yes, the term grimdark originates from this. "Grimdark is a subgenre of speculative fiction with a tone, style, or setting that is particularly dystopian, amoral, and violent. The term is inspired by the tagline of the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40,000: "In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war." - Wikipedia
Are there civilians? Yes, most humans in the WH40k universe are civilians. There are all sorts of societies and local government types in the Imperium. Some places people live like primitives, other places they live like hyper-advanced ants in massive hive cities. There are probably even planets where things are very similar to current day earth, where things are peaceful and normal. You can live a pretty normal life in the Imperium, you go to your normal nine to five job, you regularly attend church services, you go on vacations, you enjoy fast food, and then one day you look up into the sky and see a Tyranid hive fleet in orbit, and now you're fucked.
9-5?? What heresy is that??? You will work for a minimum of 12 hours a days, preferably 16, then you will say your prayers and go to sleep so you can toil in the name of our glorious Emperor once more tomorrow
@@scar445 Yes, there are worlds like that, but there are also worlds that are not like that. The Imperium of Man is very, very diverse, and planetary governments have a great deal of autonomy so long as they fulfill their obligations to the Imperium. Those obligations are usually the provision of manpower for the Imperial Guard, or a share of their industrial or agricultural output. So long as you pay your taxes and don't do anything heretical the Imperium really doesn't care if you're a democracy, a feudal monarchy, a military junta, or a mega-corporation. Even the way people worship the Emperor can vary a lot.
@@Hammer1987 Joke is also that's Imperuim is who can screw you most. One day you live normal life and next everything turn into hellhole because tithe to Imperum grown 1000% due some random clerical error ( lingering memories caused servitor hand to jump and write like few zeroes too many somewhere).
@@Hammer1987 while true, decent worlds are exceptionally rare and often exist in spite of the Imperium/inquisition, rather than because of it. All imperial citizens deal with authoritarianism, though with differing degrees and flavours.
@@communisticus191 I don't think that is correct. I'm pretty sure there are planets where most of the population haven't even heard of the Imperium. It's been a while since I read the Space Wolf books, but iirc Ragnar was completely ignorant about the existence of the Imperium prior to his selection as a space marine cadet.
I know some people hate him, but Arch has some of the most in depth series on the lore of 40K. In fact his series about the Siege of Vrax is over 2 days long. From beginning to end. And that’s just one of the hundreds of wars that take place in universe.
@@idigamstudios7463Khorne is where its at screaming as loud as you can charging at enemies with MELEE ONLY space wolves might be vikings but world eaters are vikings but they arent pussies
He addressed this in the podcast he's part of, Adeptus Ridiculous, but the Guardsman are a little more nuanced in their tactics than he sold it as in this series. They win through strategy and tactics primarily, as they're an immensely well organized fighting force (for a force of its size anyway). They have weapons that often are not as effective gun-for-gun with their enemies, and against some of these enemies they don't even have the numbers advantage either. They just apply the force they have intelligently, and when they do win, their tactics are a large factor as to why they do so. That said selling it as numbers and sheer firepower also isn't WRONG, as, no matter what anyone says, you can only organize groups of half a million men so well, and at some point it does just become "Shoot anything that moves until it stops moving"
Yeah, it really depends with guard. The average tends to be along the lines of competent enough modernish tactics, albeit adjusted for total war across a continental scale with tens of millions of soldiers in the field. Above average is straight-up better than what we have today, because you get units of borderline cyborgs that can see through walls and have guns that blast through cover, body armour, and person in one hit. They move fast and hit hard because their homeworlds can afford to give every man the good stuff. Below average has shit like literal medieval peasants given laser guns and sent to die in chainmail body armor while waving hundreds of colourful flags.
@@aregulargamer1 True, but given the other two horde-esque groups (Orks and Tyranids) I'd wager to say even the peasants with lasguns are still overall more organized and tactical (even if only because they dont want to die so they shoot em in the back) lol
@@aregulargamer1 The below-average ones don't even get lasguns, they get increasing numbers of autoguns depending on how technologically backwards their area is. Bog-standard infantry rifle. Hooray, it's caseless! This feeling of technological superiority will feel amazing when you've dumped 5 rounds into an ork and managed to moderately annoy this great foe of the Emperor!
8:44 - The Wicked Witch of the West is downright *cuddly* compared to even the closest thing to good guys in 40k 17:59 - Yeah. The Guard fight with the idea that 'we have more warm bodies to throw at this fight than you do'. 19:50 - Cadia got destroyed. like, completely. Chaos dropped a ship the size of a small moon on it and the planet went boom. It was noted that even as the pieces of the planet were falling apart, flashes of laser fire from guard rifles could still be seen; the planet had broken before the guard did.
One thing that Bricky missed is that the Emperor requires 1000 psykers a day. Even the lowest tier psyker is one in a million, but the imperium has quadrillions of people in it.
@@ChicagoReacts the imperium is essentially the entire Milky way galaxy, and single hive cities have a larger population than the entire population the earth has now, then think about each world has multiple hive cities on them. Also they feed these populations with something similar to soylent green. I'd argue the species in 40k which kills the most humans is probably other humans
@@ChicagoReacts Basically the golden throne is a literally mountain sized mechanism which the emperor acts as a key central component, this massive machine creates a guiding light in 40k's version of hyperspace called the warp and the emperor acts as a sort guide for that light which is used by the ships of the imperium to navigate and reach distant stars across the galaxy. To keep the emperor alive on the golden throne takes the lifeforce of over a thousand psykers a day (psyker being a 40k term for psychics) as time passes and more of the ancient non understood machinery fails it takes more psykers to sustain him. To create the psychic light of the astronomicon (the big beacon in 40k hyperspace they use to navigate) takes a choir of thousands of more psykers as well as the emporer... think of the psyker choir like a light bulb filament making the light and the emperor as a lens focusing and guiding it. While you may think okay that blows why would these psykers agree to this? they dont each and every imperial world hunts them down and imprisons them awaiting the black-ships of the imperium to take their psykers to terra/earth to be tested.... most become food for the throne... the rest become a plethora of things such as 1, astropaths... only psychic power can allow for interstellar communications faster than light, no astropath means you gotta send a ship and that is very slow to arrive. 2, sanctioned psykers.... while dangerous psykers are quite literally people who can bend reality with their minds which can make them very useful as, oracles, lie detectors, psychic warning systems and living weapons against other races. And many other lovely roles in the imperium require psykers but they are a literal double edged blade that can thanks to the warp cause literally hell to get loose on your world. These worlds hunt psykers because the warp (40k hyperspace) is inhabited by literal soulsucking demons and psykers get their powers thanks to being linked to the warp which means the demons can use them as gateways if they can posses them... All it can take is a single psyker being possessed to eventually create a literal doomsday cult that can eventually drag an entire planet of billions into the warp and thus transforming the world into a literal hellscape So yeah being a psyker sucks
Awesome! I would say one of the best films of all time "Event Horizon" is an accurate description of the warp and chaos. I hope you choose a faction by the end of this. -- Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!
A bit of "Actually" regarding the soviets in WW2, more than half of the 26 millions casualties of Soviets were civilians, as a result of from German ethnic genocides, something to reference would be General Plan Ost. Combat personnel casualties was high due to some factors, one of them would be that the great purge getting rid of many competent or experienced officers, while what is left of them or the newly promoted ones still haven't got the time to get a grip on the job of their predecessors before the Blitzkrieg began; added that the Soviets were illy prepared for a war, German were basically able to snowball it until reaching their full extent of advance by the end of the year.
Bricky: "There is no such thing as any kind of tolerance. Everyone is a religious zealot. Some more than others" **picture appears, captioned with "Especially this guy"** Lauren: "Who is that guy? That Guy: "Hi. I'm Goge Vandire. The nightmare period during which I ruled is referred to by historians as 'The Age of Apostasy'. Like me, it wasn't pretty."
I love how a bunch of people I’ve seen react to Bricky like Slaanesh right off the bat. That’ll change, oh that’ll change my sweet summer child…or maybe not if you’re into that stuff.
Please don’t spread the myth that stormtroopers are bad shots. They are very good. People ignored the fact that they missed on purpose to track them to their base.
And pretty sure the storm troopers had direct orders to bring the rebels alive. Yeah don't think anyone would be wanting to disobey those. They are still nothing compared to ARC clonetroopers tho. Now those are real soldiers.
@@jjOnceAgain Disgusting, a troll pretending to be Russian, being toxic to propagate the idea to Westerners that all Russians are hideous down to their soul. I hope every form of cancer attacks you like a cartel of karma. May none of them kill you, may they leave you incapacitated indefinitely, writhing in agony.
The Primarchs are honestly way different than Hordack's clones. Because instead of being a copy, they are all different manifestations of his personality and soul, for example, while Magnus is the Emperor's thirst for knowledge and Psychic power, Guilliman is the emperor's pragmatism. They are also very individualistic and there are rivalries such as with Leman Russ and Magnus. So it's not really the best comparison, if anything the clone army from Star wars is closer since they're more individualist.
Hmm, you want more about the various legions? Bricky has some newer videos where to talks about every legion in more detail - you should have them let you check that one out once you're done with the factions!
lack of the Arbites makes me sad. point of order with the warp travel and astronomicon, it's like a compass. or more accurately, it's like magnetic north, and Navigators are the compass. when in the Warp, nothing is "real", direction/distance/time doesn't exist. Everything changes constantly (chaos), ships are (generally) protected by their Gellar Fields, and remain as points of stability and reality within the Warp, but as you can imagine traveling through such a place is difficult at the best of times. But the Astronomicon is a constant, stable, and "real" fixed point in the Warp. it's Terra. and as long as your Navigator can see it, they can plot a course to where you need to go. It gives the ship a frame of reference to go off of. Without the Astronomicon, ships *can still travel* the Warp. they just can't go for distance. They're capable of making shorter jumps, where the distance they travel is within the capabilities of their on-board equipment to calculate and adjust. A big part of the current setting is that there's a gigantic rift in space leading to the Warp that has split the galaxy in half. The part containing Terra still has the light of the Astronomicon. The other half, the Imperium Nihilis, is cut off. However while life sucks even more there, travel still continues.
Being an ex 40k player you don’t have to play the tabletop to get into warhammer. You can just pick and read books from the mass black library publication company that bust out alot of books per year. You can start with Horus heresy if you want that’s a long and so far ongoing series. Or gaunts ghosts, or just pick what faction looks cool and there are plenty of books and audio books.
It's a universe where losing a star system for a few hundred years is a thing and not even noticing it, so yeah... 2 hours for 10-20 thousand years is quite condensed.
How come Kit and Mama-Reactor never finished "If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech device" and Bricky's same explanation videos? I search, and search for them, shared them with people, see positive comments under those videos, but, nothin' :(
So, hear me out. Once everyone at Chicago Reacts has seen this video in its entirety, can we get an office-wide Warhammer 40k tournament where everyone picks their favorite faction and dukes it out on a proper battle map with miniatures and all? It would be amazing.
@@stankobarabata2406 What makes you think one guy would be able to afford it better than a company who could probably write it off as a business expense?
Actual minis is probably a- too much commitment for more casual ones as their interest in 40K goes b- expensive. Tabletop simulator could be a way to achieve something similar on relatively cheap however.
I've been reading the books and watching videos on the lore of WH40K for years and still don't know everything about it. The lore of this universe is insanely in-depth. And yes, the term grimdark literally came from WH40K.
23:57 well the thing about nocturne in Warhammer 40K is that the planet isn't dark it's more like it's on fire. There are volcanoes dotted along the landscape of nocturnal and the settlers that colonized nocturne. Like millions to thousands of years ago had to adapt to the climate so their skin legitimately turned. Charcoal dark black skin and red eyes that allow them to see in the infrared spectrum. Very few people are citizens of nocturne or Caucasian skin white and when they. Are born Caucasian skin white and they become space Marines their skin because it's dark ashy skin like charcoal and their eyes become red.
24:30 my assumption of why they have dark skin, is cause of the heat of the planet of nocturne. nocturne is actually a volcanic planet with volcanos almost everywhere. Ashe covers the sky and volcanos erupt all most all the time. Massive fire drakes (dragons) roam the land.
Russians had these casualties not because of following past but because Germans had infantry tech supremacy with machineguns and because Stalin in preserving his own power killed most of somewhat competent generals and even Zhukov wasn`t so much good of the generals. Mostly all of Russians tried to somehow preserve people and even West beloved barrier squads were in reality SO little and mostly never had automatic weapon, even if they were catching a deserter, first thing they do was to tell him that he is needed to be there, for his country, for his brothers-in-arms and his family.
You want Grimdark .... ok ckeckout a) The Imperium's 10 Worst Jobs by Luetin09 b) Understanding Konrad Curze by Amber King c) Chaos Daemonculaba 40k by Luetin09
Warp is... a manifestation of all minds of the whole galaxy at the same time, mixed together and forever colliding. Laws of physics of the material world don't work there for the most part - time and space are wibbly wobbly. That's why it makes FTL travel possible with careful navigation. Time in Warp can flow forward, backward, or even sidelines, or just stop. There are stories of ships that traveled in time because of that. So how a ship can even survive in the manifestation of all minds of the galaxy mixed together into maddening soup? Gellar field is an answer - that shield protects the ship from Warp, basically creating a bubble of stable physics. Atop of that, there are specially bred mutants called Navigators who have a third eye and can use this eye to gaze into Warp and see how it flows, without turning mad. Thus Astronomican is very important - It's like the only stable thing in a sea of utter instability. Without it, no Navigator nor ship will be able to find the way in Warp.
17:52 well Russia in WW2 is the imperial guard in 40k the commissar would kill any soldiers who doesn't fight or try to escape,and many times the imperial guard win like she already said by pure numbers
@@PopPopPopPop yeah but remember that it was so vague that the idiots used against their own soldiers everyone knows is about the officers but in the end was use against the infantryman
Should do more MajorKill reacts he's good for a laugh and knows his lore. Bricky has messed up some of the info in his videos and from being a 40k fan it annoys me when he does it. 😂
Just for note the info. If you read actual numbers, not cold war propaganda outlets you will find out that in most of the wars Russians fought, they were in numerical disadvantage.
Salamanders having dark skin to blend in with all the ash their flamers and melta guns create would make sense. Too bad they paint their armor bright emerald green lol. 🤣
I started my WH40K journey by accident. I bought a novel book "Space Wolves" for a long bus drive and fell for it immediately. Most of that book is about Ragnar Blackmane and his tribe trying to survive in inhospitable island-world where the most iron they have seen is in a normal dagger. From that they, if they are lucky, the huge battle they are fought against other primitive tribes they are elevated into a novitiate to Space Wolves. Mystic, 8 foot tall iron clad superhumans come to watch the battle, to judge the most worthy of the warriors to be ascended into the lowest ranks of the Wolves. Kind of like vikings in the by-gone era where the best of the warriors were ascended to the Valhalla. That one book lead to a series of books, from there to 4 meters of books in my bookstand, to the tabletop army of Space Wolves. I divided the one prepainted, pre owned army in two and invited my friend to have a game with me. In one year... 8 of my friends owned their own army, most of them owned two or three, and everyone chose a differend race / Space Marine Chapter. THAT magnetic is this universe is. ...also, next, I suggest you to watch the youtube video "Astartes", and after watching that through once (only 12 minutes), Take you time and watch it again with analysis. Because that opens the 99,9% of the things you miss in the first view. (astartes analysis with arch warhammer is a good one)
Well he’s not going deep into the lore at all. Like he’s just scratching the surface here. When he says Warhammer is vast he means it. It’s VAST the lore has been developing for 30 years+ there is A LOT of stories to be told
Yes, Russia did the human wave attacks in WW2, but China freaking perfected that tactic centuries before them. Currently, they can still do that type of attacks.
There was a German and a Russian Officer once arguing during a truce of ww2. "We can kill forty of your men to our one." "So you are saying we only need 2 million men? No problem." Very much victory through attrition. One of the funnier jokes in 40k. ".....98% casualties attained... Imperial Victory!"
The Stalinist, Soviet idea of sending masses of people in didn't work. At all. Not even once. There is this thing called machine guns. They don't really care just mow those people down. So yeah. Those people were meant to stall the enemy, so they can produce things. Which they also produced in crap quality. They increased the production of T-34s, but most of them stalled or broken down after just kilometers outside of the factory. They had zero visibility from inside of the tank, and due to bad tempering the armor cracked from trees, enemy bullets, or tank shells. After the war, some 90% of the man died. The Soviet Union had to reform their industry standards, so everything could be carried and done by woman on long term. Such as taking down bag sizes to 20-25kg. Here the max lifting a woman were allowed in work were that of 15kg. But they did plenty more. Tractors were made so woman can drive, repair and maintain them. Overall a super big workplace development, better for everyone. So overall yeah, not a very good tactic.
Which 90?% What kind of stupid books are you reading?Maybe you should ask the Russians themselves first, and not talk nonsense?People voluntarily went to war because they did not want to seize their lands and they fought to the death for their lands.The German fascists wanted to kill almost all Russians and take the land.Germany was technologically superior to most European countries, and only when the Russians began to fight back - the rest of the Europeans joined.
Well... in the invasion of Ukraine Russia has taken more than 100,000 casualties, so they haven't changed their tactics much, not that they utilize tactics much now.
Just an FYI “ Everyone is evil, everything’s sucks” is just a meme told to noobs because , as you see, there is SO MUCH lore. The Imperium are the good guys and everyone else are the bad guys because for the simple fact that the imperium has been fighting off LITERAL genocide from everyone else in the universe for 10k plus years.
@@zenniz1992 Well, after the xenos who were around turned on humanity at the end of the age of strife joined on the 10k plus years of human genocide, It’s kinda understandable. I mean it’s not like humanity woke up one morning and went “ Yup, we hate EVERYONE not human from here in out.”
23:55 from a blending in perspective yes :P from a biological perspective it absolutly sucks ^^ melatonin in our skin helps prevent burns and with it skin cancer. so the brighter/hotter your home planet, the more melatonin you should have/the darker your skin would be. your eyes, because there is so little light would have also adjusted to either being thrown away for other better senses like taste/smell/hearing, or being insanely light sensitive. using Fire then becomes your worst nightmare as it would be like looking at the sun from 5 feet away every time you fire your rifle XD
yes, the term grimdark originates from this.
"Grimdark is a subgenre of speculative fiction with a tone, style, or setting that is particularly dystopian, amoral, and violent. The term is inspired by the tagline of the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40,000: "In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war." - Wikipedia
Bam! I'm good
well another thing Wikipedia is wrong as grim dark comes from way before 40k was a thing and comes from a really old novel from the 60's
@@yokai1235 I think you're confusing "grimdark" with "antihero."
Are there civilians? Yes, most humans in the WH40k universe are civilians. There are all sorts of societies and local government types in the Imperium. Some places people live like primitives, other places they live like hyper-advanced ants in massive hive cities. There are probably even planets where things are very similar to current day earth, where things are peaceful and normal. You can live a pretty normal life in the Imperium, you go to your normal nine to five job, you regularly attend church services, you go on vacations, you enjoy fast food, and then one day you look up into the sky and see a Tyranid hive fleet in orbit, and now you're fucked.
9-5?? What heresy is that??? You will work for a minimum of 12 hours a days, preferably 16, then you will say your prayers and go to sleep so you can toil in the name of our glorious Emperor once more tomorrow
@@scar445 Yes, there are worlds like that, but there are also worlds that are not like that. The Imperium of Man is very, very diverse, and planetary governments have a great deal of autonomy so long as they fulfill their obligations to the Imperium. Those obligations are usually the provision of manpower for the Imperial Guard, or a share of their industrial or agricultural output. So long as you pay your taxes and don't do anything heretical the Imperium really doesn't care if you're a democracy, a feudal monarchy, a military junta, or a mega-corporation. Even the way people worship the Emperor can vary a lot.
@@Hammer1987 Joke is also that's Imperuim is who can screw you most. One day you live normal life and next everything turn into hellhole because tithe to Imperum grown 1000% due some random clerical error ( lingering memories caused servitor hand to jump and write like few zeroes too many somewhere).
@@Hammer1987 while true, decent worlds are exceptionally rare and often exist in spite of the Imperium/inquisition, rather than because of it. All imperial citizens deal with authoritarianism, though with differing degrees and flavours.
@@communisticus191 I don't think that is correct. I'm pretty sure there are planets where most of the population haven't even heard of the Imperium. It's been a while since I read the Space Wolf books, but iirc Ragnar was completely ignorant about the existence of the Imperium prior to his selection as a space marine cadet.
Cadia: (gets mentioned)
Guardsman: (faces scrunches up in stoney stoicism as a manly-tear falls) "The planet broke before the guard did."
Trust me, a 2 hour lore dive into 40k is barely surface level 😬
Oh, trust me, I ended up getting that idea by the end of it all 😬
Hell, Luetin90's Imperium of Man series alone is what, 6-7 hours?
I know some people hate him, but Arch has some of the most in depth series on the lore of 40K. In fact his series about the Siege of Vrax is over 2 days long. From beginning to end. And that’s just one of the hundreds of wars that take place in universe.
Hell, Archs Siege of Vraks I'd at least 30+ videos
The crazy thing is you are not exaggerating.
"I like the mermaid lady." When you get to the Chaos Gods in part 2... your opinion of her... him... it, is gonna change.
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@@Vyktym76 I'm a tzeentch boy but even I will acknowledge reality and say papa nurgle's the most wholesome bro in the setting
@@idigamstudios7463Khorne is where its at screaming as loud as you can charging at enemies with MELEE ONLY
space wolves might be vikings but world eaters are vikings but they arent pussies
Corvus Corax Primarch of The Raven Guard from the moon of Deliverance. His last recorded words in Imperial history are " Never More".
He addressed this in the podcast he's part of, Adeptus Ridiculous, but the Guardsman are a little more nuanced in their tactics than he sold it as in this series. They win through strategy and tactics primarily, as they're an immensely well organized fighting force (for a force of its size anyway). They have weapons that often are not as effective gun-for-gun with their enemies, and against some of these enemies they don't even have the numbers advantage either. They just apply the force they have intelligently, and when they do win, their tactics are a large factor as to why they do so.
That said selling it as numbers and sheer firepower also isn't WRONG, as, no matter what anyone says, you can only organize groups of half a million men so well, and at some point it does just become "Shoot anything that moves until it stops moving"
Yeah, it really depends with guard.
The average tends to be along the lines of competent enough modernish tactics, albeit adjusted for total war across a continental scale with tens of millions of soldiers in the field.
Above average is straight-up better than what we have today, because you get units of borderline cyborgs that can see through walls and have guns that blast through cover, body armour, and person in one hit. They move fast and hit hard because their homeworlds can afford to give every man the good stuff.
Below average has shit like literal medieval peasants given laser guns and sent to die in chainmail body armor while waving hundreds of colourful flags.
@@aregulargamer1 True, but given the other two horde-esque groups (Orks and Tyranids) I'd wager to say even the peasants with lasguns are still overall more organized and tactical (even if only because they dont want to die so they shoot em in the back) lol
@@aregulargamer1 The below-average ones don't even get lasguns, they get increasing numbers of autoguns depending on how technologically backwards their area is. Bog-standard infantry rifle. Hooray, it's caseless! This feeling of technological superiority will feel amazing when you've dumped 5 rounds into an ork and managed to moderately annoy this great foe of the Emperor!
I mean when you're fighting for an entire planet - a small strategic point can be the size of Norway, and you need crazy numbers
8:44 - The Wicked Witch of the West is downright *cuddly* compared to even the closest thing to good guys in 40k
17:59 - Yeah. The Guard fight with the idea that 'we have more warm bodies to throw at this fight than you do'.
19:50 - Cadia got destroyed. like, completely. Chaos dropped a ship the size of a small moon on it and the planet went boom. It was noted that even as the pieces of the planet were falling apart, flashes of laser fire from guard rifles could still be seen; the planet had broken before the guard did.
14:52 Bricky: *talks about killing dirty aliens and heretics*
Lauren: "That's beautiful"
Yes it is))
One thing that Bricky missed is that the Emperor requires 1000 psykers a day. Even the lowest tier psyker is one in a million, but the imperium has quadrillions of people in it.
Jeez, that's incredible. I had wondered how he managed to eat that many souls and still have people in the imperium to eat.
@@ChicagoReacts ONE MILLION WORLDS
@@ChicagoReacts and in each world cities or known as hive cities housing over 5 billion of people or more.
@@ChicagoReacts the imperium is essentially the entire Milky way galaxy, and single hive cities have a larger population than the entire population the earth has now, then think about each world has multiple hive cities on them.
Also they feed these populations with something similar to soylent green.
I'd argue the species in 40k which kills the most humans is probably other humans
@@ChicagoReacts Basically the golden throne is a literally mountain sized mechanism which the emperor acts as a key central component, this massive machine creates a guiding light in 40k's version of hyperspace called the warp and the emperor acts as a sort guide for that light which is used by the ships of the imperium to navigate and reach distant stars across the galaxy.
To keep the emperor alive on the golden throne takes the lifeforce of over a thousand psykers a day (psyker being a 40k term for psychics) as time passes and more of the ancient non understood machinery fails it takes more psykers to sustain him.
To create the psychic light of the astronomicon (the big beacon in 40k hyperspace they use to navigate) takes a choir of thousands of more psykers as well as the emporer... think of the psyker choir like a light bulb filament making the light and the emperor as a lens focusing and guiding it.
While you may think okay that blows why would these psykers agree to this? they dont each and every imperial world hunts them down and imprisons them awaiting the black-ships of the imperium to take their psykers to terra/earth to be tested.... most become food for the throne... the rest become a plethora of things such as
1, astropaths... only psychic power can allow for interstellar communications faster than light, no astropath means you gotta send a ship and that is very slow to arrive.
2, sanctioned psykers.... while dangerous psykers are quite literally people who can bend reality with their minds which can make them very useful as, oracles, lie detectors, psychic warning systems and living weapons against other races.
And many other lovely roles in the imperium require psykers but they are a literal double edged blade that can thanks to the warp cause literally hell to get loose on your world.
These worlds hunt psykers because the warp (40k hyperspace) is inhabited by literal soulsucking demons and psykers get their powers thanks to being linked to the warp which means the demons can use them as gateways if they can posses them...
All it can take is a single psyker being possessed to eventually create a literal doomsday cult that can eventually drag an entire planet of billions into the warp and thus transforming the world into a literal hellscape
So yeah being a psyker sucks
Absolutely love seeing more people getting into Warhammer! Hope she enjoys the lore and stuff!
Awesome!
I would say one of the best films of all time "Event Horizon" is an accurate description of the warp and chaos.
I hope you choose a faction by the end of this.
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Blood for the Blood God!
Skulls for the Skull Throne!
Event Horizon even started life as an attempt at a 40K movie, but they couldn't get the licensing rights.
HERESY!
The Emperor welcomes another into his fold!
18:35 There ya go, people. Military analyst/historian of the century, right here.
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Next time I catch some heretics cold their getting bolted
A bit of "Actually" regarding the soviets in WW2, more than half of the 26 millions casualties of Soviets were civilians, as a result of from German ethnic genocides, something to reference would be General Plan Ost.
Combat personnel casualties was high due to some factors, one of them would be that the great purge getting rid of many competent or experienced officers, while what is left of them or the newly promoted ones still haven't got the time to get a grip on the job of their predecessors before the Blitzkrieg began; added that the Soviets were illy prepared for a war, German were basically able to snowball it until reaching their full extent of advance by the end of the year.
Bricky: "There is no such thing as any kind of tolerance. Everyone is a religious zealot. Some more than others"
**picture appears, captioned with "Especially this guy"**
Lauren: "Who is that guy?
That Guy: "Hi. I'm Goge Vandire. The nightmare period during which I ruled is referred to by historians as 'The Age of Apostasy'. Like me, it wasn't pretty."
We don't talk about the 2nd and 11th Legions.
I love how a bunch of people I’ve seen react to Bricky like Slaanesh right off the bat. That’ll change, oh that’ll change my sweet summer child…or maybe not if you’re into that stuff.
I like Khorn 🌽🌽🌽
Please don’t spread the myth that stormtroopers are bad shots. They are very good. People ignored the fact that they missed on purpose to track them to their base.
People need to remember that stormtroopers are fighting against a space wizard.
And pretty sure the storm troopers had direct orders to bring the rebels alive. Yeah don't think anyone would be wanting to disobey those.
They are still nothing compared to ARC clonetroopers tho. Now those are real soldiers.
Cry harder
Also Vader specifically ordered everyone to not kill Luke in order for him to bring him to the Emperor
@@jjOnceAgain Disgusting, a troll pretending to be Russian, being toxic to propagate the idea to Westerners that all Russians are hideous down to their soul.
I hope every form of cancer attacks you like a cartel of karma. May none of them kill you, may they leave you incapacitated indefinitely, writhing in agony.
Easiest way to explain the Horus Heresy is that it's Paradise Lost with power armour.
The Primarchs are honestly way different than Hordack's clones. Because instead of being a copy, they are all different manifestations of his personality and soul, for example, while Magnus is the Emperor's thirst for knowledge and Psychic power, Guilliman is the emperor's pragmatism. They are also very individualistic and there are rivalries such as with Leman Russ and Magnus. So it's not really the best comparison, if anything the clone army from Star wars is closer since they're more individualist.
I love how sure people are of russian tactics and how they didn't care about casualties.
Hmm, you want more about the various legions? Bricky has some newer videos where to talks about every legion in more detail - you should have them let you check that one out once you're done with the factions!
"They're super gay for sangiuinus" "that's fair". That's the correct response.
If you were wondering yep
Grimdark officialy showed up first in 3rd edition
And was the first (KNOWN) use of the term
I was all "thats not where Grimdark comes from, it comes from-" one Google search later "-yup, this is where it comes from.
If you like the naming conventions of the Primarchs and their Legions, you'll get a giggle out of Ferrus Manus and the Iron Hands Legion.
lack of the Arbites makes me sad.
point of order with the warp travel and astronomicon, it's like a compass. or more accurately, it's like magnetic north, and Navigators are the compass. when in the Warp, nothing is "real", direction/distance/time doesn't exist. Everything changes constantly (chaos), ships are (generally) protected by their Gellar Fields, and remain as points of stability and reality within the Warp, but as you can imagine traveling through such a place is difficult at the best of times. But the Astronomicon is a constant, stable, and "real" fixed point in the Warp. it's Terra. and as long as your Navigator can see it, they can plot a course to where you need to go. It gives the ship a frame of reference to go off of.
Without the Astronomicon, ships *can still travel* the Warp. they just can't go for distance. They're capable of making shorter jumps, where the distance they travel is within the capabilities of their on-board equipment to calculate and adjust. A big part of the current setting is that there's a gigantic rift in space leading to the Warp that has split the galaxy in half. The part containing Terra still has the light of the Astronomicon. The other half, the Imperium Nihilis, is cut off. However while life sucks even more there, travel still continues.
Being an ex 40k player you don’t have to play the tabletop to get into warhammer. You can just pick and read books from the mass black library publication company that bust out alot of books per year. You can start with Horus heresy if you want that’s a long and so far ongoing series. Or gaunts ghosts, or just pick what faction looks cool and there are plenty of books and audio books.
Martincitopants has a new video, and he specifically mentioned you guys in his video description!
THE EMPEROR HAS DELIVERED! THE BRICKY VIDEOS ARE HERE!
You know too little about the way the Soviet Union fought in WW2.
'It is simple Ivan, if we throw enough bodies at the enemy eventually enemy will run out of bullets.'
"The mermaid lady".....yeah, about that..
It's a universe where losing a star system for a few hundred years is a thing and not even noticing it, so yeah... 2 hours for 10-20 thousand years is quite condensed.
"Quantity is a quality all of its own" Joseph Stalin
Psykers and the Warp, are like Jedis and the Force.
Any chance of a Helsreach reaction?
How come Kit and Mama-Reactor never finished "If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech device" and Bricky's same explanation videos? I search, and search for them, shared them with people, see positive comments under those videos, but, nothin' :(
Games Workshop used it's lawyers
Are there civilians? Yes! They usually grease the tank treads with their guts. That or chaos marines use 'em to make gunracks.
So, hear me out. Once everyone at Chicago Reacts has seen this video in its entirety, can we get an office-wide Warhammer 40k tournament where everyone picks their favorite faction and dukes it out on a proper battle map with miniatures and all? It would be amazing.
I've seen the price for the toys and I find it a bit too much
@@stankobarabata2406 What makes you think one guy would be able to afford it better than a company who could probably write it off as a business expense?
Actual minis is probably a- too much commitment for more casual ones as their interest in 40K goes b- expensive.
Tabletop simulator could be a way to achieve something similar on relatively cheap however.
I've been reading the books and watching videos on the lore of WH40K for years and still don't know everything about it. The lore of this universe is insanely in-depth.
And yes, the term grimdark literally came from WH40K.
Everyone in 40k is evil..... expect for the salamanders.... they just straight up heartwarming
the Salamanders can Warm evil the coldest and evilest of Hearts with their Heavy Flamers and Melta Guns
Lamenters are nice, just unlucky.
23:57 well the thing about nocturne in Warhammer 40K is that the planet isn't dark it's more like it's on fire. There are volcanoes dotted along the landscape of nocturnal and the settlers that colonized nocturne. Like millions to thousands of years ago had to adapt to the climate so their skin legitimately turned. Charcoal dark black skin and red eyes that allow them to see in the infrared spectrum.
Very few people are citizens of nocturne or Caucasian skin white and when they. Are born Caucasian skin white and they become space Marines their skin because it's dark ashy skin like charcoal and their eyes become red.
Hmm, yes "plasma lasers".
I love bricky lol
The planet broke before the Guard did!!!
CADIA LIVES FOREVER!!!
24:30 my assumption of why they have dark skin, is cause of the heat of the planet of nocturne. nocturne is actually a volcanic planet with volcanos almost everywhere. Ashe covers the sky and volcanos erupt all most all the time. Massive fire drakes (dragons) roam the land.
Russians had these casualties not because of following past but because Germans had infantry tech supremacy with machineguns and because Stalin in preserving his own power killed most of somewhat competent generals and even Zhukov wasn`t so much good of the generals. Mostly all of Russians tried to somehow preserve people and even West beloved barrier squads were in reality SO little and mostly never had automatic weapon, even if they were catching a deserter, first thing they do was to tell him that he is needed to be there, for his country, for his brothers-in-arms and his family.
You want Grimdark .... ok ckeckout
a) The Imperium's 10 Worst Jobs by Luetin09
b) Understanding Konrad Curze by Amber King
c) Chaos Daemonculaba 40k by Luetin09
Tardis earrings ?!?! I had no idea those were a thing.
Not everyone is evil in warhammer but it realy dosent change much anywhere.
11:45 "i like the mermaid lady"...no...you really don't
Warp is... a manifestation of all minds of the whole galaxy at the same time, mixed together and forever colliding. Laws of physics of the material world don't work there for the most part - time and space are wibbly wobbly. That's why it makes FTL travel possible with careful navigation. Time in Warp can flow forward, backward, or even sidelines, or just stop. There are stories of ships that traveled in time because of that. So how a ship can even survive in the manifestation of all minds of the galaxy mixed together into maddening soup? Gellar field is an answer - that shield protects the ship from Warp, basically creating a bubble of stable physics. Atop of that, there are specially bred mutants called Navigators who have a third eye and can use this eye to gaze into Warp and see how it flows, without turning mad. Thus Astronomican is very important - It's like the only stable thing in a sea of utter instability. Without it, no Navigator nor ship will be able to find the way in Warp.
I am very very excited for this
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Corvus is of course Raven... But wait untill you hear about Ferrus Manus of Iron Hands...
Corax is also Raven, in greek
@@matsudoambition2509 I know
She understands! She is one of our people!
Yes, another reaction to Warhammer 40k!
Don’t worry, it gets worse. 40k always gets worse
This is what addicted passion does to ya
17:52 well Russia in WW2 is the imperial guard in 40k the commissar would kill any soldiers who doesn't fight or try to escape,and many times the imperial guard win like she already said by pure numbers
no step back only applied to officers not your average infantryman
@@PopPopPopPop yeah but remember that it was so vague that the idiots used against their own soldiers everyone knows is about the officers but in the end was use against the infantryman
Yes warhammer 40k is where the term drimdark came from
17:54. Sorry but that couldn't be further from the truth .
Thus is such a good video. Yall should do some League of legends cinematic eventually. They make good view pullers
I have done one for sure. I'll look into some others as well.
@@ChicagoReacts what about Warhammer 40k all cinematic trailer
Should do more MajorKill reacts he's good for a laugh and knows his lore. Bricky has messed up some of the info in his videos and from being a 40k fan it annoys me when he does it. 😂
You don't have to guess, the answers are out there !
Grimdark does infact originate from Warhammer.
Just for note the info. If you read actual numbers, not cold war propaganda outlets you will find out that in most of the wars Russians fought, they were in numerical disadvantage.
CADIA STANDS!
The moment she said "historically speaking" regarding Russia, I fell in love.
Salamanders having dark skin to blend in with all the ash their flamers and melta guns create would make sense. Too bad they paint their armor bright emerald green lol. 🤣
Bit sadge that he didn't mention the Death Korps of Krieg in the Imperial Guard section. Absolutely insane (sub) faction, lore-wise.
the deeper you go in this the more sickened and fascinated youll become its very dark and evil but intresting i recommend leutin09
2 hours is nothing, you could get an associates degree in Warhammer and not learn everything.
to awnser your question of how russia wages war in the modern day, they still follow their world war 2 tactics
No it doesn't, and it never did in WW2. This is a dumb Western myth
hehe yeah 2h videos is short :P ,warhammer world is big really big :P
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Hi Bot!
I started my WH40K journey by accident.
I bought a novel book "Space Wolves" for a long bus drive and fell for it immediately.
Most of that book is about Ragnar Blackmane and his tribe trying to survive in inhospitable island-world where the most iron they have seen is in a normal dagger.
From that they, if they are lucky, the huge battle they are fought against other primitive tribes they are elevated into a novitiate to Space Wolves. Mystic, 8 foot tall iron clad superhumans come to watch the battle, to judge the most worthy of the warriors to be ascended into the lowest ranks of the Wolves.
Kind of like vikings in the by-gone era where the best of the warriors were ascended to the Valhalla.
That one book lead to a series of books, from there to 4 meters of books in my bookstand, to the tabletop army of Space Wolves. I divided the one prepainted, pre owned army in two and invited my friend to have a game with me.
In one year... 8 of my friends owned their own army, most of them owned two or three, and everyone chose a differend race / Space Marine Chapter.
THAT magnetic is this universe is.
...also, next, I suggest you to watch the youtube video "Astartes", and after watching that through once (only 12 minutes), Take you time and watch it again with analysis. Because that opens the 99,9% of the things you miss in the first view. (astartes analysis with arch warhammer is a good one)
geimdark did came frum 40k
"I'm talking Historically. I don't know how they [Russia] do it now."
Poorly.
The answer is poorly.
Still winning tho
i am apharious :)
Cool
Well he’s not going deep into the lore at all. Like he’s just scratching the surface here. When he says Warhammer is vast he means it. It’s VAST the lore has been developing for 30 years+ there is A LOT of stories to be told
I had to check my copy of Rogue Trader to confirm 30+ years.
II think I have been playing with little men for waaay too long :P
Yes, Russia did the human wave attacks in WW2, but China freaking perfected that tactic centuries before them. Currently, they can still do that type of attacks.
There was a German and a Russian Officer once arguing during a truce of ww2.
"We can kill forty of your men to our one."
"So you are saying we only need 2 million men? No problem."
Very much victory through attrition. One of the funnier jokes in 40k.
".....98% casualties attained... Imperial Victory!"
Bullshit
2 hours barely scratches the suface of the Lore.
like 10 hours barely does...
The Stalinist, Soviet idea of sending masses of people in didn't work. At all. Not even once. There is this thing called machine guns. They don't really care just mow those people down. So yeah. Those people were meant to stall the enemy, so they can produce things.
Which they also produced in crap quality. They increased the production of T-34s, but most of them stalled or broken down after just kilometers outside of the factory. They had zero visibility from inside of the tank, and due to bad tempering the armor cracked from trees, enemy bullets, or tank shells.
After the war, some 90% of the man died. The Soviet Union had to reform their industry standards, so everything could be carried and done by woman on long term. Such as taking down bag sizes to 20-25kg. Here the max lifting a woman were allowed in work were that of 15kg. But they did plenty more. Tractors were made so woman can drive, repair and maintain them. Overall a super big workplace development, better for everyone.
So overall yeah, not a very good tactic.
Which 90?% What kind of stupid books are you reading?Maybe you should ask the Russians themselves first, and not talk nonsense?People voluntarily went to war because they did not want to seize their lands and they fought to the death for their lands.The German fascists wanted to kill almost all Russians and take the land.Germany was technologically superior to most European countries, and only when the Russians began to fight back - the rest of the Europeans joined.
there are 36 marine chapters.. 16 Eldar, 16 Durkhari.. 6 harlequins 40 orks..
Well... in the invasion of Ukraine Russia has taken more than 100,000 casualties, so they haven't changed their tactics much, not that they utilize tactics much now.
You really believe that bullshit? Of course you do, the media told you to
there are many wars... all ongoing at the same time
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Yes.. This is where Grimdark comes from.
The " Mermaid " is Salneesh
There clones.
With diffent gene seeds
Just an FYI “ Everyone is evil, everything’s sucks” is just a meme told to noobs because , as you see, there is SO MUCH lore. The Imperium are the good guys and everyone else are the bad guys because for the simple fact that the imperium has been fighting off LITERAL genocide from everyone else in the universe for 10k plus years.
Except for the salamanders of course
The imperium are xenophobic scum. Death to your false god
@@zenniz1992 Well, after the xenos who were around turned on humanity at the end of the age of strife joined on the 10k plus years of human genocide, It’s kinda understandable. I mean it’s not like humanity woke up one morning and went “ Yup, we hate EVERYONE not human from here in out.”
23:55 from a blending in perspective yes :P
from a biological perspective it absolutly sucks ^^
melatonin in our skin helps prevent burns and with it skin cancer.
so the brighter/hotter your home planet, the more melatonin you should have/the darker your skin would be.
your eyes, because there is so little light would have also adjusted to either being thrown away for other better senses like taste/smell/hearing, or being insanely light sensitive.
using Fire then becomes your worst nightmare as it would be like looking at the sun from 5 feet away every time you fire your rifle XD