My favorite Deathwatch story will always be "Hey, we found a box. There's something in the box, but we can't find it. Just lock up the box and pray I guess."
Is that the one they keep in maximum security after a trap went off and they couldn't prove it was or wasn't there? And sometimes, one marine will go in to provoke it but nothing will happen?
Deathwatch requires recruits from all chapters, Joining the deathwatch is sometimes a form of exile from the chapter, consequently there are a lot of codex un-compliant Ultramarines in the deathwatch.
@@samfire3067 That was the backstory for my Arch Militant in Rogue Trader a few years ago: he was a "not-zealous-enough" Black Templar with missteps into pragmatism. Then he got recruited by an inquisitor.
@@samfire3067 these are the Cpt Titus type Ultramarines, they basically all get put in the deathwatch for being using the Codex as 'guidlines' than actual rules.
In the Deathwatch tabletop RPG, I was part of the galaxy's most incompetent kill team. We had a Dark Angels tactical marine, an Iron Hands techmarine, an Imperial Fists devastator marine and a Black Templars assault marine (me). We were sent to look for survivors at an Imperial research station on an ice world. They had been attacked and possibly wiped out by a mysterious xenos force (quickly turned out to be Tyranids). Here is the fate that befell each of us: The techmarine was cut in half by hormagaunts in our first encounter. None of us had medical skills, so we looked through our items until we found "armor repair paste". Reasoning that he had a lot of bionic bits, we stuffed it into his wounds and hoped it would stop the bleeding. It worked, he survived til the end. The Dark Angel fumbled a grenade and it landed at his own feet. Didn't hurt him, but permanently destroyed ALL of his armor. He was naked on an ice world, surrounded by enemies. The Imperial Fist failed multiple fear tests and went crazy from terror, randomly firing his missile launcher while soiling himself. I failed the flight rolls every time I tried to use my jump pack, either crashing or not getting off the ground in the first place. During our heroic last stand on the roof, I decided to use my pack to jump into the heart of the enemies and kill as many as I could before they took me down. Of course, I failed the roll, jump pack doesn't start up, and I just kind of trip lamely over the edge of the roof.
@@davisdf3064 Yeah, we were trying to be serious, but I don't think it could have turned out any sillier if we tried. Also, we each made a custom mini for our characters. Due to an unfortunately placed missile in the hand, the Imperial Fist looked like he was jackin it.
To quote the 9th ed Deathwatch codex, "To the Deathwatch is granted the right to understand their foe. With understanding cones hatred. With hatred is made the vow. Suffer not the alien to live"
About the aliens we've never seen, my favorite quote from a warhammer book is how the imperium is "a million worlds, out of untold billions." So like...yeah they're spread out, but not everywhere.
There are billions of planets out there but only a very small amount of them are actually habitable and useful. Some planets are literal balls of ice or burning/irradiated rocks not to mention gas giants
The Milky Way is estimated to have 100-300 billion stars, and half the stars are estimated to be part of binary (or more) systems. In other words for every imperial world there are up to 200k _star systems_ not controlled by the Imperium. As a side note, this also explains how Eldar and Humans were able to both have a galaxy-spanning empire during the Dark Age of Technology, there simply was more than enough space for both of them (and many more).
It's also funny to think that this gigantic epic of a story playing out over tens of thousands of years at such a huge scale.....is all in one galaxy. Nids are the only confirmed thing from another galaxy. Hell, even the chaos deities seem fairly confined to the milky way. Frankly, it's *only* the year 41,000. That's 0.00 41% of the age of the earth, and 0.00029% the age of the universe. This unbelievably, incomprehensibly gigantic story takes place in a tiny tiny fraction of time, in a single galaxy out of 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies. Oh, and that's in the observable universe, so with warp travel, that number is going to increase a lot. Even our grandest stories end up as specks of dust compared to the whole of reality
It's the tone techpriests set their voxcoder to when they're being sarcastic. "yEs mAGos i'lL jUsT lEvItAte yOuR FiFtY tOn sCraPhEaP oF a cArcAss oVeR tHAt cliFFsIDE aNd GeT tHat lEaK fOR YOU wHile i'M aT It."
Honestly, figuring out which chapters each of your marines hail from is one of the most fun parts of playing Deathwatch. You can do a lot of visual storytelling by matching heraldry to weapon loadout, armour and helmet style, etc.
100%! And making up little back stories about how well the fireteam gets along while you're painting. "Look! A Black Templar.... I'm sure he'll love this BA Sgt I'm putting him with."
Yup so much fun in the RPG too having players decide chapters and turning up going. “I am a Space Wolf Tactical Marine” “I’m a Dark Angels Devastator” *proceeds to start bickering and dick waving while the ultramarine sergeant sighs his ass off* Or “I’m a Iron Hands Tech Priest” “I’m a Raven Guard Tactical Marine” “I’m a Salamander Apothecary” *proceeds to be both bitter about the dropsite massacre towards one another but also have the closet bond in the world of ‘I will not let you fall’*
@@BuddyWithTheSideburns Most fun campaigns I’ve run I can tell you have been: 1. A 6 player campaign where each player choose an ultramarines successor. Seeing each of them start off as “f-yeah for the primach brothers” slowly start fading into “that’s not what the codex would say? What do you mean everyone in the red scorpions is an apothecary? Marines Errant why are you eying up my fallen brother gene-seed? What do you mean the Nova Marines supply battle brothers to the ultramarines, that’s like having a full second chapter of brothers to steal from!” 2. A 4 player campaign where I had a Black Templar Assault Marine, a Carcharodon Tactical Marine, a Flesh Tearer Apothecary & and Minotaur Devestator… let’s just say it was one of the most fun and brutal campaigns I’ve had the experience of running/enjoying. 3. A small Dark Angels campaign (everyone choose Dark Angel successors) and ended up fucking off from doing anti-xeno duty into hunting down heretics and suspected fallen. 4. With small conversions had each player make a 10 man squad from the iron hands and played out an engagement set during the Dropsite Massacre with literally each player having 10 character sheets like they would have dataslates and literally saw how far their squad would make it through the dropsite massacre. Of the 50 Iron Hands that dropped and the 30+ reinforcements and 2 extra supporting predators they picked up from scattered elements. 22 died in the initial assault on the mainline as was 1 predator. 36 died in the trench fighting against Emperors children and the remaining died during a last stand after hearing their Primarch was killed. 5. Similar to above but set during an event similar to the Badab war with each player creating a 10 man squad from their respective participating chapter and seeing how far each made it into the campaign against chaos traitor marines.
Things to add for next episode: - Chapter Heresy, because how dare a successor-chapter Sargent lead an Ultramarine in battle - Black Shields, because this brother who specialises in Xeno psychology is totally not a Night Lord - Special Issue Ammo - How they’re basically Space Marine SAS in the books - Squad mixing, because yes this regular Squad gets to mix terminators, bikers and tactical marines - Kill Team 1st Ed Frag Cannon spam - casual racist Black Templars being too zealous to fit in with the competitive racists - MK8 armour, the first since the Heresy era - how they’re totally not like the Warrior Loges, spreading Xeno knowledge and spec ops tactics back to their chapter whilst conversing between chapters - how they have less full novels then the Soul Drinkers somehow - How many SMs are sometimes exiled to the DW
Can you explain the Black Templars bit? I knew that Marines Malevolent are not recruited by the Deathwatch (because fuck those guys) but I didn't know there were some troubles with the Black Templars as well.
@@DaRedGobbo they are but, like how they’re Techmarines can’t paint their armour fully red because their zealous machine spirits don’t like it, the Black Templars often encounter Chapter Heresy within the DW. For instance, many Black Templars may see their Sergeant with a Xeno sword and and argue that it’s Heresy, or may fight alongside librarians whom they deem as heretical, or more mutated space marines. Other chapters can have these issues, but it rarely causes as much friction as with Black Templars. The BTs May respect other Dornian successors, but place them in a squad with a sergeant armed with a Xeno blade, a librarian and a Black Dragon (whom often grow bone spikes and many outside the Space Marines question are chaos tainted) and send them all on a dishonourable stealth mission that demands they not simply shoot all Xeno on sight and maybe even work with them, and your either gonna have a Black Templar who grew past their blind hatred and zeal who can carry their more pragmatic views back to their chapter, or a lot of arguing and accusations of Heresy. Many Black Templars do serve with distinction in the Death Watch, but as even the pragmatic Ultramarines can cause frictions, it’s not surprising the Black Templars are very notable for it
They're not spreading anything to other chapters. You're not allowed to tell ANYONE including your chapter about your time in the deathwatch. For example "Brother, hear you were in the deathwatch you must have many stories to tell of your deeds" "I was in fact, in the deathwatch... " Also there are already warrior lodges. They're called Chapters.
Fun fact, most members of Deathwatch that survive will be sent back to their chapter where a new Astarte from their chapter will be sent to the Deathwatch. So it's sort of like an internship where it's intended as a temporary arrangement where said Marine gains experience fighting a variety of Xenos.
What makes the Death Watch exceptionally funny is it's definition: to look after a dead body and protect it from any carrion eaters, so in a big way the Death Watch are basically protecting the corpse that is the Imperium and by extention the Emperor. 😂
Hey thanks guys for doing this my dad just died suddenly on Sunday and I’ve spent most of my time painting minis and listening to old episodes. It’s nice to here two people having fun talking about one of my favorite subjects.
Fun fact, the Dark Angels have the biggest number of high ranking deathwatch members of any chapter, because they tend to stay there for longer, so they can use inquisition resources in search of fallen and feed the information back to the chapter.
On why the imperium hates the eldar: during the age of strife the eldar would often raid human worlds. The craft worlders kind of mellowed out after the whole slaneesh deal, but if that hadnt happened they would still be doing dark eldar shit to the humans.
@@BR-bn1mz Wich is funny, because the Craftworld Eldar look like some Noble, piece of crap people, while the Dark Eldar simply look like piece of crap people
It never occured to me that before their fall virtually the entire (by then _much_ more numerous) Eldar race likely used to raid human worlds like the Drukhari later on. Albeit propably at a lower frequency since they did not yet have to satisfy Slaanesh.
@@Nickname-ef9tv My reading of the situation was that while most Eldar lived the hedonist lifestyle, the worst excesses of their empire were still not socially acceptable enough to be done openly. It's _why_ so much of it went on in Commoragh. It was the most vile and extreme acts being done in the metaphorical underground. I have no doubt there was plenty of raiding of other species going on. But it probably wasn't an activity engaged on a societal level. (Not that "a minority of Eldar raiding non-Eldar for plunder and slaves", during the height of their empire, isn't a _fuckton_ of raiding and slaving.)
Tonight on "You're never getting a thousand sons episode, ever": The gang teases the possibility of a thousand sons episode, only to end with the announcement that the next episode will not be thousand sons.
47:56 Xenos are much more terrifying than Chaos; between it being *literally impossible* for the orks to loose, the Nids just...existing and being functionally unstoppable, and the Necrons waking up with all their technology...
Oh nice! I just read "Blood of Asaheim" by Chris Wraight. Great book if you haven't checked it out. It's mostly a character-driven drama about a Space Wolf who has just spent 57 years in the deathwatch and is now returning to his pack to find that he isn't now... Well, not an 'outsider' *exactly*, but pretty close... Very cool concept. Also the narrator - Andrew James Spooner - does a PHENOMENAL job, you can just hear how much fun he's having with it the entire time. I thought it was a little over the top at first, but then... Well, the Wolves of Russ ARE over the top so it works out perfectly.
I built a Deathwatch army for the express purpose of getting a Corvus Blackstar. I love it. Also got a Veteran Killteam that I did my best to make into the A-Team, that ride along in their A-Team van paint schemed Land Raider. The new Ballistus Dread I got is gonna get covered in Xenos skulls and tally marks, the Blackstar is gonna get some xenos transfers as a Kill Count like a WW2 fighter plane. Death Watch doesn't have much lore to bite into, but it also leaves a lot of room for concocting what vibe you want your DW to have, and the cavalier mercenary aesthetic has always been a fave of mine. Also the army rules are pretty dope =)
Inquisitor: “HOW CAN YOU BE SO CALM AFTER- oh wait, your Deathwatch. Never mind.” Deathwatch marine: “Yeah, we’re kinda used to this by now.” can you be so calm after
As someone who plays storm wardens, i hope we can at least be mentioned in the future deathwatch video. Storm wardens first appeared in the deathwatch rpg
@@burningbronze7555 The Storm Wardens have a passage saying they get visions of a demonic being urging them to join him in the warp, it is heavily hinted at that they are sons of a Demon Primarch. Which one is anyone's guess
I hope that any future Deathwatch round-ups include mention of Chyron, the ex-Lamenter dreadnought permanently attached to a particular killteam. He thinks he's the last Lamenter, which means he's so bitter all the time that he'll disobey an Inquisitor just to slaughter more xenos. His squadmates stick up for him, though. A Death Spectre apparently showed up in a Deathwatch novel at some point. I just think those guys are neat.
a death watch game would be so cool, different chapters of space marine, could be different classes, like a imperial fist and salamanders, can be like tanks and shields, and space wolves and blood angle can be a melee class, and blue berry can be default assault class. it can be like a team-based games, in witch you really on each other to fight different Xenos, whether trying to find intel, demolish, or facing a boss, this would seem like a cool concept.
I mean there's already a Deathwatch TTRPG that provides the blueprint; your role is your class, and your chapter gives you a separate upgrade tree- all Ultramarines have most of the commandy stuff even if they're a Devastator or Techmarine, for example.
The Callidus use a “C’Tan Phase Blade” and back in the day no one knew what the hell a C’tan was meant to be and we just assumed it was the name of a forge world. Definitely Necron tek by today’s standards, but the Callidus lore predates Necron by a decade or two. Sly Marbo used to have one as well, but that’s been retconned at this point.
Love the deathwatch!!! It’s so fun to imagine space marines of different chapters working together, learning their ways and just being utter bad-asses. But I think it’s also an opportunity for humanizing space marines. You change and experience a lot of emotion and such when you are called away from home and put in a place with a bunch of strangers. It’s like summer camp in that way. Deathwatch marines have to find a new home, new brothers, and new ways to cope. Especially for folk with secrets and curses.
Now that we had a Deathwatch episode, all I can think about is when will we get a Kryptman episode. "F**king damn it!" (God Emperor bless TTS, it was great as long as it lasted)
One thing I think is really funny is everyone's greatest friends the Minotaurs can and do send marines to join the Deathwatch. What's even better about it is they even have stats in the Deathwatch rpg and one of their traits is "Rivalry (Every Astartes Chapter in Existence)." I'm am almost certain every killteam that has a Minotaur in it always return from a deployment with at least one casualty.
You cant imagine how happy i am right now, for this episode... I love the deathwatch... Aside from iron hands and raven guard, i love deathwatch. They are so goddamn cool. Oh yeah, they are like a "spec ops" faction of the space marines, aside from the yknow.. study and kill xenos thing. So yeah.
I like how you mentioned the black armor for martyrdom cause so many stories start out with, "so we sent in a single kill team and they arn't responding"
I would love an episode about the begrudgingly canon chapter of space marines: The Blood Ravens, aka the one from all the games that aren't Ultramarines.
Long time Deathwatch fan... please talk about blackshields... there might be some fallen that the Dark Angels have been hunting or perhaps some loyalist Night Lords amongst there ranks P.S. The Watch Commander is the Space Marine in charge of a Watch Fortress, often times they will be carrying Guardian spears that have been gifted by the Adeptus Custodes, (By all means they are the equivalent to a chapter master), However he is a single member of the Watch Council.
"The long vigil" sounds like GW took it straight out of Judge Dredd's "the long walk" when a judge retires, becomes a martyr and will most likely die bringing justice to the wasteland by killing savages/mutants.
I love my Deathwatch army, I've done a ton of conversions on them. Being drawn from all sorts of chapters makes a lot of good opportunities for cool conversions and lore.
My favorite thing about Deathwatch is its extensive and unique weaponry. Not just their special ammo type, but like They have power-fist with top mounted melta-guns.
Love the Deathwatch and their overall lore. But fun little fact, if you double check the codex cover a few of the marines resemble those from the kill team Cassius kit in primaris form
I am surprised Bricky didn’t show of Killteam Cassidus. It really shows every Marines personality with all of the little details on them. Like the Iron Hands with a robotic leg or the white scar on a bike.
Cover the Raven Guard! There's not -a lot- of lore, but the stuff about Kayvaan Shrike is great, and also Corax in the Warp harassing Lorgar is also great.
To be fair, the radicalist method of studying and using the technology and knowledge found is a lot less dangerous when you deal with Xenos than when you deal with Chaos. The worst thing that could happen if you play too much with Xenos tech, is that you blow up your base. The worst thing that could happen if you play with Chaos, is that you put your world in the Warp XD
Finally, they did my chapter, as for a chapter master I don't think there is one, similar to the Black Templars they just maintain several Watch Fortresses for recruitment and training in important areas, each one acting as it's own "chapter". defiantly go over over the Black shields, I feel like they are under appreciated
Should look into the Deathwatch rpg books (like the ones they did for rouge trader and dark heresy) I bet they have a ton of info. I know Humble Bundle did a deal on all of them at one point so I bet someone has all of them in pdf form.
It's been 10,000 years, been waiting for this episode forever as one of 10 Deathwatch fans in the world One of my favorite parts about Deathwatch are the Watchmasters - they're such veterans of the Long Watch that they don't tend to return to their old chapters, and on authority they only answer to Inquisitors and presumably High Lords of Terra
DK accidentally calling an Avatar of Khaine and Avatar of Khorn, understandable, DK thinking an Avatar of Khaine is going to do anything but get absolutely Worfed, that's the heresy.
The mushroom Alien may be a Tau Client race. A book has a very psychic mushroom race in it that kind of fits. From the way they're described I want them as axillaries pretty badly. The book is Shadowsun: the patient hunter
Each chapter has its own opinions on the Deathwatch. Some it’s a high honor, others it’s a form of exile, and others just a “oh fuck I guess you can take Jim from accounting?” Kind of thing.
My first real introduction to 40k was a game of DeathWatch ttrpg run by a buddy of mine. We had an Imperial Fist Tactical Marine, and Angels Encarmine Apothecary, a Blood Ravens Librarian and a Raven Guard Assault Marine (me). We were a pretty solid team and our GM did an incredible job smoothing over the more finicky aspects of the system. 7.8/10 too many xenos. Would play again.
I always thought the Death Watch was kind of the last chnace for wash out Astartes chapter. Like Astartes whose chapters got wiped out, Astartes who their might have a slight question mark due to chaos, so they were put on perpetual Xenos duty, Blood Angels who were succumbing to the black rage or Marines that were on bad terms with their chapter etc.
Fun Easter egg I noticed after watching this episode: In Space Marine 2, the codenames that Titus uses for the various squads in his command during the campaign are named after the Watch Fortress worlds
Been reading the Stormcaller series and it’s really great. One of the main characters went away for the Deathwatch and returned and he finds it incredibly difficult to be his original Space Wolf self after spending so much time with other chapters. Really cool it see it play out and how he has to readjust to life in the pack. That said, the Wolves really don’t like leaving their chapter Deathwatch or not. It’s kind of seen as “abandoning” the pack. Not all Chapters see it as a great honor. The space Vikings would rather be with their own kind, fighting and dying amongst their brothers.
Wahoo love deathwatch wargear! Also each deathwatch watch station has its own watch master. Their organization is way more decentralized than regular chapters
I would just like to welcome Shy to the pain of game dev and congrats on making it through. With the kind of spite that can foster, I'll be surprised if the game doesn't format all my hard drives after credits roll.
The Dark Angels one really reminds me of shit that happens in the Marine Corps in some units when you go TAD to another unit (temporary assigned duty) “don’t be fucking talking about what goes on here, not a word. Got it?” “Aye SSgt”
Check Star-Crosst, the game Shy worked on as the Creative Director on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2206870/StarCrosst/
Thanks for the new scalie waifu.
The add got me like what is this?
Deathwatch: Slay all the Xenos
Shy: Slaaaaay all the Xenos
Just finished star-crosst recently, enjoyed it quite a bit, loved Isol's character. LunaticMoon did good ,real good.
@@BTM8109Vergil: Slay all
My favorite Deathwatch story will always be "Hey, we found a box. There's something in the box, but we can't find it. Just lock up the box and pray I guess."
"lets hope statistically there is nothing in said box"
Wasn't there an extra-sneaky Lictor, who's presence or abence in said box they couldn't really prove?
Is that the one they keep in maximum security after a trap went off and they couldn't prove it was or wasn't there? And sometimes, one marine will go in to provoke it but nothing will happen?
@@andreykuzmin4355that sounds awesome. Why are Lictors always the basis for incredibly interesting funny lore bits?
What’s the story called?
Deathwatch requires recruits from all chapters, Joining the deathwatch is sometimes a form of exile from the chapter, consequently there are a lot of codex un-compliant Ultramarines in the deathwatch.
So The ultramarines have a secondary chapter. God damit.
Ultramarines of Deathwatch: the Codex Astartes found them guilty... of being based.
So it's pretty much the Night's Watch in space
@@samfire3067 That was the backstory for my Arch Militant in Rogue Trader a few years ago: he was a "not-zealous-enough" Black Templar with missteps into pragmatism. Then he got recruited by an inquisitor.
@@samfire3067 these are the Cpt Titus type Ultramarines, they basically all get put in the deathwatch for being using the Codex as 'guidlines' than actual rules.
Congrats to shy for making her own game! That’s incredible!
In the Deathwatch tabletop RPG, I was part of the galaxy's most incompetent kill team.
We had a Dark Angels tactical marine, an Iron Hands techmarine, an Imperial Fists devastator marine and a Black Templars assault marine (me).
We were sent to look for survivors at an Imperial research station on an ice world. They had been attacked and possibly wiped out by a mysterious xenos force (quickly turned out to be Tyranids). Here is the fate that befell each of us:
The techmarine was cut in half by hormagaunts in our first encounter. None of us had medical skills, so we looked through our items until we found "armor repair paste". Reasoning that he had a lot of bionic bits, we stuffed it into his wounds and hoped it would stop the bleeding. It worked, he survived til the end.
The Dark Angel fumbled a grenade and it landed at his own feet. Didn't hurt him, but permanently destroyed ALL of his armor. He was naked on an ice world, surrounded by enemies.
The Imperial Fist failed multiple fear tests and went crazy from terror, randomly firing his missile launcher while soiling himself.
I failed the flight rolls every time I tried to use my jump pack, either crashing or not getting off the ground in the first place. During our heroic last stand on the roof, I decided to use my pack to jump into the heart of the enemies and kill as many as I could before they took me down. Of course, I failed the roll, jump pack doesn't start up, and I just kind of trip lamely over the edge of the roof.
That’s some TTS level antics
Imagine if someone wrote Space Marines this comical
@@davisdf3064 Yeah, we were trying to be serious, but I don't think it could have turned out any sillier if we tried. Also, we each made a custom mini for our characters. Due to an unfortunately placed missile in the hand, the Imperial Fist looked like he was jackin it.
@@ashrog82
Oh that Imperial Fist is going to "Fist" someone alright
The emperor after seeing his "they shall know no fear" literally soil himself: 👁️👄👁️
To quote the 9th ed Deathwatch codex, "To the Deathwatch is granted the right to understand their foe. With understanding cones hatred. With hatred is made the vow. Suffer not the alien to live"
God I love Space Marine XCOM
"Deathwatch, represent. Lion for life, DogFkr."
Ahh golden age of 40k comunity
Dammit, I was gonna say that!!
Lion for life indeed!
How dare you disrespect the WOLFKINGs Kin my brothers will toast with your FEATHERED SKULLS
@@brucewayne5281Imagine not killing Horus
I am shocked they didn’t mention the blackshields, to me that’s always been the most interesting part of the deathwatch.
Just like GW they forgot about them
RIP
Rather ironic init, but yes, they are the coolest part
They always find new ways to disappoint
About the aliens we've never seen, my favorite quote from a warhammer book is how the imperium is "a million worlds, out of untold billions." So like...yeah they're spread out, but not everywhere.
There are billions of planets out there but only a very small amount of them are actually habitable and useful. Some planets are literal balls of ice or burning/irradiated rocks not to mention gas giants
@@simplewrites
To be fair, being inhabitable didn't stop the Imperium when it comes to colonizing a world
The Milky Way is estimated to have 100-300 billion stars, and half the stars are estimated to be part of binary (or more) systems. In other words for every imperial world there are up to 200k _star systems_ not controlled by the Imperium.
As a side note, this also explains how Eldar and Humans were able to both have a galaxy-spanning empire during the Dark Age of Technology, there simply was more than enough space for both of them (and many more).
@@Nickname-ef9tvspecially once you realize the huge chunk the eye of terror takes up used to be the Eldar core worlds.
It's also funny to think that this gigantic epic of a story playing out over tens of thousands of years at such a huge scale.....is all in one galaxy. Nids are the only confirmed thing from another galaxy. Hell, even the chaos deities seem fairly confined to the milky way. Frankly, it's *only* the year 41,000. That's 0.00
41% of the age of the earth, and 0.00029% the age of the universe.
This unbelievably, incomprehensibly gigantic story takes place in a tiny tiny fraction of time, in a single galaxy out of 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies. Oh, and that's in the observable universe, so with warp travel, that number is going to increase a lot.
Even our grandest stories end up as specks of dust compared to the whole of reality
The voice effect with which Bricky read the quote is indeed very 40k. When the Geller field drops, to be exact.
Also, congrats to Shy!
It's more or less the Dawn of War Warp Spider voice
It's the tone techpriests set their voxcoder to when they're being sarcastic.
"yEs mAGos i'lL jUsT lEvItAte yOuR FiFtY tOn sCraPhEaP oF a cArcAss oVeR tHAt cliFFsIDE aNd GeT tHat lEaK fOR YOU wHile i'M aT It."
@@electrotoxinsit's fitting to imitate a xeno voice in a xeno-killer-specialized episode.
it also sounds exactly like the eldar warp spiders in DoW 1
As one of the 5 Deathwatch players in the world, I've been waiting for this for so long!!!
hell yea bother
Three of the 5 DW players in one chat? Look out GW
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Do I count even tho I. Not making deathwatch army but still collecting other single marines from every chapter and legion
You are getting there Spacelioness
Honestly, figuring out which chapters each of your marines hail from is one of the most fun parts of playing Deathwatch. You can do a lot of visual storytelling by matching heraldry to weapon loadout, armour and helmet style, etc.
100%! And making up little back stories about how well the fireteam gets along while you're painting. "Look! A Black Templar.... I'm sure he'll love this BA Sgt I'm putting him with."
@Annoyachu Absolutely! This faction is just loaded with character👍
Yup so much fun in the RPG too having players decide chapters and turning up going.
“I am a Space Wolf Tactical Marine”
“I’m a Dark Angels Devastator”
*proceeds to start bickering and dick waving while the ultramarine sergeant sighs his ass off*
Or
“I’m a Iron Hands Tech Priest”
“I’m a Raven Guard Tactical Marine”
“I’m a Salamander Apothecary”
*proceeds to be both bitter about the dropsite massacre towards one another but also have the closet bond in the world of ‘I will not let you fall’*
@@reecedignan8365 Now THAT is the kind of character-building I live for!
@@BuddyWithTheSideburns
Most fun campaigns I’ve run I can tell you have been:
1. A 6 player campaign where each player choose an ultramarines successor. Seeing each of them start off as “f-yeah for the primach brothers” slowly start fading into “that’s not what the codex would say? What do you mean everyone in the red scorpions is an apothecary? Marines Errant why are you eying up my fallen brother gene-seed? What do you mean the Nova Marines supply battle brothers to the ultramarines, that’s like having a full second chapter of brothers to steal from!”
2. A 4 player campaign where I had a Black Templar Assault Marine, a Carcharodon Tactical Marine, a Flesh Tearer Apothecary & and Minotaur Devestator… let’s just say it was one of the most fun and brutal campaigns I’ve had the experience of running/enjoying.
3. A small Dark Angels campaign (everyone choose Dark Angel successors) and ended up fucking off from doing anti-xeno duty into hunting down heretics and suspected fallen.
4. With small conversions had each player make a 10 man squad from the iron hands and played out an engagement set during the Dropsite Massacre with literally each player having 10 character sheets like they would have dataslates and literally saw how far their squad would make it through the dropsite massacre.
Of the 50 Iron Hands that dropped and the 30+ reinforcements and 2 extra supporting predators they picked up from scattered elements.
22 died in the initial assault on the mainline as was 1 predator.
36 died in the trench fighting against Emperors children and the remaining died during a last stand after hearing their Primarch was killed.
5. Similar to above but set during an event similar to the Badab war with each player creating a 10 man squad from their respective participating chapter and seeing how far each made it into the campaign against chaos traitor marines.
Things to add for next episode:
- Chapter Heresy, because how dare a successor-chapter Sargent lead an Ultramarine in battle
- Black Shields, because this brother who specialises in Xeno psychology is totally not a Night Lord
- Special Issue Ammo
- How they’re basically Space Marine SAS in the books
- Squad mixing, because yes this regular Squad gets to mix terminators, bikers and tactical marines
- Kill Team 1st Ed Frag Cannon spam
- casual racist Black Templars being too zealous to fit in with the competitive racists
- MK8 armour, the first since the Heresy era
- how they’re totally not like the Warrior Loges, spreading Xeno knowledge and spec ops tactics back to their chapter whilst conversing between chapters
- how they have less full novels then the Soul Drinkers somehow
- How many SMs are sometimes exiled to the DW
Can you explain the Black Templars bit? I knew that Marines Malevolent are not recruited by the Deathwatch (because fuck those guys) but I didn't know there were some troubles with the Black Templars as well.
@@DaRedGobbo they are but, like how they’re Techmarines can’t paint their armour fully red because their zealous machine spirits don’t like it, the Black Templars often encounter Chapter Heresy within the DW. For instance, many Black Templars may see their Sergeant with a Xeno sword and and argue that it’s Heresy, or may fight alongside librarians whom they deem as heretical, or more mutated space marines. Other chapters can have these issues, but it rarely causes as much friction as with Black Templars.
The BTs May respect other Dornian successors, but place them in a squad with a sergeant armed with a Xeno blade, a librarian and a Black Dragon (whom often grow bone spikes and many outside the Space Marines question are chaos tainted) and send them all on a dishonourable stealth mission that demands they not simply shoot all Xeno on sight and maybe even work with them, and your either gonna have a Black Templar who grew past their blind hatred and zeal who can carry their more pragmatic views back to their chapter, or a lot of arguing and accusations of Heresy.
Many Black Templars do serve with distinction in the Death Watch, but as even the pragmatic Ultramarines can cause frictions, it’s not surprising the Black Templars are very notable for it
And of course, the Omega Vault in Watch Fortress Erioch
They're not spreading anything to other chapters. You're not allowed to tell ANYONE including your chapter about your time in the deathwatch. For example
"Brother, hear you were in the deathwatch you must have many stories to tell of your deeds"
"I was in fact, in the deathwatch... "
Also there are already warrior lodges. They're called Chapters.
Fun fact, most members of Deathwatch that survive will be sent back to their chapter where a new Astarte from their chapter will be sent to the Deathwatch. So it's sort of like an internship where it's intended as a temporary arrangement where said Marine gains experience fighting a variety of Xenos.
My favorite quote from the Deathwatch is just Watch Captain Artemis saying:
Don't ask "Why kill the Xeno?" Instead, ask: "Why *NOT*?"
My personal custom mini goal is to make a Deathwatch Killteam where each person in the unit is a member of The Expendables
Expenda(Battle)Bros?
Who do we have to bully at GW to get this made into a Bad Batch style animated series?
What makes the Death Watch exceptionally funny is it's definition: to look after a dead body and protect it from any carrion eaters, so in a big way the Death Watch are basically protecting the corpse that is the Imperium and by extention the Emperor. 😂
Hey thanks guys for doing this my dad just died suddenly on Sunday and I’ve spent most of my time painting minis and listening to old episodes. It’s nice to here two people having fun talking about one of my favorite subjects.
Condolences. :(
Oof, condolences on your dad losing his last wound. May you find solace and healing in your hobby.
I wish you well
May God heal and bless you :)
My condolences, my dad died suddenly in 2017. Thoughts and prayers to you sir.
Fun fact, the Dark Angels have the biggest number of high ranking deathwatch members of any chapter, because they tend to stay there for longer, so they can use inquisition resources in search of fallen and feed the information back to the chapter.
this makes no sense on so many levels ...
That’s some 30k Firewing shenanigans right there
On why the imperium hates the eldar: during the age of strife the eldar would often raid human worlds. The craft worlders kind of mellowed out after the whole slaneesh deal, but if that hadnt happened they would still be doing dark eldar shit to the humans.
Also many can’t tell between the Eldar, I believe even Cain had a correction by Amberly about them
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Wich is funny, because the Craftworld Eldar look like some Noble, piece of crap people, while the Dark Eldar simply look like piece of crap people
Well no, the Imperium hates the Eldar _because they're Xenos._ They would have tried exterminating them regardless. Because the Emperor is a dick.
It never occured to me that before their fall virtually the entire (by then _much_ more numerous) Eldar race likely used to raid human worlds like the Drukhari later on. Albeit propably at a lower frequency since they did not yet have to satisfy Slaanesh.
@@Nickname-ef9tv My reading of the situation was that while most Eldar lived the hedonist lifestyle, the worst excesses of their empire were still not socially acceptable enough to be done openly. It's _why_ so much of it went on in Commoragh. It was the most vile and extreme acts being done in the metaphorical underground. I have no doubt there was plenty of raiding of other species going on. But it probably wasn't an activity engaged on a societal level. (Not that "a minority of Eldar raiding non-Eldar for plunder and slaves", during the height of their empire, isn't a _fuckton_ of raiding and slaving.)
Glad to hear Victor Saltzpyre make a cameo in this episode, thank you
Tonight on "You're never getting a thousand sons episode, ever": The gang teases the possibility of a thousand sons episode, only to end with the announcement that the next episode will not be thousand sons.
Goddammit, a classroom of deathwatch marines answering the teacher's (probs a soroitas specialist) questions in chapter character would be funny.
Man, Bricky really must’ve loved that Roboogey meme to mention it in almost every episode now
Give a man a minute to get proper zooted yeah
@@bocholotthethird3159 are you calling Ultra-Boofs mid?
My brother is showing me this, does the ultra boofs bit really get brought up that much
@@saberaq he hasn’t sadly repeated the joke afterwards, but up until now, yeah, at least 10 times in 8 different videos. Your stuff is hilarious dude!
An Ep on Deathwatch while I am in the mood for Deathwatch? What a nice coincidence.
47:56 Xenos are much more terrifying than Chaos; between it being *literally impossible* for the orks to loose, the Nids just...existing and being functionally unstoppable, and the Necrons waking up with all their technology...
Oh nice! I just read "Blood of Asaheim" by Chris Wraight. Great book if you haven't checked it out. It's mostly a character-driven drama about a Space Wolf who has just spent 57 years in the deathwatch and is now returning to his pack to find that he isn't now... Well, not an 'outsider' *exactly*, but pretty close...
Very cool concept. Also the narrator - Andrew James Spooner - does a PHENOMENAL job, you can just hear how much fun he's having with it the entire time. I thought it was a little over the top at first, but then... Well, the Wolves of Russ ARE over the top so it works out perfectly.
I built a Deathwatch army for the express purpose of getting a Corvus Blackstar. I love it. Also got a Veteran Killteam that I did my best to make into the A-Team, that ride along in their A-Team van paint schemed Land Raider. The new Ballistus Dread I got is gonna get covered in Xenos skulls and tally marks, the Blackstar is gonna get some xenos transfers as a Kill Count like a WW2 fighter plane. Death Watch doesn't have much lore to bite into, but it also leaves a lot of room for concocting what vibe you want your DW to have, and the cavalier mercenary aesthetic has always been a fave of mine. Also the army rules are pretty dope =)
That sounds sick!
Inquisitor: “HOW CAN YOU BE SO CALM AFTER- oh wait, your Deathwatch. Never mind.”
Deathwatch marine: “Yeah, we’re kinda used to this by now.”
can you be so calm after
Whar?
Now, go make me a recaf.
As someone who plays storm wardens, i hope we can at least be mentioned in the future deathwatch video. Storm wardens first appeared in the deathwatch rpg
As someone who knows the Storm Warden lore, I wish you good luck in converting your Storm Wardens into chaos marines 😎
Based and Celtpilled brother 🤝
@@worldeater2414what happened?
@@burningbronze7555 The Storm Wardens have a passage saying they get visions of a demonic being urging them to join him in the warp, it is heavily hinted at that they are sons of a Demon Primarch. Which one is anyone's guess
A lot of blood Ravens are a part of deathwatch.
Let me guess they are in the requisitions department?
@@kishinasura1989 Don't know? there hasn't been no new lore what the blood Ravens are doing now?
@@vontheunknown7982 It is referencing a joke about how the Blood Ravens are constantly stealing stuff.
@@gerald2508 Oh, okay
@@gerald2508having stuff gifted to them
I hope that any future Deathwatch round-ups include mention of Chyron, the ex-Lamenter dreadnought permanently attached to a particular killteam. He thinks he's the last Lamenter, which means he's so bitter all the time that he'll disobey an Inquisitor just to slaughter more xenos. His squadmates stick up for him, though.
A Death Spectre apparently showed up in a Deathwatch novel at some point. I just think those guys are neat.
In the Angels of Death series there is a blood angel who had been in the deathwatch, interesting coincidence you pick them for the example Dk.
Would have been fun to hear them talk about kazerion.
Kazarion was send because he was chosen and he kinda get a vision
a death watch game would be so cool, different chapters of space marine, could be different classes, like a imperial fist and salamanders, can be like tanks and shields, and space wolves and blood angle can be a melee class, and blue berry can be default assault class. it can be like a team-based games, in witch you really on each other to fight different Xenos, whether trying to find intel, demolish, or facing a boss, this would seem like a cool concept.
I mean there's already a Deathwatch TTRPG that provides the blueprint; your role is your class, and your chapter gives you a separate upgrade tree- all Ultramarines have most of the commandy stuff even if they're a Devastator or Techmarine, for example.
There is a deathwatch game on steam
The Callidus use a “C’Tan Phase Blade” and back in the day no one knew what the hell a C’tan was meant to be and we just assumed it was the name of a forge world. Definitely Necron tek by today’s standards, but the Callidus lore predates Necron by a decade or two. Sly Marbo used to have one as well, but that’s been retconned at this point.
"F" for the fallen brothers of the Deathwatch (No longer Adeptus Astartes Keyword and no more army than 4 units).
Love the deathwatch!!! It’s so fun to imagine space marines of different chapters working together, learning their ways and just being utter bad-asses. But I think it’s also an opportunity for humanizing space marines. You change and experience a lot of emotion and such when you are called away from home and put in a place with a bunch of strangers. It’s like summer camp in that way. Deathwatch marines have to find a new home, new brothers, and new ways to cope. Especially for folk with secrets and curses.
Actually the crime is existence thing might be a judge dread reference since the dark judges like to say “life is a crime and the sentence is death.”
Now that we had a Deathwatch episode, all I can think about is when will we get a Kryptman episode. "F**king damn it!" (God Emperor bless TTS, it was great as long as it lasted)
I’ve been waiting since the beginning of my Alevels for this; I’m in Uni now and I’m so goddamn happy that this EP is finally here
One thing I think is really funny is everyone's greatest friends the Minotaurs can and do send marines to join the Deathwatch. What's even better about it is they even have stats in the Deathwatch rpg and one of their traits is "Rivalry (Every Astartes Chapter in Existence)."
I'm am almost certain every killteam that has a Minotaur in it always return from a deployment with at least one casualty.
You cant imagine how happy i am right now, for this episode... I love the deathwatch... Aside from iron hands and raven guard, i love deathwatch. They are so goddamn cool.
Oh yeah, they are like a "spec ops" faction of the space marines, aside from the yknow.. study and kill xenos thing. So yeah.
I like how you mentioned the black armor for martyrdom cause so many stories start out with, "so we sent in a single kill team and they arn't responding"
You must puff puff pass Lion, this is the behaviour that got sanguinius killed
I would love an episode about the begrudgingly canon chapter of space marines: The Blood Ravens, aka the one from all the games that aren't Ultramarines.
My favorite deathwatch member has to be the grumpy Dreadnaught Chyron
This is why chainswords stand the test of time.
Build a weapon to kill Orks, and you'll never be short of targets.
Shy really did give Bricky a Warhammer voice effect for the quote. It was just a Warp Spider's voice, however.
Long time Deathwatch fan... please talk about blackshields... there might be some fallen that the Dark Angels have been hunting or perhaps some loyalist Night Lords amongst there ranks
P.S. The Watch Commander is the Space Marine in charge of a Watch Fortress, often times they will be carrying Guardian spears that have been gifted by the Adeptus Custodes, (By all means they are the equivalent to a chapter master), However he is a single member of the Watch Council.
"The long vigil" sounds like GW took it straight out of Judge Dredd's "the long walk" when a judge retires, becomes a martyr and will most likely die bringing justice to the wasteland by killing savages/mutants.
Isn’t there a Deathwatch Dreadnaught that’s from the Lamenters, and for the longest time he thought that he was the last Lamenter?
Chiron I think his name is
I love my Deathwatch army, I've done a ton of conversions on them. Being drawn from all sorts of chapters makes a lot of good opportunities for cool conversions and lore.
My favorite thing about Deathwatch is its extensive and unique weaponry. Not just their special ammo type, but like
They have power-fist with top mounted melta-guns.
I'm really excited to play Star-Crosst! I'm going to buy it as soon as possible!
Thank you so much for the deathwatch video!! You don’t know how excited I got! I love you guys so much, honestly one of the highlights of my weeks
dude I jumped out of bed seeing the thumbnail
Man the DAY after I ask myself “Didn’t they make a Deathwatch video?” They upload this lmao
"Some fancy Imperium tech that is just sort of unpleasent to xeno's" is not an inaccurate way to describe a Space Marine.
Claps for Shy both for the game and the voice filter
Love the Deathwatch and their overall lore.
But fun little fact, if you double check the codex cover a few of the marines resemble those from the kill team Cassius kit in primaris form
Yes, finally our beloved Xenos Hunter Space Marines
who is we?
@@stepansvabenicky1638 those who like DW
Man can't believe DK unlearned everything just for this episode
All I could think reading that title was; "Yaaaas queen slaaaaay" and a deathwatch with the long glitter nails
I am surprised Bricky didn’t show of Killteam Cassidus. It really shows every Marines personality with all of the little details on them. Like the Iron Hands with a robotic leg or the white scar on a bike.
Cover the Raven Guard! There's not -a lot- of lore, but the stuff about Kayvaan Shrike is great, and also Corax in the Warp harassing Lorgar is also great.
"Don't vore me you fucking Dominatrix."
*Suplexes Dominatrix*
44:24 Yeah, it's a one-way street, DK, but this week you were at the end of the way :p
A Deathwatch war gear episode would be awesome!
To be fair, the radicalist method of studying and using the technology and knowledge found is a lot less dangerous when you deal with Xenos than when you deal with Chaos.
The worst thing that could happen if you play too much with Xenos tech, is that you blow up your base. The worst thing that could happen if you play with Chaos, is that you put your world in the Warp XD
I have been waiting for this episode for forever. Finally!
Best deathwatch quote tht they missed "do not ask why i kill the alien rather ask why not" -Watch Captain Artemis
"I'm based and disco-pilled!"
Thank you for your generous donation to the Blood Ravens' vocabulary! I shall use this well.
I think this is my favorite epsiode to this day. DK's progression throughout the course of this episode is amazing every time. 😂
Congrats on the release Shy! I'll be looking into it later
"I don't watch our content, it's cringe"
I laughed so FUCKING hard for some reason. I'm drunk RN, so that prolly tips the scale
Finally, they did my chapter, as for a chapter master I don't think there is one, similar to the Black Templars they just maintain several Watch Fortresses for recruitment and training in important areas, each one acting as it's own "chapter". defiantly go over over the Black shields, I feel like they are under appreciated
The Black Templars have an equivalent to a Chapter Master, in the form of High Marshall Helbrecht.
Thanks for the deathwatch video is so hard for me to find good lore sources some times but you guys are the best
Should look into the Deathwatch rpg books (like the ones they did for rouge trader and dark heresy) I bet they have a ton of info. I know Humble Bundle did a deal on all of them at one point so I bet someone has all of them in pdf form.
Buying that bundle on a whim is the entire reason Deathwatch are my favorite
Good job Shy for your game! And also of course a good job on the editing!
It's been 10,000 years, been waiting for this episode forever as one of 10 Deathwatch fans in the world
One of my favorite parts about Deathwatch are the Watchmasters - they're such veterans of the Long Watch that they don't tend to return to their old chapters, and on authority they only answer to Inquisitors and presumably High Lords of Terra
DK not understanding hyperbole and figures of speach will never get old 😂
DK accidentally calling an Avatar of Khaine and Avatar of Khorn, understandable, DK thinking an Avatar of Khaine is going to do anything but get absolutely Worfed, that's the heresy.
The mushroom Alien may be a Tau Client race. A book has a very psychic mushroom race in it that kind of fits. From the way they're described I want them as axillaries pretty badly. The book is Shadowsun: the patient hunter
It's fun listening to this after Space Marine 2, I really hope we see Gadriel join the Deathwatch.
25:30 Congrats, only this long in and you actually start talking about the actual Death Watch.
Each chapter has its own opinions on the Deathwatch. Some it’s a high honor, others it’s a form of exile, and others just a “oh fuck I guess you can take Jim from accounting?” Kind of thing.
Shout out to Shy's new accolade
*Game Developer*
My first real introduction to 40k was a game of DeathWatch ttrpg run by a buddy of mine. We had an Imperial Fist Tactical Marine, and Angels Encarmine Apothecary, a Blood Ravens Librarian and a Raven Guard Assault Marine (me). We were a pretty solid team and our GM did an incredible job smoothing over the more finicky aspects of the system.
7.8/10 too many xenos. Would play again.
Space Marine Degrassi (or Community) is a show I didn’t know I needed 33:47
I always thought the Death Watch was kind of the last chnace for wash out Astartes chapter. Like Astartes whose chapters got wiped out, Astartes who their might have a slight question mark due to chaos, so they were put on perpetual Xenos duty, Blood Angels who were succumbing to the black rage or Marines that were on bad terms with their chapter etc.
Fun Easter egg I noticed after watching this episode:
In Space Marine 2, the codenames that Titus uses for the various squads in his command during the campaign are named after the Watch Fortress worlds
Been reading the Stormcaller series and it’s really great. One of the main characters went away for the Deathwatch and returned and he finds it incredibly difficult to be his original Space Wolf self after spending so much time with other chapters. Really cool it see it play out and how he has to readjust to life in the pack. That said, the Wolves really don’t like leaving their chapter Deathwatch or not. It’s kind of seen as “abandoning” the pack.
Not all Chapters see it as a great honor. The space Vikings would rather be with their own kind, fighting and dying amongst their brothers.
Wahoo love deathwatch wargear!
Also each deathwatch watch station has its own watch master. Their organization is way more decentralized than regular chapters
Is DK just Fry from futurama? Hes been learning 40k for years now and doesnt seem to retain anything lmao
I would just like to welcome Shy to the pain of game dev and congrats on making it through. With the kind of spite that can foster, I'll be surprised if the game doesn't format all my hard drives after credits roll.
I love that DK referenced the Sabin Ghost Train suplex!!
It's funny no-one seems to comment on the fact the Deathwatch are an obvious Men in Black reference from back in the day
The Dark Angels one really reminds me of shit that happens in the Marine Corps in some units when you go TAD to another unit (temporary assigned duty) “don’t be fucking talking about what goes on here, not a word. Got it?” “Aye SSgt”
Congratulations on the game Shy. Also, I’m happy I’m not the only one that remembers the movie Soldier.
I'm gonna take that Carnifex to SUPLEX CITY
6:38
Cheif's kiss
Now I'm very intimidated