Wolfer's pledge to Nurgle sounds similar to Mortarion and the Death Guard astartes. Mortarion's compassion was also taken advantage of, making a pact with Nurgle to stop their underlings' suffering from the plagues. Nurgle always takes advantage of compassion, for he himself is the most compassionate of all...
I agree! Everyone literally has no idea what's going on throughout that situation, and it just dissolves into Chaos. They do a good job of making it sad. Wolfer may have been a dick, but he just didn't suffer fools. He would also lay down his life to protect his soldiers, and you can't help but wonder if they'd never been sent to Nox Alpha, if he would have turned.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. I’m not so sure, considering everything that happened during the deployment was basically a direct result of Nox Alpha’s corruption. Nurgle took full advantage of Wolfer‘s compassionate side and his desire to protect his men from these diseases, which ironically saved and doomed them all at the same time. The remaining question is if it was all orchestrated or pure coincidence (which isn’t so hard to believe considering how incompetent the modern imperium can be sometimes)
Recent in the grand scheme of things, maybe. Although unlikely as Nox Alpha was already very well known to the Moebian Regiments by the time the 6th were deployed. Martyr's skull quote: "We’re going to Nox Alpha? That’s a karking death sentence." and "What? We’re deploying to Nox Alpha? I’d sooner start a fight with Commissar Magsen." Most importantly, it was even infamous back during Saint Messelina's crusade, which could have taken place as far back as 5.000 years before the game takes place. One of the martyr's skulls say: "There's a reason Saint Messelina never came to Nox Alpha." And there's already been other worlds in the lore that the Guard have been deployed to that were just as, if not even more, deadly and poisonous than Nox Alpha without them being daemon worlds. Both Monthax and Gereon come to mind.
@mildsnaps Interesting, it could still be a deamon world that the guard routinely throws troops just to stem the "darktide" or a heavily Nurgle courrupted world that the guard is attacking to stop from becoming a full deamon world in the first place.
one thing i truly adore about darktide is that it captures the way 40k makes me feel: the pepe silvia mental breakdown in its always sunny in philadelphia
LMAO, amazing comparison. That's exactly how I feel when I try to put together the pieces of storyline. "Faaaatsharrrrk, Faaatttshaaarrrrrk! I gotta talk to you about genestealers!"
That would be cool, but honestly I don't see how they could make it balanced. I mean, with their Nurgle blessings, Death Guard Marines are considered very resilient, even among Astartes standards. Immense firepower would be needed by basic troopers to put down a Death Guard legionary.
I totally get what you mean, but on the tabletop (which is where a lot of Fatshark has modeled many of Darktide's mechanics from), basic Ogryns can stand toe-to-toe with Space Marines, even Death Guard, pretty easily. Also consider that few things are more disgustingly resilient than a Beast of Nurgle, and we dispatch those all day long.
This would be cool but the Death Guard carry Nurgles blessing and i believe normal mortal humans can’t be anywhere near them without getting violently sick. Like Typhus being the host of the destroyer plague wouldn’t even be able to get within shooting range without dying.
I have a feeling someone in the Administratum is compromised. Getting sent to a planet that's probably a Nurgle cult stronghold, having the best regiment of the Moebian Domain turn, and then they get sent back to help support Admonition to siege Tertium? Something smells, and it isn't JUST the unwashed masses.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. This seems pretty certain to me, considering that in the Archivum Sycorax mission you have to scan Administratum cogitators before nabbing a printout containing the names of suspect individuals, as well as their correspondance and other documentation with the traitor forces on Atoma Prime, and in typical Administratum fashion they kept the receipts too.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. there is mounting evidence that there is a traitor in the ruling elite of Aroma that has been helping the chaos forces from before the outbreak. I'll make a quick list. I actually hope you make a video on this topic, if you haven't already! 1 - the moebians were using underground train lines previously used for smuggling. It is stated in the mission where you steal the crystals that they must have had hell from inside tertium to know those smuggling routes. 2 - When the rejects raid the drug lab, Rannick observes that this drug lab is so old it must predate the Moebians invasion. The locals are also suspiciously showing no resistance to the Moebians. Almost like they were already traitors before the uprising went loud. 3 - The traitors had access to the train systems from the beginning. The trains are not a private company, they are state run, which means someone in the government must have helped them get access without any outsiders knowing. 4 - we know there is political conflict in Atoma predating the invasion. Atoma (and the entire sector) was ruled by House Barquette. However House Margrave openly rebelled and forced the Barquettes out of power, which they resent to this day. It is possible that the disgruntled nobles may have turned traitor in order to reclaim power. I think they got more than they bargained for! 5 - The Moebians were recalled to Aroma AFTER they turned to Chaos. It is highly unlikely that nobody in the govt knew of the treachery before this. So why bring traitors to their doorstep? Because some of the rulers of Atoma were helping them already! 6 - as previously stated by other comments, it is strange that the Guard was sent to a death world in the first place. Anyone who knows about the Imperium's forces would know that guardsmen are completely unsuited to fighting on a death world. The only humans who could probably survive that are Space Marines and Catachan Jungle Fighters, since their superior physical resilience gives them a fighting chance on a death world. Either the leaders were too stupid to realize this, or they knew the Moebians would succumb to sickness and ordered them to go to Nox Alpha anyway. The latter suggest intentional sabotage by traitors. 7 - the commissars were all killed before the Moebians returned. Yet nobody thought it strange that a whole regiment of guardsmen had no commissars left? Massive red flag. Inquisitors would immediately recognize something is wrong. Yet nothing was done about it. Either massive incompetence, or intentional oversight.
Annnnd straight into Archium Sicorax missions with both the roof antenna and library servo skull missions about getting data offworld because the Mourningstar is compromised and we're looking for evidence about who may be making payoffs when we chase down that Servo Skull in the deep archives. Not to mention Risor 33 and the crystals. Exotic Las-weapon components? Not cheap the way Hallowette and Melk bicker.
Well and also....who on earth would have USE for being paid off in parts meant to build weapons? That's part of why I think the Dark Mechanicum could be involved in Darktide...
My favorite example of Nurgle’s plauges was when Typhus (Death Guard second in command) made a plauge that is based on fear and misunderstanding specifically to fuck with an Inquisitor who tried experimenting with The Plague of Unbelief.
Typhus also specifically created the Walking Pox, which is the main disease burning it's way through Tertium. I actually made a video about how he might be the father of Admonition (even if we'll never see him in-game). th-cam.com/video/zvy7RT3vst4/w-d-xo.html
I think that despite their numbers, the Mobian Sixth are still outnumbered by the Dregs, who supply the poxwalkers and groaners that support them in the hordes, along with things like the poxhounds. Wolfer is likely still trying to do what he thinks is best for his Regiment, which means swearing allegiance to an actual Nurgle Cult. I'm assuming that due to being an actual Cult, the Dregs have the knowledge to create the Daemonhosts and are also likely the ones who bring forth the Beasts of Nurgle and the Chaos Spawn. The Mobian Sixth are the ones who are likely supplying the cult with Ogryns to create Plague Ogryns.
In the mission to the tainted stim lab in the Carnival Morrow theorises that the cult activity long predates the crisis, maybe the 6th where actually sent to Nox Alpha to become corrupted, especially suspicious with how a weird Priest shows up at just the right time.
I honestly think that's the case. I think Admonition knew they wouldn't have enough combat experience/man power to make it just on their own. So they took the best the Moebian Domain had to offer.
Yep I believe that too someone in the administration sent the 6 amongst other regiment to nox expecting them to turn traitor and also diminish the loyalist forces in one fell swoop.@@Jo.Plays.Games.
Seeing what Nox Alpha is described like and the mentions of the guardsmen being slaughtered, I imagine they took on the Death Guard or some other powerful nurglite force. Why on earth guardsmen were sent to what´s obviusly a daemon world that should get blown to bits by the nearest inquisitorial fleet, I don´t know.
You mentioned the high Houses, chances are the reason the mission with the phage tree sometimes has them as active narrators is that Rannick is assessing them for treachery, after all, it wouldn't be the first time nobles were found wanting in their faith.
New to Darktide, having a blast so far!! I had no idea there was so much lore behind the Martyr’s Skulls-superb narration and editing, this genuinely gave me the creeps as I was listening. Subscribed!
Awww, thanks so much! Yeah the Martyr Skulls are really packed with lore. I just wish we could access them and the Vox transmission on the Mourningstar. Thanks so much for your kind words. I still very much feel like a "newbie" when it comes to editing, so that means a lot to hear!
Yeah it basically hand feeds us the entire backstory of the Moebian 6th and Wolfer (except his relationship with Zola....maybe). I'm still SO surprised Fatshark doesn't have a way to hear them all in the Mourningstar or something like that.
When anyone picks up a martyr skull in a mission, it should play one of the lines at random for everyone on the strike team. Everyone gets a different random line. It's been a little buggy as they've added more updates, though. Just keep picking up those skulls if you find them, or, you can always check out Konstle's video here!: th-cam.com/video/ZFT9_qchxfs/w-d-xo.html
There's some skull lines I didn't include for brevity that mention the enemy make air strikes at them. I suppose it could be a daemon world though, if maybe say...some really big soldiers that are somewhere between mortal and daemon were present. Also, thanks for watching!
Trillions of Guardsmen and Quadrillions of Humans were devoured by the Great Rift Billions died around Jupiter, Saturn and Luna during the Solar War Billions of Conscripts defended Terra at the start of the Siege. Countless more are conscripted throughout it 'Minor' skirmishes during the War in Heaven regular kill Trillions
@@Jo.Plays.Games. Yeah regiments should be serval million men with the size of the galaxy and the massive scale of Hive cities that have tens of billions of people living in them
@@mrpilkington9710 and whole chapters of astartes that can take a world if they deployed the full force are... 1000? only makes sense if the astartes are deploying with the imperial guard like in space marine 2
@@declicitous1763 Even then sure size of a single hive city would be all but impervious to thousands of spacemariens with the size of the populations of hive cities
It's an honor being in your video! ❤ Very well put together and the Nox Alpha edits were really great XD Also I should have not eaten dinner while watching because the description and the visual of the Nox Rot did made me feel grossed out 😂 Excellent work
Awwww, thank you so much! Dude, you are the GOAT. Thank you again so much for letting me use your video, you saved me SO much headache. And I always love meeting other creators in the Darktide community! :D
This was a great video, looking forward to more in the series! I recently picked Darktide back up again after not playing for like a year and so many new missions and characters have been introduced, but there's almost no resources online (on TH-cam or otherwise) to get up to speed on the actual lore, so I'm hoping this series will do just that! Subbed!
Thank you so much! That's exactly what I'm hoping to do, is go through the three main factions (The Moebian 6th, Admonition, and Grendyl's Warband/The Mourningstar Crew), really get into their background info and everything, and then start going through ALL the material - both in game and out of game - and put it all in as much of a sequence as we can and get it caught up to the current state of Darktide.
Holy crap! Moebian Domain lore analysis! Ngl the Moebian Domain has become one of my favourite Warhammer locations… even if it isn’t technically canon The Moebian 6th still stand!
I only just realized it is co written by Dan Abnett… no wonder it’s so good… And yes it is canon, which is sweet! Since I’ve been making a guard army based on the Moebian 21st
I don't know HOW this comment wasn't showing up for me until now. Thank you so much! I'm excited to keep this series going and eventually crawl through ALL the pieces of Darktide.
theres loads of tidbits in item and cosmetic descriptions too, and some radio chatter. usually referring to old history like saint messelina or old generals. hard to tell if its part of the puzzle or just background. maybe moebian steel has melted down necron bits or eldar leftovers in it
There's definitely a lot of good lore in the cosmetic and items descripts! I honestly think that the Dark Mech is involved with Admonition/the 6th, and Urmal herself may be one....
This was a fantastic video, with great incite on things I've been wondering for a hot minute. You have earned my sub and I look forward to this series with great interest!
I haven't played in a while, but the Martyr Skulls are new! Also, thanks for the new lore! It goes to show that sometimes, people turning to Chaos is beyond their own control. Whoever sent the Moebian 6th to Nox without proper equipment or really, who ever just sent them there either screwed up or intentionally corrupted them! Maybe a administratum error? Maybe a strategic blunder? Or maybe something more nefarious? We may never know
Thank YOU for watching! I honestly think that the 6th going to Nox Alpha was a set up. I think they were INTENDED to fall a long time ahead of when they did, because Admonition needed them to make sure the siege happened.
I also agree 100%. I've wondered if it will ever be something that comes up again as a way to bring in another one of the Chaos gods or something. What if there WERE two different priests, and one of them wasn't Nurgle?
In the hab drayko mission, wolfer over comms will mention that the phage tree sight is important to the cult, or alternatively he mentions "Ulmar's followers find that place sacred", I imagine that priest he has is one of the heads of the cult, additionally in the vox intercept where Rinda is being revived, she talks to a doctor who is doing the high end work for the cult
Hab Dreyko is a mission with a TON of environmental storytelling. In that Vox Intercept (that was unfortunately taken down), the male Cult Leader Rinda actually speaks to is a different character than Urmal. Urmal is referenced to be a woman, and yes, a doctor and "tinkerer." I've started to wonder if she might be a Dark Mech techpriest...
@@Jo.Plays.Games. I always wonder why people keep calling the rejects a 'gaggle of hobos" Most of the rejects are survivors of a pennial legion. The veteran is a veteran of several wars, I think the Ogryn Is too. These are hardcore against all odds survivalists that clearly have the emperor watching over them. Zola comes specifically to look for you, which is why she comes to your cage only. The Inquisition is not just picking a horde of typical criminals and useless cowards, they are picking hardcore sturdy survivalists that seem to make it threw everything.
@biggumstevens1784 Erm...I'm not sure where you're getting that idea that Zola came to look specifically for you on the Tancred Bastion. She was there to escort a captured Wolfer to Grendyl. Our Rejects just happened to be in the cell across from him. It's literally just coincidence. There's nothing really special about our Rejects other than a whole lot of plot armor.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. despite that coincidence i do think that our characters aren't hobos .sure, at the start we sure as shit look like one but the rejects we play as sure aren't. A veteran who survived TEN battles against the horrors of the galaxy and lived, battle priests who with flame, steel and faith inspire men and women to rise to their feet and fight, towering abhumans with skin tough as carapace, almost unshakeable loyalty and weapons to crack skulls with blunt force... sanctioned fucking psykers... (SERIOUSLY, a trained, sanctioned and not-dead psyker ís incredibly deadly.) We may not be space marines... but we're comparable to scions at least.
@@fleshdadbot6852 it's a nickname that we get due to our initial position. We're no names, incredibly lucky to not die to a) a poxburster b) wolfer after he escapes, c) the cultists running around the ship while we nothing but a shovel to fight them off with, d) zola after we save her. Hell the fact that we even escape the tancred bastion due to the poxburster blowing up our cage is lucky
Everyone: This must be a devious Plot, a secret Plan from Chaos this is so Diabolic. Forgotten Soldiers on a Chaos World: U know what ? F them - let´s have some bloody revenge. Me playing as the Psyker : All your Heads go BOOOOM Darktide in a Nutshell for me
All things told, I'm inclined to imagine that someone's rotten higher up the chain and sent Wolfer and his men to that world very intentionally - likely with the plan of turning them to chaos for their own purposes, both depriving the Imperium of one of its (apparently) most formidable regiments in the region, but also granting themselves that same fighting force to try and conquer the world with. With that in mind, Wolfer becomes less a primary antagonist and more of a toy soldier for whatever nurgle magus is pulling the strings, as is often the case
I agree with that assessment 100%. I think it was a set up from the beginning and someone intentionally put the 6th in that situation to get them in as the military support for Admonition.
Great video! Before I watched this I kinda just took for granted that Wolfer was evil just cause (which I guess says something about the strength of the game’s presentation)
I figured the 6th had been sent up shit-creek without a paddle into the loving embrace of Papa Nurgy but literally dropping the entire regiment on to a "death world" (VERY OBVIOUSLY A NURGLISH PLAGUE WORLD) with no protective equipment... Actually *begging* to turn them into lost and damned of the plaguefather
Initially I thought the Mobian 6th were just the usual traitor guardsman regiments. But I guess I was wrong. They aren't the usual, kill the emperor death to the false. It was more they gradually just went crazy from Nurgles corruption.
Great stuff! The story for me is typical 40K. Loyal regiment gets screwed over and goes bad, usually cause of the mess the higher ups make. Then the subtle creeping of chaos and then BAM! Everyone’s all evil! I am planning a trip to Nox Alpha, sounds great!
I agree, it's VERY classic 40k. It's part of what makes me think Zola might be Helmag somehow, and her connection to Wolfer is a father-figure type relationship, since 40k could also be renamed "SCREW YOU DAD, I HATE YOU!"
Well, Helmag takes a round on Nox Alpha during one of the fights before Wolfer turns traitor, and that's the last we hear of her. So maybe she got evacuated off the planet? Maybe she died and it isn't actually Zola? I just suspect it because we know Zola has an existing personal relationship with Wolfer, and so far Helmag seems to be the only character that would fit the bill. There'd definitely be a character arc there from Helmag being seen as having no spine and not being tough/independent enough, to Zola coming into her own with the Inquisition and then getting put in timeout because she OVER stepped with the Orthus Offensive.
The poor Moebian 6th Legion, don't blame them for turning against the Imperium. Their best were sent to a dead world, and most of them were slaughtered 😢
Yeah, to be honest, when I was piecing it together, I realized they were sent to a garden of Nurgle-they should've been pulled off the planet. Once Chaos takes hold, an Astartes team or a specialized Guard unit should've been deployed. They had absolutely no chance. Glad it wasn't Slaanesh, or those vox transmissions would've been haunting.
I hope we get to have a mission where we go to nox alpha where need need to set up some sort of purifiers and we need to rush from one point to another
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Yeah, these things can happen with regiments in extended combat with the Archenemy, repeated exposure to tainted areas, witnessing cult practices and symbols, shrines, warp forms, psychic whisperings, it can all have a cumlative effect on the troops corrupting them, especially as the planet sounds more like a demon world than a death world. Mobian 6th are a textbook example of how taint spreads The most famous example of this sort of thing is the Volscani Cataphracts whose betrayal effectively kicked off Abbadons 13th Black Crusade at Tyrock Fields, but it happens, Commissars are supposed to watch out for the signs (which may explain how many the Commissar was killing so many freindlies) but they are not immune or can just be eliminated. Mobian 6th had also been formed with convicts and pressgangs civvies as the plantary govener had apparently been cheating on his on his tithes which probably meant they were more susceptible than most IG regiments. There may be something darker here though, landing troops on a demon world, the lack of basic issue gear like respirators, the unusal make up (convicts should be in penal units not regular Guard) that a regiment with this sort of exposure to chaos taint hadnt been rotated off the line and marked for Inquitorial investigation/censure. It could be incompetence, but it could also be an Radical Inquisitional experiment or someone very high up looking to deliberately turn this formation for a purpose
I personally think someone up the chain of command, whether it be the noble house or within the Militarum itself, was pulling the strings the whole time to get the 6th deployed to Nox Alpha and lead to the fall.
Tbf I belive through the clear corruption on Atoma I would quess that the other regements other then the 6th were suffered with low, were, under supplied, and hoplessly outgunned which would explaine why the 6th got it's reputation.
Hooooooooo boy does that Vox give me some questions. I have a feeling that Morrow wasn't on Nox Alpha when Wolfer and the 6th fell, for a few different reasons based on in-game info, but that doesn't really give us anything on when he would have been there, or why....
@@Jo.Plays.Games.something I thought about was if Morrow being at Nox Alpha being the reason why he was we recruited by Grendyl. It would make sense because of the most likely reason why Zola was recruited for her connection to Wolfer and the Karnak twins
Oh wow, Id adore if they actuallt put out some tie in books to Darktide's story. I guess afterall it was 'written' by Abnett? (' ' because who knows what he actually wrote)
He definitely wrote at least some of the stuff introducing the Moebian 6th and other similar posts before the game launched. Other than that, I'm honestly not sure exactly how deep his involvement is.
I will give the 6th credit where due where all the guys not wearing proper carapace armor are technically cultists from the hive and not members of the 6th themselves. And that when they aren't being ambushed by 4 crackheads with a big rock (and some really high-end equipment) and get the jump on you instead, they really hurt.
What exactly did the 6th face on the Fringe? They obviously faced Daemons on Nox Alpha, but what other critters roam the Fringes? I read somewhere they face a lot of xenos, I'd be curious to know what they exactly are.
The Darktide is just the "boogeyman" name given to anything that isn't human, to keep everyone - even the soldiers that will be fighting - from knowing anything that's "heretical" for them to know. They may have faces daemons on Nox Alpha, but other lines I didn't include from the Martyr skulls note that the enemy made air strike runs at them. 5,000 dead in 3 hours, and the most successful regiment of the Domain feeling completely demoralized and set up for slaughter makes me wonder if they weren't facing Death Guard. But there's just no way to know for sure because not enough information was given.
@@Jo.Plays.Games.well technically plague drones can also do a form of airstrike so they could also be fighting just nurgle daemons but like you said there's not enough context to truly know. But I'd assume the moebian domain just censored the enemy their fighting as always.
That's what I think too. I'd say if anything it's kind of implied it's Admonition, but then again, Admonition isn't strong enough militarily to siege Tertium alone, there's a reason they needed the strength of the 6th. It definitely seems it's SOME kind of Nurgle forces, and also daemons AND Death Guard together on Nox Alpha would make sense.
The martyr skulls are secret items hidden in (almost) every level, and each has a different puzzle in the level to access it. They were added in the Path to Redemption update. But the lines have been bugged of late, I've noticed. They don't always go off.
I've gotten the skulls before, never heard these lines though... Maybe I'm just always listening to that "whoosh" from the incoming backstabs lol thanks though
When you grab a Martyr Skull, everyone would get a Warp Echo at random, paired with subtitles. It worked really well when they put it out in Path to Redemption, somewhere in the subsequent updates it got a big buggy. The lines I used in this video were pulled by Konstle from the game files, he put them on TH-cam, and was kind enough to give me permission to use his video as a source. Check out his video here to listen to all the lines: th-cam.com/video/ZFT9_qchxfs/w-d-xo.html
Somehow Vermintide 2 runs flawlessly on my pc but god forbid I ever load up this game ! I just wanna plaaaaaaaaaaaaaay without having atrocious frames 😭
Oh god, I'm so sorry to hear that! Have you tried at all recently? One of the most recent updates made some changes to graphics interfacing. There might be some new settings that can help!
A martyr skull once sold me fent behind Walmart. I asked for a big rock.
How much was the rock?
Let's throw rocks at it.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. Captain Wolfer"we are the darktide and we bring CHAOS and doom...I'm a cocky"
Was rock shiny?
Poor ogryns, always being taken advantage of.
Wolfer's pledge to Nurgle sounds similar to Mortarion and the Death Guard astartes. Mortarion's compassion was also taken advantage of, making a pact with Nurgle to stop their underlings' suffering from the plagues.
Nurgle always takes advantage of compassion, for he himself is the most compassionate of all...
That is how Nurgle works, with the one hand, he gives you plague, with the other, he promises you salvation from its pain.
Wolfer sounds like a good man trying to deal with an insane situation.
I definitely think that's how it started, for him. If there's anything of a good man left....who knows? Also I love your username, I'm a HUGE Trekkie!
@@Jo.Plays.Games. thanks! THE TERRAN EMPIRE WILL RISE AGAIN! FOR THE EMPEROR!
@@Jo.Plays.Games. even if there is his whole face is decomposed. So that's a big mistake he'll never take back lmaoo
Yeah there definitely isn't much of his face left, that's for sure.
I love how they managed to capture the cosmic horror vibe of chaos corruption and how confusing and terrifying it all is to an everyday soldier
I agree! Everyone literally has no idea what's going on throughout that situation, and it just dissolves into Chaos. They do a good job of making it sad. Wolfer may have been a dick, but he just didn't suffer fools. He would also lay down his life to protect his soldiers, and you can't help but wonder if they'd never been sent to Nox Alpha, if he would have turned.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. I’m not so sure, considering everything that happened during the deployment was basically a direct result of Nox Alpha’s corruption. Nurgle took full advantage of Wolfer‘s compassionate side and his desire to protect his men from these diseases, which ironically saved and doomed them all at the same time. The remaining question is if it was all orchestrated or pure coincidence (which isn’t so hard to believe considering how incompetent the modern imperium can be sometimes)
I had no idea there was so much lore in these skulls!
It's really a lot! I just wish they'd let us access them on the Mourningstar.
Hey don’t knock the rock.
A Dreadnaught took out Demon engine with one SM2.
Oh I'm not knocking the rock at all. It's one of my favorite things in Darktide.
Also I literally cheered when that rock scene happened in SM2.
Also it's an ogryn throwing one.
"all problems can be solved by big enough rock" - orgyn scientists
Im calling it. Nox Alpha is a recent Nurgle Deamon World the Imperuim hasnt documented yet.
Recent in the grand scheme of things, maybe. Although unlikely as Nox Alpha was already very well known to the Moebian Regiments by the time the 6th were deployed. Martyr's skull quote: "We’re going to Nox Alpha? That’s a karking death sentence." and "What? We’re deploying to Nox Alpha? I’d sooner start a fight with Commissar Magsen."
Most importantly, it was even infamous back during Saint Messelina's crusade, which could have taken place as far back as 5.000 years before the game takes place. One of the martyr's skulls say: "There's a reason Saint Messelina never came to Nox Alpha."
And there's already been other worlds in the lore that the Guard have been deployed to that were just as, if not even more, deadly and poisonous than Nox Alpha without them being daemon worlds. Both Monthax and Gereon come to mind.
@mildsnaps Interesting, it could still be a deamon world that the guard routinely throws troops just to stem the "darktide" or a heavily Nurgle courrupted world that the guard is attacking to stop from becoming a full deamon world in the first place.
one thing i truly adore about darktide is that it captures the way 40k makes me feel: the pepe silvia mental breakdown in its always sunny in philadelphia
LMAO, amazing comparison. That's exactly how I feel when I try to put together the pieces of storyline. "Faaaatsharrrrk, Faaatttshaaarrrrrk! I gotta talk to you about genestealers!"
I truly believe Darktide concludes with a Deathguard space marine boss battle
I sure hope so! They'd be fools to not bring in the Death Guard.
That would be cool, but honestly I don't see how they could make it balanced.
I mean, with their Nurgle blessings, Death Guard Marines are considered very resilient, even among Astartes standards.
Immense firepower would be needed by basic troopers to put down a Death Guard legionary.
They could probably turn the tables. Instead of fighting trash mobs, we could get allied trash mobs
I totally get what you mean, but on the tabletop (which is where a lot of Fatshark has modeled many of Darktide's mechanics from), basic Ogryns can stand toe-to-toe with Space Marines, even Death Guard, pretty easily. Also consider that few things are more disgustingly resilient than a Beast of Nurgle, and we dispatch those all day long.
This would be cool but the Death Guard carry Nurgles blessing and i believe normal mortal humans can’t be anywhere near them without getting violently sick. Like Typhus being the host of the destroyer plague wouldn’t even be able to get within shooting range without dying.
Good analysis. I have a feeling the 6th were sent to that world to get rid of them, a case of Imperial infighting.
I have a feeling someone in the Administratum is compromised. Getting sent to a planet that's probably a Nurgle cult stronghold, having the best regiment of the Moebian Domain turn, and then they get sent back to help support Admonition to siege Tertium? Something smells, and it isn't JUST the unwashed masses.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. This seems pretty certain to me, considering that in the Archivum Sycorax mission you have to scan Administratum cogitators before nabbing a printout containing the names of suspect individuals, as well as their correspondance and other documentation with the traitor forces on Atoma Prime, and in typical Administratum fashion they kept the receipts too.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. there is mounting evidence that there is a traitor in the ruling elite of Aroma that has been helping the chaos forces from before the outbreak. I'll make a quick list. I actually hope you make a video on this topic, if you haven't already!
1 - the moebians were using underground train lines previously used for smuggling. It is stated in the mission where you steal the crystals that they must have had hell from inside tertium to know those smuggling routes.
2 - When the rejects raid the drug lab, Rannick observes that this drug lab is so old it must predate the Moebians invasion. The locals are also suspiciously showing no resistance to the Moebians. Almost like they were already traitors before the uprising went loud.
3 - The traitors had access to the train systems from the beginning. The trains are not a private company, they are state run, which means someone in the government must have helped them get access without any outsiders knowing.
4 - we know there is political conflict in Atoma predating the invasion. Atoma (and the entire sector) was ruled by House Barquette. However House Margrave openly rebelled and forced the Barquettes out of power, which they resent to this day. It is possible that the disgruntled nobles may have turned traitor in order to reclaim power. I think they got more than they bargained for!
5 - The Moebians were recalled to Aroma AFTER they turned to Chaos. It is highly unlikely that nobody in the govt knew of the treachery before this. So why bring traitors to their doorstep? Because some of the rulers of Atoma were helping them already!
6 - as previously stated by other comments, it is strange that the Guard was sent to a death world in the first place. Anyone who knows about the Imperium's forces would know that guardsmen are completely unsuited to fighting on a death world. The only humans who could probably survive that are Space Marines and Catachan Jungle Fighters, since their superior physical resilience gives them a fighting chance on a death world. Either the leaders were too stupid to realize this, or they knew the Moebians would succumb to sickness and ordered them to go to Nox Alpha anyway. The latter suggest intentional sabotage by traitors.
7 - the commissars were all killed before the Moebians returned. Yet nobody thought it strange that a whole regiment of guardsmen had no commissars left? Massive red flag. Inquisitors would immediately recognize something is wrong. Yet nothing was done about it. Either massive incompetence, or intentional oversight.
@@Nohomers48even traitor administrum cannot resist the call of Clippy, the chaos god of proper documentation!
Annnnd straight into Archium Sicorax missions with both the roof antenna and library servo skull missions about getting data offworld because the Mourningstar is compromised and we're looking for evidence about who may be making payoffs when we chase down that Servo Skull in the deep archives.
Not to mention Risor 33 and the crystals. Exotic Las-weapon components? Not cheap the way Hallowette and Melk bicker.
Well and also....who on earth would have USE for being paid off in parts meant to build weapons? That's part of why I think the Dark Mechanicum could be involved in Darktide...
My favorite example of Nurgle’s plauges was when Typhus (Death Guard second in command) made a plauge that is based on fear and misunderstanding specifically to fuck with an Inquisitor who tried experimenting with The Plague of Unbelief.
Typhus also specifically created the Walking Pox, which is the main disease burning it's way through Tertium. I actually made a video about how he might be the father of Admonition (even if we'll never see him in-game). th-cam.com/video/zvy7RT3vst4/w-d-xo.html
It's more interesting to me that why he's kneeling to a Dreg Shotgunner.
Honestly, I kind of get the feeling they just used models they had completed for that sequence. But I could be wrong.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. It's wolfer and the 6th (aka scabs) kneeling to the Nurgle cult on atoma (aka the cult of admonition, aka the dregs)
I think that despite their numbers, the Mobian Sixth are still outnumbered by the Dregs, who supply the poxwalkers and groaners that support them in the hordes, along with things like the poxhounds. Wolfer is likely still trying to do what he thinks is best for his Regiment, which means swearing allegiance to an actual Nurgle Cult.
I'm assuming that due to being an actual Cult, the Dregs have the knowledge to create the Daemonhosts and are also likely the ones who bring forth the Beasts of Nurgle and the Chaos Spawn. The Mobian Sixth are the ones who are likely supplying the cult with Ogryns to create Plague Ogryns.
In the mission to the tainted stim lab in the Carnival Morrow theorises that the cult activity long predates the crisis, maybe the 6th where actually sent to Nox Alpha to become corrupted, especially suspicious with how a weird Priest shows up at just the right time.
I honestly think that's the case. I think Admonition knew they wouldn't have enough combat experience/man power to make it just on their own. So they took the best the Moebian Domain had to offer.
Yep I believe that too someone in the administration sent the 6 amongst other regiment to nox expecting them to turn traitor and also diminish the loyalist forces in one fell swoop.@@Jo.Plays.Games.
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Seeing what Nox Alpha is described like and the mentions of the guardsmen being slaughtered, I imagine they took on the Death Guard or some other powerful nurglite force. Why on earth guardsmen were sent to what´s obviusly a daemon world that should get blown to bits by the nearest inquisitorial fleet, I don´t know.
I think you might be onto something there with the Death Guard idea....
You mentioned the high Houses, chances are the reason the mission with the phage tree sometimes has them as active narrators is that Rannick is assessing them for treachery, after all, it wouldn't be the first time nobles were found wanting in their faith.
That would make sense.
House Margrave is definitely suspicious AF, in my opinion.
New to Darktide, having a blast so far!! I had no idea there was so much lore behind the Martyr’s Skulls-superb narration and editing, this genuinely gave me the creeps as I was listening. Subscribed!
Awww, thanks so much! Yeah the Martyr Skulls are really packed with lore. I just wish we could access them and the Vox transmission on the Mourningstar.
Thanks so much for your kind words. I still very much feel like a "newbie" when it comes to editing, so that means a lot to hear!
Im glad you're covering the lore from the Martyr's Skulls. There's so many interesting lore bits in there
Yeah it basically hand feeds us the entire backstory of the Moebian 6th and Wolfer (except his relationship with Zola....maybe). I'm still SO surprised Fatshark doesn't have a way to hear them all in the Mourningstar or something like that.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. But how did you listen to them then?
When anyone picks up a martyr skull in a mission, it should play one of the lines at random for everyone on the strike team. Everyone gets a different random line. It's been a little buggy as they've added more updates, though. Just keep picking up those skulls if you find them, or, you can always check out Konstle's video here!: th-cam.com/video/ZFT9_qchxfs/w-d-xo.html
I'd put money on nox alpha being a demon world, not a death world...
Musings aside, fantastic video!
There's some skull lines I didn't include for brevity that mention the enemy make air strikes at them. I suppose it could be a daemon world though, if maybe say...some really big soldiers that are somewhere between mortal and daemon were present. Also, thanks for watching!
The troop sizes in 40k are always kinda funny
The scale of anything in 40k is so hard to get your head around.
Trillions of Guardsmen and Quadrillions of Humans were devoured by the Great Rift
Billions died around Jupiter, Saturn and Luna during the Solar War
Billions of Conscripts defended Terra at the start of the Siege. Countless more are conscripted throughout it
'Minor' skirmishes during the War in Heaven regular kill Trillions
@@Jo.Plays.Games. Yeah regiments should be serval million men with the size of the galaxy and the massive scale of Hive cities that have tens of billions of people living in them
@@mrpilkington9710 and whole chapters of astartes that can take a world if they deployed the full force are... 1000? only makes sense if the astartes are deploying with the imperial guard like in space marine 2
@@declicitous1763 Even then sure size of a single hive city would be all but impervious to thousands of spacemariens with the size of the populations of hive cities
1:11 i'm sure 4 crackheads with rocks could save the universe well maybe some of it :V
At least the Moebian Domain. Guilliman has got the rest.
Thanks Jo. You're my favorite Imperial GI.
Thank you so much! That means a lot!
I mean you've only been teasing us with this video for that last two streams.
I'm a slow editor. 😣
It's an honor being in your video! ❤
Very well put together and the Nox Alpha edits were really great XD
Also I should have not eaten dinner while watching because the description and the visual of the Nox Rot did made me feel grossed out
😂 Excellent work
Awwww, thank you so much! Dude, you are the GOAT. Thank you again so much for letting me use your video, you saved me SO much headache. And I always love meeting other creators in the Darktide community! :D
Fatshark is probably watching this now
Man that'd be rad!
If they're not, they should be. I'm not sure even THEY know what's going on yet.
This was a great video, looking forward to more in the series! I recently picked Darktide back up again after not playing for like a year and so many new missions and characters have been introduced, but there's almost no resources online (on TH-cam or otherwise) to get up to speed on the actual lore, so I'm hoping this series will do just that! Subbed!
Thank you so much! That's exactly what I'm hoping to do, is go through the three main factions (The Moebian 6th, Admonition, and Grendyl's Warband/The Mourningstar Crew), really get into their background info and everything, and then start going through ALL the material - both in game and out of game - and put it all in as much of a sequence as we can and get it caught up to the current state of Darktide.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. Sounds great!. Godspeed! Or... God Emperor-speed, I guess? Either way, I'm looking forward to it!
Holy crap! Moebian Domain lore analysis!
Ngl the Moebian Domain has become one of my favourite Warhammer locations… even if it isn’t technically canon
The Moebian 6th still stand!
It is, though! This is an officially licensed 40k product and was signed off on by GW. It's cannon!
I only just realized it is co written by Dan Abnett… no wonder it’s so good…
And yes it is canon, which is sweet! Since I’ve been making a guard army based on the Moebian 21st
The cat demonstrated it's authority and forced me to subscribe
He's aware being cute is his only redeeming quality. Thanks for watching and subbing!
This is a very well made video,Grandfathers blessing to you all.
Thanks so much!
I think it’s cool how in one of the first story trailers you can see wolfer pledging his allegiance to the dregs.
How does it feel having the best Darktide channel?
With people in this community like you? Pretty damn good. Thank you! You're too kind. :D
I like to think the 6th are the same Guard regiment mentioned as getting faulty gas masks in Watcher in The Rain
Nox Alpha, the nightmares never Cease!
great video very interesting keep them coming
Thank you! I plan to keep this in-depth dives series going.
0:18 did i just have a stroke?
yes.......... and in the famous words of the cloaker "i know I know I'm late"
Really liked this video as a little dip into the Martyr skulls lore, thank you very much, subbed.
Thanks so much!
Please never give up on making videos, I love your style :)
Thank you so much! You're too kind! I don't plan to ever give up, I'm just slow making things.
Thank you so much! You're too kind! I don't plan to ever give up, I'm just slow making things. 😅
"No, seriously, what the fuck is happening in Darktide?" that quote got me to subscribe, well put!
Thanks so much! The pieces are there, but I wish Fatshark delivered them better...
I obeyed the cat. Great content, as I don't get to play as much as I like the lore breakdown is a lifesaver TY!
I don't know HOW this comment wasn't showing up for me until now. Thank you so much! I'm excited to keep this series going and eventually crawl through ALL the pieces of Darktide.
theres loads of tidbits in item and cosmetic descriptions too, and some radio chatter. usually referring to old history like saint messelina or old generals. hard to tell if its part of the puzzle or just background. maybe moebian steel has melted down necron bits or eldar leftovers in it
There's definitely a lot of good lore in the cosmetic and items descripts! I honestly think that the Dark Mech is involved with Admonition/the 6th, and Urmal herself may be one....
This was a fantastic video, with great incite on things I've been wondering for a hot minute. You have earned my sub and I look forward to this series with great interest!
Thank you so much! I'm cooking the next one right now, it will be out later this week!
This is the kind of content I like.
Thanks so much! I like making it. :D
Love that tourist jingle for Nox Alpha. thanks for the video.
Thank YOU for watching!
I haven't played in a while, but the Martyr Skulls are new! Also, thanks for the new lore! It goes to show that sometimes, people turning to Chaos is beyond their own control. Whoever sent the Moebian 6th to Nox without proper equipment or really, who ever just sent them there either screwed up or intentionally corrupted them! Maybe a administratum error? Maybe a strategic blunder? Or maybe something more nefarious? We may never know
Thank YOU for watching! I honestly think that the 6th going to Nox Alpha was a set up. I think they were INTENDED to fall a long time ahead of when they did, because Admonition needed them to make sure the siege happened.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. That's a good point! They are strong allies
I still think Gortun is out there somewhere, in some form.
I agree
I also agree 100%. I've wondered if it will ever be something that comes up again as a way to bring in another one of the Chaos gods or something. What if there WERE two different priests, and one of them wasn't Nurgle?
I've booked my next vacation on Nox Alpha
Let me know how the Hat Man is!
The real question is why are the 53rd called Steelheads?
Necrons. (It is not that they're Necrons)
@@Jo.Plays.Games.
So they fought necrons? Damn.
Never thought I'd get an oddly chill/cozy vibe video covering something Warhammer related before! (must be the cat)
Instant sub!
Thanks so much!
In the hab drayko mission, wolfer over comms will mention that the phage tree sight is important to the cult, or alternatively he mentions "Ulmar's followers find that place sacred", I imagine that priest he has is one of the heads of the cult, additionally in the vox intercept where Rinda is being revived, she talks to a doctor who is doing the high end work for the cult
Hab Dreyko is a mission with a TON of environmental storytelling. In that Vox Intercept (that was unfortunately taken down), the male Cult Leader Rinda actually speaks to is a different character than Urmal. Urmal is referenced to be a woman, and yes, a doctor and "tinkerer." I've started to wonder if she might be a Dark Mech techpriest...
@@Jo.Plays.Games.considering the "daemon engines" that we have to destroy in certain missions, that might be true!
The imperium"captain wolfer...why did you turn to chaos" Captain Wolfer"...really....you are wondering why"?
Right? Like...they even had to ask?
Thanks for the video! I love learning about the lore behind Darktide, but I’m much too Warhammer-ignorant to piece it all together.
Thanks so much for watching!
The cat told me to subscribe.
He is fuzzy and wise. Thanks for subbing!
Already loving these lore videos pls make more soon :3
Thank you so much! I'm cooking the next one right now, it will be out later this week!
Hi hello, just found your channel. Good stuff!
@@MetallicBascinet Thanks so much!
Good lore, much praise.
Thanks! Much thanks for watching!
Good stuff, please keep it up!
Thanks so much!
And now Wolfer is hiding from the gaggle of hobos
He can run, but he can't hide from the ROCK!
@@Jo.Plays.Games. I always wonder why people keep calling the rejects a 'gaggle of hobos"
Most of the rejects are survivors of a pennial legion. The veteran is a veteran of several wars, I think the Ogryn Is too. These are hardcore against all odds survivalists that clearly have the emperor watching over them. Zola comes specifically to look for you, which is why she comes to your cage only. The Inquisition is not just picking a horde of typical criminals and useless cowards, they are picking hardcore sturdy survivalists that seem to make it threw everything.
@biggumstevens1784 Erm...I'm not sure where you're getting that idea that Zola came to look specifically for you on the Tancred Bastion.
She was there to escort a captured Wolfer to Grendyl. Our Rejects just happened to be in the cell across from him. It's literally just coincidence. There's nothing really special about our Rejects other than a whole lot of plot armor.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. despite that coincidence i do think that our characters aren't hobos .sure, at the start we sure as shit look like one but the rejects we play as sure aren't. A veteran who survived TEN battles against the horrors of the galaxy and lived, battle priests who with flame, steel and faith inspire men and women to rise to their feet and fight, towering abhumans with skin tough as carapace, almost unshakeable loyalty and weapons to crack skulls with blunt force... sanctioned fucking psykers... (SERIOUSLY, a trained, sanctioned and not-dead psyker ís incredibly deadly.)
We may not be space marines... but we're comparable to scions at least.
@@fleshdadbot6852 it's a nickname that we get due to our initial position. We're no names, incredibly lucky to not die to a) a poxburster b) wolfer after he escapes, c) the cultists running around the ship while we nothing but a shovel to fight them off with, d) zola after we save her. Hell the fact that we even escape the tancred bastion due to the poxburster blowing up our cage is lucky
Cracking stuff Jo. Love me some DT lore. Thank you :)
Hey Davee, thanks so much for watching!
Everyone: This must be a devious Plot, a secret Plan from Chaos this is so Diabolic.
Forgotten Soldiers on a Chaos World: U know what ? F them - let´s have some bloody revenge.
Me playing as the Psyker : All your Heads go BOOOOM
Darktide in a Nutshell for me
Great video!
Thanks so much!
All things told, I'm inclined to imagine that someone's rotten higher up the chain and sent Wolfer and his men to that world very intentionally - likely with the plan of turning them to chaos for their own purposes, both depriving the Imperium of one of its (apparently) most formidable regiments in the region, but also granting themselves that same fighting force to try and conquer the world with.
With that in mind, Wolfer becomes less a primary antagonist and more of a toy soldier for whatever nurgle magus is pulling the strings, as is often the case
I agree with that assessment 100%. I think it was a set up from the beginning and someone intentionally put the 6th in that situation to get them in as the military support for Admonition.
Great video! Before I watched this I kinda just took for granted that Wolfer was evil just cause (which I guess says something about the strength of the game’s presentation)
Thanks so much!
Ayyy, new lore video dropped!
And there's just gonna be more coming!
Thank the Emperor no Death Guard was involved 😂
No Death Guard were involved YET!
You said obey my cat, so i subscribed. My cat approves, although also reminded me upon who's leisure i serve... Send help!
I would send help but my cats won't let me. Thanks for watching and subbing!
The hell is „cracking a hab“? Robbing hab apartments? Smoking some space drugs?
A dance?
Honestly, I love all of the above options. But I'm pretty sure it's breaking and entering. Cracking a lock on or in a hab zone.
i remeber you once met you irl you sadly stole my moneý and ate my granpa.....but you were still fun to meet
Hey....the only crack I do on Darktide are the Blue Stimms...now leave me be,Im heading to Necromunda for groceries and tolietries
I figured the 6th had been sent up shit-creek without a paddle into the loving embrace of Papa Nurgy but literally dropping the entire regiment on to a "death world" (VERY OBVIOUSLY A NURGLISH PLAGUE WORLD) with no protective equipment... Actually *begging* to turn them into lost and damned of the plaguefather
Agreed! I feel it may have been a set up from the start.
Initially I thought the Mobian 6th were just the usual traitor guardsman regiments.
But I guess I was wrong.
They aren't the usual, kill the emperor death to the false.
It was more they gradually just went crazy from Nurgles corruption.
They definitely become "Death to the False Emperor." I think Wolfer actually has it on his armor after his glow-up in The Traitor Curse.
Wolfer sounds like a good leader, but in the end he turned his back on the Emperor's light to save his men and damned them all.
His first mistake was caring too much.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. a good commander knows when to set that aside, especially when weird shit gets involved.
Agreed. And yet...here we are in the middle of a disease outbreak.
Great stuff! The story for me is typical 40K. Loyal regiment gets screwed over and goes bad, usually cause of the mess the higher ups make. Then the subtle creeping of chaos and then BAM! Everyone’s all evil! I am planning a trip to Nox Alpha, sounds great!
I agree, it's VERY classic 40k. It's part of what makes me think Zola might be Helmag somehow, and her connection to Wolfer is a father-figure type relationship, since 40k could also be renamed "SCREW YOU DAD, I HATE YOU!"
@@Jo.Plays.Games. I can see that. She may have been from the 6th at one point. Maybe called off to do something else. It is VERY personal for her.
Well, Helmag takes a round on Nox Alpha during one of the fights before Wolfer turns traitor, and that's the last we hear of her. So maybe she got evacuated off the planet? Maybe she died and it isn't actually Zola? I just suspect it because we know Zola has an existing personal relationship with Wolfer, and so far Helmag seems to be the only character that would fit the bill. There'd definitely be a character arc there from Helmag being seen as having no spine and not being tough/independent enough, to Zola coming into her own with the Inquisition and then getting put in timeout because she OVER stepped with the Orthus Offensive.
@@Jo.Plays.Games. sounds reasonable to me. It would be classic inquisition to rename someone to hide their past.
The poor Moebian 6th Legion, don't blame them for turning against the Imperium. Their best were sent to a dead world, and most of them were slaughtered 😢
Absolutely. It's that very human element of their fall that makes it so interesting and grounded, imo.
Yeah, to be honest, when I was piecing it together, I realized they were sent to a garden of Nurgle-they should've been pulled off the planet. Once Chaos takes hold, an Astartes team or a specialized Guard unit should've been deployed. They had absolutely no chance. Glad it wasn't Slaanesh, or those vox transmissions would've been haunting.
I hope we get to have a mission where we go to nox alpha where need need to set up some sort of purifiers and we need to rush from one point to another
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Thanks so much for watching and subbing! My cat's name is Barry J. Gillis, named after a bad movie director. Calico cats are beautiful! Please give her scritches for me. :D
Awesome vid
Thanks so much!
Yeah, these things can happen with regiments in extended combat with the Archenemy, repeated exposure to tainted areas, witnessing cult practices and symbols, shrines, warp forms, psychic whisperings, it can all have a cumlative effect on the troops corrupting them, especially as the planet sounds more like a demon world than a death world. Mobian 6th are a textbook example of how taint spreads
The most famous example of this sort of thing is the Volscani Cataphracts whose betrayal effectively kicked off Abbadons 13th Black Crusade at Tyrock Fields, but it happens, Commissars are supposed to watch out for the signs (which may explain how many the Commissar was killing so many freindlies) but they are not immune or can just be eliminated. Mobian 6th had also been formed with convicts and pressgangs civvies as the plantary govener had apparently been cheating on his on his tithes which probably meant they were more susceptible than most IG regiments.
There may be something darker here though, landing troops on a demon world, the lack of basic issue gear like respirators, the unusal make up (convicts should be in penal units not regular Guard) that a regiment with this sort of exposure to chaos taint hadnt been rotated off the line and marked for Inquitorial investigation/censure. It could be incompetence, but it could also be an Radical Inquisitional experiment or someone very high up looking to deliberately turn this formation for a purpose
I personally think someone up the chain of command, whether it be the noble house or within the Militarum itself, was pulling the strings the whole time to get the 6th deployed to Nox Alpha and lead to the fall.
Tbf I belive through the clear corruption on Atoma I would quess that the other regements other then the 6th were suffered with low, were, under supplied, and hoplessly outgunned which would explaine why the 6th got it's reputation.
I kind of really hope that's it, because hoo boy, that situation is ROUGH.
You got a Sub for "four crack heads with a rock" *video plays the head shot*
Thanks so much!
Sick vid
Thanks so much!
Hey if I means anything the new VOX intercept that FatShark dropped mentioned Morrow at Nox Alpha.
Hooooooooo boy does that Vox give me some questions. I have a feeling that Morrow wasn't on Nox Alpha when Wolfer and the 6th fell, for a few different reasons based on in-game info, but that doesn't really give us anything on when he would have been there, or why....
@@Jo.Plays.Games.something I thought about was if Morrow being at Nox Alpha being the reason why he was we recruited by Grendyl. It would make sense because of the most likely reason why Zola was recruited for her connection to Wolfer and the Karnak twins
Oh wow, Id adore if they actuallt put out some tie in books to Darktide's story. I guess afterall it was 'written' by Abnett? (' ' because who knows what he actually wrote)
He definitely wrote at least some of the stuff introducing the Moebian 6th and other similar posts before the game launched. Other than that, I'm honestly not sure exactly how deep his involvement is.
I will give the 6th credit where due where all the guys not wearing proper carapace armor are technically cultists from the hive and not members of the 6th themselves. And that when they aren't being ambushed by 4 crackheads with a big rock (and some really high-end equipment) and get the jump on you instead, they really hurt.
What exactly did the 6th face on the Fringe?
They obviously faced Daemons on Nox Alpha, but what other critters roam the Fringes?
I read somewhere they face a lot of xenos, I'd be curious to know what they exactly are.
The Darktide is just the "boogeyman" name given to anything that isn't human, to keep everyone - even the soldiers that will be fighting - from knowing anything that's "heretical" for them to know. They may have faces daemons on Nox Alpha, but other lines I didn't include from the Martyr skulls note that the enemy made air strike runs at them. 5,000 dead in 3 hours, and the most successful regiment of the Domain feeling completely demoralized and set up for slaughter makes me wonder if they weren't facing Death Guard. But there's just no way to know for sure because not enough information was given.
@@Jo.Plays.Games.well technically plague drones can also do a form of airstrike so they could also be fighting just nurgle daemons but like you said there's not enough context to truly know. But I'd assume the moebian domain just censored the enemy their fighting as always.
That's what I think too. I'd say if anything it's kind of implied it's Admonition, but then again, Admonition isn't strong enough militarily to siege Tertium alone, there's a reason they needed the strength of the 6th. It definitely seems it's SOME kind of Nurgle forces, and also daemons AND Death Guard together on Nox Alpha would make sense.
Another banger
Thanks so much!
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It's one of the best features in the game.
I obeyed your cat. It seemed like a good idea.
@@jameswright4640 Thanks so much!
Nox alpha sounds almost exactly like davins moon.
Wait, the skulls have lore in them?
Heaps, dude.
WE REJECTS ARE EMPEROR-BLESSED !
HARK YE AND PRAISE KINDREAD !!!!!
Where exactly do you FIND this lore... In game? I've put in 700+ hours and I've never heard these lines... Thanks for it!
The martyr skulls are secret items hidden in (almost) every level, and each has a different puzzle in the level to access it. They were added in the Path to Redemption update. But the lines have been bugged of late, I've noticed. They don't always go off.
I've gotten the skulls before, never heard these lines though... Maybe I'm just always listening to that "whoosh" from the incoming backstabs lol thanks though
That's completely fair.
So basically they went to Cleveland and were tainted by Chaos?
Basically, yeah.
Helmag might be Zolas nickname 🤔
I have my suspicions. But unfortunately nothing concrete to tie them together.
2:14 Royal Navy intensifies
Papa Nurgle loves you and all his children because in the end we all end up the same and in the end we all end up the same that's why he loves us too
I obeyed the cat
@@Nyx-Knacks thanks so much!
where did you find all these audio files... did I miss a part of the game ?
There were recordings in the Martyr skulls ?? What
When you grab a Martyr Skull, everyone would get a Warp Echo at random, paired with subtitles. It worked really well when they put it out in Path to Redemption, somewhere in the subsequent updates it got a big buggy.
The lines I used in this video were pulled by Konstle from the game files, he put them on TH-cam, and was kind enough to give me permission to use his video as a source. Check out his video here to listen to all the lines: th-cam.com/video/ZFT9_qchxfs/w-d-xo.html
Somehow Vermintide 2 runs flawlessly on my pc but god forbid I ever load up this game ! I just wanna plaaaaaaaaaaaaaay without having atrocious frames 😭
Oh god, I'm so sorry to hear that! Have you tried at all recently? One of the most recent updates made some changes to graphics interfacing. There might be some new settings that can help!
Thanks for making this video. Played over 400 hours of this game but the story elements seem to be .... unclear/hidden/vague.
Thanks so much for watching! Yeah, Fatshark doesn't deliver the information the most clearly, that's for sure....
Since Wolfer turned to chaos, do you think he can make a mean grilled cheese now?
The connection between chaos and grilled cheese is news to me. But also, yes.