We got to it in the end another piece of the Gathering Storm puzzle. I was thinking maybe I should cut the pieces of the Gathering storm that I have fragmented across videos and pull them together into one eventually. I think this will be an ongoing series as are all the best/worst so you can expect more catastrophic endings, as I said in the first video there are so many to choose from. Lastly Dark Origins Pt 3 will be a little delayed, apologies on that but its taking me some time to finalise it might still be a while on that one.
Luetin09 Really awesome video once again. But I would like to pitch an idea. How about a series where you cover individual wars in Warhammer 40k? The beginning/pilot episode could be the second war on Armageddon. You go through the events of the battle as they occur, perhaps offering lore on what important individual characters were doing in this conflict who were involved (in this case Gazgull for example). Others could include the 13th black crusade, or maybe the Plague Wars (Ultramarines Vs Death Guard).
Inquisition: We'd like to see your Chapter's records. Dark Angels: We already sent them. Inquisition: There seems to be an error in the administratum - we only received a single page of paper and the only thing written on it was "Did loyal things". Dark Angels: Yes, And? Inquisition: We were hoping for a more complete account. Dark Angels: Yeah...uh...we did have one for you but the uh...Tyrannids ate it. Inquisition: The Tyrannid arcs haven't been written yet. Dark Angels: Oh, right, we meant heretics. Heretics ate it. Inquisition: *Launches crusade against the previously unknown report eating heretics*
Dark Angels finally fax a second page to the Inquisition. Inquisitor One: "Well, what does it say?" Inquisitor Two: _"R... E... P... E...N...T?"_ Inquisitor One: "RepeN-?" *ASMODAI SMASHSES THROUGH THE WALL*
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It is cool but tactical somewhat stupid. In no way was it worth for Abbadon to drop a Blackstone Fortress on the Planet. Expecially Because it is Revealed that with the Distraction he was able to manouver many of his forces around the Planet. The fact that Grazgul still had the best Plan to Invade a Planet is somewhat telling. You take the Astroids and you put them on the Planet. Its not that Hard when you have Void Superiority.
@@MetalFire1998 Well that generally describes most tactical plans in 40k, Stupid. They did describe Abaddon as furious, as usual, he wasn't thinking straight. The outcome was still an overwhelming success for chaos.
@@ArchieZeroOne Yeah cause the writers wanted Chaos to succeed. It's a reacuring thing with GW that Chaos overlords have the thickest of plotarmor (archeon lmao). Also no, normaly in the 40k universe tactics are very important. Look at any horus heresy books and tell me that again. Besides it is somewhat ironic that grazgul had could Figure out a way to breach the immense defences of a fortress world but abbadon couldn't.
For all the talk of Imperial Gaurd "Meat shields" When Astartes, Sororitas, Mechsnicus, Inquisitors and a Living saint are broken and retreating... Who stepped up and held the line? The Cadian 8th When the mightiest forces of mankind fail, the Gaurdsman will still fight on. Guardsman, the hand and will of the Emperor.
To be fair, when I got interested into WH40K for the first time in my life. I was wondering why many people liked the Imperial Guard if they are nothing more than regular human soldiers, while all other races look cooler (that was my stupid opinion back then). But after learning of their lore and achievements against impossible odds they became one of my favorite factions. The true underdogs of the WH40K Universe.
It broke my heart upon hearing humanity's "defenders" and "champions" fleeing but a new flame sparked to life in me when I heard it was the guard who held the line and gave them that chance...let that sink in mere mortals men and women no more human than you or I held the line against unspeakable daemon terrors who threatened to torture their souls for eons to come just so that the demi gods could flee
@@londonghoulchannel6409 Chaos literally had to break the planet to make the Cadians even marginally give up and flee, Cadia stands, Chaos Sympathizer.
I like to imagine that Cadia exists as a planet in the Warp now, and is the site of an eternal battle between the unending forces of Chaos, and the unbreakable will of the Cadian guard. There's no way that defiance that overwhelming and powerful didn't leave its indelible mark on the Immaterium. The Cadian guard fights on, and will fight for all eternity, never tiring, never resting, but never breaking. A living monument to Cadia's defiance.
"Cadia stands." Not a fact, nor a promise. A warning: "Ye who enter, beware. Ye who do not fear death, fear." Khorne would be pleased, were those shedding unending carnage, upon the raging forces of the gods of ruin, fighting for Khorne, for instead, those serving the forces of the Cadian Guard, are of a different god. Born of darkness, to serve the light. As darkness needs light, light needs darkness. And a galaxy of darkness unending, light thrives. For in the 41st millennium, there is only darkness. Yet mankind stands. For the Emperor protects.
I get the feeling the Legion of the Damned will be getting some flashlight-wielding buddies some time soon. Breaking the planet didn't stop them, you think a piddling little thing like death is going to get in the way of Cadia?
The Fall of Cadia is proof that the Imperial Guard is more interesting than space marines. It's also proof that all of the factions are much cooler working together than in isolation.
31:04 "The Legion of the damned vanished without anyone knowing how or why it occurred" So what you are saying is, the player running that side of the campaign had to go home. Or he got transferred to another university.. the the other players kicked him out. Got'cha
@@Archon3960 There is a theory somewhere stating that st. celestine wasn't quite banished because she still had some what could say 'material remains' in her which explains why she wasn't banished. And I believe it was also mentioned that after the battle for Cadia St. Celestine was wounded to an extent(can't say to what for sure). 40k Theories did a video on this theory but I can't recall what it was called
Cadia: an Imperial defeat that cost Abaddon: -More than half his cumulative fleets -His most experienced ground commanders -His ONLY remaining Blackstone Fortress Even when he wins, Abaddon manages to fail.
This is an inverted phenomenon of his apparent fails, wherein the imperium is hurt deeply and abbadon gains or achieves something of note even though he's banished back to the eye
Sometimes? They do this all the damn time - they do almost all the fighting all over the Imperium and beyond and they virtually never get credit for it, ESPECIALLY not when there's a space marine anywhere near to steal it by being there.
36:26. The Guard are nothing more than mankind itself. Nothing is more badass then those soldier who are nothing more than a human fighting against the tides of Chaos, Xenos, and a Galaxy at whole that wants us dead. We fight not only for the Imperium. Not only for the Emperor. But for Humanity itself.
Ordinary men and women of the imperium are the true heroes. Standing against the darkness, horrors of the warp, traitors and literal gods of the immaterium....armed only with faith and lasguns. Cadian troops will be forever remembered as the Emperor's finest and true avatars of unbreakable human spirit.
There is no glory for Human Chattel!! Weaklings, the lot of them. The greatest privilege of Imperials is to die underneath our boots! DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR!!
@@tha8baller I believe Cadia was an exception because its literally on the doorstep of the Eye. Everyone on that planet knew what warp fuckery they were dealing with. Its not like the first war for Armageddon where the Grey Knights turned up so they had to purge the guardsmen. Thought not because they saw the Knight, no, they just assume they are normal space marines. What a lot of people get wrong is that because of the small number of Grey Knights and threat they face means they generally only go to the direst daemonic threats, the kind which are the greatest threat of corruption of mortals. Its a shitty equation and unfortunately necessary :(
The War File was my favorite. Documentaries nowadays just pale in comparison. Even with more well studied historians weighing in, it's so watered and dumbed down. Biased opinions over facts and documented details. Luetin's attention to detail just kinda reminds me of those older documentaries, and reminds me of the British narrators like Richard Greenwood.
Random coward: “This battle is lost! We need to retreat!” Admiral Catallia: “Commissar! Do your duty!” Commissar: “As the emperor wills!” BANG! That’s how you handle potential defeats kids
play Dawn of War 2, choose the Guard, choose Lord Commissar. Use "Inspire Courage" on a Guardsmen Squad -> Lord Commissar shoots a random dude in the head. "Glory to the first man that dies!" commissar pls
The War. The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. Where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with greater strength. They made Choas fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it; They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones, and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself, never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage. Their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns, when they ran out guns they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes in the end. They did this for 13 black crusades - they never ran out of courage but in the end, they ran out of time. Lando Molari speaking on the fall of Cadia
So basically in the Battle of Cadia, the guardsmen who were the simple, regular, un-enhanced humans we're the ones fighting so that the astartes who are supposed to feel no fear could retreat.
That was their home, the only place they knew. It would be a great shame if the Imperial Fists were wiped out on cadia as well as saints and other people that were more important.
@@Johnpinckney98 You keep using terms like "more important" to salve your hurt ego over the FACT that a bunch of Space Marines fucked off and RAN when a world needed defence from the Emperor's enemies. All the guardsmen remained though, and they did the fighting, as always. This is the part about SM fan-boys that get's me - you will make any excuse, any you can think of, to smooth over the fact that 98% of all fighting the Imperium does, it does with the Guard. All other Imperial forces combined account for the last 2 percentages. And in spite of this, the SM's get all the love, all the attention, all the hype, all the glorious stories. They are VERY good at stealing the credit and the honours from the Guard when they fight alongside them in any battle.
@@Terenin kind of like history in reality then. Seriously, guardsmen are so numerous, of course they do most of the fight! You know that even the British made their elite troops retreat at Waterloo before seeing a chance of victory? Elite troops are few, costly, and hard to train, of course you make them escape first. By the way, what world in need of defence,? The planet was already doomed, even without the demons assault
Your work on the fall of Cadia is nothing short of a masterpiece. Before this I didn't know the details of what exactly transpired, but now I do. Can you do a video on the origins of the Sisters of Battle and Saint Celestine?
A video on the Sisters of Battle and Saint Celestine would be great! I have heard about them a lot, but, don't know much about them! Like earlier, I had a question:' WTF are the Black Crusades I've been hearing so much about as of late? Saw the previous two vids, 'Oh!' Starting to finally get it! Also, is there a vid on Gillerman somewhere? I just know a little bit about him. How did he return in the first place? I'm still a bit new to 40k., and a few vids back, this guy pops up, and now leads the Imperium! I know he got A LOT of push-back at first!
Man!!! This Is by far the best and most intoxicatingly addictive Fantasy World ever created! The Lore itself and dedication to that Lore by the fans is nothing short of EPIC! I don’t even play the game but I’ve spent Hours upon Hours listening to the stories! I love how the fans basically make the story and continue it all these years. WH 40k is the absolute and undefeated champion of Sci-Fi. The amount of material is just mind boggling! And anyone who thinks HALO, STAR WARS, START TREK, STAR CRAFT OR ANY OTHER UNIVERSE COULD STAND AGAINST 40k....... Put down the meth pipe! Even if they combined all those worlds together, they would still be under equipped and out classed in every facet of warfare. It’s like putting Nikes on a Cheetah LOL 40K 4Life!
I agree. If you throw any Space Marine chapter or army like the Blood Angels or Cadians into Star Wars and things would have played out much differently. You can't take over ten thousand years of experience and hope for anything other than victory against most of these other settings. Hell, if you say that the Force is the Warp in Star Wars, the Eldar alone would be a game changer. That being said, I would much rather live in the Star Wars universe over 40k.
When you started speaking at 46:32 I got goosebumps. If we are to be sent to hell by monsters we shall take the monsters with us. Mankind may never have victory against chaos, but chaos will never have complete victory against mankind. The Imperium is a cripple growing ever closer to death, but the species of humanity through it's courage and tenacity cannot die.
Your narration of the Battle of Cadia is probably your magnum opus, I dare say The chills are intense and I felt such great respect for fictional men and women of the brave Cadian Guardsmen May their souls be with the Emperor
While in still watching the Battle of Cadia section, I just want to say that I love the animated style of portions of this section. I've gotten so used to the static pictures that drift but seeing different parts move and act independently of the background was a great treat with your narration 😁👍
You should do a series that foucuses on the Geopolitical landscape of the Milky Way. I’ve always had a hard time In warhammer 40k trying to figure out which faction was where and who owned what. Having a somewhat of a sense of direction would really help with world building.
The narration is 10/10 especially the exodus of Cadia. You feel the terror as the remaining guard fight for survival as they escape. Feels like the sinking of the titanic 😭
Song starting at 41:49 is From the Ashes by Johannes Bornlöf and the ending song after it is called And the Sky shall unfold 2 by Johannes Bornlöf as well.
“Sometimes you can do everything right and still fail. That is not weakness, it is life.” Captain Picard of the Starship Enterprise. I think that’s a pretty solid description of what happened at Cadia.
"And all could be heard was laughter of the Dark Gods" Damn Luetin, you know how to create proper dramatic atmosphere. Drawing W40k while listening to you is an true experience.
I just want to say that your videos have catapulted me from knowing nothing of 40k to after a couple of months finding that it is my favorite piece of fiction and something ive wanted to exist for sometime. I only wish I would have given warhammer 40k more time in highschool. Thank you so much
Im always confused by the history of military in 40K, if just because sometimes it seems like a few thousand marines clean house on a planet, and other times millions of the same chapter get caught in a conflict. Sometimes it seems like a marine can take on a million, sometimes it takes a million space marines.
I'd say that its mostly due to the different writers' interpretations when it comes to the space marines and who they're fighting. The most obvious example of that would be C.S Goto and how incompetent he considers the eldar to be (For instance, the Fire Dragons, the dedicated anti-vehicular/fortification infantry of the Eldar being unable to get through a hastily made barricade with their meltagun, or the Eldar's vehicles being able to be uncapacitated by 3 kids with rocks.) This contradicting with, for instance, the very codices of the faction, where fire dragons can easily get rid of even Baneblades in seconds should they be able to reach it. now if you replace the eldar with the space marines, you can get the same result, except that instead of having a bias toward the Imperium and against the Aeldari, you get a bias for (most of the time) Chaos and against the Astartes, which causes these discrepancies, at least in my opinion.
As others have pointed out, it's really up to the writers as to how crazy the marines are, and what they're fighting against. 'Normal' enemies, ones that are on par with Guardsmen, a Marine should be able to chew through no problem. The problem is that rarely is their opponents just 'normal' enemies, and the Marines are severely hampered by their numbers.
There are one thousand space marines roughly in a full strength chapter. One chapter can rule multiple systems. With their ships and weapons of mass destruction (Cyclonic Torpedoes) they could easily destroy multiple planets. The ships are way more deadly then the actual marines, but boarding actions counter balance this because some vessels are undermanned because of how large they are. An individual space marine w/ bolter and power armor is designed specifically to run over chaff regular humans to a near unlimited number which is well established regardless of the author. If you're confused all you have to know is that space marines aren't even remotely close to the strongest soldiers in 40k they just one up regular humans. Basic* humans are not strong enough to carry bolters (.75 cal explosive shell) which power armor can tank multiple hits from. As soon as an enemy can one up the power armor the gig is up. Every enemy in 40k has an answer to power armor in some form or shape, but space marine vs. regular humans doesn't show you how vulnerable SM really are.
@@Invictus1293 To make things worse, regular Humans CAN carry plasma and melta weapons, these are both top-quality anti armor picks. Bolt-rounds are primarily designed to pulp 'lightly' armored enemies, a high-explosive grenade is not exactly the best armor-piercing weapon around. Fact of the matter is, if you took a few squads of marines - any marines - and put them up against a whole regiment of Guardsmen in an open field battle, the regiment would win with minor (a few hundred at worst) losses. Authors like to forget shit like this so will often smooth over inconvenient shit like just how many soldiers a regiment has and what gear he carry. A single marine might kill a single human easily enough, but math says the marine simply don't have the ammo to kill them all, not to mention pesky things like return fire in the form of artillery strikes, AP weapons, plasma guns, rocket launchers, armored vehicles like a leman russ (who's cannon is powerful enough to kill a marine in a single shot to the chest) etc. I'm often rolling my eyes at tales of marines facing against unimaginative odds written to sound absolutely heroic and somehow winning every time. get's boring after a while.
Inquisitorial Llama you miss understand. It is not tears of sorrow I weep but tears of pride in the Valor, faith and unassailable courage of the Caidian 8th. My own fleet has had all of their ships renamed in honor of their sacrifice. My own flag ship I rechristened “Caidia’s Rage.”
Hats off Luetin. I ve always been a big fan of your vids but the fall of Cadia always get me and was perfectly narrated, you gave more than I expected and goose bumps at every turn. Amazing work and big thanks dude. Now I point my cat with my finger and tell her CADIA STANDS! like if she was Abaddon whenever she asks for food.
Y'know... from material I'd watched previously, the Cadian downfall seemed like a Chaos steamroll and/or clusterfuck. You put it all WAY more into perspective. It was an epic battle worthy of the mightiest stories. Thank you, Luetin.
my 2 favorite moments. 1) Cadian #1: look the Eye of Terror is closing! Cadian #2: A-ha! Suck it up chaos space turds, suck it up! Cadian#3: emmm, guys, Sororitas' Saint was also channeling energy from the Warp, we no longer have moral boost! (A group of Chaos Space Marines approaching the Cadians) Aspiring Champion: how did you put it, worm? Suck it up? Well, here you go. Cadian#2: what could be worse than that? 2) Abaddon: ok guys, here is the plan. I am going like Darth Vader from Rogue One, and you will cover me off-screen, ok? Chaos Terminators: yes-yes, sure. As you say.
Or anything by Dan Abnett. That man is the best living military science fiction author on the planet (and I'm including Card and Haldeman on that list)
You got to hand it to the Guard, few things in 40k are more inspiring than the 'named characters' taking off to safety in an aircraft, only to hear the nameless soldiers below - standing their ground on a doomed world - unloading their rifles against a literally endless horde of horrific daemons; and the only cries from those men and women before their inevitable death being not of horror or mercy, but a defiant: "Cadia stands!"
This makes me a bad person but i was more bummed by the destruction of Cadia a fictional planet than i was about most of the major disasters that have occurred on earth...I am not even hard core 40k. I sold my IG models 2 years back just read the occasional book and watch your videos. Which are the best 40k vids on youtube btw.
While cadia stands as the second worst defeat the imperium has ever taken (second only to the great heresy) it stands as the greatest reminder of the imperium's strength and faith.
1:23 WHY THE HELL are those Skitarii trying to wrestle down a friggin Astartes! I feel real sorry for the dude who got kneed, the space marine broke his lenses and respirator :(
I'm not finished yet but this telling of the Fall of Cadia is beyond amazing. I know what happens but you made it so immersive that I still think we can still win this.
I truly love your Cadia narration Luetin, especially after watching Templin Institute description of Fall of Cadia. You both tell the same story but from a very different point of view. Institute story is somewhat heartwarming and shows Cadians martyrdom and defiance as a brave last stand that inspires Imperial citizens. Yours however tells a dark story of last surviving defenders dying in their duty. No heroism, only death and chaos.
In the STC video you mentioned a dark age of technology ship popped out the warp , the imperium tortured the crew and the ship AI left disgusted. This incident feels like a massive loss.
Hi. I am 29 y. o and when i was 16 i used to collect warhammer 40k figures. I remeber picking the eldar race bc i liked the aesthetic eventhough i knew nothing about the lore. Unfortunately it turned out to be an expensive hobby for a 16 y. o that made no money of their own, so i slowly stopped collecting and painting all together. More than a decade later i found your channel and i must thank you for reigniting my love for the material while also educating and expanding my knowlege of the vast world of W. H 40000k. Thank you for immersing me, subed and liked ✌️
very few things draw me to tears when it comes to fictional stories, but for some reason the fall of Cadia is one of those few stories that never fails to make a tear come to my eye. This is coming from someone who is an absolute chaos lover who has been trying for Abaddon the despoiler to get something for decades. Despite the ham-fisted ending that we all know Games Workshop through in just to make sure that chaos finally had a victory, the storytelling behind it was absolutely beautiful and more than made up for it.
22:42 Gonna have to disagree here, and disagree strongly at that. "The planet broke before the guard did" is not just superficial propaganda or a limp-wristed rebuttal to defeat; it's an opportunity for the narrative of 40k to uplift and extol the virtues of the unaugmented human, the humble guardsman. In a setting that is so dominated by transhuman demigods and heinously powerful alien races, there are precious few places for a normal human to truly shine. "The planet broke before the guard did" is there to remind us that genecraft and advanced weaponry were never the things that made humanity great. The spirit of mankind - which carries on in a hopelessly unwinnable situation - is firmly and solely responsible for that.
The guard were less important and left behind so had no choice but to break with the planet would be darker narrative. And also made heroic by propaganda.
Your narration on The fall of Cadia had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. You make things way more interesting than they are. Thanku Also amazing use of Battlefleet gothic armada 2 fall of cadia cutscenes
Holy shit! the Cadia parts were just amazing, such a brilliant narration I was enthralled for the whole time at that point. You make fantastic videos and I really hope you keep up the great work! CADIA STANDS!
god damn.. I had to pause my game so I could listen and watch the story of cadia fully.. bloody amazing.. Luetin, you are a master at what you do, rivaling even the might of the imperial guardsmen.. the bloody planet broke before they did.. amazing..
The defense of Cadia gives me the chills. Cadians are so heroic. They're one of the few regiments we can consider to be truly elite among regular soldiers
I enjoy the usage of “And The Sky Shall Unfold” as the intro music. The second movement is my favorite part of that composition. Also great work as always!
I’m just imagining transports leaving the surface full of Space Marines and Sisters watching as the ring of the Cadian 8th getting smaller and smaller. Then a chant starts among the guardsmen, “CADIA STANDS, CADIA STANDS, CADIA STANDS!” Then a Marine puts a fist to his breast in reverence to the sacrifice of the 8th. He whispers “ die well brothers and sisters, your sacrifice will not be in vain”. A tear runs down the cheek of a Sister of Battle. CADIA STANDS!!!!
I find the fall of mars in the Horus heresy very depressing and devastating. Not only that it teared the planet apart. It destroyed so much crucial tech and knowledge.
We got to it in the end another piece of the Gathering Storm puzzle. I was thinking maybe I should cut the pieces of the Gathering storm that I have fragmented across videos and pull them together into one eventually. I think this will be an ongoing series as are all the best/worst so you can expect more catastrophic endings, as I said in the first video there are so many to choose from. Lastly Dark Origins Pt 3 will be a little delayed, apologies on that but its taking me some time to finalise it might still be a while on that one.
Luetin09 Do more types of planets please.
Luetin09 Really awesome video once again. But I would like to pitch an idea. How about a series where you cover individual wars in Warhammer 40k? The beginning/pilot episode could be the second war on Armageddon. You go through the events of the battle as they occur, perhaps offering lore on what important individual characters were doing in this conflict who were involved (in this case Gazgull for example). Others could include the 13th black crusade, or maybe the Plague Wars (Ultramarines Vs Death Guard).
Could you try to make this eventual Gathering Storm video less rushed than the original ? xD
Luetin09 could you do a series on the 13th Black Crusade, Fall of Cadia, The Resurrection of Gulliaman and the Terran Crusade?
Cadia... the greatest story of 40k? would be a film like no other, is there any rating beyond NC/17?
Inquisition: We'd like to see your Chapter's records.
Dark Angels: We already sent them.
Inquisition: There seems to be an error in the administratum - we only received a single page of paper and the only thing written on it was "Did loyal things".
Dark Angels: Yes, And?
Inquisition: We were hoping for a more complete account.
Dark Angels: Yeah...uh...we did have one for you but the uh...Tyrannids ate it.
Inquisition: The Tyrannid arcs haven't been written yet.
Dark Angels: Oh, right, we meant heretics. Heretics ate it.
Inquisition: *Launches crusade against the previously unknown report eating heretics*
They would probably do something like that. Stupid inquisitors.
Yeah pretty much
spacewolves ate my homework *scuttles away*
Dark Angels finally fax a second page to the Inquisition.
Inquisitor One: "Well, what does it say?"
Inquisitor Two: _"R... E... P... E...N...T?"_
Inquisitor One: "RepeN-?"
*ASMODAI SMASHSES THROUGH THE WALL*
did loyal things xD
"Where is Armageddon?" *Points to map* "Where is Cadia?" *points to his heart and sheds a tear*
244 likes, but THAT was the only thing anyone had to say about what you wrote? Shameful display by “fans”? - $4.28. Your talent for succinctly stating the immensity of pride, honor, and emotion? Priceless. (Sorry to steal from an advertisement). Someone should have said to you- “nicely written “. So- “Nicely written. Impressive.
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Man........i *felt* that one
CADIA STANDS WHILE WE STAND. CADIA IS WITH US. never forget that and Cadia will reborn
THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID!
GW: "here's a campaing book explaining the siege of Cadia"
fans: "it sucks"
Luetin: * narrates the siege of Cadia *
fans: "perfection!"
He pulled a bit from battle fleet gothic
Because Luetin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GW
It is cool but tactical somewhat stupid. In no way was it worth for Abbadon to drop a Blackstone Fortress on the Planet. Expecially Because it is Revealed that with the Distraction he was able to manouver many of his forces around the Planet.
The fact that Grazgul still had the best Plan to Invade a Planet is somewhat telling.
You take the Astroids and you put them on the Planet. Its not that Hard when you have Void Superiority.
@@MetalFire1998 Well that generally describes most tactical plans in 40k, Stupid. They did describe Abaddon as furious, as usual, he wasn't thinking straight. The outcome was still an overwhelming success for chaos.
@@ArchieZeroOne Yeah cause the writers wanted Chaos to succeed. It's a reacuring thing with GW that Chaos overlords have the thickest of plotarmor (archeon lmao). Also no, normaly in the 40k universe tactics are very important. Look at any horus heresy books and tell me that again. Besides it is somewhat ironic that grazgul had could Figure out a way to breach the immense defences of a fortress world but abbadon couldn't.
For all the talk of Imperial Gaurd "Meat shields"
When Astartes, Sororitas, Mechsnicus, Inquisitors and a Living saint are broken and retreating...
Who stepped up and held the line?
The Cadian 8th
When the mightiest forces of mankind fail, the Gaurdsman will still fight on.
Guardsman, the hand and will of the Emperor.
The men and women Are living Saints!!!
gAUrDsMaN
So they were literal Meat Shields? Neato.
To be fair, when I got interested into WH40K for the first time in my life. I was wondering why many people liked the Imperial Guard if they are nothing more than regular human soldiers, while all other races look cooler (that was my stupid opinion back then).
But after learning of their lore and achievements against impossible odds they became one of my favorite factions. The true underdogs of the WH40K Universe.
It broke my heart upon hearing humanity's "defenders" and "champions" fleeing but a new flame sparked to life in me when I heard it was the guard who held the line and gave them that chance...let that sink in mere mortals men and women no more human than you or I held the line against unspeakable daemon terrors who threatened to torture their souls for eons to come just so that the demi gods could flee
I'm not gonna lie, the story of cadia gets me everytime
REMEMBER THE ALAM- erm, I mean CADIA STANDS
Death to the false emperor, cadia is nothing but dust in the face of the truth
Funny and ironic are weapons will bring the sky down upon you.....as that's what happened to them, foolish imperium with a corpse god
LAD same
@@londonghoulchannel6409 Chaos literally had to break the planet to make the Cadians even marginally give up and flee, Cadia stands, Chaos Sympathizer.
Trazyn is such a kind, generous soul. I mean, he willingly sacrificed one of this collectibles just to help some of the mortals. What a guy!
Give a collectible, take a collectible
Gotta catch 'em all!
@@leeboy26 Trazyn Ketchum
he like a number of the eldar are willing to put aside differences to ensure their collections are unharmed, and that life in the milky way continues
@@bluestormpony when you put it that way, the Milky Way community seems a lot like a squabbling family: only they are allowed to kill each other!
Should Dawn of War 3 be on this list?
OH SNAP
Absolutely Yes
Yes, but actually yes
We dont talk about that! Report to mind wipe session !
The Inquisition.
Gottem
I like to imagine that Cadia exists as a planet in the Warp now, and is the site of an eternal battle between the unending forces of Chaos, and the unbreakable will of the Cadian guard. There's no way that defiance that overwhelming and powerful didn't leave its indelible mark on the Immaterium. The Cadian guard fights on, and will fight for all eternity, never tiring, never resting, but never breaking. A living monument to Cadia's defiance.
Sounds worse than Slaanesh's torture orgies.
Blood for the blood god...
"Cadia stands."
Not a fact, nor a promise.
A warning: "Ye who enter, beware. Ye who do not fear death, fear."
Khorne would be pleased, were those shedding unending carnage, upon the raging forces of the gods of ruin, fighting for Khorne, for instead, those serving the forces of the Cadian Guard, are of a different god.
Born of darkness, to serve the light.
As darkness needs light, light needs darkness.
And a galaxy of darkness unending, light thrives.
For in the 41st millennium, there is only darkness.
Yet mankind stands.
For the Emperor protects.
36:26
I get the feeling the Legion of the Damned will be getting some flashlight-wielding buddies some time soon. Breaking the planet didn't stop them, you think a piddling little thing like death is going to get in the way of Cadia?
The Fall of Cadia is proof that the Imperial Guard is more interesting than space marines. It's also proof that all of the factions are much cooler working together than in isolation.
Depends which chapter of space marines we’re talking about
So true @Joshua Carpenter
31:04
"The Legion of the damned vanished without anyone knowing how or why it occurred"
So what you are saying is, the player running that side of the campaign had to go home. Or he got transferred to another university.. the the other players kicked him out.
Got'cha
Yep lol
Didn't they vanish due to the Pylon activation starting to banish warp entities?
Basically
On Cadia they must have known things were bad when even the Legion of the Damned were like....."The hell with this, adios amigos."
Actually, I believe that the Necron Pylons banished them back into the Warp.
However, Celestine remained... Interesting. :)
@@Archon3960 There is a theory somewhere stating that st. celestine wasn't quite banished because she still had some what could say 'material remains' in her which explains why she wasn't banished. And I believe it was also mentioned that after the battle for Cadia St. Celestine was wounded to an extent(can't say to what for sure). 40k Theories did a video on this theory but I can't recall what it was called
I'd blame that Aragorn guy trying to dismiss them from their vows. Probably took them a minute to have that "Heeeey... Wait a minute." moment.
Cadia's children still stood even after the planet burnt
You can blame Necron Pylons for their disappearance. x)
This started off as a really cool lore video... then the part about Cadia hits, and it turns into the best god damn WH40k movie I've ever seen.
Cadia: an Imperial defeat that cost Abaddon:
-More than half his cumulative fleets
-His most experienced ground commanders
-His ONLY remaining Blackstone Fortress
Even when he wins, Abaddon manages to fail.
Sadly, it was worth it.
But in the end Abbadon was like I STILL BROKE CADIA HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Press F for Failbaddon when he tries to seige Krieg or Catachan
Such is Chaos. Khorne cares not from who the blood flows, only that it does.
This is an inverted phenomenon of his apparent fails, wherein the imperium is hurt deeply and abbadon gains or achieves something of note even though he's banished back to the eye
The planet broke before the guard did! CADIA STANDS!
tomtomwarwar mccullough Pathetic creature our Queen shall relish your destruction
CADIA STILL STANDS
Yushiro Shihoin I will endure a thousand deaths before I yield!
The Guard still broke😂
@@Cannibal6412 atleast we did not broke 12 times like chaos pussy by freakin lasgun
Damn, you really nailed the fall of Cadia. A big challenge well met.
36:26
@Jack Snow correct!
The Imperial Guard sometimes puts the Spacemarines to shame
To damn True
Sometimes? They do this all the damn time - they do almost all the fighting all over the Imperium and beyond and they virtually never get credit for it, ESPECIALLY not when there's a space marine anywhere near to steal it by being there.
36:26.
The Guard are nothing more than mankind itself. Nothing is more badass then those soldier who are nothing more than a human fighting against the tides of Chaos, Xenos, and a Galaxy at whole that wants us dead.
We fight not only for the Imperium. Not only for the Emperor. But for Humanity itself.
You misspelled "all the time".
Necro: Have you watched the fan film Helsreach? The Guard shines in that campaign.
Ordinary men and women of the imperium are the true heroes. Standing against the darkness, horrors of the warp, traitors and literal gods of the immaterium....armed only with faith and lasguns. Cadian troops will be forever remembered as the Emperor's finest and true avatars of unbreakable human spirit.
There is no glory for Human Chattel!! Weaklings, the lot of them. The greatest privilege of Imperials is to die underneath our boots! DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR!!
@@Cannibal6412 take fuckin 13 attemps good job guys
Nothing but basic armor, a flashlight, and a wheelbarrow for their massive balls.
And to think even if they won, the inquisition would have executed them all anyways just for seeing demonic forces
@@tha8baller I believe Cadia was an exception because its literally on the doorstep of the Eye. Everyone on that planet knew what warp fuckery they were dealing with. Its not like the first war for Armageddon where the Grey Knights turned up so they had to purge the guardsmen. Thought not because they saw the Knight, no, they just assume they are normal space marines. What a lot of people get wrong is that because of the small number of Grey Knights and threat they face means they generally only go to the direst daemonic threats, the kind which are the greatest threat of corruption of mortals. Its a shitty equation and unfortunately necessary :(
Defeat? Strange and heretical way to say "Reorganize!"
;))
Or "WE WILL BE BACK"
Sure is a lot of reorganizing going around.
Luetin09: uploads a video about imperium defeats.
Commissar: Wait, that's illegal.
*Heresy
Only if the Custodes are present
_headshot_
Don’t know how I missed it before- “marching- up and down the square?” Hahaha- damn, I so enjoy those Easter eggs!!!
Was looking forward to this. Thanks Luetin.
Your narration is perfect. Reminds me of the old WW2 documentaries from the 90's and early 2000's.
Φρεδερίκκ
Man I miss those documentaries
World at War? More like Galaxy at War.
The War File was my favorite. Documentaries nowadays just pale in comparison. Even with more well studied historians weighing in, it's so watered and dumbed down. Biased opinions over facts and documented details.
Luetin's attention to detail just kinda reminds me of those older documentaries, and reminds me of the British narrators like Richard Greenwood.
Random coward: “This battle is lost! We need to retreat!”
Admiral Catallia: “Commissar! Do your duty!”
Commissar: “As the emperor wills!”
BANG!
That’s how you handle potential defeats kids
play Dawn of War 2, choose the Guard, choose Lord Commissar. Use "Inspire Courage" on a Guardsmen Squad -> Lord Commissar shoots a random dude in the head.
"Glory to the first man that dies!"
commissar pls
If the Commissars start to shoot at the actuall Enemy, you know the Situation is truly desperate
I wonder how the Phalanx did nuke that Blackstone Fortress (the _Will of Eternity_ for memory), and yet got damaged that bad afterwards...
If we die, then its with the emperors light in our eyes and his fury in our voices
Guardsman: "Commissar! The enemy soldiers are showing cowardice!"
Commissar: *Blams the entire enemy force in under a second*
By the emperor this video was the best retelling of 40k lore I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing!
“They *never* ran out of courage!
...But in the end, they ran out of time...”
-Londo Molari
The War. The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. Where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with greater strength. They made Choas fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it; They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones, and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself, never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage. Their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns, when they ran out guns they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes in the end. They did this for 13 black crusades - they never ran out of courage but in the end, they ran out of time. Lando Molari speaking on the fall of Cadia
So basically in the Battle of Cadia, the guardsmen who were the simple, regular, un-enhanced humans we're the ones fighting so that the astartes who are supposed to feel no fear could retreat.
That was their home, the only place they knew. It would be a great shame if the Imperial Fists were wiped out on cadia as well as saints and other people that were more important.
@@Johnpinckney98 You keep using terms like "more important" to salve your hurt ego over the FACT that a bunch of Space Marines fucked off and RAN when a world needed defence from the Emperor's enemies. All the guardsmen remained though, and they did the fighting, as always.
This is the part about SM fan-boys that get's me - you will make any excuse, any you can think of, to smooth over the fact that 98% of all fighting the Imperium does, it does with the Guard. All other Imperial forces combined account for the last 2 percentages. And in spite of this, the SM's get all the love, all the attention, all the hype, all the glorious stories. They are VERY good at stealing the credit and the honours from the Guard when they fight alongside them in any battle.
@@Terenin calm down brah its just a fantasy world XD
@@Terenin kind of like history in reality then.
Seriously, guardsmen are so numerous, of course they do most of the fight!
You know that even the British made their elite troops retreat at Waterloo before seeing a chance of victory?
Elite troops are few, costly, and hard to train, of course you make them escape first.
By the way, what world in need of defence,? The planet was already doomed, even without the demons assault
I guess you also think the legio titanicus and custodes should be deployed first everywhere and fight to a man. Tactical prowess 11/10
Your work on the fall of Cadia is nothing short of a masterpiece. Before this I didn't know the details of what exactly transpired, but now I do.
Can you do a video on the origins of the Sisters of Battle and Saint Celestine?
A video on the Sisters of Battle and Saint Celestine would be great! I have heard about them a lot, but, don't know much about them! Like earlier, I had a question:' WTF are the Black Crusades I've been hearing so much about as of late? Saw the previous two vids, 'Oh!' Starting to finally get it! Also, is there a vid on Gillerman somewhere? I just know a little bit about him. How did he return in the first place? I'm still a bit new to 40k., and a few vids back, this guy pops up, and now leads the Imperium! I know he got A LOT of push-back at first!
@@marystone860 fairly sure weshammer made a video on the sisters of battle
Man!!! This Is by far the best and most intoxicatingly addictive Fantasy World ever created! The Lore itself and dedication to that Lore by the fans is nothing short of EPIC! I don’t even play the game but I’ve spent Hours upon Hours listening to the stories! I love how the fans basically make the story and continue it all these years. WH 40k is the absolute and undefeated champion of Sci-Fi. The amount of material is just mind boggling! And anyone who thinks HALO, STAR WARS, START TREK, STAR
CRAFT OR ANY OTHER UNIVERSE COULD STAND AGAINST 40k.......
Put down the meth pipe! Even if they combined all those worlds together, they would still be under equipped and out classed in every facet of warfare. It’s like putting Nikes on a Cheetah LOL
40K 4Life!
I agree. If you throw any Space Marine chapter or army like the Blood Angels or Cadians into Star Wars and things would have played out much differently. You can't take over ten thousand years of experience and hope for anything other than victory against most of these other settings. Hell, if you say that the Force is the Warp in Star Wars, the Eldar alone would be a game changer. That being said, I would much rather live in the Star Wars universe over 40k.
When you started speaking at 46:32 I got goosebumps. If we are to be sent to hell by monsters we shall take the monsters with us. Mankind may never have victory against chaos, but chaos will never have complete victory against mankind. The Imperium is a cripple growing ever closer to death, but the species of humanity through it's courage and tenacity cannot die.
Your narration of the Battle of Cadia is probably your magnum opus, I dare say
The chills are intense and I felt such great respect for fictional men and women of the brave Cadian Guardsmen
May their souls be with the Emperor
While in still watching the Battle of Cadia section, I just want to say that I love the animated style of portions of this section. I've gotten so used to the static pictures that drift but seeing different parts move and act independently of the background was a great treat with your narration 😁👍
I was about to cry while watching the last stand of Cadia and then got a Fed Ex ad..... Inquisitor I would like to report a heretical rogue trader
You should do a series that foucuses on the Geopolitical landscape of the Milky Way. I’ve always had a hard time In warhammer 40k trying to figure out which faction was where and who owned what. Having a somewhat of a sense of direction would really help with world building.
The narration is 10/10 especially the exodus of Cadia. You feel the terror as the remaining guard fight for survival as they escape. Feels like the sinking of the titanic 😭
I think you misspelled “delayed victories”.
Yeah I know right for a minute there I thought he was a heretic but he must of misspelled.
I think he knows what he spelled moron
@@cinnamonsinner4619 are you dense or just unfunny?
Imperium: anihilates a million year old Craftworld. Losses: Most of 1 pre-heresy company of Astartes.
Emperor's score out of 10: 9.
Op success.
God warhammer makes me energetic, especially when somebody like luetin is telling the story using the perfect culmination of words.
Imperium: “sector is clear.”
Cadia falls
Imperium:” Not clear! Not clear!”
This reminds me of a line from Pitch Black, that Riddick says:' It "looked" clear!'
Could you make own video of Primaris Marines? They are still little uknown for me and would love to learn about them from you:)
Yes do it Luetin because the Primaris are interesting in current 40k
Song starting at 41:49 is From the Ashes by Johannes Bornlöf and the ending song after it is called And the Sky shall unfold 2 by Johannes Bornlöf as well.
you are my hero thanks
would you happen to know the intro song as well?
YOU SIR ARE A HERO!!!!!
@@PitchBlackLaser I believe it's also "And the sky shall unfold" Bornlof's songs usually have 1 or 2 variations
I love you mate. You bleeding legend you!
40K Fans: "Ugh, make Abbadon DO SOMETHING, he's LAAAAAAAAMEE."
Also 40K Fans: "Oh nO, nOt CAdiA!!1!"
Shocked Pikachu face
Warhammer FB should have been a warning...
That was literally me.
he still lame
Fantastic! The Cadia part gave me chills.
iron cage is lacking
I can hear Valrak screaming *THE IRON CAGE NEVER HAPPENED. ITS NOT CANNON !*
“Sometimes you can do everything right and still fail. That is not weakness, it is life.” Captain Picard of the Starship Enterprise.
I think that’s a pretty solid description of what happened at Cadia.
"And all could be heard was laughter of the Dark Gods"
Damn Luetin, you know how to create proper dramatic atmosphere. Drawing W40k while listening to you is an true experience.
The general stubbs monologue at the end was such a nice touch
I just want to say that your videos have catapulted me from knowing nothing of 40k to after a couple of months finding that it is my favorite piece of fiction and something ive wanted to exist for sometime. I only wish I would have given warhammer 40k more time in highschool. Thank you so much
That narration at 46:24 still gives me chills everytime i listen to it and i've listened to it maybe too many time now
if only Cadia had the best demon-slayer in existence, The Doom-Slayer...
Rip and tear
If only that woulda been great maybe cadia would of been spared... more skulls for the skull throne
Doom guy is incompatable with the 40K setting. If he was there there would be no Chaos factions.
@@mastersheff37 you are wrong... you are dead wrong Khorne would be great again... more blood more rage more skull for the skull throne
They do. We call them Dreadnoughts.
Im always confused by the history of military in 40K, if just because sometimes it seems like a few thousand marines clean house on a planet, and other times millions of the same chapter get caught in a conflict. Sometimes it seems like a marine can take on a million, sometimes it takes a million space marines.
I'd say that its mostly due to the different writers' interpretations when it comes to the space marines and who they're fighting.
The most obvious example of that would be C.S Goto and how incompetent he considers the eldar to be (For instance, the Fire Dragons, the dedicated anti-vehicular/fortification infantry of the Eldar being unable to get through a hastily made barricade with their meltagun, or the Eldar's vehicles being able to be uncapacitated by 3 kids with rocks.)
This contradicting with, for instance, the very codices of the faction, where fire dragons can easily get rid of even Baneblades in seconds should they be able to reach it.
now if you replace the eldar with the space marines, you can get the same result, except that instead of having a bias toward the Imperium and against the Aeldari, you get a bias for (most of the time) Chaos and against the Astartes, which causes these discrepancies, at least in my opinion.
Its mostly propaganda
As others have pointed out, it's really up to the writers as to how crazy the marines are, and what they're fighting against. 'Normal' enemies, ones that are on par with Guardsmen, a Marine should be able to chew through no problem.
The problem is that rarely is their opponents just 'normal' enemies, and the Marines are severely hampered by their numbers.
There are one thousand space marines roughly in a full strength chapter. One chapter can rule multiple systems. With their ships and weapons of mass destruction (Cyclonic Torpedoes) they could easily destroy multiple planets. The ships are way more deadly then the actual marines, but boarding actions counter balance this because some vessels are undermanned because of how large they are.
An individual space marine w/ bolter and power armor is designed specifically to run over chaff regular humans to a near unlimited number which is well established regardless of the author. If you're confused all you have to know is that space marines aren't even remotely close to the strongest soldiers in 40k they just one up regular humans.
Basic* humans are not strong enough to carry bolters (.75 cal explosive shell) which power armor can tank multiple hits from. As soon as an enemy can one up the power armor the gig is up. Every enemy in 40k has an answer to power armor in some form or shape, but space marine vs. regular humans doesn't show you how vulnerable SM really are.
@@Invictus1293 To make things worse, regular Humans CAN carry plasma and melta weapons, these are both top-quality anti armor picks. Bolt-rounds are primarily designed to pulp 'lightly' armored enemies, a high-explosive grenade is not exactly the best armor-piercing weapon around. Fact of the matter is, if you took a few squads of marines - any marines - and put them up against a whole regiment of Guardsmen in an open field battle, the regiment would win with minor (a few hundred at worst) losses. Authors like to forget shit like this so will often smooth over inconvenient shit like just how many soldiers a regiment has and what gear he carry. A single marine might kill a single human easily enough, but math says the marine simply don't have the ammo to kill them all, not to mention pesky things like return fire in the form of artillery strikes, AP weapons, plasma guns, rocket launchers, armored vehicles like a leman russ (who's cannon is powerful enough to kill a marine in a single shot to the chest) etc. I'm often rolling my eyes at tales of marines facing against unimaginative odds written to sound absolutely heroic and somehow winning every time. get's boring after a while.
Am I the only one legit crying over the Fall of Cadia? No, just me? Okay.
Instead of crying, grab a lasgun go stab a demon with the gun's bayonet, son!
Inquisitorial Llama you miss understand. It is not tears of sorrow I weep but tears of pride in the Valor, faith and unassailable courage of the Caidian 8th. My own fleet has had all of their ships renamed in honor of their sacrifice. My own flag ship I rechristened “Caidia’s Rage.”
Ive got a better offer!
Khorne, Chaos God of Blood and War fuck off you paraplegic blood fetishist.
Listen to the blood God 🙏
Ooh, this video made me very interested in that Cypher guy!
Pls do an episode about him if possible?
Thrin: My planet is impregnable!
The entire universe: Uh huh... Let me show you every way you are wrong.
Man I have been looking with no success for this intro song for like 30 minutes. It’s a banger and I want to use it to finish my dnd campaign
Hats off Luetin. I ve always been a big fan of your vids but the fall of Cadia always get me and was perfectly narrated, you gave more than I expected and goose bumps at every turn. Amazing work and big thanks dude. Now I point my cat with my finger and tell her CADIA STANDS! like if she was Abaddon whenever she asks for food.
"Victory needs no explanation, defeat allows none." Non Desistas! Non Exieris!
Y'know... from material I'd watched previously, the Cadian downfall seemed like a Chaos steamroll and/or clusterfuck. You put it all WAY more into perspective. It was an epic battle worthy of the mightiest stories. Thank you, Luetin.
my 2 favorite moments.
1)
Cadian #1: look the Eye of Terror is closing!
Cadian #2: A-ha! Suck it up chaos space turds, suck it up!
Cadian#3: emmm, guys, Sororitas' Saint was also channeling energy from the Warp, we no longer have moral boost!
(A group of Chaos Space Marines approaching the Cadians)
Aspiring Champion: how did you put it, worm? Suck it up? Well, here you go.
Cadian#2: what could be worse than that?
2)
Abaddon: ok guys, here is the plan. I am going like Darth Vader from Rogue One, and you will cover me off-screen, ok?
Chaos Terminators: yes-yes, sure. As you say.
Amazing job Luetin!!! Thank you!
I was left breathless by the end...
Such a great and powerful story.
Keep it up mate.
"CADIA STANDS "
I'm sorry, I can't hear your heresy over the sound of Cadia breaking before the Guard did.
I love the very end cause it makes up for the past two vids of heresy by slathering on some thick Imperium praise, and it gave me chills
Not into Warhammer 40k but I'm getting into it because I love these videos 👍
Just started reading the books by A. Demski Bowen.
may I suggest the Uriel Ventris Ultramarines series, they are brilliant.
Or anything by Dan Abnett. That man is the best living military science fiction author on the planet (and I'm including Card and Haldeman on that list)
His novel "Helsreach" is brilliant :)
@@Indoor_Carrot I've bought that one. It is very good :)
@@AkodoKusamoto thanks! I will check him out!
You got to hand it to the Guard, few things in 40k are more inspiring than the 'named characters' taking off to safety in an aircraft, only to hear the nameless soldiers below - standing their ground on a doomed world - unloading their rifles against a literally endless horde of horrific daemons; and the only cries from those men and women before their inevitable death being not of horror or mercy, but a defiant: "Cadia stands!"
This makes me a bad person but i was more bummed by the destruction of Cadia a fictional planet than i was about most of the major disasters that have occurred on earth...I am not even hard core 40k. I sold my IG models 2 years back just read the occasional book and watch your videos. Which are the best 40k vids on youtube btw.
Merque de Lyon ill just sit outside and wait for the commisar
@@Mercuerian Inquisition here wondering where you were during the defensive of Cadia mr. Soon-to-be-dead heretics.
Tbh I just think that this shows how much of a bubble we live in (no hate on you by the way this is a societal thing)
are you still more bummed about cadia now?
That's perfectly ok man, there's no shame in it
Not even joking, think I've watched like 20 of these videos in the last two days, brilliant content mate
This is about the best commentary on Cadia I know of. You exponentially improve with each video. Keep up the awesome work!
Man, that’s some good storytelling. The music was spot on as well. Had goosebumps during the battle of Cadia
Luetin09 your music is always on,point keep up the hard work man!!!
While cadia stands as the second worst defeat the imperium has ever taken (second only to the great heresy) it stands as the greatest reminder of the imperium's strength and faith.
Luetin, these videos are so good. I am a new fan but this stuff is really well done. Thanks for all the hard work.
You should be really proud of your Cadia narration. Gave me chills.
1:23 WHY THE HELL are those Skitarii trying to wrestle down a friggin Astartes!
I feel real sorry for the dude who got kneed, the space marine broke his lenses and respirator :(
I'm not finished yet but this telling of the Fall of Cadia is beyond amazing. I know what happens but you made it so immersive that I still think we can still win this.
I truly love your Cadia narration Luetin, especially after watching Templin Institute description of Fall of Cadia. You both tell the same story but from a very different point of view. Institute story is somewhat heartwarming and shows Cadians martyrdom and defiance as a brave last stand that inspires Imperial citizens. Yours however tells a dark story of last surviving defenders dying in their duty. No heroism, only death and chaos.
White Shield Mensk is a cool character. The Space Wolves Saluted her and her big buddy! Great video! Love this stuff!
Even as an imperial fanboy, I truly appreciated the shade dropped on the "planet broke before the guard did" crowd.
How did he throw shade?
@@antharson02b91probably means at 22:42
In the STC video you mentioned a dark age of technology ship popped out the warp , the imperium tortured the crew and the ship AI left disgusted. This incident feels like a massive loss.
I've checked your channel every day for a week waiting for this. Thank you so much! Your dedication and talent never cease to amaze!
"Cadia Stands!" Damn bro i came here out of curiosity but Praise the Emperor! That line gave me goosebumps and a driblet of tears!
God I love the epic music. Gotta be my favourite 40k creator by far
Hi. I am 29 y. o and when i was 16 i used to collect warhammer 40k figures. I remeber picking the eldar race bc i liked the aesthetic eventhough i knew nothing about the lore. Unfortunately it turned out to be an expensive hobby for a 16 y. o that made no money of their own, so i slowly stopped collecting and painting all together. More than a decade later i found your channel and i must thank you for reigniting my love for the material while also educating and expanding my knowlege of the vast world of W. H 40000k. Thank you for immersing me, subed and liked ✌️
Holy god damn Jesus. Your talent is beyond words. Another freaking epic video my man.
very few things draw me to tears when it comes to fictional stories, but for some reason the fall of Cadia is one of those few stories that never fails to make a tear come to my eye. This is coming from someone who is an absolute chaos lover who has been trying for Abaddon the despoiler to get something for decades. Despite the ham-fisted ending that we all know Games Workshop through in just to make sure that chaos finally had a victory, the storytelling behind it was absolutely beautiful and more than made up for it.
22:42 Gonna have to disagree here, and disagree strongly at that.
"The planet broke before the guard did" is not just superficial propaganda or a limp-wristed rebuttal to defeat; it's an opportunity for the narrative of 40k to uplift and extol the virtues of the unaugmented human, the humble guardsman. In a setting that is so dominated by transhuman demigods and heinously powerful alien races, there are precious few places for a normal human to truly shine.
"The planet broke before the guard did" is there to remind us that genecraft and advanced weaponry were never the things that made humanity great. The spirit of mankind - which carries on in a hopelessly unwinnable situation - is firmly and solely responsible for that.
The guard were less important and left behind so had no choice but to break with the planet would be darker narrative.
And also made heroic by propaganda.
Your narration on The fall of Cadia had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. You make things way more interesting than they are. Thanku
Also amazing use of Battlefleet gothic armada 2 fall of cadia cutscenes
What and ending, love it. I too will die standing along side my brothers and sisters. The Emperor protects.
Holy shit! the Cadia parts were just amazing, such a brilliant narration I was enthralled for the whole time at that point.
You make fantastic videos and I really hope you keep up the great work!
CADIA STANDS!
Freakin Epic. Your the best Luetin! Thank You.
- The planet broke before the Guard.
god damn.. I had to pause my game so I could listen and watch the story of cadia fully.. bloody amazing.. Luetin, you are a master at what you do, rivaling even the might of the imperial guardsmen.. the bloody planet broke before they did.. amazing..
The defense of Cadia gives me the chills. Cadians are so heroic. They're one of the few regiments we can consider to be truly elite among regular soldiers
This I have to say is the greatest visual compilation you've ever created. I applaud your progression, keep up the good work man.
Any chance we could get a video for the adepta sororitas?
For those looking for the song at 29:24 it is- This is our land by Bonnie Grace.
Your tales of the beautiful destruction of this vile Imperium move me.
INQUISITORIAL SCREAMING!!!!!!!!
@@inquisitorialllama638 Scream all you like. You're in good company.
I enjoy the usage of “And The Sky Shall Unfold” as the intro music. The second movement is my favorite part of that composition.
Also great work as always!
I thought it was this one?
"The Sound of Fear" by Pharao
ua-cam.com/video/XZxTeOK7_bc/v-deo.html
you mean "delayed victories part 2"
lowfat grease this guy is spreading false information throughout the imperium. I’ll contact the local inquisition and have them question this guy.
@@SilverAmberifyHopefully you get a medal for this report.
I’m just imagining transports leaving the surface full of Space Marines and Sisters watching as the ring of the Cadian 8th getting smaller and smaller. Then a chant starts among the guardsmen, “CADIA STANDS, CADIA STANDS, CADIA STANDS!” Then a Marine puts a fist to his breast in reverence to the sacrifice of the 8th. He whispers “ die well brothers and sisters, your sacrifice will not be in vain”. A tear runs down the cheek of a Sister of Battle. CADIA STANDS!!!!
Have more pride in the defence of Cadia than most, if not all real world wars.
Aaaaa men i do love to see the imperium folly everytime, what a nice collection of imperial defeats
Best words, "Hesitation causes Anihilation"!
I find the fall of mars in the Horus heresy very depressing and devastating. Not only that it teared the planet apart. It destroyed so much crucial tech and knowledge.