Vraks Remastered! The Heretical Renegade Defenders Of Vraks! Animated 40k Lore
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2024
- The vile Cardinal Xaphan has found himself on a world short of trained fighting men but rich in legions of obedient workers whose fragile minds could easily be twisted to serve their new heretical masters dark lords in the siege of Vraks
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Tales From The Trenches!
Compiled By, The Eldritch God
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Commissar Leroy Jenkins arrived on Thracian Primaris to receive his briefing before being sent to Vraks.
Already renowned as an audacious and formidable figure who instilled fear in more than one Regiment, prompting suicidal charges to certain death, the transfer to the 88th Siege army was considered an ideal match. Upon arrival at Marshal Amin Kagori's headquarters, he was directed to a conference room for a briefing, where he was welcomed by one of Kagori's adjuncts.
The adjunct looked over the report and sighed, "You... requested this, right?"
Leroy nodded, "Affirmative, Sah. I heard these Krieg boys were tough, but still a handful and I've been looking for a challenge."
he adjunct nodded then leaned back in his chair, "Very well, but I think you're going to have some problems here. You SURE you want this position?"
Leroy snorted, "What problems do you think I can't handle?"
The adjunct steepled his fingers, "Well... First of all, the problem isn't usually motivating a Kriegsman into attacking. The problem is keeping them FROM attacking."
Leroy raised an eyebrow, "Excuse me?"
Leaning forward, the adjunct spoke gravely, "It's the cult of sacrifice. They're indoctrinated from birth to believe in the act of sacrifice. They adhere to the belief that the sins of the Father are inherited by the Son and view every inhabitant of Krieg as worthless and unworthy of life. Your mission is to ensure they do not meet their demise until the moment arises when their sacrifice is deemed necessary."
Leroy squinted, "Ohhhh-kay. Sure. Not a problem."
The adjunct squinted back, "The only way they'll listen to you is if they respect you. The only way to gain their respect is to be even crazier than they are."
Leroy shifted in his seat, "Well... I-"
The adjunct interjected, "They reject suicide, fighting at night, and stealth tactics. Instead, they favor organizing their troops in human waves, with the initial wave serving as reconnaissance."
Leroy nodded slowly, "Understood. Recon is-"
The adjunct continued, "They perform recon by sending in thousands of men and determining where they are dying and how fast. This method allows them to identify weaknesses in enemy defenses based on the platoons that sustain the assault before being killed in usually a rather pointless and often ridiculous fashion. Typically, the first wave experiences a minimum casualty rate of 90%."
eroy's eyes widened as he contemplated the implications.
The adjunct reached into his desk, rummaging for something, and explained, "If you're not at the forefront of the initial charge, there's a high likelihood they'll perceive you as a coward, or worse, press charges of dereliction of duty in the face of the enemy." With a solemn expression, he retrieved a form from the desk and placed it before the soldier-a transfer request.
With one hand, he nudged the form towards Leroy, while with the other, he retrieved a pen from a cup on his desk. Holding out the pen, the adjunct posed a crucial question, "Are you absolutely certain you want this assignment?"
Commissar Leroy Jenkins accepted the pen, his gaze fixed on the form before him.
Leroy stared at the form for a long... long time.
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The Runt was quite possibly the most hated Warhound Titan in the Eye of Terror.
You would think a titan would wanted and valued highly by any warband of chaos worshipers, except for the problem that they didn't follow the god you expected. Most titans follow Khorne, for obvious reasons. Slaanesh comes in second, and Nurgle comes in a close third. Tzeentch seems to have problems keeping Titans following him, just because being sneaky and backstabbing isn't that easy when you are moving around in something as big as a warhound Titan.
So the crew of The Runt resolved to fix that problem by binding a powerful Tzeentchian demon into the superstructure to make it a little smaller, give it a smaller profile, make it far more nimble, and more importantly, make it so it could practically regenerate. While not as fast as the titans of Slaanesh The Runt had an obscene amount of flexibility as well as the ability to use a form of camouflage that didn't make it invisible, per se, but damn hard to spot, much less get a weapon's lock. You think this sort of Titan would be loved by any warband, and normally, you would be right.
If the demon they bound wasn't such a bloody coward.
The demon had an agenda of gathering power and control, just like any other demon of Tzeentch, but it also didn't like getting hurt. This gave The Runt the WORST reputation in The Eye. The Runt wound up bouncing from warband to warband, trying to stay one step ahead of its bad reputation before betraying their current allies and then moving on. The crew most likely would have abandoned the Titan long ago, but alas, they all, at some point or another, got caught up in a bargain or twenty and were basically stuck together.
That didn't stop them from wanting to get stronger.
Somehow, the titan had gotten word that there was an STC on Vraks. it has also learned that, somehow, there was a warband that was going to go that way. They managed to join up and were forced to accept the worst corner of the transport ship. Oddly enough, this saved them because the Corner they were assigned was ideal for escaping the Aharon's Bane when it crashed into the salt flats of the Chaylia Plateau.
They hung back on the long march to The Citadel where they hooked up with the other chaos forces. They made a big show of being all about "The War" and "Liberating the planet" when in reality they could not have cared less. Sure, crashing here was a huge setback, but there were ways to get off the planet. As long as they were stuck on this chaos-forsaken mudball, at least they could look for the STC.
And so they left a skeleton crew to watch The Runt as they developed down into the tunnels beneath the Citadel. There were rumors of lost arcotech sealed in the deeper storage rooms. Rooms that could not be accessed because of a lack of clearance codes.
Codes the crew of the runt had acquired.
It took weeks of searching, mostly because they had to occasionally make their way back up to the surface to resupply as well as pretend to take part in the war. Eventually, they found themselves before a massive pair of double doors. Their dark mechanicum adept hooked up a power supply to reactivate the door. it took but a minute to punch in the code, and the door, laboriously and ponderously, opened. Long stale air rolled out along with an odd smell. Inside were crate after crate of plant matter that had rotted or died out thousands of years ago.
The crew took to searching the room, and eventually found what they were looking for. A large device in the corner. An STC. The adept was gleeful as he powered it up to examine the prize.
Princep Mizzur stood there, looking over the adept's shoulders, "WELL. It's been an hour. What do we have?"
The adept abruptly turned it off, "Not sure. We'll have to take it with us and examine it-"
The princep frowned and abruptly kicked the adept, sending him sprawling, "I'm not an idiot! I know you were reading the spec screens! You have to have SOME idea what it does!"
The adept's eyes irised closed, then widened again, "I.... might?" His speaker had taken on a whiney and nasally tone.
The princep pulled out a laspistol.
The adept started to fiddle with the grapplers on the end of its extendable servo arms, "Well... know what it does, but you shouldn't jump to any conclusions. ANY STC, even a fragment of one could-"
The princep leveled the laspistol against the adept's forehead.
"It's a design for both an automatic and hand-held watermelon peeler."
The princep blinked, "Excuse me?"
The Adept sounded apologetic, "It... is a device for peeling the rind off the surface of a fruit called a watermelon."
"What the fuck is a watermelon?"
The adept pointed at the crates full of mummified plant matter.
The Princep just stood there for a few moments, then said, "I... schlepped my titan halfway across Segmentum Obscurus, put up with months of shit from those other princeps, nearly died when the ship we were on got shot down by some idiot in a suped-up bulk freighter. Walked across trackless wastes, and spent WEEKS searching in these abandoned catacombs... for an arcotech device that prepares... food."
The adept nodded.
"And where the fuck can we find watermelon?"
the adept turned around, turned the STC back on, and started to type away. A few minutes later he said, "Oh. We have a voucher to pick up a whole shipment of the stuff."
Mizzur looked surprised, "Really? Where?"
The adept looked up, "Some place called Tallarn."
People heard Princep Mizzur's echoing scream of denial all the way back up in the citadel.
Picking up that shipment from Tallarn is the easy part. The hard part is escaping the entire Salamanders Chapter when they find out you stole all the watermelon.
I really wish that more traitor legions/Chaos warbands got this level of attention.
The Severan Dominate and the Blood Pact are the only ones who come to mind. Which is sad considering there is so much more you can do with traitorous forces.
Don't forget about the Son's of Sek
Nah they exist to occasionally stomp imperials and then have a named character kill them all
It would be interesting to see a Renegade warband actually hijack an imperial fleet and become a more professional thorn in the Imperium's side.
Yeah. What I wouldn’t do for a novel or a series around the Blood Pact. I love Guard and like Chaos and Traitor stories so that done right would be a wet dream for me.
Vraks exists:
Arch: I can milk you
for more than once.
And why not?
@@kieranh2005 because this is a man that gave us a proper video weekly, this is lazy and unbecoming of his quality standard. This is the sorta shit that clowns like baldermort and major kill do
lmao he deleted my comment for calling out his lazy bullshit@@kieranh2005
@@wazaagbreak-head6039Your last two comments are still here. They are just not visible by UA-cam's "top comments" system. If you want to see your comments in top comments, then act like your mother is watching you type the comment - no unsavory words, no insults, and so on. Otherwise, they will only be visible under the sort by newest function.
I was all hyped and excited thinking it was Sabbat "its happening! Its happ- op, wait, its Vraks. Eh, i love it anyway"😂
I just finished rewatching the siege of Vraks for a second time, last month. Well, wheres a 2, there is a third time. Here we go again.
This was my favorite series by you Arch, I like the idea of the remaster ngl, I listen to all of these lore series at least twice anyway.
Same, i use it to sleep.
I rewatch Vraks and Bedab at least once a year.
I don't know if I should include the remasters into the rotation.
Maybe sub the remasters into the originals slots where applicable?
Thank you, Arch! You didn't had to remaster your old Vraks videos, but you doing it anyways. There is currently a Alpha Legion-led (and Iron Warriors-sustained) Chaos invasion in my tabletop RP, and your Vraksian rebnegades and Chaos cult logistics videos were invaluable as a template to represent mortal fools, that serve the Ruinous Powers.
People are always fawning over the Death Korps, but I’ve always had a keen interest in the Vraksians defenders, these people who have no option but to do or die and eventually become as skilled, veteran and disciplined as any member of the Death Korp.
If I were to make a series about Vraks, I’d add a Vraksian perspective wherein we follow this squad or regiment and see them go from terrified conscripts to crack veterans.
I think you have a good idea here.
Building on that, my idea would be a story of a bunch of labourers, who were either forced or entered out of desperation, into a rinky dinky squad to stand against the imperium.
Over time, they would become more grizzled and battle hardened but at the same time, lose friends and sanity as they fall deeper into chaos and depravity.
That's an interesting story right there, I agree.
They are great no doubt arguably the better of many guard regiments. But not the kreigsmen clearly the goat guard army easily the best guard that ever guarded in the history of guard
@@desperado3236 sadly the intresting story part is why it will likely never happen....from GW at least. Intresting is a dirty evil word to them. Everything must be bland vanilla and unoffensive to the point of making colorless paste exciteing by comparison. Otherwise its bad in their eyes.
@@desperado3236 I’ve been thinking on this idea for a while, and I came up with a story wherein we follow this Vraksian, see his life beforehand leading to the rise of the cardinal, and in the chaos of those initial days becomes a leader and a commander and we see their struggles throughout various major battles. As things continue to spiral out of control, he and his men fall further and further into their chaotic corruption, their innocence lost, but have some self-awareness as to that fact which makes it all the more miserable.
There’s this one conscript they have, who’s the closest thing to innocent that exists on Vraks. And when it all finally falls apart, the commander desperately tries to save him, because he’s innocent and doesn’t deserve the fate that’s coming for them. He sacrifices himself to save him, because he wants at least something good to arise from this whole mess.
I wouldn’t want them to be stormtroopers that the Death Korps mows down in action movie fashion, I would want them to be ferocious, humanised, determined adversaries who match the Death Korps nearly blow for blow.
@arcticfox5118 I'd say it depends on the author but even with some of GWs recent questionable releases, there are still good old grimdark Warhammer stories out there.
GW is not totally ideologically captured yet. But it seems they have been moving in that direction.
Like the whole character assassination of big E from as late as Master of mankind; that arch has noted.
I sorta disagree about his 'hopehammer' point though. Hope is important in an universe as dark as 40k but only to a point.
Still, nothing stops you from writing your own story. I wouldn't rely on the black library for it though.
Main man Arch with the 275k! Grats, my dude. Well deserved. 👍
Given how long arch has been around, it should of been double that at least if people didn't cancel him for his political opinions.
Yt might of had a hand in throttling growth too but then again, arch has never been one to play to the algorinthm.
@@desperado3236 Dude was above 300k at one point, but yeah, once the activist crowd decided that Arch's non-lefty opinions were big haram, his subscriber count got nuked. His entire channel got nuked for a few days when GW tried to take him down back when he was still "Archwarhammer", which also affected his subscriber count pretty hard. The fact Arch decided to move his political/social commentary vids to his ArchCast channel in order to separate his lore from his politics showed he doesn't give a damn about the algorithm (because he could easily chase the ragebait trends on here if he wanted).
I always enjoy this series
Week 4 : Can we get a skitarii video?
So I'm curious, why vraks? I know it was popular, but Armogadom is way older.
Sabbat World Crusades sometime this year?
I would like to see a Mantis Worriers lore video.
I thought you were gonna do the Sabbat crusade?
Thanks for remastering this series. It's one of (if not) my favourite.
I understand you can only do so much with older videos but nice to see this get some touch ups.
As for the lore: I’m always confused as to why autorifles seem to be of such poor quality on Vraks, these aren’t Chaos or Genestealer cult grade firepower.
Autorifles are very rarely taken good care of in the 40th millennium also pdfs arnt actually there to defend the planet there to slow down the enemy till the guard gets there to actually stop the enemy so their equipment is basically terrible
At a guess, the Vraksians - especially those drawn from the Labor Auxilia and prisoner populations - may not have been all that attentive at regularly cleaning and sighting their autoguns.
Tbf, the biggest weakness of the autogun is logistical (specifically ammo economy) compared to the almost bottomless ammunition pool of lasguns.
It takes certain variants of the lasgun to hit harder than an autogun I think? At least appreciably.
@@johnj.spurgin7037 True. As long as there's some type of power supply - not unreasonable for a fixed hardened pillbox or bunker in a sci-fi-ish setting like 40K - a lasgun power pack can be recharged however often it's needed, compared to cartridge ammunition which needs chemical refineries, metal casting facilities, and transportation networks hard at work for each bullet.
As for stopping power, they're pretty similar. I think lasguns have a small point advantage over autoguns at armor penetration - but considering how standard lasguns struggle against any armor heavier than basic flak, that's not really saying much.
Thank you very much for the entertaining video!
Thank goodness I can watch this instead of rewatching the old series for the 6th time
SABBAT WORLD CRUSADES PLEASE
I was wondering in what way this series is remastered? Is it the same recording edited different? Same recording edited the same with different artwork? Same script re-recorded? Totally new script and recording? I've already watched the original a while back, and am curious if there's any additional/different audio content in the remastered one or if it's the same stuff with different art.
I sure hope there is something more than slightly moving artwork
@@yetipotato8567 I'm not sure! I guess I'll have to go back and compare an old video to a new one to see what the difference is.
Based Vraks today. Arch helps ready us for the crap that will spew from Dev's mouth tomorrow
Nice. Was just about to start painting.
Arch your first video on Vraks was how I got into Warhammer... thanks for bringing back the nostalgia...and my wallet hates you :P
This setup has the makings of a stellar isometric RPG, I wonder..
This reminds me of the first Chechen war, where the Chechens with so much weapon and ammunition thanks to all the weapons factories in their region, waiting in ambush for the under equipped Russian conscripts who were sent there thinking that they'll be only dealing with rioters and protectors with sticks and stones.
I look forward to this arch, but if u wanna do campaigns u plan on doing the Taros Campaign?
How does a Lasgun have recoil?!
The only way I can make it make sense is that the power generators that produce the energy to fire each shot shakes each time it comes to life.
There is a tract written in which the lasguns characteristics are likened to the orkish gestalt power.
It is whatever the universe (as defined by the author) wants it to be.
If the Guardsman believes there will be recoil, there will be recoil. If the Guardsman believes that there will be sound, there will be sound.
If the Guardsman believes that there will be a weak fizzle and a spot of light that barely even irritates the ork, well Guardsman, you're outta luck.
I hate that you spoiled that the planet falls to chaos. I was a Vraks lore newbie and had no idea until I saw the chaos symbol tattooed everywhere lol
I think that was there in the original video too sadly. But it is a bit more blatant about it.
It is way to obvious to figure out. If you have a series, there has to be a major conflict, and because the Vraxians would be easily wiped out if they did not get help, the question is not from if, but from whom? What other party has any reason to help in this case? Eldar? Tau? Orks? Tyranids? None of those. Chaos on the other hand, fits really well. A power hungry Cardinal, lots of fanatic worshipers already following him, etcetera...
...it is obvious that Chaos has to be involved somehow.
@@Go-ah-oold Sure, but you wouldn't think an Arch Deacon would turn to Chaos lol.
@@Acesahn Maybe he does not? Just because chaos is involved, does it mean he turnes into it, or is he maybe forced to aid it against his will? There are many options here.
@@Go-ah-oold Yeah, I'm very curious to see how the planet falls to chaos! Don't tell me tho, I'm waiting for Arch to make his part 2
For the algorithm!
I want whatever the Labor Auxilia Ogryn is smoking.
all hail ago'rythm'
*Angry gas mask noises*
😡😡😡😡😡
For the Emperor, and the Golden Thrown!
A cherry at the bottom? Sounds like Barabas Dantioch's recipe for a cake 😋
ALGORITHM
Black crusade TTRPG artwork in the thumbnail? Arch, you are threading upon dangerously based ground, best be careful lest the regressives come for you, again :)
I imagine the regressives would be welcomed with open arms and lit pilot lights on the flamers.
Finally now I dont have to rewatch vraks for the 86th time and I can watch the new Vraks and don't feel like I don't like new things in the process.
Hey Arch, did you ever do a long-form video or series on Damocles Crusade? Thanks.
Was this Part 2 of this remastered version ?? ...
Lore question: Hey Arch, how does teleportation work for each faction. I heard the Imperium teleports (lightening strikes) via the warp. How is that done? Same goes for the other factions that somehow do it different like warp spiders and Necrons
[libationes deis algorithmi]
Damn arch the bot army is invading
Let's go
heretic today... red hat drill SGT tomorrow...
one point of critic
while i do think the new animations are overall great. I do miss the artwork scene transitions. Staring at a page in a book for a good chunk of time is not very interesting. Even if its changed to another unit, its still us staring at a book with units looping animations.
Remastered, Remastered
It's hilarious that in a world with galactic travel, cybernetics and everything else, we are expected to believe that their troops don't have radios, I could buy one right now for my 2 year old nephew for less than 30 dollars
Does someone now if the sabbat wirld crusade is still in production
From .jpg to .gif ! Glory to the Emprah !
I really want to see more lore of Traitor/Chaos Guard forces, less Chaos Space Marines and more mortal troops, like the Blood Pact. Arch really needs to do a Blood Pact video.
He did and he also did the Son's of Sek
why do they look like chaos cultists?
Day 1 of siege requesting lore videos for the Sabat Worlds Crusade.
Ogryn😉
Wtf with arch channel and arse pfp bots?
arch, your backgroundmusic has some tinnitus-like parts in it...
Traitor guard, because who needs tanks when you have daemon engines?
What's an "ORGN" BERSERKER?
720p ?
Comment for the comment god
Comments for the Algorithm god!
So much is happening in 40k and I don't see why SJWs should stop us from enjoying and talking about 40k.
within a week I will make one on saidit. not sure if best platform but can't be worse. I will link to arch if that's okay by arch?
a comment
All you did was breathing animations, glad to see you trying to milk a dead cow
and it's not even new art, most of us have seen these before!
Ummm maybe new content rather remastering the old. Almost like ya a AAA game developer 😉
Dislike for unnecessary woobly images and re-post