Nathaniel Garro mentioned! Also I've said it before but I'll say it again - his appreciation for the deeper themes and his ability to draw comparisons between, for example, Perturabo and a renaissance nobleman, is both endlessly fascinating and wonderful to see. 40k has a lot of sweaty little goblins for fans but the deeper appeal can be appreciated by a lot of people.
The way that Warhammer squares that circle is that they had all the progress already and then regressed backwards from that golden era of progress. They know that putting these kinds of materials in one end of a massive STC makes boltguns pop out the other side, but not the inner workings of the machine that makes them. Maintenance of machines and equipment is a holy rite not some mundane task because the only ones who remember WHY they do it are long dead, the maintainers who don't fully understand the inner workings start to introduce superstition into the mix, and over generations their teachings are venerated as scripture.
The more modern lore for the Mechanicus even makes that seem plausible. The origins of the tech priests are with technicians and maintenance engineers, the guys who kept the life support systems required to live on Mars after its terraformed biosphere was ruined going. Not with scientists. I've worked in factories and workshops IRL where, for example, a plastic model owl intended for use as a bird scare was kept on top of one of the machines, because 'the machine likes it', and where if it was removed the machine broke. Obviously, that wasn't what actually happened, and it was confirmation bias; we all remember the time the machine broke and the owl wasn't there, and don't remember all the times it broke when the owl was present. But that's the exact sort of superstition the Mechanicus works on. If you get into a situation where all the people who actually understand the science behind the machines are dead and the only people who know anything at all are the guys doing the maintainance, those silly superstitions are going to get passed down and become more entrenched, especially as more and more stuff breaks. A few generations later you're burning an incense stick on top of your PC case to make the internet go faster. Of course, 40k being 40k, machine spirits appear to be actual things. They might be a religiously acceptable form of AI, or they might be actual spirits born out of human belief, it's not ever made clear.
@@mdt105 This happens more often than not, especially with computers and programs. Like governments used to order a program specifically made for them only to cater to a specific function. And then years and years went on and nobody can maintain those codes anymore. Or like in the game TF2, there's so much spaghetti code (code that are mish-mashed and unclear) that it's just hard for new employees to update the game at all.
@@mdt105 The religiously acceptable forms of AI is servitors: lobotomized humans that serve the purpose of automated robotic workers. Actual AI (known as 'abominable intelligence') is ruthlessly outlawed because one of the reasons for the end of the golden age of humanity and the dark age of technology was a skynet-style machine uprising. Machine spirits on the small scale feels like confirmation bias to me and on the larger scale, think ships and Knights and Titans which appear to have what is effectively an AI formed from the neural imprint of all of the past users, it's most certainly just 'AI by another name'. The original Castigator Titan was self-aware and named itself as such and proclaimed that all other titans were but mere mockeries of its glory. The Men of Iron appeared to be similar to Castelan Robots but were also self-aware machines. And the Dark Age of Technology ship the Spirit of Eternity possessed a self aware AI core and not only insulted a Mechanicum Magos, calling him a 'witch doctor mumbling incantations over holy oils'. but insulted all of humanity as a decaying senile shell of its former glory.
What makes these videos interesting isn't even that they're about 40k. It's that you have an expert that you can tell just with a few minutes of watching the video absolutely loves the subject matter that he spent his entire Professional life studying. If you get someone who really loves their subject matter , it's amazing how contagious it is. Really appreciate the time that he took out of his schedule to do this fun and educational video.
it's absurd how I just cannot stop smiling while watching this video. Just because his enthusiasm and passion for the subjects, and the different aspects of it, is so contagious.
@@argr4sh These videos are comfort food for the soul Seeing someone passionate speak about interesting things with enthusiasm, in an endlessly cynical world, it's rather therapeutic
All 40K fans feels sad about the thousands sons, they haven’t done anything wrong. They made bad decisions, really bad decisions, but never have they betrayed the imperium till it was too late. Also being one of the strongest legion per unit, does make you feel sad they are not one of the loyal legion. The only other regret is white scars never got the love of GW.
@@bigdaddydzzzzzz fun fact. Night Haunter audiobook is narrated by Andrew Wincott, who also did the Night Lord voice in the PVP for Space Marine 2. He is best known for Raphael in Baldurs Gate 3. Guy is legendary.
@@garrenbrooks4778probably around 10,000€-15,000€ for a basic harnischfechten set of armour (functional that is, hardened spring steel). He does some of the decor himself but yeah - I was about to comment that having full sets of armour + jousting attachments for them is waaaay mroe expensive
How about Mr. Fergusson and Dr. Capwell together analyzing the gear together in a slightly longer video? If these two fine gentlemen had the time for it, I think it'd be a very interesting discussion they could have reflecting on the blend of old and new tech in the 40k universe. Maybe even looking at the gear of the Guardsmen you encounter throughout the story.
I like that this guy was actually knowledgeable on 40k and could name primarchs and legions and whatnot. It not only helps his analysis but makes him more enjoyable to watch
Haven't watched it yet so short after upload but I already know that this will be an ejoyable video because Tobi is for me personally a very welcome guest for the series.
@15:30 I've been a larper for decades, i am 6ft tall and wear a full metal plate armour. I can confirm yes you can sneak in full plate... if you are very careful, if anything the chain is the hardest part and the plates help to keep it from moving too much.
The Night Lords in the omnibus are horrible war criminals but they had a very humanizing relationship with their human allies. “The only people allowed to bully and terrorize our human slaves are us!”
I want to see Dr. Capwell look at the armor of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. The game goes through great efforts to contrast the fairly familiar looking mass produced export armor (many of which even have proper waist placement!) with the unusual designs of the native population. The sub-factions of the native population even have their own armor variants.
To add to the point you mentioned about the veneration of saints bodies, blood specifically, The wax of the purity seals is supposed to contain the Emperor's blood. There is some homeopathy like practices to make sure there is enough to go around IIRC.
If anyone at Focus Entertainment sees this, please add a white Consuls chapter icon, it would work for Black Consuls and Raptors as well, and White Consuls actually have a miniature in the tabletop
We just need a giant collab of all the experts together in one massive video. dont know how they could go about it, but i feel like it would be very interesting. Especially if they were all together in person
Also Dave, though some of the footage will be harder to come by, surely, but I'd really REALLY appreciate hearing Toby's historical background on the armour of the Imperial Guard, Sororitas, The Oblivion Knight's of the Silent Sisterhood, The Emperor's personal armour, the Inquisitions retrofitted power armour, and, if possible, his ideas regarding the Armours of the Officio Assassinorum's main temples. I'm itching to know, from an expert, where the inspiration truly lies.
Having Toby take a look at the armors and weapons from Conqueror's Blade would be a fun video since the game spans across multiple eras and civilizations from units based on the Greeks all the way to the Swedish Empire. Actually getting the units would take a while but I'd be more than happy to help if you ever do decide to make a video on the game as I have pretty much everything unlocked on my end.
My man is giving opinions on the upbringing of PERTURABO. Tobias fell down the rabbit hole, and he fell hard. We have to stop letting Dave convert people. At this rate, David Rawlings will be discussing the theoretical stance doctrine of Angron wielding two Chain Axes.
It's like second or third video I see here with that gentleman and I cannot pinpoint what is going on with him. I never was interested in history, after middle school I actually despised the subject and never got along with it, but that man... I can listen to him non stop and he just sounds like a teacher I wished I had. He's so casual and interesting it's like he's planting embers to ignite the interest in history but not making anything big out of it.
the problem you have is your teacher did as rote. there was no effort to point out interesting things. History can be very macabre, and often depressing and horrifying but also interesting in how things can advance then fall. also you learn that history does have patterns. there is so much history hence why people often specialize in an era or region or have an interest in a certain topic such as weapons, medical techinuqes, construction, language etc.
Absolutely loving his lore accurate comments and mentioning of fondness for the franchise, he treats it all with respect even if it does seem a little silly.
I am still waiting on the day Mr. Capwell lends his time to react to Exanima, it's a really nice medieval fantasy game with quite the comprehensive mechanics to armor and weapons which I'm quite sure he'd have a lot to say about.
Alright we are going to need you two to go through every Chapter Loyalist and Traitors , every aspects of the Imperium of man when it comes to armor as well as every Xenos races armor. Glory to the armorer of the GameSpot Legion!
I like that of the traitor legions, there were probably plenty of iron warriors who would have been assimilated into other legions because they didn't like their primarch.
I love these videos and I would love to see him react to more stuff from Warhammer Fantasy, especially non-human factions like Dwarfs or Lizardmen and whether the armour designs make sense for races that have different physical characteristics than humans.
@@bigdaddydzzzzzz dude you are way behind. Henry Cavill is no longer involved since that woman at Amazon who ruined Tolkien was pushing for things that he didn't want since it went against the lore. The Amazon Warhammer is dead this has been known for like months
Might as well add "full time 40K enjoyer" to his introduction from now on
*30k, bro is a historian even in the 41st millennium.
@wolfie54321 we found an IRL Remembrancer
@@wolfie54321a Remembrancer
📝📝📝
Nathaniel Garro mentioned!
Also I've said it before but I'll say it again - his appreciation for the deeper themes and his ability to draw comparisons between, for example, Perturabo and a renaissance nobleman, is both endlessly fascinating and wonderful to see. 40k has a lot of sweaty little goblins for fans but the deeper appeal can be appreciated by a lot of people.
Nathaniel Garro is THE BEST LAD
"Advanced technological society that's also primitive and tribal".
The way that Warhammer squares that circle is that they had all the progress already and then regressed backwards from that golden era of progress. They know that putting these kinds of materials in one end of a massive STC makes boltguns pop out the other side, but not the inner workings of the machine that makes them. Maintenance of machines and equipment is a holy rite not some mundane task because the only ones who remember WHY they do it are long dead, the maintainers who don't fully understand the inner workings start to introduce superstition into the mix, and over generations their teachings are venerated as scripture.
The more modern lore for the Mechanicus even makes that seem plausible. The origins of the tech priests are with technicians and maintenance engineers, the guys who kept the life support systems required to live on Mars after its terraformed biosphere was ruined going. Not with scientists.
I've worked in factories and workshops IRL where, for example, a plastic model owl intended for use as a bird scare was kept on top of one of the machines, because 'the machine likes it', and where if it was removed the machine broke.
Obviously, that wasn't what actually happened, and it was confirmation bias; we all remember the time the machine broke and the owl wasn't there, and don't remember all the times it broke when the owl was present. But that's the exact sort of superstition the Mechanicus works on.
If you get into a situation where all the people who actually understand the science behind the machines are dead and the only people who know anything at all are the guys doing the maintainance, those silly superstitions are going to get passed down and become more entrenched, especially as more and more stuff breaks. A few generations later you're burning an incense stick on top of your PC case to make the internet go faster.
Of course, 40k being 40k, machine spirits appear to be actual things. They might be a religiously acceptable form of AI, or they might be actual spirits born out of human belief, it's not ever made clear.
@@mdt105 This happens more often than not, especially with computers and programs. Like governments used to order a program specifically made for them only to cater to a specific function. And then years and years went on and nobody can maintain those codes anymore. Or like in the game TF2, there's so much spaghetti code (code that are mish-mashed and unclear) that it's just hard for new employees to update the game at all.
@@mdt105 The religiously acceptable forms of AI is servitors: lobotomized humans that serve the purpose of automated robotic workers. Actual AI (known as 'abominable intelligence') is ruthlessly outlawed because one of the reasons for the end of the golden age of humanity and the dark age of technology was a skynet-style machine uprising. Machine spirits on the small scale feels like confirmation bias to me and on the larger scale, think ships and Knights and Titans which appear to have what is effectively an AI formed from the neural imprint of all of the past users, it's most certainly just 'AI by another name'. The original Castigator Titan was self-aware and named itself as such and proclaimed that all other titans were but mere mockeries of its glory. The Men of Iron appeared to be similar to Castelan Robots but were also self-aware machines. And the Dark Age of Technology ship the Spirit of Eternity possessed a self aware AI core and not only insulted a Mechanicum Magos, calling him a 'witch doctor mumbling incantations over holy oils'. but insulted all of humanity as a decaying senile shell of its former glory.
@@HienNguyen-cs1md that reminds me that there is a jpeg of a coconut in TF2 files and if it is deleted the game won't start so nobody messes with it
What makes these videos interesting isn't even that they're about 40k.
It's that you have an expert that you can tell just with a few minutes of watching the video absolutely loves the subject matter that he spent his entire Professional life studying.
If you get someone who really loves their subject matter , it's amazing how contagious it is.
Really appreciate the time that he took out of his schedule to do this fun and educational video.
it's absurd how I just cannot stop smiling while watching this video. Just because his enthusiasm and passion for the subjects, and the different aspects of it, is so contagious.
@@argr4sh These videos are comfort food for the soul
Seeing someone passionate speak about interesting things with enthusiasm, in an endlessly cynical world, it's rather therapeutic
"I really like the Iron Warriors, actually"
EXTREMELY BASED. IRON WITHIN, IRON WITHOUT.
FORTIFY.
SIEGE.
"I am very bitter and you are the reason!"
"I know... and I don't care."
my man just drops lore left and right
he is so deep in
i love it
and he likes the 8th
what could i ask more for
"he is so deep in
i love it"
Phrasing
@@steelbear2063 oh la la
Hearing Mr. Capwell's thoughts on 40k characterizations of Space Marine legions and Primarchs is a gift I didn't know I wanted.
Fondness for the Night Lords and in the previous video he finds the Thousand Sons as heroes...
Someone call the Inquisition.
I thought the NLs were a meme until I read the omnibus. Then I loved them. They might be war criminals but they're my war criminals. :)
All 40K fans feels sad about the thousands sons, they haven’t done anything wrong. They made bad decisions, really bad decisions, but never have they betrayed the imperium till it was too late. Also being one of the strongest legion per unit, does make you feel sad they are not one of the loyal legion. The only other regret is white scars never got the love of GW.
@@bigdaddydzzzzzz fun fact. Night Haunter audiobook is narrated by Andrew Wincott, who also did the Night Lord voice in the PVP for Space Marine 2. He is best known for Raphael in Baldurs Gate 3. Guy is legendary.
It's not the Dr's fault he knows heroism when he sees it; likes the Iron Warriors too
Actually means he's got good taste.
One small critic for the channel, We need more Tobias Capwell !
"Maybe the Space Marines have forgotten about Martin Luther, I dunno" - haha, love this guy.
We need a video on Primarch armor specifically. Lion El' Johnson's 40k model is a masterclass in armor design.
This just reminded me I have yet to paint mine...
What can we do to have more Toby reacting to arms and armour? We would love to see more Toby reacts please and thank you
Y’all remember when Toby didn’t know a lick of Warhammer stuff but now he’s a full on fan. Pour one out for his wallet.
He's making dr. Money.
Indeed, all our wallets 😢
😂
@@WhiteCollarCrimeDNBuh wrong kinda doctor for that
@@TomTasker He's had nearly a dozen armors worth tens of thousands of dollar each built. I think he's doing alright lol
@@garrenbrooks4778probably around 10,000€-15,000€ for a basic harnischfechten set of armour (functional that is, hardened spring steel). He does some of the decor himself but yeah - I was about to comment that having full sets of armour + jousting attachments for them is waaaay mroe expensive
How about Mr. Fergusson and Dr. Capwell together analyzing the gear together in a slightly longer video? If these two fine gentlemen had the time for it, I think it'd be a very interesting discussion they could have reflecting on the blend of old and new tech in the 40k universe. Maybe even looking at the gear of the Guardsmen you encounter throughout the story.
I like that this guy was actually knowledgeable on 40k and could name primarchs and legions and whatnot. It not only helps his analysis but makes him more enjoyable to watch
Yeah i nodded when he said that he likes night lords when get to know them... so good. He clearly read the soulhunter series.
"Even armor can be quiet"
This man Raven Guards
Haven't watched it yet so short after upload but I already know that this will be an ejoyable video because Tobi is for me personally a very welcome guest for the series.
@15:30 I've been a larper for decades, i am 6ft tall and wear a full metal plate armour. I can confirm yes you can sneak in full plate... if you are very careful, if anything the chain is the hardest part and the plates help to keep it from moving too much.
17:54 What a great conclusion !
Weird fondness for night lords describes night lords perfectly
The Night Lords in the omnibus are horrible war criminals but they had a very humanizing relationship with their human allies. “The only people allowed to bully and terrorize our human slaves are us!”
I want to see Dr. Capwell look at the armor of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. The game goes through great efforts to contrast the fairly familiar looking mass produced export armor (many of which even have proper waist placement!) with the unusual designs of the native population. The sub-factions of the native population even have their own armor variants.
Hearing Toby nerd out over Nathanial Garro made my whole day.
To add to the point you mentioned about the veneration of saints bodies, blood specifically, The wax of the purity seals is supposed to contain the Emperor's blood. There is some homeopathy like practices to make sure there is enough to go around IIRC.
Doctor Capwell has always been a cool dude with his videos with HEMAtubers like Matt Easton. Not bad for a Thousand Sons sympathetizer. 😂
We need a Dr. Capwell Q&A, "Answering Questions from the Internet," type vid at some point.
If anyone at Focus Entertainment sees this, please add a white Consuls chapter icon, it would work for Black Consuls and Raptors as well, and White Consuls actually have a miniature in the tabletop
A historian and armor expert, who also loves Warhammer. It makes it all the more fun when he shares his insights with us then!
Tobias and Jonathan are the best content on gamespot by a mile. Amazing guys.
Toby's appreciation for the trendsetting hero that is Nathaniel Garro really got me smiling.
Capwell is such a cool dude. Seems like a nice person to hangout with too. Bring him out whenever you can.
Night Lords AND Perturabo enjoyer?!
My man.
I love when your guests have a lot of knowledge and nuance to the source material you guys are breaking down.
We just need a giant collab of all the experts together in one massive video. dont know how they could go about it, but i feel like it would be very interesting. Especially if they were all together in person
Also Dave, though some of the footage will be harder to come by, surely, but I'd really REALLY appreciate hearing Toby's historical background on the armour of the Imperial Guard, Sororitas, The Oblivion Knight's of the Silent Sisterhood, The Emperor's personal armour, the Inquisitions retrofitted power armour, and, if possible, his ideas regarding the Armours of the Officio Assassinorum's main temples.
I'm itching to know, from an expert, where the inspiration truly lies.
Having Toby take a look at the armors and weapons from Conqueror's Blade would be a fun video since the game spans across multiple eras and civilizations from units based on the Greeks all the way to the Swedish Empire. Actually getting the units would take a while but I'd be more than happy to help if you ever do decide to make a video on the game as I have pretty much everything unlocked on my end.
cant wait for Tobias covering KCD2
I really hope the design team sees this!!
His parting words are words of wisdom stated like a true passionate academic. You would make the Emperor proud!
My man is giving opinions on the upbringing of PERTURABO. Tobias fell down the rabbit hole, and he fell hard. We have to stop letting Dave convert people. At this rate, David Rawlings will be discussing the theoretical stance doctrine of Angron wielding two Chain Axes.
We have dave converting Scholars.
We have briky converting Vtubers.
What a time to be alive!
9:15 Deadpool's been sharing tips
He could definitely do some lore videos on table top models as well. A great and very informative video.
It's like second or third video I see here with that gentleman and I cannot pinpoint what is going on with him. I never was interested in history, after middle school I actually despised the subject and never got along with it, but that man... I can listen to him non stop and he just sounds like a teacher I wished I had. He's so casual and interesting it's like he's planting embers to ignite the interest in history but not making anything big out of it.
the problem you have is your teacher did as rote. there was no effort to point out interesting things. History can be very macabre, and often depressing and horrifying but also interesting in how things can advance then fall. also you learn that history does have patterns. there is so much history hence why people often specialize in an era or region or have an interest in a certain topic such as weapons, medical techinuqes, construction, language etc.
Those who teach not merely as a job but as a passion are a tragically rare breed.
The secret ingredient is Passion.
Doesn't matter how knowledgeable a person is, if they don't sound interested, you are not gonna be interested
I would definitely watch a full Warhammer 40k history lesson from Toby.
Imagine you go to history class and your teach brings in warhammer models to go with analyzing classical armor.
wow, a guest that is about 50x more familiar with Warhammer than i would have expected! impressive. 👍
“I hope this game is successful”
Oh it was…it was.
The Emperor protects
It is so cool seeing him get into the universe.
Toby doubling down on the heresy!!! His stuff is always so well explained and grounded though. Still I contacted the inquisition…
This is EXACTLY what i wanted to come home to to start the long weekend
15:50 Hannibal and his ppl hid an entire army that way and not just once... It is mind boggling to me.
Absolutely loving his lore accurate comments and mentioning of fondness for the franchise, he treats it all with respect even if it does seem a little silly.
And now he's referencing ol' Peter Turbo! I have never felt so seen as a big warhammer lore nerd
Would love to see him play Space marine 2.
"Maybe the Space marines have forgot about Martin Luther"
Pretty sure that the Dark Angels remember Luther
I feel slightly hesitant to ask him his opinion on Curze's ruling "policies"
2:35 Blackadder makes fun of this in first series.
Woooooo, glad to see remembrancer Tobias back
I am still waiting on the day Mr. Capwell lends his time to react to Exanima, it's a really nice medieval fantasy game with quite the comprehensive mechanics to armor and weapons which I'm quite sure he'd have a lot to say about.
Sir Tobias Capwell is my hero.
Alright we are going to need you two to go through every Chapter Loyalist and Traitors , every aspects of the Imperium of man when it comes to armor as well as every Xenos races armor. Glory to the armorer of the GameSpot Legion!
You could also argue that the reliquaries also tie back to the Roman tradition of Memento Mori.
TIL cloth on armor was real. thats sick
Get this guy to react to metroid armors. Not just samus' suits but raven beak, sylux, the federation, etc
Exanima video when? Tobias would probably get a big kick out of it.
3:53 - jokes on you, technology is treated as divine in the Imperium
Iron warriors and thousand sons fan, this man is my nerd hero
I like that of the traitor legions, there were probably plenty of iron warriors who would have been assimilated into other legions because they didn't like their primarch.
The lithuanian knight with a quilted tea cozy on his helmet will now forever haunt my dreams but ill wake up laughing like a maniac im afraid 😂
I’m so used to hearing, “this is Johnathan Ferguson “
I’m surprised Dave restrained himself from photoshopping Toby red with a couple of horns poking out his chest
Dang. I wish I'd thought of that
I love these videos and I would love to see him react to more stuff from Warhammer Fantasy, especially non-human factions like Dwarfs or Lizardmen and whether the armour designs make sense for races that have different physical characteristics than humans.
Wooo Nathaniel Garro mentioned!
16:30
Oh hes SPITTIN
Every time he says their names, I smile.
more Tobias Capwell
Now I wanna see him play this game!
3:33 This man is walking on thin ice! The machine spirit is not pleased... I hope this does not reach adeptus mechanicus...
Praise to the Servants of the Dark Gods!?
HERESY!
Ave Dominus Nox Toby ✋🏽🦇
Well this is a good surprise
Toby of the Thousand Sons
hmmm didn't show the Thousand Sons fan the Space Wolves eh? I see how it is! :D
I see his face. Clicked the video with NO hesitation
im looking forward to more video with this guy!
Vanguard in the HOUSE.
I wish they could make a movie even if its not the astartes but some random imperial guardsman
Amazon has the rights and it's headed up by Henry Cavill. I'm sure we will hear something about the first series in a year or so.
@@bigdaddydzzzzzz dude you are way behind. Henry Cavill is no longer involved since that woman at Amazon who ruined Tolkien was pushing for things that he didn't want since it went against the lore. The Amazon Warhammer is dead this has been known for like months
I'm begging for a let's play with this dude
Have these 3 play space marine 2 together already!
2:30 I always thought that guy was a millipede
NATHANIEL "THE GOAT" GARRO MENTIONED!!!
"If the game is successful" My brother in arms, it is indeed QUITE successful!!
Vielen Dank für Ihre harte Arbeit und Ihr Engagement. Deine Videos sind immer so hochwertig und interessant!🐞🍊🐃
Love this guy's video.
Khorne does feel more exotic and evil, like very middle eastern Arabian themed
Love me some Toby content
You should have him react to armor and weapons in other games. Like Halo, Fallout, Gears, if you guys have any other games I did mention let me know.
There's plenty of knight-styled chapters, but are there any samurai-styled chapters?
I swear this dude looks like frank sobotka
basically ultramarines is roman in space
NIGHT LORDS MENTIONED!
Has he already seen warhammer OW Bretonnia´s Reliquary?