Hmmm a sudden ice age followed up by a great calamity? Sounds like the actions of that champion of Tzeentch: Scrat from the Ice Age movies. He was continuing his quest searching for his own chaos artifact: a single Acorn from the very first Ice Age. In Scrat’s haste to acquire his artifact, he has caused thousands of worlds across the aeons to fall into ice ages of their own
Damn I must be getting old, time was I would have seen that right off the bat. "The most unassuming of guises hide the greatest of evils." - from The Great Big Book of Inquisition Stuff, chapter 17 : Crazy Critters, Chaos, and Cheese Blintzes.
Being prepared for winter is indeed a complicated thing. A foot of snow in San Francisco is an apocalyptic event. A foot of snow in Fairbanks Alaska is Tuesday.
@@Turnil321 Texas people make me laugh. They get a layer of FROST and close down schools. Not even ice, just FROST. Where as I remember going to school, even the highways you can't see the road, and 4-8 feet of snow beside the roads everywhere you look.
@@Nempo13 1. We get legit snow once a decade IF we're lucky. So we basically treat it like a holiday due to rarity. 2. We Texans are incapable of driving in even light rain, let alone frozen conditions. The death toll climbs unreasonably high on those occasion XD
in reference to snow goggles, they are equipped with them, on a couple of occasions jurgen has to give cain a pair to protect his eyes as cain either forgets to bring them or does not have the time to properly equip himself before planet fall, due to the apparent necessity for cain to crash into whatever planet he is going to be working on
ahh, Cain...the luckiest man in 40k. finds AND likes a blank. has a relationship with a sain Inquisitor. A close one. surviews fighting deamons, mutants, heritics, orks, eldar, dark eldar and emperor knows wath elese without getting corrupted by Chaos or getting purged by an Inquisitor because he knows about chaos or a few other things.
@@robertnelson9599 was just starting listening to WH40k audiobooks and out 8 Ciaphas Cain's and 3 Dark Imperiums, there are 0 interesting spacemarines, apart from Rob G, they dont talk and if they talk they talk about duty.
I like the big big armor bois. People shit on them because they've been into 40k forever, me having only gotten into it a few years ago i still really like em. Mostly cause im a big fan of the Dune books.
Grabbing a free floating chunk of metal, strapping engines to it and then flying it into a garden world with enough force to fling it into a stable orbit further from its sun. That sounds like Brutal Kunnin' to me!
Imagine a 40K fps game about Valhallans fighting Orks on a random ice world. Climbing glaciers, navigating snowstorms, tunneling beneath the ice, all with huge green monstrosities charging at you while screaming like maniacs.
I imagine this planet's hive citys like a a ton of Frospunk generators on top of each other... With the same death by frostbite, work accidents and "work accidents"...
I did the same thing for my cadians i bought the steel legion squad as a kid with the intention of making a army only to realise that was the only steel legion models still in production
Thats why I got so pissed about my guard army personally. I ran a forge world PDF unit (years before the skitarii or mechanicus codex release. I did a pair of cadians as bodyguards and a 10 man metal catachan veteran squad as a detachment snatched by an adept and had to kit bash the rest from anything I could find. An enginseer , tech marine, and forge master all were cobbled to be my commander. GW could probably get by with selling rulebooks alone and models at the side, but the kitbashing banned approach probably has cost them more than anyone could guess. At this point I really think the lore is the only thing keeping 40k relevant.
And even then, American trappers were wearing similar headgear as early as the 19th century. It's not a complicated design, I wouldn't be surprised to see Europeans wearing it even earlier than that
@@bandaid6550, the design is a Slavic one, which saw many variants over the centuries. My comment is about it’s adoption by the Soviet army properly as a part of their normal headgear.
With the way GW has gone with Kislev and the Space Wolves I was half expecting space vikings wielding cryo ammunition and explosives with a name like that.
Cryo weapons would be too powerful. They allow you to seal away buildings with ice, modify the terrain, prolong sieges by freezing excessive units, make salvaging gear much harder for enemies and more. Think of it like Mr Freeze's technology being mass produced.
@@Hippo_HegemonyLove old evil eye, but no commissar cain is hilarious and I know Arch can make it even better. " Plus Cain has bested every foe of the imperium..... at least according to the order xenos. You can disagree but you will get a knock on your door.
one of my fave warhammer comics is about a squad of valhallans that meets a bunch of space wolves during a tyranid invasion. its called lone wolves and the art is fantastic. :)
I think I have that comic somewhere. Tho if memory, serves, they were called slavok instead of valhallan (could be an early name for them), will have to check, will add in edit. Edit to add: found and re-read, it does say slavok as their regiment (even if they got the valhallan outfits).
Yes! Another Guard episode! We need more of these. I'd love to see one on Vostroya and their Firstborn Regiments since they are my favorite regiment of them all. Edit: Plus I'm adept to the cold, thanks to my home being Wisconsin in the US, so these guys and Vostroya are perfect homes for me.
Ci-Ci-Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! On that note, and given your earlier video on the inquisition......can we expect a video on "the only sane Inquisitor in the Galaxy"?😉
@@Kombereloni Well, the guy who said that was also banging said Inquisitor, so he was both wearing rose tinted goggles and is wary of her speed dial to the Officio Assasinorum.....
@@LupusAries Now, now. As much as I might question the apparent sanity (compared to average humanity that is, compared to average Inquisitor, she is insanely sane and such :D ) of our beloved Agent of His Holy Inquisition, you should not besmirch her. She would never contact Officio Assasinorum for an indiscretion. She is a big girl who cleans after her messes herself. (Main Gundeck of Battleships may be involved.)
@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 Probably a very good idea given her reaction to the facts a few decades, if not a century later, after he was dead. Although I wonder what his reaction to anyone disparaging our (and incidently) his favourite Inquisitor.....Laspistol or Chainsword? (Duel very much optional....)
As a person born in the Soviet Union in 1991, who spent a childhood in the dashing 90s and survived all the economic crises, epidemics and seen Chelyabinsk meteorite live, I can understand the Valhallans too well. They will probably outlive everyone out of spite.
@@comradekenobi6908 I was a student at South Ural State University. The explosion occurred south of the main building when I was getting out of a bus. And it caused not a small amount of broken glass. As a result, classes that day were disrupted. Not many people nowadays are fans of astronomy, and therefore the first version was a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear munition. However, the electronics continued to work, as a result, there was practically no panic. Emanzhelinsk got hit a bit harder.
I remember in a Chaiphas Cain book (The last ditch I think) that they emerged from a cavern out into a blizzard and Cain immediately goes snow blind because he forgot his goggles and his soldiers were laughing at him while they helped him out with a spare set.
personally in my own head cannon the stock Valhallen ice warrior models are basically their summer / more temperate uniforms for offworld use when they aren't deployed to icy death worlds. As such it would be pretty cool to kit bash some custom vahallen ice warriors in proper extreme weather equipment with great coats going over the body suits would be fun imho.
Shivering heavily-bundled-up guardsman sees Valhallan casually walk up in a great coat: “How are you not freezing?!? That doesn’t look Nearly as insulated as is needed for this frozen hellhole!! 😫” “Hm? Oh, yeah, this weather isn’t so bad. Almost as cold as a hot summer day on Valhalla. But the winters….. Oh~ boy, the winters.. What you’re wearing is basically a children’s school uniform. 😊”
Many times in the Cain books he'll make note of how inured to cold the Valhallans are, simply not caring about or even enjoying the cold temperatures at various levels. Usually once each book he'll make a comment about a particular Valhallan busy at some job and "And dear Emperor his great coat was open!" or one book where they were deployed to an ice world the regiment was treating it as a second home.
I think the main one you're thinking of is Caves of Ice where upon landing on the ice world Sima Orlichae, they have to promptly break up a number of snowball fights from the Valhallans who are all too happy to have ice under their feet, including taking off their great coats because of course this is "warm weather" for them. The other repeated joke is, of course, that they tend to turn up any air conditioning to the point where the breath mists in the air.
The extra cloth wrapped around the valhallans chest could be more inspired by troops in the American Civil war. Troops on both sides tended to take their blankets (either the wool blanket or the rubber gum blanket) and wrap up their belongings in it to keep track of it and offer slight protection from a saber cut… or I’m just giving GW too much credit. I’ll let all of you decide.
I like the fact you looked back on real life history, very much a good thing to point out. However, it’s probably you giving GW too much credit unfortunately. They don’t seem the most… historically adept in many cases.
I’ve seen pics from ww1 and ww2 mainly of Russian soldiers with there blanket or poncho tied around their chest ... tho most commonly seen in civil war pics , it’s was done by many armies from many time spans as a quick way to carry your combat essentials , and if your army has a lack of proper equipment
I can remember the article in white dwarf when the 2nd edition 40k imperial guard was being all flavoured up. They were no different to any of the other guard squads on the table but having more than cadians painted up in different colours made the guard actually worth looking at.
As a heating installations engineer I can only imagine what a headache was to deal with the heat loss on an entire city placed inside a overglorified icebreg ...
@@reliantncc1864 It still means you basicly have to mantain a livable temperature around a mountain of a city . I say around because a that point it might be more efficent to just build a huge dome around it. But then again its the 40k , they might just have some dark era tech that can take care of it ...
@@iulian943 An advanced city produces heat as a waste product even if it didn't want to. Start up some energy production and see if you can avoid making heat. A city of this sort would probably be using its own waste heat, unless they're very stupid (something I don't discount in 40k humanity). And ice will do little to cause heat loss to anything it's not in direct contact with.
@@reliantncc1864 From personal experience an industrial building can barely heat itself when it works at maximum capacity , no way you can constantly heat a mountain that way. Its better to just fotify the hive by making a dome like structure around it and use its geothermal power source (to my knowlege hives generally have one , but considering what happened to Valhalla we don't know if it still works) to keep the inside of the hive heated rather that trying to heat every city block. (besides meters of steel tend to keep orks outside better that meters of ice)
If I remember right the Ice warrior uniform does indeed come with a pair of specially made goggles for there home environment, I believe it was brought up in one of the Cain novels vary briefly as Cain stepped out into a winter environment and forgot to put his goggles on and almost froze his eyes shut and one of the Valhallans had to give his a hand. Also I strongly believe that the Valhallans border on being Abhumans due in part to there unusual resistance towards the cold as Cain often times comments on how they love to keep there barracks and command centers just cold enough to see there own breath and that's treated as normal room temperature, often when they get a chance to deploy onto cold weather areas on other worlds they just talk about how nice the weather feels implying to me that Valhalla is a vary cold world even when compared to other cold worlds
The Valhallans being a mix of the different parties in the Eastern front makes the most sense yeah. Guerrilla warfare in the snow was Finland's bread and butter
The Valhallans, the making of Warmaster Slaydo, and the men that made Commissar Colonel Gaunt from a snivelling Commissar Cadet into the steel backed Tanith leader he is today.
No fcking way! I just went through your imperial guard lore vids and looked at the last time you made one, and thought, " Yeah, it's dead, his not gonna make more". Then BOOM you make a new one! Amazing! Keep up the good work, love your videos
Gotta remember he's got like 10 or 15 seperate lore series he goes thru. Do hope he does the vostrayian first born cause they sound interesting as hell.
In Russian language it is Ushanka, in Norwegian it's (i write it as it is phonetically pronounced) Bjønnfitte as long as you are in the army. I guess in a kids store they would call it earflap hat or some other non vulgar nonsense.
anything in particular you are looking for? arch has several videos on the subject. the black ships, 40k imperial psykers, the warhammer fantasy version, orc versions, addaptus assasinorum, blanks/untouchables... if you want to id be happy to dig up a few of his videos on the subject from the last 5 years.
I could swear that there was a civvie in Caves of Ice that actually seemed to at least be indifferent to Tanna when Cain gave him a cup while they were questioning him.
Great work as always Arch, your Norwegian insight into cold weather really brings this to life. One thing I've always thought when it came to the Valhallan great coats, is that the coat it self is multi layered, with removable lining. Combined with the Valhallans developed cold resistants (shirt sleeves rolled up at 0°C and calling it balmy) and things start to make a bit of scence. Also a "woolen" or spacewoolen great coat in a warzone makes is a perfect top layer as wool is often more fire retardant than synthetics. Meaning that its less likely for them to go up inflames the moment a piece of hor shrapnel hits the material. From personal experience I've had fresh from the forge hit my woolen cloak at a re-enactment event to no effect but a mild singe and seen someone at the same even in a synthetic costume wind up with 3rd degree burns. Anyway end rant because i could go on for hours.
Warhammer 40K lore, after the Rings of Power review-rant? Busy, busy Arch, indeed. Seriously though, thank you for your contents. I was wondering whether you will continue the Imperial Guard regiments video, and here you are, with one of my favorite regiments, whose Commissar (or was it an officer?) had one time shared _Mjöd_ with the *Space Wolves,* and not dead from the experience.
At 1:00 as a Canadian living in the northern part of the country I totally get you .... and as a joke people say to newcomers : Welcome , we are born here and you what's your excuse ? XD
That little rant about the not-so-wintery winter uniforms makes me want to see your take on a properly designed Ice Warrior uniform (with the 40k aesthetic, of course), similar to that WH Fantasy Ice Guard redesign you commissioned some years back.
I suspect it would look very similar to the actual Soviet Winter uniform, and frankly I would not disagree with that. Relatively cheap but effective. Colour does not even matter because you can just throw a camouflaged loose outer covering over it.
Valhallan Ice Warriors: Low in number (comparatively speaking) due to the world they live on. Also Valhallan Ice Warriors: Have a famous captain that favours human wave tactics.
Great video once again! I just wanted to let you know that this video got me to read (listen to on Audible) the Ciaphus Caine series for the first time and I absolutely loved it! I read through the series (bar the last which hasn’t been narrated yet) in about 3 weeks. I just couldn’t stop listening! Thanks for getting me to read the series and keep up with the great lore videos!
I remember an old comic about a guardsmen on Ice World fighting Tyranids to encounter a pack of Space Wolves. They had the Vahallen uniforms but they were Slavok I think. Vahalla is the standard for all Imperial Guard Artic Pattern uniforms. Found it ua-cam.com/video/lH9GS75_9cM/v-deo.html
There was a white dwarf comic where they held off orks while awaiting space wolf relief forces. Under manned, under supplied, under siege they held the wall. The orks never attacked because the valihans never left their positions. We find out at the end of the comic that the poor bastard in charge, after the rest of the officer corps had died of course, had instead ordered the men who were going to die of cold and starvation out to the wall. So that they would freeze to death, but they'd be frozen upright. Thus creating grisly scarecrows from the corpses of his own men. The officer and the other soldiers joked to the space marines about it. As the shot pans out and we see the dead and frozen soldiers, we realize that before they died some of them realized the plan before they died, and were laughing as they died.
When it comes to the Greatcoat versus a Snow suit it's a balancing act. The Greatcoat while letting some heat escape also provides ventilation for moisture. Something that's very important when doing anaerobic activity (such as combat) since otherwise you end up drenched in your own sweat, which when you stop really cools you down (water is a better conductor than air). It also helps protect against falling snow since it just flows off and avoids direct contact with with thighs (where you have big arteries). The snow suits major benefit is in their mobility which is why their used in winter sports.
The Valhallan's are great and would be a fun formation to play as in a RTS no base building just given your troops and against Orks and later some Demons.
Side note on the Valhallans = Russians thing - their Chimaeras come with built-in samovars. That's both a nod to British armoured vehicles having built-in tea kettles, and the Valhallans being based on Russian stereotypes.
Hey, I know you might not see this. And you might hate the idea. But I love every single one of your HHeresy video break downs. The series and your series mean a lot to me. If you could still keep doing them. Even if it’s ever 2-3months or so. You’d make a collage student a very happy guardsmen. Cheers and all the support in what you’re up to!
No, you want loose layers, except the one closest to the skin. If they are too tight then you risk cutting off the circulation, which you do not want to do in extreme cold. Bad things happen.
I read a memoir from a marine in teh Korean war (battle of chosin reservoir) and they were issued a great coat like uniform addition, and he said that they were perfect, even in negative degrees, so i think the great coat design with good pants ect could work, but not alone.
Sorry, but that is not *extreme* cold. Cold yes, but not Arctic or Antarctic cold, and that is what Arch is meaning by cold. Arctic/Antarctic cold is on another level, and a greatcoat, no matter how well designed is not enough. Especially in the winter. An Antarctic or Arctic winter is brutal. When in Antarctica my winter clothing consisted of thermal full length 'underwear', a base layer (usually made of wool), insulating fleece as third layer, then the winter suit over all of that. In addition multiple pairs of socks following the same principle, balaclava style face and head covering and goggles. The gloves were also layered with a thin skin layer, middle layer of fleece style, and finally the outer winter gloves. That meant I could remove one or more layers of gloves if I needed to and not risk damage to my hands through exposure, or accidentally touching something metal with bare flesh (to be avoided!). And all made up of wicking material, one thing Arch did not mention is not only are you trying to keep the heat in, you also need to allow the moisture out. Hence why you need materials that allow the moisture generated to escape while keeping in that warmth. You do not want moisture freezing under your clothing. At best its uncomfortable, at worse it can kill you. I am not saying Chosin or other places are not cold, but that there is a difference between that and extreme cold. Extreme cold requires specialist equipment and clothing. There is no getting around that.
@@alganhar1 Chosin was cold enough the marines had trouble firing their guns because the lubrication had frozen. It takes extreme cold to freeze an oil that's being heated by nearby explosions.
@@tyrannosaurusimperator on par with winter war or bit less. So yes, it was really damn cold. On the other hand Finnish and soviet guns worked well enough, so maybe the oil was fair weather rated. But as a Finn instead of rambling here's a tl;dr if your thing can't handle extreme cold, it's a little bit shit.
Their coat looks like a rather artistically licensed version of a Finnish M36 great coat. 10/10 recommend peeping "Varusteleka" here and there and picking up Swedish/Norwegian/Finish military surplus on the cheap! My Swedish army jacket from the 50s is 100% wool and denim and only cost like 45$
Interestingly people from very cold places are often cold wimps in my experience as they HAVE TO have good heating, warm housing, suitable clothes etc.
This goes the other way too. I hear people from hotter places who live quite happily in their air conditioned homes with temperatures ~20 degrees above people who are suffering in the heat.
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When talking about the greatcoat the wrap, around their torso, on top of the coat would be a poncho, that also works as a shelter half, or when put together with another, a 2 man tent. Plus, can't they have "space magic materials" for their underlayers?
One thing id like to say about the greatcoat vs a suit is weight and bulk. I used to work in ND in the winter and it was not uncommon to see -40F windchill weather or even lower in some extreme cases. When your lugging around a bunch of equipment and supplies it doesnt seem like much but it adds up. When i switched from a full set of winter overalls, over winter clothing, over the top of street clothing, over long underwear. And instead just had a heated set of winter gear while not AS warm as the suit, the extra range of movment and about 10 pounds less material to lug around was a big deal. The bulk and restricted movment was the real killer when you were doing hard physical stuff all day. And keep in mind i only had around 20 or 30 pounds of gear on me most of the time. If your lugging around 60-120 pounds of crap ontop of that and with restricted movment/extra bulk and treacherious terrain.....i can see how an much less bulky and lighter insulated and heated great coat could be much more practical. Set it up to run off a laspack which i have ZERO doubt has MORE then enough power to keep you warm for quite a long time and well...... Course as i learned first hand if that heat source fails then your in for a pretty bad bloody day.
Maaaan, I fucking love the Ciaphas Cain novels so much. This makes me want to reread them again, Arch. Made me like the Valhallan regiment almost as much as I love the Gaunt's Ghosts too!
You want good cold weather gear, you take FDF winter gear. When I did my time 20 years ago, we had a camp when it was around -40 Celsius. When I was on guard duty at night, standing still, snow up to my belly button, I was sweating.
Also thing to consider with custom stock on lasgun.. when you are wearing several layers of insulating clothing, this requires space, hence you are bulkier and normal stock might become hence too long for optimal draw distance. Further more since you would be wearing thick gloves... well those look like simple leather gloves but yes there is several ways to deal with it like mentioned heating elements so you dont freeze your fingers off with plain leather gloves, those things take again space, so your trigger guard needs to be enlarged so gloved finger can fit easily to pull the trigger.. though in extreme cold climate you would want to use mittens, though military version witch had your index finger as separate from the rest like your thumb as well, or there is folded cut so you can stick your finger out to fire, but thats more of on the fly solution and has issues like finger freezing on prolonged fire fight. Also any grease or oil used in the gun needs to be thinner, since it will stiffen in the cold and in las weapon, probably have some system to heat up the lenses so those wont fog up and cause distortions that effect the power of the beam and worse case direct some of the energy into frame of the weapon. As Arch mentioned winterizing and operating over all in cold climate is very tough and needs ridiculous amount of preparations and logistics. Cant have half of your army end up into field hospital for severe frost damage, if your logisticians fucked up and didnt send enough warm socks to front for instance.
a point of note If you are wearing armor of any sort in a cold climate then generally covering it all up with a greatcoat is probably the best way..with sets of layers underneath the armor
Ahhhh,,, so nice to hear Arch speaking his mind as he contemplates the coming of winter. That's enough cope to warm my Southern Delta heart!❤🔥 My one brush with stupid cold while surveying the mountain tops in New York during a record breaking winter with a mere -17F with a steady 15 to 25 mile an hour wind sweeping across the land was the only time in my life I almost called the home office to tell them to go get 🖕 I'm going home. 🥶7 I salute you madlads. Pack in extra Arch,,, it's going to be a cold one I think.
@@Warrior-Of-Virtue I once again found myself astonished at the unyielding loyalty for my own wellness displayed by my aid. "I've got a sandwich for you here also, it's somewhere..."
Hmmm a sudden ice age followed up by a great calamity? Sounds like the actions of that champion of Tzeentch: Scrat from the Ice Age movies. He was continuing his quest searching for his own chaos artifact: a single Acorn from the very first Ice Age. In Scrat’s haste to acquire his artifact, he has caused thousands of worlds across the aeons to fall into ice ages of their own
This makes far too much sense; it brings a smile to my face.
And Sid is the champion of nurgle
Yus, THIS is the Imperial Truth.
Damn I must be getting old, time was I would have seen that right off the bat. "The most unassuming of guises hide the greatest of evils." - from The Great Big Book of Inquisition Stuff, chapter 17 : Crazy Critters, Chaos, and Cheese Blintzes.
I'd like to remove the "R" from his name XD
As someone with a deep and abiding hatred of warm weather, Valhalla sounds like a wonderful place.
Hell yeah it does
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How the hell did you get the video 23 hr ago..... Very very very jealous
@@curbnug3487 Patreon etc.
@@NainakaiAyita ahhh thank you. I can ride the dragon early now. Need my fix
"Food is ready comrades, Valhallan Green Curry, is traditional dish from orc invasion." - A Valhallan preparing food for his regiment
Well, no sense letting them go to waste.
" ahhh Igor, you hideous bastard you finally decided to share. didn't babushka feed you enough to put a few ogryns to shame, Blin!"
Being prepared for winter is indeed a complicated thing.
A foot of snow in San Francisco is an apocalyptic event.
A foot of snow in Fairbanks Alaska is Tuesday.
Do you not mean Texas?
@@Turnil321 You might be right given the average San Franciscan's reaction rain....
Well considering the hills and slopes of SFs streets I can imagine the damage from just a layer of ice.
@@Turnil321 Texas people make me laugh. They get a layer of FROST and close down schools. Not even ice, just FROST. Where as I remember going to school, even the highways you can't see the road, and 4-8 feet of snow beside the roads everywhere you look.
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1. We get legit snow once a decade IF we're lucky. So we basically treat it like a holiday due to rarity.
2. We Texans are incapable of driving in even light rain, let alone frozen conditions. The death toll climbs unreasonably high on those occasion XD
in reference to snow goggles, they are equipped with them, on a couple of occasions jurgen has to give cain a pair to protect his eyes as cain either forgets to bring them or does not have the time to properly equip himself before planet fall, due to the apparent necessity for cain to crash into whatever planet he is going to be working on
ahh, Cain...the luckiest man in 40k.
finds AND likes a blank.
has a relationship with a sain Inquisitor. A close one.
surviews fighting deamons, mutants, heritics, orks, eldar, dark eldar and emperor knows wath elese without getting corrupted by Chaos or getting purged by an Inquisitor because he knows about chaos or a few other things.
Cain left his behind on the book “Caves of Ice”
What the hell is snow??? We don't have that here in Louisiana...we only hear and read about it.
Ah yes, the famous lucky commisar. Great stuff to read (even if he is the unreliable narrator).
Party Crasher? No... PLANET CRASHER. O.o
Spacemarines are nice and all but it's good to see more of human regiments
Space marines are the least interesting part of 40k.
More xeno's lore.
@@malaficus Honestly. I think "pancreas no work" summed it up pretty well
There are interesting space marines, it’s just that they are given too much of the spotlight despite being so few in number in-universe.
@@robertnelson9599 was just starting listening to WH40k audiobooks and out 8 Ciaphas Cain's and 3 Dark Imperiums, there are 0 interesting spacemarines, apart from Rob G, they dont talk and if they talk they talk about duty.
I like the big big armor bois. People shit on them because they've been into 40k forever, me having only gotten into it a few years ago i still really like em. Mostly cause im a big fan of the Dune books.
Grabbing a free floating chunk of metal, strapping engines to it and then flying it into a garden world with enough force to fling it into a stable orbit further from its sun.
That sounds like Brutal Kunnin' to me!
Or kunnin brutality.
Imagine a 40K fps game about Valhallans fighting Orks on a random ice world. Climbing glaciers, navigating snowstorms, tunneling beneath the ice, all with huge green monstrosities charging at you while screaming like maniacs.
Helldivers would a perfect skeleton for this game
"Good job Arch! You tell those Warmlanders how the cold works!"
~your fans in Minnesota and other very cold places.
Fun fact: learn how to survive in cold and you learn mostly how to survive in a desert heat. (layers of wool)
Warmlander is an awesome way to say it
@@oditeomneshumidity would like a word about this
I imagine this planet's hive citys like a a ton of Frospunk generators on top of each other...
With the same death by frostbite, work accidents and "work accidents"...
Ah the good old days when an imperial guard army would be a wild mix of dozens of metal models from a dozen different regiments.
They don't even have a codex this edition yet. 😬
Codex is due out soon. Next in line... after the Squats. But before World Eaters!
I did the same thing for my cadians i bought the steel legion squad as a kid with the intention of making a army only to realise that was the only steel legion models still in production
Thats why I got so pissed about my guard army personally. I ran a forge world PDF unit (years before the skitarii or mechanicus codex release. I did a pair of cadians as bodyguards and a 10 man metal catachan veteran squad as a detachment snatched by an adept and had to kit bash the rest from anything I could find. An enginseer , tech marine, and forge master all were cobbled to be my commander.
GW could probably get by with selling rulebooks alone and models at the side, but the kitbashing banned approach probably has cost them more than anyone could guess. At this point I really think the lore is the only thing keeping 40k relevant.
@@Colonel_Overkill What kitbashing banned approach?
The hat would be called an “Ushanka.”
Oddly enough, the Finns had adopted it prior to the Russians, who adopted it from them after the Winter War.
russians have stolen lots of things which they call now their own inventions.
And even then, American trappers were wearing similar headgear as early as the 19th century. It's not a complicated design, I wouldn't be surprised to see Europeans wearing it even earlier than that
@@bandaid6550, the design is a Slavic one, which saw many variants over the centuries.
My comment is about it’s adoption by the Soviet army properly as a part of their normal headgear.
Pretty sure the Ushanka doesn't have ear flaps. It's just the top
Edit: never mind I've just only seen them with the flaps tied up
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With the way GW has gone with Kislev and the Space Wolves I was half expecting space vikings wielding cryo ammunition and explosives with a name like that.
Cryo weapons would be too powerful. They allow you to seal away buildings with ice, modify the terrain, prolong sieges by freezing excessive units, make salvaging gear much harder for enemies and more. Think of it like Mr Freeze's technology being mass produced.
Sounds like 40k to me.
Don't give them any ideas.
Cryo weapons: weapons of the cultured indeed.
No the valhallans are better there space soviets with mass infantry waves and flamethrowers out the ass
You have to do Cain after this. The greatest hero of the imperium.
I believe you meant Sebastian Yarrick
@@Hippo_HegemonyLove old evil eye, but no commissar cain is hilarious and I know Arch can make it even better. " Plus Cain has bested every foe of the imperium..... at least according to the order xenos. You can disagree but you will get a knock on your door.
@@Hippo_Hegemony Cain has come back after being declared dead so many times it is now an Imperial order to leave his status as alive, permanently.
@@Nempo13 It was easier than constantly sending the Administratum new paperwork every time his status changed.
A Ciaphas Cain video would be great, he's one of my favourite Imperial Heroes/Commissars.
one of my fave warhammer comics is about a squad of valhallans that meets a bunch of space wolves during a tyranid invasion. its called lone wolves and the art is fantastic. :)
I think I have that comic somewhere. Tho if memory, serves, they were called slavok instead of valhallan (could be an early name for them), will have to check, will add in edit. Edit to add: found and re-read, it does say slavok as their regiment (even if they got the valhallan outfits).
Yes! Another Guard episode! We need more of these. I'd love to see one on Vostroya and their Firstborn Regiments since they are my favorite regiment of them all.
Edit: Plus I'm adept to the cold, thanks to my home being Wisconsin in the US, so these guys and Vostroya are perfect homes for me.
Vistroya are awesome, just a shame GW doesn’t sell minis for them anymore.
Nah tanith first needs a proper ep
@@SilenTHerO78614 They can come later. Just because their the "First and Only" doesn't mean they take presidence over other regiments.
@@inductivegrunt94 no they take pride because theres only a handful of the original Tanith First left.
@@SilenTHerO78614 Other Regiments deserve the spotlight too you know. No need to force others to do as you say just because you're a Tanith fanboy.
As someone who lives in an area of the world currently in 30°c/86°Freedom, but very cold in the winter. Arch's Norwegian tangent was very enjoyable.
I hear that, it's 30F here right now, and it is so mild a yr I'm still only wearing sweatshirts.
What is scariest? Valhallan guardsmans play with aircondition? Or Kriegsman play with ventilation? :-D
Neither!
The worst is both doing it at the same time!
Ci-Ci-Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
On that note, and given your earlier video on the inquisition......can we expect a video on "the only sane Inquisitor in the Galaxy"?😉
Sane?...
...ish I guess...
@@Kombereloni Well, the guy who said that was also banging said Inquisitor, so he was both wearing rose tinted goggles and is wary of her speed dial to the Officio Assasinorum.....
@@LupusAries he specifically mentioned that he stopped doing things like that long before he met Amberley
@@LupusAries
Now, now. As much as I might question the apparent sanity (compared to average humanity that is, compared to average Inquisitor, she is insanely sane and such :D ) of our beloved Agent of His Holy Inquisition, you should not besmirch her.
She would never contact Officio Assasinorum for an indiscretion. She is a big girl who cleans after her messes herself. (Main Gundeck of Battleships may be involved.)
@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 Probably a very good idea given her reaction to the facts a few decades, if not a century later, after he was dead.
Although I wonder what his reaction to anyone disparaging our (and incidently) his favourite Inquisitor.....Laspistol or Chainsword? (Duel very much optional....)
As a person born in the Soviet Union in 1991, who spent a childhood in the dashing 90s and survived all the economic crises, epidemics and seen Chelyabinsk meteorite live, I can understand the Valhallans too well. They will probably outlive everyone out of spite.
You saw the meteorite?
@@comradekenobi6908 I was a student at South Ural State University.
The explosion occurred south of the main building when I was getting out of a bus.
And it caused not a small amount of broken glass. As a result, classes that day were disrupted.
Not many people nowadays are fans of astronomy, and therefore the first version was a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear munition. However, the electronics continued to work, as a result, there was practically no panic.
Emanzhelinsk got hit a bit harder.
@@МихаилРозов-ю9п Glad you are safe comrade 👍
I remember in a Chaiphas Cain book (The last ditch I think) that they emerged from a cavern out into a blizzard and Cain immediately goes snow blind because he forgot his goggles and his soldiers were laughing at him while they helped him out with a spare set.
Jurgen help him with a spare cause he is his most trusted aid
It is actually Caves of Ice
@@MyH3ntaiGirl yeah it’s been well over a year since I read that book. i’m not surprised I got that one wrong.
personally in my own head cannon the stock Valhallen ice warrior models are basically their summer / more temperate uniforms for offworld use when they aren't deployed to icy death worlds. As such it would be pretty cool to kit bash some custom vahallen ice warriors in proper extreme weather equipment with great coats going over the body suits would be fun imho.
Shivering heavily-bundled-up guardsman sees Valhallan casually walk up in a great coat: “How are you not freezing?!? That doesn’t look Nearly as insulated as is needed for this frozen hellhole!! 😫”
“Hm? Oh, yeah, this weather isn’t so bad. Almost as cold as a hot summer day on Valhalla. But the winters….. Oh~ boy, the winters.. What you’re wearing is basically a children’s school uniform. 😊”
In the grim dark of the 41st millennium, there exists only.... FaBuLoUs AcCeSsOrIeS!
@UGNAvalon send them onto a humidity filled planet, and suddenly the local gaurds are running around trying to get them to drink water
Many times in the Cain books he'll make note of how inured to cold the Valhallans are, simply not caring about or even enjoying the cold temperatures at various levels. Usually once each book he'll make a comment about a particular Valhallan busy at some job and "And dear Emperor his great coat was open!" or one book where they were deployed to an ice world the regiment was treating it as a second home.
I think the main one you're thinking of is Caves of Ice where upon landing on the ice world Sima Orlichae, they have to promptly break up a number of snowball fights from the Valhallans who are all too happy to have ice under their feet, including taking off their great coats because of course this is "warm weather" for them.
The other repeated joke is, of course, that they tend to turn up any air conditioning to the point where the breath mists in the air.
@@VallornDeathblade Another one is Valhallans taking showers with frigid cold water.
Look, brother. This world is awash with cave slime! Truly, a paradise.
@@VallornDeathblade These guys are a regiment after my own heart
The extra cloth wrapped around the valhallans chest could be more inspired by troops in the American Civil war. Troops on both sides tended to take their blankets (either the wool blanket or the rubber gum blanket) and wrap up their belongings in it to keep track of it and offer slight protection from a saber cut… or I’m just giving GW too much credit. I’ll let all of you decide.
I like the fact you looked back on real life history, very much a good thing to point out. However, it’s probably you giving GW too much credit unfortunately. They don’t seem the most… historically adept in many cases.
I’ve seen pics from ww1 and ww2 mainly of Russian soldiers with there blanket or poncho tied around their chest ... tho most commonly seen in civil war pics , it’s was done by many armies from many time spans as a quick way to carry your combat essentials , and if your army has a lack of proper equipment
I can remember the article in white dwarf when the 2nd edition 40k imperial guard was being all flavoured up.
They were no different to any of the other guard squads on the table but having more than cadians painted up in different colours made the guard actually worth looking at.
As a heating installations engineer I can only imagine what a headache was to deal with the heat loss on an entire city placed inside a overglorified icebreg ...
Igloos work. Presumably similar principles could be used, in combination with the sheer bullheaded stubbornness the Imperium is known for.
@@reliantncc1864 It still means you basicly have to mantain a livable temperature around a mountain of a city . I say around because a that point it might be more efficent to just build a huge dome around it. But then again its the 40k , they might just have some dark era tech that can take care of it ...
@@iulian943 An advanced city produces heat as a waste product even if it didn't want to. Start up some energy production and see if you can avoid making heat. A city of this sort would probably be using its own waste heat, unless they're very stupid (something I don't discount in 40k humanity). And ice will do little to cause heat loss to anything it's not in direct contact with.
@@reliantncc1864 From personal experience an industrial building can barely heat itself when it works at maximum capacity , no way you can constantly heat a mountain that way. Its better to just fotify the hive by making a dome like structure around it and use its geothermal power source (to my knowlege hives generally have one , but considering what happened to Valhalla we don't know if it still works) to keep the inside of the hive heated rather that trying to heat every city block. (besides meters of steel tend to keep orks outside better that meters of ice)
1:20
*Looks at Norway and at Greenland*
Ciaphas Cain references waiting... music starts playing
CIA CIA CIAPHAS CAIN.... HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!!
If I remember right the Ice warrior uniform does indeed come with a pair of specially made goggles for there home environment, I believe it was brought up in one of the Cain novels vary briefly as Cain stepped out into a winter environment and forgot to put his goggles on and almost froze his eyes shut and one of the Valhallans had to give his a hand.
Also I strongly believe that the Valhallans border on being Abhumans due in part to there unusual resistance towards the cold as Cain often times comments on how they love to keep there barracks and command centers just cold enough to see there own breath and that's treated as normal room temperature, often when they get a chance to deploy onto cold weather areas on other worlds they just talk about how nice the weather feels implying to me that Valhalla is a vary cold world even when compared to other cold worlds
These segments on Imperium regiments are great and there aren’t enough of them.
The Valhallans being a mix of the different parties in the Eastern front makes the most sense yeah. Guerrilla warfare in the snow was Finland's bread and butter
Those Russian WWII winter uniforms were noted for being resistant to lower-power bullets, like pistol rounds, due to sheer thickness.
The Valhallans, the making of Warmaster Slaydo, and the men that made Commissar Colonel Gaunt from a snivelling Commissar Cadet into the steel backed Tanith leader he is today.
Also am aware he is now Warmaster, but that credit belongs to the Tanith and Bellaraphon troops of the Tanith First and Only
No fcking way! I just went through your imperial guard lore vids and looked at the last time you made one, and thought, " Yeah, it's dead, his not gonna make more". Then BOOM you make a new one! Amazing! Keep up the good work, love your videos
Gotta remember he's got like 10 or 15 seperate lore series he goes thru. Do hope he does the vostrayian first born cause they sound interesting as hell.
That soviet winter jacket is called "ватник" [vatnik]. It is a quilted jacket stuffed with cotton wool.
The Valhallan regiment, or "how i learned to love the emperor and fight for him in antarctica while being knee deep in snow"
Krieger: cmon cousins let us charge to our glory!
Valhallan with an ice drill: I have a better idea
26:33 "Ushanka" is the name.
In Russian language it is Ushanka, in Norwegian it's (i write it as it is phonetically pronounced) Bjønnfitte as long as you are in the army. I guess in a kids store they would call it earflap hat or some other non vulgar nonsense.
@@oditeomnes Well in my own language we don't even have a name for it. We simply call it "Russian Hat" or "Soviet Headwear" :D
could the next video be a deep dive into psykers? i wanna know all the crazy stuff involved with them, sanctioned or otherwise!
anything in particular you are looking for? arch has several videos on the subject. the black ships, 40k imperial psykers, the warhammer fantasy version, orc versions, addaptus assasinorum, blanks/untouchables...
if you want to id be happy to dig up a few of his videos on the subject from the last 5 years.
Damnit Arch now you got me looking up bear pussies and cold weather gear, it doesn't get that cold in Ohio...often
Not even two minutes in and this guy single handedly offended all seven people who live in the Falklands.
*sits down while Jurgen fetches me a mug of Tanna
I could swear that there was a civvie in Caves of Ice that actually seemed to at least be indifferent to Tanna when Cain gave him a cup while they were questioning him.
Cant wait for to hear what you have on the Vostroyan firstborn. 🖤
Imperium sending disaster relief?
Very funny Arch.
The imperium helping a world.
Good joke.
Great work as always Arch, your Norwegian insight into cold weather really brings this to life.
One thing I've always thought when it came to the Valhallan great coats, is that the coat it self is multi layered, with removable lining.
Combined with the Valhallans developed cold resistants (shirt sleeves rolled up at 0°C and calling it balmy) and things start to make a bit of scence.
Also a "woolen" or spacewoolen great coat in a warzone makes is a perfect top layer as wool is often more fire retardant than synthetics. Meaning that its less likely for them to go up inflames the moment a piece of hor shrapnel hits the material. From personal experience I've had fresh from the forge hit my woolen cloak at a re-enactment event to no effect but a mild singe and seen someone at the same even in a synthetic costume wind up with 3rd degree burns.
Anyway end rant because i could go on for hours.
Warhammer 40K lore, after the Rings of Power review-rant?
Busy, busy Arch, indeed.
Seriously though, thank you for your contents.
I was wondering whether you will continue the Imperial Guard regiments video, and here you are, with one of my favorite regiments, whose Commissar (or was it an officer?) had one time shared _Mjöd_ with the *Space Wolves,* and not dead from the experience.
At 1:00 as a Canadian living in the northern part of the country I totally get you .... and as a joke people say to newcomers : Welcome , we are born here and you what's your excuse ? XD
Chad regiment, and the Caine's novels were great and made me appreciate the conoisseurs of colder climates and most orkophobic of all regiments.
Orkophobia, you think the vallhallan’s are scarred?
@@baker90338 well no, but neither are the muslims afraid of gays, but they still would be considered homophobic.
That little rant about the not-so-wintery winter uniforms makes me want to see your take on a properly designed Ice Warrior uniform (with the 40k aesthetic, of course), similar to that WH Fantasy Ice Guard redesign you commissioned some years back.
I suspect it would look very similar to the actual Soviet Winter uniform, and frankly I would not disagree with that. Relatively cheap but effective. Colour does not even matter because you can just throw a camouflaged loose outer covering over it.
Valhallan Ice Warriors: Low in number (comparatively speaking) due to the world they live on.
Also Valhallan Ice Warriors: Have a famous captain that favours human wave tactics.
Great video once again! I just wanted to let you know that this video got me to read (listen to on Audible) the Ciaphus Caine series for the first time and I absolutely loved it! I read through the series (bar the last which hasn’t been narrated yet) in about 3 weeks. I just couldn’t stop listening! Thanks for getting me to read the series and keep up with the great lore videos!
i thought they wore their armor underneath. If its anything like the modern IBA that I wore, then that shit gets warm quick
I remember an old comic about a guardsmen on Ice World fighting Tyranids to encounter a pack of Space Wolves. They had the Vahallen uniforms but they were Slavok I think. Vahalla is the standard for all Imperial Guard Artic Pattern uniforms.
Found it
ua-cam.com/video/lH9GS75_9cM/v-deo.html
They were also the troops that got infected by the zombie plague that the Thunderwolf Cavalry had to tear through in Thunderwolf
That's a good one.
There was a white dwarf comic where they held off orks while awaiting space wolf relief forces. Under manned, under supplied, under siege they held the wall. The orks never attacked because the valihans never left their positions.
We find out at the end of the comic that the poor bastard in charge, after the rest of the officer corps had died of course, had instead ordered the men who were going to die of cold and starvation out to the wall. So that they would freeze to death, but they'd be frozen upright. Thus creating grisly scarecrows from the corpses of his own men.
The officer and the other soldiers joked to the space marines about it.
As the shot pans out and we see the dead and frozen soldiers, we realize that before they died some of them realized the plan before they died, and were laughing as they died.
Ah yes, my favorite Not-So-But-Really-Red-Army in 40K
When it comes to the Greatcoat versus a Snow suit it's a balancing act.
The Greatcoat while letting some heat escape also provides ventilation for moisture. Something that's very important when doing anaerobic activity (such as combat) since otherwise you end up drenched in your own sweat, which when you stop really cools you down (water is a better conductor than air).
It also helps protect against falling snow since it just flows off and avoids direct contact with with thighs (where you have big arteries).
The snow suits major benefit is in their mobility which is why their used in winter sports.
The Valhallan's are great and would be a fun formation to play as in a RTS no base building just given your troops and against Orks and later some Demons.
Side note on the Valhallans = Russians thing - their Chimaeras come with built-in samovars. That's both a nod to British armoured vehicles having built-in tea kettles, and the Valhallans being based on Russian stereotypes.
I have been eagerly awaiting the Arch video on the Valhallans. And I was not disappointed, in the slightest.
Great job Arch. Keep it up.
A discipline contest between Valhallan Ice Warriors, Krieg Guardsmen, and Mortian Iron Guard.
I can imagine Arch cosplaying as Valhallan in his backyard during Norwegian winter.
Feth Yeah! more 40K IG lore! and Valhallan Ice Warriors!. Can't wait to see you do the Tanith some day!
Hey, I know you might not see this. And you might hate the idea. But I love every single one of your HHeresy video break downs. The series and your series mean a lot to me. If you could still keep doing them. Even if it’s ever 2-3months or so. You’d make a collage student a very happy guardsmen. Cheers and all the support in what you’re up to!
If the great coat was sticky on the inside then it could work, as the coat would act as a second skin which could also be heated
No, you want loose layers, except the one closest to the skin. If they are too tight then you risk cutting off the circulation, which you do not want to do in extreme cold. Bad things happen.
I read a memoir from a marine in teh Korean war (battle of chosin reservoir) and they were issued a great coat like uniform addition, and he said that they were perfect, even in negative degrees, so i think the great coat design with good pants ect could work, but not alone.
Good socks more so. I've done military service in the cold, and it's harder to keep the feet warm than the legs, although the legs certainly matter.
Sorry, but that is not *extreme* cold. Cold yes, but not Arctic or Antarctic cold, and that is what Arch is meaning by cold.
Arctic/Antarctic cold is on another level, and a greatcoat, no matter how well designed is not enough. Especially in the winter. An Antarctic or Arctic winter is brutal. When in Antarctica my winter clothing consisted of thermal full length 'underwear', a base layer (usually made of wool), insulating fleece as third layer, then the winter suit over all of that. In addition multiple pairs of socks following the same principle, balaclava style face and head covering and goggles. The gloves were also layered with a thin skin layer, middle layer of fleece style, and finally the outer winter gloves. That meant I could remove one or more layers of gloves if I needed to and not risk damage to my hands through exposure, or accidentally touching something metal with bare flesh (to be avoided!).
And all made up of wicking material, one thing Arch did not mention is not only are you trying to keep the heat in, you also need to allow the moisture out. Hence why you need materials that allow the moisture generated to escape while keeping in that warmth. You do not want moisture freezing under your clothing. At best its uncomfortable, at worse it can kill you.
I am not saying Chosin or other places are not cold, but that there is a difference between that and extreme cold. Extreme cold requires specialist equipment and clothing. There is no getting around that.
@@alganhar1 Chosin was cold enough the marines had trouble firing their guns because the lubrication had frozen. It takes extreme cold to freeze an oil that's being heated by nearby explosions.
@@tyrannosaurusimperator on par with winter war or bit less. So yes, it was really damn cold. On the other hand Finnish and soviet guns worked well enough, so maybe the oil was fair weather rated. But as a Finn instead of rambling here's a tl;dr if your thing can't handle extreme cold, it's a little bit shit.
Their coat looks like a rather artistically licensed version of a Finnish M36 great coat.
10/10 recommend peeping "Varusteleka" here and there and picking up Swedish/Norwegian/Finish military surplus on the cheap! My Swedish army jacket from the 50s is 100% wool and denim and only cost like 45$
The greatcoat along with another coat as well as the quilted jacket were used as the cold weather uniform.
As someone living in a country with harsh winters, I can attest that the cave slime isn't so bad.
You mean Commissar Cain's most glorious soldiers. Why? Because they have pretty good tea.
Where do they find wood for their lasguns? Being ice world and everything...
Imports i guess
@@silver4831 Hmm, true there must be some massive forest farm planet in Imperium. Actually probably not the worst job.
We can grow tree's indoor in modern time.
40k tech shoud be able too.
@@malaficus Can, but would they? Trees are not best eating and I think food is slightly more pressing matter.
You might expect metal more likely, or made of a composite partly made of local ceramic.
Jacob Gellar has a fantastic video on the impact of cold which might help explicate the real struggle early valhallans would face
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO BY THE EMPERORS FINEST ....
ALL HAIL THE HOLY EMPEROR
Yes! My favorite angry ice popsickles!
Greetings and salutations Arch! Good to have you in my feed heck yeah!
Valhalla was 40k Frost Punk before FrostPunk became a thing ...
Remove references to Valhalla and we basically have Space Canadians.
Interestingly people from very cold places are often cold wimps in my experience as they HAVE TO have good heating, warm housing, suitable clothes etc.
This goes the other way too. I hear people from hotter places who live quite happily in their air conditioned homes with temperatures ~20 degrees above people who are suffering in the heat.
When talking about the greatcoat the wrap, around their torso, on top of the coat would be a poncho, that also works as a shelter half, or when put together with another, a 2 man tent.
Plus, can't they have "space magic materials" for their underlayers?
So with the Valhallans done, Ciaphas Cain next please?
i am appreciating the adjacency to cain here
keep them regiment coming its very cool to know about each different world they come from / mentality /what forged them! thx for the video
Really appreciate the background music really lends these videos a very story book like feel if that makes any sense.
One thing id like to say about the greatcoat vs a suit is weight and bulk. I used to work in ND in the winter and it was not uncommon to see -40F windchill weather or even lower in some extreme cases. When your lugging around a bunch of equipment and supplies it doesnt seem like much but it adds up.
When i switched from a full set of winter overalls, over winter clothing, over the top of street clothing, over long underwear. And instead just had a heated set of winter gear while not AS warm as the suit, the extra range of movment and about 10 pounds less material to lug around was a big deal. The bulk and restricted movment was the real killer when you were doing hard physical stuff all day. And keep in mind i only had around 20 or 30 pounds of gear on me most of the time.
If your lugging around 60-120 pounds of crap ontop of that and with restricted movment/extra bulk and treacherious terrain.....i can see how an much less bulky and lighter insulated and heated great coat could be much more practical. Set it up to run off a laspack which i have ZERO doubt has MORE then enough power to keep you warm for quite a long time and well......
Course as i learned first hand if that heat source fails then your in for a pretty bad bloody day.
Don't they wear some sort of padded clothing like the Tologreika?
Now we know where Inquisitor Arch is from, and why he knows so much about orks.
Given the calorie requirements for Arctic operations they must have a very effecting slime farming system
Reminds me of the fins and the reds
21:33 yeah my thought exactly
And after listening for quite a while, I had no idea that you were Norwegian!! Well done!
Maaaan, I fucking love the Ciaphas Cain novels so much. This makes me want to reread them again, Arch. Made me like the Valhallan regiment almost as much as I love the Gaunt's Ghosts too!
Been waiting for this one for a while
in the 2nd cain book there is a bit where he talks about how goggles are part of the standard valhallan kit
Love you Arch! Have a good one.
You want good cold weather gear, you take FDF winter gear.
When I did my time 20 years ago, we had a camp when it was around -40 Celsius.
When I was on guard duty at night, standing still, snow up to my belly button, I was sweating.
Finally!!!! I have been waiting for years for another regiment of reknown!!!
Coats are for keeping the wind/weather off of your clothing. Less about keeping you warm as keeping your clothes dry, so you stay warm.
Also thing to consider with custom stock on lasgun.. when you are wearing several layers of insulating clothing, this requires space, hence you are bulkier and normal stock might become hence too long for optimal draw distance. Further more since you would be wearing thick gloves... well those look like simple leather gloves but yes there is several ways to deal with it like mentioned heating elements so you dont freeze your fingers off with plain leather gloves, those things take again space, so your trigger guard needs to be enlarged so gloved finger can fit easily to pull the trigger.. though in extreme cold climate you would want to use mittens, though military version witch had your index finger as separate from the rest like your thumb as well, or there is folded cut so you can stick your finger out to fire, but thats more of on the fly solution and has issues like finger freezing on prolonged fire fight.
Also any grease or oil used in the gun needs to be thinner, since it will stiffen in the cold and in las weapon, probably have some system to heat up the lenses so those wont fog up and cause distortions that effect the power of the beam and worse case direct some of the energy into frame of the weapon. As Arch mentioned winterizing and operating over all in cold climate is very tough and needs ridiculous amount of preparations and logistics. Cant have half of your army end up into field hospital for severe frost damage, if your logisticians fucked up and didnt send enough warm socks to front for instance.
a point of note If you are wearing armor of any sort in a cold climate then generally covering it all up with a greatcoat is probably the best way..with sets of layers underneath the armor
Ahhhh,,, so nice to hear Arch speaking his mind as he contemplates the coming of winter. That's enough cope to warm my Southern Delta heart!❤🔥
My one brush with stupid cold while surveying the mountain tops in New York during a record breaking winter with a mere -17F with a steady 15 to 25 mile an hour wind sweeping across the land was the only time in my life I almost called the home office to tell them to go get 🖕 I'm going home.
🥶7 I salute you madlads.
Pack in extra Arch,,, it's going to be a cold one I think.
Tanna sir?
Thank you, Jurgen.
@@Warrior-Of-Virtue I once again found myself astonished at the unyielding loyalty for my own wellness displayed by my aid.
"I've got a sandwich for you here also, it's somewhere..."
Short but sweet, good to see more lore.
Oh how the love of one's residence shines through 0:41!