A good read that I enjoyed, heavy vibes of Apocalypse Now and similar stories that portray the everyday insanity of war. Felt quite grounded, not the usual OTT 40k - mainly IG and Tau grunts going mad fighting on a cesspit planet.
It is. I remember how in the end captured Tau advisor sees who humans really are and shivers in absolute fear, because he sees to what lengths humans can go pursuing their goals. -no worries, two small wrongs make one big right! -Small wrong? You call this SMALL WRONG?
Little known fact, that's actually the reason why Malal has been retconned into nonexistence. Khorne got super pissed about the Sons of Malice because wanton destruction is basically his thing, so he stormed GW's office and Henry Cavil himself to complain about it. Not wanting to be turned into red smears on the floor, they acquiesced to his demands.
Well, isn't canon that the Emperor one time went into the warp and over an unknown amount of years/centuries/millennia (warp shenanigans) took power that was meant to go to the Chaos gods for himself? And they hate him because he is basically infringing on their collective claim on all of humanity's souls?
@@damienmccuinn1956Oh yes, definitely the best option for stopping the chaos gods is to pile all their traits onto our captive psyker godhead while he's still incubating, that's gonna turn out great!
Lore: power armor is available to high ranking officers, bodyguards and special characters depending on prosperity of their homeworld. Rogue Trader: Abelard, where is my super suit?!
@@adamorick2872 they say that some upstart imperial shouldn't try to tell Adeptus Mechanicus what is and isn't a tech heresy. Plus they like how the local name of tech priests hails to pre-DAoT era of humanity.
Being hundreds of meters up in the sky battling a mortal enemy, both mortally wounded and about to explode in a blast of fire while both are losing their mental sanity to the influence of an evil dark god of violence. One of the most 40k death that i have ever seen
@torinnbalasar6774 The whole planet was some sort of warp nexus, there has been multiple stories on it where strange fuckery is going on. For example at one point a genestealer infected Tau and a machine spirit controlled iron hand team up to destroy a mutated tyranid spore nidus in a xeno temple on said planet. Not to mention a closed time loop between a commissar and the arkan confederate guard unit deployed to the planet. Truly this planet is ripe for a table top adventure book or two.
Ok - I know that story. Imagine a jungle world. Now imagine that the whole world is a cancer. Now imagine that there is passing presence of corrupting evil that turns EVERYONE mad - from Humans, through tau to even the Kroot. Every atom of that world is a cancerous cell that infects mind, body and soul. It's a hell and both sides forgot why they even fight for it.
I think that as the Tau establish themselves more, they are more and more influenced by the Warp. After all, the Tau are just extremely weak psykers, they are not naturally blank.
Maybe insulting and mocking the idea of greater good while killing her best buddy in the fire caste warrior army???? Then again probably be some eldar backstabbing and attacking in the shadows as usual.....
@@macshadow1150 preachers can't be tainted, they're abundantly loyal no matter how much corruption compared to the average human, he simply had so much Faith.
@@vothbetilia4862 Oh they can be corrupted, its just harder. Taint however can take many shapes and forms, here twisting prayers of the faithfull, which are little too close yo Khorn
@@macshadow1150 you do realize every imperial planet has different view points of the emperor right? The twist of prayer you call it, doesn't mean it's khorn related
Fun Facts - a fair number of this regiment had power armor. IIRC a few dozen in total. For a guard regiment that's pretty remarkable. Their types could have either inbuilt buzzsaws or drills as weapons. - The Shas'Ui in this battle was a recently promoted Tau Pathfinder who had refused promotion multiple times and had never piloted a crisis suit before. My favourite scene in the entire book is a guard sentinel squad leader watching this advanced alien killing machine land in front of him flanked by two equally heavily armed bodyguards and his only reaction is "Wow. You DO NOT know how to drive that." - the guardsman mentioned in this post was a religious lunatic even by the standards of the Imperium. Specifically the "murder your superiors in broad daylight when they call you out on your behavior but it's fine 'cause I'm God's favourite"-type. Also *SPOILER* He didn't die in the initial explosion. He died when his armour's jetpack exploded when he tried to do percussive maintenace on it.
Yeah An unaugmented human In Power armor should have no business winning against those battlesuits Especially since the dude jumped out of it 😂 Humanity for the W
@@josephboustany4852to be fair he only won on the principle "The bells toll you filthy blue skin and I shall make sure you hear their call as well" kinda thing one thing no one should ever underestimate is the ability to be spiteful
Hm, considering that the tau were uncharacteristically rage filled and what the preacher said, odds are, there is a Khorne artefact or something like that buried beneath the surface.
Providence must be a rich and advanced world if they could afford to locally create their own power armour yes standard Imperial PA would still be better on all accounts but those tend to be built on Forge Worlds.
Fairly, yes. The armour is a relatively new invention from the Arkhan's homeworld. An Arkhan pov character mentions their world was enjoying a technological revolution before the Imperium found them and the Mechanicus put the kibosh on it.
@@vermeer11136 Of course they did wish Cawl or his followers found them first always wanted a fully powered armoured regimwnt of guardsmen that's not homebrew.
Honestly, good for the Tau that theyve learned to have a bit of pure hatred. In more civilized circumstances, it would be bad. But 40K is NOT civilized. Of course, respect to Joyce for standing for the Imperium of man.
Ahhh fire caste It is released as a tau novel but secretly is the best chaos novel. Seeing chaos from psychological perspective was very weird and chilling. One of the best 40k novels apocalypse now+silent hill in format of 40k.
I wonder if it is with intention they write more subtle hints of corruption as this into Warhammer lore. It is one of my favorite elements when things like that manage to get slipped into stories.
Rarely get to see power armor amongst the guard. Should be more common given the circumstances. At the very least, would make for cool moments and scenes.
I love how we have a codified mid stage for the imperial cult turning to khorne. Because of course closet khorne worship, even unconsciously could evolve in this way.
I remember when I was younger, like first getting into 40k and learning about the guard. About how depending on the planet the standard of armaments would vastly change with some worlds not having even the weakest of Flak armor to worlds where entire regiments had carapace armor to worlds that could even give power armor to their troops. I’m glad I finally got to see that here
Ah, the great rift in full effect. At last, the Tau as well can be driven by primitive rage. Soon, they too shall get infected, and plagued by psychic genes. May their age of strife be short and dark.
Ah, so that battlefield had a whole lot of Khorne influence it seems. Tau isn't normally that violent, but the only thing out of place for the Human side was them saying "Blood for the God Emperor!" Rather than "FOR THE EMPEROR!!!". One is shouted by soon-to-be Khore worshipers while the other is shouted by the truest of giga chads.
Arkhan confederates are inspired in the American confederates. Hell, even their world is a reference to the civil war as their planet suffered a civil war between 2 factions resulting as them as winners with the help of imperium
I'm gonna be real with you guys I'm kinda tired of humans somehow beating the xenos with some kinda hail Mary shouldn't have happened BULL SHIT it's gets old fast
GW: we got many factions! Each one is very interesting, has its own culture, they are all very unique! also GW: 3 out of those factions are humanity derived (Imperium, Chaos Worshipers and Leagues of Votaan), and most of the time, the Imperium always wins because we want to.
For wondering, the story is from the book "Fire Caste" by Peter Fehervari, I've heard it's quite good,
I only vaguely remember, but I found it somewhat underwhelming.
Worldbuilding was solid at least.
A good read that I enjoyed, heavy vibes of Apocalypse Now and similar stories that portray the everyday insanity of war. Felt quite grounded, not the usual OTT 40k - mainly IG and Tau grunts going mad fighting on a cesspit planet.
Think PTS AND Vietnam in 40k
Should be noted that despite the name, the book focuses primarily on the Imperial perspective of events, and not so much on the Tau side of things.
It is. I remember how in the end captured Tau advisor sees who humans really are and shivers in absolute fear, because he sees to what lengths humans can go pursuing their goals.
-no worries, two small wrongs make one big right!
-Small wrong? You call this SMALL WRONG?
Khorne sending a "cease and desist" lawsuit to the emperor for copyright infringement is just hilarious
Edit: I kinda imagine Tzeench as the lawyer..
BIG E *condescending laughter*
DEFINITELY a case of "Don't shoot the messenger!"
Little known fact, that's actually the reason why Malal has been retconned into nonexistence. Khorne got super pissed about the Sons of Malice because wanton destruction is basically his thing, so he stormed GW's office and Henry Cavil himself to complain about it. Not wanting to be turned into red smears on the floor, they acquiesced to his demands.
Khorne:"GET YOUR OWN FCKING IDEA COPYCAT!"
Well, isn't canon that the Emperor one time went into the warp and over an unknown amount of years/centuries/millennia (warp shenanigans) took power that was meant to go to the Chaos gods for himself?
And they hate him because he is basically infringing on their collective claim on all of humanity's souls?
BLOOD FOR THE GOD EMPEROR!!!
SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE!!!!
How to confuse Khorne and cockblock him on getting that precious human soul energy
Milk for the Malcador flakes!!!
@@damienmccuinn1956Oh yes, definitely the best option for stopping the chaos gods is to pile all their traits onto our captive psyker godhead while he's still incubating, that's gonna turn out great!
@@IronianKnightIt would be more interesting.
Inquisition wants to know your location
Most tame engagement in 40k between two factions
Lore: power armor is available to high ranking officers, bodyguards and special characters depending on prosperity of their homeworld.
Rogue Trader: Abelard, where is my super suit?!
You have to ask the forgeworlds under our control, Lord Captain. I'll have one commissioned for you if you wish.
The arkan confederates are unique in that they have their own exclusive pattern of power armor
@@XD-sc4ix and the mechanicis, what have they to say on such tech heresy
Alfred, sere is my ****** killer????
@@adamorick2872 they say that some upstart imperial shouldn't try to tell Adeptus Mechanicus what is and isn't a tech heresy. Plus they like how the local name of tech priests hails to pre-DAoT era of humanity.
Being hundreds of meters up in the sky battling a mortal enemy, both mortally wounded and about to explode in a blast of fire while both are losing their mental sanity to the influence of an evil dark god of violence. One of the most 40k death that i have ever seen
The Emperor and Khorne: Pause. What did you say?
that is Imperial Forces battle chant before the heresy. Blood for The Emperor, Skull for the golden throne.
@@gameid4646 Wasn't golden throne invented specifically for emperor's condition past heresy?
@@vverbov22 nope. it is modified for the Emperor need after heresy, but the date it been made still unknwon
Khorne was influencing both sides
Which is even more worrying because the T'au are typically fairly deaf to warp influences.
@@torinnbalasar6774tbf, if an artifact is involved like farsights blade, wouldn't be as difficult.
Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows.
@torinnbalasar6774 The whole planet was some sort of warp nexus, there has been multiple stories on it where strange fuckery is going on. For example at one point a genestealer infected Tau and a machine spirit controlled iron hand team up to destroy a mutated tyranid spore nidus in a xeno temple on said planet. Not to mention a closed time loop between a commissar and the arkan confederate guard unit deployed to the planet. Truly this planet is ripe for a table top adventure book or two.
@@torinnbalasar6774 There have been instances in the past of Tau leaders being corrupted even an etherial being possesed by a demon
....well by the emperor. What in the warp did they do to make the tau so mad?
Ok - I know that story.
Imagine a jungle world.
Now imagine that the whole world is a cancer.
Now imagine that there is passing presence of corrupting evil that turns EVERYONE mad - from Humans, through tau to even the Kroot.
Every atom of that world is a cancerous cell that infects mind, body and soul.
It's a hell and both sides forgot why they even fight for it.
I think that as the Tau establish themselves more, they are more and more influenced by the Warp. After all, the Tau are just extremely weak psykers, they are not naturally blank.
you know War and Genocide
It's the imperium, what ever they did, the Tau's anger was probably justified
Maybe insulting and mocking the idea of greater good while killing her best buddy in the fire caste warrior army???? Then again probably be some eldar backstabbing and attacking in the shadows as usual.....
“Blood for the blood god emperor”
“Wait what! Whose side are you on?”
"BLOOD FOR THE GOD EMPEROR!"
hol up
I love it when Khorne has his finger in every pie
Dark Tide all over again
Blood for the Emperor! Skulls for the Golden Throne!
-Darktide Zealot
It seems that this Preacher came from Tertium
Tau: “PRIMITIVE GUE’LA! YOUR PLAGUE SHALL BE ERADICATED!”
Preacher: “Nah, I’d win.”
Considering the Arkan regiment is supposed to just be the southern confederate army in 40k I think the tau was on point in this one
@@GlorinMF wait what? I no longer root for them if that’s true.
@LordCrate-du8zm yeah, you can look up the Arkan Confederate regiment whenever
@@GlorinMF NOOOOO
@@LordCrate-du8zm You can still root for them. Under the Aquila all humans are equal in their hatred of the foul Xenos.
😢 that bad at least he died before he fully fell to khorne
Nah man
BLOOD FOR THE GOD EMORAH
SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE
it’s not falling to chaos. It’s literally mocking Khorn
@@deathtrooper9003 It's more complicated. Guy was surely tainted by Chaos, but due to his faith in the Emperor he could not be fully corrupted
@@macshadow1150 preachers can't be tainted, they're abundantly loyal no matter how much corruption compared to the average human, he simply had so much Faith.
@@vothbetilia4862 Oh they can be corrupted, its just harder. Taint however can take many shapes and forms, here twisting prayers of the faithfull, which are little too close yo Khorn
@@macshadow1150 you do realize every imperial planet has different view points of the emperor right? The twist of prayer you call it, doesn't mean it's khorn related
Khorne took a special interest in this fight and decided to spice things up his own way.
When you think you're in an Imperium v Tau matchup but it's actually Khorne all the way down
Fun Facts
- a fair number of this regiment had power armor. IIRC a few dozen in total. For a guard regiment that's pretty remarkable.
Their types could have either inbuilt buzzsaws or drills as weapons.
- The Shas'Ui in this battle was a recently promoted Tau Pathfinder who had refused promotion multiple times and had never piloted a crisis suit before.
My favourite scene in the entire book is a guard sentinel squad leader watching this advanced alien killing machine land in front of him flanked by two equally heavily armed bodyguards and his only reaction is "Wow. You DO NOT know how to drive that."
- the guardsman mentioned in this post was a religious lunatic even by the standards of the Imperium. Specifically the "murder your superiors in broad daylight when they call you out on your behavior but it's fine 'cause I'm God's favourite"-type.
Also *SPOILER*
He didn't die in the initial explosion. He died when his armour's jetpack exploded when he tried to do percussive maintenace on it.
What book?
@@wanderingdruid978 Fire Caste by Peter Fehervari.
In 40K, this is what Oxford Debates have devolved into...
Emperor: *dissapointed sigh*
The Tau realized how batshit insane a human can really be.
Tau underestimate the human spirit to fight on
Yeah
An unaugmented human In Power armor should have no business winning against those battlesuits
Especially since the dude jumped out of it 😂
Humanity for the W
@@josephboustany4852to be fair he only won on the principle "The bells toll you filthy blue skin and I shall make sure you hear their call as well" kinda thing one thing no one should ever underestimate is the ability to be spiteful
Hm, considering that the tau were uncharacteristically rage filled and what the preacher said, odds are, there is a Khorne artefact or something like that buried beneath the surface.
There was some underlying Khornate influence on the world.
Providence must be a rich and advanced world if they could afford to locally create their own power armour yes standard Imperial PA would still be better on all accounts but those tend to be built on Forge Worlds.
It not so much as that but the bureaucracy of production and distribution of "unsanctified" machinery with the mechanicus.
Fairly, yes.
The armour is a relatively new invention from the Arkhan's homeworld.
An Arkhan pov character mentions their world was enjoying a technological revolution before the Imperium found them and the Mechanicus put the kibosh on it.
@@vermeer11136 Of course they did wish Cawl or his followers found them first always wanted a fully powered armoured regimwnt of guardsmen that's not homebrew.
Minor correction: it‘s Shas‘Ui, not Sha’Ui which is the equivalent of a squad leader
Blood for the God Emporer! Skulls for literally everything else!
Imagine Big E looking at Khorne and be like "see, there ain't no copyright infringement"
Why does it feel that Khorne had a field day?
Remember what happened to Farsight? I must be misremembering
Khorne has a field day wherever tgere is bloodlust and fury.
Honestly, good for the Tau that theyve learned to have a bit of pure hatred. In more civilized circumstances, it would be bad. But 40K is NOT civilized.
Of course, respect to Joyce for standing for the Imperium of man.
Ahhh fire caste It is released as a tau novel but secretly is the best chaos novel. Seeing chaos from psychological perspective was very weird and chilling. One of the best 40k novels apocalypse now+silent hill in format of 40k.
Im so proud of our glorius imperial heroes
*"BLOOD FOR THE GOD EMPEROR"*
Lord inquisitor, you look confused, do you not agree?
Need more mech fights in 40k
Jungle world? Should have sent in the one man army. No power armor needed
Sly Marbo?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Tau: "PRIMITIVE GUE'LA! YOUR SHALL BE ERADICATED!
Preacher&God-Emperor: "Get a load of this guy"
Khorne: "Blood for the *WHAT, NOW?!* Tzeench! Get in here!!"
Khorne: just as planned
Well his heart was in the right place at least
Man Péter Fehérvári was absolutely cooking with the Dark Coil
I wonder if it is with intention they write more subtle hints of corruption as this into Warhammer lore.
It is one of my favorite elements when things like that manage to get slipped into stories.
Good thing he was able to finish his sentence before buying it or there might be some questions from the Inquisition.
Khorn over here like "Dude. You said my name wrong!".
Least Khornate Imperial
Just two people having their best moment
Khorn 100% watched that battle with great attention and got really confused at the last battle cry hahah
Even when the Tau win they loose
Blood for the God Emperor? I smell some serious heresy there.
That suit do be Sauve as hell though
"Blood for . . ."
* The Emperor's dusty bones cough far away on Terra *
" -- The God Emperor!"
some inquisitor: "Wait what?"
there wil be blood *BLOOD!* shed *SHED!*
Actially the Dolorosa coil is a region on the planet of Phadera. A vast swampy delta region that has some serious warp fuckery going on.
I just imagine the tau and guardsmen stopped fighting just to see them fly into the air
"I told you fuck o's power armored regiments would save the imperium " crazed comissar imprisoned below Terra
One of the best 40k stories ive read. Chaos xenos deathworld very suitably grimdark 😂
Find Your Thunderground!
BLOOD FOR THE GOD EMPEROR!!!!!
My heresy levels are tingling
Rarely get to see power armor amongst the guard. Should be more common given the circumstances.
At the very least, would make for cool moments and scenes.
I love how we have a codified mid stage for the imperial cult turning to khorne. Because of course closet khorne worship, even unconsciously could evolve in this way.
Oh no....
Well at least he died before going full heretic.
Well at least one blueberry has gotten with the program.
Imperium fans can complain about the T'au all they want, but this...
*"PLASMA FLAMER"*
...This is cool.
Imagine if he say blood for the blood god.
Hell, the battlesuit can be laid down by anyone with powersword and enough of protection, stelth or speed to get into range...
Perhaps if they engaged in a childrens card game the outcome might be more positive for both sides of the conflict...
Ehm that preacher seems sus
I remember when I was younger, like first getting into 40k and learning about the guard.
About how depending on the planet the standard of armaments would vastly change with some worlds not having even the weakest of Flak armor to worlds where entire regiments had carapace armor to worlds that could even give power armor to their troops.
I’m glad I finally got to see that here
"Blood for the God Emperor"? sounds a little sus there bud
Ah, the great rift in full effect. At last, the Tau as well can be driven by primitive rage. Soon, they too shall get infected, and plagued by psychic genes. May their age of strife be short and dark.
Ah, so that battlefield had a whole lot of Khorne influence it seems. Tau isn't normally that violent, but the only thing out of place for the Human side was them saying "Blood for the God Emperor!" Rather than "FOR THE EMPEROR!!!". One is shouted by soon-to-be Khore worshipers while the other is shouted by the truest of giga chads.
These might be the same Tau that saw the Greater Good Chaos God and hated humanity for it (cause humans worshipped the Greater Good)
this book came out before the 4th sphere expansion and the godess of the T'au'va were written.
Blood for the...
... God Emperor
*Sad khorn noises*
BLOOD FOR THE ANGEL OF TERRA AND LEGION OF BAAL
Anyone know the art that was at 15-16 seconds of the troopers in the tundra?
"Blood for the God Emperor"
Well I like hjs energy, but he seems a little confused
Crazy
So... a tie, then?
Metalllll
That's more like it my bluberries! Glorious Jetpack Melee as the Greater Good and Ethereals intended! Super Kroot with Power Weapons Please!
Blood for the what now?
Arkhan confederates are inspired in the American confederates. Hell, even their world is a reference to the civil war as their planet suffered a civil war between 2 factions resulting as them as winners with the help of imperium
Am no inqusitor but those last words sounded a little bit heretical.🧐
I certainly do love that xenos exist exclusively to die in this war game supposedly about multiple factions
Wich book was this from?
Firecast
Whenever you think the Tau have better power armour for non-marines, remember two things:
SPRYER power armour
and
Arachni-Rigs!
this shit is competitive rascism
I'm gonna be real with you guys I'm kinda tired of humans somehow beating the xenos with some kinda hail Mary shouldn't have happened BULL SHIT it's gets old fast
GW: we got many factions! Each one is very interesting, has its own culture, they are all very unique!
also GW: 3 out of those factions are humanity derived (Imperium, Chaos Worshipers and Leagues of Votaan), and most of the time, the Imperium always wins because we want to.
So is this considered a mech fight?
A mini mech fight.
DEUS VULT
DEUS VULT!
I hate tau