant if he went any higher in rank he would move from small squad tactics to leading a large group he wouldn’t be able to use his skill to the best ability. He was still highly respected and his voice carried more weight than most higher-ranking members, at one point it was a joke that the commander would ask him what would lord general mkoll or Warmaster mkoll (I can’t remember which) do in this situation.
Mkoll has turned down several promotions so he can stay in the field. His CO, Conenel Gaunt, knows how valuable Mkoll is so he lets him stay where he wants to be.
Don't forget this is the same Mkoll that successfully hunted a dark eldar Mandrake, took out a wounded chaos dreadnought using native vegetation and an overcharged las rifle magazine, and almost singlehandedly took out the commanding officers of the chaos army they were fighting. He's almost as OP as Sly Marbo, but far more sane.
Why do you think Sly Marbo stayed a Trooper too ?
@@Scudboy17 To be fair the dreadnought thing was pure luck, even Mkoll was surprised IIRC
Tbh if I had to pick a guardsman who could pull this off, it would be Mkoll. Or Mkvenner.
Mkvenner is living rent free in the Sons of Sek and an Iquisitor + his retinue's heads. That man has ascended realms of higher tomfoolery that we can not comprehend.
Mkvenner must somehow be a descendant of Corvus Corrax or something 😅
Sly Marbo would stealth kill the first marine, get caught, and then set a trap for the remaining marines. Except that Sly Marbo himself is the trap.
It seems the people in Gaunts Ghosts whose name starts with M are their best soldiers.
Yes, that includes Mad Larkin
Mine would be Brin Milo, his latent psyker abilities would get him through anything. Considering Saint Sabbat wanted him as a personal body guard.... He'd get the job done.
Actually petty normal for the ghosts ,as they have beaten and kill some of the most deadliest things in 40k.
Wow, thanks for all the likes 😁
The one and only, sir
For the unitiated one other achievement this regiment had: one guy managed to kill a chaos dreadnought. Yes, one guy solo'ed a death machine
@@jeddpires I think it was this same guy, no?
Also, in the dreadnoughts defense, it was blinded, and he killed it by using a deadly plant with toxic spines if that's the one I'm thinking of?
@@Thoron_of_Neto Yeah definitely the same guy. Didn’t brag about it or accept praise after the fact though. Being a badass is just his 9-5
@@Thoron_of_Netoyes it was the same guy! Albeit it was a heavily HEAVILY injured dreadnought, he still managed to get it to die through some trickery
imagine an space marine gets ousmarted by an imperial guard of an forgotten part of the imperium
The Sabbat Worlds were not forgotten. The Imperium of Man mustered up to a billion guardsmen for this crusade before it even began
It’s Mkoll he was being generous to them.
With Mkoll and MkVenner around, every chaos follower is looking under their beds for ghosts. Imho two well and fun written characters.
They can look under the bed, but that won’t save them from the straight silvers pulling them to their grave
Bro is built different and let's not forget him screaming " I am death " in the blood pact language while going full John wick on them.
Which book was that?
Getting Aprooval and respect from an entire group of space marines as a Normal Human must be the biggest confidence boost you can ever get.
The moment I heard Mkoll, I knew it was a perfectly justified win. Mkoll is just that good.
Space Marine laughing: "Well met, Guardsman"
**Slaps him on back so hard his ribcage implodes**
Guardsman:were expendable sir
Salamanders:not to me
Lamenters: or to me
You kinda buried the lead there - saying "A Guardsman" and showing a regular Cadian and then moving to SERGEANT MKOLL who's probably the second-stealthiest Guardsman behind Sly Bloody Marbo.
But, this is still funny as fuck. Absolute legend.
"That's why the Guard Always Wins!" is such a fire line
The scars would probably be as horrified as the salamanders to hear him refer to himself as expendable
Not really. The salamanders value human life yes, but they understand that in combat their is always going to be loss. The salamanders just don’t view baseline humans as tools to be used at their leisure or convenience. In this situation/scenario they would view that as just an outcome of war. They might not ask him to make such a sacrifice but if he did they would respect him if he managed to take out one traitor astartes with it.
It’s hard to explain but it’s more like the salamander recognize themselves as equal or still human but with more capability and skill and therefore more responsibility for the baseline humans safety and well being. In this situation the SGT showed his skill to be on par with three astartes
I love when human characters earn the respect of Space Marines! Always great stories.
"but if you set off the trap you'll die too" "so? Im a guardsman remember?"
"But now we shall both surely perish!" Said the Astartes.
"LOL" said the guardsmen. "LMAO."
White Scars gotta be the most underrated marines
It was 3 chapters: a White Scar, Iron Snake and Silver Guard
That's no regular guardsman. That's Mkoll.
Mkoll is a certified bad ass, if I remember correctly he single-handedly took down a chaos dreadnought.
with plants.
I don't know what's more badass, making three marines laugh or taking out a chaos dreadnought. Either way, the Ghosts are always in good hands.
Never underestimate a normal Human Space Marines
"that why we always win"
such a gigachad guardman
You said Gaunt's Ghosts and I legit went 😮😮😮. It would be.😂❤
I freakin love Mkoll
He and the other Ghosts are so damn funny and interesting.
I am enjoying these stories. Keep it up!
Mkoll also managed to get the drop on a Dark Eldar Mandrake who was hunting him. In a later story, he also killed several hundred blood pact while injured, got captured, killed his prison guards, then killed a super human Chaos leader.
Space marine: But if you trigger this trap, you will die.
Oam Mkoll: killing you was the point living through it was just a luxury.
"But, you will die."
"I fail to see where that's a problem"
If you get a laugh out a white scar
You aight my man
You said "Mkoll" and I knew that was a wrap 🤣
The last line is metal af
Mkoll is a terrifying presence
And just like that he gained their respect
Ah yes, Mkoll. The Tanith's cooler Chuck Norris. Coolest dude ever.
MKoll is what you would call a VETERAN Sergeant in a very veteran and elite guards unit.
Its very on brand for the white scars to get caught by a trap in training and laugh about it. They are some of the better marines imo
Having played IG in a lot of 40K games, can confirm. If I lose 3 squads and 4 armored vehicles to kill 5 Space Marines, I WIN.
And this is only 1 of the many many badass things Gaunts Ghosts have achieved.
They have experienced divine interventions and were chosen by saint Sabbat as their bodyguards personally.
These mad lads are just something else
Its cool that the marines were such good sports about it
Afterwards:
"Make this man a Primaris!"
"lol" said the guardsman, "lmao"
Its always nice when gaurdsmen and space marines can laugh together
Mkoll is on another level. He even outsmarted an eldar hunter
No guardsmen you can’t beat space marines!
Mkoll: Nah I’d win
'Ahem', and I quote: "NU UH"
MKoll is probably one of the best guardsman ever. The shit he does in the gaunts ghost series is amazing
Honestly these Guardsmen and Space Marine interactions are always the coolest
Best part is when he opens the "bombs" full of rations and the marines are in disbelief and start laughing😂
If you've read all of the gaunts ghosts books, you know Mkoll is more like a 1-man-army than anything else.
Beware of incoming major spoilers and don't read any further if you don't want to know too much of the books yet, including the end.
Mkoll singlehandedly killed a chaos-dreadnought, told the soldier who saw that not to tell anybody about it, because he just did his duty and don't wanted to be bothered by the congratulations.
He outwitted a dark eldar mandrake, one of the most deadly and cunning hunters of the dark eldar, and told him he was quite good before shooting his brains out point blank.
He survived together with gaunt and a special operations team of the first tanith on a chaos-controlled planet, fighting a guerrilla war for a very long time (idk anymore how long exactly, but at least a year), without being corrupted by chaos, which is a feat in itself.
He was captured by the enemy (after killing a lot of them), but he escaped and successfully infiltrated the enemy main base, killing even more of them and in the end made the second in command of the whole chaos-army - a being absolutely pumped with chaos-energy - spend their whole energy until he was forced to flee - ONLY to be pursued by Mkoll through the portal and being killed by him on a lonely beach.
Mkoll is the real Warhammer 40k, i'm telling you. xD
I love this character. Because he's not just absolutely badass, but he is humble and intelligent as well.
He's just what i want from a good 40k-story. 😊
Never doubt Mkoll, the slayer of Magisters
Mkoll is Astartes named character levels of badass. The amount of shit he’s done and survived is astounding. Lets never forget that man killed a chaos dreadnaught using cacti lol
It's rare for a human to impress an Astartes, that dude has bragging rights for the rest of his life!
Chief scouts sergeant Oan Mkoll. I will alway remember that name
Not going to lie this is one of the best military tactical stories I probably ever heard of delivered in a short video. The thing is though because of how outmatched humanity is against its various enemies. I wonder how this will work against an enemy like an Eldar or a Dark Eldar for that matter 🤔?
Lmao Mkoll doesn't give a fuck how pointy their ears are. He's beaten a Dark Eldar mandrake at their own game once he can do it again. Tanith lads are just that good.
Mkoll has killed a rampaging chaos dreadnought. Albeit a blind one
@@Angels510 😳 That's still drastically impressive. Those things are chaos abominations, they can practically smell the souls of people they want to crush beneath their gargantuan feet.
@@ThatRatBastard He Killed a Mandrake?! And this guy isn't some warp touched Emperor blessed figure like Saint Celestine or Sly Marbo?! 😱
@@trailblazerlazerrazerd9027 yeah, and he outstealthed the bastard in the process
White Scar: You will die too?
Guardsman: That is all we ever do. We die standing.
_"Had the Kryptonian or the Amazon made that gamble, they would have lost. They do not have the strength of character to destroy an entire planet to achieve success, but you? A human? Youd kill your own kind to win battles; an admirable quality. "_
That's not a lone Gaurdsmen, that's Scout Sargeant Mkoll, dude killed a Chaos Dreadnaught with a plant, he is approaching Sly Marbo in terms of lethality...
It's honestly one of the biggest issues W40k has... Nothing is more powerful than a named character.
Put an IG vs a bloodthirster. Thirster wins 100% of the time.
Put a named IG vs a bloodthirster. Named IG wins.
They're buoys of light in the grim dark. Levity. Constant grim dark and nothing else and it would probably not be such a popular/loved franchise. Stories need heroes.
@@HidingSleeper A guardsman taking on a squad of space marines is not a hero... it's Imperial propaganda.
Seriously. It doesn't add, it simply detracts from the enemies of the Imperium... And if the Imperium can just smash its enemies. It's not grimdark... it's a joke
@@Trehlas no not really, every faction has it's named badasses and it makes sense because why would you tell a story like that if you can't be creative? Would it be better when you have the same situation but the marines absolutely stomp the IG? No because there are already so many stories where that happens.
@@florianhenkel111 Marines stomping IG makes sense... having a single IG stomp a squad of marines doesn't.
As for each faction's badasses... Non-Imperial badasses exist so they can get smashed by the Imperium. Chaos is the biggest joke of a faction in the entire setting.
Just look at Abbadon... Has he ever won? I mean straight up win, not won by default. Abbadon is a joke character.
Or stepping away from Chaos... remember when Eldar avatar's were supposed to be this badass monster that wrecks his enemies... Half the Imperium has beaten one by now... I'm exaggerating... but Christ... there's nothing impressive about Chaos and there's definitely nothing impressive about an avatar of Khaine.
Sometimes, consider; There's a reason they had a book written about them. Sometimes it is just cool to have underdogs win.
I'm waiting for a moment where something like this happens and the Space Marines just say "It's a shame you weren't made into an Astarted, you'd fit right in."
“Thats why we always win” is cold af
Imperial guard for the win!!!
Imagine losing 4 space marine to take centuries to train and billions to arm just to be killed by ur local sergent 😂
When the "GG WP" comes from a space marine, you know you did well.
A named space marine is badass. A named guardsman is unstoppable.
This is the type of shxt that gets you full honors into Valhalla
White scars be chill like that. Seriously the “Good” space marine chapters are the best.
Chad moment to the guardsman, but respect to the Space Marines for taking it in stride as well.
I just realized... he called him "sergeant" instead of guardsman. They showed genuine respect in the face of conviction