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(15:10) Imperial Guard
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You are der Otter, ja?
I hope this is intresting but my favorit quote from 40k is from the guard and it is ""Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours."
Lmao That quote is amazing
@@TheLegitWeebs A quote: "Bullets or las bolts, it doesn't really matter at a practical level, both kill well enough in the right hands. But for me, the bullet is more than a mere munition, it is an ancient thing; it is an echo of every bullet ever fired, every death dealt out by the hand of man since the beginning. *You hear a bullet thunder;* you are hearing the sound of humanity's bloody history made real."
- The Remembrancer Eldin Takley, The Viscera of War, a Memoir, 875.M30"
"To a Space Marine, the boltgun is far more than a weapon; it is an instrument of Mankind's divinity, the bringer of death to his foes. Its howling blast is a prayer to the gods of battle."
-The Apocrypha of Skaros
40k quotes go hard
Best one I liked was "they who scoff at the lazgun haven't gone against a 1000 of them"
That one is also a good one most guard quotes are good ones honestly
"wait, these are just regular dudes? how do they survive?"
thats the neat part, they dont.
in most regiments, surviving a single infantry push? instant promotion
The life expetency of an I.perial Guardsman on the front line ie about 15 minetes.
To clarify something that a lot of people seem to misinterpret, Warp travel is still possible without the Emperor and the Astronimicon. Warp travel is facilitated by a so-called 'Warp drive' that tears open the fabric of reality in a controlled manner so that ships may enter and leave the Warp at will. However, without the Emperor and the Astronomicon it is even more unreliable and dangerous than it already is because the Warp does not obey the laws of physics as we understand them, so you can overshoot or undershoot your target by lightyears, and in some instances literal years; there are many documented cases of Imperial ships arriving at their destination instantaneously or thousands of years behind schedule, or even arriving at their destination so far ahead of schedule that they go back in time to where the ship itself hasn't even been built yet. And this crap happens WITH the Astronomicon aiding navigation, so you can only imagine how bad it would be otherwise if everyody across the galaxy was flying blind.
Damn, that would certainly cause a traffic problem of galactic proportions.
@@TheLegitWeebs
Plus, what you experience while inside the warp may not properly reflect the material time.
So that instantaneous travel? For everyone _inside_ the ship, it's been thousands of years. Or on the flipside, it'll feel like a few seconds have passed, then you come out and it's been hundreds of years.
Warp Travel is unreliable and dangerous in the worst way possible. The Imperium would literally gain a significant powerboost if they just have a safe and consistent way to achieve FTL. Everything could stay the same, but just that one factor would bump their threat level a whole bunch. That is the testament to how powerful the Imperium is, and how awful Warp Travel is.
It is already chaotic with the Astronomicon.@@TheLegitWeebs
To add to that: Without Navigators (and by extension without the Emperor helping the Navigators get their bearing in the Warp) most ships can at best do little "hops" of a few lightyears of distance before they have to transition back to the Materium to re-orient themselves and do the next hop.
Their ship cogitator banks (think thinking-machines but not AI as that is HERESY so you can guess what is -actually- in those) can try to calculate jumps like that but beyond like 4LY it gets Exceedingly dangerous and unreliable. Meanwhile With the Emperor and Navigators you can feasably travel from one end of the Milky Way to the other... or ofc Never Return at all.
Welcome to 40K
Warhammer 40k - Where the first hurdle to the average guardsmens survival isn't enemy contact but just getting there.
The "Innocence Proves Nothing" line makes sense....even if it isn't great.
You can be corrupted without you knowing or you can unintentionally aid someone who isn't innocent....and Inquisitors can't take any chances with you. Keep in mind that rebellions in the Imperium are common and they escalate often into very violent territory.
Ex-Inquisitor Fidus Kryptman is a man known for two things:
- Getting kicked out of the Imperium for glassing too many planets.
- Pitting two of the largest horde xenos armies against each other in a huge war because he thought they would get rid of each other, only to backfire horribly.
When you put it like that, I can see why that's their motto. As for the Ex-Inquisitor, I suppose that's why he's an Ex-Inquisitor now xD.
@@TheLegitWeebs Btw, the second thing he was remembered for...was after he got kicked out of the Imperium.
-_- what a madlad
@@TheLegitWeebsYeah in Warhammer the soul and the spirit are very real concepts and demons, even the viewing of them, can corrupt your spirit. That's why you may see a demon, run away, survive and look fine on the surface. You did nothing wrong, you're innocent but then you start getting voices and dreams that tell you to do things you don't want to and you end up bringing another demonic invasion to your planet 10 years later. That's why an inquisitor prefers to execute 9 "innocent" people to get the one "guilty", as it saves the planet of a billion
"This sucks but I'm sorry, we have to do it or we die or worse" is the motto of the Imperium
@_zapatoz_ No way you guessed that
A thing the Adeptus Custodes do to "pass the time" beside their duty in guarding the Emperor is something called "Blood Games": to test their defences against invaders, assassins ect. a random Custodian would leave the Imperial Palace and spends days, weeks or even months of planning before enacting a mock assassination attempt. Whether they succeed in stopping him or not, they then analize whatever flaw was in their defences and fix that.
Makes sense. Kind of like how a White Hat hacker would attempt to breach a security system
Delta Force once pulled one of these against the Secret Service and got away with it, after being challenged to do so. Almost everything about the mission is classified, aside from the fact that the security hole in question was found and patched. Nearby radar systems to the White House could not pick up a bunch of dudes doing a high-altitude, low-opening parachute insertion at the time. They installed a much more modern system.
Memory serves, they also work on poems and map out music in their heads.
@@madbombermedia3070 I love that.
Everyday they break into their own home, improve the defense, reseal themselves out, and then do it again… for 10,000 years!
32:50 there are women in the imperial guard, but the geneseed for space marines only works on males.
there are women in mechanicus too
geneseed used on female would turn her into male space marine
@@pdasedar5722 thats... not how that works. i mean we dont have (as far as i know) any instances of it being tried but i would imagine the same thing happens as when you try to turn people that are too old into marines, their body just rejects the geneseed much like an modern day organ transplant and then just dies
also while there are women in the imperial guard they still tend to be segragated by gender for obvious reasons, so you might have a mordian number 275 regiment that is all male but then a mordian 276 regiment that is all female
@@pdasedar5722 The geneseed would most likely kill any woman it was implanted into, it requires a certain compatability with the traits of the primarch, similar to blood tansfusions or organ transplants. less than 1 in 1000 humans are compatible enough to even attempt implantation and many of them are horribly deformed and suffer rejection during the process. Other than genetic compatability there is also more than one implant that requires male hormones to function properly. The muscle growth one definately and also the bone hardening one I think, there might be more.
@@vhaelen326 The Emperor could have made female marines happen if he had wanted to, like he did with certain adult folowers of the primarchs from their homeworlds, they just weren't at the same level as a normaly recruited marine.
He didn't because he had his reasons not to, whatever they may be, the same reason's that all of the primarch are male.
Other than him the only person who is even close to capable of anything like that is Cawl.
Some regements are mixed, sometimes its just not a consideration during recruitment and sometimes two battle damdged regements are combined into a new regiment, but segregation is by no means universal.
The Drath Corps and the Vestroyans are all male though. For specific lore related reasons.
Vestroya's tithe is that the first born son of every family is conscripted.
Krieg is designated as a "War World", all able men fight, women and non able men work in the factories to make weapons, amunition, and more soldiers. To the extent that they are the only planet allowed to use cloning and artificial wombs to increase the production of soldiers. Similar to ancient Sparta there is a certain stigma to not being found fit enough to enlist.
@@vhaelen326 apparently the emperor tried. Its not known why it didnt work, but part of the creation of the primearchs has been said to involved psycher magic, so it could be as simple as some warp ritual requirement.
Also their are mixed gender regiments. The tanith first and only recruited women in the gaunts ghost series and same series refeeences a few others. I don't imagine it's super common but there is enough precedence.
With all he said about the Sisters of Battle, it’s worth remembering that they’re not “female space marines”. They’re just regular human women.
And to some extent they actually hate space marines because they see them as mutants (which they are I guess).
Hate is a bit strong, they get along great with the Black Templars. Their "mutations" aren't mutations, they are gifts from the Emperor, they were perfect human specemins before geneseed implantation. It has more to do with most space marines treating the Emperor as their grandfather rather than a god.
"Just regular human women" There is nothing regular about being in peak physical condition, every last one of them is easily at a special forces level of fitness and training. However I concede that it is something that is acciveable by anyone, with enough commitment.
They are also all female to bypass a loophole in the law that the Ecclesiarchy has no "men under arms". Prior to Goge Vandire's reign of terror the Ecclesiarchy had armys much like the Imperial Guard only with more religious fervor.
Yet they also revere them as literally holy because they have the blood and blessing of the Emperor flowing through them.
@@theChris232 so they’re regular human women.
They’re not genetically augmented in any way, they’re fit, strong and well trained within human nature.
I.e. regular human women.
Nothing “regular” about fanatics with a near limitless budget for weapons, power armor, flamer fuel, and bionic enhancements.
@@fumarc4501 regular as I’m not genetically modified
Didn't see anyone else answer it, but they may have so apologies if you already have the answer.
The pause when he said he created 20 Primarchs, then said 18 is because 2 of the Primarchs and their associated legions have been scrubbed from history for something so terrible, all the other Primarchs agreed to have their memories wiped as to their names and actions. They know there were two others, but outside of that, they do not remember anything. The original writer said it was a reference to the 2 lost Roman Legions, but most people now use it as a space for a "Create your own" legion.
Thanks for letting me know! I do think it's a great idea to have a lore reason for custom legions.
@@TheLegitWeebsalso the emperor created 21 primarchs. as the person above said, 2 were wiped, but another of the planned 20 turned into twins, alpharius and omegon of the heretic (maybe) alpha legion in which all the legionnaires say they are alpharius. The alpha legion is all about deception, infiltration and spying. Supposedly the alpha legion is a traitor legion, but some lore suggests otherwise. Supposedly alpharius was killed, but its the alpha legion so no one really knows.
its not that people now use it as a space for create your own legion it was allways meant to be both, 40k does that alot where it leaves room for headcannon for multiple reasons, for one if you dont know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING its alot harder to find plotholes, also it makes the hobby more engaging because yes, you COULD reasonably have a legion/chapter of marines that are just angry 25/7 without it conflicting the lore NECCESSARILY
Lore wise, women make up a lot of the Astra Militarum. There is that Starship Troopers type attitude of Soldier becomes your gender when you enlist. However, guard models do not represent their female composition very well.
Also, there is a 40k TTRPG where the party is the retinue of an Inquisitor helping them investigate heresy. I really want to try it out.
if im not mistaken most if not all regiments are still segragated by gender though, aside from scrap regiments but then again they often dont have to conform to the whole "separate your troop types rock paper scissors style" mandate either
No, you got it twisted. That's only ONE regiment of the Astra Militarum. There's so much more. Like the Krieg, who are based on WW1 Germans who use trench warfare and are genuinely some of the scariest mfs in 40k, and they're just regular humans, or the Catachan Jungle Fighters, who are basically all stereotypical 80s action movie machismo, like Rambo or Dutch from Predator.
Dark Heresy is okay.
To explain the Innocentia Nihil Probat thing:
You have to understand that as a human unless you are a blank or insanely strong of will you always ARE at risk of corruption, influence and possession from the powers of the Warp.
This, coupled with the issue of truely innocent people still being on planets that get judged by things like Exterminatus In Extremis is why the whole idea exists.
Yes there are innocents down there. But they don't have the LUXURY of trying to save every innocent soul pretty much most of the time.
One thing I love about the setting, and why I think it really hits differently, is because of the context of where it came from. The lore is meant to support a table-top wargame where you can have fun beating up your friends. This means that the lore is explicitly designed so that every faction has an in-universe reason they might be fighting ANY other faction. INCLUDING ITSELF. To me that's why everything is so insane and fun.
If I remember right, the average lifespan of a guardsman starting from the moment they hit their first battlefield is like 15 hours.
The best 15 hours of their life I'm sure
@@TheLegitWeebs wouldn't exactly say that, but that's more explained in the part 2 of bricky's video
The Death Corps of Kreig use this. The officer's and NCO's of every new founding regiment are survivors from decimated regiments.
No, that's under extreme circumstances. The average is a few weeks, and the 15-minute thing is the exception, not the rule.
that's like playing one of the Battlefield games, or World of Tanks or something
you run around until you inevitably get killed, and having 1 character last the whole match is rare
The thing about warp travel is that it is already unreliable but without the emperor it would be a coin flip unless you make a lot of short hops which would make it a lot slower.
Humanity already travelled the stars before the emperor using the warp as well.
'Warhammer' generally denotes the entire franchise, but most people use it in referrnce to their preferred setting.
Warhammer Fantsasy is the OG medieval fantasy setting, created by Games Workshop back in the day to try and cash in with a bootleg version of Lord of the Rings. Eventually, Warhammer Fantasy became its own thing, but the influence of Tolkien's work is still very much present. Warhammer Fantasy was eventually reimagined as a high-fantasy setting called 'Age of Sigmar' centered around the world created by the god Sigmar after a series of events called The End Times destroyed the original Warhammer Fantasy world. This has since been overturned with the recently announced reboot of Warhammer Fantasy called 'The Old World', but that's another matter. Point is, Warhammer Fantasy came first and is still around.
Warhammer 40,000, or simply '40k' as most people prefer to call it was originally a sci-fi spinoff of Warhammer Fantasy, based on the idea of advancing the plot of Warhammer Fantasy by some 40,000 years into the future where all of the Fantasy races had discovered space travel and expaded into the wider universe. Games Workshop slowly changed this so that 40k, rather than being a hypothetical continuation of Warhammer Fantasy is instead a standalone setting and franchise, detailing a grimdark version of our own universe set thousands of years into the future, with the 41st Millennium of the year 40,000 AD onwards being the primary focus, although the 40k timeline also extends over 65 million years into the past and also fixates on the events of the events surrounding the Horus Heresy circa 30,000 AD, hence why it is unofficially called '30k' by the fanbase, and the events leading up to it, namely the Golden Age of Technology and subsequent Dark Age of Technology, as well as the Unification Wars, the Emperor's campaign to unite all of Earth under his banner following the Dark Age of Technology, and the Great Crusade, wherein the Emperor formally established the Imperium of Man and set out to re-unify the disparate colonies of humanity throughout the galaxy and recovering his 20 Primarch sons, who had been scattered across the galaxy by the diabolical machinations and Warp fuckery of the Chaos Gods. The first of these Primarchs to be recovered, Horus Lupercal, became the Emperor's favored son, was eventually named Warmaster of the Imperium with authority second only to the Emperor himself, and eventually fell to the machinations of Chaos and waged the decade-long Imperial civil war called the Horus Heresy which has left the Imperium scrambling to get its shit in order for 10,000 years now that the Emperor is on life-support and cannot rule directly anymore and struggles to communicate with anyone beyond vague psychic visions and messages.
Thank you so much for the clarification! I can tell that I haven't even scratched the surface when it comes to Warhammer, and it all sounds so dark and compelling.
@@TheLegitWeebs Glad to be of service. I should also mention that in addition to the 'Factions Explained' series, Bricky has also done a video concerning the Space Marine Legions in a more comprehensive manner, as well as a video detailing the overall 40k timeline. He also runs a podcast that you can find here on UA-cam called 'Adeptus Ridiculous' which he started in order to teach his friend and co-host DK, and by extension the audience, all about Warhammer 40,000. If you find the time, and they've done a video on a faction you're interested in, I highly recommend giving them a look.
@@Brutalyte616 While we say Horus was found first, in reality Alpharius was the one found first and kept secret to the end.
@@Firaveas Yes, but the book that was from opens with the line 'I am Alpharius. This is a lie' and ends with 'But this is my record. And all records lie.'
Deliberately untrustworthy narrator.
@@Brutalyte616deliberately based narrator you mean. Alphari-Chad is gonna reappear in the war on Tau... on the side of the Tau.
As a 40k nut, i very much enjoyed this take.
You paused, you talked, you questioned. It was bliss.
Bricky is just a first step. Many others exist but this is where it starts.
Bricky has 4 videos out now
Factions Part 1, 2
Legions in a nut shell
And most recent,
Timeline and lore.
As for the one point you asked about; cost.
It can be very expensive to play professionally. Tournaments and models, paint and time, competitive army building and collecting.
But!
Poorhammer 40k exists.
I started with painted popsicle sticks, paper towels rolls and tissue boxes for terrain set up on my kitchen floor.
Buy the game books and start there. Now over the years, you collect a model here and there. Maybe the faction you like gets a new unit or an update and you can treat yourself. Over time, your army grows. As mine did.
Be it public or on your own, watch the rest. Time worth while.
Glad you enjoyed! I'll definitely be checking out more from Bricky for sure. Also, Poorhammer 40k is an amazing name lol. It's cool to see how passionate people are about the series, and honestly what intrigued me the most was the writing. If I ever have time to I'll check out some of the books.
@@TheLegitWeebs in Bricky's lore video, he recommends several books for new people. Most are available as audiobooks but as a paper back lover, get the physical copy for the feels.
@@TheLegitWeebsIf you ever get into the books, especially the Horus Heresy and especially the start, prepare to cry manly tears at least twice lol. The writing is very good but some moments really shine
Don't forget the best player made story series after you get the basic lore: the all guardsman party. A 40k rogue trader campaign. Thar plays out like a parody of terry Pratchett's discworld the watch serie:)
The Imperial Guard has plenty of women in it, and there's even a novel series where the main character is a female commissar.
Gonna add this if someone hasn't already. The Mechanicus do believe in the Emperor. They think he is the Omnissiah, basically machine jesus, to the Machine God. He was so scientifically advance that when the Cult Mechanicum joined the Imperium they agreed to worship him.
yeah was about to mention that aswell, they see the emperor as one specific facette of the omnissiah very similiar to jesus being one facette of 'god'
Its not mentioned in this video but adeptus custodes are often actually like poets, philosophers, artists, etc etc. The emperor made the custodians first before the astartes and primarchs. The emperor was very closed off to even his own sons but he would often ask his custodes for council and advice during the few times he didn't have an exact answer to a problem. Also yea the custodes can go against the inquisition as other comments say but other factions within the imperium can push back a bit (to an extent) mostly just the space marine chapters. And many of the space marines don't view the emperor as a god while others do. A lot of the core chapters tend to not be as religious while more of the newer chapter's are. For the most part the imperium believe the emperor is a god but there are some gray areas besides the adeptus mechanicus
if im not mistaken there are 3 timelines with the custodes, space marines and thunderwarriors from different books... all three of which are still considered cannon
one book suggests that the custodes came first but they were slow to produce during the unification so big E made the thunderwarriors which were cheap but also much lower quality and once he had the resources and time he made the spacemarines which where the perfect middleground between quality and quantity
another book suggests it was thunderwarriors then custodes, then space marines
and the last one suggests thunderwarriors then spacemarines and custodes
such things can happen with 20 different writers
You are correct assuming that inqusition can't command the Adeptus Custodes. Only the Emperor can command them and only he has any authority over them. A custodian could just walk to a inquisitor and lop their head off and offer no explanation.
Even the current regent of the Imperium, one of emperor's sons, can't command or judge them.
Channel Baldermort's guide to Warhammer has a really good video on them. His video start and/or end with really good fanfiction stories he writes. And you bet he has an amazing low voice that caresses your ears.
There is a 6 min introductory video and 1 hour long in depth video. Both are great.
Bricky said they are special but it really needs to hammered down how special. The primarchs, Emperor's sons, were expendaple tools. Of course the custodes are tools too but they know this and they are privy to his thoughts and plans more so than the primarchs.
Thanks for the suggestion and clarifications! There seems to be a very precarious balance of power between each faction.
i wouldnt say the primarchs where EXPENDABLE tools, and i mean in general thats the issue with blacklibrary, if you have 20 people writing the books bringing in their own views and opinions its gonna be a mess, we have quotes from gulliman saying things like "in the end it was allways us who called you father, and never you who called us sons" but then in several books he does call them his sons etc, so depending on book/author the emperor saw them as tools or as his actuall sons i would argue that he probably did create them as tools but still viewed them as his sons, and as i said, just because something/someone is a tool doesnt mean they are expendable, powerfull tools are some of the most vallueable assets and imo it clearly shows that, as most of the primarchs had a clear purpose AFTER the crusade with guilliman being not just a warrior but also a statesman and politician, fulgrim wouldve been an artist inspiring the citisens of the imperium, rogal would be in charge of fortification and building up the entire imperium
@@vhaelen326 To my understanding they were useful to a point and that point was the total conquering of the galaxy and destroying all threats to humanity. After that they would have met fate similar to the Thunder Warriors. Maybe not all of them were to be killed but there was civil war (read as culling) in the making.
The Emperor and Malcador were always concerned about survival of the baseline humanity. The Imperium of Man and Council of Terra were made for the baseline humanity.
Protection of Humanity and overseeing it's next step of evolution were their main motives.
Sometimes the Custodes fall to a sickness called "Inquisitor-dissapear-out-of-knowhere-disease"
One of the things to mention is that there's a couple of Imperium factions that have 'absolute authority', and nothing to clarify who has priority when they are at odds so it comes down to who has the bigger stick.
It mostly shows up between the Inquisition and other sub-factions, because their whole job is sticking their noses where people don't want them to and no one likes that. Not going to disagree that there's been more then a few Inquisitors who have been high on their own farts and just didn't realize that they were holding the shorter stick, but they're supposed to poke and prod authority to make sure that they're not corrupt, and _no one_ is more suspicious of an Inquisitor then another Inquisitor.
There was a point in time when the Warhammer and Warhammer 40K settings were supposed to be related somehow, though it was never made clear exactly how, before Games Workshop turned them into two separate settings.
The Lizardmen from Warhammer were created by the Old Ones, same as the Eldar and the Orks from 40K were, and things like that.
If you want a detective game you play as an Inquisitor in Warhammer 40k, then i recommend "Isenhorn: Xenos" in which you play as Inquisitor Gregor Isenhorn that's trying to find and capture a heretical Saboteur that is part of a much larger heretical group, and this game is based on the first book of a much larger book siries known as the Isenhorn books
The Inquisitors just seemed so perfect for a detective type game. Glad that there is one.
@@TheLegitWeebs i am more surprised they haven't made more of this game, it is super underrated!
firstly its eisenhorn secondly... you mean the game that was removed from steam because of how bad it was? which says alot when games like ETERNAL CRUSADE are still around and available...
@@vhaelen326 was the game that bad?
@@nickpapadopoulos9978 apperantly, I never played it but from what I saw/heard... Yeah, pretty bad
As to the Ironstriders (called a dunestrider in the vid), the reason they are so paranoid about them is the dude who made them literally perfected a perpetual motion machine. As long as the ironstrider keeps running, it will never run out of power. They only stop for very VERY short periods of time when the integrated servitor has to be replaced due to age and decomposition, and that's basically a plug and play ordeal. The problem is nobody knows how to restart them if they do actually turn off from being stationary for too long.
The Eversor is sadly a bit mistold by Bricky. Here a bit of correction.
Yes they are HEAVILY psychologically and mentally conditioned, but not Clockwork Orange style.
They have extremely hightened aggression, but they can focus it on their intended target.
Imagine these assassins like a completely overclocked PC. Their bodies, minds and nervoussystems operate on levels that are ludicrous speeds, even compared to a Spacemarine. After these former "humans" are completely converted to Eversors, they HAVE to be cryoed, because their bodies would stop functioning after just some weeks, to I think 2 or 3 months at the really hard maximum.
So they are dropped as near as possible to their target, get their target(s) mentally imprinted on the drop and take the fastest and bloodiest way imaginable to their target and after completion (and hopefully surviving) take the fastest way to their cryo, to be frozen again. Think of it as, the shorter the time they are unfrozen, the more uses you get out of one of those assassins.
An Eversor is one of the most bloody and loud messages you can get, if the Imperium is definitely not pleased with your existense. They definitely don't actively kill friendly troops (normally included in their mental imprint) but they will definitely go literally through you if you are in their path or could slow them down in any way.
I one time read a short "report" of an Eversor who used up all his weapons on reaching the target and then making a complete bloodbath of the targets family and all household by using their silverware like spoons and stuff.
May Papa Nurgle welcome you with open arms.
I have no idea who that is, but as long as he's thicc I'll accept his embrace
Oh not Papa Nurgle he is so thick and diseaseriden that you do not whant an embrace from Nurgle
@@whats_down Guess I got to become a better man to handle him
@@TheLegitWeebsWelcome to warhammer 40k, when nothing makes sense, and yet It makes sense.
Whole plot is that all this happening in our Galaxy but 40.000 years in the future. Map that you have seen represents our Milky Way Galaxy.
My favorite faction is the Mechanicus so I feel it is my duty to tell you how cool and well thought out they are
Mars was the first world ever colonized by humanity far before the Horus heresy. It was terraformed into a fully habitable planet comparable to earth, but for complicated reasons, a huge nuclear war broke out transforming Mars back into a red planet. As the mars colonists took refuge underground from the now deadly surface, they had total reliance on life support machines, oxygen recyclers, industrial farms, stuff like that. Spending centuries underground and disconnected from earth, the engineers responsible for maintaining the machines keeping everyone alive became elevated to religious status like priests, and the machines became akin to saviors. Over the centuries the repair manuals for their machines became slowly corrupted with rituals. In the “modern day” Mechanicus, many of their rituals do serve actual purposes such as lubricating or properly cleaning or activating a machine, but there is a bunch of pointless rituals mixed in, and no one is brave enough to attempt to repair a machine without the proper rituals, lest it breaks, never to be repaired as the knowledge to repair it has been lost long ago. Most of the most powerful ships and vehicles in the imperium are irreplaceable. The Mechanicus would sacrifice millions of soldiers before they let something like an Ark Mechanicus be destroyed. (they are basically giant self sufficient warships combined with factories that are so sacred that they don’t even really know all the inner workings. At least one Ark Mechanicus has an STC hidden inside of it, and the Mechanicus have spent their entire existence searching for an STC, ironically using Ark Mechanicus warships to do so. A working STC contains endless blueprints from humanities golden age and would probably allow humanity to easily crush all its enemies, but because of their paranoia they will probably never look deep enough into their machines to ever find it.)
Ofc they'd be given such a cruel and ironic fate. To forever search for something that is already within their grasp because their own fear of breaking the machine won't allow them to. Thank you so much for the extra info on the Mechanicus!
@@TheLegitWeebs No problem. If you enjoy strategy games or just want to have a great way to experience the “vibe” of the Mechanicus, there’s a Strategy game called Warhammer 40000: Mechanicus that gives you a great window into the world of the Admech. It is great at showcasing the hypocrisy and infighting that can take place, as some Mechanicus aren’t that opposed to inventing technology or even repurposing alien technology. My favorite character in the game is obsessed with obtaining alien technology and is more than ok with sacrificing soldiers to do so. She has so much cybernetics that her dialogue in the game looks more like JavaScript code, whereas the other characters speak in normal sentences.
@Roach_Dogg_JR As an XCOM fan that game has been on my radar. Can't wait to try it out someday when I can afford to.
@@TheLegitWeebs I haven’t played Xcom but I believe they are somewhat similar. I don’t even own a single Warhammer book or model, I just love the Mechanicus. Maybe it’s because I already loved technology and science before discovering them, but since I’ve learned about them I have put a prayer slab on my 3D printer, a holy seal on my car, and every time I open my computer to upgrade or fix it I say a little prayer to it.
54:23 the thing to note here is that the inquisition have the most power in the imperium, but the custodes aren't part of the imperium, they're member of the imperial household, which is technically a separate entity that solely answer to the emperor and the household. Inquisitor have to thread very carefully when custodes are involved because they can't throw their authority at the custodes.
I'll try to explain the Tabletop a little bit: You and your friend have your respective armies. Each Unit (oder Character Model) does have a certain point cost. You agree to battle at a specific point cost (1000 points for each army is mostly the minimum). You look in your specific rulebooks, what army you could play with the amount of points, you are playing and make an army list with the units, you want to play and if you play really fair, both of you send the other one the army list, so that you could make a strategy to defeat the other one.
When you meet, you prepare the table with terrain and after that, some strategic points are set, that you must hold until the end of the game.
The game itself mostly lasts 5 rounds and every round is parted into specific underparts. Movement, firing with ranged weapons, attack phase, close combat and after dealing with losses, the unit with the most losses have to do a battleshock test, to see, if it flees from a fight.
Every single unit has a stat block in which is written, what movement range the unit has, how good it is at using ranged or close combat weapons and a moral value. The higher the stat, the better the unit is.
The game is played with 6 sided dices, which you might know from family games like monopoly.
At the end of the game, you calculate, how much strategic points you've captured and the one with the most captured wins the game.
The game itself sounds simple enough, but does seem to require a lot of preparation. Although, now that I think about it, all table top games require a significant amount of prep anyways. But of course, thank you for explaining the basics to me!
@@TheLegitWeebs
No problem. We're now in the 10th Edition and while the Chaos Primarchs were active in the Eye of Terror, all of the Loyalist Primarchs were vanished over the years. The only dead Loyalist Primarch is Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands, who was killed by the Primarch of the Traitor Legion of the Emperors Children, Fulgrim. Later, the Primarch of the Ultramarines, Guilliman, was also deadly wounded by Fulgrim, but was quickly put into a Stasis Field.
He also was the first Primarch, who had returned and took control over the forces of the Imperium. And now, the Primarch of the first Legion (the Dark Angels, Lion El Johnson also has returned.
The bad news for the Imperium is: The mechanics of the Golden Throne also slowly begin to fail
32:51
The guard and Mechanicus both have females inside them that operate in the front lines.
In the Mechanicus it can sometimes be hard for even normal people in universe to tell of a person was once male or female sometimes due to the number of augmentation they undergo.
Note not all go as far as and can be quite identifiable from their still human features or voices or… other parts alone.
However, those in the Skitarii (the Titan legion defence forces primarily and tho also the fighting militant of the Mechanicus when needed) are much deeper into the teachings and following of the Mechanicus so do usually bear so many augmentations it’s almost impossible to tell outside of small things like if they still have a somewhat human voice or if their physic matches more to one the broader strokes of male and female lines.
As for the guard I believe it’s noted to be a 80-20 % split between male and female regiments tho there are a number of mixed ones; tho the guard do prefer to avoid this to both ease logistics - as both males and females do require different things even if the guard do most of the time fall into “1 size fits all” mentality - tho also to avoid the other thing when you put lots of male and females together on extended deployments in mass transport ships with little to do or even after engagements with people having lots of spare “energy” that needs to be blown off; plus throw in that it does lead to lots of internal relationships within the regiment from bottom to top which can lead to internal strife and deeper hits of morale shock when certain people die.
So yeah they try to avoid such things tho it’s not always possible.
One thing bricky also skipped over with the guard is how they are formed.
Yes they are all recruited from the same home planet and given a new number designation (or an old one of a destroyed heroic regiment in attempt to rebuild its glory and name and boost morale in both troop and civilian);
However, for the vast majority of worlds outside of a very very trusted few, each regiment is never a combined arms force, but only every a single element.
I.e. they can either be an infantry regiment, mechanised regiment, armoured regiment, drop trooper regiment, artillery regiment, etc etc.
This was done after the Horus Heresy when the guard was actually called the Imperial Army and was fully combined arms, however after thousands of regiments turned traitor with Horus, the Imperium didn’t wish the idea of facing a mass uprising like that again. So each regiment created could only consists of one element of the puzzle.
This meant that if say an infantry regiment rebelled, the guard would just bring an artillery regiment, a mechanised regiment and a armoured regiment together from three different places to destroy that single infantry one easily.
It also means of say an armoured regiment goes traitor, they can easily pull together a couple artillery regiments and anti-armour based regiment to hit them hard.
Same with an artillery regiment going traitor, just get a drop trooper regiment and you can easily counter them.
It’s completely designed so that if a unit rebels it doesn’t have that combined arms ability to easily resit while the imperium can easily group together several different regiments of several different types to fight alongside one another to defeat those rouge elements.
Nice!
Btw, this factions introduction is a bit skewed towards tabletop, in a sense that he introduces factions mostly as armies. In lore, which is massive, books and video-game implementations situations may vary. E.g. reading Wh40k books, sisters of silence rather appear on pages in small numbers or even just one, in an Inquisitor's team. Or how Grey Knights were presented in Dawn of War 1: Dark Crusade (rts) - only one end-game elite squad of Space Marines faction.
On another note - yeah, going into minis is not really worth it. For those who interested in Warhammer 40000 there is a plenty of books, or lore reads on wikis/thematic sites, and of course video-games. Video-games include such genres as:
rts of various scales e.g. Dow1, Dow2, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (battles in wh40k happen not only on the grounds of various planets, but also in the sea of stars! Ship designs are epic!);
fps, such as Necromunda: Hired Gun;
tps, such as Space Marine and upcoming Space Marine 2;
turn-based tactics, such as Mechanicus(2018) or Armageddon(2014)
whatever genre that game adaptation of a book about Inquisitor Eisenhorn was
and even just rpg (a bit similar to bg3) - upcoming Rogue Trader.
Definitely considering checking out some books if I ever can. Been a while since I've found a series that intrigued me. Also kinda excited to try out some of the games in the WH40k universe someday. Need PC upgrade first though xD.
@@TheLegitWeebs some good books to get started are:
- The ciaphus cain series (there’s 11, you don’t need to read them all), which follows the commissar (officer responsible for keeping the troops in line in the imperial guard) ciaphus cain and his exploits in the galaxy, cain is, in my opinion, THE most interesting character to read about, because he has crippling imposter syndrome.
The infinite and the divine, a necron book, very funny. I laughed out loud many times reading it. It follows the millennia long rivalry between the necron overlord trazyn the infinate (local kleptomaniac) and the cryptek orikan the diviner (with the power of save scumming)
- if you want something slightly more serious, gaunts ghosts is another series of guard books that is rather good, though I haven’t read it myself.
Generally, my advice is to find a faction you like, and learn about them, and branch out form there. There is 40 irl years of lore to learn about. So learn about what interests you
Hey bricky staring into our souls is a net positive, the man is walking warhammer serotonin
Gonna comment and say i really enjoyed your discussion and analysis on Brick's video. I heard of 40k in passing but this video of his a couple years ago now was brought me down the seemingly infinite rabbit hole. Major fan of the lore, video games and memes. Have not delved into the tabeltop yet because it's expensive and that's two years into the community. Glad to welcome you in here. 🎉
Thanks for the kind words! Looking forward to discovering more about the lore myself.
What I find strange is when Guilliman was revived and met with the Emperor after waking up, the Emperor didn't said anything about letting him die for good since he can be reborn again and more powerful than ever... Now you may argue that if the Emperor dies, the Warp travel gets cut off but... aren't you sacrificing one thousand psykers every single day for 10K years??... shouldn't you have a map of the Warp routes by now?
I guess there is a motive behind it.
Another quote about the Inquisition that i came to love is this quote by Inquisitor Fyodor Karamazov: "A plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time."
Admittedly he's one of the more extreme inquisitors out there, but still.
By the way, a sorta playable faction Bricky technically missed is the Militarum Tempestus, which is understandable as they're usually played in support of the Imperial Guard and Navy (or even directly part of it in some cases). They're basically Special operations Command of the Imperial Administration independent of the Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy branches. Their recruits are also taken from the Schola Progenium and they're responsible for primarily:
Stormtroopers - or at least Stormtroopers that aren't tied to the Imperial Guard for more specialized missions they can't call Space Marines into for whatever reason
and
Commissars - Political, legal, martial and often religious leaders given an advisory role in the Imperial Guard and Navy, there to enforce discipline and morale, and act as a liaison to other imperial forces or between different Imperial guard forces as they can't be politically fucked with the way regular army officers can. These guys have the authority to relieve military officers, execute men and officers and even requisition local resources and temporarily take command of entire planets' defense forces if necessary.
A few commissars also hold formal military ranks such as Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and some more senior ones even command enough respect to "order" Space Marines around.
* The Commissars also tend to babysit Ogryns* and ease human guardsmen/imperial force relations with other abhuman mutants if they are present
*think a a tank-armoured ogre with the naivety of a kindergartener and the loyalty of a family dog.
56:45 actually the best way to experience inquisition is the tabletop rpg "dark heresy"... ten years of campaign with the most brillant gamemaster i know got me soooo much cool story on them... i loved every second of it...
"An innocent verdict is still guilty of wasting my time!" - Inquisitor
The reason he said 20 then 18 primarchs is because 2 of them aren't around or known about all we know is one is seen as a tragedy and the other is seen in shame
There is two totally independent universes: Warhammer 40k - dark fantasy/dystopian si-fi hybrid and Warhammer Fantasy battles - only fantasy.
One of my favorite quotes from the Inquisition is one that my friend found.
"A plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time."
44:49 Visions from the Emperor himself are one thing. Another way is "Imperial Tarot" which are special cards aligned with Psyker powers that can more or less, in quite a vague way reveal the will of the Emperor.
TO avoid you just thinking it's a meaningless meme.
The 2 Unmentioned Primarchs are a joke in universe that gets they eluded in some of the books as a wink to the fans.
But basically Games Workshop intentionally left those blank so it was placeholder for YOU the player to come up with your own Legion and just slide it there. A "blessing" that you can claim whatever the hell you want in your army and it's fine.
I like to think of 40K as an entire universe derrived from a MASSIVE stelaris game. Most of the favtions have had an endgame crisis event and still persist, to spite unspeakable horrors.
The reason he paused is because the Emperor made 20 sons, but two did something that caused them to be wiped from the history books, and the other sons never speak of them (basically gw made to legions that the fans can make as their own personal legion as either a loyalist or heretic legion)
3:28 you’ve a keen eye for details there. It’ll serve you well through this journey, new Initiate.
Remember, “knowledge is power - guard is well.”
40k is amazing! The only cost to play the tabletop is your firstborn!
Memes aside, I made a budget for a new army I want, and I had to budget 800-900 dollars
Fantasy and 40k are two different universes. There was an attempt to cross the streams but it didn't pan out. So now one is a universe for scifantisy and the other is dark fantasy.
To clarify, Warhammer Fantasy was the Original IP by GamesWorkshop that is more like D&D
Warhammer40K began as a sci-fi parody of Fantasy for laughs. But it became so popular so quickly that they switched it up and became more serious about it and put way more lore behind it. It has far outstripped Fantasy from which it spawned in both lore content and cash flow for GW.😂❤
40K is just the mad fever dream of a wizard gazing into a crystal ball.
The grey knights are a part of the imperial inquisition, so they answer only to the god emperor, plus they can authorize exterminartus
bricky also has a 40k timeline.
Thinking of checking it out at some point
12:24 you right. without warp travel, humanity is doomed. human planets can no longer trade stuff. imagine living in africa,rich with resources but you cant get food because logistic cease to exist.
Honestly, with really anything in life, knowing that you have the resources to do something but not the means to do so is one of the worst feelings ever. RIP humanity if the emperor ever keels over.
32:26 "I'm pretty sure they don't know how any of their things work" - the Ad Mech do actually know how the tech works, for the most part, they just interpret it as being part of the necessary steps to appease the machine spirit. For example, suppose you're driving your 2011 Civic, and when you hit the brakes you hear a grinding sound. You take it to the AdMechs; they explain to you that you've neglected the Rituals of Maintenance, and the machine spirit is angry. They will then recite the Litany of Getting It On The Lift while they move your vehicle onto the car lift. Then they'll anoint it with holy oils, recite the Prayer of Taking A Look, and examine the brake pads. Then they'll chant the Canticle of Unscrewing while they remove the bolts on the wheel. Annoint the tyre with holy oils, burn some incense, chant the Psalm of Lubrication because the pins on the brake pads are rusty. They'll remove the old brake pads and ensure they receive a proper holy burial...you get the idea. At the end, they'll hand you a beautifully illuminated and illustrated invoice while chanting the Prayer of Price Gouging.
They know how the technology works in great detail, but they perceive the necessary mechanical work to be just another part of the holy ritual that appeases the machine spirit.
This comment is amazing. Thank you lol
The path of pain reference. 😂
I see it in my worst nightmares
Bricky does the mordian iron guard dirty. They may have flawless uniforms, but thats because theyre the most disciplined force in the imperium.
The Way I understand that the Adeptus Mechanicus work is that within the Chanting what they actually instruct to do as part of the sacred litany's is... well what you do. One of them for example will say 'If the Machine Spirit is not co-operating you must press the sacred button marked 'Restart' down for the count of five... and then chant the litany of peace (Which will take... oh exactly 60 seconds) then press the button again...
IE restart the machine!
They spread on Mars when they needed a lot of people who could go do the same basic functions across the world and it's easier to train a lot of people to do a thing by rote, than by understanding....
It makes sense with how obsessed the Mechanicus are about the preservation of knowledge, that they would pass down their teachings through prayer and scripture.
If you want to check out a good book series that covers an inquisitor I'd recommend the eisenhorn trilogy. It doesn't really require a deep knowledge of the 40k universe to enjoy it
I started with Grey Knights. They're badass and fun af. Crowe is a baller on the tabletop
Gods the way Crowe just poses with that sword and DOES NOT DRAW POWER FROM IT is badass.
@@michaelsoria807 I believe he's killed a greater deamon of Slaneesh with it
A new one came out called The League of Votann.
Basically space dwarves.
over 30 years of lore writing that while had their stumble period (C.S Goto and Matt Ward) was kept mostly coherent with people who cared about it.
And even when retcons happen it's really made with care to fit all the other stuff written. Last example of a retcon is reintroduction of space-dwarves as Leagues of Votann.
Random bits of lore:
One of the Emperor's acts when uniting all humans under a common banner was that he eradicated all religion on Earth, he saw it as superstitious nonsense holding humanity back from it's true potential. This is why his now being worshipped as a god is so poetic - he has been turned into the thing that he most hated, and his united humanity has fallen into ritual, superstition and stagnation.
In 40k most technology is not understood why is partly why the Adeptus Mechanicus rely on ritual, prayer and half-understood memory. This is because most of the stuff from the Dark Age of Technology no longer works or was lost and "new tech" is mostly old Dark Age stuff rediscovered by the Ad-Mech in forgotten ruins.
Innovation is actively discouraged, partly because of ritual and dogma, partly because it is actually too risky. Remember all of those myths from history where writing a demon's true name would summon them? Well in 40k demons are real. Imagine designing a bit of electronics and the circuit board accidentally spells out a demons name. You die, everyone in your workshop dies, potentially that death opens up a portal, perhaps your city, continent or planet dies...just because you wanted to design a more efficient vacuum cleaner.
Part of the reason for the Adepta Sororitas being entirely women is a minor bit trickery and game-playing. To avoid the Ecclesiarchy (the church of the Emperor) having too much power they were forbidden from having any "men under arms" so they formed an army of women.
I never knew that trying to invent something new could be so dangerous in the 40k lore, and I find it funny that the Adepta Sororitas played semantics and made an army of women instead xD
Hum, you might want to try "If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device" and "The All Guardsman Party."
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Something I love about warhammer is that humanity is full of religious nutjobs but....
Hell is real, gods are real and there are immortal humans that can rip a hole in reality.
The universe is insane it's no wonder the people are too.
From the little that I've seen, I can tell that despite how crazy things get, it all makes sense within context of why things are the way that they are.
@@TheLegitWeebsExactly, they look insane till you see why then things begin making sense
@@TheLegitWeebs yep the emperor was immortal could shapeshift
and was clever enough to create superhumans I would think he was a god too.
Yeah, the closest to "good" you get in the Imperium is some random, halfway chill planet that happens to have a tradition of regional democracies and might get to elect their governor-for-life. They exist... barely. Oh, and the Tau's Farsight Enclaves are genuinely nice. The actual Tau Empire is basically doing some combination of Space China and Covenant things from Halo, and their unofficial motto is something along the lines of "Join us and be assimilated, or eat plasma".
Several people also bothered to run the numbers on just how many Imperial Guardsmen there are and the numbers go well into the tens of trillions. The Adepta Sororitas has ~150-200 million all-female, power-armored shock troops all by itself, Planetary Defense Force numbers are just ridiculous compared to the Guard (with quality absolutely all over the place, this is where the Guard recruits from, taking the top 10% or so of PDF), and there are "only" a million or so Space Marines.
The inquisition have more "power" than the custodes, in a sense. Because the Custodes aren't part of the Imperial hierarchy. A Custodes couldn't just commandeer an Imperial Guard legion, but an Inquisitor could. However, the Custodes also answer to NOBODY. An Inquisitor who tried to take a Custodes into their custody would have a really bad time. The Custodes are the only people in the entire Imperium who are totally unaccountable to the Inquisition, or anyone else. They answer to their own commander and to the Emperor. Nobody else.
Inquisitors can even command Space Marines. Although an Inquisitor would be playing a very dangerous game if they did, because the Space Marines might just decide to do away with them when nobody is looking. Imperial Guardsmen generally wouldn't have the nerve (usually), but there are exceptions.
There's a novel where an Inquisitor decides that Saint Celestine is a witch and tries to assassinate her. And he's forced to use psychic powers to control the guardsmen into helping him, because they're more keen to fight to protect her than they are to follow the Inquisitor. Because she's essentially a Messiah figure in the Imperial religion, even though the Inquisitor is technically within his rights. To use an analogy, it's like the Secret Service turning and ordering a bunch of Christians to help them arrest Jesus.
That little pause when he was takllking about the number of primarchs is because there were originally 20, 2 of them were either killed by xenos or killed by another primarchand were completely erased from imperial record.
12:25 not only that if he does the astronimicon blows up taking pretty much the universe with it.
The things you need to know about Warhammer, especially 40k:
- Nobody is having fun. Life and existence are miserable, terrifying, and oftentimes short and violent.
- The Emperor Protects
- The Orks are the only people having fun. That thing I said before? Lies. Orks are having a blast. And that is everyone else's problem.
- Warhammer is not serious. It is very knowingly written to be as dark and depressing as possible, yet there are still funny characters within the universe. Probably the two most notable are Trazyn the Infinite and Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. They're both hilarious.
The best thing about 40k is just the sheer over-the-top-ness of it. One of my favorite pieces of lore is about one of the sects of the Sisters of Battle called the Order of the Bloody Rose. Rather than act like nuns, which they are, their leader wrote the tenants of the order in her own blood after killing *thousands* of orcs. After the battle, the sisters found St Mina holding the tenants on her hands, thousands of dead orcs at her feet, her boltgun was still smoking and the chainsword she was using was clogged with Ork bits. She died *standing up*
The Bloody Rose sisters are melee focused on the tabletop, and their tenants include literally screaming their hyms like a death metal band. They get so mad, that they cry blood and cause warp storms whereever they go. They're so fucking cool.
There are icebergs of Wh40k but those are just the air above the water because the lore is so massive, so long, that if there is a real complete iceberg, it would last a week long at least. Cause every theory could be a book by itself.
the 40k IMPERIAL iceberg would probably be so big that each segment of the iceberg would have its own iceberg
@@vhaelen326 every legion would have its own iceberg, even the IIth and XIth
And yet, the Abrahamic religions are somehow bigger in terms of everything.
@@corryjamieson3909 people only scratch the surface of the Imperium lore. Is very well known that abhumans are part of society, like beastmen or felinids reaching high positions in society or religions, in the Imperium you can practice other minor religions (if they are not related to the Chaos gods of course) but at close doors. Hell, that phrase "Astartes never see their family again" is a lie cuz Salamanders and probably other Legions like the Alpha and other chapters, they keep seeing ther family.
The Total War Warhammer franchise is awesome if you want to try a RTS game that includes most of the races of Warhammer Fantasy. It's quite different to 40K as it's a pure fantasy setting, but some things cross over. Mostly the Chaos Gods are the exact same and represents the same things. (And Chaos Gods factions of demons are playable too in TWWH3)
For more "pure 40K" games, Darktide is great, it totally gets the atmosphere of the Imperium. It's left4dead, but warhammer 40k.
And Space Marine (1, SM2 should release this year ? Maybe even this month ?) is a really fun game too.
I love strategy games and while I'm more of an XCOM player, I've always wanted to get into some of the Total War games. Unfortunately my hardware is no where near capable enough to even run it.
@@TheLegitWeebs Ah, that's a shame. TWWH2 isn't that harsh on PC tho, but I do understand the woes of not meeting requirements lol.
Maybe you could try to look into Vermintide 2 for fantasy then, it's a left-4-dead like in warhammer fantasy, it's fantastic. The developer are also doing Darktide, which is the 40K version of that game, but it's also significantly more demanding.
For a XCOM2 lookalike, Mechanicus is FANTASTIC. Very simple tactical game that doesn't ask much of a computer. Also the intro goes unbelievably hard.
@ShinGetsu857 Thanks for the recommendations! I'll put these on the wishlist for when I have the funds to grab em. Mechanicus looks very much up my alley.
"innocence proves nothing" doesn't mean what you think it means. Technically innocent people can still doom entire planets or sectors in the world of 40K, that's how effed up 40K is. Hence why weather you are technically innocent doesn't mater as much as weather you are a danger.
Also, they have absurd amount of power, but they are not a monolithic entity and even they wouldn't provoke the Custodes. They have butted heads with space marines on several occasions and the results tend to be dead inquisitors and renegade space marines.
It's absolutely not a good alignment, no matter who you go with, it's a matter of what flavor of evil you want.
Tons of war, surprisingly few hammers
The hammers were the friends we made along the way
It is true that you can spend a lot of money to get into warhammer, but that is like buying a ferrari while learning how to drive.
To start with warhammer it is about 200$ (even less if you have a buddy to share the starter set with, or the introducory set has everything you need to start with for 65$ for 2 players, so about 32$ each)). a Combat patrol and a paint starter setall you need is some plastic glue which you can easily get at a dollar store. Basic rules can be downloaded and basic rules for your miniatures are in the assembly guide of the combat patrol. Something to measure in inch everyone should have at home. That is enough to get into the game. If you like it you can expand, if not, you wasted some money, or can sell your stuff to someone else.
10:26 there were 20 at the start but 2 got retconned.
I see. I thought the pause was implying something more, but later thought that maybe he just misspoke. Thanks for the info.
Retcon, kind of.
It is implied now that the 2 turned against the Emperor or failed him in such a way that the Space Wolves were sent in and cleared both entire Legions out.
Russ and Dorn talk about it.
(Primarchs for Space Wolves and Imperial Fists)
It is Heresy to mention the 2 fallen legions, like Bruno, we don't talk about it.
@@beatooze8025 there is always another layer to warhammer lore it's an infinite onion.
@@tariqshort4025 fried onions mmmm
@@tariqshort4025 warhammer lore is shrek confirmed?
"How do they survive?"
LOL!
i really like the game XCom, so when an XCom like WH40K game came out, where u are in control of ONLY Grey Knights, who are powerful AF, going around to different planets, killing demons, i HAD to play it, and i LOVED it!
A fellow XCOM enjoyer I see. What's the name of the game?
@@TheLegitWeebs the name is Warhammer 40k Chaos Gate Daemonhunters
Thanks! Added it to the wishlist.
57:04 No, they aren't as EXTREMELY high-level officers in the Imperial's Military can Exterminatus a planet. The Lord High Admiral (Highest Naval authority), Lord Commander (Highest Militarum Authority), and Space Marine Chapter Masters (including the Grey Knights) iirc. But there's a TONNE of blowback on them, so the Inquisitors are usually the ones to use it, but non Inquisitors have used Exterminatus.
Luckily for everyone involved, the Abbess of the Adepta Sororitas doesn't have that authority.
14:19 "Local heretic being punished" You laugh but he's not joking. That is a Penitent Engine. The guy plugged into it is a repentant heretic earning forgiveness by dying horribly in battle.
If you are interested in checking out short written stroies - there is a wonderful channel called "A Vox in the Void", featuring custom stories in 40k universe written by various authors. Some of my personal favorites are: "THE DESCENT OF THE ANGEL", "CRY HAVOC", and most of all - "I AM - A SERVITOR TALE". Though it is probably a good idea to check them after you are at least a little bit familiar with 40k universe :)
Oh, and there's alwasy the official "Horus Heresy" series, 100+ books about the events set in 31th Millennium (took me ~1 year to read all the main books and the later Siege of Terra part, but those novels are just insanely good)
ah yes, because thats what consistent lore needs, MORE authors :P
30:00 Bricky is being a bit obtuse for comic effect here...from my twenty-ish years of experience in both Warhammer 40K and IT service work, the prayers are actually cleverly concealed instructions...for example (Though I'm just making this up in the same fashion as the lore) there is a ritual of repair...which basically is just praying that every step you take in maintenance succeeds...it's like, "You will revere the bolt upon the conjunction box, then turn it to the left 15 times to undo the seal...you must then pray that as you replace the fuse, that it will not reject you and burn out instantly." It's basic mechanical tech manual stuff mixed with religious zealotry, as Bricky said...and I F'ing love it...
Nooo never fall for chaos that’s what they want! They confuse the mind and plunge into further depression and lies!!
But the chaos beckons me. I must...
@@TheLegitWeebs *pulls out Bolter pistol* oh no he’s too far gone to heresy.
Good story would be the Infinite and the Divine, a story about two bitter, angry old aliens fighting for thousands of years for increasingly petty reasons.
Great reaction!
Let it be known that the Planet broke before the Guard did!
6:36 think of warhammer fantasy and warhammer 40k are like two completely different universes but the warp leaks into both of fhem
Warhammer is high fantasy Warhammer40k is basically that but in sci-fi
I'm just part of Warhammer for the dawn of war and total war and the lore, the lore is amazing I also recommend baldimort, the remembrancer, warrior tier, and vox in the void. They are all amazing at doing lore or do short stories if you come across gav and Bob get tissues you will cry.
Yeah The Emperor of Mankind and The Pale King practically did the same thing............. The both get the World's Worst Dads award.
You were wondering about Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K. Warhammer Fantasy and its sequel, Age of Sigmar, take place in a separate fictional universe whereas Warhammer 40K takes place in a fictional future of our own universe. They share many elements, notably the Chaos Gods and some mortal races, but they are their own separate thing. Think of it like Final Fantasy, where every main entry has Chocobos, Moogles, Ifrit etc. but they are separate stories in separate settings.
Fun seeing someone actually react to the Pale King joke with more than a "huh?" for once, lol.
Most factions in Warhammer are mixed gender, with the exception being Custodes and Space Marines being exclusively men, and Sisters of Silence and Sisters of Battle being exclusively women. There's a huge debate whether female Space Marines should be introduced because they are the faction that is advertised everywhere to encourage more women to join the hobby, but you really don't want to get into that. There's a lot of toxicity on both extremes of that argument.
I enjoyed the video. I hope you will watch Part 2, as I am a Chaos girl through and through.
Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the clarifications! Part 2 will be coming very soon.
40k lore is an ocean. It is very, veeeeeeeeeeery easy to drown in it if you're not careful.
I might already be too far gone
I've expressed this sentiment on Bricky's actual video but I have no interest in playing or partaking in Warhammer. That being said, the lore is absolutely rad and awesome and I love Bricky's videos explaining the worldbuilding for the uninitiated.
Understandable. I feel the same way when it comes to the league of legends lore.
You should have done this with a chat so they can fill you in on questions you have other then that great vid 🙂
Small correction, without Astronomicon you can still warp travel but you better keep to the shore line and not go for deep ocean voyage.
Astonomicon allows Imperium to be as large as it is because it allows RELATIVELY fast response from the larger governing body when a part of it is thretened. Without Astronomicon what would take a week would take a year to make sure you are not lost in the warp etc.
So it's sort of like a compass that guides the way, rather than the ship itself?
yay i love bricky
Fantasy is the original Warhammer, yes. 40k came about almost a gag, as in asking yourself what the fantasy world might eventually become in 40k years.
Needless to say, it was so popular that when people think Warhammer, they think 40k, Space Marines, Tyranids, or Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the skull throne.
Funny you mention the Orks being incredibly OP. In lore, yes, they are. And now on the tabletop they just got new rules and holy moly they are great. It’s a good time to be green.
Let me put it this way, usually when new rules are put out these days, you’ll get one good detachment or army build for an faction out of 6. Orks just straight up got 6 really good ones.
Heck yeah! W for the Orks.
There isn't any official 'what if's' but there is at least one well written fan fiction what if scenario of a universe where the 9 loyalist legions/primarchs and the 9 traitor legions/primarchs were swapped.
That already sounds interesting
it's always funny and hearthwarming when someone discorver 40k, always make me smile
about the imperial guards, "how do they survive ?", simple, they don't