Newcomer REACTS to Warhammer 40k Factions Explained (by Bricky)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Warhammer 40K has so many factions, which one am I going to enjoy the most? Let's find out in Part 1 of Bricky's Faction Explained Video!
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What is your favorite faction in WH40K? 👀 I know which I am leaning towards.
Green iz best! WAAAGH!!!
i'm a simple ork, if it's green it's all good
Leaning towards Salamanders but I find every faction cool
Imperium - Grey Knights
Chaos - Thousand Sons
Xenos - Necrons
Imperial Guard
They main reason to start with the faction videos is because you were asking a million questions about the factions well watching the timeline. 90% of your questions would have already been answered if you started with the faction videos. Honestly, as long as you get the timeline and can place the factions, you will be fine and the questions bring people into the conversation. It is not that serious, lol.
It makes sense to go factions first in most universes because this is how worldbuilding is generally done. You develop the 7 kingdoms and Iron Throne concepts and what kinds of houses you need for the story you want to tell, then you come up with histories to tie them into the world. Sometimes this leads to other things you want to add into the story later from backstory events. Timeline, generally speaking, is backstory on stuff you want to know MORE about, but first you learn what their role in the story at present is.
As to the male to female ratio of the Imperial Guard, it entirely depends on what world theyre recruited from. So a backwater world that can't just grow more troops in "vats" (not quite cloning because they all have different dna but pretty similar to it but in a testtube) rarely send women as they're kinda needed to repopulate. But worlds that can literally grow more people and have massive populations really don't care.
40k lore has worlds that are still with medieval technology btw or worse, where the Imperium recuits from. So those worlds send their excess male population as their Tithes (aka their form of paying taxes to the Imperium)
In old lore all units were composed solely of male troops or solely female troops. They only mixed them when they took too many casualties, so surviving troops made a new mixed gender division. All the most famous Imperial Gaurd books did this in the 90s and early 2000s. One of these books was actually about the rare mixed gender divisions made up of survivors of one female and ine male division and the leaders reported back... wow, this worked better than we thought so maybe we should try this again. Implying it was rare before them but more common place afterwards
The troops in Space Marine 1 (2011, but written years before release) were from the single gender era of writing but from Cadia a workd that had hundreds of billions of troops, so it was Mira likely taking command of a male division after her division was mostly wiped out.
More recent lore shifted it to being the cultural thing above. Some worlds separate genders, but male units will pickup female survivors and vice versa. Others don't care and recruit 50/50. One world only makes male clones (and claims theyre not clones but thats highly illegal in 40k). But primitive worlds almost never send female troops.
In Space Marines 2, there are actually a lot of female guardsmen in minor roles if you look closely at background guardsmen. However Cadia was destroyed by this point, so they were probably reluctant to send in woman anymore because it is the dream of all Cadians to find a new planet and rebuild/repopulate it with their survivors (thus the Cadia Stands meme). So they probably quietly stopped sending out as many women, having them more on missions looking for a new homeworld.
Which is quite funny, since data on real life army units shows that mixed units are worse than all male ones. Still better than all female ones of course. So they women should only be used as a last resort.
I've had to explain 40K's scale to someone else.
A single planetary hive city is about 5000 NYCs stacked vertically into space, with the population you would think that 5000 stacked NYCs would have. And that's just ONE city on that planet.
*1 Hive City* can house tens to hundreds of billions.
*1 Imperium Planet* can have more than one Hive City.
The Imperium has a *Million* worlds.
That's how I go about it. Humanity is a fuckton in 40k.
The Emperor stated that he was born in 8,000 BC in modern-day Turkey. Further that there are older "perpetuals" (people who don't age and heal from most injuries) than him. He's just by and large the strongest of them psykically.
Its heavily implied he was Alexander the Great too, in very old lore that probably isn't canon anymore... he was Jesus too. Point is he loved pointing humanity towards his ideal better future, typically using his powers to take a form and leave a message that would outlast his pretending to be someone else. Then basically faking his death and dipping out. Heck, 40k at one point even implied he was the wizard Merlin.
We do know however he was Saint George the Dragonslayer. The dragon was a Necron C'Tan (basically a god in a metal body) shard called the void dragon.
I think peoples reason for starting with the factions instead of the timeline (even though that doesn’t make logical sense) is that the timeline is really broad, factions kinda breaks it down more, but hey as long as you are enjoying yourself that’s what really matters.
Factions is 100% the best way to get into it. So when you watch the time line you can be all “oh, I know those dudes”. Etc lol.
@@ryanhampson673 agreed, that way they know them better when they are brought up, and get a more smooth introduction
Wes' timeline before bricky helps a lot, but the streamer has to actually care to watch both
Another reason I think is because the factions video came out first.
Nocturne the home world of the Salamanders is a Volcanic planet not a planet covered in darkness. That's why they have a dark charcoal skin
Originally the lost 2 Legions/Primarchs were just a reference to the lost Legions of Rome. So just the writer being a nerd.
Then the fans saw it and thought it was some genius move so they could create their own Legion/Primarch, with one being good and one being evil.
Then 40k cashing in on that idea and basically writing lore that one was loved (11th legion) and the other was massively hypothetical (2nd legion). But leaving a few teases of several different and conflicting things that befell them. Which only further caused fans to speculate wildly and write their own fanfic/lore about them. Obviously the creators did laydown some teases they could one day reveal what happened if it would make them more money than keeping it a mystery, but currently its just a mystery with multiple hour long UA-cam fan speculations on their fates.
It is lore though that the Emperor erased the other Primarchs memories of what happened to their misding brothers. One got his memories returned qnd it was so painful he immediately asked for it to be erased again.
It has been stated the Legions weren't destroyed only the Primarchs died. The 2nd and 11th Legions Space Marines were shifted into the Iron Fists and Ultramarines. So if you see a successor chapter of the Iron Fists or Ultramarines they could actually be 2nd or 11th Legion descendants... or maybe not.
Legions were massive, numering 5,000 to 250,000 Space Marines. After the Horus Herecy, they feared Space Marines goung traitor again. So each Legion was broken down into chapters which numbered up to 1,000. So as an example a legion of 250,000 made 250 chapters, and only 1 kept the Legions original name. The Black Templars are a successor chapter of the Iron First (probably), but they're onevof the naughty chapters that breaks the 1,000 rule and probably number 5,000 or more... but theyre always on Crusades retaking planets for the Imperium so everyone kinda looks the other way, as there is a loophole chapters on Crusades are allowed some extra Troopers because they will take casualties. Its meant to allow a few hundred extra not a few thousand extra but so far no one has condemned the Chapter that has been on Crusade for 10,000 years they can't.
Imperial Fists, not Iron Fist :)
Bruh for the love of the emperor pause the video when you talk.
Take in mind that Bricky mixes surface level lore with comedy, Exterminatus is not done on a whim (obviously). Also most of the guys in chat helping you out aren't exactly lore masters. If you want to deep dive into the lore "Amber King" here on youtube is by far the best channel.
Well, at least Bricky mentioned near the end that they actually do exterminatus on rare occasions.
The emperor didn't build either the Golden Throne or The Astronomicon, they were from the Dark Age of Technology. He merely repurposed them.
For Cadia, imagine if instead of shooting it with a Laser The Death Star kamikazed into Alderaan.
I would bet the more you learn about Jaghatai Karn (White Scars) the more he'll become your favourite Primarch.
The emperor: No disease shalt blight them
Nurgle: Hold my Beer.
When you think about it, when a Machine doesn't work how often do you go
"Please, Please, Please"
then when trying it again it works.
There are few more depressing universes because in 40k humanity at least has a fighting chance
@@alterego9082 true, the Imperium of Man could effectively wipe out every single faction on a 1 on 1 basis, except maybe the Necrons, unless they spawn camp their tomb worlds.
But when you are fighting all of them at the same time….and in a cycle of dying/expanding. It gets pretty depressing
@@theinquisition7 true enough, but compared to something like ICOG from Xeelee Sequence Imperium feels almost like grey sci fantasy,
Those two Primarchs were erased from history because [REDACTED BY THE HOLY ORDER OF THE EMPEROR'S INQUISITION]
Real reason: They're [placeholders] for community made chapters. As in "This is my Space Marine chapter the Nutella Gorgers" "Who's their primarch?" "...dunno"
Cadia was a fortress planet situated right at the edge of the Eye of Terror, the literal portal from Hell. It was long considered the first and last defence against Chaos, with hundreds of Chaos cults sprouting up all over the planet and gives the Inquisition a hard run for their paycheck.
Cadia fell when the forces of Chaos came together in a massive invasion that was called the 13th Black Crusade. The Cadians Militarum fought good and hard, and it took a space station the size of the entire North America dropped right onto their foreheads to finally make them retreat. This cause the entire planet to crack open like an egg, hence the phrase "Cadia broke before the guard did."
The soldiers you see in Space Marines 2 are the remnants of those Cadian Militarum. You can see that almost all of them have purple eyes; a side effect of being so close to the Eye of Terror and constantly being exposed to Warp energy.
The Cult Mechanicus officially maintains that the Emperor is the physical manifestation of the Machine God (the Omnissiah)
There's also possibly involvement of the C'Tan but not sure if that's been retconned.
that 2nd part was retconned im pretty sure...
Imperial knights are not the big scary unit of 40k, that title belongs to the Titans.
Titans belong to the the Adeptus Mechanicus and a picture of one is behind Bricky on your vid at the mark 31:30 and it is roughly the size of a building with 40 floors in it which is approximately 150 metres (492 feet), there are smaller titan variants that are more "common". but even the smaller titans put Imperial Knights in their shadow.
The Emperor can communicate directly but it rarely happens, when Guilliman returns to Terra after he awekens, the Emperor talks directly into his mind. But instead one coherent sentence, its a bunch of incoherent sentences, feelings, visions of would be futeres. Thats duo to the Emperor conciousness being fractured in different entities/personalities. The other way the Emperor can communicate is blessing Custodes with dreams and visions. But those are not directly either and are bound to interpretation
These are all surface level, in a nutshell, easy introduction for newcomers to the 40k factions, that Bricky himself criticised for being outdated.
Luckily for you, there's a ton of lore videos that dives deeper and deeper into each and every faction. Isyander and Koda for one, easily digestible as well, but if you want long forms, there's Luetin09.
So if one doesn't fit your style, there's a variety to choose from.
Weshammer's pretty good, too.
@@Shythalia yes and don't forget Amber King and Baldermort
You should watch some of the Adepta Sororitas specific lore videos out there.
Yes and the video that is the best is the 2 parter of Isyander and Koda
"They have no right making villains so cool." - You don't seem to understand, that the more capable and cool the villain, the better the story. A weak, lame villain will make any hero's journey boring and pointless.
I just realize Bricky did not mentioned the Titan Legion HERESY! The God Engine of the Imperium! The most powerful weapons that they possess
The People will always bring up that the 2 Lost Legions are there for people to create that own but that is actually a urban legend. Rick Priestly, which originally created the setting has said that it would not make sense to do that because when he made the setting the Horus Heresy was not playable and it would not be for decades. He says he came up with the idea of the two lost legions to create a sense of deeper history to the setting at a time when they were just starting creating the lore. Personally I think they might be inspired by the 3 legions the Roman Empire lost during the Battle of Teutoburg Forest and which had their numbers retired forever.
THE MORE I SEE OF BRICKY (dont understand me wrong - i really LIKE his videos) the more I recognize a lot of mistakes and WRONG LORE. The Omnissiah is just THE SON of the Machine God. And they believe the EMPEROR is the SON OF THE MACHINE GOD!!!! Not to start with Space Marine LEGION / CHAPTER problem
Sisters of Battle are actually a really cool army, not as good as marines, but superior to guard and some really interesting models and units... I just hope you like fire, cause they gots fire like orks got dakka ;)
As to the 2 missing chapters, this was on purpose but originally it was so you could make up your own primach and marine chapter... then GW does what GW does and retcons ever other month. Origonally the space marines weren't even genetically altered, they were just dudes in badarse armour, necrons were just called androids, dreadnaughts were the big bad - this is the OG space crusade and space hulk, before it became Warhammer 40k, and then Warhammer 40k was pretty much just imp guard/marines and orks (the very first box-set that contained everything) for "1st edition", then the other armies started getting added in 2nd edition, and through white dwarf, arsenal, and chapter approved, magazines (all of which originally used for testing out new or different rules and how different armies would play, and then bring out the new armies that tested well)... RIP squats :p
The 2 missing primarchs is originally so you can make your own homebrew chapters in the tabletop game.
Though in the lore, it is presumed at least one was lost during the war with an alien species called the Rangda, I think, though i could be wrong.
Why are you questioning about the "missing Primarchs"!? oh my god names, death of the Emperor!? I....I cannot..arrgggghhhh....
Hey there is one more human faction, they were released shortly after these videos were made. They are known as the League's of Voltann and are not part of the Imperium. They are basically Space Dwarves, and are one of the ancient human colonies that survived the Age Of Strife. They are very new and still need to be fleshed out.
A few funny things about the Omnissiah, in a few books are big hints that it is one of the C`tan, the Void Dragon or to be more precise a sealed shard of him that the emperor himself did seal on Mars. Would explain why the Adeptus Mechanicus is so much about Biotransference (More about that when Bricky talks about the Necrons) and in another book it is even hinted that the Technologie of the Adeptus Mechanicus is very good in interacting with Necron Tech.
The 2 missing Primarchs is an intresting thing becouse we know the Emperor made 20 and there are 2 main theorys why only 18 are known. One theory is that when the Emperor set out on hes crusade to find them after Chaos snatched them up while they were still young and threw them across the galaxy 2 of them were simply never found so to hide the fact that there were 20 they removed every record of the 2 that were never found so now we got 18. The 2nd reson fits more into the tabletop side of the lore. Becouse players can paint the models however they want and build armys made up of all kinds of different units, players can make legions that never existed in the lore. So if a player made a new army that army could have belonged to 1 of the 2 missing primarchs. Primarch #2 belonging to a loyalist army and Primatch #11 belonging to a Chaos army.
If you want there is a detailed video about the sisters. By Luetin09 but it lasts more than an hour.
Titus had a run in with Chaos in the first Space Marine game and a lot of people thought he was tainted. This is why he served in Deathwatch for nearly a century between the two games. The Deathwatch recruits from all space marine chapters and are basically a spec ops force wielded by the inquisitors, so they were able to keep an eye on Titus, eventually releasing him back to the Ultramarines once they were confident he wasn't a threat to the Imperium. They also employ the resources of the assassin temples and the Ordo Malleus often works with the Grey Knights, as they do in the game Chaos Gate (the X-COM like one). There is a new codex in the tabletop for playing the agents of the Imperium where you can run Inquisitors leading squads of Battle Sisters, Deathwatch, and Even Grey Knights. It seems the latter two may not be playable much longer and will be rolled into this faction instead.
The Primarch's and likely the Custodes know about the missing two legions and their Primarchs
In a short story Malcador (Big E's BFF and bro for life) who is a ***cough*** "just" ****cough*** human almost killed the Primarch Horus because he was about to mention the name of one of the deleted Primarchs
Ok, The Age of the Emperor.
The Lore for this is kept intentionally ambiguous. Some say he was Alexander the great, others claim that he was not conceived until the 20th. Millennium. Some say that he's the product of shamans conducting a ritual that merged many human souls into one.
It matches the theme of 40K because knowledge is heresy. The pursuit of knowledge is heresy, and anything that can be used to humanize the Emperor (Even something a name) a is deemed as heresy and removed from existence. In game it doesn't much matter, but in the lore you have to infer that whatever is true is a lie and whatever is a lie has truth.
40K is meant to be a tangled web of censorship and overreaching stories.
I particularly enjoy the tribal shamans theory because it matches my belief in the Necrons.
In essence, those shamans created a soul or a being equal to an "old one". a Perpetual with immense psychic prowess and a gift for invention.
Only the old ones could create the eldar and the orcs, only the emperor could create the primarchs and the custodie.
Hope this helps, and welcome to The Hobby.
Cheers
-Alpharious-
I'd say Tau and the Imperium of Man, with the Salamanders, Lamenters, and Carcharodons, my favorite chapters. While the Imperial Guard are my fav cus they are just the countless average people against the horror of the grimdark future.
I think we've recruited another White Scar to the cause! Ashewyn - you have very good taste.
The Emperor exists since the days of hunter gatherers so Stone Age human, the process by which he became a supreme being and immortal is a whole story, but it happened back then due to early human psykers. He then decided to help mankind grow throughout the ages, but only when the dark age of technology happened, and mankind fell into a horrific state did he decide to become a conqueror. For the first 60 thousand years or so, things went pretty well and the Emperor didn’t feel the need to take over until humanity got hit by the Agemof Strife, a 5,000 year dark age.
Heretical viewers- "Those who have yet to receive the grace of the imperial truth, and offer fealty to the God Emperor"
40k: where you've joined the Nazis because they're fighting Cthulhu.
Welcome to the grimdark, this commission painter welcomes you with open arms and hopes you delve into your favorite factions even more. Enjoy the lore because it's only going to get more complicated from here, but that's the charm of the franchise.
Factions from bricky is good, timeline from wes sets this up better, but he is a fun intro, I also am curious about the omnisiah and the lost dark age of technology that made the forbid of ai, the cherubs was accurate, they retconned it in recent years so up to you on what to believe
10:20 🤦♀️ No, he said "Not all of them are psykers" meaning only some or few are.
27:00 its actually a volcanic planet and I was thinking the same thing until I looked at how we named a planet mostly covered in water "Earth"
no i disagree, watching the timeline first was actually better.
The emperor is 48,000-50,000 years old in 40k, somewhere in that range.
Imperium - Grey Knights
Chaos - Thousand Sons
Xenos - Orks
1:10:01 Sorry but that's A.I. No one made that. HERESY
Someone please sit with her next time and actually answer her questions.
Luetin 9 recently did a video on why the numbers in 40k makes no sense and needs to be changed
Cadia- the planet broke before the guard
The Emperor could speak if they found some tech from the 2nd millennia
10:44 "Why 8?" Because Horus is the 9th one. 🤦♀️
The Emperor is extremely old by human standards, and have different Identities in history like Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Genghis Khan and etc along with the great conquerors in history. He observed that humans don't have the stamina to keep going after few campaigns so he started to develop the first space marines in hiding.
Not Genghis Khan, he became a greater demon of Khorne.
But you're overall correct 😊👍
1:08:20 Girlie, no. 🤦♀️ That says "Definitely not gay for Celestine" with the arrow pointing at the woman. Bricky is saying that the woman may have a crush on Celestine.
to be honest i didn't even know what that reference was until a few days ago when i watch her lore from isyander and koda
i was waiting for this! Also ORKS ORKS ORKS
Imperium: Death Korps of Krieg
Chaos: Knight Lords
Xenos: Drukhari
Welcome to the Warhammer Pipeline, Ashe!
Imperium - Alpha legion
Chaos - Alpha legion
Xenos - they are Alpharius too
No, I am Alpharius!
Reaction channels are cringe
Yet you clicked a reaction video 🥱