The Siege of Vraks- The Imperium Strikes Back- Combat Veteran Reacts
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- The Imperium decides how it plans to deal with it's renegade cardinal. But is it a good plan? I break down all the issues with the Imperium's plan as covered in Arch's Warhammer 40,000 lore video on the Siege of Vraks below
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Not in vraks but Goge Vandire used a personal shield to "prove" that Big E was protecting him. He told someone to shot him in the head. That worked because shields small and powerful enough to be carried around without being bulky are incredibly rare. That was also why the sniper thought the chance was very small for Zaffon to have one as well.
how can someone named G O G E V A N D I R E be thrustworthy? he's clearly not friend. (multisemi-cit)
@@Silverized84 i mean that's the whole joke in tts because he has the most evil sounding name ever.
@@goctexas1444 I guess you watched adeptus ridiculous as well xD
Bolt of them had personal shields, and given how rare such tech is, it might be the same device for all we know.
@@bgcvetan i doubt it was the exact same device considering the how small and insignificant Zaffon is compared to candire. I doubt his specific device would wander from Terra all the way to a different sector. There is a number of them around it's just that in the grand scheme Zaffon is a small fry which under normal circumstances wouldn't be able to get one. I mean they are widespread enough that specific bullets exist to counter them (for assassins at least).
Life-eater eats all organic material. Which includes wire insulation, lubricants, flak armour, lasgun casings, autogun ammunition (which is caseless), millions of tons of ration packs, camo neting and a whole more lot of Vraks supplies - the only thing on the planet worth fighting for to begin with
I would add that if enough of the defenders survived, they could destroy all the storied weapons out of spite.
@@parkergroseclose6956 you don't survive life-eater it is exterminatus grade weaponry and unless it detoriates in storage such as was the case of 1st ork invasion of Armageddon it eats any organic material and produce ignitable gas ou of it which is then used to ignite atmosphere
@@Artanis99 I meant for the other virus bomb options. Which still makes sense why they wouldn't use life-eater if it could wreck some of the equipment.
Yeah, I’m sure the Magos Biologis could have whipped up a mundane super virus or two. Whether they could be bothered, or rather, whether the Administratum could be bothered to needle them, is another question entirely.
@@Artanis99 air and water tight bunkers wait for ignition and than switch to recolonization and terraforming mode
57:55 It's because it's Kreeg. They are extreamly orderly, and almost never question the orders that they get. Mainly because for them to advance in the comand chain you actualy have to do something for it. As in surviving battles and gaining more and more combat and tactical experience. So they pretty much assume that the leader knows it best.
I imagine even if they don't agree with what the leader at the time is doing or ordering, I imagine they would still follow the orders because they likely assume it's part of a bigger picture or plan.
About the drop pods launching decoys. Although it's rarely mentioned in the novels. The Space Marines actually launch decoy drop pods when they go for the planet strike. Usually the 1st wave is only decoys so that 2nd wave can better avoid incoming because the enemy has revealed where they are.
Feel like Arch's need to go in-depth with Warhammer lore and enjoyment of military stuff, mixed with your knowledge, in-depth analysis and comparison to real-world events and ideas is going to make this series amazing.
i agree with that.
Looking forward to it. :)
Couldn't have said better myself!
Agreed!
Those series are long af. I wonder if he's going to go through the entire thing.
CVR, sending first-wave of "empty" (loaded with automated turrets) drop pods and then spreading them among the second wave of pods with actual marines is the standard tactic.
Main problem with drop assault is not about drop-pods being blown up mid-air. Main problem is Vraxian ground-to-space defenses blowing up space marine ships before they can launch dtop pods to begin with.
Yes. However you dont need to drop directly on the star port.
As the dark angels proved later in the siege, if you drop enough astartes or scions a few miles away and then start a mecanize advance against the star port blocking bridges and preventing citadel forces to reinforce the site you cud have a damen fine military operation.
However no astartes thought at the time that a siege on an isolated world was worth their time and resources.
@@Ballard258 Where are the Reasonable Marines when you need them? ;)
@@liamhogan4369 probably excomunicated and deprived of mechanicus resurces.
@@Ballard258 Hmm … well Vrax IS an armory world. Perhaps some creative accounting could alleviate some of those supply issues.
On that note: where were the Bloody Magpies? Raven Guard should be all over this warzone.
@@liamhogan4369 you mean the blood ravens? Who knows, maybe reclaming some "ancient relics of the chapter" 😅 Whers capitan Diomedes when you need him?
The raven guard on the other hand may be one of the best forces that cud have intervene, some savotage and infiltration its exaclty what the imperium needed and didn't quite got.
The problem is they cut communication before he could frame anyone. They lost coms and assumed that the dictator they tried to assassinate seized power
"because there's nobody else, who you can reach out for assistance"
Chaos: are you sure about that?
“Assistance”
arch showing hatred for the administratum is less him disliking them more painting the generals view on things
What I came here to say
They would be horrendously inefficient at times, but without them the imperium might as well halt. At least it would have been the case until the bean counting primarch took over.
@@AAhmou avenging bean counter
I think the point of the 100 year plan was to take advantage of Vrak's finite resources and presumed incapability to repair the Orbital defence systems, as someone in another comment pointed out the real danger in the first plan wasn't really to the drop pods themselves but to the ships that they would have to launch from, this plan alleviates much of that danger by removing the main defence against starships.
If you haven't already seen privately, it would be very fun too see you react too and discuss Archs Death Korps of Krieg video explaining their lore.
I have been asking him to do it for a while know. I just want to see his reaction when Krieg say we got 20 regiments ready
Last time I saw a comment section so empty vraks was still loyal to the imperium.
Last time I saw a comment section this empty, Arch hadn't yet come out against age of consent laws
I don't think he ever did that so why are you lying about Arch are you one of those far left lunatics
The drop pods the adepts astartes use do use dummy drop pods that don't contain space marines. A large portion of them are just there to slam into the ground, open, and then spray the surrounding area with heavy weapons fire from the heavy weapons contained with in so the drop pods containing space marines have time to slam into the ground, open, let the space marines out, and give them the couple of seconds they need to get out and get firing.
And normal people can't use drop pods without wearing specialized suits because the slamming into the ground part would reduce a normal person without one of the specialized suits into jelly splattered around on the inside of the drop pod.
25:41 well it’s not really HIS opinion of the administratratum. He’s tends to describe the actions of some parties with the words that opposing parties would use. So in this example he’s using the sort of colourful language that the minitourum may have used if they where asked.
Although arch does also role play as an inquisitor so his opinion of the administratorum isn’t too high anyway.
Having watched arch since he first started his channel it’s easy to see how some people fail to recognize when he’s being sarcastic or not.
@@DragonHammer45 yeah. A lot of things arch says an does in his videos will only make sense to people who have always known him. For example, how the political left look at him. They see him as a racist after one cursory glance at the most extreme thing he’s done. When in reality people who know him know that he’s a WW2 nerd and likes to make jokes.
Also. Hello fellow Tanya fan.
A lot of the imperial guard's drudge work(lugging ammo, driving transport vehicles, carrying food and water, etc...) will be carried out by servitors and cherubs with a handful of tech priests to ensure they carry out their commands, leaving more men and women available to fight.
14:35 ok funny you mentioned the energy shield specifically because this is exactly what goge vandier did with ‘the daughters of the emperor’ who would become his body guards and eventually became the sisters of battle he literally asked one of them to shoot at him and then his personal shield stopped it he played it off as “the emperor’s protection”
Great Minds think alike. Though I am not starting any religious purges
Arch actually went through that event as well with his sister of battle video
unfortunately for the death core what you said about the Defenders of vraks gaining deadly combat training is what ends up happening later on in the siege, the Defenders go from being a disorganised militia force to being on par with any Imperial guard regiment.
Not only that but they did end up organizing a logistical chain that would make them better utilize the assets stored on Vraks.
Yeah, but there's a BIG reason why that happened. Surely you don't want to spoil the fun of when things really go from bad to oops.
@@AAhmou Much easier when you only have one planet.
Imperials have to ship their supplies from different star systems trough the Warp, Vraksians just have to have their logistics network supply a single planet.
Kind of similar to Soviet deep battle doctrine. As enemy advances farther into your lands their logistics lines get longer while yours gets shorter.
"you need three meals a day for 100 days" not for kriegsmen. if you have more than two meals you're seen as a greedy pig and put on the front line of the next trench charge.
Wait... I can eat more AND be the first to charge the enemy? Count me and my shovel in! I'll die for the emperor faster than you can blink! And with a full belly no less!
Unfortunately, locking them down and leaving them to tear themselves apart through purity of faith as you put it, would more likely have pushed them to embracing chaos and then the Empire has to deal with Chaos forces from the get go when they decide to go in and do "clean up" duty to retake the world.
Empire is fantasy imperium is 40k
Spoillers!
yeah, it isn't mentioned yet but it comes out that one of the cardinals men is handing out talismans with and has men carving symbols representing chaos to start the conversion from faithful member of the imperial cult to heretical chaos cultist. And some chaos cultists want to be mutilated as part of a ritual to summon deamons. The guy even becomes a demon prince before he gets splatted by a grey knight.
@@lucasbeck1391 True, just woke up so my vocabulary was still in boot up and Imperium wasn't registering for some reason lol
@@Rembanspellsong
Edit: Spoilers
Doesn’t the Khornate Champion get slapped? And a Nurgle summoning ritual. I’m pretty sure Deacon Mamune survived as a Demon Prince till the end of the war.
@@liamhogan4369 spoilers!
He does survive until the end, which is when he becomes a demon prince and gets killed. And yes, if I remember right the khornate warleader Zufor does get killed, and there is a nurgle ritual that goes off in the blighted lands where the imperium went a little too ham with chemical and biological weapons.
When it comes to the siege of vraks, I think maybe. It would be a good idea to incorporate chapters that officially maybe have come from loyalist legions but unofficially came from one specific traitor legion. I'm talking about the iron warriors which were a legion that specialized in siege warfare, this would mean for example the minotaurs chapter and I think also the silver skulls chapter. Along side the death Korp of krieg they would be quite good in my opinion. As for the the star port idea you have, I suppose chapters that specialize in aggressive fast deployment would be a good fit, chapters that hate staying still. But I'm not sure if the white scars for example would be a good fit because I remember you saying at one point that being defensive would be a good strategy against them.
White Scars are good for Ultra Rapid Deployment
I can see why he picked the Purple Heart as one. In my opinion that is the most noble of all the awards.
In theory it is. Sadly now anyone can get it. There was one soldier I knew when I lived on a military base who was given one for breaking his nose because his helmet hit the humvee door when getting out.
Love the video btw the reason why they did not do your plan in lore is as followed
The orbital laser defenses would wreck any ship before a large number of drop pods would hit the surface as strike cruisers need to have there void sheilds turned off.
Two you need to convince a chapter to commit a force to vraks which hard it's takes negotiations and a reward of some sort to get them to risk there lives. Unless ofc you can find the rare as balls lamenters or the self sacrificing salamanders or there successor chapters. They would say yes in exchange for hugs for the salamanders and maybe some head pats for the lamenters if any survive.
Now for the none lore part
It would not make for a good story if the battle was over that quickly.
I agree, there needed to be WW1 recreated on vraks no matter what
@@CombatVeteranReacts yep how is gw gonna sell death korp of king resin kits other wise if there was no epic story to make you want to buy them.
It’s akin to trying to crack open an egg without spilling the yoke the yoke being the stores
Please watch the Death Korp video, it goes into detail on how they work and is a fascinating watch that will provide a lot of context for how the Guardsmen operate and how badass they are.
Isn't that next in the series where Arch talks about the defenders and the attackers?
@@theofficerfactory2625 No, that video specifically is about the forces sent to Vraks. I am referring to the video on the Death Korp history, organization on a macro scale and the like.
I really like the style of practical analysis you use in these videos. Using them as though experiments to talk about real world applications of various ideas.
Look at this, 40k titans machine gids of war LUETIN09 🙃
Idk if you don’t plan to react to it but the first video of this series by arch technically describes the composition and equipment and a lot more information on the Deathkorp and you kinda missed it
Soldiers win battles. Logistics wins wars.
agreed, there is a reason behind the old saying 'an army marches on its stomach'. If you can't feed and supply your army for more then a single battle then you may win the battle, but the guy with the supplies will win the war as your army disintegrates before him.
Wait. 10 minute - mile pace? That... Sounds way more forgiving than I was expecting. Do you need to run it with, like, full gear maybe and then some?
Probably full gear and two parachute include
If you want hardcore, then Pararescue is a good benchmark. I know some men from Camp Pendleton that I met at Fort AP Hill during National Jamboree required 40mi days in full gear while garrisoned, which is twice the Marine Corps requirement and they did it daily.
Having hiked 40 miles a day myself with 60 pounds of gear in hot weather for several weeks , I respect the sheer effort those guys put into their physical fitness. They were easily carrying over 100 pounds of gear.
@@liamhogan4369 Hey. They need it for when they need to drag some poor sods off the battlefield. And then some. Pararescue have to be hardcore. Mad props to the lads.
@@nemamiah7832 Well said. That others may live.
@@liamhogan4369 I highly respect them but it’ll be a decade at most before their knees will be feeling that.
I just realized something.
Jump to just before the end to check if Arch ahs an addendum, sometimes he has had to interpret various things but will let everyone know after his "Thanks for listening" section.
Clausewitz 😍 I knew polemology classes will come in handy in life 😂
I would subscribe if i was not already subscribed.
I knew that Vraks is perfect for you and was among those that commented on your 40k vids that you should do it.
Good job. Can't wait for next part.
To complete your point in the beginning of the video, Xaphon would not make the mistake or antagonising the Imperium, as you said, but there was nothing he could do, as all of the trained psikers were killed in the initial rebellion so there was no way to communicate with the Imperium, so as far as they were concerned, there was a rebellion that needed to be stopped on Vraks.
This is also why I love 40K they go indepth for logistics and strategies for a battle and not just the battle itself.
Ehhhhh.
They honestly don't. They touch on it here or there, but if they were to take into account indepth things like logistics and strategies. The imperium would either have to be completely rewritten along with the majority of the settings technology and rules; or the imperium would lose quite frequently to smaller entities that can more efficiently make use of their logistics, and supplies. Or simply fighting them better on a tactical and strategic level. The imperium would have to make deals with many of these entities particarly during times of crisis... well more pressing crisis.
@@irontemplar6222 no cause each system has multiple worlds that supply the others with what they need in a symbiotic environment. Go look at the Badab map, Spinward Front, and so many more they systems are built to support each other. It's not 100% realistic but far better then the hand wavy Starcraft, Starwars, and Halo stuff. Also they do lose to Tau, Eldar, Drukari and such cause they are faster, better tactics and logistics and travel.
@@eichler721 it's precisely because of that multisystem interdependecy and the slowness of communication and travel that makes the imperium so terrible at handling these logistics espessially since they are a galaxy spanning empire but do not possess the infustructure necessary to properly handle this in real time, or even in any level of efficiency.
Star wars, star trek, star craft, etc.
Are actually considerably more realistic. Because they have technology that explains why the logistics are considerably easier to handle. Where 40k doesn't and often handwaives its logistics away with "the imperiums own immensity allows its continued victory" when it reality the opposite would be true.
As for the imperium losing to those xenos Factions. When I say they would lose to smaller Factions. I am not refering to those Factions. I mean the thousands of worlds filled with humans who would break away and the imperium would struggle to respond to them, and often it wouldn't be worth it to do so.
@@irontemplar6222 you need to go relook at how the Imperium is structured as each planet has a govenor and if they rebel the system govenor that controls all the other planets in system refuse to help or support them and also usually attack them as it brings them great political favor. Plus planets don't have fleets so if they break away they have no defense against invading armies unless they are a forge world, war world, fortress world or massive Hive worlds and then they don't have the food needed to survive. Your wrong on so many aspects. Startrek uses bullshit hand wave machines that can make anything which is not SciFi at all its handwave magic and Starwars says oh look we can only go this fast and through these corridors for hyperspace and then on the next movie it's we can do whatever we want for plot reasons and travel 3x faster then before cause plot demands it. That's Mary Sue garbage writing and is lazy.
@@irontemplar6222 how many successful examples do we have of rebellion that was not insited by Chaos? Few the most successful is the Severan Dominate and its struggling to hold off the Orks now. The Badab Sector is the only example that was successful without support till the Imperium took back the area. Fear of Necrons, Orks, Chaos, Drukari, Tyranids keeps many from even attempting it. Most citizens don't know about these things but higher level officials do.
I'm really enjoying this series keep it up :)
I think the Death Korps was the right choice. However they messed up by placing a incompetent commander and not having elites like Tempestuous Scions, Sisters of Battle, or Astartes made this drag on. With some elites to act as a strike force to make openings and act as shock troops the War would be over in a few years.
@DANIEL BIN OMAR - the Death Korps wants war for the Emperor. If they win there then they get another war. That's all they do.
@DANIEL BIN OMAR - well the ones diverted from Vraks went to the Spinward front where Traitors and Orks where a plenty. Then after that to Armageddon and lots of other worlds. Remember Kreig wants to sacrifice for the Emperor but to achieve something not just sacrifice for the sake of it.
They didn't really have a choice on who was in command, that was down to the High Lords. The Imperium doesn't have the authority to command the Astates and it took a lot of persuasion for some to make a guest appearance before going off to do their own thing. As for the Battle Sisters, they wouldn't get involved because of who they were fighting. If however, the Adpetus Sororates assigned to the Cardinal were to discover what was going on behind the scenes and got word back to their order, then the Inquisition would have done a lot more then send an assassin.
@@stewartleslie3292 I commented but for some reason it removed it.
So again the Sisters of Battle would have absolutely been involved as it was a fallen Cardinal and their Sisters where on the planet as a bodyguard. However due to the Ordo Hereticus botching the assassination and them not being in charge of the army they used their Ecclesiastical contacts to make sure they didn't send troops and tried to leverage them later when the General was replaced. Someone like the High Lords can absolutely tell Astartes to assist in a war even if they can't directly tell them what to do and they have the Minotaurs as their personal Astartes Chapter. However a local commander and war General cannot tell them anything but some like Arnem who got Astartes help would be able to get some assistance. Plenty of reasons for this war to be won easily However the political fighting from the Ordo Hereticus and the rest of the factions caused most of the issues here.
@@eichler721 The problem is though the cardinal wasn't fallen, it was a deacon that was the heretic. The cardinal was just naïve. Once the Ordo Hereticus gave the order to assassinate, that created problems between the Inquisition and the Ecclesiarchy, and this came to a boiling point when the Inquisition finally took command. This was demonstrated even further when the Sisters that was assigned to the Cardinal were found, rushed away in secrecy, and deemed corrupted. That was clearly a political message.
This war should not have even started. The Inquisition should have sent an Inquisitor instead of an assassin. That way, the deacon would have been exposed sooner. But the war started, and as you have said, it was political fighting that caused the most issues.
Would the Astartes have made a difference though? There was 3 times they were involved. Once they destroyed the space port and moved on when they didn't find what they was looking for. The second time was through political favours, and they paid a heavy price for their assistance but they managed to break the first line of defence for Vraks, then moved on. And both of these times, Chaos was yet to make an appearance. The third time, they finally came with more than just company strength, but even so it was more of a tactical error from Chaos than the Astartes breaking the third defensive line.
Do arch's series on the Badab War.
Give him a year to finish this series first😅😂🤣
@@marcinsikocinski4661 a year? man is going to need two years and plus months to finish this series.
I believe we can all appreciate the irony of how bureaucracy, no matter the setting and where you might find yourself being in, sucks. Administratum is all that, turned up to 110 and torn out the dial (I think that's been already covered on this channel so I'll leave it there). As for the mass drop pod decoys, there's a special armed one called Deathwind pod (with choice of heavy bolters or missiles, if memory serves). The problem being, ofc, that planetary defences would have picked the ships trying to deploy them off, another problem might be that space marine vessels don't have that many drop pods to spare, granted, marine strike cruisers and battle barges might have enough for such a tactic (retrieving all those later would be problematic I'm sure).
So personally I feel that waiting out the vraks population after a life eater virus is not as practical as one may think considering corpse starch farms are not that uncommon in hive cities as well as other types of food production so it’s quite possible even with a virus bombing it would either take much longer than what would be acceptable to starve them out or just not possible without a ground force. After all Krieg was able to last 500 years in a state of civil war on a completely dead and barren planet.
Y'know, as much as you do raise a point that people like the cardinal *usually* know enough to not flop dick-first into hornets' nests... History also shows us that tinpot dictators overplaying their hand is not unheard of.
Does Panama ring a bell?
The algae farm thing is kind of important though. They can be made into stored rations and water can be processes for use from the massive rainfall. There's more to "weapons" than just the hardware.
It’s true that the Cardinal should not have been as brazen in stepping on the inquisition’s toes. However, he needed to do it that way, or the seige would not have happened, and a siege on Vraks is exactly what is planned. The hydra awakes.
I feel like the Imperium had to flush the subtlety down the toilets, for if the vraksian rebellion took too long to eradicate, it would give nasty idas to other... rebellious elements in the Imperium.
The High Lords wanted to make an example of this campaign. They had to crush this rebellion, and they had to crush it hard.
No. This was nowhere near important enough for the High Lords to think that. It is doubtful they even paid a moment of attention to the report that there was a rebellion on Vraks. It was mostly dealt with by the middle management of Inquisition, Administratum and Munitorum. With a random Astartes Chapter that was nearby.
@@MrRavellon So, Highlords are incompetent old folks confirmed? :)
@@Archon3960 it is a funny meme but they're just beyond busy. A single world is below their notice, unless it's singularly important for some reason.
@MrRavellion or it starts spawning demons around, making warp travel more dangerous and somehow increasing levels of violent elements on inhabited nearby planets.
@@AAhmou no, that's still not significant enough. Regional leaders handle things like that. It's their job.
Field MArshall Haigh: "What do you mean? It's a great plan!"
Once you've done Vraks, go do the Badab war. That's an entirely different kettle of fish.
Not expecting you to get through this series very quickly but it would be cool if you could finish it because I also like your analysis on top of his
balance your auido better pls =_= if your gonna pause to speak theres no reason your audio and the video your reacting to shouldn't be the same volume. I can't hear the video your reacting to without making your voice deafeningly loud...
Ohhhh boi...time to see what insights are here and what we "lore experts" can add
nice, the story continues! gotta love Arch stuff
Uh Arch has been banned forever from Warhammer events for posting nazi shit so no
@@nonyabuznis2664 I'm just here for warhammer stuff lol. and im pretty sure the nazi thing is just an out of context rumour (not that it matters)
Your drop pod decoy idea is brilliant!
Gotta love how arch has a way with words
25:50 I think it’s just his colourful language, given his knowledge I’m sure he understands the need for civilian oversight.
Your comment on 'War is politics by any other means' reminds me of The BlackPantsLegion and their video on The Marauder from the BattleTech game. Incidentally, I highly recommend viewing their Tex Talks BattleTech videos, I think you will really enjoy them.
logistics are so super important
Thank you for the video
On the subject of making decisions and question orders...
Intelligent Bayonets and Mission Command can be googled by those curious
"Subversion would be their best bet"
*Alpha Legion has entered the chat*
some officers do chase but some of them do turnout to be good leaders
Useing unmanned Drop Pods as decoys, whilst better than lost Astartes, would be a criminally neglient waste of expensive & difficult to produce technology.
20:00 that is indeed a sound strategy but the question is how long will that take and is that time acceptable?
The main problem would be getting the astartes to agree to the plan, it’s akin to Britain saying
Let’s invade China by sending in US forces in via helicopter and well follow up on the rear.
And unfortunately astartes are very autonomous and so by suggesting that they should be forced to lose over half of their entire chapter and precocious drop pods which would be akin to ramming a US carrier into a sea port to stop it from working, as well as getting the crew on board to agree to the plan, and whilst storm troopers and shock troops are ideal unfortunately they won’t have any heavy weapons or fire support, plus their aircrafts would be shot out of the sky, and if anyone does make it they’ll be too few in numbers and firepower to do anything, a fully armed and armored marine vs a pillbox isn’t too much problems but a lone soldier vs a pillbox armed with a laser pointer is another thing, as well as finding the men, arming and supporting them, as well as the deadline which might seem long for us but is more or less a month by imperial standards.
Von Klauseweitz, haven’t read him in a while - hell, I haven’t even heard that name spoken since that (awful) Clive Owen movie where he’s the “Wetwork McGuyver”, who’s title eludes me.
He was the first guy to really grasp Mixed Unit Tactics, right? Prolly butchered that ‘fact’, lol
E: AC fail
He pioneered the ideas of rapid mobilization of forces and total war, which combined lead to the doctrine of rapid advances to deny your enemy their industrial capacity. This doctrine shaped the German military for decades to come.
E: Kinda the polar opposite of skirmishing and small unit tactics, on reflection. Still happy someone knows of him.
@@liamhogan4369 I really botched the facts tho, lol… Von Clausewitz (for correction), and - as you said - he leaned heavily in Industrialization and Psychology in Warfare. Strikes me as more Academic than Practical, a lot of the time; but a pretty brilliant man. Reread some of his (translated) work yesterday, writing that reminded me of it, lol. So, I’m glad someone else knows him too!
@@paulpolito2001 Same to you, my good sir. Thank you for motivating me to go back and read him. Onto my seemingly inexhaustible reading list.
Recently subbed. Enjoying the content!
Did he do the video on the 88th Siege Army and the Death Korps yet?
On the topic of personal shields and divine acts … it has been done before. By Goge Vandire. He straight up asked to be shot at point blank range after a short prayer, and the Sorroritas took it as a miracle. Heck of a stunt. As Megamind said: Presentation!
As Arch mentioned in his prior video, personal shields are incredibly rare, to the point of ignorance even by rather well-informed forces. It is completely conceivable anything short of an Inquisitor or Space Marine wouldn’t even recognize one, and would write it off as some sort of psychic power. Possibly one from the Emperor; He does like gold after all, so his divine shields probably look exactly like a mundane shield belt.
To top it of these devices are barely understood. As is the assasinorum’s Exitus Rifle. Even if someone figured out he was wearing one, he could easily say, and even show, the Exitus can fire clean through a personal shield. It probably could punch through a shield by virtue of sheer kinetic energy alone, even without it’s dedicated anti-shield ammunition.
So … yeah. This is the perfect lie. He bare Lilly had to change a thing, and in all probability the only force that could call him on it would be the Assasinorum itself, and even then only if they had full access to the scene. Even the Inquisition would be hard pressed to figure out how he survived, and likely might assume Warp influence of some kinda.
I forgot to add; the Ecclesiarchal Rosarius and the Crux Terminatus show many shield generators are popularized as the Emperor’s Divine protection by the Imperium for the reasons I listed above. Piggybacking on that train would be trivial.
Also the Mechanicus would probably be able to put it together. But they probably would say nothing, and likely couldn’t be understood by those earnestly trying to even if they did. And would likely know well-reasoned arguments only fly in very limited circumstances in the Imperium, of which convincing vast quantities of religiously fanatical undereducated laborers is not one.
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3 lines of defenses with the terrain being deep and wide gorges. Also, there is the logistics of scrounging so many drop pods and then forming the fleet to drop said drop pods. It may take a long while to build and then rebuild the drop pods; even if 9/10 are empty or have cyclone missile launchers.
31:40 I heard that in…I think it was the Gulf war? That the US field officers have more leeway since they know the battlefield better, like for example in the battle of Three-easting I think it was called US troops were ordered to hold positions but their commander seeing a opportunity decided to press his men forward which won the Americans the battle and showed the world the effectiveness of the US’s new command system.
AN: The battle I referred to was actually called battle of 73 easting.
The battle of 73 Easting! That is considered pretty legendary, especially among US tankers!
@@CombatVeteranReacts And one of the examples of how effective the new US command structure is.
IM NOT SURE WHAAT WE ARE COVERING AT THIS POINT BECAUSE PF WHIAKEY BUT I LOVE IT
How I feel about being thanked for my service. I say I was just US Navy and that those who fight on the ground deserve it more.
Vraks yey
I am no math professor, but using decoys would just mean that you still lose 96% of your troops, but 4% of the decoys would make it to the ground. If you're thinking about dropping so many drop pods to just overwhelm the AA, sure the casualty rate would drop. But then too many expensive drop pods would be wasted, even if you strip the decoys of any unnecessary interior and systems. Losing 2 - 6 million guardsmen would be preferable.
59:00 That's a very well-known psychological phenomenon that's definitely not unique to the military. EXTREMELY common in IT/programming jobs. It's called imposter syndrome: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
You say that about how you feel it's troubling that our generals retire and become secretaries of defense but have you seen the way the military has been acting as of late? Adopting CRT rather then preparing for war with China.
He doesn't know Mamoon.
Arch's hatred of the Administratum is the Segmentum Obscurus High Command's views on them, not Arch's
I really like the infiltration idea, sounds like something the Alpha Legion might do........
Haha 🤣
To be fair, this didn’t go according to his plan. And the munitorum probably didn’t want a cardinal holding their weapons. Historical events aside, the main military force of the Imperium is their authority.
That’s actually related to what goge vandire did to claim sainthood.
I think Arch is more speaking from people’s perspectives with hating the administrautum. That, or he just really hates buticracy.
The problem is, the batteries are a danger to the ships deploying them too.
What’s your opinion of Arch CVR?
No military experience.......this will go just fine its only the 40k universe
Execute a coup, install yourself as a new planetary ruler and maintain status quo? Yeah, no. Not on an armory world, and not after thumbing your nose at the Inquisition.
The whole Adding in Decoy Drop pods sadly does not work out (atleast with the given number being a %)
Example you drop 1000 pods and just for simplicity sake lets say 50% gets shot down
so you have 500 that land thus 500 marines on the ground
Now if you use decoys and fire 2000 pods (1000 manned and 1000unmanned) you end up loosing 50% that means you loose 1000 pods resulting in around 500 marines landing and 500 empty pods landing
Thought there are of course questions of Why do they take down a Certain %
Is that a Estimate given their forces (so the ammount of drop pods they would use) ageinst the enemy deffenses then yhea Droping decoys might work
Second possibilitie the Anti Orbital/air cannons are strong eneught to cover a certain % of the sky in fire that simply would not even be obstructet bye drop pods (thought i think thats the same kind of defense the Tyranids managed to clog up using sheer masses of flyers macking that unlikely) meaning the number does not matter it only matters if you happen to be in a area fired upon Then it actualy could still work thought it would have to be extremly well planned to guide the enemy to shot at the areas where you deploy the Decoys while trying to only deploy the real ones in the small spaces in between the Coverage of the Ground Defenses
Thought thats of course a giant Gamble where you count on being able to predict where a Untrained Insurgent force unable to properly communicate is gonna concentrate their fire
Love it, need it, more please.
Indeed
If it makes you feel better, even if nothing happened during most patrols the existence of them were probably a good enough deterrent. However, I have no military experience and no context so just disregard what im saying if it’s bullshit.
Watching this reaction again and 39:34 reminds me of Ukraine. Since 2008 the army was trained and so they withstood the Russians and now the longer the war goes on, the more trained the Ukraine army becomes.
3 support ? i thought it was 10? i havent beeen in a m ar,y leadERSHIP CLASS SINCE 04 THOUG
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Okay. I have to be this guy. The purpose of the Crusades was never to convert Muslims. It was to free Eastern Christians that were conquered and enslaved. Also idk if there ever was a crusader knight in full plate armor. Full plate may not have existed until after the fall of Constantinople.
23:43 somewhere in the world a grammar Nazi just dead from that pronunciation lol.
I swear everytime you say mma fighter I hear anime fighter lmao
I can't gain more power by yelling, so I guess I'm just a regular MMA fighter
@@CombatVeteranReacts yeah you're too old. Average anime protagonist is like 14 years old lol
Other stupid thing... being Vraks part of the Segmentum Obscurus... why are DKoK (Segmentum Tempestus) sent, instead of Cadians, Mordians, Valhallans much nearer (in the same segmentum)... or even Space Wolves, who are also in the nearby... Cadians are the best choice, as there are enormous amounts of troops. Funny thing, they say they create a Siege Army with only 34 Regiments, to invade a planet with several million people, and who knows what else they could find there. So around 70K DKoK troops... and why not talking about divisions, brigades...
Yeah but the Imperium HAD already tried to assasinate him. He's tryna be a survivor
You should watch the Krieg video before continuing on with the series.
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20:04 you dont wanna try that remember in 40k religion is real and that many vraks Is gonna be a powderkeg
Thanks
Finish the series please!
Why is this tagged as being a Destiny video?
Zaffon a political smart man hahahahahh that is a good one bro ...he is dam fanatic in a high position in the eclesiarqui and remember the imperium love have his servants idiots ,fearful and fanatics... this work is from some one more dark how is in the shadows polling the string
You should watch the fanfic "Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K" by A Fan With Too Much Time, its on UA-cam, despite its name the work is compelling story.
I can confirmed Arch has done this, he's a dictator and cult leader
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