The Cadian Guardsmen last stand is my top 1. It makes me teary and I'm not even cadian. Just the thought of that laser beams and gunfire could still be seen on the floating shattered continents gets me all Emotional as if I wanna fight some heretics myself, might die immediately tho but nonetheless *CADIA STANDS!!*
@@KungFuWizardOfJesus Top 2 maybe, it's fighting between that and Rylanor's. The third is either the Siege of Hellsreach or that one where 6 custodians fought 1million tryanids and won
@@KungFuWizardOfJesus 3rd is either the astral knights, the soul drinkers or the Celestial lions. Man the lions one was so sad. MAN FUCK THE INQUISITION!!
the best part about the last stand at helsreach, for me, was Artarion saying goodbye. his whole life leading up to a heroic death like all Black Templars want, facing the enemy, but he gave that up, just to tell his oldest friend goodbye. pretty touching moment.
That whole scene was epic and magnificently animated by Richard Boylan. For people whose faces you never get to see each member of squad Grimaldus became likeable characters in their own right, whose deaths hit home hard. It's sad that thanks to GW we will probably never get fan animations like that again.
I love Aquillion remark to Argel Tal, especially this chilling line: 'You have been most blackly deceived' Unlike the Astartes and Primarchs the Ten-Thousand know exactly how Chaos may tempt, deceive, entice and utterly corrupt and damn any person. The line speaks to the anger, dissapointment and rage of the Custodian, but also his pain and sadness on seeing his one Word Bearer friend fall so utterly and completely....forever a Slave to Darkness.
Hey Majorkill, loving the content as usual mate keep it up! Had an idea for a video, how about a top 5 or 10 way the different races in 40k chill/relax? 40k is full of so much fucked up Grimdark shit, that the lighter more relaxed moments tend to shine most in 40k novels for the brief moments we see them.
@@alexanderfielding Nothing wrong with that, the build up and execution are supposed to invoke emotional response. Happens for me too, it's empathy of the struggle that happened even if it's fiction.
From Dan Abnett's Sabbat Martyr: "Nineteenth platoon were about five hundred metres from Old Hive's north entrance when they saw the gates close. Skerral stopped in his tracks, and pulled the men up. Half his unit were dead. He ejected a cell from his lasrifle and slammed in a new one. "Come on," he said, turning back to face down the slope at the waves of assault sweeping in. "Let's see how many we can kill." The remnants of nineteenth lasted seventeen minutes from the times the gates closed. They accounted for one hundred and eight-nine enemy casualties. No one witnessed their heroism."
Majorkill i think it would be a great video to go over the imperial palace. Stuff like battles in it, secrets, demons, anything and everything. Keep up the great work!
What if a different Primarch recieved the Butcher's Nails? Would any of them be able to survive/overcome them? Would a Nailless Angron be important in that survival?
Devastation of Baal made me fall in love with Dante and the BA his final speech about taking up the black and removing his mask proclaiming he wants to die as Luis of Baal before the final charge was one of the best moments in all of 40k !!!
During a Black Crusade, Blood Angels Chaplain Thalastian Jorus and the remnants of what was left of the Blood Angels strike force (Mainly only the Death Company elements and the ones who had fallen to the curses of their chapter during the fighting) racked up enough of a Black Legion body count to lure out Abaddon and his honor guard, and crush through them, enough to kill all of the Honor Guard with Jorus himself wounding Abbadon so severely he had to quit the field and retreat. Jorus and his stark raving mad battle-brothers all died to the last, but when the Imperial relief forces made planetfall cleaning up the Black Legion's retreat, they found a killing field of dead Astartes, each with their gene mutilated except for Jorus and his Death Company, their corpses seated on thrones made from the armor and bodies of the foes they had slain.
Can imagine that black rage blood angels must get an extra power boost when they are actually fighting the legion of the guy they are hallucinating about
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4:08 Dante: "Finally, I can die fighting and my time as Blood Angels Chapter Master is over!" Guilliman: *shows up with reinforcements* Sanguinius: *sends him back to the world of the living* Dante: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
I still think it would be hilarious if Dante fulfilled his prophecy, and died, only for the Emperor to ‘reward him’ by placing him in a dreadnaught - or his chapter doing it - so that he can say in the most defeated phrasing possible: “Even in death, I still serve.”
The war within the webway deserves a mention. It was absolutely insane. It started when Magnus destroyed the Emperors wards whilst trying to tell him of the heresy. This caused the golden throne to malfunction and the terra webway gate to be prematurely opened. Over 5 years the Custodes lost 90% of their number and the Sisters of Silence were almost wiped out trying to hold chaos at bay. Eventually the Emperor was able to seal the gate shut but it takes a tremendous amount of strength to hold it in place. If the Emperor ever dies the webway gate will open and flood Holy Terra with the denizens of the warp.
An honourable mention should be the last stand from the book His Last Command, where the First Company of the Belladon 81st under Lucien Wilder ensured the survival of an entire frontline while it was retreating. An awesome character build-up, both for Colonel Wilder and his Commissar who would only live to be featured in a single book. Sad, heroic, epic.
@@alexandrelemehaute1425 We know that it can perma-kill demons but I don't think we have confirmed info on the chaos gods themselves. Even if so neither the Big E in his current state nor Guilliman could feasably do it.
Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in Guillimans situation as imperial regent and lord of the imperium would be very cool ngl. Seeing how each would run their own empire.
"The 'Hero of Helsreach' ...as if there was only one..." "did you find your beloved?" "Yes...I did." Two lines, that hit hard and show humanity, even in super soldiers, exists in the grim darkness of M41
Commissar Yarrick’s story at Armageddon is my favorite part of the war. He fought with such bravery at Hive Hades, it made the orks fear after he beheaded an ork commander and he even took his power klaw and had it replaced for his missing right arm that had been cut off from the elbow down. He is a legend and deserves his place as commissar. But it’s rumored that he is dead.
For me the last stand of Djoseras at Ithakas would definately be in the top 5. Very emotional and thus unlike usual necron behavior so it was very interesting to me.
I have a soft spot for the Astral Knights. Their lore, customs and honorable combats are awesome! Id love to see a video about them! Great one as always, love last stands, they are epic and, if they are well done, fill you with emotion! Cheers man!
ngl the final stand of the first company in the first tyrannic war is the highlight for me, ithe way it was written trully seemed desperate, even when i knew that of course the ultramarines wouldnt loose macragge it still portrayed the tyrannids as this unstopabble horde while still making the space marines look cool
The second I pressed play on the video all I could think about was hevy from episode 5 season one of the clone wars and the "for the republic" quote from a different episode
I’m personally a big fan of the last stand of Captain Invictus and the Ultramarines first company in the Northern Polar Fortress during the Battle for Macragge as the idea of 100 terminators fighting wave after wave of tyranids as they are slowly overwhelmed is pretty awesome.
I know a lot of other ppl here is asking for videos but one video of mortal humans with great relations to primarchs or space marines will be nice. From the top of my head you have Guilliman' mom who totally rosted another Ultramarine (right after the alpha legion tried to assasinate the big blue boy and failed). Her advise was respected by Guilliman a lot (and some other space marines too) or the woman that was alongside Corax since the moment he was out of his gestation capsule (Nasturi Ephrenia was her name i think) I think it will be nice video to show how this larger than life beings can have meaningful and trustful relations with normal mortals, and how they can trust them.
Hey Majorkill, I just came back from watching a youtuber building an army and he was using your some of your Honourable Guardians for his command squad, talking about how much he loved the quality of them. Glad to see your minis get the appreciation they deserve. The youtuber is "That new hobby high" and its part 43 of his 'Horus Heresy, Ultramarines from scratch' videos. Keep up the good work!
Majorkill: I won't place these in any particular order as they are all badass and kind of subjective which is the best. Also Majorkill: Yeah Hellsreach is easily the most badass last stand in the entire setting.
I rarely comment on videos in general so first off thank you Majorkill for all the entertaining spins on 40K lore. I would be interested in a video listing the successor chapters of Dark or Blood Angels, what makes their successors so different from each other (aside from color schemes and the Lamenters being literally cursed)? What separates Angels Vermilion from the Flesh Tearers or the Consecrators from the Angels of Redemption?
You gotta add the Ultramarines 1st company sacrifice in the fortress of Hera on Macragge. The Entire Ultramarines first company died to the Last man fighting the tyranids. With the last squad of Terminators deep within the citadel stood in a circle back to back and stacked the tyranids 9 feet high around them. Complete mad.
@@carylbernhabenpongasi589 there isn't a book written about it, but it has been in the lore since the introduction of the tyranids into the setting. In the old old lore they went into greater details about that stand. Nowadays they kinda gloss over it. Calgar left the planet and destroyed them in space. But in the old days they talked about the third company walking through their fortress monastery finding dead bodies all over the place before coming to the last room where they stacked tyranids nine feet high in a circle around them.
The video is missing one thing. The fact that The Emperor in TTS said the Astral Knights were one of his hidden legions and no one was gonna keep them down after hearing about them and their heroics destroying the World Engine
Great videos keep up the awesome work. A video idea I think’d be cool is “what could the emperor have done to mend his relationship with the traitor primarch so they wouldn’t have gone heretic?”
Depending on your view of what defince a last stand you could define the events of the last church as a last stand. Because of its descusion about faith and ones faithfullness i would name this in my personal opinion the best and greatest last stand.
The first last stand that pops into my mind is Aun'shi the Tau Ethereal taking on a never needed mass of orks and slowly but surely losing nearly all his men, he used choke points like doorways best he could and beast moded them all in glorious melee combat. Eventually only one defensible building was left with him guarding the entrance to it. He wasn't allowed to retire after that.
I guess it's not really a last stand if you survive but it's just miraculous that they did. For intents and purposes the Tau thought it was. If you're down to your last "safe" spot, that's pretty last standy...
@bobbay1562 Oh ive listened to the original book and I've watched Helsreach a thousand times and I quote Grimaldus' opening speech all the fucking time. I have a Grimaldus model but I'm practicing on a lot of other models (including the Black Templar crusade squad box and the damn Army Box they released a few years ago).
It should be said that initially even the Flesh Tearers were weary of the Knights of Blood. Especially Gabriele Seth, for The Knights of Blood chapter master revealed what happens to Blood Angels if they give in too much to the red thirst.
Now, about the battle of Helsreach, the Titans weren't exactly slain, they just retreated at the fact that their Princeps of the Imperator Titan "Storm Herald" fell. Slain by a particularly massive Gargant
Forgot about Ranulf of the space wolves. A marine comparable in size to Leman Russ and so badass the orks dedicated a monument to him and his men after he died and didn't turbo pillage the corpse like they usually do. Space Corgis give wtf face seeing an ork monument to their fallen brothers.
The 2nd War of Armageddon had a good last stand at Hive Hades led by Yarrick which if he wasn't there to do would mean no Helsreach last stand. Give the Old Man a Major Mini pls
Helsreach is my favourite 40k book, it's also my first, but I totally watched the animation first, and it's also the reason I care at all about warhammer. Aside from all that though, I love the subtle storytelling in Helsreach. There's the obvious siege aspect, which is interesting in it's own right as most war-stories are about assaulting the enemy, but there's the duel character growth for Grimaldus. The first is the main one, slowly pulling that astartes stick out of his ass and coming to respect his fellow Imperial warriors, the Guardsmen, punctuated by his last conversation with Andrev and asking him if he found that woman he wanted to marry. There's the other one though, the one where Grimaldus comes into his own as a Templar. He was a great warrior beforehand, for certain, but he wasn't "Black Templar". The book starts with him throwing a temper tantrum about being a sacrifice to hold a city, instead of dying in glorious combat with Helbrecht, then he acts like a brat by taking total control over the city and spending weeks lording over everyone else. He should have listened to their reports, taken in the information, and let the guardsmen command their own. Instead of acting as a Templar warrior, he acted like a politician. He's not an ultramarine and his brothers, especially Primus, worked to remind him of that. Lastly, the fact that a successor chapter to the Imperial Fists, the Praetorian's of Terra and Siegemasters of the Imperium, was upset with being told to hold a city in Siege warfare, but still did so masterfully, despite their contrasting modern tactics, is just icing on the ironic cake. Helbrecht knew exactly what he was doing, reminding Grimaldus of where the Templar started, why they do what they do in combat, and why they fight. All in a little miniature of the Siege of Terra. EDIT: And this has been my impromptu essay about the characters and themes in "Helsreach" by Andrew Dembski-Bowden, thank you.
Hells reach I think goes to show that excellent writing can make any chapter amazing and bring out things that makes them beloved and memorable. I mean the night Lords trilogy made them go from the traitors I thought of as the most one dimensional to the most interesting and understandable.
Another noteworthy last stand happened during the 13th Black Crusade, when the Cadians kept fighting the forces of Chaos even as the planet was breaking apart. CADIA STANDS!
i would not exavtly say sett was happy to group with the silver knights but he prob was the only one willing to somewhat "co-operate" if u can call what happened that. pretty sick last moments for sure
In Helsreach, Apothecary Nero gets impaled on a spear and raised above the battlefield. His last act of defiance see's him pull himself down the spear (a bid to ensure he doesnt miss his target), unsheathes his gladius and hurls it into the orks throat. - What a scene.
I really hope there’s a devastation of Baal animation that would be awesome , I’m trying to do my army units different chapters I think that would look so cool on the table
one of my favorite last stands is the blood ravens against and entire tendril of Levithan the knowing they die with the hive it showed that they were willing to let their chapter die so the system could live one (they thought the liberation fleet was destroyed) it stands as a moment of marine and guardsmen heroism as you listen to your remaining chapter brothers die and release the last few to fight with you. Of course your saved and you find victory but it was well built in the story and was awsome.
The Knights of Blood will always be my favorite last stand of them all. A lost chapter redeemed in the blood of their enemies and their devotion to both the Emperor and Sanguinius. The best last stand I've ever heard and my favorite of them all. Minus Hellsreach, because nothing tops Hellsreach.
The Helsreach movie needs to be remade USING THE EXACT SAME outlines with a hollywood style budget. The melee fighting bits need a lot of polish BUT most of the cinematography is AWEEEEEESOME yeah i rewatched it last night and i'm biased and no i'm not crying you're crying!
That Custodian breaking his vow of silence just to tell a space marine that he hated him is absolutely top tier
I can imagine him teabagging over that Gal'Vorbak lmao
Like specifically hated him
I literally never snort but man I turned into a pig when I heard that shit
Gigachad energy
They don't have a vow of silence, your thinking of The Sisters of Silence.
The Cadian Guardsmen last stand is my top 1. It makes me teary and I'm not even cadian. Just the thought of that laser beams and gunfire could still be seen on the floating shattered continents gets me all Emotional as if I wanna fight some heretics myself, might die immediately tho but nonetheless *CADIA STANDS!!*
The planet broke before the guard
Isstvan 3?
@@KungFuWizardOfJesus Top 2 maybe, it's fighting between that and Rylanor's. The third is either the Siege of Hellsreach or that one where 6 custodians fought 1million tryanids and won
@@thadz2493 I may disagree with your opinion, but I still respect it. 🤝
@@KungFuWizardOfJesus 3rd is either the astral knights, the soul drinkers or the Celestial lions. Man the lions one was so sad. MAN FUCK THE INQUISITION!!
the best part about the last stand at helsreach, for me, was Artarion saying goodbye. his whole life leading up to a heroic death like all Black Templars want, facing the enemy, but he gave that up, just to tell his oldest friend goodbye. pretty touching moment.
Brothers in The emperor dont go out without saying goodbye.
That whole scene was epic and magnificently animated by Richard Boylan. For people whose faces you never get to see each member of squad Grimaldus became likeable characters in their own right, whose deaths hit home hard. It's sad that thanks to GW we will probably never get fan animations like that again.
I just watched the movie showed in the video, and it is the ONLY thing that has almost made my stone cold heart tear up.
No loyal son of the Emperor goes away without kissing the homies goodnight.
I love Aquillion remark to Argel Tal, especially this chilling line:
'You have been most blackly deceived'
Unlike the Astartes and Primarchs the Ten-Thousand know exactly how Chaos may tempt, deceive, entice and utterly corrupt and damn any person. The line speaks to the anger, dissapointment and rage of the Custodian, but also his pain and sadness on seeing his one Word Bearer friend fall so utterly and completely....forever a Slave to Darkness.
Hey Majorkill, loving the content as usual mate keep it up! Had an idea for a video, how about a top 5 or 10 way the different races in 40k chill/relax? 40k is full of so much fucked up Grimdark shit, that the lighter more relaxed moments tend to shine most in 40k novels for the brief moments we see them.
I know that blood angels are big into art and iron warriors like playing video games…. Dark Eldar like fucking and torturing lol
Apollen not Azkallon. Azkalleon was the sanguinary guard as Sanguinis.
@@robskovira5626 oof!! You are very much correct I got the name wrong. Ye olde google yielded: Aquillion. Thanks, edited it!
Helsreach is such a badass book as well.
"Hero of Helsreach.... As if there is only one."
Straight up those final words in that book make me tear up like a bitch
@@alexanderfielding Nothing wrong with that, the build up and execution are supposed to invoke emotional response. Happens for me too, it's empathy of the struggle that happened even if it's fiction.
From Dan Abnett's Sabbat Martyr:
"Nineteenth platoon were about five hundred metres from Old Hive's north entrance when they saw the gates close.
Skerral stopped in his tracks, and pulled the men up. Half his unit were dead. He ejected a cell from his lasrifle and slammed in a new one.
"Come on," he said, turning back to face down the slope at the waves of assault sweeping in. "Let's see how many we can kill."
The remnants of nineteenth lasted seventeen minutes from the times the gates closed. They accounted for one hundred and eight-nine enemy casualties. No one witnessed their heroism."
Badass
what were they facing by chance have not read this
Was looking for this.
@@hitman_zuluThey were facing well trained traitor guard, and some powerful xenos mercenaries in that book specifically if I remember right
Majorkill i think it would be a great video to go over the imperial palace. Stuff like battles in it, secrets, demons, anything and everything. Keep up the great work!
A video on each primarchs first reaction to chaos and demons would be lit
GW would lose a big part of their player base and their stock would plummet.
@@1IGG what?
What if a different Primarch recieved the Butcher's Nails? Would any of them be able to survive/overcome them? Would a Nailless Angron be important in that survival?
Sanguinus with the nails is bad news bears
If different primarchs received Nails they would end all same like Angron
Conrad doesn't need it.
Magnus would die.
@@ralkrey9526 It would work as pacifier on Conrad 🤣
Devastation of Baal made me fall in love with Dante and the BA his final speech about taking up the black and removing his mask proclaiming he wants to die as Luis of Baal before the final charge was one of the best moments in all of 40k !!!
By his blood, was I....elevated.
5:23 Knights of Blood Chapter Master should have added that Ka'Bandha is spineless after Sanguinus broke the Khornate daemon's spine personally.
During a Black Crusade, Blood Angels Chaplain Thalastian Jorus and the remnants of what was left of the Blood Angels strike force (Mainly only the Death Company elements and the ones who had fallen to the curses of their chapter during the fighting) racked up enough of a Black Legion body count to lure out Abaddon and his honor guard, and crush through them, enough to kill all of the Honor Guard with Jorus himself wounding Abbadon so severely he had to quit the field and retreat. Jorus and his stark raving mad battle-brothers all died to the last, but when the Imperial relief forces made planetfall cleaning up the Black Legion's retreat, they found a killing field of dead Astartes, each with their gene mutilated except for Jorus and his Death Company, their corpses seated on thrones made from the armor and bodies of the foes they had slain.
Bro Thats Badass As Fuck.
Can imagine that black rage blood angels must get an extra power boost when they are actually fighting the legion of the guy they are hallucinating about
I recall the Orks doing a similar thing with a few Space Wolves, Terminator Wolf Guard I think they were
Covered in this video. The Seventh Black Crusade
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Rylanor and deserving better than all of us. Name a more iconic duo. I'll wait.
Oreos and milk, pizza and bread sticks. Fulgrim and space cocaine.
Konrad and Vulcan’s hammer
Samguinius and Black Rage
Fulgrim and a virus bomb to the face?
@@theimport5660
STOP!
Hammer time
If only the Knights of Blood ate Factor instead of the entrails of their allies, maybe they wouldn't have had to sacrifice themselves in an epic last stand to redeem their honour.
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Hope this is a good omen going to a 40K today love ya Majorkill
Any white scars vids coming up?
Make this guy is loving your minis ua-cam.com/video/ABW15zYNZuA/v-deo.html
Where Dantioch Schadenhold last stand?
rylanor's last stand?
4:08 Dante: "Finally, I can die fighting and my time as Blood Angels Chapter Master is over!"
Guilliman: *shows up with reinforcements*
Sanguinius: *sends him back to the world of the living*
Dante: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Fucking Ultramarines! First Terra. Then, at the Iron cage. They keep showing up when everyone just wants to do a heroic last stand!
*Dante fights Angron
*Dante almost dies
Lion : Not today my new favorite nephew
I still think it would be hilarious if Dante fulfilled his prophecy, and died, only for the Emperor to ‘reward him’ by placing him in a dreadnaught - or his chapter doing it - so that he can say in the most defeated phrasing possible: “Even in death, I still serve.”
@@JimmyMFP LMAO
I liked the first tyrannic war last stand of ultramar with terminator corpses sitting back to back they were holding on so hard.
Gets my vote. Whole first company was wiped out.
Came in the comments looking for this!
Great video Majorkill! I think I video about how each Primarch would react to the modern imperium if they were in Guillimans place would be dope
Horus does has a canonical reaction to the Modern Imperium.
"They were killed to a man, but each of them died a legend"
Mate sometimes you're remarkably poetic.
The war within the webway deserves a mention. It was absolutely insane. It started when Magnus destroyed the Emperors wards whilst trying to tell him of the heresy. This caused the golden throne to malfunction and the terra webway gate to be prematurely opened. Over 5 years the Custodes lost 90% of their number and the Sisters of Silence were almost wiped out trying to hold chaos at bay. Eventually the Emperor was able to seal the gate shut but it takes a tremendous amount of strength to hold it in place. If the Emperor ever dies the webway gate will open and flood Holy Terra with the denizens of the warp.
An honourable mention should be the last stand from the book His Last Command, where the First Company of the Belladon 81st under Lucien Wilder ensured the survival of an entire frontline while it was retreating. An awesome character build-up, both for Colonel Wilder and his Commissar who would only live to be featured in a single book. Sad, heroic, epic.
A video on white scars characters like Targutai Yesugai, Jubal khan,Shiban khan etc would be fire ngl.
The Istvaan III Atrocity is easily at the top of my list of WH40k Last Stands.
Rylanor last stand counts as an apilogue for that.
@@gabrielbelouche3954 Agreed
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Could you make a video on how someone could permanently kill one of the 4 chaos gods and (more interestingly) what would happen if they did ?
With the Sword of BIG-E
@@alexandrelemehaute1425 We know that it can perma-kill demons but I don't think we have confirmed info on the chaos gods themselves. Even if so neither the Big E in his current state nor Guilliman could feasably do it.
@@alexandrelemehaute1425Big Es sword could barely hurt Fulgrim
@adrienwatson2179 that was guillman. If someone like mangus wields the emperor sword, it would be different and more powerful
@@adrienwatson2179 well it also gives daemons permanent death and they are all terrified of it.
Majorkill dissed the Ultramarines by not including the First Company's last stand during the Tyranid seige of Macragge. Savage.
Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in Guillimans situation as imperial regent and lord of the imperium would be very cool ngl. Seeing how each would run their own empire.
Been a Black Templar player since the moment they came out, but Helsreach was the book that made me realize I had chosen wisely!
"The 'Hero of Helsreach' ...as if there was only one..."
"did you find your beloved?"
"Yes...I did."
Two lines, that hit hard and show humanity, even in super soldiers, exists in the grim darkness of M41
Bruh!
...
bruh 😰
I about cried at work listening to that second exchange at work while listening to the audiobook
"Well then, let's make our end memorable!" - Grimaldus of the Black Templars probably.
Last Stands are always Epic especially when you go down swinging and take lots of enemies down with you.
Commissar Yarrick’s story at Armageddon is my favorite part of the war. He fought with such bravery at Hive Hades, it made the orks fear after he beheaded an ork commander and he even took his power klaw and had it replaced for his missing right arm that had been cut off from the elbow down. He is a legend and deserves his place as commissar. But it’s rumored that he is dead.
For me the last stand of Djoseras at Ithakas would definately be in the top 5. Very emotional and thus unlike usual necron behavior so it was very interesting to me.
I have a soft spot for the Astral Knights. Their lore, customs and honorable combats are awesome! Id love to see a video about them! Great one as always, love last stands, they are epic and, if they are well done, fill you with emotion! Cheers man!
ngl the final stand of the first company in the first tyrannic war is the highlight for me, ithe way it was written trully seemed desperate, even when i knew that of course the ultramarines wouldnt loose macragge it still portrayed the tyrannids as this unstopabble horde while still making the space marines look cool
Really hope the short story Endurance gets mentioned here
The second I pressed play on the video all I could think about was hevy from episode 5 season one of the clone wars and the "for the republic" quote from a different episode
I’m personally a big fan of the last stand of Captain Invictus and the Ultramarines first company in the Northern Polar Fortress during the Battle for Macragge as the idea of 100 terminators fighting wave after wave of tyranids as they are slowly overwhelmed is pretty awesome.
Fall of Malvolian. Lamenters + Guard = Manly tears
I know a lot of other ppl here is asking for videos but one video of mortal humans with great relations to primarchs or space marines will be nice.
From the top of my head you have Guilliman' mom who totally rosted another Ultramarine (right after the alpha legion tried to assasinate the big blue boy and failed). Her advise was respected by Guilliman a lot (and some other space marines too) or the woman that was alongside Corax since the moment he was out of his gestation capsule (Nasturi Ephrenia was her name i think)
I think it will be nice video to show how this larger than life beings can have meaningful and trustful relations with normal mortals, and how they can trust them.
Hey Majorkill, I just came back from watching a youtuber building an army and he was using your some of your Honourable Guardians for his command squad, talking about how much he loved the quality of them. Glad to see your minis get the appreciation they deserve. The youtuber is "That new hobby high" and its part 43 of his 'Horus Heresy, Ultramarines from scratch' videos. Keep up the good work!
"Hero of Helsreach they call me.... as if there is only one" 😭
I have to say rylanors last stand just gets me going every time. That and just the entirety of cadia just is so heroric and badass
Majorkill: I won't place these in any particular order as they are all badass and kind of subjective which is the best.
Also Majorkill: Yeah Hellsreach is easily the most badass last stand in the entire setting.
He's not wrong though
Actually. I remember seeing someone cut someone in half with a chainsaw in Saving Private Ryan. It was in the director's cut.
that new hobby high channel just did a review of some of your minis.
The most epic last stand is staying up until 4 and watching majorkill videos all night.
Based
Exceedingly based
Love all of these but my fav last stand has to be Camba Diaz and his motley group in Saturnine. Dude gave his all to stop the world eaters.
Scrolled through the comments section just to find this!
Majorkill, I got a video request: What are the 5 Warhammer 40k novels or books that you would personally recommend to someone new to the setting??
Hell yeah
I'm almost lowkey surprised that Majorkill didn't slap a Rylanor reference into this
The chain-axe killing scene from Saving Private Ryan was in the deleted scenes featurette
I rarely comment on videos in general so first off thank you Majorkill for all the entertaining spins on 40K lore. I would be interested in a video listing the successor chapters of Dark or Blood Angels, what makes their successors so different from each other (aside from color schemes and the Lamenters being literally cursed)? What separates Angels Vermilion from the Flesh Tearers or the Consecrators from the Angels of Redemption?
Diaz! Camba Diaz! In the name of his lord, Dorn! Unmoving... unmoveable
You gotta add the Ultramarines 1st company sacrifice in the fortress of Hera on Macragge. The Entire Ultramarines first company died to the Last man fighting the tyranids. With the last squad of Terminators deep within the citadel stood in a circle back to back and stacked the tyranids 9 feet high around them. Complete mad.
What book is this from?
@@carylbernhabenpongasi589 there isn't a book written about it, but it has been in the lore since the introduction of the tyranids into the setting. In the old old lore they went into greater details about that stand. Nowadays they kinda gloss over it. Calgar left the planet and destroyed them in space. But in the old days they talked about the third company walking through their fortress monastery finding dead bodies all over the place before coming to the last room where they stacked tyranids nine feet high in a circle around them.
The video is missing one thing. The fact that The Emperor in TTS said the Astral Knights were one of his hidden legions and no one was gonna keep them down after hearing about them and their heroics destroying the World Engine
What's ass is what the Imperium did to the surviving 20 Astral Knights after. They gave their fortress-monastery to the newly created Sable Swords.
Great videos keep up the awesome work. A video idea I think’d be cool is “what could the emperor have done to mend his relationship with the traitor primarch so they wouldn’t have gone heretic?”
Depending on your view of what defince a last stand you could define the events of the last church as a last stand.
Because of its descusion about faith and ones faithfullness i would name this in my personal opinion the best and greatest last stand.
The first last stand that pops into my mind is Aun'shi the Tau Ethereal taking on a never needed mass of orks and slowly but surely losing nearly all his men, he used choke points like doorways best he could and beast moded them all in glorious melee combat. Eventually only one defensible building was left with him guarding the entrance to it.
He wasn't allowed to retire after that.
I guess it's not really a last stand if you survive but it's just miraculous that they did. For intents and purposes the Tau thought it was. If you're down to your last "safe" spot, that's pretty last standy...
My favorite last stand is from Gaunt Ghost Colonel Wilder and his Belladon unit. Amazing books with great characters. Dan Abnett always suprises.
Also love the fact that Squad Grimaldus made this list.
The cinematic is sadly hard to watch for most cause of the screenplay but it still drives the movie home via story
@bobbay1562 Oh ive listened to the original book and I've watched Helsreach a thousand times and I quote Grimaldus' opening speech all the fucking time. I have a Grimaldus model but I'm practicing on a lot of other models (including the Black Templar crusade squad box and the damn Army Box they released a few years ago).
If rylanor isn't here im mad
11:40 I have that as a wallpaper no joke I got choked up watching that scene still cry when I think about it.
How can we have a last stand video without our boy Dantioch overloading The Pharos Divice?
It should be said that initially even the Flesh Tearers were weary of the Knights of Blood. Especially Gabriele Seth, for The Knights of Blood chapter master revealed what happens to Blood Angels if they give in too much to the red thirst.
Marduk goin agains a legion of necrons in terminator armor with the annoited is pretty epic aswell
11:30 "Goodbye brother." -Artarion
Now, about the battle of Helsreach, the Titans weren't exactly slain, they just retreated at the fact that their Princeps of the Imperator Titan "Storm Herald" fell. Slain by a particularly massive Gargant
Forgot about Ranulf of the space wolves. A marine comparable in size to Leman Russ and so badass the orks dedicated a monument to him and his men after he died and didn't turbo pillage the corpse like they usually do. Space Corgis give wtf face seeing an ork monument to their fallen brothers.
I really liked the closing between Seth and Jool, another neat bit of redemption.
Personally, my favorite last stand is the one between ollanius pius and horus himself during the final moments of the horus heresy
Would the GREATEST last stand be "The Siege of Terra" during the Horus Heresy ?
My favorite last stand is Camba Diaz' on the eternity wall spaceport, he gave his life having not step back when even the likes of Dorn retreated.
Tyberos and the space sharks are the forgotten legion.
It all adds up….
Day three.
Great Vid MK... and you did not mention the non existent "noble shard of Magnus"
Thanks majorkill for giving saul tarvitz and his soldiers on istvaan 3 justice for their heroic last stand. ❤
The 2nd War of Armageddon had a good last stand at Hive Hades led by Yarrick which if he wasn't there to do would mean no Helsreach last stand.
Give the Old Man a Major Mini pls
Helsreach is my favourite 40k book, it's also my first, but I totally watched the animation first, and it's also the reason I care at all about warhammer.
Aside from all that though, I love the subtle storytelling in Helsreach. There's the obvious siege aspect, which is interesting in it's own right as most war-stories are about assaulting the enemy, but there's the duel character growth for Grimaldus. The first is the main one, slowly pulling that astartes stick out of his ass and coming to respect his fellow Imperial warriors, the Guardsmen, punctuated by his last conversation with Andrev and asking him if he found that woman he wanted to marry.
There's the other one though, the one where Grimaldus comes into his own as a Templar. He was a great warrior beforehand, for certain, but he wasn't "Black Templar". The book starts with him throwing a temper tantrum about being a sacrifice to hold a city, instead of dying in glorious combat with Helbrecht, then he acts like a brat by taking total control over the city and spending weeks lording over everyone else. He should have listened to their reports, taken in the information, and let the guardsmen command their own. Instead of acting as a Templar warrior, he acted like a politician. He's not an ultramarine and his brothers, especially Primus, worked to remind him of that.
Lastly, the fact that a successor chapter to the Imperial Fists, the Praetorian's of Terra and Siegemasters of the Imperium, was upset with being told to hold a city in Siege warfare, but still did so masterfully, despite their contrasting modern tactics, is just icing on the ironic cake. Helbrecht knew exactly what he was doing, reminding Grimaldus of where the Templar started, why they do what they do in combat, and why they fight. All in a little miniature of the Siege of Terra.
EDIT: And this has been my impromptu essay about the characters and themes in "Helsreach" by Andrew Dembski-Bowden, thank you.
Hells reach I think goes to show that excellent writing can make any chapter amazing and bring out things that makes them beloved and memorable.
I mean the night Lords trilogy made them go from the traitors I thought of as the most one dimensional to the most interesting and understandable.
Another noteworthy last stand happened during the 13th Black Crusade, when the Cadians kept fighting the forces of Chaos even as the planet was breaking apart.
CADIA STANDS!
Broke his vow of silence just tell the guy he hated him. God I love Warhammer
i would not exavtly say sett was happy to group with the silver knights but he prob was the only one willing to somewhat "co-operate" if u can call what happened that. pretty sick last moments for sure
In Helsreach, Apothecary Nero gets impaled on a spear and raised above the battlefield. His last act of defiance see's him pull himself down the spear (a bid to ensure he doesnt miss his target), unsheathes his gladius and hurls it into the orks throat. - What a scene.
I really hope there’s a devastation of Baal animation that would be awesome , I’m trying to do my army units different chapters I think that would look so cool on the table
Personal favorites: Helsreach, Camba Diaz on the Pons Solar, and for a traitors one, Abbadon in the Saturnine gambit.
00:32 it was a deleted scene
one of my favorite last stands is the blood ravens against and entire tendril of Levithan the knowing they die with the hive it showed that they were willing to let their chapter die so the system could live one (they thought the liberation fleet was destroyed) it stands as a moment of marine and guardsmen heroism as you listen to your remaining chapter brothers die and release the last few to fight with you. Of course your saved and you find victory but it was well built in the story and was awsome.
Appreciate the shout out to saving private ryan, very emotinal and real
Marneus and the 1st company vs tyranids was an epic last stand
Richard Boylans animated Helsreach was what got me into 40k so I am a bit biased when I say it is my favourite. A masterpiece, IMO.
Majorkill we need that godly 500k subs merch back
God i love the helsreach animation. That freeze frame before grimaldus fires his plasma gun and the church collapses, never gets old.
Number 1 will always be grimaldus at helsreach.
The Knights of Blood will always be my favorite last stand of them all. A lost chapter redeemed in the blood of their enemies and their devotion to both the Emperor and Sanguinius. The best last stand I've ever heard and my favorite of them all.
Minus Hellsreach, because nothing tops Hellsreach.
"The death of an entire chapter is extremely rare in 40k"
tell that to the soul drinkers
You gave me an idea for a renegate/chaos Astral Knights warband made of some 30 survivors who were angry at the dog move.
Majorkill plz do a video about how each pre heresy primarchs would react to being in Guilliman's situation
There were several blood angel chapters that didnt attend Baal because they were locked in elsewhere.
Atlantian spears is a notable example.
The Helsreach movie needs to be remade USING THE EXACT SAME outlines with a hollywood style budget.
The melee fighting bits need a lot of polish BUT most of the cinematography is AWEEEEEESOME yeah i rewatched it last night and i'm biased and no i'm not crying you're crying!
“Goodbye Brother” gets me every time
"I have dug my grave here! I will either be victorious of I will die! NO PITY! NO REMORSE! NO FEAR!"
The astral knights do have a very nice paint scheme
Maybe Trazyn has a couple Astrel Knights laying about in his collection.