US Army Combat Veteran Reacts to Every single Warhammer 40k WH40k Faction Explained by Bricky PART 2
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Cadia broke before the Guard did
World go boom.
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!
Yeah but...it was YOUR job, to make sure that the Planet DIN'T break...
So...you had ONE job...
still a lifeless rock, you should talk to the Death Korps about a planet dying but them still thriving xD
@@Mugthraka Yes... GROUND TROOPS are supposed to stop an enemy SPACE FORTRESS from FALLING FROM SPACE...
"Maybe if we all blow really hard in it's general direction at the same time, it will create an updraft that will carry this GIANT SPACE FORTRESS BACK INTO ORBIT.
"Every world is a death world..." Yeah, so you know when they call it a Death World in 40k they REALLY mean it.
Imagine living on that one bug infested homeworld in Starship Trooper... It can get that bad.
“We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks. Three men died from Eyerot last week and I've sweated enough to fill a lake. Emperor help me, I love this place, it's just like home!"
@@TheArkTheArkTheArk Catachan in nutshell.
*nods sagely in Fenrisian*
You mean australia planets?
Imperial Guard: In the Adeptus Ridiculas episode Bricky did, he goes into more detail about the guard. Here he kind of over exaggerated their tactics, but the guard themselves are far more than just toss people at the enemy. They do employ a wide range of tactics and strategies; along with highly trained and specialized troops. Their bad aim in the table top, is more to do with representing their level of training compared to everything else; setting the baseline. It is, on average, just a mere human with a flashlight firing at chaos marines, tyranids, necrons, etc.
Their biggest weakness tends to be more of a uniform sort of training, since worlds vary greatly in terms of technology sometimes the best method is the human wave style; or really the only way.
Space Marines: In general each chapter is potent in a large manner of tactics, but it is more that some specialized in dealing with one variety to a terrifying degree. So while they could deal with issues in other ways, some are just far more suited and trained at a certain type of tactic.
Salamanders: The geneseed isn't reacting to the lack of sunlight, more so the radiation.
A quote from warhammer 40,000: "those who berate the lasgun has not faced a thousand of them."
Another thing to add is that each guard regiment (that's how they are separated) specialize in specific types of warfare: death korp of kreig is siege warfare, tallern desert raider specialize in desert combat and hit and run tactics, catachan jungle fighters are jungle gurella fighters, armageddon steel legion is mechanized infantry, and the Tanith First and Only are known for having some of the biggest balls in all the imperium and using some of the most suicidal and insane tactics that it would make the death korp hesitant..
@@dr.cobalt8623 The Tanith are also known for being the best stealthers/special forces in the Sabbath Worlds Crusade. I'd argue that the Taniths are comparable to a Light Infantry unit like the 75th Rangers with their Scout Company being equivalent to the Regimental Reconnaissance Company, which is a Tier 1 JSOC unit.
Its funny you say that. Because as orks have shown lots of shooting is just as ineffect as it is effective
Some clarification:
- The Mordian Iron Guard behave the way they do because it's considered to be such an honor to be in the military on their harsh world. Much of their usefulness comes from the fact that enemies assume they can't fight, but once the worst troops have been weeded out, the remaining veteran guardsman tend to put up more of a fight than expected.
- Space marines do have genetic diversity because most of them are naturally born human children who compete for the privilege of being modified rather than clones.
- Salamander marines' gene-seed, which is what they use to convert normal human DNA into that of a space marine, turns their skin extremely dark to help protect them, as they tend to specialize in hot, volcanic, and/or radioactive environments.
- Officially, the Imperium claims there are around 1,000 chapters of space marines, each with no more than 1,000 active marines, or battle brothers, at any one time. But only 300 - 400 chapters are actually known, and there's really no way to keep track of how many marines there are in the galaxy. The Inquisition suspects the Black Templars, and possibly many other chapters, lie to them about how many marines they have, and actually have far more than 1,000 marines.
- Games Workshop encourages fans to make up their own regiments, chapters, or even legions if they want.
That is a great way to encourage creatively among fans
@@CombatVeteranReacts they encourage me to make my first army a homebrew space marine army.
Here's something to note about guardsmen. Different regiments specialize in different things. Lore wise people like Cadians, Kriegans, Armagedians and Catachans specialize in different types of warfare (to be fair them are probably the best of the guardsmen). Many of them spend their entire lives fighting and training and are very good soldiers by the time they're adults, especially those on hellish planets that grow up fighting. But the problem is that most of the things they fight in this galaxy are usually way stronger than them. Evolving space bugs, space elf wizards, warmongers that warp reality with mob mentality, resurrecting space terminators, literal hell itself... you have to give them credit when they manage to defeat more enemies than anyone else in the imperium.
It is true, human beings are just able to grind
The space wolves are actually a really competent and advanced fighting force that intentionally present themselves as barbarians , at first anyway, to get the enemy to underestimate them. Wars have been won when one side underestimated another.
That is sensible. Rome would like word with you about underestimating barbarians
@@CombatVeteranReacts Well when you hire said barbarians, train them in your tactics, equip them with mostly identical weaponry as your own, downgrade your own forces because you have these nifty barbarians you are paying for protection, and then don't pay said now fully trained and equipped mercs.....
@@CombatVeteranReacts Also the Space Wolves were made to hunt down rouge Space Marines. They are all about being able to take on and over power the other chapter. The people they recruit into their ranks before becoming space marines could go toe to toe with a space marine without armour.
What about their drinking problem? Is that also part of their tactics? xD
@@Archon3960 no. At best its helps suppress their gene flaw. At worst it’s a waste of money and recourses.
Imperial Guardsmen are generally well-trained and some have seen combat before even being recruited. They're more like the top 10% of conscripts, since the lower 90% gets left in the Planetary Defense Force.
Ah okay. That makes sense
@@CombatVeteranReacts These are average Guardsmen I'm talking about anyway. Planets like Cadia and Krieg, which are totally devoted to providing Guard regiments, are relatively rare.
@@CombatVeteranReacts Another thing to point out, is that when he's talking about the tabletop rules at the end of each section, Guardsmen are the median that everything else is based off of.
So, what's the ratings for Penal Legions? :)
@@Archon3960 Probably still better than the vast majority of the PDF forces. A laspistol shot is significantly cheaper and sends just as brutal and clear message as sending someone to a Penal Legion. You need to be a special kind of bastard to be sentenced to a Penal Legion.
26:40, the World of Nocturne is a radiated world, not a world in darkness. Their skin is charcoal-esque due to their gene-seed reacting to Nocturne's radiation.
Propably confused it with Nostramo.
Isn't it also really hot and covered with enough volcanoes to make it look like a dim sun from orbit?
Nocturne has a lot radiation because of the constant volcanic activity and it's sun, and it ends up causing even the normal population to be darker skinned because dark skin shields against radiation more efficiently. Just natural selection.
Nostromo was the other way around, contantly in the dark so the population became pale albino people as time went on and some were even blinded by the Emperor and His bling when he first arived.
They live on a planet sized volcano
@@williansnobre the population is actually pretty pale as even with black skin the radiation would cause death in minutes
so the people either live their life in protective clothing or in the underground cities all their life coming in contact with as little sun as possible giving them a similar skintone as people living in the underhive
One of my favorite quotes in 40k (I'm paraphrasing I don't remember it at the top of my head) "A space marine is stronger, faster, smarter, tougher and equipped with the best armor and weapons in the imperium and we are not, but charged to do the same things as they are! Welcome to the guard boy!"
lol. oof
I like how you went from not knowing 40k really at all to having an aquilla mug
Lmao
As it happens to everyone that gets into warhammer.
@@natzo89 yeah, that's how it goes
Does anyone have any good reccomendations for one of them mugs? I can only find one shady site that sells them and obviously ebay
Remember that time you didn't know anything about W40K? Yeah, me neither :p
The death rates of the Imperial Guard are usually so ridiculously high both in the lore and on the tabletop that it resulted in a bit of a joke at my LGS(Local Game Store). "You're the only 12 survivors of the over 1 million troops? Here are some promotions just for surviving now lets see if you can survive the next battle!" It was actually an Imperial Guard player who came up with it so I think that makes the joke even better.
marine veterans have served for hundreds of years, across countless star systems and against a myriad of foes.
astra mil veterans have survived 15 hours of combat and get a pat on the back and a badge xD
"Teenagers are pliable and easy to influence"
*Recruiter begins sweating profusely*
What's funny is that the Proto-Space Marines, the Thunder Warriors, were all adults. x)
@@Archon3960 it was more a dig at current military recruiters lol
@@Archon3960 ...what does that have to do with anything?
The reason why he rushes through the Space Marines bit is mostly because when it comes to the Imperium Space Marines have a STUPIDLY RIDICULOUS amount of lore, like there's so many chapters within the universe that have their own lore that some are just glossed over. To cover every single last Space Marine chapter would require a series on its own. Every chapter sort of views humanity under a much different lens, to use the Salamanders for example their biggest mandate is protecting the average Imperial citizen, whether that be a Guardsman or a village of civilians. Which is, more often than not at the cost of their very lives. The Marines Malevolent by contrast; view humanity with such a massive disgust that there is legitimately an entry in the lore where during the Third War for Armageddon, instead of evacuating a city of civilians and Guard troopers being overwhelmed by Orks the Captain bombed the city to ruin with artillery, killing millions of Orks AND humans inside before moving in and mopping up the surviving Orks. When the Salamanders Chapter Master found out about it he was FURIOUS, he went into the Captain's camp and openly punched him in the face in front of his men and then proceeded to chew him out.
The Crimson Fists were originally indifferent towards civilians but because of the Orks sieging their homeworld which led to the near extinction of their chapter and the death of the planet they developed an extremely close relationship with the planets civilians going out of their way to make sure any citizen survived. There's even an entry in one of their novels where, while retreating from a horde of Orks, one of the Crimson Fists sees a mother trying to flee with her kid and so he rushes over and picks them both up in his arms saying "You spent so long carrying them, now its my turn to carry you". There is also another novel where a fractured squad of Crimson Fists are stuck behind Ork lines and have to form a resistance group with surviving PDF soldiers and some civilians to sabotage and harass the Orks for as long as possible not knowing when reinforcements would arrive.
The Raven Guard have a small soft spot for the lower class Imperial citizen given their background as previously after their Primarch Corvus Corax was reunited with their Legion. Many of the original Legionnaires from their homeworld of Kiavahr were formerly enslaved labor by the planets former leadership and so have a distinct hatred for dictators and what they see as tyrants, as such they frequently deploy to out-of-the-way backwater Imperial worlds that the wider Imperium would normally not bother with to perform assassinations of an enemy's command structure, sabotaging supply lines or attacking communications. Overall doing as much damage as possible to make things as easier as possible for the frontline forces.
The Space Wolves are actually an interesting case as they have a particular dislike for certain types of authority, going out of their way to rescue those that would otherwise be deemed expendable and still accomplishing the mission even if it isn't the way others want them to. The most infamous of this was the First War for Armageddon against the forces of Chaos as, after the conflict ended. The Lord Inquisitor leading the Inquisitorial forces ordered all survivors, Guardsmen and civilians alike to be rounded up, sterilized and placed in labor camps to pave the way for new colonists to come to the planet. The Space Wolves were disgusted by this as multiple cities on the planet had no contact with the daemonic forces that were attacking the frontlines, while many of the Guardsmen were soldiers that had fought and died alongside the Space Wolves. And so Logan Grimnar, in one of his very first campaigns as the Great Wolf (Chapter Master) of the Space Wolves, ordered that any civilians and guardsmen they could onto evacuation refugee ships and; in a VERY rare moment in this chapters lore that instead of opening fire upon the Inquisitorial forces, they used their own ships as shields to protect the evacuation ships as they escaped, scattering them so widely across the galaxy that not even the Inquisition was able to catch them all. This led into what is known as the Months of Shame, a small mini-civil war between the Space Wolves, Inquisition and the Grey Knights chapter but that is its own story.
That sounds like a wild story
@@CombatVeteranReacts yeah.... the Months of shame was wild story, after the period of cold war between the Inquisition and Wolves they agreed upon some peace talk where Inquisition and grey Knights betrayed Wolves and tried to arrest the chapter master. Logan murdered the leader of Grey Knights and escaped starting a massive hunt after all inquisitorial assets. After that Inquisition grabbed everything they could (including one of their pet astartes chapters) and laid siege on Fenris the homeworld of Space Wolves. But it was a trap, Space Wolves fleet arrived and Logan personally killed the Inquisitor who started this whole mess. After that the feared Inquisition decided that the game do not worth the candles and backed up laying all the blame on the dead Inquisitor. And to this day Inquisition and Wolves are at fragile peace.
The Wolves get away with this because despite they are called a "chapter" they are still at full preheresy legion power. And unlike most other chapers they have a fuckton of connections, allies and friends all over the Imperium. As their primarch they love cosplaying the Barbarians, but they are anything but. ua-cam.com/video/lT2g2JywF2g/v-deo.html a nice song about it by Stringstorm.
@@Aryan_homophobe From what I read, it was less the Inquisition decided that the game wasn't worth the candles, it was more along the lines of someone who was important enough in the Inquisition who wasn't completely hopped up on their own power coming in and telling them both to stop the dick waving. A bit more tactically than that towards the Space Wolves, but that's what it boiled down to. Since almost every Inquisitor is hopped up on their own power, the Space Wolves like to tweak them as much as possible because they see them as idiots, while most Inquisitors see them as a very real threat to the shaky power structure that allows the Inquisition to do their necessary work.
It's a very wild and interesting read.
@@leadpaintchips9461 wasn't Bjorn the Fell Handed the one that put everything on a standstill? I mean, I've heard A LOT that he was the only one to stop the Wolves from UTTERLY erradicating the Inquisition, Grey Knights and Red Hunters from existence
@@UncleAsmos2005 Ok I was wrong, it was a hot minute since I last looked into it.
Bjorn was the one who came in and told everyone to stop dick waving, but the Space Wolves have already took some heavy losses during the Months of Shame so they wouldn't have utterly eradicated the Inquisition. The Grey Knights took heavy losses, and the Red Hunters would've also probably been wiped out, but this only involved a relatively small group of Inquisitors.
The basic premise was the same though. Someone important enough that both sides had to listen to them came in and told everyone to stop being complete idiots.
Honestly if he didn't step in, it would've kept escalating, with more and more Imperial resources being dragged in while probably other Space Marine chapters being drawn in to both fight against and defend the Space Wolves which would've led to another civil war in the Imperium.
Custodes armor is made of auramite, a naturally occurring gold colored material. Fun fact: Most guardsmen regiments are not reinforced due to how long it takes to send troops and equipment from their homeworld to whatever warzone they are in. Only the Vostroyans, to my knowledge, reinforce currently existing regiments, other regiments from other worlds are simply merged together with ones that have also taken casualties. A famous example was the merging of a Elysian Drop troops and Catachan Jungle Fighters regiment, creating a force adept at airdropping into jungle environments (They combined their specialties together) Space Marines are designed so that their immune system can conquer any disease or ailment. They are also immune to toxins and chemicals (To some extent) The only disease that can actually affect space marines are warp-born diseases (Nurgle's Rot, is an example) As a Deathwatch player, I can tell you that Deathwatch are essentially a special forces group of space marines drawn from different chapters across the Imperium. They specialize in fighting xenos and possess a number of unique weapons and equipment to accomplish that task (Not saying they can also fight non-alien forces for equally devastating effect) Also, nice mug.
Another guard rigement that is reinforced is the DeathKrigers i believe purely because of how they fight. They can't blend well with other guardmen only for a specific few dou to how they choose to fight.
@@generalkenobi5173 they dont need to merge with other regiments, there are thousands of billions of them across the galaxy, they make more armies every month xD I think they can and often do merge understrength units together, sending the officers back from one of the merging regiments to command the next and so on. dont quote me though, I could be way off base.
*the flesh eater virus would like to know your location*
"That wouldn't be ethical!"
Oh, sweet summer child...
The grim darkness of the far future doesn't do that.
Truth
@@CombatVeteranReacts - I think it's less child soldier than sparta level training... Start em early :/
The problem with Imperial Guardsmen often is not the fact that they cant land shots, but the fact that their enemies are so much more armoured or durable and can just take the punishment that their lasguns deal. The enemies the Guardsmen fight against are just terrifying.
You ever hear the saying "a dime a dozen" well the guardsman are buy one million for a penny and get another million for free. Yeah with 2 million shooting at ONE traitor marine its going down........ After that it's a shit show.
So true, Guardsmen hit on a 4, while a normal Chaos Space Marine hits on a 3, 50% accuracy vs 66.6666...% accuracy. notable not THAT much worse. Their issue is that there are 3 rolls needed deal damage, and their weapons suck at the other 2. Strength 3 weapons are going to be 33.3333% on the wound against many races, and then there is the opponents Saving throw which again your weapon have nothing to improve leading to something like a 5.5555...% chance of landing a wound on a Chaos Space Marine per shot fired, while they have closer to a 30% chance of landing a wound on a standard Guardsman.
As some people said in other comments, there's a discrepancy between the tabletop, where guard are the median by which much of the game is designed from a mathematical/statistical standpoint, being a 50:50 chance to land a shot, while in lore, they're very capable soldiers, many trained from youth, many of whom would be more effective than a navy seal in the real world. Which is even scarier, because Marines are not only physically more able, but their mental reaction time, and training in tactical awareness is just so much above what a solder can do. And we're not even getting into Grey Knights or Custodes. However, on the tabletop, each is just 1 number higher on a d6 as you go up.
26:44 Their gene-seed turns them Ash Black due to reacting with the radiation of their home star, so yes the melanin levels in their skin goes into overdrive when they become Space Marines
But they're really nice though. Vulkan just wants to give everyone a hug
@@robashley8216 everyone except Knife Ear spawn 😏
@@RogueBlood343 even them. ONE LITTLE BONE AT TIME
"Every world in Warhammer is a death world buddy."
A good sentiment there but a rookie mistake! There are worlds in the Imperium that are quite peaceful and sheltered. Some planets even have more democratic governments and high living standards (though worlds like that are very very rare)! If it helps, whenever you hear "Death World" in a 40k context, just imagine a planet that is far more deadly and dangerous to live on than the average planet in 40k. What they consider a "Death World" would be a place that even Vietnam veterans wouldn't be able to handle living in.
Let’s be honest: Death Worlds are just planets where Australian wildlife was exported to.
@@collinfulling3223 as foods for the natives.
@@collinfulling3223 Krieg and Fenris would like to disagree xD
but yeah, the over arching premise is right.
Death world basically just means a planet that is actively harmful to human life. Wether that be the radiation of Krieg, the flora and fauna of Catachan or the environment of Fenris.
@@collinfulling3223 Catacan wildlife possibly defeated Tyrannides. Thats all you need to know why you shouldnt visit Australia
The Mordian Iron Guard are not just well dressed they are also tough bastards to give them some credit
They earnd the name of Iron Guard
Also those fancy dress uniforms have carapace armour sewn into them, giving them better protection than most other Guard regiments.
I think they are the ideal soldier of the XVIII-XIX century soldier marching undistubed when people on their units are falling from enemy fire but their formation tactics are more archaic than other Imperial Guard regiments. Good at shooting at ranks, charging or holding a charge with bayonets, etc.
With the Salamanders Skin thing, all Space Marines have an organ that controls melanin levels in their skin, increasing or decreasing it in response to external conditions. So most are pretty pale from spending so much time in their armor, but when they come out they'll tan in like 5 minutes tops. The Salamanders homeworld has a very active star, that causes said organ to essentially freak the fuck out and permanently max out their skin pigment, which is very much darker than is naturally possible in humans. Some chapters have mutations or conditions that do the opposite, the Raven Guard for example basically lack any skin pigment, leaving them extremely pale and in some of their descendent chapters like the Death Specters, borderline translucent.
It's implied to not just be the star, but also the combination of mutations the emperor induced in the gene-seeds combined with the warp corruption that made the salamanders and others the way they are.
Well, the own Bricky said its an introduction to people that know nothing, he goes in more depth to stuff in his podcast "Adeptus Ridiculous"
You can count on me to know nothing lol
Granted, the way Bricky describes the Imperial Guard is more generalized; as no two regiments are alike; though the human wave tactics you mentioned are actually most used by many units within Valhallan Ice Warriors regiments who are also known for mass volleys of artillery. The Death Korps of Krieg are specialists at siege warfare, the Steel Legion specialize in armored warfare, the Elysian Drop Troopers are exactly as they sound= paratroopers. The Cadians are more of a jack of all trades force, using child soldiers simply because their former homeworld of Cadia was known as a Fortress World, where the citizens there lived in incredibly fortified fortress cities and each one; man, woman and child, lived and breathed the military life because Cadia was a highly strategic location against Chaos forces pushing out from the Eye of Terror and for a long time was famed as one of the most heavily fortified worlds in all of the Imperium. The Cadians had such a huge reputation that much of the standard kit of gear that an Imperial Guard trooper in largely any other regiment could get was developed from Cadia or to the specifications of what would normally be expected of a Cadian Shock Trooper. Now that Cadia has since fallen though, many Cadian regiments that survived the 13th Black Crusade or regiments that were originally fighting against the Tau in the Damocles Gulf have been pushing even more zealously wanting payback against the Traitor Legions as; essentially almost from the cradle children of Cadia are taught and educated to have a MASSIVE hatred for Chaos, most notably most Cadians can be identified if they have purple/violet irises in their eyes as this is a small mutation caused by the proximity of their homeworld to the Eye of Terror.
Interesting!
He is talking about their skin, their armor is Green iirc (Talking about the Salamanders)
Questioning which he was talking about, while onscreen is a picture of a black space marine in green armour. 🤣😂
Conscripts are used often but the main backbone are actual professional trained soldiers. The battles are just so big that no mater how trained a front line soldier is they are most likely dead. However there are spec ops units of the Imperial Guard called Storm troopers. They are more accurate and have stronger lasguns which can punch through power armor. They also have Carapace armor which is basically better flak armor(still not not powered armor). However there is not a lot of them are are valuable second to astartes. "Beware the old man in a job where people are expected to die young"
Also to add, it’s not like the basic Guard are poorly trained or bad fighters. They are as trained if not more trained that most militaries now, albeit more factory like (and/or the death world is so bad that if you can just survive there you are more combat ready than 99% of humanity). However, at the end of the day they are only human. When the thing you are shooting at is a Space Marine that has reflexes that can react to milliseconds, see you pulling the trigger and pre-dodge shots if they are focused on you, Eldar who can do that but to ten of you and move so fast that humans see it as teleporting, or Nids that have animalistic dodging and a biological neural interface with every other bug charging you that will let it dodge from blind spots, you can start to see why they have such a hard time actually hitting. And that isn’t getting into the amount of things that can actually shrug off a las shot, and take a Bolter to reliably put down (in modern terms a rapid fire RPG). Even some of them, such as Orks, that still isn’t a given that it will take them down.
And vs that, you have the equivalent of a modern day firearm that has 0 recoil or fall off, that you can crank up to ~50 cal range if you don’t mind blowing the ammo thing in a few shots.
Yep, the Tempestus Scions
If you want a funny and actually happy moment in 40k, I suggest reacting to the Daemonculaba.
Funny ? Happy? In WH40K? I am instantly suspicious
@@CombatVeteranReacts OI!ITZ A TRAP UMMIE! DATZ HOW SPIKEY BOIS REPRODUCE! (Non ork translation-thats how chaos marines reproduce its horrific
@@CombatVeteranReacts Oh yeah... the daemonculaba. It's very wholesome if you're a chaos cultist.
Oooooof
You're pure evil
Charging a tau is actually a pretty good strategy. In general they can't fight in melee very well, but will absolutely wreck you at range. Though, Commander Farsight is a melee beast and could probably wreck even some space marines.
40K is one of those things where when it come to any other sci-fi universe 40K is not one that you want to be in
Space marines aren't genetically identical but they are genetically similar. Its weird. But they are raised with the tactics abd culture of there chapter. The dark black skin on salamanders is (I think) due to a defect in there melenchromic organ that reacts to different light and radiation levels. The raven guard have something similar that makes them pale white and sometimes have black eyes
The Adeptus Astartes aren't genetically identical as it were, just edited to be similar. Familial connections inside a single chapter is very rare. Depending on Chapter they take boys and young men who usually have to pass some form of trial or gut check (some of which border on the absurd) of some kind, from most often, but not limited to Feral Worlds, Death Worlds, Feudal Worlds, and Hive Worlds. Generally it's meant to prove an extreme level of mental fortitude more then physical because the gene editing will sort that bit out and they have to not die on the table...which many do when their mind gives out. Now I'd say most, but I'm sure somebody knows better then me can correct this, Chapters have a homeworld, like the Ultramarines have Ultramar, Blood Angels have Baal, Space Wolves have Fenris for example, that they use as a base of recruits. A lot of those Chapters definitely have a more closed pool of genetic material as a base because they pull from the same people all the time but Ultramar is nearly as populous as Earth so you still have a massive pool of potential canidates to use as a base. Now out of those examples the Ultramarines have the most stable geneseed with pretty much no discernable defects, the other two have massive genetic flaws and strengths it must be said, turning them into effectively Vampires and Werewolves when things go sideways but that is generally tied far more to the flawed geneseed then the actual human they spliced it into. Whereas Crusading Chapter like the Black Templars pull recruits from wherever and whoever takes their fancy at any given time, they also use it to cheat their numbers but that's a different loophole. There have been mass casualty events for Chapters with genetic degradation i.e. the Raven Guard almost got wiped out when their Primarch tried to take a shortcut to boost their numbers, a similar thing happened to the Thousand Sons, and the Emperor's Children barely managed to come into existence in the first place, to be fair it would've been better if they didn't.
Space Marine Vampires? Werewolves? This gets wilder by the second
The blood angles obsession with their primarch sanguinius is due how he redeemed them. Before sanguinius the legion was called the eaters of the dead. This names was very literal. They were the stuff of nightmares. sanguinius transformed them from that into noble heroes . Think the imperial Japanese army turning into the Japanese defense force.
There was 20 space marine legions (2 are unknown/lost) After the Horus Heresy the remaining 9 Loyalist Legions were broke up in an event known as the Second Founding, resulting in numerous Chapters, there have been further Foundings in the thousands of years since, leading to the commonly stated 1000 Chapters.
Love your explanation of guardsman tactics as simple by necessity.
Given the scale of numbers used by the imperial guard, and how some equipment can be described as..... rudimentary, it's not surprising that most combat tactics utilized are basic as well.
You'd probably see more defined and advanced combat maneuvers once you bring up the Militarum Tempestus
Look, when you have literally billions of troops to throw at a problem you really don’t *have* to be complex about it.
It also probably depends on the Commander.
@@TheArkTheArkTheArk Personally, I disagree with you on that.
Numbers isn't the problem; If you had billions, from ONLY a single planet, then you could still develop advanced tactics, since you're working within familiar doctrines and people.
The real issue with the Astra Militarum is Uniformity; Those billions? They're comprised of people from whole other planets, with vastly different doctrines and tactics. After all, Cadianas don't fight the same as say, Armageddon Steel Legion units, or Valhallans and etc...
@@TheArkTheArkTheArk quantity is a quality all its own
The planet Nocturn is supposed to be pretty radioactive I think. So I think with the weak magnetic field they get exposed to a fair bit of infrared/ultraviolet. The Salamanders chapter, I mean.
Another major issue with the Guard is that they're drawn from so many worlds, and you're dealing with numerous languages and dialects.
Not much of a problem when you have a enforced national language...
@@sjmcc13 There is high Gothic but that's more a lingua franca for the nobility, it is highly regulated so it doesn't drift much in structure and remains mutually understandable between worlds.
However that vast majority of soldiers will speak Low Gothic which is only a language by the absolute loosest sense of the word, it's basically a heavily butchered version of high Gothic mixed with whatever language is local to the speaker's planet. Two different planet's low Gothic could be as understandable to each other as French is to a Chinese speaker.
Regarding the whole sole focus strategy, space marine chapters have a overarching theme. For example dark angels are swizz army knife, using speed of the ravenwing to harass the enemy while the "greenwing" decimate them from afar, and then the deathwing carries out surgical strikes at the enemy command structure, fully supported by the ravenwing.
Hey, our favorite space viking furries may have been designed by a 13 year old, but I still think they're cool :D
They also are surprisingly effective, rational fighters if they have to be. That enemies (and allies) think of them as wild beasts is a strength as it misleads the others and they are able to surprise them with their actions more easily. Also, being feared really helps to get things done in the Warhammer 40k universe.^^
Surprisingly, they are still kind of close to the humans, or at least those they consider worthy (warriors and the like) and they try to remember who they were before they became space marines.
On a side note, Space Marines rarely worship the Emperor as a god. I think it would feel weird for them to worship someone who is, genetically speaking, their grandfather (Big E -> Primarchs -> Space Marines). Just a 'nice to know' tidbit. :)
Another commenter said that the Space Wolves used to be more like viking space marines, but got turned into furries by GW?
Only if you count that they got 2 new units in recent years, they got wulfen, (werewolf space marines stuck in a hybrid beast man form due to instability from their gene seed, you copy a copy of a seed too many times and flaws will develop)
And the other unit is Thunderwolf Calvary, which are the only Calvary unit spacemarines have, they marenmarines riding wolves the size of Rhinos, very scary.
But while a lord may have a pet wolf the size of a lion I wouldn’t call them furries, it’s more a joke that developed.
They always had a few animalistic traits through their gene seed, like little longer canines and and maybe a little wolfish eyes but yeah it is more a joke as the guy above me said ^^
There are parts of their lore that suggests that their wolves are actually failed space marines that transformed completely during their training trials. A rather infamous saying is "There are no wolves on Fenris (their homeworld)."
Kind of.
During the 30k/Horus Heresy timeline, the Space Wolves were more viking with actual rational names for their stuff.
In the 40k timeline, GW gave them a huge focus on Wolves. Everything has a "wolf-name" now and they are wearing even more furs than before.
There's a parody series about the Warhammer 40k setting on UA-cam, called "If The Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech-Device". It's hilariously funny, but not quite lore-accurate as it often goes its own way and implements a lot of memes.
But that segment kind of explains why the community started to call them furries in the 40k setting
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It's awesome to see you're still uploading regularly. Keep up the good work!
There is diversity amoung space marines. Each primarch's genetic sequence that they put into the space marine recruits are different. Just becuase something affects 1 primarch's lineage does not mean that the other 17 primarch's lineage is affected. Either way they are immune to disease anyway.
Well, immune to normal disease. Something cooked up by Nurgle can kill them, but then again in that case we are talking about warp fuckery and all the rules get tossed out of the airlock when that heresy gets unleashed.
@@Raikos371 Yea that is what is implied
On your vid thumbnail: "what is ethical?" -every 40k fan, EVER
Devotion to the Emperor is the only ethic , of course!
I feel I have to give you a heads up about the Tau, even a Guardsman can feel like an Astarte against the Tau in melee. Wargamer Fritz is a good starting place
"space wolves look like they where desinged by a thirteen year old" Welcome to warhammer!
Hi there ! IMPORTANT CORRECTIONS about your assumptions ;) By order of appearance :
1) Death worlds : Imperial classification for worlds deemed unfit for colonization and continued human settlement. So not as many of them do have inhabitants. Catachan is a precious exception : it counts only a few million inhabitants (so basically an outpost by imperial standards) but breeds some of the strongest, fiercest, most vicious and adaptable fighters in the galaxy. They excel in jungle environment but their survivor mindset helps them be one of the most praised and elite regiment in the Imperium on any war theatre !
2) "shoe shine" Mordian Guard : here Bricky is relaying a common meme. There are indeed regiments in the Astra Militarum that are not really well trained for real fight and are inefficient or badly equipped. They all share a common point : they are completely unknown because they don't live long enough for that ! The Mordian Iron Guard pays great attention to their uniforms because their main strength is their iron resolve (hence the name) and discipline. They are not the best sharpshooter, nor the best close combat fighters but they are reknown for their impeccable discipline and their ability to keep efficient and focused even under the direst conditions. Their belief is that "if you start getting lazy for the small things you'll soon enough be lazy for the important ones". They wouldn't have built themselves a name in an Imperium worth millions of regiments if they were inefficient ;)
3) Cadia and the "children soldiers" : cadians are by no means children soldiers : they are born-soldiers. They live on a military world entirely dedicated to guard the main stable Warp route from the Eye of Terror to the Material Universe. Each time the forces of Chaos launch a Black Crusade to invade the Imperium, they have to pass nearby Cadia (hence the regimental logo of cadian troops, representing a gate with a skull in it). This world has been under siege the major part of its history. So all the population is drilled and trained to be soldiers or war engineers from their yougest age. It doesn't mean they are sent to fight before adulthood. They serve in the "White shields" during their youth but they integrate the Guard regiments when they are fully grown adults. And by this time, ooooh they are good ! Best human soldiers in the galaxy : disciplined, fearsome, well drilled and well equipped, ubiquitous and polyvalent : the dream of any Imperial commander ! They don't care about gender and the proximity of the Eye of Terror (always visible in their sky, as a perpetual threat) is responsible for a minor mutation : they have purple eyes.
4) Space Wolves, never dare insult the mighty Rout eve again ! :p ;) basically, every faction in WH40K draw its inspiration from the real world. Space Wolves are space vikings (and werewolves), Blood Angels are space vampires, Dark Angels are space knights of the Round Table, White Scars are space Huns/Hans/Mongols. Each space marine chapter is infused and influenced by the rituals and beliefs of its chapter world, hence the strong visual identity and sometimes unneccessary fur and necklaces. Space Wolves are superstitious and decorate their armours with the fur of giant wolves they killed themselves, and wear amulets to deflect "Evil". And it works, of course, it's 40K !
5) Salamanders and their black skin : "Nocturne" is the name of their planet. It is never implied that they got their ash-black skin from lack of light ;p Indeed, the Night lords are really pale of skin because they lived on a world (mostly and underworld) called Nostramo (yes, in reference to Alien's Nostromo) where there the sun is so dim they never see a real daylight. For the Salamanders, their black skin and glowing red eyes are a mutation caused by the radiations of their star, so that can have all the sense you want ;)
6) Monotactical fighting forces : it can seem a weakness but in truth, at the scale of the Imperium it provides very effective specialists in every kind of warfare. Of course many fighting forces in the Imperium are generalists (as well in the Astra Militarum as in the Adeptus Astartes), but when dealing with a particular situation, Imperial commander can muster unequalled specialists to precisely counter their enemy's tactics (they are the ones who knock ;p ). Sometimes they have to fight with whatever they have at hand, but any crusade or large scale military operation will have specialists of any kind to ensure to have always a card in hand to play whatever the enemy would come up with.
For the Space marines specifically, keep in mind that they are smarter then normal men, and that they spend litterally ALL their life in warfare : when they don't fight, they drill and undergo hypno-indoctrination to fast-learn every military tactic known to the Imperium at a subconscious level. After that, they practice they "way" and style of their chapter, based upon their history, the influence of their Primarch and/or their world's traditions BUT they know every type of warfare the Imperium has been confronted to. Besides, in some occasions (many in the case of Space Marines), the problem is that you might know from where the bullet will be fired and by what kind of weapon, it doesn't mean you'll be able to dodge it, just that you'll know precisely the time of your death...
7) The chapters/legions : Bricky tries to wrap up an insanely vast amount of information in less than one hour. And he has to bypass a lot of minor factions that are not in the tabletop game. So he went over all main CHAPTERS that are the direct offspring of the former LEGIONS (during the Second Founding, the Legions were split into chapters : one chapter kept the name and heraldry of the original Legion when the other chapters took other names and sigils, as well as another chapter world). He even talks about the Black Templars because they are the most famous successor chapter in the game, to the point where they've had their own codex (set of rules) for many editions of the game. They are a successor of the Imperial Fists Legion (Primarch : Rogal Dorn).
And that, my friend, will be all for today ! I have spoken ;)
To add onto your second point, if a Planetary Governor is sending recruits that are below the Imperial Guard standards as part of their tithe, once it's noticed by the bureaucracy of the Imperium (which can take several decades at times) they will be removed from their position and replaced by someone who won't skimp on that because that compromises the integrity of the Imperium.
One of my favorite regiments of imperial guard are the Elysian drop troops because they come from a paradise world... These guys go from living a nice life to being dropped behind ork lines with pretty much only what they can drop from gunships with😂
Charging a tau is a good idea acutually. The tau SUCK in melee combat and are even more frail then humans. An untrained moody 14 year girl old would beat the snot out a fully equiped Tau double their age.
Charging them while they still hold a rifle and have a little bit of range left on you on the other hand... *shrug* But I bet if a 14 year old frail girl charged a fully grown Tau, s/he would be too surprised to shoot :D
@@thedragon133 How else are you supposed to get into combat besides teleportation which this 14 year old probably does not have.
@@ARandomCustodian you could let someone else get shot fir... *cough* I mean "draw their fire" while you charge 😊
@@thedragon133 Oh there is enough menials and servitors for that
You in most cases won’t be able to prepare for a Space Marine chapters tactics anyway. Most people in the Imperium don’t EVER see a space marine in their entire lives. So them knowing anything about a chapters tactics are even less likely.
Fair point.
You know what. This is the only time that I’ve ever heard someone say that the imperial guards tactics not only work, but are the best tactics they can manage. In fact when guardsmen are deployed in smaller formations they are actually very tactical. In fact they could be compared to modern professionals. But when you have so many guardsmen, which is what you need to kill the things that the guard are expected to kill, they have to lose all of those tactics to make sure that their plan works.
I never thought about that, and now I have a totally different view of guard tactics.
Your bit about the homogenisation of the space marine chapter is right on. It's actually addressed in the newer books, with one of the characters noting that the emperor probably meant for a fighting force to be made up of many different chapters to create a more diverse force, and it's only the pride of the primarchs that kept that from happening
If you want to react to another series then I would recommend
The siege of vraks by arch
And if the emperor had a text to speech device
Siege of Vraks is totally up this guy's alley. Very in depth on the military aspect.
@@SebsterMS99
Agreed
It involves the infamous death korps of Krieg
Back stories
Love, duty and honor followed by mass deaths and betrayals
And whilst there are no independent or in-depth characters it’s about the struggles of one man and how that one man fell and fell until that little snow ball created an avalanche which could have destroyed the entire sector
TTS is for later after all the other options are taken because it's like a catching up or fleshing out explanations of things thing and then it evolves into its own story..
i recommend majorkill if you want a slightly more entertaining explanation,he cover pretty much every factions in wh40k including major space marine chapters and their primarchs,guardsman regiments,xenos factions and etc.
Majorkill is hilarious. Is his patreon really...well....nevermind
@@CombatVeteranReacts He's good for a laugh but take Majorkill's lore vids with a grain of salt, he mixes cannon and non-cannon memes quite alot
@@haydenlawrie7130 GW has openly said that everything is canon, but not everything is true. They want to both play into the warp shenanigans and the tabletop aspect of their universe. In someone's mind, Failbaddon the Armless has his shit kicked in by a small Cadian child, while in another's mind hes Abbadon the Despoiler and blows up Cadia and goes on to jam his lightning claws into the Emperor's chest. GW plays to both people.
On a quick note on lasguns: They also are a logistician wetdream: They use powerpacks that can be recharged from just about any power supply the Imperium might deploy. Or by leaving them in them sun for a day or so. Or, in cases of emergencies, by throwing said powerpack on a campfire for some half hour, although that one causes pretty large wear and tear and permanently reduces the storage capability of that power cell by something like 50%. Said powerpacks can also be made to overload and used as a makeshift grenade when shit completely hits the fan. Nearly all patterns of lasgun use the stanrdarized powerpack that if not exactly the same tend to be at least compatible with the other lasgun patterns.
There are other weapons in the Imperium that are far more powerful. Some of them are even not massively more expensive. But any of those that could theoretically be put in the hands of most of the untold billions of guardsmen would massively complicate the supply chain. The lasgun might not be the most effective shooting weapon, but it ensures they all *can* shoot in the first place.
That does sound insanely easy. No ammo resupply
@@CombatVeteranReacts It's occasionally mentioned that they do need to get replaced every so often, as they get used and recharged over and over again they start losing max capacity and the like, much like a current day battery, but yeah, even so, it does make things incredibly easier.
They do have to do ammo resupplies for other parts of the Imperial Arsenal, such as most special weapons, heavy weapons, vehicle weaponry and the like, but that's definitely made easier by having an easier time with the basic infantry weapon nearly everyone gets to carry.
CvR apologizes for not doing any tactics analysis; then proceeds thought bomb on us; how and why simple tactics for army's work! Earned a sub buddie; keep up the good work.
the main reason Bricky didn't describe all the chapters is because on the table top there are very few differences between chapters with really only the ones he pointed out having any game-play differences the rest of the chapters will either share stratagems of their parent chapter or the owner of the army will create their own custom versions. As for the Salamanders dark skin, Space wolves long teeth, and the Blood angels thirst for blood, they are all mutations of the gene-seed.
Space marines usually are all white with their skin being able to tan rapidly to protect from radiation, the Salamander's gene-seed is broken and set to full protection.
Space Wolves have an extra part of the gene-seed that cause them to be more feral and grow long canines, it can also sometimes mutate turning them into werewolves, (Wulfen).
Blood Angels also have a broken Gene-seed with the space marines ability to gain memories from drinking blood being cursed by chaos causing the Blood Angels to go crazy in either the Red Thirst or the Black Rage.
What are ethics really? lol
As a note: Why Cadia exports so many guard, and why they start training them so young is because of their resources, and their position.
Cadia is right on the edge of the Eye of Terror, a big fat hole in reality where the warp spills out, so they're the first ones to get hit if Chaos tries something.
In addition, they're very low on natural resources, so the only thing they have available in terms of the Imperial Tithe (basically imperium taxes. A planet needs to provide a certain level of some valuable) So the one thing they have to offer is manpower and soldiers. So they put a crap ton of effort into making the best soldiers possible so they maintain the Imperium's investment in them.
There were originally 20 Space Marine legions, one for each Primarch. But after the Horus Heresy where half the legions turned traitor, the Primarch of the Ultramarines created the Codex Astartes. It was basically a set of guidelines for military tactics and organization of the remaining loyal legions. Each legion would be divided into 1000 successor chapters of roughly 1000 men. This was to ensure no single person would have as much power as Horus did, and try to take control or destroy the Imperium. Outside of the lore it was to encourage people to create their own chapter when painting the miniatures.
"That wouldn't be ethical"
*AHAHAHA!-*
I dont see ethics out here purging xenos, brother
"IG relies on cheap, easy-to-use conscripts." You're still not familiar. And no, it's not that blatantly simple, it's just that not every planet has god-tier training quality.
you make a good point with someone living for so long that they get disconnected i believe thats why the emperor foolishly believed he could just stop humans believing in god or some shit , even tho he himself is a towering giant covered in gold armor
Yea. We can never know what would happen to a person's mind if they lived a long time and remained at peak cognition
I suggest watching the Templin Institute's video on the Astra Militarum. They go more in depth about them.
Saying "That's Unethical" is Heresy to 40K lore
For every 5 seconds brick explaining something this guy talk for 5 minutes.
Yeah, you nailed it with the Guard. They often have to manage a war theatre the size of whole planet, while also preparing for a space invasion and possible enemy troops on the local moon. So they cant plan every little detail meticulously.
Oh and btw, Mordians look like fops until you realise that they are wearing thick alloy armor under their fancy uniforms. The thinking is - enemy will see us taking shots in the chest, yet we keep marching and looking good, advancing at an enemy which will make them think us invincible. Head shots do happen though but no red blooded mordian will think of that possibility.
Can't help but think that the guys at Games Workshop pulled a lot of inspiration from modern history for these Space Marine legions. The White Scars, for example, seem fairly similar to the ancient Mongols. They also rode in on horseback, struck hard and fast with their archery. Also, take into account that their leader's name is Jaghatai Khan. Coincidence? I don't think so.
No chance lol
Great video as always man! Also for the Guard Bricky is exagerating abit, SOME sub factions of the guard to charge a lot (Kriegsmen) but the vast difference in regiments and worlds means there is an almost infinite amount of specializations. Also the central command/high command is either in orbit (for invasions) or on the main command center (say in the fortress miles and miles away). If you are interested in the guard and how some units operate you can read the Guants Ghosts books, they are amazing and cover many types of engagements, and some even tell how they do mixed regiments. There are also some Catachan books (Straken) that deal in covert operations behind enemy lines and guerrilla tactics.
I think I dont remember of any child (less than 16) soldiers regiments, they are mostly trained from a young age as the whole planet exports either soldiers or weapons. The exception are Krieg, but they are cloned, yes cloned, to fight and die for the emperor.
And for the accuracy he refers to the rules on the tabletop, cause they hit on a 4+ on a 6 side dice. So yeah about 50% of the shots. And marines hit on a 3+, and then you have the golden boys, the custodes who hit on a 2+.
Also the astartes were created from a couple thousands worlds (in the current timeline) so imagine a world can produce lets say a couple dozen each amount of years (say 10 or 20 aspirants each year) from the whole world, but you can push it to 100 or more if you lower your tests or go in a mass recruiting drive.
And with 1000 chapters or more you have a huge amount of variations, and marines are extremely inteligent commanders (they are after all 100s of years of war fighting. And the leaders od the chapter masters/leaders are sometimes close to a thousand years old) so a captain will have his preferred style of fighting but will more likely adapt to the enemy they are facing and their tactics and their resources.
Salamanders are charcoal black because of the mutation from their primarch Vulkan and because of their sun, which gives radiation to them
Also he does a lot of jokes and mockint many of the chapters and traditions of the chapters.
Sorry for the long comment, just wanted to hell a bit if i could. Love the videos and keep it up man!
For tabletop play you can check midwinterminis how to play or miniwargaming how to play videos. Or just the warhammer community how ti play 9th edition
The homogeneity of the Space Marine Legions (which are from warhammer 30k) is part of the reason why in 40k there are no Legions are instead Chapters (armies of 1000 marines each). Each Chapter has a different culture that may or may not be based on their Founding Legion (the legion they originated from), and thus employs different tactics and prefers different doctrines. The Space Marines may be homogeneous in their tactics and thinking, but 90% of the time your strategy designed to counter them won't win you the battle anyway, because the sheer speed, strength, endurance, and tactical ability of the armies you are facing (the Marines) ensures you will be plowed over anyway. The only time this lack of diversity of thought comes into play is against foes like the Tyranids who can literally adapt their soldiers to individual battlefield conditions within HOURS.
It is also why the Ultramarines are one of the most effective chapters out there you'll be pleased to know. They don't really have a preferred strategy or doctrine, they just do what works based on the situation they're facing. The reason why each Legion had such leanings to one doctrine or the other is because Emps created them to be under his command through the Primarchs. So he wanted specialist armies to deal with the vast variety of xenos and other enemies they were going to have to crush.
The Imperial Fists are defensive and fortification specialists meant to reinforce entire sectors of the (then-growing) Imperium against enemy assaults until more Legions can arrive to take the offensive. (Legions working together to compliment each other's strengths and shore up each other's weaknesses was very common in the Crusade era/30k) The White Scars were meant to take to battlefields where mobility was a primary concern, and outpacing the enemy on all forms of terrain was required for success. The Word Bearers were meant to deal with enemies that were very ideologically entrenched, requiring not just victory in war, but needing to have their hearts and minds won over to the Imperial Cause too. Each Legion of Astartes was meant to fulfill a specific role in the Crusade that would be required, keep in mind this is a massive, multi-century-spanning galactic campaign that the Emperor was trying to pull off, obviously the war doctrine and thought process needed to be successful differs from today.
The Guardsman are not really conscripts, their low accuracy in lore and tabletop as many others pointed out comes more from the scale of their opponents, Xenos are all monsters who could move and fight in a truly inhuman level while the Guardsmen are just well trained soldiers. As such despite their great skill, their are still limited by the fact that they are "human".
26:33 Funny that you mention that, because one of primarchs, Konrad Curze, actually WAS from a planet that had basically no light called Nostramo and they more or less fit what you are talking about. In fact, the people there over millenia adapted to environment so much, when The Emperor came to recruit Konrad, he, being this shining golden god, permanently blinded basically everyone who looked at him.
Nocturne is a volcanic planet, by the way. Very confusing naming convention, I know.
The only issue is, most of the time you don't even know you're going to be battling against the white scars. they just pop into realspace, drop onto the planet, and then start fast striking.
I enjoyed your insights. learning about that leader who breed tall soldiers & that military that keeps itself entirely separate from the civilians being two interesting things i was very unaware of.
I realize this video is 2 years old, so you may have seen his Space Marine Legion in a Nutshell video, too, but he goes into more detail in that video. It must also be noted that each Chapter he goes into in that video are "First Founding" Chapters; that is, they were founded before the Horus Heresy. Every other Chapter was founded during or after the Horus Heresy (as of my writing this, there were _at least_ 25 other Foundings in the series); often by divvying larger chapters into smaller ones.
re: Space Marines and genetics. The Astartes are recruited from worlds under their chapter's governance almost like a farm system. They start as normal humans. Selected candidates are tested then augmented through surgeries, cybernetics, and forced genetic mutation. Many do not survive the process.
The lack of accuracy in the game for the imperial guard is more to do with the fact they have to balance it versus super soldiers, alien technology, and races that live for centuries or millennium. They have better accuracy than orks or tyranids and other primitive or animalistic races. Most of the famous imperial guard troops are actually extremely skilled soldiers by modern standards.
Although because the imperium is so large and the level of technology and culture varies so wildly planet to planet the differences between the most and least skilled regiments will vary drastically. However the departmento munitorum tries its best to send the most appropriate forces to where they are needed.
So most of the time you'd get regiments skilled in city fighting being sent to hive worlds or regiments skilled in space operations being sent to capture space station. However the more pressing a conflict the more they will just pull in all of the closest regiments that are available. So you may end up having 2 artillery regiments, a cavalary regiment, and 2 scout regiments being sent to fight a city battle or ice worlders being sent to desert conflicts.
Human waves usually being used (as paradoxical as it may sound) to reduce casualties - not increase them. When other choice is slow meatgrinder where you will loose much more people - human waves can actually save lives.
@ Combat Veteran Reacts Travel through the warp after a planetary conscription can take weeks or months before a Guardsman arrives at thier first combat zone. Basic training is done in route aboard ship and the ones that catch on quick are typically the ones that survive in the end.
Here is a tactical/inspiration run down for you on the big 9 legions of space marines:
Ultramarines-blue- Roman legion
Dark angels-dark green- Jack of all trades (2nd best at most things)
Imperial fists-yellow- Anzac forces, masters of siege, holding and taking territory, shock troops
White Scars-white- Mongolians/Huns
Raven Guard- black- British SAS, stealth and orbital drops with jump packs
Blood angels-red- vampires
Space Wolves-grey- werewolves and Vikings
Iron Hands-black/silver- German panzer forces
Salamanders- green- heaphestus the Greek god of the forge.
Conscripts are famously bad shots
*Glances over to the Conscript unit, that is as effective at shooting as Orks*
Tempestus Scion: Or you can be a orphan who's trained his entire life to kill.
Tactically speaking, the best combat strategy for space Marines would be to combine legions together for battle, so that the enemy has to deal with more than one combat approach. However, the Imperium would most likely only deploy the legions into combat scenarios where they're particular skills are best suited. So if the enemy is incredibly slow then you send the White Scars to overrun them, for example
Just FYI - the Imperial Guard don't lack training - most have been trained from birth to be soldiers.
It's just that base line maxed training of humans with no genetic modifications or power armour results in hitting on 4s.
You can hire conscripts in game as well... they hit on 5s or 6s... I can't remember which.
They split the legions into chapters and the imperium has lost track of how many chapters there are
Kinda a bad look for the 'perium
So to clarify for the Imperial Guard the thrown together conscripts are the no name regiments that show up in books for the reason of dying for the story. The Named Regiments are very well known for how well drilled, tactically proficient and versed in war. Cadia is a war world so they grow up living a soldiers style life and only see front line combat once a adult unless Cadia is invaded by Chaos and then they have to help defend the world or die anyway. The reason for the Lasgun is for these not well trained troops that can point a rifle and fire. No bullet drop, no recoil, easy supply of ammo amd such. Then for the more advanced Guardsmen they have models that have power settings and can adjust for the enemy.
regarding geneseed, as the primarch got tossed in the warp and around the universe, it got mutated and became unstable, some chapters got out relatively well, with only one or two implants not working. Other got heavily mutated (like spacewolves, the salamanders etc)
Each legion is made following a theme: Ultramarine are all arounder and based on romans, pacewolves and blood angels are the guys you go for heavy cqc. The wolves are based on vikings and werevolves and blood angels are more renessance and vampires. It's kinda a gimmick to differentiate chapters
On the homogeneity, in major campaigns, reading about the battles, it's actually usually a mix of chapters, guard regiments and other forces working together. There's some deep lore implication that the chapters and guard are not independently powerful and well rounded because it makes them too much a threat if they happen to turn traitor (a ton of Imperial doctrine is based on a paranoid fear of their own forces). It's why the navy is completely separate from the army, why the Space Marines can only have armed and armoured troop transports instead of war ships and why the space marines were broken into chapters instead of the old legions. There are some well rounded armies that can do everything, the Cadians for the guard and the Ultramarines and Dark Angels can all adapt many tactics and strategies. Chapters or guard regiments forced to operate on their own can fail due to their rigid doctrine but they aren't usually forced to do so.
Here are some videos that helped me.
Dark eldar - arch has two vids
War in heaven - baldermort 2 parts
Orks - baldermort has a fun one same with Lutin
Tau - tactica imperialus (commander farsight 3 part)
Timeline - 40k theories
Primarchs- italiansparticus has a few good looks at primarchs.
Late and had trouble with links so just typed it. Enjoying your vids thanks
haha i like he said prepare to counter the "white claws" that u actually have time to prepare for their blitzkrige
"if your a blood drinker and your boss (primarch) is named sanguinius..." welcome to games workshop, where the spell subtelty with explosions
Nocturn is not nessecarily a Dark planet. It is more that it is so... Vulkanized... that it has a really dense atmosphere.
Cadia, like many other planets are army builders. Their entire population is born to serve in the Astra Militarum, so their kids go to military schools, where they are taught to be soldiers. They are not supposed to fight until they are old enough. But as Cadia is a Fringe planet, the Planet just in front of the Eye of Terror (door to the Inmaterium/Chaos), it suffers attacks from enemy troops constantly (until it was destroyed). So many boys may had had to use they lasguns before they had to do, just to protect their homes.
Most Cadians are trained since childhood, by the time they teach adulthood. They are equivalent to elite soldiers able to do any mission, despite psychological disadvantages it carries- like dealing with rogue astartes, supernatural and other stuff that would break the will of everyone else.
Guardsmen are trained in the manner of their home world so some are conscripts but most are well trained and the Guard are very capable of good tactics as you won't win without them when fighting orks or tyranids or chaos you can't win with numbers alone in those scenarios if in active combat a Guardsman has a 90% chance of death in a year due to most enemies of the imperium being so dangerous that even with the best training you can get some enemies are just beyond what a person could ever fight alone or even in a group
A minor bit about the lifespan of astartes: none of them have ever died of old age. Every bit of apparent aging has been vestigial and not impacted them in any meaningful way, so it seems that they are at least semi-immortals (guys that will live forever unless killed).
As is my obligation under Canadian law, I will now give you a Like for mentioning Canada's participation in the D-Day landings.
For context while it’s true that different legions/chapters of space marines specialize in certain things that doesn’t exclude them from other strategies. The white scars as you mentioned do specialize in tactics involving hit and run, blitz krieg, etc. however it’s not all they know, they just are really good at it.
As for the galaxy being eternal war and suffering that’s a bit different now, over time the 40k universe has been extensively fleshed out. so now it is still filled with war and death but you can conceivably live out a peaceful live in many corners of the imperium provided the planet or sector is relatively safe and local government isn’t tyrannical.
The Imperial Guard regiments are actually fairly well trained, at least the more well known ones are. On the tabletop, a lot of guns have poor accuracy for balance reasons and to encourage melee weapons. In lore guardsmen are (usually) quite good at aiming, though not so much when everything around them is exploding and the target's moving supernaturally fast, and melee weapons are reserved for emergencies (which basically happen constantly)
"The artillery stops..." haha, cute.
Re: Space Marine Chapters, each one was founded by a Primarch who grew up on a different planet with different cultures and aesthetics. The ones that matter in terms of lore and mechanics are the first 9, but there are hundreds if not thousands of successor chapters that came later. Successors don't have as much of their own identity really, which is why he doesn't cover them in this. Yes, each of the main 9 have their specializations, but they don't do that exclusively, it's more that that is what they excel at. White Scars love high mobility units like bikers, speeders, and jump pack infantry, and their strategems in the tabletop are geared towards improving that further, but they can also hunker down and hold positions effectively. Blood Angels and Space Wolves love to get into close quarters, if not outright melee, but they can also be deadly at range. Think of each Legion as being more of an army in its own right if you want to apply it to modern day. The Russian Army will have a wildly different training focus than the Israeli Army, who will differ compared to the South African Army, which also differs compared to the Indian Army. Yes, you obviously will train to fight in whatever setting your military is currently operating, but the culture and climate in which the army trains will still come through at the end. The chapters are typically deployed to situations that best suit their specialties and in lore will often work in concert with one another should the situation they are responding to call for a mix of combat styles.
The beauty of Space Marines is that they are not engineered in Vitro, they are brought up to spec at the age of 15 and that is after 5 years or so of training. their Gene Editing is Bolt-on
Nocturn is the plant the salamanders are on, not the conditions there. One of the rare times games workshops naming conventions are unusual.
It's a harsh, hot, dry, volcanic, and radiation scorched planet from their sun.
The gene seed is used to vat grow organs with specific functions, which either grow or are implanted before they are battle ready. One of these changes the pigment of their skin to suit their environment. Within hours or days. Usually going back to the default close to their primarchs skin tone in neutral conditions. In the salamanders case, it's a little broken. If they EVER visit nocturn, which 99 time out of 100 they are from their skin and eyes will perminently be stuck like that
5:42 bold of you to assume that the imperial guard would stop firing artillery when the infantry charge.
It has occurred (very rarely) where an armored vehicle has operated itself so they are probably pretty easy to use.