Oh my golly gosh, 17 minute video for the 17 year long siege :O Also this video is a SUPER abridged version of the story and touches on the key points, I'd recommend reading the imperial armor books that feature the siege. I think 3-5? They're pretty cool. Thanks for watching!
Zuehlke - yeah pronunciation was like really good. You'd pronounce the ue like the y in sympathy or symptom if you want to pronounce the Z like a German, treat it like a Ts Tsyl keh But i assume its more the American style which is a soft S - syl keh
Another thing I like about this battle is that the Alpha Legion were building this carefully constructed well, disciplined chaos force, and then as soon soon as the world eaters show up, they ruin everything and destroy all the discipline in the ranks that the Legion had been building by turning them into bloodthirsty maniacs who don’t care about their own safety.
@@ethantaylor9613 lol, and then a world eater of all people starts a coup and reorganizes their force for the final stretch. Lots of crazy moments in this siege. Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk there are a few world eaters that really know what they’re doing and remember that Khorne is supposed to be a god of war which does include strategy, they just aren’t the ones in charge most of the time regrettably.
I absolutely love how little the dark angels sucsessors actually helped, they show up, fight, one sort of out-of-the-way battle in a place that isn’t actually that strategically that important, gather information about the fallen, immediately leave. Perfect hater behavior.
Such babies. All my homies hate the dark Angels. Wahh wahhh fallen. Daddy came back just to tell them to not hunt fallen anymore, my favorite punishment for weenie hut jr haters that are the dark angels
@@ethantaylor9613 typical 40K dark angel behavior. The interesting thing is that I think the lion would condemn this behavior so it could be interesting to see if they do anything significant with that now that he’s awake. Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk i’m sure it will be more typical poorly constructed faff if the past six years of new fluff is anything to go by, I know that’s a bit negative, but I have a death watch army in my house that’s now 80% unusable so I think I’m entitled to feel how I want.
@@KrakDuk it has added something if interest to them so hopefully we see some very tense moments and maybe even a fallout. It would be funny if they thought Lion was false and thought HE was a fallen of all people
A funny thing about that it's that the alpha legion "infiltrated" and bypassed the imperial blockade by passing as loyalist. "Yeah, yeah, we are reinforcements, let us through"
@@Tgsva352 And not just any free pizza, but an hours cold $5 Hot n' Ready from Little C's. The only mighty weapon that dispels the forces of chaos from the minimum wage worker
I'm still adamant about the Alpha Legion pulling a parent trap by switching Azrael for -Alpharius- _Azrael_ at the starport after baiting the green heretics there.
Fun fact the Azrael that was the supreme grand master during the siege of vraks is not the same Azrael that is current supreme grand master of the dark angels, the dark angels have had 2 chapter masters named Azrael in its life time
@@RMCbreezyi for one would rather have them repeat names than for them to eventually have a supreme grand master named “Apple Rose” which is where getting creative with names eventually goes
3:14 what saves Cardinal Xaphan's life was: his forcefield that doesn't create or destroy energy and matter unlike Void shields did, from latter's use of warp magics
my FAV 40K chapter/story !!! It has everything! It has trenches! It has guard! It has very little marines! It has trenches! It has tunnel warfare!!! I LOVE THE VRAKS RENEGADE DESIGN!
@@kubastachowiak1089 TRUE. Vraks does have a lot of 40K staples, probably because it was one of the first in depth battles (unless I’m mistaken) and inspired others. Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk always a pleasure ^^ - I'm polish and there is this dude who covers 40 lore and has almost 70 episodes on reading about Vraks and its amazing xD
5 spacemarines die "Oh nooo, such heavy losses, we need to recover uwu" Astra Militarum: 98181 bazillion losses, with 262627 gazillion more on the way? Bring it ONNNN!!!
I may be wrong, but I had heard that it was the cardinal that used the chemical weapons while the guard fought DG, they had a bunch stockpiled in the city.
This video is fantastic, for example Zi never knew the Alpha legion was involved in this siege. I thought it was the thousand sons for some reason. Also I didn't know death guard were involved in this either.
Loved this abbridged video! If anyone wants a really in depth series about the siege, Janovich has an enormous playlist where he goes over like every detail of the history of the war
Guide for KrakDuk to pronounce words: Parcticularly = PAR-tic-you-lar-lee Korps = Core Worcestershire = Wus-tuh-shuh Zvehlke = Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz Chrząszczyżewoszyce powiat łękołody Bear in mind I am English (and therefore pronounce things correctly) so your mileage may vary.
The idea of the Alpha Legion promoting Toxic Masculinity and Andrew Tate suddenly drops them to Erebus level of hateable. Awesome video, love how unhinged your Dark Angels are.
Vraks. This name alone makes me nostalgic. It was mostly a topic of things I first saw online when I started searching for more 40k stuff after "40k Dawn of war" came out. Thx for the video!
The Siege of Vraks novel has what may be my favorite 40k quotes due to the context. "Run. Run as fast as you can and stop for no one. Save yourselves if you can. Don't die for nothing." - Death Korps of Krieg Veteran Colonel Tyborc. His Commissar ran with him.
ive been watching through your videos the past couple days and i gotta say you have some of the best jokes ive seen from 40k videos. you do the perfect amount of ongoing and call back jokes the woooo after a badass dual was so hilarious
I still can't get my head wrapped around to the fact that the Khorne berserkers Fked off and the Handful Alpharius stayed to fight till the end (Captured)
i love all the memes - very clever and the woooo-ing looking up milhouse, mcdonads marines, rock the dwyane johnson this is a very fun video and I can tell Krak Duk had fun making and writing it eh nice job eh friendo
Im still relatively new to 40k so im learning all the time. I did have to double check that Hector Rex wasnt actually a dinosaur. I mean this universe is wild man i couldnt rule it out...
the siege of Vraks kills me because it was just a bureaucratic nightmare, made worse by the laziness of the upper chain of command. dude just sat in his posh quarters, stuffing his face, and not even bothering to read the data slates. just figured, hey, keep sending in the Kreigs and this'll be over soon enough lol and, honestly, i cannot think of a better way to write modern military, or corporate, plans. just some high dude, surrounded by sychophants, telling him what a great job he's doing, with absolutely zero idea of what it's really like.
The Siege of Vraks managed to turn me off the Death Korps for a little while. They really made them seem like completely incompetent suicidal idiots. Only Janovich has managed to make Vraks sound like it wasn't a completely idiotic affair. I prefer the Octarius War description of crazy badass Krieg.
@@Stanislav292 hi! Thanks for watching there’s a few reasons for this. First it wasn’t all workers, there were also a good chunk of Vraksian PDF They had the advantage of being on defense and starting out with all the forts available. The main citadel in particular was in a very good defensive position and had a ton of void shields and stuff Vraks was an armory world so it had a ton of weapons and supplies, whereas the imperials would need to get all their stuff off planet or from forts they captured. So a logistical issue By the time the vraksians were losing steam and faltering to the attrition the Alpha legion joined up and then later heavily reinforced them with chaos forces including more marines, titans, and a bunch of cultists. Also Zuehlke was being very conservative with the attack and it’s kinda said this is one of the reasons the siege got so dragged out. If he was more aggressive in the start he may have been able to leverage his overwhelming numbers before the vraksians could get reinforcements. I’m sure there’s other reasons but those are the ones off the top of my head. Thanks again for watching!
@@KrakDuk fair enough... But still PDF are no match for guardsmen of kriege, like not even close. Still the of point of "defence is easier than offense" is the main reason plus psykers, ogryns were VERY effective, while loyalists couldn't use something like that and of course better astartes help, when chaos SMs were fighting almost everywhere Dark angels/scorpions/grey knights/red hunters were fighting only when they wanted or when they were said to do so. But STILL I'm furious when GW making Imperial guard this stupid and ineffective. Meat grinder... dude they have magnificent equipment and tactics that were used for 10 000 years! AND STILL THEY HAD KILL/ DEATH RATIO 1-2 in heretics favor, EVEN AFTER ALL OF THAT HELL!
Oh my golly gosh, 17 minute video for the 17 year long siege :O
Also this video is a SUPER abridged version of the story and touches on the key points, I'd recommend reading the imperial armor books that feature the siege. I think 3-5? They're pretty cool. Thanks for watching!
All hail God-Emperor Krak
The malestrom war next pls
Zuehlke - yeah pronunciation was like really good. You'd pronounce the ue like the y in sympathy or symptom
if you want to pronounce the Z like a German, treat it like a Ts
Tsyl keh
But i assume its more the American style which is a soft S - syl keh
Also a really good series ongoing from Janovich
Dont forget Janovich's amazing series on it
Another thing I like about this battle is that the Alpha Legion were building this carefully constructed well, disciplined chaos force, and then as soon soon as the world eaters show up, they ruin everything and destroy all the discipline in the ranks that the Legion had been building by turning them into bloodthirsty maniacs who don’t care about their own safety.
@@ethantaylor9613 lol, and then a world eater of all people starts a coup and reorganizes their force for the final stretch. Lots of crazy moments in this siege.
Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk there are a few world eaters that really know what they’re doing and remember that Khorne is supposed to be a god of war which does include strategy, they just aren’t the ones in charge most of the time regrettably.
@@KrakDukA broken clock's right at least twice a day.
@@ethantaylor9613that makes me want to see a world eater pretend to be a blood thirsty madman when he actually is going for proper Strategy.
I absolutely love how little the dark angels sucsessors actually helped, they show up, fight, one sort of out-of-the-way battle in a place that isn’t actually that strategically that important, gather information about the fallen, immediately leave. Perfect hater behavior.
Such babies. All my homies hate the dark Angels. Wahh wahhh fallen. Daddy came back just to tell them to not hunt fallen anymore, my favorite punishment for weenie hut jr haters that are the dark angels
@@ethantaylor9613 typical 40K dark angel behavior.
The interesting thing is that I think the lion would condemn this behavior so it could be interesting to see if they do anything significant with that now that he’s awake.
Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk i’m sure it will be more typical poorly constructed faff if the past six years of new fluff is anything to go by, I know that’s a bit negative, but I have a death watch army in my house that’s now 80% unusable so I think I’m entitled to feel how I want.
Typical chad behavior
@@KrakDuk it has added something if interest to them so hopefully we see some very tense moments and maybe even a fallout. It would be funny if they thought Lion was false and thought HE was a fallen of all people
>Proclaims himself the only man who knows the true wants of the Emperor
>Invites a bunch of Chaos Marines
Guys what do they mean by this?
A funny thing about that it's that the alpha legion "infiltrated" and bypassed the imperial blockade by passing as loyalist.
"Yeah, yeah, we are reinforcements, let us through"
Sounds like a US politician
@@shrakx8634or a mega church pastor
Give me money and the lord will repay you sevenfold 😇
wait, the siege of Vraks was started by a failed assassination attempt on a wildly popular state figurehead? OH NO
Those who know
Looks like we are in for a rough 17 years
June 28, 1914
Ah, Biscuits. Here we go again...
😭
Cardinal zaphons basically a megachurch pastor and his followers when the taxman comes knocking
@@plasticbag4102 🤣🤣🤣
Not to be that person, but its Xaphan, not zaphon, just to help you in the future for some reason idk
Duk: "Today we are going to talk about one of the most iconic battles" my head: "if not THE most iconic"
Glad i'm not the only one 🤣🤣
@@joepiejaapie it almost said it, shoulda just did it damn
It's like poetry, it rhymes
@@KrakDuk I'm quire sure this has become the slogan of this channel🤣
@@KrakDuk you got me with the stormtrooper video 😅
The Siege of Vraks summarized in one sentence:
"Supreme Imperial Victory"
As a Krieg fan I want to say that I'm very thankful for this episode about the best regiment in 40K!
@@michaelsmith8028 glad you liked it! Thanks for watching
Babe wake up, new KrakDuk video just dropped
Omg enough of this dumb meme already
It was really necesary being so mean to that poor ork 😢
@@lisandroperezcueto7155 yes, the only language they understand is shouting ofc.
Thanks for watching!
Yes
@@KrakDuk The absolute mental fortitude to not throw a HAWK TUAH in there for the memes is commendable
@@Heroasteral i didn’t even know about this when I made my Space Marine video and people said I was HAWK TUAHing Leandros🤣
@@KrakDukall bad lol
Vraks could of been avoided if the minimum wage worker just got a hug.
@@Magavynhigara real. Everyone go hug your local McDonalds employee PLEASE.
Thanks for watching!
If only the minimum workers got free pizza.
@@Tgsva352 And not just any free pizza, but an hours cold $5 Hot n' Ready from Little C's. The only mighty weapon that dispels the forces of chaos from the minimum wage worker
Ill take extra rations please
@@KrakDuk HELP I AM BEING ARRESTED
I'm still adamant about the Alpha Legion pulling a parent trap by switching Azrael for -Alpharius- _Azrael_ at the starport after baiting the green heretics there.
@@mnk9073 “fuck you *extracts the yellow from your armor* you are alpharius now Dark Angel”
What could go wrong: Everything went wrong
Fun fact the Azrael that was the supreme grand master during the siege of vraks is not the same Azrael that is current supreme grand master of the dark angels, the dark angels have had 2 chapter masters named Azrael in its life time
Thats.. just bad writing
@@RMCbreezyi for one would rather have them repeat names than for them to eventually have a supreme grand master named “Apple Rose” which is where getting creative with names eventually goes
@@folieadeux147 it blends stories and makes the epicness weak. Im here for bolter porn, its hard to get hard when i keep hearing the same marines name
The pic of “the Rock,” being ridden by the Dark Angels was a nice touch. Well done with the vid! 🎉
This channel is perfect for anyone who hasn’t dived miles into 40k lore and content, your explanation are so easy to follow and entertaining
I mean his drawing and humor are worthwhile to those who do as well
The Emperor does protect, another KrakDuk video!
3:14 what saves Cardinal Xaphan's life was: his forcefield that doesn't create or destroy energy and matter unlike Void shields did, from latter's use of warp magics
FOR KRIEG!
For the emperor
HYDRA DOMINATU-i mean for the emperor...........
aw poop
@@wheatleycrab-sp3tx heretic
Dydra hominatus brother dark angle
What you mean for war
I like how you made the red hunters mcdonalds marines
lol yeah I saw the official scheme and realized they were a few stripes away from being McMarines
I love the regular show in beginning, like you just came after watching regular show and hate mordecay
@@MISTERTR-rh9mg regular show was an integral part of my childhood, mordecais horrible love live will always haunt me
my FAV 40K chapter/story !!! It has everything! It has trenches! It has guard! It has very little marines! It has trenches! It has tunnel warfare!!! I LOVE THE VRAKS RENEGADE DESIGN!
@@kubastachowiak1089 TRUE. Vraks does have a lot of 40K staples, probably because it was one of the first in depth battles (unless I’m mistaken) and inspired others. Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk always a pleasure ^^ - I'm polish and there is this dude who covers 40 lore and has almost 70 episodes on reading about Vraks and its amazing xD
Have you watched Janovich's ongoing 20 part vraks indepth lore series. IF not you should.
5 spacemarines die
"Oh nooo, such heavy losses, we need to recover uwu"
Astra Militarum: 98181 bazillion losses, with 262627 gazillion more on the way? Bring it ONNNN!!!
I may be wrong, but I had heard that it was the cardinal that used the chemical weapons while the guard fought DG, they had a bunch stockpiled in the city.
Siege of Cracks
Always love when Mr. One of the most if not the Most uploads
Oh gosh im very late but
i think this was one of the best if not the best videos krakduk has made
This man is getting better and better with every video
@@Plonom thank you! Glad you liked it
This video is fantastic, for example Zi never knew the Alpha legion was involved in this siege. I thought it was the thousand sons for some reason. Also I didn't know death guard were involved in this either.
The death guard had Taco Bell right before the attack. That’s why the McDonald’s marines were sent to remove fast food competition.
Loved this abbridged video! If anyone wants a really in depth series about the siege, Janovich has an enormous playlist where he goes over like every detail of the history of the war
Gosh i absolutely LOVE your style of story telling and animation. Thabks a bunch mate. Absolutely love this way of story telling
The Dark Angels fortress monastery, Dwyane 'The Rock' Johnson
Man I wish I can watch this video but I'm still waiting for Janovich to finish his videos on it
It is so close, I can't wait
Its finished
The fact that you were able to get through Vraks in 17 minutes is extremely impressive!
WERE GOING INTO TRENCHES WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Guide for KrakDuk to pronounce words:
Parcticularly = PAR-tic-you-lar-lee
Korps = Core
Worcestershire = Wus-tuh-shuh
Zvehlke = Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz Chrząszczyżewoszyce powiat łękołody
Bear in mind I am English (and therefore pronounce things correctly) so your mileage may vary.
Dude your videos have become so much fun ❤️
The idea of the Alpha Legion promoting Toxic Masculinity and Andrew Tate suddenly drops them to Erebus level of hateable. Awesome video, love how unhinged your Dark Angels are.
This is the shortest lore video for 40k I've seen so the length is fine
laughed my ass off at the Korp/Corpse joke
Kriegers getting the love and respect they deserve puts a smile on my face.
Zhufor the Impaler is one of my favorite warband leaders its a shame World Eaters can't use terminator lords legends my arse
@@dukedevlan5457 they can’t use terminator lords anymore? That’s so lame, terminators are the coolest
@KrakDuk I know, no right, no chaos lord or terminator lord
love it 😂
Theres is no Siege of Vraks without you commenting Jan isnt it? ))
Wasn't expecting to see you in the comments
That smiling friends meme was *chefs kiss*
Margaret is a robin??? Always thought she was a cardinal. Wild revelation for a Warhammer video
This isn't the wars for Armageddon...
@@michaelcollins4534 i got 2 vids on those funky wars if you’re interested😳
@@KrakDuk ayo kinda freaky
Vraks. This name alone makes me nostalgic.
It was mostly a topic of things I first saw online when I started searching for more 40k stuff after "40k Dawn of war" came out.
Thx for the video!
Hey, you should do Graia next!
@@calebkelly8221 unless you’re talking about the other graia, I did cover the space marine game which was on the planet.
Thanks for watching!
@@KrakDuk Sweet! Gonna go watch that!
The siege of Vraks is perfect PTSD material for everyone except the kriegsmen.
Female cardinals are brown! So Margret wouldn’t be red if she was a cardinal
I spent all the money I had in high school for my little Skulltakers war band, but man, Lord Zufhor does look awesome
for anyone interested in a long af form runthrough of the siege of vraks go to janocivh's channel he doing and does great work
@@some_random_hoboin_la6605 ya agreed, it’s a lot more in depth. I just wanted to touch on the key points.
Thanks for watching!
The Siege of Vraks novel has what may be my favorite 40k quotes due to the context.
"Run. Run as fast as you can and stop for no one. Save yourselves if you can. Don't die for nothing." - Death Korps of Krieg Veteran Colonel Tyborc.
His Commissar ran with him.
Vraks.
Imperium called it a blunder.
Alpha legion called it field day
Dkok calls it good times
I love how you draw the dark angels coming to Vraks on "the Rock" xD
i jsut finished that book (The Siege of Vraks by Steve Lyons also no not the baseball player) a few days ago and i really enjoyed it
ive been watching through your videos the past couple days and i gotta say you have some of the best jokes ive seen from 40k videos. you do the perfect amount of ongoing and call back jokes the woooo after a badass dual was so hilarious
Siege of vraks
Basically nothing more but a busier monday than usual in 40k
Every day, how I pray to the emperor, you make a new video and they have been answered ❤
I still can't get my head wrapped around to the fact that the Khorne berserkers Fked off and the Handful Alpharius stayed to fight till the end (Captured)
Leave it to the alpha legion to switch things up on us
Thanks for watching!
Just finished listening to this seige from the adeptus ridiculous channel, perfect, now I can watch your edition :D
If you want to go more in dept I recommend janivich
I need a t-shirt of 4:07 rn 😅
i love all the memes - very clever and the woooo-ing
looking up milhouse, mcdonads marines, rock the dwyane johnson
this is a very fun video
and I can tell Krak Duk had fun making and writing it eh
nice job eh friendo
@@Inf thanks! Glad you like my brainrot, the internet has ruined my brain chemistry and now I insert dead memes into every aspect of my life.
I've waited for this and wanted this longer than I've been born!
Thank you KrakDuk
Now kea have some fun
This is my fave take on lore love the style!! For attrition.. I mean the Emperor!
YOS! Another upload from my favorite WarHammer 40k TH-camr!!
Note: I’d utterly love to see him cover the actual Horus Heresy!
Im still relatively new to 40k so im learning all the time.
I did have to double check that Hector Rex wasnt actually a dinosaur.
I mean this universe is wild man i couldnt rule it out...
Finally im so happy that you are covering this
I love the "explain this as I'm five and with ADHD" approach of your videos. That's what we need!!
Bro your telling me the Death Korps AND Alpha Legion are here. This is the best thing ever.
Anything would be better than the new Steve Lyons novel.
Congrats for the 50k, the channel is growing very nice, i think in year you will reach more than half a million. Your content is Epic, hats down mate.
Watching now. Already chuckling.
@@dennism4513 thanks for watching! Glad you think it’s funny lol
These videos always bring a smile to my face
JANOVITCH Vraks FTW!
God bless the “everything’s coming up Milhouse!” reference
Lorecrimes introduced me to this channel. Great video, the guard is the best faction.
I NEED RENEGADE MILLITIA PUT ON MADE TO ORDER BY GW NOW
@@angeredgnome I’d probably snag some, love the old guys haha
@@KrakDuk honestly in my opinion the renegade millitia are the much cooler version of traitor guard than that blooded kill team
@@angeredgnome ya I like the blooded team, but they are a bit too clean looking (i guess? Idk how it phrase it)
Keep up with the amazing work man!!! Love your content ❤️
thanks for that video man! keep up the good work 👍
Just found your channel and it's awesome I love the animation and style of story telling I subbed too
This is my primary source of WH40k lore now. Hopefully we can get siege of Terra (Iron warriors vs Imperial fists) in the future.
the siege of Vraks kills me because it was just a bureaucratic nightmare, made worse by the laziness of the upper chain of command. dude just sat in his posh quarters, stuffing his face, and not even bothering to read the data slates. just figured, hey, keep sending in the Kreigs and this'll be over soon enough lol and, honestly, i cannot think of a better way to write modern military, or corporate, plans. just some high dude, surrounded by sychophants, telling him what a great job he's doing, with absolutely zero idea of what it's really like.
Yes i like this
Absolute god tier video
@@Just_a_normal_krieger thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Oh boy, here we go!
I swear the white background gets brighter every video
That’s wierd lol, I never change the background. Maybe it’s just contrast as I used some more actual backgrounds in this one. Thanks for watching!
Nice Smiling Friends reference
The Siege of Vraks managed to turn me off the Death Korps for a little while. They really made them seem like completely incompetent suicidal idiots.
Only Janovich has managed to make Vraks sound like it wasn't a completely idiotic affair.
I prefer the Octarius War description of crazy badass Krieg.
so funny as usual ! Awesome fresh air of Warhammer content
I just wanna say that your content is amazing 🙂
I have been waiting all morning for this! Also I freaking love Red Robin.
@@pulsegategaming thanks for watching! Red Robin is underrated fr I unironically love eating there
Really nice video, I recommend Janovich's TH-cam channel which describes the siege of vraks perfectly, for those who want to know more.
0:14 that Dark Angel looks way more sus than they usually do... and that's saying a lot for a normally sus Chapter
Oh I saw what you did there at 11:50 ;)
Maybe you will explain me how in the world these "miners" were able to keep up with top tear regiments?
@@Stanislav292 hi! Thanks for watching
there’s a few reasons for this.
First it wasn’t all workers, there were also a good chunk of Vraksian PDF
They had the advantage of being on defense and starting out with all the forts available. The main citadel in particular was in a very good defensive position and had a ton of void shields and stuff
Vraks was an armory world so it had a ton of weapons and supplies, whereas the imperials would need to get all their stuff off planet or from forts they captured. So a logistical issue
By the time the vraksians were losing steam and faltering to the attrition the Alpha legion joined up and then later heavily reinforced them with chaos forces including more marines, titans, and a bunch of cultists.
Also Zuehlke was being very conservative with the attack and it’s kinda said this is one of the reasons the siege got so dragged out. If he was more aggressive in the start he may have been able to leverage his overwhelming numbers before the vraksians could get reinforcements.
I’m sure there’s other reasons but those are the ones off the top of my head. Thanks again for watching!
@@KrakDuk fair enough...
But still PDF are no match for guardsmen of kriege, like not even close.
Still the of point of "defence is easier than offense" is the main reason plus psykers, ogryns were VERY effective, while loyalists couldn't use something like that and of course better astartes help, when chaos SMs were fighting almost everywhere Dark angels/scorpions/grey knights/red hunters were fighting only when they wanted or when they were said to do so.
But STILL I'm furious when GW making Imperial guard this stupid and ineffective.
Meat grinder... dude they have magnificent equipment and tactics that were used for 10 000 years!
AND STILL THEY HAD KILL/ DEATH RATIO 1-2 in heretics favor, EVEN AFTER ALL OF THAT HELL!
"Marines in Ravines" makes a great name for a band... For a warband😂 (ba da bum tssss)
Krakduk upload, day better