This video might be exactly why I pity the imperial guard but also why they're my favorite. When your sci-fi world has a faction where they send some random dudes to fight cosmic horror with disposable equipment but somehow actually holding the line, that faction already has my heart.
I feel bad for cadians the Armageddon steel legion all them and why do I feel like I would be the one pulling the frag grenade pin just so I can take if you enemies with me all that self sacrifice glory stuff
1001 Ways to Die, 40K edition: - Executed for cowardice - Dragged to your doom by a Lictor - Failed to outrun a Speed Freek - Smelled the pure fragance of a Plague Marine - Didn't take care of the Genestealer problem in the Hive City sewers - Sushi'd by an Aeldari Aspect Warrior - Krumped by a Nob - Stomped by a Chaos Knight - Changed by a Lord of Change - Mayday'd by a Stormboy - Failed to notice a Tau Stealthsuit - Became a Night Lord's armor decoration - Atomized by a Necron warrior - Became one of the lucky ones in a Drukhari raid - Didn't follow proper munition handling rites - Added to Khorne's skull collection - Found out a Mawloc's maw isn't an ideal landing spot - Celebrated victory before total purge of the Enemies of the Imperium - Went for a stroll in the Mandrake neighbourhood - Skipped the Uplifting Primer's advice about touching spore mines - Found out why Lasguns are more reliable than plasma weapons - Held a grudge against the Votann - Became Ripper chow - Exterminatus'd
_And_ if there’s a third party involved in the fighting, it’s fairly easy to bribe Orks into attacking said party (So long as you’re prepared to fight off the Orks using said bribe against you later on, but sometimes you have to go with the lesser evil).
@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire There's actually a situation where Imperial Guard and Orks worked together to fight off a Tyranid invasion, and genuinely meshed well together as Ork ferocity and Imperial decipline complimented each other really well. It's actually a pretty cool moment where both sides worked together for a common goal and genuinely seemed to kinda respect one another. The book's called Enemy of my Enemy in case you wanted to check it out.
@@ananonymousnerd.2179"he who subestimates the lasgun clearly has not ever crossed a battlefield againstthousands of them." It goes something like that but not those exact words
@@weldonwinsees ork horde, drives bravely in the opposite direction, finds an otherwise undetected tyranid swarm instead, both kill each other, caine is truely a hero!
Fun fact: The plasma gun is not designed to ever explode if it ever goes critical. It will just vent all heat out right on to the wielder killing them instantly.
But the way it vents all that heat means the air literally catches on fire so from someone nearby watching it vent it would look like the guns just exploded.
To be fair... 1. The guys who were killed by Drukhari got off lucky by being killed, and that quickly. 2. That Kriegsman was probably sad that he was the only one who HADN'T been killed... until he was, which probably made him happy.
Later that Drukhari scrapped his blade searching for some dna to be given to their homunculi. And then that poor guardsman will wake up in his new body in Commoragh
@Briselance Well, they would usually only exterminatus for chaos, which knowledge of corrupts normal folk, or for tyranids, in which case he probably was genestolen anyway.
Or recruited into an ad hoc Inquisitorial team with a bunch of other malcontents and loaned out to psychotic interrogators on their paths to inquisitordom.
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I love this, because it is made by somebody who clearly understands the guard, there was a lot of care taken to show off some of the different regiments. Fantastic work man!
@@Archaon_Everchosen they are the unsung bulwark of the imperium. They may not have the glory of the space marines, the power of the inquisition, the faith of the sisters, or the power of the Custodes - but the have the indomitable spirit of humanity and they will hold the line, sacrificing their all for the Imperium.
Screw that. I’m a Guardsman supporter, these folks are us fighting the horrors of the 41st Millennium. It took us training for at least 1-2 years, we are available and more numerous than the Space Marines, we can control almost most fields with numbers, we train to hold the line longer before the offensive, and we are more human to fight as a great entity.
For example@@javierpaniaguamontero1094 that you did your best to beat the enemy after you trained in the Imperial Guard in advanced for a few years but get your award stolen by some corrupted higher ups and treated us like rubbish. Do you like something like that will happen to you and your friendly brothers of arms?
while thats mostly true: they are actually the elite of their plentary forces. Its easily forgotten but unless you are in a penance battalion you where, at the time of you being put into the imperial guard: considered the best your planet has to offer.
I love the contast between the simple shapes of the gardsmen and the more detailed enemies. Really helps convey that they really are just poor, interchangable, expendible guys being thrown up against much stronger foes to die.
Commissar: Okay men it was a hard fought battle. But we finally drove those xenos hordes back across the river. HQ has ordered us to hold this position until reinforcements arrive. Send a squad to guard the bridge. Lieutenant: Sir we suffered 90% casualties during the battle. The remaining 10% are wounded. Commissar: Then send the least wounded to guard the bridge.
Enough love? That implies that they get any at all. They've been out for over 2 years now, is it too much to ask for a singular novel from their perspective?
0:49 I don't know why but that's my favorite one haha, a lunatic alien with a rocket hammer just makes me laugh. Honestly seems like something the Brutes from Halo would pull.
That isn't a rocket hammer. It's an anti-tank explosive on a stick. Yes, their way of busting tanks isn't to fire the missile, but to get in close and swing it like a hammer onto the tank. They do it that way because it's more fun.
That guardsman at the end who dies in the exterminatus should be kissing that inquisitors ring if only he could. He failed to see the hoard of daemonettes that just warped in who were "looking for a good time."
Honestly, the most unrealistic part of this video is the dark eldar bit. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the drukhari do not kill their victims anywhere near that quickly.
Oh don't worry, between the DE's medical tech & the human brains ability to survive decapitation for a fair bit, those poor saps will get to experience all the wonders of the Dark City
@@yetipotato8567 A Karskin wouldn't have went down so easy and would have had a preternatural habit of looking over his shoulder considering how insane their training is. That must have been a guardsmen who was trying out storm trooper gear.
If the Space Marines disappeared the Imperium would fall in a year. If the Imperial Navy disappeared the Imperium would fall in a month. If the Imperial Guard disappeared the Imperium would fall in a day.
If the adeptus mechanicus disappeared the imperium would fall within the week If the adeptus custodes disappeared it means the imperium has already fallen
@@anthonyrodriguez8788 They are continuously fighting the hordes of daemons trying to invade through the broken Webway. If they disappeared Terra and the Astronomican would go out so... yeah Imperium wouldn't last long.
Tbh I expected the end would be full of IG actually kicking ass since it's their gimmick. Hard-won battles but won by the sweat, courage and grit of the imperial guard
Honestly, if a guardsman actually see him it's either a "oh shit we are beyond fucked" situation amped up to 5000% or "I can't fucking believe it" situation.
As a Guard fan, this is gold, but damn did you do that Kasrkin dirty. Still I love how you added a lot of the regiments personality in their deaths, keep it up!
I admit, for me the best part is still the "jetpack" Ork and the look on the guardmen's faces that just screams "HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?!??" right before dying
The guard, a bunch of dudes in the far future, with equipment barely superior to the current, just holding the line and fighting unspeakable terrors with nightmarish technology and monsters. Damn how I love the guard.
Some of my favorite moments in 40K story is when Astartes honor guardsman. Salamander carrying slain guardsman off the field. Space Wolves saluting guardsman who stood in defense of Cadia even when the atmosphere was no longer breathable. In the wider spectrum of defending the Imperium of Man, the Imperial Guard is more vital than the Astartes.
remember. An individual guardsmen might be able to do diddily squat against all the horrors in 40k. but 10,000 all fighting at the exact same time. well thats a whole lot of diddily as they say.
Impressive variety of Guardsmen and Xenos races. I think this is the first time ive seen an animation of the Tau where they aren't eating shit and this is the first time ive seen the Votaan doing anything in an animation.
In short, life frickin sucks for humanity, our enemies are generally bigger and/or more technologically advanced than us, very sadistic, and fighting on the front lines still beats life on the average world of the Imperium.
Awesome!! This is what love about the Guard. Just regular humans, fighting the unbelievable horrors of the galaxy, WITH SOLID BRASS BALLS!! Also, loved the Night Lord bit. AVE DOMINUS NOX!!
The inquisitor sipping tea after dropping a planet buster gets me every time. Edit: Upon rewatching this for the 30th time, I had a thought, the inquisitor declared exterminatus because the guardsmen was shaking with fear, and the emperor protects, so I shall know no fear is part of their prayer. The guardsmen committed heresy by being afraid.
-The laser rifle it "One Clip, One Kill !" I prefer my new weapon! The last words of the guardman who thinks Sergeant gave him a plasma gun because he likes him... 1:42
There's something poetic about the first and final guard killers of the video being Imperium. The Imperium: #1 cause of guardsmen death for 10,000+ years
In a setting where you fight literal demons, aliens more brutal than a rabid grizzly bear, and your own people who are insane in every category, it takes a real badass as a regular human to face it all down.
Note the lack of any Catachan Jungle Fighters in this video. They were so badass, including them would undermine the helplessness of an average guardsman, which they most certainly are not.
@@BearThe-Small-Boy There's a lot more guardsmen than there are space marines. They're essentially the majority. There is more to it than sheer numbers though and despite the strength, they still need some help to get things done.
@@BearThe-Small-Boy quantity has a quality all its own, the tyranids are probably the only "people" in the galaxy that can outmatch the guard on sheer weight of numbers.
@@BearThe-Small-Boy when you have a hammer, every problem is a naill and the guard is the emperor's hammer, their infantry may be crap relative to the other factions but their artillery and tanks are second to none, even then they are also outnumbered when fighting againet orks and tyranids yet they still hold the line and push back againts the darkness
@@felop1187 The space marines I think are also called the scalpel, combine both a scalpel's precision cut and a hammer's force and you get good results.
0:44 Hey! I know this monster! He's one of those Tzeench lords that I had seen in a video about the animation of their deaths! And even, before that time that I mentioned there, something was said about the "Space Marine". Is Warhammer (the one with the lizard men and such) a shooter?
It’s a Lord of Change. A greater deamon of Tzeentch. I think they were in Boltgun but other than that I don’t think they are comming in games of 40k. Khorne gets all the glory. But they are the tabletop!
Why are my bois of the Maccabian Janissaries always left out when showing Guardsmen getting slaugtherd. They are littarly the only ones who would smile at the thought of death in battle, they make the Krieg look hesitant of death. xD
На самом деле всё не так плохо. Тут показали битвы гвардейцев против элитных воинов и середнячков, но против другого пушечного мяса они неплохо стоят. У орков есть не только крутые нобы, но и обычные бойзы, а ещё ниже их толпы гретчинов, снотлингов и боевых сквигов. Все они более мясные, чем гвардейцы. Хаос это не только демоны и хаос-марины, но и орды культистов - вполне посильных врагов для гвардейца. Тираниды в принципе более "мясные", чем гвардия со своими ордами гаунтов, которых гвардейцы вполне могут сдержать за счёт хорошей позиции. Тау это не только высокотехнологичные бронекостюмы, но и всякие крууты, которые для гвардии серьёзные, но посильные враги. В общем, гвардеец, конечно, живёт тяжёлой жизнью, но он не в самом низу пищевой цепочки даже один на один)
We all love the Guardsmen, their service of supplying the Hivemind with more and more biomass has not gone unappreciated and we implore more of the Imperium to conscript as soon as possible!
All these foes will be crushed below a billion billion more of these boots. The guard is the only civilized force able to bring the whole galaxy down to their knees. Of all the horrors in this universe, the most terrifying is the constant rolling thunder of the artillery, the shrieking of the tracks, and the endless marching lines of brave guardsmen. The emperor protects.
This video might be exactly why I pity the imperial guard but also why they're my favorite. When your sci-fi world has a faction where they send some random dudes to fight cosmic horror with disposable equipment but somehow actually holding the line, that faction already has my heart.
the only one that was happy? Krieg! becuase Krieg... also i do feel bad for those poor souls.
I feel bad for cadians the Armageddon steel legion all them and why do I feel like I would be the one pulling the frag grenade pin just so I can take if you enemies with me all that self sacrifice glory stuff
This is so BEAUTIFUL!! I must share this far and wide! ❤
@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreasBrother-Andreas! What do you do here? WHAT?!?!
woah woah woah. Disposable equipment? That stuff is more valuable then the guardsmen the equipment is always retrieved if possible.
1001 Ways to Die, 40K edition:
- Executed for cowardice
- Dragged to your doom by a Lictor
- Failed to outrun a Speed Freek
- Smelled the pure fragance of a Plague Marine
- Didn't take care of the Genestealer problem in the Hive City sewers
- Sushi'd by an Aeldari Aspect Warrior
- Krumped by a Nob
- Stomped by a Chaos Knight
- Changed by a Lord of Change
- Mayday'd by a Stormboy
- Failed to notice a Tau Stealthsuit
- Became a Night Lord's armor decoration
- Atomized by a Necron warrior
- Became one of the lucky ones in a Drukhari raid
- Didn't follow proper munition handling rites
- Added to Khorne's skull collection
- Found out a Mawloc's maw isn't an ideal landing spot
- Celebrated victory before total purge of the Enemies of the Imperium
- Went for a stroll in the Mandrake neighbourhood
- Skipped the Uplifting Primer's advice about touching spore mines
- Found out why Lasguns are more reliable than plasma weapons
- Held a grudge against the Votann
- Became Ripper chow
- Exterminatus'd
...Sums it up nicely! 😎😁
40 thousand ways to die. There is a song with this name on youtube.
To be fair, the Uplifting Primer isn’t usually worth the paper it’s written on, so I don’t blame that one for ignoring what it said
Grimdarks ways to die, so many grimdark ways to die
Got railguned from beyond visual range, not knowing what hit you
fighting the orks is one of the best things you could be fighting in 40k.
_And_ if there’s a third party involved in the fighting, it’s fairly easy to bribe Orks into attacking said party (So long as you’re prepared to fight off the Orks using said bribe against you later on, but sometimes you have to go with the lesser evil).
@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire There's actually a situation where Imperial Guard and Orks worked together to fight off a Tyranid invasion, and genuinely meshed well together as Ork ferocity and Imperial decipline complimented each other really well. It's actually a pretty cool moment where both sides worked together for a common goal and genuinely seemed to kinda respect one another. The book's called Enemy of my Enemy in case you wanted to check it out.
But that doesn't mean that they aren't horrifying
@@ChadTalos Sure, but they're _hilariously_ horrifying.
Yes they are but not in bad way but in an interesting way I love learning about Orks from the prospective of other races
Not pictured here: those same enemies splattered by the thousand other guardsment freaking out.
Correction, should read "...by the trillion..." 😅
Worry not about the trillions that die, but about the trillions that live by their sacrifice. By your sacrifice, soldier. 😅
What was the quote again, something along the lines of "anyone who does not fear the lasgun hasn't seen a wall of 1000 of them"?
@@ananonymousnerd.2179"he who subestimates the lasgun clearly has not ever crossed a battlefield againstthousands of them."
It goes something like that but not those exact words
Timed 2:09
Every one of those scenarios Ciaphas Cain would have solved by not wanting to be there in the first place.
Cain: *(Looking at the massed hordes of waiting enemies and sighs)* Well Chucklefucks... Ready Jurgen?
HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
@@weldonwinsees ork horde, drives bravely in the opposite direction, finds an otherwise undetected tyranid swarm instead, both kill each other, caine is truely a hero!
@@weldonwinReady Sir, but I haven't got the marshmellows
@@AsbestosMuffins Check out the book "Caves of Ice", which has a situation almost exactly what you describe. He doesn't find Tyranids though.
Fun fact: The plasma gun is not designed to ever explode if it ever goes critical. It will just vent all heat out right on to the wielder killing them instantly.
40k: Where the standard-issue gear is worth - quite literally - more than your life.
Eh close enough
And that's better how?
@@travisbishop782
The gun is more valuable than the person wielding it.
But the way it vents all that heat means the air literally catches on fire so from someone nearby watching it vent it would look like the guns just exploded.
To be fair...
1. The guys who were killed by Drukhari got off lucky by being killed, and that quickly.
2. That Kriegsman was probably sad that he was the only one who HADN'T been killed... until he was, which probably made him happy.
Later that Drukhari scrapped his blade searching for some dna to be given to their homunculi. And then that poor guardsman will wake up in his new body in Commoragh
@@ra_alf9467”body”
Weird way to spell “household furnitures”
2. No, because DKoK aren't actually suicidal. They just don't care about their lives if they can sacrifice it for the mission's sake.
2. Yeah, it's the Kriegsman equivalent of everyone getting ice-cream but not you for not doing well in your exam.
@@Deus888 exactly. they're not 'i want to die', they're 'i don't care if i die'
Dudes who fantasize about being a guardsman seeing this and saying "nah, I'd win"
We will.
But I like dying for the Emperor when I mod Ravenfield
@@nobodyxdel2390counterpoint: Drukhari
if the Orks were bloodlusted they might cause me a little trouble
STAND PROUD CADIANS. YOU ARE STRONG.
Don't worry about that last guy, he would have been killed for knowing too much even if he got evacuated!
That's... effed up to the point of grimderpiness.
@Briselance Well, they would usually only exterminatus for chaos, which knowledge of corrupts normal folk, or for tyranids, in which case he probably was genestolen anyway.
@@RolandTheJabberwocky or when the paper got lost in the bureaucratic process. Woopsie
Or recruited into an ad hoc Inquisitorial team with a bunch of other malcontents and loaned out to psychotic interrogators on their paths to inquisitordom.
standard operational procedure for the inquisition. Kryptman would be so proud
They all mock the guard until the Baneblades show up.
Dem umie tanks iz awlrite, but it takes a lad wiv sum propper orky-know-wots ta make em ave da rite amount of dakka. An paint em red.
IT IS THE BANEBLADE!
@@reverenddmo8944 umies would call that air-eh-see any boy worth his hide would know there is nevah enough dakka.
Baneblade: for when you want to push the line forward a couple hundred kilometers instead of just holding it.
Until 100 baneblade get somehow misplaced at the worst of time.
It's been two years already? Thank the Emperor you're back!
You can't rush perfection.
Lexicon
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And dont forget a good WAAAAGH
Same.
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Btw what is the song ?
I love this, because it is made by somebody who clearly understands the guard, there was a lot of care taken to show off some of the different regiments. Fantastic work man!
Ну конечно нужно подробно знать лор фракции, чтобы выставить их никчёмным мусором. Зато он использовал парочку разных полков и высмеял их всех
@@Archaon_Everchosen they are the unsung bulwark of the imperium. They may not have the glory of the space marines, the power of the inquisition, the faith of the sisters, or the power of the Custodes - but the have the indomitable spirit of humanity and they will hold the line, sacrificing their all for the Imperium.
just remember the planet broke before the guard did. Can't say that about any other even space marines leave before that happens.
Guardsmen: Did we finally win?
Universe: Well yes... but actually no. (spawns hive fleet)
Imperial Navy has arrived.
get the void cannons ready.@@alexkatc59
*deep breath* ahh shit here we go again
Nids go nom
NOT THE GARGOYLES
"It ain't much but it's honest work."
Fits this a little to well lol
Screw that. I’m a Guardsman supporter, these folks are us fighting the horrors of the 41st Millennium. It took us training for at least 1-2 years, we are available and more numerous than the Space Marines, we can control almost most fields with numbers, we train to hold the line longer before the offensive, and we are more human to fight as a great entity.
all so that in the end the space marines get the credit Lmao
For example@@javierpaniaguamontero1094 that you did your best to beat the enemy after you trained in the Imperial Guard in advanced for a few years but get your award stolen by some corrupted higher ups and treated us like rubbish. Do you like something like that will happen to you and your friendly brothers of arms?
more numerous than space marines by a factor of, like, ten thousand
@@javierpaniaguamontero1094 just like USMC getting credit when it was the US army doing the heavy lifting
while thats mostly true: they are actually the elite of their plentary forces. Its easily forgotten but unless you are in a penance battalion you where, at the time of you being put into the imperial guard: considered the best your planet has to offer.
To be fair, considering what usually happens to people attacked by Dark Eldar, the guys who got a quick decapitation really were lucky.
40k noob:”wow the space marines are so cool they’re awesome heroes.”
40k veterans:”the guardsmen are the real heroes.”
My brother, 40k has no heroes, just crabs in a bucket.
Chaos has it right ngl.
@@whitewall2253 or monkeys in a phone booth
@@s.k4713 Dems spoiky gitz? Nah ya git, it's all about DA ORKZ. WE'Z MADE FA FOITIN AN' WINNIN! WAAAAGH!
I love the contast between the simple shapes of the gardsmen and the more detailed enemies. Really helps convey that they really are just poor, interchangable, expendible guys being thrown up against much stronger foes to die.
They have an entire logistics system dedicated to hauling around their massive balls
Commissar: Okay men it was a hard fought battle. But we finally drove those xenos hordes back across the river. HQ has ordered us to hold this position until reinforcements arrive. Send a squad to guard the bridge.
Lieutenant: Sir we suffered 90% casualties during the battle. The remaining 10% are wounded.
Commissar: Then send the least wounded to guard the bridge.
So this is where you've been!
Also shout out to including the Leagues of Votann. They don't get enough love from GW.
Eh, their digging a hole somewhere.
Also, Ironkin!
yay!
ROCK AND STONE
Enough love? That implies that they get any at all. They've been out for over 2 years now, is it too much to ask for a singular novel from their perspective?
@@billul1deep rock galactic 😂
@@billul1 FOR KARL!
0:49 I don't know why but that's my favorite one haha, a lunatic alien with a rocket hammer just makes me laugh. Honestly seems like something the Brutes from Halo would pull.
That isn't a rocket hammer. It's an anti-tank explosive on a stick. Yes, their way of busting tanks isn't to fire the missile, but to get in close and swing it like a hammer onto the tank.
They do it that way because it's more fun.
Ork's get even crazier than this!
@@blazikenking Lunge mines but better.
That guardsman at the end who dies in the exterminatus should be kissing that inquisitors ring if only he could. He failed to see the hoard of daemonettes that just warped in who were "looking for a good time."
He received the Emperor's mercy
Honestly, the most unrealistic part of this video is the dark eldar bit. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the drukhari do not kill their victims anywhere near that quickly.
Or that cleanly
Oh don't worry, between the DE's medical tech & the human brains ability to survive decapitation for a fair bit, those poor saps will get to experience all the wonders of the Dark City
Omg the leagues of Votann bit had me dying of laughter just seems exceptionally mean spirited 😂
He had a judgment token on him
And undeserved too, because that was no guardsman, that was a Stormtrooper/Scion
@@jasonalcatraz5817 I believe it is a kasrkin
I'm pretty sure that's a wrestling move that was used by two midgets in the wwe.
@@yetipotato8567 A Karskin wouldn't have went down so easy and would have had a preternatural habit of looking over his shoulder considering how insane their training is. That must have been a guardsmen who was trying out storm trooper gear.
As a chaos knights player I am honored to see my boys getting some representation
If the Space Marines disappeared the Imperium would fall in a year.
If the Imperial Navy disappeared the Imperium would fall in a month.
If the Imperial Guard disappeared the Imperium would fall in a day.
If the adeptus mechanicus disappeared the imperium would fall within the week
If the adeptus custodes disappeared it means the imperium has already fallen
@@ΑλέξανδροςΙωάννηςΚανέλληςEh the Custodes don't do shit so it wouldn't be that much of a difference.
@@anthonyrodriguez8788 They are continuously fighting the hordes of daemons trying to invade through the broken Webway. If they disappeared Terra and the Astronomican would go out so... yeah Imperium wouldn't last long.
@@HubiKoshi no a small portion of them do that, most just sit around the Imperial Palace doing jack all.
@@anthonyrodriguez8788 Same difference really. Without them the Imperial Palace would be overran.
Love how you show different regimets, not only the cadians (or Krieg) had a bad day
Love the Stormboy with the tankhammer xD
1:47 The Squats got entirely wiped out by Tyrannids, and even then they still get to bully guardsmen !
I mean, they did get to make a major comeback in the 9th and 10th (current) edition
Tbh I expected the end would be full of IG actually kicking ass since it's their gimmick. Hard-won battles but won by the sweat, courage and grit of the imperial guard
Death guard appeared for more than one second! 10/10
Just an average day in the Guard.
Glad to see your heroic return! The Emperor is pleased!
Eh i never wanted to live forever anyway. *Fixes bayonet*
FOR THE EMPEROR
“Emperors you never see. Emperor? What’s that? Who’s he?”
Damn
HERESY! *BLAM*
Honestly, if a guardsman actually see him it's either a "oh shit we are beyond fucked" situation amped up to 5000% or "I can't fucking believe it" situation.
As a Guard fan, this is gold, but damn did you do that Kasrkin dirty. Still I love how you added a lot of the regiments personality in their deaths, keep it up!
I admit, for me the best part is still the "jetpack" Ork and the look on the guardmen's faces that just screams "HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?!??" right before dying
The guard, a bunch of dudes in the far future, with equipment barely superior to the current, just holding the line and fighting unspeakable terrors with nightmarish technology and monsters.
Damn how I love the guard.
I mean Lasguns are not "barely" superior. If a lasgun existed today, entire wars would be fought over it.
and the thing is, this life is better than the hive city life...
Good ol imperium being the hellscape it is.
Some of my favorite moments in 40K story is when Astartes honor guardsman. Salamander carrying slain guardsman off the field. Space Wolves saluting guardsman who stood in defense of Cadia even when the atmosphere was no longer breathable. In the wider spectrum of defending the Imperium of Man, the Imperial Guard is more vital than the Astartes.
That represent so well guardsman's life
Man I can't count how many of my buddies guardsmen I've killed in are games. 😂 wonderful song.
remember. An individual guardsmen might be able to do diddily squat against all the horrors in 40k. but 10,000 all fighting at the exact same time. well thats a whole lot of diddily as they say.
Ned Flanders?
(From The Simpsons)
Well put
Impressive variety of Guardsmen and Xenos races.
I think this is the first time ive seen an animation of the Tau where they aren't eating shit and this is the first time ive seen the Votaan doing anything in an animation.
Amazing tutorial for those unfamiliar with warhammer, really gets them up to speed on what's up.
In short, life frickin sucks for humanity, our enemies are generally bigger and/or more technologically advanced than us, very sadistic, and fighting on the front lines still beats life on the average world of the Imperium.
The ork with the explosive warhead hammer has got to be the funniest bit.
Guardsmen: 🤜 🤛 :Helldivers
0:58 They sang stuff like this and they wonder why they got Exterminastus-ed
"Yes inquisitor I'd like to report my men are questioning why they never see the God emperor."
@@loganandrews3121”doubt is the seed of heresy”
Return of the king
Awesome!! This is what love about the Guard. Just regular humans, fighting the unbelievable horrors of the galaxy, WITH SOLID BRASS BALLS!! Also, loved the Night Lord bit. AVE DOMINUS NOX!!
Gotta say though, getting to play an armored company was pretty mint ... more so with the battery of basilisks at the back😂
The inquisitor sipping tea after dropping a planet buster gets me every time. Edit: Upon rewatching this for the 30th time, I had a thought, the inquisitor declared exterminatus because the guardsmen was shaking with fear, and the emperor protects, so I shall know no fear is part of their prayer. The guardsmen committed heresy by being afraid.
"Emperor we never see. Emperor what's that who's he." My favorite part
Definitely a veteran guardsman created this. Intimate knowledge of guard life.
Thanks so much for including the Votann in this montage! It often seems like most 40k content creators are even aware they exist.
Outstanding work 👍👍👍👍
Only missed opportunities were cleaning out Ogryn bedrooms 😅 and the Mechanicus “consensually” turning you into a servitor
Everyone on the battlefield is shooting and screaming in different language is the most warhammer thing I ever seen
-The laser rifle it "One Clip, One Kill !"
I prefer my new weapon!
The last words of the guardman who thinks Sergeant gave him a plasma gun because he likes him... 1:42
Squats?!
Cool. :)
To be honest, guardsman have munitorum issued balls of adamantine. To face those odds and usually holding the horrors back takes courage.
I hear your argument and raise to thee: my melee focused veteran kriegsman in Darktide who's an absolute menace towards the heretics of Atoma Prime.
Fun fact: On tabletop you can kill a titan by doing this 0:36
It is a long process, but it can be done
I can now proudly say this video inspired me to look into Warhammer lore and start buying my own collection!
I love how Kriegsmen are the only ones enjoying themselves there. XD
That bit about the Dark Eldar is about as nice as you can expect to get with them.
Hey props for adding in different regiments :D A forgotten thing in GW's eyes...
There's something poetic about the first and final guard killers of the video being Imperium.
The Imperium: #1 cause of guardsmen death for 10,000+ years
2:01 man, I *instantly* knew what was coming here, lol.
In a setting where you fight literal demons, aliens more brutal than a rabid grizzly bear, and your own people who are insane in every category, it takes a real badass as a regular human to face it all down.
And yet they've held the line for millennia and will continue to hold the line. They deserve nothing but respect!
Well, this was just saved to my "Keep permanently and watch often" playlist! For the Emporer!✊️
0:12 Gotta go fast.
Note the lack of any Catachan Jungle Fighters in this video. They were so badass, including them would undermine the helplessness of an average guardsman, which they most certainly are not.
Ironically, the most powerful force in the imperium is the imperial guard despite guardsmen being known for dying a lot.
How?
@@BearThe-Small-Boy There's a lot more guardsmen than there are space marines. They're essentially the majority. There is more to it than sheer numbers though and despite the strength, they still need some help to get things done.
@@BearThe-Small-Boy quantity has a quality all its own, the tyranids are probably the only "people" in the galaxy that can outmatch the guard on sheer weight of numbers.
@@BearThe-Small-Boy when you have a hammer, every problem is a naill and the guard is the emperor's hammer, their infantry may be crap relative to the other factions but their artillery and tanks are second to none, even then they are also outnumbered when fighting againet orks and tyranids yet they still hold the line and push back againts the darkness
@@felop1187 The space marines I think are also called the scalpel, combine both a scalpel's precision cut and a hammer's force and you get good results.
Your video speaks to exactly why 40K is SO POPULAR and APPEALING to me! 👍👍👍👍
"Ain't that the truth " -Random Guardsmen
Im proud i can be here within the first 5 hours of upload, absolutely iconic content
Look, if you are fighting the Deldar, the ones killed by being chopped in half are the LUCKY ones.
GREAT job on the Tyranids! 😍
2:09 Exterminatus moment.
Bro 😂😂😂😂😂Ace in the Skullllllll, the video is fire, best Warhammer 40k video of the millennium
Вот это я понимаю вернулся, дак вернулся, Cool video
Yup, that sums up a Guardsman's lifestyle pretty well!
The Night Lord made me laugh.
AVE DOMINUS NOX!
Здорово!
В конце ждал дроппода ультрамаринов, но экстерминатус тоже не плохо)
0:44 Hey! I know this monster! He's one of those Tzeench lords that I had seen in a video about the animation of their deaths! And even, before that time that I mentioned there, something was said about the "Space Marine". Is Warhammer (the one with the lizard men and such) a shooter?
It’s a Lord of Change. A greater deamon of Tzeentch. I think they were in Boltgun but other than that I don’t think they are comming in games of 40k. Khorne gets all the glory. But they are the tabletop!
@@firethunderplasmaball5717I'm still curious if Warhammer is a shooter or a strategy game.
@@victorhernandes9151 yes
@@victorhernandes9151 If you want a shooter from fantasy Warhammer, try Vermintide.
Why are my bois of the Maccabian Janissaries always left out when showing Guardsmen getting slaugtherd. They are littarly the only ones who would smile at the thought of death in battle, they make the Krieg look hesitant of death. xD
A scenario that was missed:
“look, the Emperor’s angels! We’re saved”
(It’s the Grey knights)
Absolutely perfect!! XD
Best most hilarious way to portray the Guardsmen
amazing especially with the part with kreig
0:10
An alien with that colour palette and a needle point tail just screams Frieza to me...
На самом деле всё не так плохо. Тут показали битвы гвардейцев против элитных воинов и середнячков, но против другого пушечного мяса они неплохо стоят.
У орков есть не только крутые нобы, но и обычные бойзы, а ещё ниже их толпы гретчинов, снотлингов и боевых сквигов. Все они более мясные, чем гвардейцы.
Хаос это не только демоны и хаос-марины, но и орды культистов - вполне посильных врагов для гвардейца.
Тираниды в принципе более "мясные", чем гвардия со своими ордами гаунтов, которых гвардейцы вполне могут сдержать за счёт хорошей позиции.
Тау это не только высокотехнологичные бронекостюмы, но и всякие крууты, которые для гвардии серьёзные, но посильные враги.
В общем, гвардеец, конечно, живёт тяжёлой жизнью, но он не в самом низу пищевой цепочки даже один на один)
что это за дворфы на 1:48
We all love the Guardsmen, their service of supplying the Hivemind with more and more biomass has not gone unappreciated and we implore more of the Imperium to conscript as soon as possible!
1:46 "FOR KARL!"
"prepare to charge" hits me hard every time man
Guards fans will watch this and say:
“See? The Imperium cares about humanity.”
"How fast can our Hive Cities reproduce to bring Imperial population numbers back up after we lost another planet yesterday?"
All these foes will be crushed below a billion billion more of these boots. The guard is the only civilized force able to bring the whole galaxy down to their knees. Of all the horrors in this universe, the most terrifying is the constant rolling thunder of the artillery, the shrieking of the tracks, and the endless marching lines of brave guardsmen. The emperor protects.
No Vostroyan?!
Fantastic Laughed through it all.