@@pawebroszko4737 Honestly *all* factions in 40k is semi-evil, arguably even the Tau (although I kind of feel like they're the closest thing to a good side out there, despite the mind control...) At least there's a element of respect for life there.
40k is one of those things where you could ask a complete noob and someone who’s read every single novel and they would tell you basically the same thing: “shit’s fucked in space”
Imagine it that way: You side with the Nazis because they are the only thing standing between you and Cthullu. Ask a Star Wars fan if they would like to live in the star wars universe and the answer is probably yes, it's cool to be a Jedi, a Sith or a republic trooper. Ask a Star Trek fan if he wants to live in the federation and the answer is most likley also yes. Then ask a Warhammer fan if he wants to live in th 41st millenium and the answer is definetly no, because no matter how powerfull you are, there is only horror, suffering and and if you're lucky an agonizing death, because there are fates way worse than that.
@@3333-d2l but you don't have to know enough about star wars or star trek to be able to believe in its franchise and understand the implications of making it your hobby. Warhammer is already F.A.T.A.L., the board game. Yes I said it. It's much much worse.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Being lax, the Emperor of humanity could be considered as an "invisible" protagonist, in some way everything revolves around him and the consequence of his choices. There are protagonists, maybe not a main protagonist but if there are them in specific events, the galaxy is too huge for there to be a figure that monopolizes the attention. Keep in mind that the Horus Heresy alone has about 60 books between novels and anthologies.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Probably because people look for heroes rather than protagonists. And these are exceedingly rare in 40k. Most factions have a few named character models with specific rules, but given the nature of the universe, even the most noble of them are deeply flawed characters out of necessity. Some of these have novels dedicated to them or with them as one of the central characters, but others have an extensive history that is covered in lore snippets in the rule books of their respective army. There are tons of books with proper protagonists besides the ones with rules, but one of the themes of the setting is the insignificance of the individual (another aspect it shares with pure cosmic horror, besides the eldritch abominations all over the place). This means, that even the returned Primarchs (basically the sons of the Emperor, Horus and the likes), that have a huge impact on the galaxy, barely could be called protagonists for 40k as a whole. Among the different books and other media, you have everything from tragic, noble heroes (as much as the setting allows at least, they'll still blow up your planet if needed, but they'll try and get you off planet first at the cost of their own lives), antiheroes, tragic and unapologetic villain protagonists. There's the Horus Heresy series of 50+ books, many of which focus on the Primarchs and characters close to them. Apart from the opening trilogy I'm partial to The First Heretic (the at first reluctant but at the end rather eager fall of one of the Primarchs to Chaos), as are many other to my knowledge. It's a real deep-dive, so I would not recommend any of that series for beginners, because at least to me, the tragedy of many of the books hits all the more with the understanding of the setting I have. Then there are the Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Bequin books, each focused on their respective titular Inquisitors (they also form an ongoing narrative together), and the first Eisenhorn book, Xenos, is often named as one of the best entry points into the setting, especially on a smaller scale than the all out war the main game is about. Another often named entry point is Gaunt's Ghosts, a series that follows Commissar Gaunt and his regiment through a local (as in within an area of space of a couple hundred parsec or so) crusade. Helsreach might be another good entry point, not so much because it eases into it but because there is a fan video series (with a good but admittedly unusual visual style) that covers most of the contents of the book decently available on youtube. Celestine, the winged woman that shows up in the video at one point, has a novel of her own I am very eager to get to read or listen to and a shared Audio Drama called Our Martyred Lady, though I don't think either are good entry points. If you're actually interested in the setting but not in a hurry, I'd suggest keeping an eye on humble bundle, they've done multiple bundles where you could get 150-200+$ worth of E-books and/or audiobooks/audiodramas from the different Games Workshop IPs for 15-25$ and I'm quite sure there will be another one at some point.
@@0815UserII thanks so much for the info. I don't know how deep I'll dive into this because I really don't think it's my kind of thing, but I will for sure give some game trailer type videos a shot at some point. Blowing up a planet is just too much for my marshmallow heart. I'm still sad about Alderaan. 🥺🥺🥺
There are protagonists but they have there own stories, leutin here is just giveing a good general explanation on the setting a universe , the events and books have there own protagonists , there are some that Span multiple stories and events and others that come up a few times or only once
An ancient empire collapsed to ruin, who wish to reclaim worlds they view as theirs by killing everyone else who would claim dominion over them. An I describing the Imperium, Eldar, or Necrons?
The difference is how they attempted to slow or halt their inevitable demise. The Necrons dealt with the coming apocalypse by giving in to their suffering. They sacrificed their feeble bodies and souls to the C'tan, who replaced them with unfeeling metal and unrelenting spite, and decided to wait for revenge until it was well and truly below absolute zero. In the end, nothing remained of them save empty husks, not dying but not quite living either. The Aeldari either ignored their problems entirely or devoted their lives to fixing them. The result? The Drukhari became a festering infection in the darkest corners of the Webway. The Asuryani, fearing their race's complete extinction, were forced to run and hide. Humanity, meanwhile, embraced a unified purpose in the wake of the Horus Heresy: the pursuit of total racial purity. Thus the Imperium was barely able to survive where the Aeldari and the Necrons failed, but became a total mockery of the Emperor's ideals in the process.
The irony is that the Emperor was a staunch atheist but is now too crippled to tell anyone to stop worshipping him or killing people who don't want to worship him in his name.
Extra irony that the only reason he's still alive(speculation) despite the golden throne falling into disrepair is the psychic power of everyone thinking he's a god
I question that part the Emperor knew the Chaos Gods existed he wasn't a atheist, this is getting technical but the emperor knew the gods existed his plan seemed to be to starve them of attention, but that plan failed so who can say what he would do now
bricky- every single wh40k faction explained is a much more interesting and easier to understand set of videos I think and is where I think is the best place to start with 40k
She is a literal living saint. Which means, in current Catholic Church standards, she performed miracles enough times for the church to consider her a saint, while she was living. In 40k standards, she performed a ton of miracles usually in battle. Not using the magic/warp.
To be fair, Humanity in WH:40k kind of *has* banded together to fight their common enemy...for certain values of "banded together." They just live a hellish existence of servitude underneath an insane theocracy founded to fight truly mind-bending existential threats. And some of them think they can do better.
@@Kirhean Funny how that theocracy is the only thing holding it together. The Emperor banned religion and established a rule of totalitarian law. You disobey his word you died thus his word was biblical. Chaos was born from overindulgence in the freedoms that came from this total rule in other species and spread to humanity. Humanity still found it on its own and due to a lack of a moral code like those preached in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism they fell to it easily. The Emperor caused his own demise in this way, by creating a manifest destiny so easily hijacked.
That's the great irony of Warhammer 40,000. There's basically 3 existentialist threats to the galaxy: Chaos, Tyranids, and Necrons. Every other faction is capable of getting along or can be reasoned with, they just choose not to. Even Orks can be persuaded to join your cause, so long as you're bigger than they are and promise them something even bigger to fight. Everyone would rather see the galaxy burn to the ground, however, than allow the possibility of another race winning.
This is great! When ever I want to explain 40k to anyone … I’ll show them you watching LT .. perfect! I need to add nothing cuz your figuring things out loud as you watch is legit just tooo perfect of a commentary
@@HannaHsOverInvested I usually just explain it by comparison to other universes. In other universes, you bury your fallen companions, officers and civilians when they die. In WH40K, you put them on the side of the trench so that they in death can serve the emperor as sandbags. For some action vids, I'd recommend the fanmade 5-part miniseries "Astartes" here on youtube. Other vids I would recommend are the dossier the YT channel Templin institute made on the Emperor, and the one they made on the Imperium itself. They put the most essential cores into perspective in the most orderly way, I think. Although Luetin is good too.
@@HateMachinist She did watch it, She referred back to it during this video; although she was pronouncing it wrong. Faux Latin doesn't always come naturally
The woman at 13:39 is Celestine. She was an Sister of Battle (nuns with guns) until she died. Now she is basicly an angel, who arrives at times of great danger.
@@jakehearn432 Whether they are setting loyalists or heretics on fire. Although a more accurate description would be whether they are setting loyalists on fire, or people the inquisition claim to be heretics on fire. Also xenos... burn all the xenos!
@@frankficcle7081 I mean the creation of an imperial saint and a daemon prince have a fair few similarities to the new players aside from being made by either the god emperor or primordial gods I'm a former loyalist word bearers player
Now just think, what you just watched was the "Ultra-Condensed" version. Getting into 40k is like trying to walk into hell unscathed and then walk out without being trapped, but once you're actually in it its pretty chill lmao.
Getting into 40k is like meeting with your giant nerd friends and talking 4 hours straight from time to time in the span of 7 years and then learning everything
I seriously appreciate this. Taking time to expand your horizons, and even though it may not have been your thing, or even something that you could totally wrap your head around, you made an attempt. Definitely earned you a sub from me, because I would rather you be honest about how you feel about something, yet still give it a CHANCE which is really all anyone can ask from someone, than lie or something and act like it was something you enjoyed.
"You would think humans would band together to fight a common enemy. can they not fight Aliens if they come to Earth?" Problem is the Xenos are everywhere and every human that wants to fight, wants to fight a different species. And if it is not Xenos it is Chaos. And if it is not Chaos, it is politics. Or just sudden shortage of food or water where you live. Caused probably because no one has any idea how to fix the recycling plant beyond praying to it to stop being angry.
and also the issue of both how thinly spread out the imperium's forces are, and the fact that if they reallocated those forces to destroy an enemy in any meaningful way, the other factions would be able to break through and destroy the imperium. they're essentially trapped in an eternal stalemate until either something exceptional happens to tip the scales in their favor, or they lose the war of attrition and die.
In a weird instance, you will get xeno races working with humans. See Blood Angels Space Marine chapter ( group of superhuman soldiers with a space vampire theme) teaming up with necron ( egyptian themed Arnold Terminator like robots) against the tyranid. (Space bugs that wanna eat EVERYTHING living)
Also the act of fighting the physical alien menace invites chaos into your ranks. There's a real sense of inevitability and predestination in 40k, especially during the Horus Heresy, pushed along by a very small group of corrupt individuals seeking power less for their own gain but for its own sake and ... crap I just described Capitalism by mistake... Now buy some models.
Luetin is the best 40k lore video creator. You could not have picked a better introduction. If you by any chance want to learn more about this universe, you can simply look through his videos, find a topic that seems interesting, and go from there, and if it's too much of a deep dive, then there are other videos covering more basic concepts - introductions to the various factions, for instance. That's a good place to start.
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Quick note, incase you don't get the joke... Commissars are non-military officers who are in charge of maintaining discipline and morale among troops, by shooting them.
"Hang on... Somebody painted all of these?" Yes. "Everyone painted their own all of these?" Yes. "For their game?" Yes. "That's a lot!" Yes. "I gotta fix my boobs." Yes. Wait... But in all seriousness, technically, painting your miniatures is not required. The only two exceptions is if you want to play in official tournaments, or are playing Space Orkz. Ork lore is such that their their whole state of being is based on belief. While we believe things to be true, for Orkz, things are true because they believe them. Because they believe vehicles that are painted red go faster, they indeed go faster, and thus in the official rules, vehicles that are painted red get a movement bonus.
@@HannaHsOverInvested I strongly recommend that you watch every faction in war hammer 40K explained as the narrator does an excellent job of explaining the universe in a way that newcomers can understand You might find that you like 40K more after watching his video.
@numbSKULLery it was more of there is/ used ti be a faction of mainly blue orks who were really good at looting, being able to orkify a destroyed vehicle and get it back in action in the same battle
High-Gothic is the language that nobles speak. Low-Gothic is the language of common folk. Astartes is the name of the woman who ensured the Space Marines' existence, and so they were named after her.
So to make things a little less confusing here's a quick faction overview. Space Marines: genetically and surgically augmented humans trained from boyhood to be the elite. Given the best armour and weapons available, split into chapters of roughly 1000 (with notable exceptions). They're generally deployed like a scalpel or shock and awe force. Imperial guard: Your normal squishy human given some basic training and a laser weapon that is about as effective as a flashlight against the dangers of the galaxy. Deployed in their millions, a sledge hammer. Very effective tanks. Mechanicus: Human... for a given value of human. Worship technology and seek to become more machine than man. In control of near enough all advanced technology, innovation is viewed with deep suspicion at best. Tech priests can control lesser ground troops (Skitarii) like puppets. Titans: Part of the Mechanicus. Imagine a city that hates you, now give it city killing weapons, now give it legs. That's a titan, they come in packs. Sisters of Battle: All female (due to rules lawyering by the then space pope), fanatically religious force. Well armed and able to do miracles on a semi regular basis, like fire a bit much. Inquisition: Secret police with near unlimited power, can end worlds on a whim. But are tasked with protecting against the most corrupting forces possible, which could, if left unchecked, tear the galaxy apart (see great rift for what happens when it doesn't work). Chaos: Powerful force born from a parallel dimension fuelled by emotion called the warp. The strongest and most primal emotions coalesce into sentient warp entities (Chaos gods) which in turn can create lesser extensions of themselves (daemons). Being fuelled by these emotions they seek to influence others to increase their food source, leading to the corruption of non-warp beings into more and more extreme acts. Mortal followers come from anywhere, space marines, normal humans, aliens etc. Try to create holes in reality for the daemons to slip into the material realm. Eldar: Incredibly ancient, incredibly arrogant. Psychically gifted and long lived. Got bored, became hedonistic and murderf'd one of the Chaos gods into existence singlehandedly. The Craftworld Eldar learned their lesson and use life paths to avoid boredom. Dark Eldar: They didn't learn the lesson and kept the party going in a hidden pocket dimension. Occasionally make a supply (slave) run to avoid becoming Slannesh's chew toy as their souls are constantly being leached away. Orks: Brutally cunning and cunningly brutal. Big, green, constantly looking for a fight. Sometimes seen as the comic relief faction, but if a major warlord comes to power they will drown a world in a green tide. Make their ramshackle creations work through sheer belief. Tau: Somewhat naive minor race. Talk about a greater good and unity, welcome other races. Strict caste based society, rapid technological advancement. Really need to learn to stop poking the bear (Imperium) if one of the major powers took a serious interest the Tau would get squashed. It's been suggested that other races that join the Tau start having fertility issues which keeps their numbers in check. Tyranid: Bugs, very hungry bugs. A hive mind controlled swarm from outside the galaxy that has one directive, consume to evolve. Will strip a planet bare and move on to the next dinner bell. Speaking of which.... Genestealer cults: The dinner bell. A genestealer infiltrates an inhabited world, infects the dominant species and begins to create an underground society trying to overthrow the current leadership, creating a psychic beacon to the Tyranids as they grow. When the Tyranid fleets draw near they stage an uprising to sabotage the defences to allow their "star gods" to conquer all. Then become dinner. Necrons: Another ancient, arrogant race. Started out as short lived, radiation blasted humanoids. Got annoyed at a near immortal race, got fooled by another near immortal race into trading their souls for shiny metal bodies to get back at the first race. Turned on the ones that fooled them, then went to sleep for a few million years. Look like the terminator without the skin suit (some try to make skin suits, they're not good at it and the former suit owners tend to complain).
One thing too about Orks: they were genetically engineered shock troopers for an ancient, highly advanced race that is no longer present in the Milky Way. 60+ millionish years later and they're like a fully automatic rifle with unlimited ammo that's had its triggered taped down and thrown down a hallway. Due to their creators not being total sadists, they engineered Orks to find these things amusing. So the gun is laughing when it shoots a propane tank that sends the other nearby bouncing guns bouncing in pieces even further.
Most humans are still humans... then there are the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus, who took a look at Borg from Star Trek and go, "yes, that's a good start, but can we remove MORE of the inconvenient fleshy parts?"
It is definitely a universe unlike others. Its a universe that embraces nihilism. Its not for everyone. But remember a candle burns brightest in the dark and the horrors for 40k makes the heroic actions of individuals railing against an uncaring world all the more impressive.
Something that always gets me is that, to even qualify as a candidate for selection as a Space Marine, you have to pass trials which, should you succeed, already mark you as a hero. In many cases, those rare individuals who fail a trail, yet still survive, return home as lauded champions for even having achieved that much. Each of the thousand battle brothers in a Space Marine Chapter is a great hero, and that is the absolute baseline required to have so much as a chance of surviving in the 41st Millennium.
Inquisitor Eisenhorn is a great trilogy to read for a vertical slice of how that universe works. And it's not that much over the top as you might expect.
My favorite starting point is the short story: Master Imus' Transgression. A horizontal slice of the universe. A single imperial accountant is called in by the Inquisition to answer some questions about a pattern he didn't even notice while he was reviewing records, ultimately resulting in the Inquisitor having to drive him slightly mad in order to discover what it was that Master Imus actually saw. That inquisitor? A very young Eisenhorn. Shows the lengths Inquisitors will go to in order to serve their purpose of uncovering even the slightest hints of chaos and corruption while also taking the time to depict the impact this has on regular people like Master Imus. Who, I will remind you, did absolutely nothing "wrong". He was just unlucky enough to encounter something "wrong". THAT, is 40k. Also everyone should read the pair of books: A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns I don't care if you don't give a crap about 40k. Those books are self contained BANGERS.
@@ANunes06 I also forgot that there is a short story that is essentially "the third man " but set in 40k i can't remember the name of it though but a boarder Prince did a reading of it lol
“So I fight for a Father who I never loved, against a brother that I did. I defend an empire that never wanted me against an army that would have taken me in a heartbeat.” (Horus Lupercal) When I first got into 40k, some 5 years ago, I felt exactly as you did: "I like following consistent characters along their journeys, so why should I be interested in a setting that makes them insignificant?" And then I read about the Primarchs. See, it's easy to follow characters who are doing the right thing, even when they falter mid-way - that's why so many people love The Doctor, or Gandalf, or Luke Skywalker, or Jean-Luc Picard: they represent hope, which is something we see get ruined on a daily basis in real life. But you know, at the end of the day, that it's just a fiction. Real life doesn't have destined heroes who bring about moral balance to a bleak world. The world of 40k tackles just that: it's not the story of a saviour-figure who brings peace and harmony to all, but rather an exploration of all the hope that individual people can lose *and still choose to fight*. And the amazing part is that it manages to be somber and complex *and* extremely over-the-top ridiculous *at the same time*.
@@unlikelyspore1406 Thing is, he probably wouldn't. The Imperium aproves, not the Emperor. If the emperor woke up he'd probably execute quite a few higher ups not to mention the entire ecclesiarchy
"there is no protagonist" Nope, not at the top level. the term 'grimdark' is from this setting. everyone is fighting for survival, so genocide is the rule and goal. The stories have individuals, and they can act to a personal good end in the scale of the story, but the universe sits over everyone's shoulder, looming. The reason the setting and how to explain it is so difficult is because of the focus. the lens the game is viewed is actively one of universal scale, so everything is big. Scale is lightyears, population is trillions on trillions. Its originally a war simulator, so there arent really people, there are numbers. It comes to be, however, that the setting is evocative and powerful. As time goes on: stories are written, lore is forged, and actors appear. But this lens of gigantism and scale are still the biggest hurdle most people find. its getting better as more people know and interact, and game culture becomes more mainstream, so its worth keeping an eye out at least. Don't let them get you down. You dipped your toes in to test the waters and I applaud it.
Also, shorthand: Imperium of Man > Space humans Eldar > Space Elves Necron > Space Undead Tyranids > Space Bugs Orks > Space Orcs Dark Eldar > Space Drow Chaos > Space Demons
The Inquisitors are more single individuals carrying out their duties like a Secret Police or a Religious Inquisition. They defend Humanity by ferreting out corruption within and without. The Space Marines are basically the strongest Military Power the Imperium has defending it in a more straightforward manner against other armies. (You also have the Imperial Guard but they are conscripts essentially, Space Marines are the Elite Best of the Best super soldiers.) Though you are right there isn't really a 'protagonist' in 40k, as there are so many characters with their own story within the universe that it's impossible to have any singular protagonists. It is very Grim Dark overall and there just really isn't much levity since it's more of a tragic universe that is slowly grinding itself to dust. I still love it myself though, but definitely not something everyone enjoys which is okay. As for a video with a story, one of my favorites is the Original Dawn of War 2 Intro set within the 40k Universe. This is the Uncut version which is best since it had an extended scene at the end that made Warhammer fans squee with delight.(Namely that the Tyranids were going to be in this game.) ua-cam.com/video/7_b-qBTul44/v-deo.html
"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war... But imagine if there was also therapy." Believe it or not, more than a few 40k fan fictions/alt-canon theories are based around "What if [character] saw a therapist?" Or more commonly "What if [Primarch] had a better relationship with his father?"
Ooh ooh ooh, if you can, try reaching out to Bricky and see if he’ll let you watch/commentate/react to any of his videos. He’s a really chill dude and this would be a hilarious collab.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Every single warhammer 40k faction explained is by far the best introductory video I have seen to date. Also Bricky puts a lot of humor, which makes the video entertaining in itself. That is, if between the two parts it is almost two hours. Although as it is divided into several chapters for each faction, so it is easy to divide it. Highly recommended.
@@syweb2 luetin does research and explains the lore properly just like what you saw on the video. One mind syndicate reads the wiki to you word per word in a voice that sounds like he's about to get an asthma attack
I would. And I will pick my nose in public. I will not suffer those things for hours just because some random strangers might feel akward for 2 seconds.
@@jaypritchard270 12K is quite a lot. Even if they're just models with high point values, that's still a lot of models to paint. For example, if they are all Grey Knights Terminators, which are pretty expensive points-wise at 42 points per model, that would still be 300 models. Even if they were Warlord Titans, you'd have to paint two whole Warlords. That's a lot of work.
"Oooo slenesh!!" Astartes : "im gonna need a heavy flamer for this heresy" Also the closest thing your gonna get for trailers is going to be the silent astartes vids.
There are alot of "consistent characters", its just an ordinary person is insignificant, "heros" are the characters around which everybody dies like flies. Helsreach is the only animated story about 40k, you could watch that, the rest are books and/or lore videos if you'd like to watch.
@@JackkDevil Astartes is good for action but you won't understand the story if you are new due to the lack of dialogue, its easier to get into Helsreach if you've never had any experience with 40k.
There's an old joke that sums up the Warhammer 40K universe pretty well. When you ask a fan if they want to live in the universe the common reaction is Star Trek fan: I'd LOVE to be in the Federation traveling and exploring! Star Wars fan: I'd Love to be a Jedi fighting the Empire... Warhammer 40K fan: HELL NO I DON'T WANT TO LIVE THERE! ARE YOU INSANE!
Don’t try to understand the whole thing all at once: no one can. What you do is get a grasp of the setting, then find something specific within it that interests you, like a legion. Learn all you can about that interesting thing, and over the course of doing so you will find something else that piques your interest. Basically, treat it like an extended Wiki Walk rather than a structured lesson, or you WILL be overwhelmed.
"people will stop squabbling because there's a common enemy" Try telling Byzantium empire that. They still having internal fighting and political murders even when Constantinople besieged by enemy for years.
Grim dark is a genre of a world of horrors with no hero’s, no good guys, no just cause. Just war, horror and hopeless ness. WH40k lore is sometimes separate from the games them selves it’s just an explanation to why the games either table top, video, card etc games are as brutal and heartless as they are.
The 40k Universe isn't all about characters, it's about the universe itself. Hence why it's a popular Niche, because you can pretty much create almost anything in the Warhammer 40k universe, so long as it follow its general rules. The canon has full of slots you can create a continuity to.
The game is Grimdark, the world is Grimdark, but when you read the stories there are genuine emotions and characters that many people fall in love with and mourn when they are gone
You're probably right. There are stories about people in the 40k universe, but the whole setting depends a lot on the fact that the only thing that matters is the godemperor.
17:50 Warhammer 40K has no protagonist. But stories set in the universe have their own protagonists. The stories often follow groups of characters, but some are laser focused on singular individuals. It's why I once mentioned *Caiaphas Cain* as a good starting point. He is human (very human, just incredibly lucky, something that he is very critically self aware of), his books are very much about himself (you'll understand if you read the books) and the books do a great job at gradually introducing all the factions and many of the major antagonists from the point of view of someone who is very human (Astartes, Inquisitors and such are often a bit harder to grasp if you aren't yet familiar with why they are the way the are). The books also manage to be actually really funny too.
@@HannaHsOverInvested The Eisenhorn trilogy is an amazing character piece. The Gaunt's Ghosts books are too, if you feel like reading a couple thousand pages. All by Dan Abnett.
If you like characters, would recommend Wolf Lord Rho's channel. He break's down passages from some of the many 40k books and really shows how awesome some of the characters are within the Universe. Somewhere to start, anything with the Primarch's is a good jumping off point imo.
Wolf Lord Rho's channel is all excerpts from the fiction. So, you want characters and heroes, go there for a taste. Not trailers, but more what you are talking about.
Hats off to you even trying to wade into the lore of 40k. I once had a friend ask me to give him an “overview” of it one night while drinking.... it took about 3 hours
Tyranids are the protagonist. With all this warring and hatred and everything they just a bunch of bugs who want to eat everything and bring this chaos fueled galaxy back to the basica
those words "Adeptus Terra" "Adeptus ministorum" Etc is High gothic, the language of the Imperium. Its loosly based on Greek and Latin. This language is used in part because it is thought that it is a language The Emperor Devised based on the languages he spoke most before his ascention to the throne of the Imperium.
Inquisitor: (taps head) "Can't have a planet corrupted by Chaos, if there is no planet to be corrupted." (Not a hard core fan of 40K, mostly casual so if this is wrong, my bad.)
TLDR: Ah-star-tease, Dan Abnett is a decent writer, this is a collaborative effort to create a living fictional universe now spanning three real-life generations... the lore is deep and broad as is the ocean blue. Wow, lot's of good stuff here, glad to see the 40k community welcoming in a newcomer 😊, I'll try to help with pronunciation & brief descriptions whenever possible to help keep the Grognards & Neck Beards at bay (of which, I am, lol). Two things, first up: 1. Ah-star-tease, no worries, just call them space marines, (Fun Fact: Astarte is the Greek name for Astoreth, a Phoenician version of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar who was also known as Aphrodite Areia or Aphrodite Encheios in Sparta and was a significantly more kick ass version of the goddess of amorous love and beauty as to the Spartans she was also a goddess of war... this has absolutely nothing to do with anything, I just thought it was an interesting aside) 2. If you're looking for protagonists then I would like to recommend the work of Dan Abnett, specifically his novels; Titanicus (covering the cyborg, technology worshiping, mechanicus ) which is a gripping tale of love, loss, and duty. Riders of the Dead, this is a Warhammer Fantasy novel, however I'm floating it to you as you mentioned an interest in class & social questions, of which this book asks while following the lives of two knights, one born of wealth & privilege and the other a low born hedge knight with no lands or titles, I honestly don't want to ruin any of it for you aside from the fact that Abnett's subtlety with regard to magic and supernatural elements definitely kept me engaged. Finally, Gaunt's Ghosts is a decent slice of life look at what it means to live in the universe of Warhammer 40k, be warned though, this is a long series which follows the life and times of a ragtag group of survivors of what I can only describe as a galactic scale equivalent of the Trolley Problem. Could you choose between killing an entire world, with billions of people, their unique cultures along with the certain extinction of every other creature on it if doing so meant you would be not saving, but rather allowing a fighting chance for, dozens of other worlds just like it?Philosophically, I find it interesting and, humorously, Abnett also gives an interesting glimpse into military culture, its ups, its downs, and a straight faced look at the myriad of idiosyncrasies of the common soldier. (Also, from first hand personal experience, his little joke about the "81st Skyborne," an obvious stand in for America's 82nd Airborne, was, and likely still is, absolutely spot on. To rebut, or rather, to answer as many of your questions as I am able😊 (to which I can only say I'll do the best I can 🤗). On therapy, religion, and the warp... you're on the right path with Discovery, but instead check out Event Horizon, a sci-fi horror movie staring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neil for a more accurate portrayal of warp travel in 40k. As to therapy, well... might be safer with a bullet as bad thoughts, self doubt, or heretical questioning of the State Religion could literally result in demonic possession or worse... like a demon tricking you into opening a portal to let it, and all of its friends, over for lunch... Or many other terrible ends. Which brings us to the State Religion and inquisitors. The State Religion is the cult of the Emperor who, while paralyzed in stasis, is also the most powerful psychic (psyker) in all of humanity and the collective prayers and intangible faith of his trillions of followers, each granting him a tiny psychic boost, is basically all that stands between the average person and the aforementioned hordes of hungry demons looking to cross over and eat us all for lunch. This is why the Inquisition is so important, as they provide a sort of investigatory branch of the State who can cross any borders, break any laws, and is outside the authority of any government leadership... because anyone can fall prey to Chaos. I find that it's an interesting philosophical problem of how far is too far when acting in service of The Greater Good, or Stark Utilitarianism in action, all of which is terrifyingly well thought out and has been fodder for a lot of long, introspective conversations with friends and fellow fans over the years. As to the what of 40k, while yes, this is a board game, it would be more accurate to describe 40k as a sort of role-playing game akin to dungeons & dragons or its ilk. However, rather than taking the reigns of a single character, the players take command of a military units in battle and their story unfolds in the form of combat. In this the individual identity of each trooper fades into the the unit, or group, identity, as such it is less about the clash of individuals and more about the greater struggle of warring nations, species, races, and ideologies. Granted, it's all still just pieces on a board. On cost of entrance and decoration, yes... individual pieces can have absurd prices. That being said, those crazy expensive models are custom made by incredibly skilled artists and are very large and supremely detailed enough to be featured in a major film as props. Additionally, these miniatures are released in limited runs so they tend to be collectors pieces. All told though, all you really need to get started is the core book, a unit you think is neat, some dice, and a willingness to learn and have fun. Eventually, you'll get around to painting your minis, leading some to give each one its own personality through artistic expression, it can be very meditative. On working out and having a muscle that's spasming or achy... Indeed. The best is after doing intense core training and the tiny muscles next to the spine, between the shoulders won't stop shaking. It doesn't hurt, they just won't stop spazzing, lol, so annoying 😅 Again, as a base point of entry, there are starter sets which often price around $50-$60 (+/-). *on game lines... yep, these are just the 40k tabletop game lines, and not even all of them at that! There are also more traditional role-playing games which allow the players to take control of a individual characters and weave stories of adventure as they explore the 40k universe. There have been almost as many video games thought the years as well! From tremendously successful real-time strategy games like the Dawn of War series or shooters like Firewarrior and action games like 2017's Space Marine, and even a chess-like game called Regicide! Truly, something for everyone. On factions, every playable species (race) has innumerous factions, and subfactions, created over the last forty years of the games existence. This guy was delivering the factions of humanity pretty fast, in the army we used to call info dumps like this, "drinking from a fire hose," it can be both daunting and discouraging to newcomers, I commend you for sticking with it, he rattled off more in-depth information in a minute than some third year chemistry classes cover in an hour😐! Simply put, you've got a lot of options if you don't like marines, lol😊 Noticed your eyes perk at the brief mention of government within the game, I know he said totalitarian, which is true, but the reality is so much more interesting and complex than that little bit implies! The Empire of Man could best be described as a neofeudalistic socialist theocracy in that the population of planets form the serf or proletariat class who toil under the yoke of State run mega corporations which are in turn controlled by feudal lords and ladies. It is heavily inspired by Stalin's reign over the Soviet Union, with a specific focus on the military mindset of WWII. Additionally, each planetary governor, or Lord, is allowed to run their planet as they see fit and, so long as they pay their taxes and worship the Cult of the Emperor, they're largely left alone to govern as they see fit. This, of course, leads to some planets (typically agrarian ones) being mostly tranquil low population rural and egalitarian farming communities on a planet wide scale while others are cramped, claustrophobic human hives controlled by wealthy despots who care little for the well-being of their subjects so long as they keep working. Effectively corporate slave colonies similar to those of today's major corporations (imagine Apple's iPhone Foxconn facility on a planetary scale... 😢), and all of this is only the barest look at one faction of one species! So many intelligent people have poured lifetimes of focused research and imaginative storytelling into every facet of this little world. Anyways, I've got to off to sleep, but, I would absolutely love to go down the rabbit hole, or discuss the relation of these fictional societies to our real life ones. "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~Aristotle
Seeing your frustration at the idea that humanity can't unite to stop a common threat. I offer that if a threat is juuust abstract and distant enough I think we aren't very capable of uniting. I think the last year has illustrated how poor we are at dealing with existential and indirect threats to life on even earth...
what I like about your videos: when you don't understand something, you rewind over and over until you grasp what's being said. it shows to me that you truely invest yourself in a topic and actually try to understand it, where as other UA-camrs just giggle/smile and continue without giving much of a thought about it. a very respectable trait of yours!
You see, in warhammer settings there isn't protagonists, there isn't good guys, only bad and worst and only you decides who will be protagonists for you !
By the way...you're an author. There are a ton of novels out there based on 40 K. Sum it up in one word...Grimdark. Ultimate Grimdark. (And that female image with the wings you noted at about 13:40 in your vid...That's Saint Celestine, probably the top "Saint" (there are dozens of them) in the Sisters of Battle in that she was named a Saint while still...sort of alive. (A fairly low level Sister who everyone thought was dead...and then came back with the wings and a whole ton of...well...charisma...and general bad ass power. Eventually she died again while performing a miraculous victory over a Chaos really bad guy.)
“I’m confused” then you get 40k perfectly.
🤣🤣 great.
Beat me to it.
The people in the 40k universe are also confused. This is the normal state of mind required.
She has the makings of great commissar.
pffffff X3 lol hahah very true lol
"Who are the bad guys in Warhammer 40k?" - "Yes."
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the bad guys it this universe are space bugs and literall hell
"because no one likes stupid space weaboo comunists" - by: TheRussianBadger
@@pawebroszko4737 Honestly *all* factions in 40k is semi-evil, arguably even the Tau (although I kind of feel like they're the closest thing to a good side out there, despite the mind control...)
At least there's a element of respect for life there.
@@Luredreier i was talking about galaxy killing bad guys. and talking about commie space smurfs (tau) they are ignorant hippies with to mutch luck.
"Who are the good guys in 40k?"
We don't do that here.
The _good_ guys are Space Hitler and the Space Nazis.
The bad guys... you don't wanna know.
@@rocketraccoon1976 spaces nazis from the future who got corrupted by old gods? Nah doesn't describe how crazy are the villains x)
Well the when you think about it the necrons are the good guys.
Vulkan: "Am I a joke to you?"
@@tylermeeksmith4176 orks are the good guys I mean they just do what is in there nature
"Everybody painted all of these?"
Me: Sweating nervously as I glance at my entire army of unpainted miniatures.
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Brother. The emperor beckons color to your forces. Paint forth.
And kudos on the name.
An Astartes without a chapter is a heretic
Dont forget to thin your paint borther
Pant them now. For it is the will of the Emperor
Her: wait...so everyone’s a bad guy?
40k fans: I KNOW RIGHT?!
🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
As i saw a comment on russian badgers video=
"Are humans the good guys? LEGALLY i am required to say yes"
By George, I think she's got it! :D
Everyone except for the orcs. They are just there for the lolz
For the Greater Good, my friend for the greater good
40k is one of those things where you could ask a complete noob and someone who’s read every single novel and they would tell you basically the same thing: “shit’s fucked in space”
"Life is insignificant."
"I'm not gonna like it."
Let's... not tell her about how they make Dreadnaughts.
And Penitent Engines, Arco-flagellants and servitors...Or corpse-starch and Cherubim...in fact, it's probably best if we say nothing...
Or we tell her everything and see what happens.
As long as we don't tell her about the Daemonculaba we should be fine.
@@THExRISER i saw a video about it , im happy english is my second language as I didnt understand everything but what i got was ..... unsettling
@@Thom1212 Corpse Starch pretty much gives it away with the name. Not really going to be able to get round that one.
16:07 "I have already forgotten all four."
Then you are safe from their ruinous lies sister. You have the Emperor's wisdom.
AN OPEN MIND IS LIKE A FORTRESS WITH IT'S GATES UNBARRED!
BLESSED IS THE MIND TOO SMALL FOR DOUBT!
Yes brother!! Lol
To clarify, getting into the table top is statistically more expensive than a cocaine addiction
BUT it’s the greatest high
Well you can paint and sniff so you get 2x more high. W40k is more worth it.
Plastic crack
Hmm it's not thaaaaat expensive. My army is not as costly as let's say a motorbike hobby
@@o0Takeno0o Dude, a decently sized army is about as expensive as a car.
Imagine it that way: You side with the Nazis because they are the only thing standing between you and Cthullu.
Ask a Star Wars fan if they would like to live in the star wars universe and the answer is probably yes, it's cool to be a Jedi, a Sith or a republic trooper.
Ask a Star Trek fan if he wants to live in the federation and the answer is most likley also yes.
Then ask a Warhammer fan if he wants to live in th 41st millenium and the answer is definetly no, because no matter how powerfull you are, there is only horror, suffering and and if you're lucky an agonizing death, because there are fates way worse than that.
You obviously don't know crap about star warsor star trek if you can believe what you just said.
@@3333-d2l
He’s stating facts. People would say yes to that.
@@3333-d2l but you don't have to know enough about star wars or star trek to be able to believe in its franchise and understand the implications of making it your hobby. Warhammer is already F.A.T.A.L., the board game. Yes I said it. It's much much worse.
@Michael Fox That`s the spirit. Kill the mutant, the alien, the heretic.
i think if I have chance go to Wh40k and be a space marine.i say yes.
"So far there is no protagonist..."
You just summed up 40k, rather perfectly.
The comments have been SO divided on this.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Being lax, the Emperor of humanity could be considered as an "invisible" protagonist, in some way everything revolves around him and the consequence of his choices.
There are protagonists, maybe not a main protagonist but if there are them in specific events, the galaxy is too huge for there to be a figure that monopolizes the attention. Keep in mind that the Horus Heresy alone has about 60 books between novels and anthologies.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Probably because people look for heroes rather than protagonists. And these are exceedingly rare in 40k.
Most factions have a few named character models with specific rules, but given the nature of the universe, even the most noble of them are deeply flawed characters out of necessity. Some of these have novels dedicated to them or with them as one of the central characters, but others have an extensive history that is covered in lore snippets in the rule books of their respective army.
There are tons of books with proper protagonists besides the ones with rules, but one of the themes of the setting is the insignificance of the individual (another aspect it shares with pure cosmic horror, besides the eldritch abominations all over the place).
This means, that even the returned Primarchs (basically the sons of the Emperor, Horus and the likes), that have a huge impact on the galaxy, barely could be called protagonists for 40k as a whole.
Among the different books and other media, you have everything from tragic, noble heroes (as much as the setting allows at least, they'll still blow up your planet if needed, but they'll try and get you off planet first at the cost of their own lives), antiheroes, tragic and unapologetic villain protagonists.
There's the Horus Heresy series of 50+ books, many of which focus on the Primarchs and characters close to them. Apart from the opening trilogy I'm partial to The First Heretic (the at first reluctant but at the end rather eager fall of one of the Primarchs to Chaos), as are many other to my knowledge. It's a real deep-dive, so I would not recommend any of that series for beginners, because at least to me, the tragedy of many of the books hits all the more with the understanding of the setting I have.
Then there are the Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Bequin books, each focused on their respective titular Inquisitors (they also form an ongoing narrative together), and the first Eisenhorn book, Xenos, is often named as one of the best entry points into the setting, especially on a smaller scale than the all out war the main game is about.
Another often named entry point is Gaunt's Ghosts, a series that follows Commissar Gaunt and his regiment through a local (as in within an area of space of a couple hundred parsec or so) crusade.
Helsreach might be another good entry point, not so much because it eases into it but because there is a fan video series (with a good but admittedly unusual visual style) that covers most of the contents of the book decently available on youtube.
Celestine, the winged woman that shows up in the video at one point, has a novel of her own I am very eager to get to read or listen to and a shared Audio Drama called Our Martyred Lady, though I don't think either are good entry points.
If you're actually interested in the setting but not in a hurry, I'd suggest keeping an eye on humble bundle, they've done multiple bundles where you could get 150-200+$ worth of E-books and/or audiobooks/audiodramas from the different Games Workshop IPs for 15-25$ and I'm quite sure there will be another one at some point.
@@0815UserII thanks so much for the info. I don't know how deep I'll dive into this because I really don't think it's my kind of thing, but I will for sure give some game trailer type videos a shot at some point.
Blowing up a planet is just too much for my marshmallow heart. I'm still sad about Alderaan. 🥺🥺🥺
There are protagonists but they have there own stories, leutin here is just giveing a good general explanation on the setting a universe , the events and books have there own protagonists , there are some that Span multiple stories and events and others that come up a few times or only once
“So (Necrons and Eldar) these guys are basically the same.”
I am... oscillating in disproportionate nerd fury. ;-;
I feel your pain.
An ancient empire collapsed to ruin, who wish to reclaim worlds they view as theirs by killing everyone else who would claim dominion over them.
An I describing the Imperium, Eldar, or Necrons?
I mean... she's not wrong... there's s reason they're old nemesis's because they both have the same ambition and same levels of delusions of grandeur
The difference is how they attempted to slow or halt their inevitable demise.
The Necrons dealt with the coming apocalypse by giving in to their suffering. They sacrificed their feeble bodies and souls to the C'tan, who replaced them with unfeeling metal and unrelenting spite, and decided to wait for revenge until it was well and truly below absolute zero. In the end, nothing remained of them save empty husks, not dying but not quite living either.
The Aeldari either ignored their problems entirely or devoted their lives to fixing them. The result? The Drukhari became a festering infection in the darkest corners of the Webway. The Asuryani, fearing their race's complete extinction, were forced to run and hide.
Humanity, meanwhile, embraced a unified purpose in the wake of the Horus Heresy: the pursuit of total racial purity. Thus the Imperium was barely able to survive where the Aeldari and the Necrons failed, but became a total mockery of the Emperor's ideals in the process.
@@levb258 Yes
The irony is that the Emperor was a staunch atheist but is now too crippled to tell anyone to stop worshipping him or killing people who don't want to worship him in his name.
Extra irony that the only reason he's still alive(speculation) despite the golden throne falling into disrepair is the psychic power of everyone thinking he's a god
@@barrosc5321 that and a thousand psychers that a sacrificed to the Golden Throne every day.
@@veryblackraven sure helps with the day to day
Lorgar won the long war lol
I question that part the Emperor knew the Chaos Gods existed he wasn't a atheist, this is getting technical but the emperor knew the gods existed his plan seemed to be to starve them of attention, but that plan failed so who can say what he would do now
"I was so onboard with Slaneesh until the torture part"
*Sighs in 'I remember when I didn't want to cross that line'*
Same xD
and here I am going around with no mask on to spread Nurgles love........
@@wainmundt8062 Papa Nurgle loves us all equally.
@@Rudofaux and thats why I worship him, no discrimination, no racism, no hate, just love for all!
Agreed.
“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Well, imagine if there was also therapy.”
Or good parenting for that matter
🤣🤣 YES
U want Therapie OK BROTHER GET THE FLAMETHROWER THE HEAVY FLAMETHROWER
@@HannaHsOverInvested No joke, that is pretty much the cause of 90% of the problems in 40k. The Emperor was a REALLY bad dad
@@yourlocalbicronoverlord Was he, though??
Wait ... Yes!! He was!!
*Magnus autistically screeches in the background*
This woman dove head first into the warp for our entertainment! Emperor bless her!
“Imagine theres also therapy”
bricky- every single wh40k faction explained is a much more interesting and easier to understand set of videos I think and is where I think is the best place to start with 40k
many have suggested this. I will have to reach out to him.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Hope you can they are so good still loving you channel your reactions are the best :)
Thats the best video to learn about the lore, 2 hours of what is happening around the 41 milennia
That video is the best for noobies that are new to 40k as he goes over it a lot slower and a lot less confusing.
I can only agree to this, it is presented in a more "light" way to understand I think. But the lore of Warhammer 40k is just so much in general.
“Imagine if there was also therapy” 😂😂😂
Yeah, it is called heresy.
@@unlikelyspore1406 sounds about right.
@@unlikelyspore1406 Flamer or Heavy Flamer levels of heresy?
@@XMorbidReignX
Flamer
@@XMorbidReignX Exterminatus level.
"She looks cool."
"Are those wings attached to her?"
That's Saint Celestine one of the living saints in the Imperium
She is a literal living saint. Which means, in current Catholic Church standards, she performed miracles enough times for the church to consider her a saint, while she was living.
In 40k standards, she performed a ton of miracles usually in battle. Not using the magic/warp.
I really love the lore for the Sisters of Battle, but I can say that I am a Astra Militarum main
I’ve only heard of Saint Sabat.
"You'd think people would band together, if we had a common enemy."
World history: Old my beer
To be fair, Humanity in WH:40k kind of *has* banded together to fight their common enemy...for certain values of "banded together."
They just live a hellish existence of servitude underneath an insane theocracy founded to fight truly mind-bending existential threats.
And some of them think they can do better.
@@Kirhean Funny how that theocracy is the only thing holding it together. The Emperor banned religion and established a rule of totalitarian law. You disobey his word you died thus his word was biblical. Chaos was born from overindulgence in the freedoms that came from this total rule in other species and spread to humanity. Humanity still found it on its own and due to a lack of a moral code like those preached in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism they fell to it easily. The Emperor caused his own demise in this way, by creating a manifest destiny so easily hijacked.
That's the great irony of Warhammer 40,000. There's basically 3 existentialist threats to the galaxy: Chaos, Tyranids, and Necrons. Every other faction is capable of getting along or can be reasoned with, they just choose not to. Even Orks can be persuaded to join your cause, so long as you're bigger than they are and promise them something even bigger to fight. Everyone would rather see the galaxy burn to the ground, however, than allow the possibility of another race winning.
That’s like tau. They believe in the harmony and unity of all sentient life.
This is great! When ever I want to explain 40k to anyone … I’ll show them you watching LT .. perfect! I need to add nothing cuz your figuring things out loud as you watch is legit just tooo perfect of a commentary
You are so welcome 🤣🤣🤣
@@HannaHsOverInvested I usually just explain it by comparison to other universes. In other universes, you bury your fallen companions, officers and civilians when they die. In WH40K, you put them on the side of the trench so that they in death can serve the emperor as sandbags.
For some action vids, I'd recommend the fanmade 5-part miniseries "Astartes" here on youtube.
Other vids I would recommend are the dossier the YT channel Templin institute made on the Emperor, and the one they made on the Imperium itself. They put the most essential cores into perspective in the most orderly way, I think. Although Luetin is good too.
Anything that not human and human.
@@HateMachinist She did watch it, She referred back to it during this video; although she was pronouncing it wrong. Faux Latin doesn't always come naturally
The woman at 13:39 is Celestine. She was an Sister of Battle (nuns with guns) until she died. Now she is basicly an angel, who arrives at times of great danger.
Angel/ deamon what's the difference in warhammer
@@jakehearn432 Whether they are setting loyalists or heretics on fire. Although a more accurate description would be whether they are setting loyalists on fire, or people the inquisition claim to be heretics on fire.
Also xenos... burn all the xenos!
@@frankficcle7081 I mean the creation of an imperial saint and a daemon prince have a fair few similarities to the new players aside from being made by either the god emperor or primordial gods I'm a former loyalist word bearers player
One of the many saints .
It's not that much of a stretch to call the living saint's imperial deamons in my opinion
"So, he's Human?"
Emperor: Yes...No...And all things in between
Now just think, what you just watched was the "Ultra-Condensed" version. Getting into 40k is like trying to walk into hell unscathed and then walk out without being trapped, but once you're actually in it its pretty chill lmao.
Getting into 40k is like meeting with your giant nerd friends and talking 4 hours straight from time to time in the span of 7 years and then learning everything
@@obviouslygay7184 *oh how often we play down the difficulty of getting into our own game lore.*
I seriously appreciate this. Taking time to expand your horizons, and even though it may not have been your thing, or even something that you could totally wrap your head around, you made an attempt. Definitely earned you a sub from me, because I would rather you be honest about how you feel about something, yet still give it a CHANCE which is really all anyone can ask from someone, than lie or something and act like it was something you enjoyed.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 thank you!!!
Hemlock 40k theories just copy pastes from the wiki and arch is a low key racist. Lutien is the best for newcomers
"You would think humans would band together to fight a common enemy. can they not fight Aliens if they come to Earth?" Problem is the Xenos are everywhere and every human that wants to fight, wants to fight a different species. And if it is not Xenos it is Chaos. And if it is not Chaos, it is politics. Or just sudden shortage of food or water where you live. Caused probably because no one has any idea how to fix the recycling plant beyond praying to it to stop being angry.
New time same problems no one ever knows what to do
and also the issue of both how thinly spread out the imperium's forces are, and the fact that if they reallocated those forces to destroy an enemy in any meaningful way, the other factions would be able to break through and destroy the imperium. they're essentially trapped in an eternal stalemate until either something exceptional happens to tip the scales in their favor, or they lose the war of attrition and die.
In a weird instance, you will get xeno races working with humans. See Blood Angels Space Marine chapter ( group of superhuman soldiers with a space vampire theme) teaming up with necron ( egyptian themed Arnold Terminator like robots) against the tyranid. (Space bugs that wanna eat EVERYTHING living)
@@sessy01 in the siege of cadia adeptus mechanicus are working together with necron lord to activate pylon
Also the act of fighting the physical alien menace invites chaos into your ranks. There's a real sense of inevitability and predestination in 40k, especially during the Horus Heresy, pushed along by a very small group of corrupt individuals seeking power less for their own gain but for its own sake and ... crap I just described Capitalism by mistake...
Now buy some models.
Luetin is the best 40k lore video creator. You could not have picked a better introduction. If you by any chance want to learn more about this universe, you can simply look through his videos, find a topic that seems interesting, and go from there, and if it's too much of a deep dive, then there are other videos covering more basic concepts - introductions to the various factions, for instance. That's a good place to start.
Also, painting miniatures while listening to audiobooks is *chef's kiss*
Brain: you have 1000 miniatures to paint and only 10 minutes before the game starts...are you ready body?
Body: *PRODUCTION MODE ENGAGED*
This battle brother speaks the truth!
Only 1,000??? *laughs in tyranid*
And i’m almost out of paint and my stores shut down and don’t want my plastic crack money going to amazon 😢
@@micheal5973 You can order basically all their paints from here.
www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Painting-Modelling?N=1088720681&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AUS_gw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_US_gw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1608505320000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1608505320000%5D
It's definitely not as good as giving money to your local game store, but at least Amazon won't get a cut! 😂
As someone who is pro boob I will say adjusting your boobs is fine
"There is only war...Well, I imagine there was also therapy."
Yeah, it's called the Emperor's Mercy and Commissars.
Quick note, incase you don't get the joke...
Commissars are non-military officers who are in charge of maintaining discipline and morale among troops, by shooting them.
@@raspherion in the head
among the non-lethal therapies there's mass sterilization of entire world populations or guardsmen regiments
Unless you are an Ogryn and scarred to go on a transport, in which case reciting an evening prayer is acceptable.
I am something of a psychologist myself.
I'll fix your brain alright
Look up "If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device"
This.
yes TTS is the best way to explain the more nonsensical parts of 40K... that isnt a 2 hours long video...
"Hang on... Somebody painted all of these?"
Yes.
"Everyone painted their own all of these?"
Yes.
"For their game?"
Yes.
"That's a lot!"
Yes.
"I gotta fix my boobs."
Yes.
Wait...
But in all seriousness, technically, painting your miniatures is not required. The only two exceptions is if you want to play in official tournaments, or are playing Space Orkz. Ork lore is such that their their whole state of being is based on belief. While we believe things to be true, for Orkz, things are true because they believe them. Because they believe vehicles that are painted red go faster, they indeed go faster, and thus in the official rules, vehicles that are painted red get a movement bonus.
🤣🤣 this made me laugh. Thanks for the info!!
@@HannaHsOverInvested
I strongly recommend that you watch every faction in war hammer 40K explained as the narrator does an excellent job of explaining the universe in a way that newcomers can understand You might find that you like 40K more after watching his video.
@numbSKULLery blue is either lucky, or marking them out to be part of a looter group
@numbSKULLery it was more of there is/ used ti be a faction of mainly blue orks who were really good at looting, being able to orkify a destroyed vehicle and get it back in action in the same battle
@numbSKULLery by that I meant I remember that from 6th edition so dont know if it is updated or changed
The word is "A-start-ees" the language the nobles speak is a kind of psuedo-latin.
And Astartes are the space marines that Luetin was talking about. It's just the pseudo-latin name for them.
Some theorize it means "the one who holds stars" or it means star conquerors.
High-Gothic is the language that nobles speak. Low-Gothic is the language of common folk.
Astartes is the name of the woman who ensured the Space Marines' existence, and so they were named after her.
Astarte it was a ancient deity to www.britannica.com/topic/Astarte-ancient-deity
It's not wrong. It's just High Gothic, ha!
"I dont wana know about factions I wana know the whole thing" oh my sweet summer child
So to make things a little less confusing here's a quick faction overview.
Space Marines: genetically and surgically augmented humans trained from boyhood to be the elite. Given the best armour and weapons available, split into chapters of roughly 1000 (with notable exceptions). They're generally deployed like a scalpel or shock and awe force.
Imperial guard: Your normal squishy human given some basic training and a laser weapon that is about as effective as a flashlight against the dangers of the galaxy. Deployed in their millions, a sledge hammer. Very effective tanks.
Mechanicus: Human... for a given value of human. Worship technology and seek to become more machine than man. In control of near enough all advanced technology, innovation is viewed with deep suspicion at best. Tech priests can control lesser ground troops (Skitarii) like puppets.
Titans: Part of the Mechanicus. Imagine a city that hates you, now give it city killing weapons, now give it legs. That's a titan, they come in packs.
Sisters of Battle: All female (due to rules lawyering by the then space pope), fanatically religious force. Well armed and able to do miracles on a semi regular basis, like fire a bit much.
Inquisition: Secret police with near unlimited power, can end worlds on a whim. But are tasked with protecting against the most corrupting forces possible, which could, if left unchecked, tear the galaxy apart (see great rift for what happens when it doesn't work).
Chaos: Powerful force born from a parallel dimension fuelled by emotion called the warp. The strongest and most primal emotions coalesce into sentient warp entities (Chaos gods) which in turn can create lesser extensions of themselves (daemons). Being fuelled by these emotions they seek to influence others to increase their food source, leading to the corruption of non-warp beings into more and more extreme acts. Mortal followers come from anywhere, space marines, normal humans, aliens etc. Try to create holes in reality for the daemons to slip into the material realm.
Eldar: Incredibly ancient, incredibly arrogant. Psychically gifted and long lived. Got bored, became hedonistic and murderf'd one of the Chaos gods into existence singlehandedly. The Craftworld Eldar learned their lesson and use life paths to avoid boredom.
Dark Eldar: They didn't learn the lesson and kept the party going in a hidden pocket dimension. Occasionally make a supply (slave) run to avoid becoming Slannesh's chew toy as their souls are constantly being leached away.
Orks: Brutally cunning and cunningly brutal. Big, green, constantly looking for a fight. Sometimes seen as the comic relief faction, but if a major warlord comes to power they will drown a world in a green tide. Make their ramshackle creations work through sheer belief.
Tau: Somewhat naive minor race. Talk about a greater good and unity, welcome other races. Strict caste based society, rapid technological advancement. Really need to learn to stop poking the bear (Imperium) if one of the major powers took a serious interest the Tau would get squashed. It's been suggested that other races that join the Tau start having fertility issues which keeps their numbers in check.
Tyranid: Bugs, very hungry bugs. A hive mind controlled swarm from outside the galaxy that has one directive, consume to evolve. Will strip a planet bare and move on to the next dinner bell. Speaking of which....
Genestealer cults: The dinner bell. A genestealer infiltrates an inhabited world, infects the dominant species and begins to create an underground society trying to overthrow the current leadership, creating a psychic beacon to the Tyranids as they grow. When the Tyranid fleets draw near they stage an uprising to sabotage the defences to allow their "star gods" to conquer all. Then become dinner.
Necrons: Another ancient, arrogant race. Started out as short lived, radiation blasted humanoids. Got annoyed at a near immortal race, got fooled by another near immortal race into trading their souls for shiny metal bodies to get back at the first race. Turned on the ones that fooled them, then went to sleep for a few million years. Look like the terminator without the skin suit (some try to make skin suits, they're not good at it and the former suit owners tend to complain).
great definition on flayed ones. "Trying to be terminator with skin" siuts to.
about as short as summary as you can get, well done!
This summary of the factions is basically perfect, well done
Necrons arent arrogant
One thing too about Orks: they were genetically engineered shock troopers for an ancient, highly advanced race that is no longer present in the Milky Way. 60+ millionish years later and they're like a fully automatic rifle with unlimited ammo that's had its triggered taped down and thrown down a hallway. Due to their creators not being total sadists, they engineered Orks to find these things amusing. So the gun is laughing when it shoots a propane tank that sends the other nearby bouncing guns bouncing in pieces even further.
Most humans are still humans. He was mostly going over departments within the government.
Oh I see. Thanks!
Most humans are still humans... then there are the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus, who took a look at Borg from Star Trek and go, "yes, that's a good start, but can we remove MORE of the inconvenient fleshy parts?"
@@Dreznin my personal favorite humans are the imperial guards
@@Dreznin To claim a tech priest is anything but approaching the PINNACLE of humanity is HERESY!!!
It is definitely a universe unlike others. Its a universe that embraces nihilism. Its not for everyone. But remember a candle burns brightest in the dark and the horrors for 40k makes the heroic actions of individuals railing against an uncaring world all the more impressive.
Something that always gets me is that, to even qualify as a candidate for selection as a Space Marine, you have to pass trials which, should you succeed, already mark you as a hero. In many cases, those rare individuals who fail a trail, yet still survive, return home as lauded champions for even having achieved that much. Each of the thousand battle brothers in a Space Marine Chapter is a great hero, and that is the absolute baseline required to have so much as a chance of surviving in the 41st Millennium.
This gives me hardcore Loren vibes.
Him: I’m gonna try and explain 40k in one hour.
Her one hour later: WHY?! WHAT?! ...WHA-
Inquisitor Eisenhorn is a great trilogy to read for a vertical slice of how that universe works. And it's not that much over the top as you might expect.
Eisenhorne starts at a 2 but quickly gets to 11 after book 1 . Great fun read though .
Book one is great, but it gets rather nasty by book 3. Wonderfully written, but it tugs at your heart strings a bit.
My favorite starting point is the short story: Master Imus' Transgression. A horizontal slice of the universe. A single imperial accountant is called in by the Inquisition to answer some questions about a pattern he didn't even notice while he was reviewing records, ultimately resulting in the Inquisitor having to drive him slightly mad in order to discover what it was that Master Imus actually saw.
That inquisitor? A very young Eisenhorn.
Shows the lengths Inquisitors will go to in order to serve their purpose of uncovering even the slightest hints of chaos and corruption while also taking the time to depict the impact this has on regular people like Master Imus. Who, I will remind you, did absolutely nothing "wrong". He was just unlucky enough to encounter something "wrong".
THAT, is 40k.
Also everyone should read the pair of books: A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns
I don't care if you don't give a crap about 40k. Those books are self contained BANGERS.
Sounds like there will be a live-action Eisenhorn series coming as well.
@@ANunes06 I also forgot that there is a short story that is essentially "the third man " but set in 40k i can't remember the name of it though but a boarder Prince did a reading of it lol
"I want characters"
Oh, so TTS then.
“So I fight for a Father who I never loved, against a brother that I did. I defend an empire that never wanted me against an army that would have taken me in a heartbeat.”
(Horus Lupercal)
When I first got into 40k, some 5 years ago, I felt exactly as you did: "I like following consistent characters along their journeys, so why should I be interested in a setting that makes them insignificant?"
And then I read about the Primarchs.
See, it's easy to follow characters who are doing the right thing, even when they falter mid-way - that's why so many people love The Doctor, or Gandalf, or Luke Skywalker, or Jean-Luc Picard: they represent hope, which is something we see get ruined on a daily basis in real life.
But you know, at the end of the day, that it's just a fiction. Real life doesn't have destined heroes who bring about moral balance to a bleak world.
The world of 40k tackles just that: it's not the story of a saviour-figure who brings peace and harmony to all, but rather an exploration of all the hope that individual people can lose *and still choose to fight*.
And the amazing part is that it manages to be somber and complex *and* extremely over-the-top ridiculous *at the same time*.
Lol that was not said by horus as I remember that was the khan I think^^
@@caligula69 Yes, he means that the brother they are referring to is Horus.
"I imagine there was also therapy"
Sure, but probably not the kind you're thinking off xD
Mostly torture.
@@MrBluman999 The Emperor aproves this message.
@@unlikelyspore1406 Thing is, he probably wouldn't. The Imperium aproves, not the Emperor. If the emperor woke up he'd probably execute quite a few higher ups not to mention the entire ecclesiarchy
Well, probably more the rapy
Well, lobotomy was consider as therapy originally...
The short version of 40K: Space Lizards fucked it up and yeet out the galaxy.
"somebody painted all of these" as I look at my grey pile of shame
Yeah, uh, it's my custom chapter, uh, Grey Falcons. Yeah, totally
Q: "Who are the good guys in 40k?"
A: "Yes."
No*
@@dropbear8579 Maybe
the squats
We don't do that, here.
I think "No" is a pretty good answer.
“I’ll take anything”
*Slaanesh peaks round the corner
"there is no protagonist" Nope, not at the top level. the term 'grimdark' is from this setting. everyone is fighting for survival, so genocide is the rule and goal. The stories have individuals, and they can act to a personal good end in the scale of the story, but the universe sits over everyone's shoulder, looming.
The reason the setting and how to explain it is so difficult is because of the focus. the lens the game is viewed is actively one of universal scale, so everything is big. Scale is lightyears, population is trillions on trillions. Its originally a war simulator, so there arent really people, there are numbers.
It comes to be, however, that the setting is evocative and powerful. As time goes on: stories are written, lore is forged, and actors appear. But this lens of gigantism and scale are still the biggest hurdle most people find. its getting better as more people know and interact, and game culture becomes more mainstream, so its worth keeping an eye out at least.
Don't let them get you down. You dipped your toes in to test the waters and I applaud it.
Also, shorthand:
Imperium of Man > Space humans
Eldar > Space Elves
Necron > Space Undead
Tyranids > Space Bugs
Orks > Space Orcs
Dark Eldar > Space Drow
Chaos > Space Demons
Couldn't put it better myself lol
^ this!
@@Goon-124 you forgot the T'au = Communist Space Cows.
@@singularleaf3895 Weeb Communist Space Cows, you mean.
The Inquisitors are more single individuals carrying out their duties like a Secret Police or a Religious Inquisition. They defend Humanity by ferreting out corruption within and without. The Space Marines are basically the strongest Military Power the Imperium has defending it in a more straightforward manner against other armies. (You also have the Imperial Guard but they are conscripts essentially, Space Marines are the Elite Best of the Best super soldiers.)
Though you are right there isn't really a 'protagonist' in 40k, as there are so many characters with their own story within the universe that it's impossible to have any singular protagonists. It is very Grim Dark overall and there just really isn't much levity since it's more of a tragic universe that is slowly grinding itself to dust. I still love it myself though, but definitely not something everyone enjoys which is okay.
As for a video with a story, one of my favorites is the Original Dawn of War 2 Intro set within the 40k Universe. This is the Uncut version which is best since it had an extended scene at the end that made Warhammer fans squee with delight.(Namely that the Tyranids were going to be in this game.) ua-cam.com/video/7_b-qBTul44/v-deo.html
"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war... But imagine if there was also therapy."
Believe it or not, more than a few 40k fan fictions/alt-canon theories are based around "What if [character] saw a therapist?" Or more commonly "What if [Primarch] had a better relationship with his father?"
Oh, you wish to be educated?
(Enter the Adepta Sorroritas)
“Allow us to introduce ourselves”
Ooh ooh ooh, if you can, try reaching out to Bricky and see if he’ll let you watch/commentate/react to any of his videos. He’s a really chill dude and this would be a hilarious collab.
That will be the next person I reach out to on this topic.
@@HannaHsOverInvested awwwwww yeahhhh 😎
@@HannaHsOverInvested oh yeah, thats the best video on warhammer, also the templins institute videos on the imperial guard and cadia
@@HannaHsOverInvested Every single warhammer 40k faction explained is by far the best introductory video I have seen to date. Also Bricky puts a lot of humor, which makes the video entertaining in itself. That is, if between the two parts it is almost two hours. Although as it is divided into several chapters for each faction, so it is easy to divide it. Highly recommended.
I lost my shit when she asked if the Guardsmen had names cuz all I can think of is the Kriegers whos names are just their serial number.
Painting miniatures was my favorite part of the game, hands down.
That part seems pretty cool.
Yes,!!! I paint with my kid. In mice and mistic i have pink rats haha
@@HannaHsOverInvested hey I think you'd love watching some crysis 2 trailers
Good choice choosing Luetin, and not one mind syndicate
I know nothing about either of those two. What are the pros and cons?
@@syweb2 luetin does research and explains the lore properly just like what you saw on the video. One mind syndicate reads the wiki to you word per word in a voice that sounds like he's about to get an asthma attack
@@lowkeyarki7091 Oof.
Socially acceptable to adjust our junk? I don't know anyone who would adjust their junk in public.
You use the ol' "Looking for something tiny in your pocket" technique.
Dude she wears a Sjw tshirt makebelive is her home.
I would. And I will pick my nose in public. I will not suffer those things for hours just because some random strangers might feel akward for 2 seconds.
"Somebody painted all of these?"
oh... oh no.
-look at 12k points unpainted-
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
12k isn't alot. Unless you have an ork or guard army 🤣
@@jaypritchard270 12K is quite a lot. Even if they're just models with high point values, that's still a lot of models to paint. For example, if they are all Grey Knights Terminators, which are pretty expensive points-wise at 42 points per model, that would still be 300 models. Even if they were Warlord Titans, you'd have to paint two whole Warlords. That's a lot of work.
"'In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.' Imagine if there was also therapy." Lmao
Got me
Ive never seen someone that is actually on youtube but not that rly involved with the internet, resulting in a seemingly pure person
This is great
If you want a character to follow, watch the Helsreach series on YT.
I would say jus get the audiobook. YT Helsreach is great but he cut out alot.
Yeah a lot has been cut there so its better to read first then watch the video.
"Oooo slenesh!!"
Astartes : "im gonna need a heavy flamer for this heresy"
Also the closest thing your gonna get for trailers is going to be the silent astartes vids.
Here is a brief summary
"Everyone is the bad guy, and everyone dies"
Thats it.
necrons are the closest thing to morally okish, and thay are undead robots hellbent on enslaving organic life
@@ionavram4002 just a little behind on the times is all
@@alexmorado2182 im sure the silent king is gonna figure smth out
Except the Emperor, BECAUSE THE EMPERAH PROTECTS!!
There are alot of "consistent characters", its just an ordinary person is insignificant, "heros" are the characters around which everybody dies like flies.
Helsreach is the only animated story about 40k, you could watch that, the rest are books and/or lore videos if you'd like to watch.
Astarte is way better both by story and animation quality
@@JackkDevil Astartes is good for action but you won't understand the story if you are new due to the lack of dialogue, its easier to get into Helsreach if you've never had any experience with 40k.
There's an old joke that sums up the Warhammer 40K universe pretty well.
When you ask a fan if they want to live in the universe the common reaction is
Star Trek fan: I'd LOVE to be in the Federation traveling and exploring!
Star Wars fan: I'd Love to be a Jedi fighting the Empire...
Warhammer 40K fan: HELL NO I DON'T WANT TO LIVE THERE! ARE YOU INSANE!
If I was to live in the Warhammer 40k universe I want to be born on Krieg one of the fastest ways out of the universe.
@@richardwitt2334 speed runners
Don’t try to understand the whole thing all at once: no one can.
What you do is get a grasp of the setting, then find something specific within it that interests you, like a legion. Learn all you can about that interesting thing, and over the course of doing so you will find something else that piques your interest.
Basically, treat it like an extended Wiki Walk rather than a structured lesson, or you WILL be overwhelmed.
Fire Warrior game was my introduction into 40k. It was so goddamn confusing, but so cool.
"Imagine if there was also therapy"
I stumbled while walking because that is such a perfect response.
Xenos is literally the ancient Greek for alien, I'm surprised Lucen didn't know that.
The moment she said “there is no protagonist” I damn near leapt out of my seat cause it just hit the nail square on the head.
"people will stop squabbling because there's a common enemy"
Try telling Byzantium empire that. They still having internal fighting and political murders even when Constantinople besieged by enemy for years.
Is it socially acceptable to adjust my junk? If this is true that changes everything :) I blame you if it's not true.
🤣🤣
@@HannaHsOverInvested I think in most parts of the world you get in trouble if you open the zip and grap in there to thumble about...so
So how much time did you get in jail 😂
40K is just like learning world history all over again
Grim dark is a genre of a world of horrors with no hero’s, no good guys, no just cause. Just war, horror and hopeless ness. WH40k lore is sometimes separate from the games them selves it’s just an explanation to why the games either table top, video, card etc games are as brutal and heartless as they are.
The 40k Universe isn't all about characters, it's about the universe itself. Hence why it's a popular Niche, because you can pretty much create almost anything in the Warhammer 40k universe, so long as it follow its general rules.
The canon has full of slots you can create a continuity to.
Luetin is honestly my number 1 40k channel. He does really good content and he seems very chill as a person
The game is Grimdark, the world is Grimdark, but when you read the stories there are genuine emotions and characters that many people fall in love with and mourn when they are gone
"I imagine there is also therapy" Hope is the first step on the road to damnation.
++++Thought of the Day: "A closed mind is a safe mind!" **Ave Imperator** =][= +++++
"Everybody painted all of their own miniatures" - *1000 wargammers get the 1000 yard stare....*
You're probably right. There are stories about people in the 40k universe, but the whole setting depends a lot on the fact that the only thing that matters is the godemperor.
Hellsreach. You get a protagonist, amazing animation and the war for armageddon
To be fair, the one model that costs a thousand pounds is roughly the size of a toddler. Biggest model they got is like 22 inches tall.
17:50 Warhammer 40K has no protagonist. But stories set in the universe have their own protagonists. The stories often follow groups of characters, but some are laser focused on singular individuals. It's why I once mentioned *Caiaphas Cain* as a good starting point. He is human (very human, just incredibly lucky, something that he is very critically self aware of), his books are very much about himself (you'll understand if you read the books) and the books do a great job at gradually introducing all the factions and many of the major antagonists from the point of view of someone who is very human (Astartes, Inquisitors and such are often a bit harder to grasp if you aren't yet familiar with why they are the way the are). The books also manage to be actually really funny too.
someone else suggested a book about him too.
@@HannaHsOverInvested The Eisenhorn trilogy is an amazing character piece. The Gaunt's Ghosts books are too, if you feel like reading a couple thousand pages. All by Dan Abnett.
If you like characters, would recommend Wolf Lord Rho's channel. He break's down passages from some of the many 40k books and really shows how awesome some of the characters are within the Universe. Somewhere to start, anything with the Primarch's is a good jumping off point imo.
"Someone painted all of these?"
*Looks at the pile of shame*
Yeah ... about that.
Wolf Lord Rho's channel is all excerpts from the fiction. So, you want characters and heroes, go there for a taste. Not trailers, but more what you are talking about.
Look up Gregor Eisenhorn. He is an inquisitor and he's bad ass. His stories get into the three branches of the inquisition.
Dan Abbnet is a badass author
Only book series I've read cover to cover more than once
And he's getting his own TV series, so a lot of people seem to think he's relatable enough to appeal to a larger audience.
@@fisherkeltath God that hype. Was always the only warhammer 40k book i read that I was like "They could maybe make a show out of this"
The need to do a Horus Hersey TV Series. That would be awesome.
Hats off to you even trying to wade into the lore of 40k. I once had a friend ask me to give him an “overview” of it one night while drinking.... it took about 3 hours
Hannah: Who are the good guys
Me: **thinks Salamanders and Lamenters**
The Space Wolves - for telling the inquisition to get fucked after Armageddon.
"So far...there's no protagonist" -Yeah, don;t hold your breath love. It's 40k
Tyranids are the protagonist. With all this warring and hatred and everything they just a bunch of bugs who want to eat everything and bring this chaos fueled galaxy back to the basica
Thank you for trying to understand this, it’s heavy but fun
those words "Adeptus Terra" "Adeptus ministorum" Etc is High gothic, the language of the Imperium. Its loosly based on Greek and Latin. This language is used in part because it is thought that it is a language The Emperor Devised based on the languages he spoke most before his ascention to the throne of the Imperium.
"So it's like the Fungal Drive?"
No, more like the Event Horizon.
The Inquisition is totally good at protecting humanity...when they're not exterminating planets full of people lol
Inquisitor: (taps head) "Can't have a planet corrupted by Chaos, if there is no planet to be corrupted."
(Not a hard core fan of 40K, mostly casual so if this is wrong, my bad.)
@@bubbles784 Admittedly I'm hardly an encyclopedia of knowledge about the game, but that's not far off
TLDR: Ah-star-tease, Dan Abnett is a decent writer, this is a collaborative effort to create a living fictional universe now spanning three real-life generations... the lore is deep and broad as is the ocean blue.
Wow, lot's of good stuff here, glad to see the 40k community welcoming in a newcomer 😊, I'll try to help with pronunciation & brief descriptions whenever possible to help keep the Grognards & Neck Beards at bay (of which, I am, lol).
Two things, first up:
1. Ah-star-tease, no worries, just call them space marines, (Fun Fact: Astarte is the Greek name for Astoreth, a Phoenician version of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar who was also known as Aphrodite Areia or Aphrodite Encheios in Sparta and was a significantly more kick ass version of the goddess of amorous love and beauty as to the Spartans she was also a goddess of war... this has absolutely nothing to do with anything, I just thought it was an interesting aside)
2. If you're looking for protagonists then I would like to recommend the work of Dan Abnett, specifically his novels; Titanicus (covering the cyborg, technology worshiping, mechanicus ) which is a gripping tale of love, loss, and duty. Riders of the Dead, this is a Warhammer Fantasy novel, however I'm floating it to you as you mentioned an interest in class & social questions, of which this book asks while following the lives of two knights, one born of wealth & privilege and the other a low born hedge knight with no lands or titles, I honestly don't want to ruin any of it for you aside from the fact that Abnett's subtlety with regard to magic and supernatural elements definitely kept me engaged. Finally, Gaunt's Ghosts is a decent slice of life look at what it means to live in the universe of Warhammer 40k, be warned though, this is a long series which follows the life and times of a ragtag group of survivors of what I can only describe as a galactic scale equivalent of the Trolley Problem. Could you choose between killing an entire world, with billions of people, their unique cultures along with the certain extinction of every other creature on it if doing so meant you would be not saving, but rather allowing a fighting chance for, dozens of other worlds just like it?Philosophically, I find it interesting and, humorously, Abnett also gives an interesting glimpse into military culture, its ups, its downs, and a straight faced look at the myriad of idiosyncrasies of the common soldier. (Also, from first hand personal experience, his little joke about the "81st Skyborne," an obvious stand in for America's 82nd Airborne, was, and likely still is, absolutely spot on.
To rebut, or rather, to answer as many of your questions as I am able😊 (to which I can only say I'll do the best I can 🤗).
On therapy, religion, and the warp... you're on the right path with Discovery, but instead check out Event Horizon, a sci-fi horror movie staring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neil for a more accurate portrayal of warp travel in 40k. As to therapy, well... might be safer with a bullet as bad thoughts, self doubt, or heretical questioning of the State Religion could literally result in demonic possession or worse... like a demon tricking you into opening a portal to let it, and all of its friends, over for lunch... Or many other terrible ends.
Which brings us to the State Religion and inquisitors. The State Religion is the cult of the Emperor who, while paralyzed in stasis, is also the most powerful psychic (psyker) in all of humanity and the collective prayers and intangible faith of his trillions of followers, each granting him a tiny psychic boost, is basically all that stands between the average person and the aforementioned hordes of hungry demons looking to cross over and eat us all for lunch. This is why the Inquisition is so important, as they provide a sort of investigatory branch of the State who can cross any borders, break any laws, and is outside the authority of any government leadership... because anyone can fall prey to Chaos. I find that it's an interesting philosophical problem of how far is too far when acting in service of The Greater Good, or Stark Utilitarianism in action, all of which is terrifyingly well thought out and has been fodder for a lot of long, introspective conversations with friends and fellow fans over the years.
As to the what of 40k, while yes, this is a board game, it would be more accurate to describe 40k as a sort of role-playing game akin to dungeons & dragons or its ilk. However, rather than taking the reigns of a single character, the players take command of a military units in battle and their story unfolds in the form of combat. In this the individual identity of each trooper fades into the the unit, or group, identity, as such it is less about the clash of individuals and more about the greater struggle of warring nations, species, races, and ideologies. Granted, it's all still just pieces on a board.
On cost of entrance and decoration, yes... individual pieces can have absurd prices. That being said, those crazy expensive models are custom made by incredibly skilled artists and are very large and supremely detailed enough to be featured in a major film as props. Additionally, these miniatures are released in limited runs so they tend to be collectors pieces. All told though, all you really need to get started is the core book, a unit you think is neat, some dice, and a willingness to learn and have fun.
Eventually, you'll get around to painting your minis, leading some to give each one its own personality through artistic expression, it can be very meditative.
On working out and having a muscle that's spasming or achy... Indeed. The best is after doing intense core training and the tiny muscles next to the spine, between the shoulders won't stop shaking. It doesn't hurt, they just won't stop spazzing, lol, so annoying 😅
Again, as a base point of entry, there are starter sets which often price around $50-$60 (+/-).
*on game lines... yep, these are just the 40k tabletop game lines, and not even all of them at that! There are also more traditional role-playing games which allow the players to take control of a individual characters and weave stories of adventure as they explore the 40k universe. There have been almost as many video games thought the years as well! From tremendously successful real-time strategy games like the Dawn of War series or shooters like Firewarrior and action games like 2017's Space Marine, and even a chess-like game called Regicide! Truly, something for everyone.
On factions, every playable species (race) has innumerous factions, and subfactions, created over the last forty years of the games existence. This guy was delivering the factions of humanity pretty fast, in the army we used to call info dumps like this, "drinking from a fire hose," it can be both daunting and discouraging to newcomers, I commend you for sticking with it, he rattled off more in-depth information in a minute than some third year chemistry classes cover in an hour😐! Simply put, you've got a lot of options if you don't like marines, lol😊
Noticed your eyes perk at the brief mention of government within the game, I know he said totalitarian, which is true, but the reality is so much more interesting and complex than that little bit implies! The Empire of Man could best be described as a neofeudalistic socialist theocracy in that the population of planets form the serf or proletariat class who toil under the yoke of State run mega corporations which are in turn controlled by feudal lords and ladies. It is heavily inspired by Stalin's reign over the Soviet Union, with a specific focus on the military mindset of WWII. Additionally, each planetary governor, or Lord, is allowed to run their planet as they see fit and, so long as they pay their taxes and worship the Cult of the Emperor, they're largely left alone to govern as they see fit. This, of course, leads to some planets (typically agrarian ones) being mostly tranquil low population rural and egalitarian farming communities on a planet wide scale while others are cramped, claustrophobic human hives controlled by wealthy despots who care little for the well-being of their subjects so long as they keep working. Effectively corporate slave colonies similar to those of today's major corporations (imagine Apple's iPhone Foxconn facility on a planetary scale... 😢), and all of this is only the barest look at one faction of one species! So many intelligent people have poured lifetimes of focused research and imaginative storytelling into every facet of this little world.
Anyways, I've got to off to sleep, but, I would absolutely love to go down the rabbit hole, or discuss the relation of these fictional societies to our real life ones.
"Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~Aristotle
Seeing your frustration at the idea that humanity can't unite to stop a common threat. I offer that if a threat is juuust abstract and distant enough I think we aren't very capable of uniting. I think the last year has illustrated how poor we are at dealing with existential and indirect threats to life on even earth...
Pretty sure therapy is the word engraved on a bolter round of a commissar in this franchise.
"Yo! She looks cool!"
That's Celestine. And she's just as weird, and crazy, as she is badass.
what I like about your videos: when you don't understand something, you rewind over and over until you grasp what's being said. it shows to me that you truely invest yourself in a topic and actually try to understand it, where as other UA-camrs just giggle/smile and continue without giving much of a thought about it.
a very respectable trait of yours!
You see, in warhammer settings there isn't protagonists, there isn't good guys, only bad and worst and only you decides who will be protagonists for you !
This is the best explanation of warhammer in one sentence
What about SLY MARBO
By the way...you're an author. There are a ton of novels out there based on 40 K. Sum it up in one word...Grimdark. Ultimate Grimdark. (And that female image with the wings you noted at about 13:40 in your vid...That's Saint Celestine, probably the top "Saint" (there are dozens of them) in the Sisters of Battle in that she was named a Saint while still...sort of alive. (A fairly low level Sister who everyone thought was dead...and then came back with the wings and a whole ton of...well...charisma...and general bad ass power. Eventually she died again while performing a miraculous victory over a Chaos really bad guy.)
why is "there is only war but imagine if there was also therapy" such a great line thank you
If you want something with characters, check out Helsreach, which is a fan animation based on a 40k audiobook