The God Emperors PDF! The Planetary Defence Force Keeping The Imperium Safe
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2023
- As the Imperial Guard is to the mighty Space Marines the Planetary Defence Force is to them! The PDF is often overlooked or worse yet ridiculed, but without them the worlds of the Imperium would tear themselves apart!
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*Vraks pdf holds off the Imperium for years - "Am I a joke to you?"
When your entire planet is an armory you get a bit of a boost in defense.
*Elysian PDF wiping out pirate fleets daily putting the Imperial Navy to shame - "Am I a joke to you?"
But do they have vox beads
@@windradyne8724 With this and Vraks, they both have an advantage. One was literally an armory world, meaning they had guns for literal years. And the other PDF was lucky to be funded by a rich world, and that their environment even required advanced technology. In 40k, people seemed to only be well equipped when they directly need the equipment in question, and that is why every imperial planet hasn't used just built up their defenses.
@@omegawilliam95s36 Indeed. It's a major theme in 40k that everything is driven by necessity, even the bad parts. But I do think you are taking it a little bit too far. Most Imperial Worlds would have militaries that far surpass all the nations of modern-day Earth combined.
Every Imperial Planet does build up its defenses independently, but due to the Imperial political structure; a central authority with autonomous regions, they do so without Imperium support unless deemed necessary. Hence the disparate differences in quality. From feudal garbage to internal domains with their own navies that would be called empires if they weren't under the Imperium.
Elysia is very much the exception, but the norm I would argue is far superior to what Arch presents. The opposite just makes zero sense.
Ah yes. The Imperial Speed Bump.
Or the, “You must be at least *this* tall to ride “Plot Relevance”.
How else is the Ultramarines supposed to get any targets to kill
“I said I needed the P.D.F., not a PDF! What on Terra am I supposed to do with a Data slate with the imperial guard’s uplifting primer on it?!!”- A hive governor berating his personal administratum clerk while facing a surprise invasion.
What’s the point of a digital copy of the Uplifting Primer? You can’t wipe with a data slate.
@@samaritan_sysYou throw it at the enemy and hope the hilarious disconnection from reality leaves them helplessly laughing long enough to organize the PDF to resist.
Don’t worry they sent over XLXS and JPEGs as well.
The PDF may seem like irrelevant cannon fodder, but remember that they serve a vital function in the overarching narrative of 40k: a "You Must Be This Lethal To Get A Novel" sign.
No matter how much we laugh at the P.D.F., they will always be the pebble that stops an avalanche and that's all the Emperor asks for.
'stops' is a large word, i wouldnt go THAT far
Maybe the pebble that stops the half formed snowball from causing an avalanche. Or the pebble that makes the fully formed one bounce in a new direction and hopefully that new direction is on a flat surface. Massively respectable regardless as a pebble vs even half a snow ball is a monsterously unfair fight.
@@vhaelen326 ork hunters and steel gaurd are pdf
@@vhaelen326 obviously the poetic flare and the reference to Ollanius Pious went over people's heads
“THE PDF DEPLOYS!”- song recorded being sung by the Randomian PDF, shortly before getting annihilated by orks
To save our mother earth from any alien attack
"In the news today, the PDF were stumped when a farm worker went on a rampage with a home made "Killdozer". Their stub guns unable to scratch its makeshift armoured plates."
I have a homebrew feudal world where it's pretty much Orcs vs Humans, medieval era humans vs Feral orks.
Their tithe is those lucky knights or pikemen who are "uplifted" to join the war in the heavens against the enemy of the God Emperor.
...
Imagine being a footman and you're given a lasgun.
That is a hell of a transformative experience aye..
Would most likely make for great recruits for SM, not so much the guard I guess?
Only a fool underestimates the PDF, and only a moron overestimates the PDF. The last line of defense for any world in the Imperium, and the source of new Guardsmen for the Imperial Guard. These guys deserve more love, and some actual love at that and not simping for Tau booty.
The pdf will join chaos like all of the rest of us forsaken ex imperial. Than all your bases are belong to us.
@@NeiasaurusCreations Or they'll still be stubbornly blowing up your gas depots for months/years after most of them have bitten the dust and the Guard are in orbit above you, Chaos simp. It's really a coin toss. XP
@DetectiveLance Nah they will join or become a bologna mist number 3795216789922.
Also hey don't be mad I like my legions interesting. I swear the most fascinating legions all ended up traitors. I like some loyalist ones and my dkk but chaos honestly just get the more fascinating forces.
There is No In between
They are the FIRST line of defence, with the unenviable task of holding out as long as possible against invaders in order to buy time for the Militarum, Astartes etc. to arrive.
Against hit-and-run raiders whose MO is to be long gone before any such forces arrive (such as the Dark Eldar), the PDF will be doing *all* of the fighting - unless the raiders mess up really badly.
Ah the PDF......the true cannon fodder of the imperium.
It's where you go when you don't qualify for cannon fodder duty.
Indeed, the canon fodder for the canon fodder when they ain’t apart of the penal legion
The imperial gaurd looks down in the pdf.
Not saying the imperial gaurd is bad it’s just that pdf sucks
That's what they get for being PDFs
So they share the bench with the Imperial Guard?
When it's handled well, it's interesting to see the interactions between the PDF and Guard. One of the most interesting examples was from one of the Ciaphas Cain novels, where the world he and his regiment were sent had just recently 'graduated' in the eyes of the Administratum and Munitorum to the point of raising its first native Guard regiments.
This caused some problems, since it led the PDF troops to do everything they could to show they were hard chargers worthy of being promoted to the higher-profile status of Guardsmen. While this meant they had zero hesitation about getting stuck in against the Orks they were fighting, it led them to take risks they really couldn't afford. The PDF's Commissar (newly graduated from the Schola Progenium herself) praised them for their bravery and all but called the Valhallans cowards for taking a fraction of the losses the PDF was, until the colonel of Cain's regiment responded that the Valhallans had racked up several times as many kills as the PDF had. The veiled (and sometimes direct) insults back and forth nearly caused a gunfight right there in the command center, until Cain was able to calm everyone back down.
Did she graduate from the schola though? PDF have their own dogshit Commissars
Arch having insufficient contempt for the British is proof of his gentle and compassionate spirit
A great deal of British have contempt for the britain. Myself included
@shitsandgiggles9996 Yeah, I was referring to myself
Administratum Drone: It occurs to me that our forces are spread impossibly thin defending countless worlds.
Munitorum Drone: Yes?
Administratum Drone: And the reason for that is that those worlds' PDF forces aren't adequately equipped to deal with outside threats.
Munitorum Drone: Yes?
Administratum Drone: So wouldn't it free up a massive number of troops if we simply raised the PDF forces across the Imperium to Guard standards?
Munitorum Drone: *BLAM* HERESY!!!!!!!!
Well, y'see. The imperial guard needs the imperial guard recruits, so they can handle the outside threats.
Because we always need more trained soldiers, but that leaves all the ones unsuited for the guard in the PDF's.
And then all of a sudden a Crusade's-worth of Guard-equivalent troops turn to Chaos. Or so my Inquisition 101 textbook says, anyway.
@@kostakatsoulis2922 Or Genestealer cultists.
Or rebels.
Or Xeno cultists to the T'au.
Or enslaver'd
Or infected by a rage virus by a dark god.
Or infected by a plague virus by a dark god.
Or tricked into battle probably by a plague by a dark god.
Or..."Convinced" Into battle, and suffering from a plague by aftermath by a dark god.
A, the Guard needs the cream of the crop so that the rest of the galaxy doesn’t get Nid-Nommed. B, training and equipping the PDF any better than is strictly necessary to hold the line against xeno/Chaos-subverted traitors until the Guard or Astartes can respond is how you get another Vraks. 40k is not a universe where civilian militias are a good idea.
well, they do, most people forget that the most famous imperial guard regiments isent a fomration fomred after they became imperial guard but were formed from their PDF. mordian iron guard, wallhalan ice fighters, even Cadian shock tropersa are all in the beginning PDF forces who grew so god that they could be shipped off planet and face the enemies of the impierum. the only reason why this dont happen on every planet is simple, they can't. it would be like expecting an third world African country to possess an militery to the exact quality of the American militery, they simply lack the men material and time to do so.
Ah yes, the PDF, because when shit hits the fan, someone’s got to take the spray
The City Fight codex has some mention of the local Khai Zhan PDF that not only remained loyal during an uprising, but also fought well. Which is more praise then they usually get.
I love Ultramar's pdf. Those guys can hold the line by themselves a good deal of the time. And hella loyal too.
I'm sure that they are in level of Guard but without heavy equipment like tanks
well of course there gullimens empires personal guards 1000 marines can't police 500 worlds
@@FifingFossil
They do have heavy equipment, tho. They are military formations, not law enforcement (altho they can do both).
Ahh the PDF; everything from substandard Guard Knockoffs to every man with a Bolter and Power armor, it all depends on the planet they're on...
i mean the pdf with bolter and powerarmor is STILL very much under equipped compared to their actual guardsmen
@vhaelen326 how so? Guard gets flak armour and a lasgun, surely the PA and Bloter are an upgrade? Or do you mean grand scale?
@@MrSageyman it was a joke, pdf is usually equipped worse then guardsman but 'bolters and powerarmor' obviously meant space marines being essentialy the PDF on some planets, by that logic the actual guardsmen should be even better equipped
+@@vhaelen326+ Astartes grade Bolters and Power armor are on a whole other level than basically any "Human Scale" equivalents without getting into the Space Marine with their augmentations using them.
I think maybe the above commenter was saying that the PDF of the world that gives its PDF power armor is sending its best to the guard. An alyssian drop Imperial guard regiment is superior in training and epuipmemt standard to the Alyssian PDF. The average imperial guard regiment would be inferior to the power armored PDF, but the imperial guard regiment from that world is going to be superior to that worlds PDF. Like swat teams vs standard police. Both better shots than the average citizen, but the swat team is better than the standard officer.
I recall that in one of the Ciaphus Cain books Amber Lee Vail is wearing a suit of power armor for a human woman presumably taken from the sisters of battle. I’d imagine most human imperial worlds where the PDF has powered armor is probably a sisters of battle training world and thus the only ones deployed into war zones would be the graduates, but I pity the foolish chaos marine who tries raiding that world of crazed and undisciplined zealots.
The National Guard of the Imperium.
The Prospero Spireguard fought against the Space Wolves during that whole fustercluck and bought the Thousand Sons enough time to get organized.
I don't care who you are, I will respect anyone that forces an Astartes force to a decent enough amount of time to make it a fight, let alone someone using Guard dregs of equipment.
The best PDF examples shown in the lore in my opinion was the Cadian interior guard and the Ultramar auxiliary forces.
It's a shame that the local guard reservists don't get covered much.
Me: *sees "God-Emperor's PDF"*
My brain: *k, time to learn about Big E's internet docs*
Planetary Defense Forces...quality may vary
"I own a las-lock for home defence, since that's what the God Emperor intended"
My first proper campaign, my Guard regiment responded to hiveworld upon which a my friend's Necrons' ship had crashlanded. They arrived in time to save the capitol hive, but i like to imagine that was only cause the PDF had bled themselves white holding them back just enough. Then for the rest of the campaign, PDF scouts mounted on horseback would be a vital role in gathering information on the xenos, including discovering the crashsite which then allowed a strike force aboard the governor's personal Valkyrie squadron to make a surprise attack and blow up the ship. Many of those PDF scouts then joined my regiment, meaning i got to add a Scout Battalion with a Mounted, a Foot, and a Walker Company to my regiment force organization chart:)
This was my lore excuse for buying Attilan Roughriders, btw.
Mine was I needed bodyguards for lord solar lmao
nice what system did you use for the campaign?
@@marley7868 just the administratum website crusade rules. Not sure if thats how its legal in 10th rn, but it worked fine for me.
@@kostakatsoulis2922didn't know about that site thanks
I like to think PDFs use Carnodon tanks and Aurox APCs. It makes so much sense they can do their job while not really challenging a Russ or Chimera (barring the extinct up gunned ones)
It isn't too unrealistic for a nation even in peacetimes to send its outdated equipment to be mothballed/act as home defense where it can be if not made, then maintained.
@@robrib2682 Right, they are both ultimately stripped down rhino chassis it should be easy to locally produce.
PDFs don’t have standardized equipment, since they are all locally funded and equipped. I imagine that the average PDF have a propensity to use locally produced vehicles and firearms rather than more advanced lasguns and whats not but theres a caveat : leman russ are apparently incredibly easy to produce even outside of forge worlds meaning that there is very little reason for a planetary force not to field at least some of them.
I love a good PDF story, not all of 40k is astartes even though they are thr biggest and badest. I always find it interesting to read and listen t I stories about the basic grunt. Great work Arch, always happy fo find a new 40k lore video has been released.
The PDF, making the Guard look like John Wick since circa M31.
Arch, in us brits defence. It's more we panic at our government's lack of competence to said snow and ice (and to be honest their lack of competence at anything other than fucking up and lining their own pockets) cause they never give enough funding for the gritters and I think one local council hadn't brought any salt one year.
In fairness salt is a bit shit, ya want sand, or even better, lots of gravel
As an Aussie, waking up to a couple of inches of snow, especially on Christmas day, is enough to make a man turn to prayers for salvation real quick.
That said, it isn't a real heat wave until the temps exceed body temperature. Genuine sympathy starts at 40C.
PDF = Limitanii
Imperial Guard = Comitatenses
Astartes = Cataphractii
In that since wouldn't the Astartes be the palatinae or tagmata?
@@thetalon100 I figure the Tagmata might be more akin to Inquisitor Stormtroopers, and Palatini were too corrupt and not worth that much more than Comitatenses in battle
When you think about it, the PDF is just our world's armies.
This just proves human technological innovation without the sanction of the admech does exist in quite a surprising amount in the 40k setting
Admech has tech that could be interpreted as magical even in some technologically advanced settings
I don’t think that the mechanicus care about « low tech » vehicles and firearms, show the admech ww2 tech and they would probably only berate you for wasting good ressources on inferior primitive weaponry, not for committing any kind of tech heresy
As a Brit, I enjoyed the amiable poke at our complete inability to withstand an icing sugar level dusting of snow before the country collapses into chaos, panic and disorder. It's thoroughly daft, as are we generally as a nation.
I've recently being trying to work out how to crowbar many old metal Imperial Guard models into a vaguely workable force. The Imperialis Militia seems like the best option, even if potentially _worse_ than PDF! 😁
“How do I open PDF”
-Hive Fleet Boomer
The black pants legion has a series of role play sessions, we're they play a PDF unit
Yeah I think they're more cops than PDF.
😅😅😅!! Does intro was hilarious man! You sound like a jaded member of the pdf. Like I could picture an old grizzled PDF member lecturing the Next Generation in just this style.😅😅😅
When I hear the word PDF forces, I always think of the file format, even if I am reading a 40k book
I can't wait for the Rogue Trader game coming this December 7th. I can't wait to have my own PDF and my own planet in Warhammer 40k
It will be glorious if Owl cat can deliver. God Emperor bless them to not disappoint us.
If they do disappoint then may their sales drop like a rock in the ocean!
The welsh guardsman at 24:50 was a welcome surprise. Especially if these were a Terran army. I approve of this.
Imperium logic: we don't care about local problems for as long as the taxes paid.
22:25 agreed😂... even as an Italian from the Alps living in North Yorkshire, I find it hilarious how everything stops as soon as you can smell snow...more akin to central or southern italy, you wouldn't expect it from the Brits 😂
Imagine a pdf developing better weaponry then the Imperium because their rebels are as well
Better than the Imperium is a stretch since this includes the mechanicus
But better than the imperial guard? It happens.
Long live the PDF.
I have a suggestion, Arch. How about another Starship Troopers video? Perhaps one about the 1999 3d series. What do you think?
"Send the PDF"
"I already sent it"
"NO not that PDF,We are being invaded by Chaos."
Abbadon as he boards a transport ship full of PDF, just to realize his mistake as he is assasinated, surrounded by data slates 😂
Real world common sense: “Civilians should be armed and trained to defend their homes.”
Genestealers, Chaos and Tau: “Allow us to introduce ourselves.”
Honestly, so happy poor sods of PDF dinally get love and recognition. ❤
Love your Lore. Love your character. Love your resiliency! Long live Arch!
Ah, the Red Shirts of the Red Shirts.
19:04 - Ah yes, Valhalla, the home of Ferik Jurgen, a Blank that's basically the "Baldrick" to Commissar Ciaphas Cain's "Edmund Blackadder".
22:10 - You're not off by much.
I wish there was more lore and stories about PDF forces on (or Guard regiments hailing from) aquatic worlds, or just a focus on aquatic equipment. Particularly Chimeras modified for amphibious landings and gunboats used for river/coastal patrols.
Nice! This video was long due. Thanks, Arch!
"Oh we are the valiant infantry.
We are the alpha team with passion and camaraderie."
LORE FOR THE LORE GODDDD
I am remembering a certain PDF from the Gaunt’s Ghost series that was almost on par with the Guard sent to help them.
excellent video arch, always enjoy one of your deep dives
Praise the Emperor!
"A gang of criminals all agreeing on general policy..." -The Definition of Government
perfect timing, I was looking for a lore video on this very subject!
Hearing arch say "big booty tau GF" was the greatest thing i have experianced
The PDF, the speedbump giving the Imperium time to respond to a threat.
I think the best way to treat it the PDF's armor is assume that they have what's best for their specific situation. But the average is probably off brand WW2 era tech, as stuff more advanced than that gets you looked at by the Mechanicus, while still being very, very effective at their jobs.
Hay Arch us British people don't panic when an inch falls.... we panic and slow down to a crawl when the snow just starts falling
Adepta Administratum drone: "Whats th-? NO! I said to send THE PDF, not A PDF!"
Fresh meat for the grinder. Life expectation measured in seconds upon enemy contact.
Pdfs are basically guard regiments but without the minimum standard, the already wide variety in quality is even more dramatic.
Had an interesting comment, but UA-cam deleted it.
Long live Arch.
great stuff arch
The Catacan PDF: dw man the planet itself has that covered
Need me some Neanderthal imperial guard units.
Orks: waaaagh!
Neanderthals: yabba dabba dooo!
Orks: wot?
thanks for this archiebald
Arch is the best antidepressant. I mean, how can you NOT have a good mood when you listen to this guy.
Thank you ❤
Holy Lasgun! What is that regiment at 19:30? They look truly overly sci-fi'd up and real badasses!
I think that was a Vostroyan Firstborn
Excellent, thank you.
Dude It's only the English Authorities and City folk who panic at an inch of snow but we do make very good coats
Nice video !
Oi! It's only Londoners that panic at the sight of snow.
9:10 Thet makes me wonder how many scenarios went down where a population managed to overthrow a tyrannical governor, only to be put into a penal colony because they didn't know about the tithes or even thought they didn't need to pay them anymore.
As past of Terras PDF this is %100 true
Would be cool if there were game rules for PDF units and faction. Although for house rules you could use modified Imperial Guard rules and there are enough baseline human models to kitbash.
Imagine multi phase battles where an attacker first has to fight weak PDF before imperial reinforcements arrive.
"To save our Mother Earth from any alien attack..."
Finally!!!!!! *Insert that fish from SpongeBob*
Did anyone else think this would be about Big E's PDF files? No? Just me? Okay.
Hey Arch I always thought the Wolfcub as described in Double Eagle was more like the He 162 Volksjäger as opposed to the Me 163 Komet rocket interceptor
I didn’t know that the imperium had Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Very interesting.
22:325 An inch? You're being generous, Arch.
Nowadays, they think the climate change apocalypse is here when then they see a Snowflake.
Same goes for northern Germany at this point.
You may be underselling the Autogun a bit, it is actually a more interesting weapon in the 401st millennium than it first appears and would probably needs a video onto its own, Arch.
Caseless projectile using potentially more advanced and penetrative material than IRL lead in quantity? Hell yeah
As a brit myself in attest to the sheer panic snow gives people, but you missed that rain also has the same effect
Krieg... Sergant get my Golf-cart ready, I wanna lead my army into a fight... Of course from the front...
And as the pdf are to the guard, the enforcers are to the pdf and arbites
Could you imagine what it takes to get rejected from the imperial guard?
Using the American military as an example, the Imperial Guard draws its troops from the Ranger Regiment and SF detachments, while the Primary PDF is other active duty army, second line PDF is National Guard, third line is Reservists, and fourth line PDF would be the police
Most peoples alive IRL would be rejected from the guard.
The guard is heavily underestimated.
Gee would like the rules for the PDF in Necromunda would make things very intersting if a few gangs take them on. hopeing to steel nicer gear.
Salute!
Do I need Adobe to watch this?
Everything I know about the PDF I learned from the Magistratum Mundanis
Remember, Vraks was a PDF vs Krieg Guard war up until the Alpha Legion showed up.
Don't underestimate em
Peoples will say « well they were on a fortress word they had a lot of guns »
But I’ll come back and say that Vraks militia was actually fairly small in number and whilst its true that they were well armed, doesn’t this prove that PDF when well equipped make excellent troops at least in defensive posts? I think it does.
FOR THE LAMENTORS
Brave souls, every one of them
LOVE DA MILLITARUM! LOVE ME EMPRAH!
-ogryn Dork
at about 2:16 you should have gone with the pdf is the armor rather than the glue.
Y’know? Sometimes I think you (Arch) forget about this channel. The one that got you to where you are. And then. Then, my dear friends. You (Arch) just deliver gold. Gold! I like the archcast but this will always be my favorite. Thanks man, good work.
I really see how unappreciated the P.D.F are for out the Imperium.
man, you must be a psyker, I was creating a character for the Imperium Maledictus RPG and wanted to know how the PDF worked to see if it fit my character concept
Depending on whether or not you really want to keep it lore friendly from a semi advanced world (think WW1 level) and have it to where the characters possible of dealing out massive damage, I'd say you might want to have them as a generalist soldier with a focus on explosives.
Because no matter what anybody may say, both on tabletop and in many of the RPG's throwing a plasma or pineapple grenade works the same.