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Hello Majorkill, Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.
The Battle of Iron Cage happened because Rogal Dorn didn't have enough Pain Gloves for his Imperial Fists Legion needed to let them feel the pain he went through and accept the Codex Astartes. Said codex was 5 out of 10 with 3 stars, and it was ok.
Another thing about the Siege of Terra is that Terra has a population in the hundreds of billions to quadrillions, so the civilian casualties must've been unfathomable.
Which makes it so weird that they allegedly only had a few million soldiers - I would think that a demon invasion would warrant a full mobilization of the population.
The Legions also underwent a period of rapid recruitment to replenish and bulk out their numbers, so when the Siege began, millions of Space Marines were fighting, though the vast majority were in the Traitor Legions
Quick note, none of the Imperium battle ever really accounted for the Imperial Guardsman, because that would be retarded. But in general, multiply Space Marine force and enemy Force by a thousand, and you could get a rough estimation of the number of Imperial Guards present in the battle
@@ultramarinescaptain3840 Around that much, it's a rough estimate though, some put it at 1000:1 ratio but I prefer 500:1, it took hundreds of millions of Imperial Guards man during war of Armageddon after all, and the space marine that were present there was not even close to thirty thousad
@@Ark--fn8my It also depends on the Chapter you´re talking about, the Imperial Guard units involved, what kind of battle we´re talking in the first place and a lot of other factors. So the 500:1 seems like a good estimate. And given that there is only about 3-5 Space Marines out of 1000 recruits, it fits as well. What i would like to know: how many people back up a single soldier in WH40k, and how much a single Astartes. I remember seeing such numbers for real world once, but can´t find it again...
Majorkill is the type of Australian to say "he's standing right behind me, isnt he" in a horror scenario, pull out a snake from pants and dominate the antagonist
You missed one The battle of the sokar gate Szarekh, the silent king and his dynasty + 5 other dynasties Attacked 4 compleat c'tan leading to the destruction of one c'tan and 5 whole necron dynasties
Seeing The Second Battle of Iyanden on this list made me smile. It's a cool and impactful battle and It'd have been so easy to fill this list with battles from The Horus Heresy or other Imperium centered conflicts,so some Eldar love is appreciated!
On the siege of Terra: in the newest Horus Herresy book, the bloodshed is so humongus, that a curse of Khorn engolves the planet. Everything. And I mean EVERYHING fought and battled against one another. Enemys, Friends, Familys. Imagine Doom, but everybody is the Doom Slayer and all they see is deamons. So yea.
Reminder that Prince Yriel, single handedly, used a spear that was supposed to kill it's user over time, and stabbed the swarm lord so hard that the hive mind itself was in agony. Just another addition to the long list of chad eldars.
Pretty sure the siege of terra had 100s of mils combatants, in saturnine it is mentioned there are 4k BATTLES going on at any single moment but thats only when they count battles with at least 30k fighters on each side.
Been reading titandeath and honestly the beta-garmon battle might be the biggest in the the setting at least for the humans. The battle literally stretched across an entire subsector and was fought by millions of both traitor and loyalist forces
It really depends on how you define the term 'battle' and is something we even today still have issues with. The Battle of Leyte Gulf is debatably the largest naval battle in IRL history, but defining it as a battle might be a stretch since you could also correctly call it 4 different battles which were all part of the same operation and it only lasted a few days.
It was one of the biggest campain of the Heresy and it kinda a shame GW didn't gave more lore about it. The other big campains was the Cataclysm of Iron, which was the Dark Mechanicum versus the loyalist in the Belt of Iron, which was a " belt " of multiples solar systems with several Forge World in them, spreading at the border of two differents segmentums. A shit ton of titans and Knights got destroyed during that brutal campain. " Luetin did a video about it " The other one is the Shadow Crusade in the Eastern Fringe, which lead to the death of 100 worlds and the opening of the infamous Warp Rift which cut the Imperium in two during the majority of the Heresy. And finally, the Thramas Crusade in the Ultima Segmentum, which was mainly a war between the Lion and Konrad Cruze who have killed billions upon billions in less than 3 years in the Thramas sector.
My personal honorable mention, The Devastation of Baal. While it might be small potatoes compared to some others on the list it still represents one of the largest Astartes conflicts of the past 10,000 years. Almost every son of the Angel was present and like 90 percent of them died. A last stand against billions of Nids vs about 30,000 Blood Angels.
@Majorkill great content as always, although I'm kinda surprised Tallarn wasn't mentioned, largest tank battle in imperial history. This battle is basically the origin story of the Tallarn Dessert Raiders. For those who don't know, Tallarn is initially a pretty lush and verdant place, until the iron warriors show up post angel exterminatus. Perturabo becomes aware of a particular artefact hidden on the world (the black occulus, he doesn't know exactly what it is but it's a kind of warp portal), and decides yup we're gonna virus bomb the world to get it. Exterminatus happens and it's not a good time. BUT THE LOYALISTS SURVIVE since Tallarn is kind of a reserve world for the imperial army, they have a ton of tanks in shelters and although pretty much everyone on the surface died in about 10 minutes, there were significant portions of the local Tallarn population and imperial army tank companies that were underground when the bombs dropped. The surface is a dusty dessert now, but the survivors start using their vehicles to go out on the surface and actively fight hit and run tank battles against the iron warriors. From there it just escalates, as loyalist and traitor forces begin committing more and more resources to the battle. I'm unaware of the exact numbers, but individual deployments at its peak involved thousands upon thousands of tanks, supported by knights and titans, not to mention the fleet elements, with astartes elements from multiple legions doing a great degree of covert work. 3 Recon squads of the imperial fists even brought down one of the primary macro transporters of the iron warriors fleet, crashing it into the middle of a major tank engagement on the southern continent of Tallarn, creating a 300km diameter nuclear explosion that basically wiped out both sides present and irradiated the planet for about a week with high winds and fallout. Even though the loyalist forces eventually won, Tallarn was fucked up and remains fucked up to this day. Casualties on both sides were severe in the extreme. Of the titans that were deployed, literally one survived. Amazing battle that actually gets the scale of planet wide conflict right.
Seige of terra saturnine book 4 i believe. A sister of silence meantioned how there were over 4100 battles around terra with each battle consisting of over 30k soilders on each side. Quick math means over 246,000,000 people were throwing down.
Either way we can confirm that the original canon number before the siege of terra books is total bullshit. seriusly before this, the official count was only 2 milllion. That was ridiculously low. Im glad it was retconed to hundreds of millions.
@@ShadrackMeduson well i was listening to more of the book yesterday, and at one point Perturabo says how he peefers to use his numbers of 16,480 battles that consist of 20,000 troops each. If thats the case it jumps up to 659 million soilders.
You need to take account that many of the soldiers fighting would have survived a battle, and then continue to fight in other battles, reducing the numbers involved dramatically
Curious for anyone who may know: Does anyone know the type of Tyranid bioform that big boi is next to the Hierophant in the artwork at 3:18? I don't know a whole lot about Warhammer 40k lore but I've done quite a bit of digging for info on what kind of Tyranid bioform (bio titan) that could be, but the closest thing I could find would be a Tervigon or a Tyrannofex, but from Luetin09's Tyranid videos, that specific bioform looks a lot like the art that Luetin09 uses to represent the Norn-Queen, but Norn-Queens don't take part in Tyranid attacks on planets that I know of.
I think its just a tervigon thats much closer to frame than the hierophant, with what looks like their big egg sac and them being right behind a swarm of gaunts and all
I've read every book on the dropsite massacre and the loyalist planning that went in to it and sometimes when I read that I think, look who you've got on the second wave for support... I know they were seemingly loyalist at that point but you put yourself between the traitors and perty, konrad, lorgar, and alpharius. Even if I didn't think they were traitors yet, I'd still be keeping an eye on those 4 nutjobs and their absolutely insane legions. I know they took who they had on hand and worked with who was available, but the known traitors existing would make these psychopaths behind me seem pretty sus. Obviously I'm more joking, but only kind of
The battles Beta-Garmon is one of my top favorite battles of the heresy. Taking all combatants into account such as the space marines, imperial army, mechanicum forces, imperialis armada, knights and titans, and what we know transpired makes probably, PROBABLY, the biggest battle of the heresy. I don’t think the deposite massacre of the siege of terra can edge it out, only be on par with it
Siege of Terra is essentially as big as Beta-Garmon, Where you have all imaginable of Supersoldier to infinite Trillions or Quadrillion mortal to war machine to giant mech both loyal and traitor and to Milions of Multi-Km Sized Ship firing,melee and boarding combat each other like yeah imagine 10-15 KM Ship from Cruiser to Battleship numbering Milions exterminatus,blown up planet,firing nova cannon,ram melee, load off transport of Space Fighters in Tens of Thousand, And by my head cannon, Yeah Tens of Trillions dead alone on Beta-Garmon, Beta-Garmon is sector Sized of multiple star system where thousand planets are destroyed and battle firing in voidspace really fucked, But imagine the fuckshit all of those on Beta-Garmon, Came to one attack together single planetary only, Yeah that Siege of Terra is
The siege of terra also had demons, mutants, and beastmen on the traitors side. By the time of Echoes of Eternity they were described as like a roaming horde in the dust. So I feel like the siege of Terra is kind of one long battle for helms deep or Gondor where the defenders know that eventually they are going to get fucked but they put up one hell of a fight.
Now imagine the scale of battle between the Old Ones(Krorks,Eldar) and Ctan led Necrons. Literal God's fighting along with galaxy spanning empires and their armies
The Tyranids winning a war of attrition against the Orks, while also instilling fear in The Bois, is NOT a good sign for The Imperium. People said The Lion pairing up with Robust Guillotine will be OP... Well, I think it's just right.
Though I am dubious about the teased rules for 10th ed, as a Gribbly Nid player (as well as Black Templar, Death Korps, Death Guard, the list goes on...), I look forward to what monstrous abominations may be spawned.
@@notsosecretsnacker5218 true, it adds a lot of mystery as it should, since no one is alive from that time aside from necrons not much readily available information would exist.
GW should make a "live" map showing all active conflicts. Because people always ask "who is fighting who RIGHT NOW and where?" ... I know it doesn't work like that, but would be so cool to see what happens in "real time" ... where the next tyranid invasion is happening, where the newest tomb world is waking up ect.
Jesus, dude. I saw the poll that this video came from like a day ago. Great video, though. Let's get a video on our favorite Mary Sues, Calgar and Drago some time soon.
The battle on Ullanor comes close to these I would say. Multiple sm legions led by Big E himself against an ork force that was the greatest found during the Great Crusade
I think a craftworld may be even bigger than a 100 million. We have 7 billion on our earth and the Eldar call their ships "worlds" so the idea they can fit a planets worth of Eldar on them doesnt seem impossible to me even with their low numbers.
Hey Majorkill, I'm trying to live up to challange of changing the stereotype of warhammer fans! I've lost just below 200 pounds in the last two years! Love your content! Thanks for making these!
As a wise madman once said: Day 347 of asking Majorkill to do a video on Tau Auxiliaries coupled with the release of a "Space Beaked Tribals"/"Space Wasps"/"Nussy Fanboys" team. *Phrases that Sam O'nella never said.
Majorkill! an idea for a video if I may: Hygiene of the Space Marines, I need to know.. what kind of soap? do they use louffa? are there shower servitors who scrub? What kinds of food do they eat?
Kryptman after causing two factions who become stronger the more they fight to clash causing the creation of the largest Tyranid fleet the galaxy has ever faced:”Ha whoops.”
i had a friend that said he was into 40k super hard. i was like oh cool yea i watch majorkill, he goes "who? oh i watch one mind syndicate" and i was like yea bro i can make a one mind syndicate video too straight off the wiki page and lexicanum. needless to say we got into a fist fight and i won bearing the banner of majorkill.
@SpacePirateBollocks im a follower of khorne. im very big and strong and not to be fucked with. im also really scary and tough. so no not really a nerd fight but that doesnt matter anyway. for he cares not from where the blood flows, only that it does.
9:10 this is a great comparison of GW not understanding numbers. Seriously, 850 million people on an entire planet with hive cities? There are at least a billion, if not more living on that planet.
For anyone wondering: in general, Black Library and GW writers don't really work with realistic scales. Most of their battles are weirdly small compared to large WW2 battles, for example. This is mainly because they're storytellers first and foremost. They want battle stories that centre around a squad of space marines or things like that. This is true for a lot of other scifi as well, including Star Wars (the Clone Army was hilariously tiny in comparison to how large you'd expect of wars on hundreds if not thousands of planets, if you take the stated numbers at face value, so fans generally go with some looser interpretations.)
I think its less that they are storytellers and more that they do not have much of a study of WW1-2 in any depth, much less other fields such as physics or logistics. There are plenty of military sci-fi authors who are good storytellers despite having an actual grasp of military reality, history, and so on. Shocking I know.
The numbers for the Siege of Terra were massively bulked out with regulars too... Billions of cultists with the traitor fleets, and billions of conscripts for the defenders :D
doing this for magnus the rad: "you know, a video on how each of the pre heresy primarchs would react and what they would do if they were in guillimans place would be pretty cool ngl"
Istvaan V was by no means the largest in terms of manpower. Yet for actual power and force that was present it was insane, especially in a conventional battle. There were nearly as many astartes that fought in the massacre than are alive in the current setting of 40k - around 750-800k I reckon. That's not including titan legions, the heavy weaponry that Legions deployed and the ten primarchs that were present. It has been, and I imagine will always be, the zenith of war within the 40k setting.
The Seige of Terra has to be many, many times more large than what you're saying. The defenders conscripted as much of the Earth's population as they could, which was in the tens of billions after it was replenished by the Great Crusade, and ever Hive City fought against the traitors. Eventually even swarms of the civilians were fighting with just rocks and debris against the traitors, wearing marines and darmons down through sheer weight of numbers. That's not counting the entire armies of whole worlds mustered from across the Imperim brought to fight, and the populations of other planets and country sized space stations across the Sol system. The Traitors too didn't just have their existing Legion assets and Auxilia forces. They had millions of cultists, the militaries of world's and forgeworlds that declared for the Warmaster, and even savage mutants and cavemen level savages they'd herded up from feral worlds and simply dropped in one way trip troop carriers into the thickest fighting as meat shields. And that's not even counting the fact the Titan battle was the second smallest only after Beta Garman, or the unknown number of hot housed Inductii, low quality, mass produced sub par space marines. The Siege of Terra would have had to have been in the billions on each side. Likely tens of billions.
Another banger mate. After having tacos on a Wednesday I'm hoping for a bit of T'au Thursday with the Ethereal Aun Shi and his status as a T'au Ethereal cheek clapping boss 😅
Those numbers are so big it's hard to even understand them. I have seen around 6000 troops formed up on a parade field and even that seemed like such a huge amount FUCK
I really like Khaine (not to be confused with Kharn or Khorne). War isn't about sheer might and winning battles, nor about bravery and sacrifice. Ares, Greek God of war, was a renowned coward who fled the second the battle looked dicey. Athena was the goddess of strategy was far braver. Khaine is just an Ares who can't quit. He's like Rocky, plenty can knock him down but none can keep him from getting up
The 1 million space marines is insane when you think how few held Baal and how easy it would be for a small detachment to take over a planet like ours 😂
Would love to know if tyrannids have fought chaos demons in a significant clash. Shadowbrink is the only example I could find but not sure if it's just fanfic.
you are taking notes from PancreasNoWork by starting with the eldar. although i personally dislike the eldar, the prissy MFs, i can respect that the imperium/chaos get far too much attention to the point where it seems no one else is a player at all so the recent attention given to the eldar by the major community hubs for condensed 40k lore is nice, i personally loved your video on underated orc characters because im a sucker for orks. frankly they just represent that masculine urge to die in tribal warfare for no good reason other than to prove yourself and i love it
At the siege of Terra you also have to factor in how many civilians would get involved in the fighting that spilled over. Most would run from astate's but on a planet of a trillion people if even 1% fought back that would be a billion. Granted that would assume the whole planet got involved and not just one large area. Still gotta figure millions of civilians. Still not enough for the most important battle in 40k but it helps.
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😂ya know to be honest, when u put out this poll the other day I thought you were just messing with us. Only for u to put out another video about our Golden Gigachads Banana Boys
how does every faction takes a trip in the toilet
The war in heaven wasn't on the list, I would of thought it would be or atleast a mention of it
Your next piece of merchandise should be BJJ gi
Hello Majorkill,
Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.
Orks vs tyranids a truly terrifying scenario
And istvan drop side Massacre being the most tragic battle
The current war of Octarius proves that
I'm hoping with the resurgence of Nids for 10th edition, the Orks will get a massive WAAAAGH power boost. FOR THE WAAAGHH!!!1
@@AdrianMartinez-ho6db hasn't it ended already, I thought Tyranids basically won...
I'd absolutely love an ork v nids story from the point of view of maybe a tau or eldar equivalent of a sociologist.
None of these battles compares to the war GW wages against its own fanbase
Hear hear!
That is a fucking good 1 cuz
Go easy on GW. You could have the horrid luck of having Wizards of the Coast manage your favorite tabletop.
GW is not any better.
Gw seems to atleast be trying.
The Battle of Iron Cage happened because Rogal Dorn didn't have enough Pain Gloves for his Imperial Fists Legion needed to let them feel the pain he went through and accept the Codex Astartes.
Said codex was 5 out of 10 with 3 stars, and it was ok.
Yes, it was not tenable for me to spank my sons either, it was the only way.
*magic* pain glove
*hand falls off*
"Your services are no longer required"
...this post makes me weep. 😢
#TTSStands
Rogal Cringe
Another thing about the Siege of Terra is that Terra has a population in the hundreds of billions to quadrillions, so the civilian casualties must've been unfathomable.
Which makes it so weird that they allegedly only had a few million soldiers - I would think that a demon invasion would warrant a full mobilization of the population.
Not so sure. Those people were also fighting and producing.
The overall Horus heresy had over 4 trillion casualties, and the battle on Terra had hundreds of millions of combatants.
@@Kareszkoma and being murdered by the millions.
The Legions also underwent a period of rapid recruitment to replenish and bulk out their numbers, so when the Siege began, millions of Space Marines were fighting, though the vast majority were in the Traitor Legions
Quick note, none of the Imperium battle ever really accounted for the Imperial Guardsman, because that would be retarded. But in general, multiply Space Marine force and enemy Force by a thousand, and you could get a rough estimation of the number of Imperial Guards present in the battle
So wait is 1 Astartes worth 500 Gaurdsmen?
@@ultramarinescaptain3840 yes
@@ultramarinescaptain3840 Around that much, it's a rough estimate though, some put it at 1000:1 ratio but I prefer 500:1, it took hundreds of millions of Imperial Guards man during war of Armageddon after all, and the space marine that were present there was not even close to thirty thousad
@@Ark--fn8my It also depends on the Chapter you´re talking about, the Imperial Guard units involved, what kind of battle we´re talking in the first place and a lot of other factors.
So the 500:1 seems like a good estimate. And given that there is only about 3-5 Space Marines out of 1000 recruits, it fits as well.
What i would like to know: how many people back up a single soldier in WH40k, and how much a single Astartes. I remember seeing such numbers for real world once, but can´t find it again...
"none of the Imperium battle ever really accounted for the Imperial Guardsman, because that would be retarded"
Wouldnt that be even more retarded?
Majorkill is the type of Australian to say "he's standing right behind me, isnt he" in a horror scenario, pull out a snake from pants and dominate the antagonist
he dual wields snakes like Kratos does with the chaos blades
@@muda1312 each snake has a cat-sized venomous spider in its mouth
In a previous scene..."you call that a snayke? ... That's a snayke!"
@@SamueL-td7fb yes each with a hat made out of crocodile skin and standard issue katachan jungle knife which they use like the metal gear from mgr
Majorkill the type of guy to be stuck working at a haunted pizza place with anamatronics tryna kill him and put buckshot through feddy
Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in Guillimans current situation would be pretty cool ngl
Russ would go on a rampage against the inquisitor 😂
You missed one
The battle of the sokar gate
Szarekh, the silent king and his dynasty + 5 other dynasties
Attacked
4 compleat c'tan
leading to the destruction of one c'tan and 5 whole necron dynasties
Was it during the War in Heaven
@@toheekang174 yes
Seeing The Second Battle of Iyanden on this list made me smile. It's a cool and impactful battle and It'd have been so easy to fill this list with battles from The Horus Heresy or other Imperium centered conflicts,so some Eldar love is appreciated!
Do a video on how each primarch would react to a hug from a child! (Pre and post herecy)
I feel like the very existence of Fulgrim and Conrad might make that a difficult video to monetise
Angron would probably kill the child
I feel bad for the child
We know how Vulkan would react to a hug from an Eldar child.
The child would die trying to touch Mortarion, right after its nose fell off
On the siege of Terra: in the newest Horus Herresy book, the bloodshed is so humongus, that a curse of Khorn engolves the planet. Everything. And I mean EVERYHING fought and battled against one another. Enemys, Friends, Familys.
Imagine Doom, but everybody is the Doom Slayer and all they see is deamons.
So yea.
Reminder that Prince Yriel, single handedly, used a spear that was supposed to kill it's user over time, and stabbed the swarm lord so hard that the hive mind itself was in agony. Just another addition to the long list of chad eldars.
Pretty sure the siege of terra had 100s of mils combatants, in saturnine it is mentioned there are 4k BATTLES going on at any single moment but thats only when they count battles with at least 30k fighters on each side.
Been reading titandeath and honestly the beta-garmon battle might be the biggest in the the setting at least for the humans. The battle literally stretched across an entire subsector and was fought by millions of both traitor and loyalist forces
It really depends on how you define the term 'battle' and is something we even today still have issues with. The Battle of Leyte Gulf is debatably the largest naval battle in IRL history, but defining it as a battle might be a stretch since you could also correctly call it 4 different battles which were all part of the same operation and it only lasted a few days.
It was one of the biggest campain of the Heresy and it kinda a shame GW didn't gave more lore about it.
The other big campains was the Cataclysm of Iron, which was the Dark Mechanicum versus the loyalist in the Belt of Iron, which was a " belt " of multiples solar systems with several Forge World in them, spreading at the border of two differents segmentums. A shit ton of titans and Knights got destroyed during that brutal campain. " Luetin did a video about it "
The other one is the Shadow Crusade in the Eastern Fringe, which lead to the death of 100 worlds and the opening of the infamous Warp Rift which cut the Imperium in two during the majority of the Heresy.
And finally, the Thramas Crusade in the Ultima Segmentum, which was mainly a war between the Lion and Konrad Cruze who have killed billions upon billions in less than 3 years in the Thramas sector.
Only millions in an entire sub sector ?
I would be expecting the numbers to be in the hundred billions. But then again, gw and their numbers.
My personal honorable mention, The Devastation of Baal. While it might be small potatoes compared to some others on the list it still represents one of the largest Astartes conflicts of the past 10,000 years. Almost every son of the Angel was present and like 90 percent of them died. A last stand against billions of Nids vs about 30,000 Blood Angels.
@Majorkill great content as always, although I'm kinda surprised Tallarn wasn't mentioned, largest tank battle in imperial history. This battle is basically the origin story of the Tallarn Dessert Raiders. For those who don't know, Tallarn is initially a pretty lush and verdant place, until the iron warriors show up post angel exterminatus. Perturabo becomes aware of a particular artefact hidden on the world (the black occulus, he doesn't know exactly what it is but it's a kind of warp portal), and decides yup we're gonna virus bomb the world to get it. Exterminatus happens and it's not a good time. BUT THE LOYALISTS SURVIVE since Tallarn is kind of a reserve world for the imperial army, they have a ton of tanks in shelters and although pretty much everyone on the surface died in about 10 minutes, there were significant portions of the local Tallarn population and imperial army tank companies that were underground when the bombs dropped. The surface is a dusty dessert now, but the survivors start using their vehicles to go out on the surface and actively fight hit and run tank battles against the iron warriors. From there it just escalates, as loyalist and traitor forces begin committing more and more resources to the battle. I'm unaware of the exact numbers, but individual deployments at its peak involved thousands upon thousands of tanks, supported by knights and titans, not to mention the fleet elements, with astartes elements from multiple legions doing a great degree of covert work. 3 Recon squads of the imperial fists even brought down one of the primary macro transporters of the iron warriors fleet, crashing it into the middle of a major tank engagement on the southern continent of Tallarn, creating a 300km diameter nuclear explosion that basically wiped out both sides present and irradiated the planet for about a week with high winds and fallout. Even though the loyalist forces eventually won, Tallarn was fucked up and remains fucked up to this day. Casualties on both sides were severe in the extreme. Of the titans that were deployed, literally one survived. Amazing battle that actually gets the scale of planet wide conflict right.
Seige of terra saturnine book 4 i believe. A sister of silence meantioned how there were over 4100 battles around terra with each battle consisting of over 30k soilders on each side. Quick math means over 246,000,000 people were throwing down.
Either way we can confirm that the original canon number before the siege of terra books is total bullshit. seriusly before this, the official count was only 2 milllion. That was ridiculously low. Im glad it was retconed to hundreds of millions.
@@ShadrackMeduson well i was listening to more of the book yesterday, and at one point Perturabo says how he peefers to use his numbers of 16,480 battles that consist of 20,000 troops each. If thats the case it jumps up to 659 million soilders.
You need to take account that many of the soldiers fighting would have survived a battle, and then continue to fight in other battles, reducing the numbers involved dramatically
Curious for anyone who may know: Does anyone know the type of Tyranid bioform that big boi is next to the Hierophant in the artwork at 3:18? I don't know a whole lot about Warhammer 40k lore but I've done quite a bit of digging for info on what kind of Tyranid bioform (bio titan) that could be, but the closest thing I could find would be a Tervigon or a Tyrannofex, but from Luetin09's Tyranid videos, that specific bioform looks a lot like the art that Luetin09 uses to represent the Norn-Queen, but Norn-Queens don't take part in Tyranid attacks on planets that I know of.
I think its just a tervigon thats much closer to frame than the hierophant, with what looks like their big egg sac and them being right behind a swarm of gaunts and all
90% it's a big mama the Tervigon
Hey Majorkill amazing video keep them coming and your getting better and better every video
YO MAJORKILL. can we get a biggest crusades/campaigns after this too. Love your work as always
Majorkill, I lost 100Lbs in the last 2 years got 20lbs of muscle stacked before I got into 40k, you me and caville breaking the stereotype
I've read every book on the dropsite massacre and the loyalist planning that went in to it and sometimes when I read that I think, look who you've got on the second wave for support... I know they were seemingly loyalist at that point but you put yourself between the traitors and perty, konrad, lorgar, and alpharius. Even if I didn't think they were traitors yet, I'd still be keeping an eye on those 4 nutjobs and their absolutely insane legions. I know they took who they had on hand and worked with who was available, but the known traitors existing would make these psychopaths behind me seem pretty sus.
Obviously I'm more joking, but only kind of
The battles Beta-Garmon is one of my top favorite battles of the heresy. Taking all combatants into account such as the space marines, imperial army, mechanicum forces, imperialis armada, knights and titans, and what we know transpired makes probably, PROBABLY, the biggest battle of the heresy. I don’t think the deposite massacre of the siege of terra can edge it out, only be on par with it
Siege of Terra is essentially as big as Beta-Garmon, Where you have all imaginable of Supersoldier to infinite Trillions or Quadrillion mortal to war machine to giant mech both loyal and traitor and to Milions of Multi-Km Sized Ship firing,melee and boarding combat each other like yeah imagine 10-15 KM Ship from Cruiser to Battleship numbering Milions exterminatus,blown up planet,firing nova cannon,ram melee, load off transport of Space Fighters in Tens of Thousand, And by my head cannon, Yeah Tens of Trillions dead alone on Beta-Garmon,
Beta-Garmon is sector Sized of multiple star system where thousand planets are destroyed and battle firing in voidspace really fucked,
But imagine the fuckshit all of those on Beta-Garmon, Came to one attack together single planetary only, Yeah that Siege of Terra is
The siege of terra also had demons, mutants, and beastmen on the traitors side. By the time of Echoes of Eternity they were described as like a roaming horde in the dust. So I feel like the siege of Terra is kind of one long battle for helms deep or Gondor where the defenders know that eventually they are going to get fucked but they put up one hell of a fight.
Majorkill can you do a video on the planets of the Sol System and their purpose in 40k?
Now imagine the scale of battle between the Old Ones(Krorks,Eldar) and Ctan led Necrons. Literal God's fighting along with galaxy spanning empires and their armies
The Tyranids winning a war of attrition against the Orks, while also instilling fear in The Bois, is NOT a good sign for The Imperium. People said The Lion pairing up with Robust Guillotine will be OP... Well, I think it's just right.
Though I am dubious about the teased rules for 10th ed, as a Gribbly Nid player (as well as Black Templar, Death Korps, Death Guard, the list goes on...), I look forward to what monstrous abominations may be spawned.
If we'd get more solid lore and numbers on the war in heaven, most other large scale battles would be blown out of the water no doubt.
The war in heaven numbers would be so big as to seem meaningless. At some point the human mind loses scale and just starts to think "really big."
Vague lore is sometimes the best lore
@@notsosecretsnacker5218 true, it adds a lot of mystery as it should, since no one is alive from that time aside from necrons not much readily available information would exist.
It’s criminal we haven’t gotten more detail about the War in Heaven to get a battle for this list.
GW should make a "live" map showing all active conflicts. Because people always ask "who is fighting who RIGHT NOW and where?" ... I know it doesn't work like that, but would be so cool to see what happens in "real time" ... where the next tyranid invasion is happening, where the newest tomb world is waking up ect.
“A continent sized planet” ? That’s not a very big planet.
Love your content, keep it up!
Jesus, dude. I saw the poll that this video came from like a day ago.
Great video, though. Let's get a video on our favorite Mary Sues, Calgar and Drago some time soon.
Pretty please do titanicus lore
Big robots go brrrr
You should make a sharrowkyn video; man played a pivotal role in determining the outcome of the heresy
The battle on Ullanor comes close to these I would say. Multiple sm legions led by Big E himself against an ork force that was the greatest found during the Great Crusade
I think a craftworld may be even bigger than a 100 million. We have 7 billion on our earth and the Eldar call their ships "worlds" so the idea they can fit a planets worth of Eldar on them doesnt seem impossible to me even with their low numbers.
What? An Avatar of Khaine was defeated in battle? No Way
Ahah lol well to be fair this time it seemed less plot armor driven
Mmm nothing quite like an Annihilation battle in the morning.
Btw request as usual for a Major Mini for Commissar Yarrick please.
Hey Majorkill, I'm trying to live up to challange of changing the stereotype of warhammer fans! I've lost just below 200 pounds in the last two years! Love your content! Thanks for making these!
I always love me a new Majorkill upload.
Don’t think I haven’t noticed how much content you have been putting out over the past few months, i appreciate it my nigga
As a wise madman once said: Day 347 of asking Majorkill to do a video on Tau Auxiliaries coupled with the release of a "Space Beaked Tribals"/"Space Wasps"/"Nussy Fanboys" team.
*Phrases that Sam O'nella never said.
Majorkill! an idea for a video if I may: Hygiene of the Space Marines, I need to know.. what kind of soap? do they use louffa? are there shower servitors who scrub? What kinds of food do they eat?
May the Ravens have their vengeance for Istvaan Five.
Top 10 dark mechanicus units
"Yeah, that went well." That one-liner made me laugh really hard.
Kryptman after causing two factions who become stronger the more they fight to clash causing the creation of the largest Tyranid fleet the galaxy has ever faced:”Ha whoops.”
These recent videos are great Major keep it up
3 hours! I love your content, keep it up!!
i had a friend that said he was into 40k super hard. i was like oh cool yea i watch majorkill, he goes "who? oh i watch one mind syndicate" and i was like yea bro i can make a one mind syndicate video too straight off the wiki page and lexicanum. needless to say we got into a fist fight and i won bearing the banner of majorkill.
@SpacePirateBollocks im a follower of khorne. im very big and strong and not to be fucked with. im also really scary and tough. so no not really a nerd fight but that doesnt matter anyway. for he cares not from where the blood flows, only that it does.
Quick note, it wasn’t the swarmlord in that battle but a regular hive tyrant
Yup! Funny enough though at about the same time this battle was going on the Swarmlord was fighting Calgar for the second time on Ichar IV
i'd imagine some battles in the War in Heaven would dwarf these but numbers hasn't been stated before/ indevidual battles
You should do a ideo on what happened to the countries on terra
When you fast backwards at the start of the video you can hear majokill attempting to sound like a lazer rifle :].
The War in Heavens should have larger battles right? I guess the lack of info prevents it from being included
9:10 this is a great comparison of GW not understanding numbers. Seriously, 850 million people on an entire planet with hive cities? There are at least a billion, if not more living on that planet.
For anyone wondering: in general, Black Library and GW writers don't really work with realistic scales. Most of their battles are weirdly small compared to large WW2 battles, for example. This is mainly because they're storytellers first and foremost. They want battle stories that centre around a squad of space marines or things like that. This is true for a lot of other scifi as well, including Star Wars (the Clone Army was hilariously tiny in comparison to how large you'd expect of wars on hundreds if not thousands of planets, if you take the stated numbers at face value, so fans generally go with some looser interpretations.)
I think its less that they are storytellers and more that they do not have much of a study of WW1-2 in any depth, much less other fields such as physics or logistics.
There are plenty of military sci-fi authors who are good storytellers despite having an actual grasp of military reality, history, and so on. Shocking I know.
Tbh they could still write about a specific squad or two in a massive war with billions.
just add at least 5 0s at the end of each of these numbers, make the battles bigger and make more sense, and more epic, headcanon is best canon
Majorkill, I love your vids and I have 2 I'd love you you to do: a full recap of the Arks of Omen lore now that the Lion's book is released
i like how alpha legion almost wanted to help raven gard
The numbers for the Siege of Terra were massively bulked out with regulars too... Billions of cultists with the traitor fleets, and billions of conscripts for the defenders :D
MK has perfect timing, just sat down for my morning dump.
Crusade day 43 what will happen if traitors primachs get redeemed and the reaction of the universe
The tyranids tactics are eerily similar to the reaper forces of Mass Effect
You are the best keep up the good work
Hey majorkill it me again can we please have some more necron video if you can
The war that never ends is GW’s war against their fans and fan created content
doing this for magnus the rad: "you know, a video on how each of the pre heresy primarchs would react and what they would do if they were in guillimans place would be pretty cool ngl"
11:50 „Dudes were sieging a continent sized planet after all”
I think Terra might be a little larger than that.
Man, continent sized planets, just imagine..
But great video as always.
Fark yeah!! Solid mate. Nice work
Istvaan V was by no means the largest in terms of manpower. Yet for actual power and force that was present it was insane, especially in a conventional battle. There were nearly as many astartes that fought in the massacre than are alive in the current setting of 40k - around 750-800k I reckon. That's not including titan legions, the heavy weaponry that Legions deployed and the ten primarchs that were present. It has been, and I imagine will always be, the zenith of war within the 40k setting.
YEAH BUDDY, ALMOST AT 500k, keep it up majorkill
The one thing I truly respect about Majorkill is using his platform and reach to promote healthy living and nutrition.
The planet fell before the Guard did!
“Fuck off” is my new favourite unit of measurement
Last time i was this early erebus was likeable
The Seige of Terra has to be many, many times more large than what you're saying.
The defenders conscripted as much of the Earth's population as they could, which was in the tens of billions after it was replenished by the Great Crusade, and ever Hive City fought against the traitors. Eventually even swarms of the civilians were fighting with just rocks and debris against the traitors, wearing marines and darmons down through sheer weight of numbers. That's not counting the entire armies of whole worlds mustered from across the Imperim brought to fight, and the populations of other planets and country sized space stations across the Sol system.
The Traitors too didn't just have their existing Legion assets and Auxilia forces. They had millions of cultists, the militaries of world's and forgeworlds that declared for the Warmaster, and even savage mutants and cavemen level savages they'd herded up from feral worlds and simply dropped in one way trip troop carriers into the thickest fighting as meat shields.
And that's not even counting the fact the Titan battle was the second smallest only after Beta Garman, or the unknown number of hot housed Inductii, low quality, mass produced sub par space marines.
The Siege of Terra would have had to have been in the billions on each side. Likely tens of billions.
Not really surprised about the siege of Terra, after 9 years war and warp storms, wouldn't be many at that point
Hope we can get a how powerful a space marine is video one day
Another banger mate. After having tacos on a Wednesday I'm hoping for a bit of T'au Thursday with the Ethereal Aun Shi and his status as a T'au Ethereal cheek clapping boss 😅
Lookin forwrd to start the sige of terra books, sound epic😁😁
Those numbers are so big it's hard to even understand them. I have seen around 6000 troops formed up on a parade field and even that seemed like such a huge amount FUCK
I'm surprised you didn't add in the War in Heaven
I realised that I did an spastic comment, so that's one is my bad
I really like Khaine (not to be confused with Kharn or Khorne). War isn't about sheer might and winning battles, nor about bravery and sacrifice. Ares, Greek God of war, was a renowned coward who fled the second the battle looked dicey. Athena was the goddess of strategy was far braver.
Khaine is just an Ares who can't quit. He's like Rocky, plenty can knock him down but none can keep him from getting up
The 1 million space marines is insane when you think how few held Baal and how easy it would be for a small detachment to take over a planet like ours 😂
Abaddon's greatest victory was the equivalent of flipping the game board when you lose
Would love to know if tyrannids have fought chaos demons in a significant clash. Shadowbrink is the only example I could find but not sure if it's just fanfic.
I still think it's a load of crap that there were only 850 million cadians on the homeworld
you are taking notes from PancreasNoWork by starting with the eldar. although i personally dislike the eldar, the prissy MFs, i can respect that the imperium/chaos get far too much attention to the point where it seems no one else is a player at all so the recent attention given to the eldar by the major community hubs for condensed 40k lore is nice,
i personally loved your video on underated orc characters because im a sucker for orks. frankly they just represent that masculine urge to die in tribal warfare for no good reason other than to prove yourself and i love it
How about a video on your favorite fan created marine chapters? Give me angry marines lol
I don't know if there are any named battles from it but the war in heaven would definitely have multiple battles larger than any of these.
Don't know why but I was assuming that the Siege of Vraks was gunna be on here, but that took years
At the siege of Terra you also have to factor in how many civilians would get involved in the fighting that spilled over. Most would run from astate's but on a planet of a trillion people if even 1% fought back that would be a billion. Granted that would assume the whole planet got involved and not just one large area. Still gotta figure millions of civilians. Still not enough for the most important battle in 40k but it helps.
Majorkill should a do top 5 bromances of 40k video
Could you do a video on all the xeno races in the tau empire
Imagine if the Thousand sons held the palace alongside the Fist and Iron Warriors for the loyalist that day.
Every Tyranid battle is a planet sized one because they want EVERYTHING
They’re lucky I wasn’t there to put an end to all this.