Astra Militarum the Imperial Guard Lore
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2015
- The Imperial Guard is the largest organized fighting force in the 40k galaxy and a fairly sizable subject.
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"When every other random rock on the ground is a human skull, you know something is not quite right with the universe."
Unless it's 40k then it's par for the course.
An ork's eyes would glow at all the teeth lying about, similar to finding a pirate's hoard.
id use them to make bowls and cups and candle holders and even armour from the skullz
if you ask Khorne , he would say everything is perfrctly fine.
@@murderouskitten2577 More like he would be furious that they are not all skulls.
"I will be covering this on a video of its own."
3.5 years later: "..."
Other youtubers did videos on them like Italian Spartacus
@Noah Hornbeak standard imperial response time wym?
@Noah Hornbeak yes and I'm making a joke saying that's standard imperium response time
The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer = The Imperial Guardsman's Guide to the Galaxy.
"Don't panic... Unless the Commissar is behind you."
I think it would "Don't panic... ESPECIALLY if there a Commissar behind you. Cowardliness is punishable by death:"
Mandemon1990 lesson number 1 in the imperial guard,if there's something scary in the front,then put something even scarier in the back to balance out the men
Mandemon1990
You simply panic in the direction away from the Commissar. Since you don't want to die, you fight like hell because a guy legally obligated to murder you for not fighting or not fighting hard enough is eyeballing you.
Also, "When in doubt, FIX BAYONETS"
Sorry ... something on your back.
It's not stealing, it's "Tactically Acquiring"
Stealing is such a dirty word. I prefer “requisitioning”
I perfer 'on site acquisition'
Blud Rehvens motto
S.T.E.A.L.
Strategic
Transport (of)
Equipment (to)
Alternate
Location
"Men, we are the first, last and often only line of defence the Imperium has against what is out there. You and that fine piece of Imperial weaponry you hold in your hands is all that is keeping humanity alive. Most of you will probably not live to see your second year in the Guard and most of you will probably never see your homeworlds again, but I can guarantee you that when you do fall, with a prayer to the most high and mighty God-Emperor on your lips, you will have earned the right to call yourself a man!"- Staff Sergeant Vermak, 12th Cadian Shock Regiment
In the Texien militia we say" Open service is automatic citizenship."
(Me as a gaurd private) FOR THE EMPEROR!!!
@@Xarcht I would like to know more
Well as an Ally not a subject state, we follow our 1845 constitution. Very ancient and very open in language. There are a few new aditions, but I think you would feel at home if you are truly a free thinker.
Cadia still stands.
"Oh shut up, we're guardsmen. Wasting time and life is practically our job description." Sargent Greg Sargent AGP
Its investigator Greg Sargent now.
The imperial guard is my favorite part of 40k. It just seems more down to earth sending a near infinite supply of infantryman than a couple of body builders dressed in fancy armour. Much more relatable.
HERETIC!!!
Logan Stafford there are imperial guard regiments that stand as tall as space marines and don't need the fancy armor, they are called ogryns and while their intellect is at a level where they could be outsmarted by an ork they more than make up for it in brute strength, loyalty and endurance (they are also extremely claustrophobic unless their commander is with them)
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spot the ogryn enjoyer@@dionwoollaston5717
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL COMMISSARS!
Yeah, something like that in RTS series about warhammer. Oh... It was butchered. Thanks relic. I do really hope that there will be others to take their place.
@@Ivan-qf4mt store.steampowered.com/app/4580/Warhammer_40000_Dawn_of_War__Dark_Crusade/ It's still good
@@michaelsands2356 i know, i play this game to this day, but... Holy shit relic I hope you will not fuck your future games up as badly. If only there was a new contestant.
@JoeRingo118 To be fair this shit ran ona single core notebook cpu with 1.6ghz and 1 GB ram total. Hence that silly restriction and the weird squad sizes
@JoeRingo118 True but rome did not have the same graphical stresses, rundering the same dude 120 times over vs terrain deformation and much more detailed 3D rendering.
Now go play both games and pretend roman legionares rendered as 2D sprites most of the time looks comparable to 3D rendered spacemarines with dynamic visual changes mid battle
I like how Commissars are so high and mighty, yet, they have no right to touch the enginseers or the mechanicus personel.
Cap grunts in the head all you want, but get your fucking hands off the working class.
What Arch forgot to mention, that Kommisars do not come from the same homeworld as the regiments they are assigned to. Kommisars are orphans who's parents were officiers or other high ranking personal in the administration and who died in action or other. They join Kommisar schools at a very young age and are trained to be as cold hearted as they can be.
Good job Commisar
Commissar_Dan Its always good to see another loyal member of the Imperium too many heretical Chaos lovers around here
+Lord Commander Collins I am the Inquisition
+the Inquisition you lie
Death Korps, best Korps. Only in death does duty end.
Cadia is the best. Let it be known the planet broke before the guard did
Death is No Excuse
The Cadian guard will never fall.
Also someone hasn't heard of the martyr gift medkit, even in death you may serve the big fella.
Death Korps: Commissar sounds retreat, executes Commissar for cowardice
Death Korps certainly leads to a dead corpse
18:40 no need to raid storage, the bodies of the dead are an excellent source of powerpacks! this is why veterans can have as many as 8-10 of the damn things.
+thuzan117 EXACTLY... like those soviet charges... just pick up what you need from the dead. ;) same goes for grenades and med kits.
+The Dark master A soldier only has a certain number of rounds on him, so he needs to scavenge what he needs in the heat of battle.
Which is why rigging explosives to the dead is surprisingly effective
They make good sandbags and emergency rations too.
i would like to read an anecdote from on of the greatest minds of the imperial guard explaining his campaign against the killer robots the honorable Zapp Brannigan, Twenty-five Star General of the Imperial Guard.
quote
"You see, the Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shut down."
end quote
+MrAwsomenoob YES! XD
His bombing campaign against the pacifists of the Gandi Nebula is legendary.
Rolf Hartmann and who can forget the Conquest of the Retiree People of the Assisted Living Nebula
Did he not however have intercourse with a mutant who claimed to be a Xenos
it was a stable strain of mutantation declared human enough.
scandalous? yes.
heretical? up for debate
I think you missed something in the equipment section, namely the BALLS OF STEEL, given to all Imperial Guardsman. Krieg has Power Balls of Adamantium of course.
+William Roark (Inventor29) so commissar Yarricks must be made out of unobtanium then.
dappadan22 Well duh, and inside of them are shards of the Emperor's Balls of Collapsed Black Holes.
+William Roark (Inventor29) or the fear of the commissars bolt pistol. the terror of the commissars chain sword. motivation enough.
Sure they have those ball of steel. But as with every part Krieg. It does not continue to the next mission.
Krieg don't have balls. Radiation kills balls.
Fragmentation grenades: used for anti-infantry purposes...or fishing, depending on who you ask.
HE would be better for Fishing
You would laugh monster, But let me remind you.
Within that weak sack of meat and bone, uncared for by his god and
wept for by none, beats a heart. A human heart, that carries with it the
strength and courage of all mankind.Within that sack of meat is ensconced the hope,
the will, and the fury of every man woman and child from every corner of the Imperium.
Within that weak sack of meat, festooned in thin armour and armed with weapons only
powerful in numbers,beats the heart of a man. And for ten thousand years, the hearts
of men have beaten, strongly, in defiance of your so-called "powers". For ten thousand
years, the hearts of men have stood united against a galaxy that despises them for no
reason save that they had the audacity not to lay down and die. For ten thousand years,
your black crusades have been pushed back, beaten down and made a mockery
of, by weak sacks of flesh with cheap weapons and disposable equipment.
For that weak sack of flesh that you so gleefully mock is no super
soldier, no immortal warrior, no creature cursed by chaos like you. He
is a man, an imperial guardsmen drawn from some forgotten corner of the
Imperium to fight for his species and for the safety of the people he
loves. He is a factory worker, a farmer, a storekeeper, a father, a
brother, a son, a mere man. And against creatures like you, teeming and
numberless, powered by the very will of thirsting gods...He holds the line.
He has held the line for Ten. Thousand. Years.
So....whats your excuse, monster?
Pity the guardsman
Meanwhile tyranids be like "om nom nom nom"
wow thats awesome stuff, where did you quote that from?
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!
The guardsmen. The best faction in the universe. No matter what anyone says. The Guard is the best, like you said, a group of mer men, fighting Deamons and giant bigs.
28:10 I love the dude who's poking out of the turret of the Leman Russ with his little pistol like, "Look, everyone! I'm helping!"
Arch the only guy who can call a 40min video "basic"
indeed
40 mins = 0.3% 40k lore
what heresy is that? it's 0.003%
+Denis Dangelo what inquisition coverup is this its 0.00003
clealy you are all corrupted by chaos its 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000031
Ha! I was also taught in the military that a spade was a better close combat weapon than the knife. It made me dream of an invasion by rake wielding hostiles who kicked our asses because they had greater range.
I just died laughing envisioning a bunch of soldiers with entrenching tools duking it out with peasants yelling "get hoed!" as they beat the soldiers mercilessly with the greater range of a garden hoe.
Spade is nastier in the hands of a spetnaz soldier. They can throw it lile an axe, cut off heads with it, or chop down trees with it.
@@OryxificationNo melee weapon is sufficient in modern warfare, if you run out of ammunition you die..Be you Spetznaz, SEAL, of some untrained goat herder...
5 years later, and I'm still waiting for the Elysium drop troopers lore video
The Imperial Guard's great beauty is this:
They are mundane, which is simple. They alone don't give so rich of an artistic vibe, but they are the ones that fit perfectly in battle with any other faction. They make the other alien faction shine, while keeping a completely relatable and immersive experience. And, they are just so damn tough and respectable for getting in the pit with all them monsters.
I especially love running a Tempestus Scions army with my kitbashed Knight House Infantry Auxiliary Regiment. It makes the big robot shine even brighter when we have lil army men standing at its' ankles. Really makes it feel like a true god machine.
Now I imagine the imperium draft people landing their space ships on those low tech worlds and being like "yea so this is the, umh, charriot of the gods. Now take this and get onboard it!" then hands them a lasgun
15:48 i can see why
Just imagine a fucking centaur caring a storm bolter or a similar weapon,pretty fucking scary.
And combat effective.
Not to mention that specific centaur is somewhat hot.
+Lord Captain He should have found a picture of a Felinid in guardsman uniform...
+Jens Heika Simonsen (The Sniper) ahhhh the Imperial Nekos, gone have to find some way to stretch there 2 lines of lore into a full video..... GW was more fun back in the day.
If I remember rightly there's a Black Library short story about a Guardsman who finds himself (and the regimental commissar) the sole survivors when their ship crashes on a world inhabited by centaurs who are the descendants of a long lost human expedition and who protect an STC from a splinter group of Chaos worshipping centaurs. The Guardsman regards them as friendly abhumans while the commissar insists that they have deviated too far from the human form and are Chaos-tainted mutants in need of purging. Just checked and the story is called “Children of the Emperor" by Barrington J Bayley and is included in the 40k short story anthology “Let The Galaxy Burn" which is a motherfucking beast of a book including 38 stories and totalling up to 750 pages and includes stories from eighteen different authors.
Arch Warhammer Well, you could write a book with more detail and sent it into the Black Library, then you'll have a lot to go from.
Arch Warhammer i found this,It's a big link i know.
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I have to say, everybody shits on the Flak Vest like it's crappy body armor. It's not. A standard-issue Imperial Flak Vest is rated to stop a lasgun blast at pretty much any range. And, if you know your lore, you know a lasgun fires a 19 "megathule" laser pulse, meaning a Flak Vest can stop a 19 megajoule laser dead in its tracks.
To put that in perspective, one of the most powerful AT guns in WWII was the German 12.8cm Pak 44, which was basically a naval artillery gun on wheels. This gun was powerful enough to kill buildings, let alone tanks, and it had so much penetration that it was basically impossible to carry enough armor to stop it. The 12.8cm Pak 44 had a muzzle energy of just under 13 megajoules.
Yes, the standard-issue Lasgun fires a laser blast capable of carving holes in a modern MBT, and Guardsmen have standard-issue light body armor capable of stopping that same weapon. Weapons and armor that are so common it's more odd to NOT see them in the hands of Imperial soldiers. And that equipment is considered sub-par in and out of 40k.
I’m not 100% sure if that’s true of Flak Armour, with Carapace Armour I know it is.
Lord Inquisitor Steiner von Willhelm LoL no they can’t. The IG are literally just meat shields to delay the enemy until the Astartes arrive. Even if the IG regiment had a decent leader all he can do is throw his troops at the enemy since any other tactic is a guaranteed death sentence.
What can you do against the ocean-like swarms of the Orks or the Tyranids? Necrons? Chaos Marines? Lasguns do literally nothing against them, and any armor the IG can field is either matched or outnumbered/outclassed by their opponents.
You give the IG WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much credit to even think they can have a hope of fighting any of the enemies of the Imperium.
THANK YOU FOR THIS POST PLEASE CONTINUE TO EDUCATE THE IDIOTS
I wouldn't put too much stock in the numbers listed in books for effective armour protection etc.
I remember reading (though I can't for the life of me remember where) that the land raider was given an impressive-sounding protection compared to steel plating - someone later did the calculations and found out that it was roughly equivalent to a modern-day main battle tank.
I guess the best you can do is hope that the units in fluff line up reasonably well with real life - if not, it's forgivable outside of lore because you can't expect writers to also be experts in military engineering, and makes sense in lore as just one of those things that got messed up in the ~38.000 years between now and the future
that's a bit misleading, the Pak 44 would punch a hole straight through the flak vest, because the vest can stop 19MJ of thermal energy from burning its way through, purely kinetic energy it probably couldn't stop that, not to mention even if it did the guardsmen would be completely pulped.
Normal rifle bullets, for example a 7.62x39mm standard ball round, puts out roughly 2100 joules at the muzzle, with .308 being about 2800 and x54r going as high as 3800, and in several books (specifically looking at Gaunts Ghosts) the Tanith troopers get mowed down by Blood Pact autoguns and stubbers, the standard stubber mentioned is a .30 caliber, and the autoguns are a heavier variant manufactured on Urdesh that was captured by the Bloodpact, I would assume that to mean something like a .30 caliber rifle, IE AK47 or FAL compared to lighter calibers used in rifles like the AK74(5.45mm) or M16(5.56).
The flak vest's main priority is stopping fragmentation, but the fabrics used also spread the thermal energy across a large area. getting into stuff like specific impulse and bullet shape/composition is a bit much but suffice to say that a spitzer point bullet with a hardened core drilling 3KJ into an area about .27" across will penetrate anything wearable short of hardened metal plates. 40K also occupies the weird place in Sci-fi where not everything is some super advanced gizmo that works miracles, because either the super advanced stuff can't be made enough, or the simple stuff just works. It's very possible that in 40K high end autoguns have systems similar to the Kriss vector that redirects recoil energy, better propellants (or just using straight up explosives instead of combustibles), crazy AP rounds like the adamantium tipped bolter shells, lighter materials allowing for more recoil control systems to be built in, all of which would allow for pushing the muzzle energy of rifles higher and higher to get ridiculously OP guns, but honestly, I doubt that a 40K flak vest would fare well against .30-06 Black tip without hard plates inserted
Imperial Guard is very underrated, people think that they are weak idiots who just throw bodies at the enemy, but this is warhammer, EVERYONE just throws bodies at the enemy, nobody uses actual strategy and tactics here. Also how do you expect for Imperial Guard commanders to outsmart Eldars for example? Most of the time Imperial Guard is fighting with cultists, Orks and Tyranid and doing great job, yeah, againist Chaos, Demons and Necrons they are useless, but there are always Astartes that can deal with them.
"I like jacking off into my own mouth while looking at pictures of the commisar" ~dmvh222
meme queen popcorn machine
edgy
dmvh222 dont deny it man, we all do it
meme queen popcorn machine
Yeah, Commissars are sexy
lord dorn of course you would defend the guard
after all they employ the same tactics as you at the iron cage incident
25:00 Come on Arch, we all know the Flak Vest is not for protecting the solider who wears it, its for making sure that a single shot doesn't take out the entire column of Guardsmen.
TRIPLE KILL!
Zael Slyte MONSTER KILL
Feral IG regiments seem like one of the most interesting things ever
Daniel Hoffman look up my boys the catachans. IG but don't like the authority of commissars or captains.
Never really understood why no one ever thought to make up a cRPG based on all these different cultures that comprise the Imperial Guard. It could be a squad-based tactics game or borderlining on mount and blade simulated combat where you as the Commissar had to understand the synchronicity and contrast of each individual component of your guardsman in order to make them work efficiently.
But no, GW, we CLEARLY needed an dota based Warhammer game.
+GothaBillsAndDeath Agreed.
+GothaBillsAndDeath That just makes me want to see an Imperial Guard game, only Xcom style.
+silverclawedwolf Mods.
+silverclawedwolf Don't think that would work very well for Imperial Guard. Xcom style would fit bit more for Deathwatch
+GothaBillsAndDeath The closest you can get to that is with Dawn of War (not 2) and its expansions (and maybe with the ultimate apocalypse mod)
now i can't help but keep imagining an "Astorian" regimen worshiping the sun all day...
"there are more imperial guardsmen in the galaxy than there are stars in the universe"
I would love a FPS where you play as the IG
The "classes" should be based on "homeworld"
To begin with, take Vermintide and base it on 40K
Haha have I got news for you then! 😄
Hurry suggest a plan that someone give you a million dollars!
I guess you're a veteran main. Don't worry, my Ogryn will protect you.
Drinking game. Every time he says "for example".
Every time he says "that'll get it's own video" or equivalent
Thats absolutly lethal
hmmmmmBUT
Moving on
By the fist 5 minutes you'll be dying of alcohol poisoning.
Why do you hate my liver?!
My favorite regiment was always the Praetorian Guard. Stiff upper lip British soldiers in 40k is such a lovely mix.
Can I request the Death Korps of Krieg.
+LEGOSHADOWSPARTAN you don't know what you're asking for. There is o much lore on them in the Siege of Wraks and Orpheus War, Ach would disappear for MONTHS to study them. And then the resulting video would be HOURS long. Emperor save our souls...
+DoctorM42 just how we like it :D
You can find a lot of info about Krieg and other famous and well known regiments on lexicarum site.
Look it up.
Colonel, we meet again.
Welcome to the Imperial Guard. The pay is lousy and the battles are fierce, but hey, they *DID* give you a laser gun.
This is my lasgun, there are many like it...
...but this one is by far the worst.
Krondon / SSR “And that’s why it’s mine”
I'm dead
The worse Lasgun is the one that manages to jam somehow
@@Rulytasho What about the one that manages to explode in your hands.
@@robertnelson9599 yeah, those could be awful for you and your brothers... but if you manage to take a tyranid with you, a Lasgun that explodes in your face have their advantages too.
Great job on representing the Guard. Funny story, I read several-several imperial guard books back in the day before i even knew what a space marine was, then eventually The fabled space marines showed up in one story descending from the sky like angels and I was just blown away by how amazing they actually are. It was kinda cool not knowing about them then they show up like gods of war. I was hooked immediately and starting reading the Horus Heresy( I read Thousand Sons First :-). The Guard however will always have a special place in my heart as they were my introduction to the War-hammer universe and never cease to disinterest me. The epicness is surreal. Cheers~
Btw what was you introduction into Warhammer?
+MrJherime Nah screw the astartes, they are waaaay too over hyped and way too over done. The writers just keep buffing them because they are what sell most, it's like Space marines and friends now instead of Warhammer 40k.
Tyrannohamstersaurus But the sigmarines seem to be killable,they can die and lose battles and that makes their battles more suspenseful unlike the marines who send 4 dudes to kill entire planets worth of orks, eldar and daemons. I kinda respect that they are not that over powered in the lore.
Tyrannohamstersaurus The armour is created from the old world which is a dwindling resource that will eventually run out. Each time a Stormcast is reborn he loses a bit of his personality and intelligence so they might end up nothing more than moving husks. Also if a Relictor was not around their souls can get lost in the warp.
+MrJherime so my introducion into WH40K was the Dawn of war series ^^
+MrJherime so my introducion into WH40K was the Dawn of war series ^^
Commissars are love, Commissars are life.
Commissar_Falk
What? Are you married with another Commissar?
God damn when he said soldiers will do whatever they can to get their grubby hands on as much shit as possible you fucking nailed it! Haha I'm an infantryman and I can relate to that. If someone lends me something without signing it over and they happen to forgot it's mine! Always on the search for better shit! That's the best part about range cleanup is hunting for forgotten gear.
Infantrymen=Skaven confirmed?
Arch: mentions entrenching tool
Krieg Guardsman: excited gas mask noises
This is the video that got me hooked on 40k.
Tanith 1st and only
I watch these videos not for the lore, which i had came over some years here and than bit by bits, but for very fitting voicing and somewhat snob humor for said lore. I especially adore how he pronounces ork given names of things.
Just wanna point out that it'd be "410th century," give or take. It's hard to conceive how far in the future 40k takes place.
I personally love the Imperial guard's them and the Adeptus Mechanicus. So it was fantastic to see you done this video.
Arch you need to do more 40k videos lol. Imperial navy fluff would be cool with battle fleet gothic blowing up the way it is.
also I love these vids way better than vaults of terra
+Iron Gamer I do too, though, I am wondering why that is? Vaults of Terra even have adds turned off...
+Jens Heika Simonsen (The Sniper) .I like them because they feel longer and more in-depth.
Jonathan Vermont same
Jens Heika Simonsen I glad he doesn't have adds turned off because he needs to eat also you can get add block
kahzhoex He do actually have some long videos, the ones about the Armouries.
"I will, of course, be covering the Elysians in a video all of their own." - Promises made and promises kept.
Thanks Arch for taking the time to do all those videos, I really enjoy them.
"Ah, yes, mere infantry - poor beggars." Plautus.
Too much paperwork for the Departmento Munitorium... I find that comment close to heretical :P
F'ing Subscribed. I love listening to this lore series as background while playing a game. You have a good voice for this, your choice of words are excellent and a great sense of style with your use of language.
I can't thank you enough for these videos. You are awesome, good sir.
@Arch Warhammer Can you please tell me which Imperial Guard regiment you used for the example of the 18th century style troops who form square to fight the horsemen? I wouldn't mind reading up on them to add to my 40K RPG sessions.
Guy Hudson did you find out?
Scintillan Fusiliers, Mordian Iron Guard, or any 18th/19th century expy groups.
Why, Arch, why do you have to show a picture of a Harakoni Warhawks(and not an actual picture of an Elysian Drop Trooper) when you start to talk about my favorite regiment...
+Jens Heika Simonsen (The Sniper) cuz they look cooler!
+Arch Warhammer HERESY *+BLAM+*
Arch Warhammer They do stand more out from the normal green guardsmen... True... Though still...
+Jens Heika Simonsen (The Sniper) I think is that both group fight very similar, with the main difference is that the Warhawks are better equipped.
Adam Baker >_>
And that what's called basics! Good job going into details.10/10
Love these videos. Thank you for doing them.
Only the Imperial Guard would send blind people into combat and call them "Special units" XD
37:06
Arch actually sounded somewhat cheerful
Just thought I'd point out this rare gem
haha just playing keep going bro
Great lore video, love your work!
Keep up the great vids - looking forward to individual regiments review
How about a video on the Cadian troops?
Caesar Himself they all died or at least 99%
Primarch Ferrus Manus what the hahahahahah hahaha
haha its called being HIGH AS BALLS all the time, I'm just enjoying my youth! yeah yeah thats a good excuse lol
When in Rome bang Caligula.
The planet broke before the guard did.
I bought a box of Cadians from amazon and USPS (The Warp) lost it. My cadians are lost in the dam immaturium and throne knows whats happening to them.
One of your best lore videos by faar
"I'll make a video on the elysains at a later point " 7 years later, but good things and waiting
I would like to suggest a video on all type of weapons: laser, bullet, plasma,... and on the different calibers and on range. The idea is to know: what should imperial guard "should have been" ^_^ used in this circumstance.
Awesome and well documented vid! My fovorite Imperial troops are the Armaggedon (they looks so cool) and the Catachan (so badass, all Rambos!)! What was the name of the XVIIIth century regiment you mentioned at 03:00?
Can't wait for the Elysian video, their appearance in the Gaunt books were very welcome. Showed them using a number of bullpup style weapons if i remember correct, something that the extra materials for Dark Heresy bore out.
From the skies they shall reign!
first video I ever seen mention Adepto Ministerium within IG regiment, good job mate :)
Given that the average Imperial Guard Grunt will "acquire" anything that they can to stay alive,does that mean that they can acquire Eldar tech stuff as well,as long as they keep said gadgets hidden from the Inquisition or the Commissar?
+Rellana1 good luck surviving their engagement against eldar first and getting to said eldar body before his comrades. And then the risk of bing BLAM'ed for the use of xenothech far outweighs the benefits of using said xenotech - if one is that desperate to imrove his chances he'd rater lie, stel and beg his way into special weapon operator, and make sure to be issued grenade launcher rather than plasma gun that would eventually kill or at least mutilate him, or flamer/melta that would force him into much less comfortable distance from the enemy.
I was thinking along the lines of I've read somewhere that the Imperium turns somewhat of a blind eye to higher-ranking Guard officers using captured Eldar Plasma guns,as they are more likely not to kill or mutilate the user,so the lesser ranked ones might be able to get away with it,but the Imperium being what it is,they'd probably execute the user on the spot,regardless of rank.
+Rellana1 Most xeno weapons are either too specialized for humans to use without training (As Jon said, Eldar weapons can only be used by them, and it wouldn't surprise me if Tau weapons have special way of working, so taking one would reduce your firepower since you wouldn't know what you're doing) or be too big to use, like a shoota. If you've trained the last part of your life with a certain weapon, you're probably going to be more efficient with that than if you suddenly pick something up from the ground you saw some alien use. Leave Xenotech to the Mecanicus. Avoid blam.
+Rellana1 I can just imagine a guardsman armed to the teeth with xeno weapons.
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Hey arch what is your favorite regiment? I love the kreig death korps personally.
Lot of great books out there for the Imperial Guard but I always loved the book 15 hours. All about the extremely low life expectancy of a new trooper on the battlefield. Being a one shot it also isn't afraid to kill quite a few characters unlike some of the longer running series which tends to keep people alive. Though rare is the 40k book in where at least one major character doesn't die in every book.
One of my favorite aspects of the guard as a concept is the fact they all seem to come from different eras/extremes of human history. it reminds me of that super campy history channel show that pitted 2 historical armies or generals against one another. "what if the taliban fought the IRA? what if Hannibal Barca fought Caesar? what if a John Paul Jones was given an Iowa Class battleship before he sailed to england?"
Quwestion: Do centaurs exist in warhammer and/or warhammer 40k?
(i mean the beast kind not the vehicle)
+TheRWS96 sort off there used to be some wierd centaur creatures called zoats before GW retconned them, however these are more like lizards then horses however considering how massive the galaxy is in warhammer 40k you can get away with homebrewing centaurs and aslong as it fits the lore most 40k fans will just look at it and go "well neat".
+TheRWS96 they did. Poor sods were called Zoats, and were exterminated by the Imperium for being FOUL XENO SCUM.
+TheRWS96 technically you could probably get away with centaurs as a stable strain of "beastmen" mutations, there where even rules for these "beastmen" back in a White Dwarf, and hell there is a plannet in the Imperium with nekomimi people soooooo yes?
+TheRWS96 "Children of the Emperor" by Barrington J Bayley has centaurs.
+Genetic Heresy you don't just kill cat girls they are given to slaanesh as gifts once a month
So I know this is /real/ late. But Arch, I've done some math and come to the conclusion that the population of the Imperium is roughly 10 quadrillion people. Meaning the Imperial Guard would roughly be at around 2 quadrillion men.
Holy shit...how have they not run out of meat shields to throw at the xenos yet with that small of an army?
Most estimates I've seen put the Imperium at 4 quadrillion.
Love these lore videos
love your videos so much
Did you come back for a rewatch?
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Hey Arch!
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The Jarl that kills Chaos
Dame... your erlyer videos are good but wow you improved a lot from even that!
I LOVE these videos :D the longer the better
15:18 is that a fucking hobbit sniper?
they are called ratings, they are a species of human that evolved differently to most. They are small, but agile and have good eye sight so they are used as snipers by the gaurd
sam swann ratLings. Ratings are naval personnel. Rate-ings versus rat-lings.
How can the Imperium not be religious? They have a physical god guiding their ships through Hell/Heaven(if the StarChild is real).
And would a planet like modern day earth be considered peaceful?
By 40K standards, it's the most peaceful planet in the galaxy
Lallepop Lord of Ahegao that's not saying a lot from what I have seen.
No matter how many super soldiers are needed or made, it always ends up coming down to just us, it is always us from start to finish, the grunts on the ground, the men and women with only the will to fight, we will always be the ones you will want when taking the fight headlong at the enemy, when either a world is taken or defended it's always on us!
I can't wait for the specific regiments the imperial guard are just amazing in my opinion
so, like soviet army.
so you know nothing than.just a typical thinking.maybe you should read or smthng
What I don't get is how there are planets with humans, who live with feudal technology. Don't all humans originate from Terra? Shouldn't that mean that all humans should at least be at the tech level of when they left Terra?
😲😲😲😲😲😲😲.....my god, mind blown
Much of the higher-end technology and equipment for many human colonies degraded and broke down from overuse over the many millennia from the Long Night to the 41st Millennium. Plus isolation from the greater community of Mankind while being left behind on a hostile backwater in some random corner of the galaxy might have left to some populations to adopt some... questionable habits.
TL;DR version: Apocalypse level event happened; Human colonies are cut off from each other (their globalized economies/societies collapse and chaos and ultra-violence ensues). A lot of people are killed; shit breaks down, knowledge is lost, and there's not enough people left afterwards (or any at all) who know how shit works/made/or fixed.
You should watch "If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device", there's a whole episode all about The Emperor's past and Humanity (Pre-Imperium).
In the Eisenhorn trilogy, a meeting takes place on a human world that is still in the feudal age in a pocket of the galaxy that had not been invaded by any xeno's, so the characters have to meet in an abandoned castle so they can avoid 'spooking the locals'. For all we know, we're part of the imperium, and we're being kept in the dark since we haven't been exposed to chaos and tyranids yet!!!
FishizzleBoy well, terra is earth, and I do not really think we would not notice being the capital planet
Thanks for the video!! :)
Man, you are one of the best :D
18th Century, Medieval styled troops in a futuristic universe? That's fucking ridiculous even for SF books. I hope that the author of that book is actually talented enough to present these guys bareble for the reader.
+Nichita Mihai Fighting weaker tribes and orcs would surely work with 18th century warfare.... we are in the 21st century and most of their infantry is 21st century styled fighters throughout the empire the 18th century isnt the medieval period and single shot rifles are useful if used correct.
David Pursglove lol dude I know that 18 th century isn't medieval period. He also mentioned that some of the soldiers are equipped and organized in a Medieval fashion of warfare. And that for me is fucking ridiculous to have even in a SF universe. I'm sure that 21 st century military has no problem dealing with horse tribes barbarians. Just use automatic rifles and explosive weapons and you rout them by scaring the bastards.
alot of the worlds dont understand the technology and when they do they have to adapt to it.... lol plus orks = heavy Melee units galore making Melee combat useful so they are used more for melee on melee or somesort of ambush they'll most likely have a lazgun and a melee weapon :P
+Nichita Mihai True if you don't take into account the long night, practically all technological advancement went down the shitter on Earth, the mother-buggering Homeworld itself.
I think i'm justified in believing that the Homeworld would be the most advanced place under human control (or at least damn close to most advanced) and there they had to reinvent Atmospheric flight!
Thus the technology and tactical know-how on some far away backwater colony planet would more likely than not Atrophy Far Far more severely than on the Homeworld.
Now the reason as to why an imperial guard regiment stationed on the aforementioned Backwater would lose the majority of their tactical understanding and technological superiority would mainly come in the form of lacking supplies in both men and equipment.
Such a backwater wouldn't be worth much in the eyes of the Imperium and it has become painfully clear that the Imperium only modernizes what they consider 'important' worlds.
5 generations pass on the backwater with minimal Imperial contact and all of a sudden the entire regiment has weaker weapons less advanced tactical thinking because they haven't needed to advance, their weapons are more than good enough for them to win their current engagements and their a lot cheaper than the more modern Las-variants.
At this point in time the regiment's command staff would be almost entirely composed of arrogant man-child types who have very little grasp on strategy due to them having incredibly cushy lives in the local capital.
The Imperium also doesn't give a damn as to what weapons and tactics some backwater out in the middle of nowhere uses as long as their capable of catching a few bullets before they can hit the elite regiments.
Technological Atrophy at its finest!
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Nomadalien The entire Universe would be less chaotic and peaceful without the Imperium. Yes just leave it to the actual Chaos, Orks, Tyranids and the other Xenos and all the sudden the Universe is more peaceful.
Arch you need to stop waisting your time on these unimportant topics, and get on to the most central of figures in warhammer. In other words WHERE IS MY HAFLING LORE VIDEO?!
I would love to see a Necron Lore video, from what I've seen they finally got some really neat fluff stuff and would like to have it broken down into something that makes sense
A very nice video!!! You´re one of the best loremasters. Can you make a video about the Votroyans?
The Imperial Guards, because even Space Marines need hero's too.
Marvellous videos Arch! Could we have one on the Praetorian Guard (effectively the Mordian Iron Guard ++)?
i must say arch you are my fav youtuber
Ayyyy I hear that Skyrim music in the background arch, nice.... Very nice.
The Imperium is the biggest logistical nightmare possible. The emperor and primarchs were not invested in the old maxim of "consolidate before expanding", were they ? Its miraculous that the whole faction hasn't split apart.
Loving these 40k videos discussions as someone still relatively new to 40k when it comes to actually _knowing_ anything functionally about it... lolz, and there being 40+ more of em isn't such a bad thing either. . . :3
The music at the end of the video PLS !! I LOVE IT !
Loving the 40K Lore! Can't wait for Tau to get into the picture =)