Vindicare: "Off the pillar, then the side of that Chimera, between the legs of that traitor guardsman over there, skip twice off that flakboard, then boom between the eyes of that Chaos Demagogue." Eversor: "That seems needlessly complicated." Vindicare: "...all right, fine. You charge in screaming and flinging melta bombs in all directions and leaving a trail of bodies, I will wait until you are halfway through and shoot him through the forehead." Eversor: "Excellent." Vindicare: "At least we're not working with a Callidus this time." 'Random Guardsman': "HEY!"
@@scottland8698 I suggest you get your hands on the audiobook Nemesis from the Horus Heresy, its basically this conversation for 10 hours minus the comedy
Wrong. The Kriegsmen consider the VIndicare did something wrong by dying *in failure.* You see, sacrifice for the Emperor is good, but mostly if your sacrifice does something good.
Eric Van De Hey My interpretation is the Kriegsman don’t disapprove of the Vindicare’s failure, because if he succeeded, the Kriegsmen wouldn’t have had a years long siege in which to sacrifice themselves in droves for the Emperor. But your point is valid too.
Callidus: Incognito Mode Activate! Culexus: Go ahead, summon some Daemons, I DARE YOU. Venenum: Enjoying that muffin? Vanus: Your secrets are not so secret anymore. Maerorus: [REDACTED]
Vindicare: one shot, one kill Callidus: a knife in the dark can be worth more than a thousand swords. Culexus: there is no hope against the void Evesor: paint the walls red
@@BR4IN1N4J4R That's the Moniker of the Assassin Orders. You only fail the job if you get caught. If there's no witness', then there's no one that detected you.
@@jehovasabettor9080 Im fairly sure the vindicar trying to assasinate the cardinal just before the siege of vraks, waited for it to rain then did his business off a church spire.
Fanatics: "The great prophet was shot! Who did it?" Imperial Official Investigation Squad: "Oh, it was probably one of those Ork Snipers" Fanatics: "Death to the Green Skins!" Assassin: "Wait? they fell for that one?"
Surviving an assassination attempt like that, with those precautions, proves that you are in fact *NOT* paranoid, but instead just, merely, cautious enough.
@@gokbay3057 that was kind of the joke. And you can be paranoid and have people out to get you, if you think that people other then the people out to get you are after you.
Master assassin "What's the mission?" High lord "Killing a dark eldar" "Ok..." "He is a pilot ace" "Well now that might be a bit..." "Mid flight" *o come on* "That hardly gives him a chance" "Ye... so should we send an evesore?" Starring eyes from across the room
9 year olds:OOOOH OOOOH OOOOH 360 NO SCOOOPE!!!! Vindicare:*shoots a dark eldar between the eyes that's in a space craft moving above the speed of light in just under a second* This was a good warm-up.
Mikazuchi At least they’ll never be known as the 360 No Scope temple. That would be an abomination no self respecting Vindicare would ever associate with.
OFFICIAL INQUISITORIAL RESPONSE: absolutely and demonstrably false. The so called “vidicare” sniper is a most malicious rumor spread by the enemies of the imperium. Most “Vindicare” snipers are simply filthy xenos marksmen such as the most feared and pernicious Ork sniper.
Review of an Eversor action : "Did we get him ? Was the assassination succesful ? -I don't know... Do you have the ability to ID puddles ? 'cause that's all we have..."
@@Zaprozhan Well, Eversor do practice the religion of piece, a piece of you here, a piece of you there, a piece of you everywhere and they are very well versed as missionary, bringing the religious enlightenment to others.
catsareevil101 I assume it was either a massive shock to their system to see their ace pilot die suddenly in a place they felt was under their complete control, or they saw him die, went “Oh good, there’s a new opening for a promotion!” And continued their raid as if nothing happened.
@@jgw9990 Alpha Legion are still loyalists, not to the Imperium of Man but to the ideas of the Emperor. Anyway, the current Imperium of Man sucks in a way...a bad place to live in, I think even the Emperor would slap his face when he sees what's going on.
I want to enhance Archs' points. The assassins have to find "the shot" on *different* planets with different weather and gravity from huge ranges. They also not only have to not only use and shoot but also maintain a monumental amount of varied weaponry. Holy shit, I love this content.
Was about to note that gravity can differ very much, but pretty easy to counter, but what makes things difficult is atmospheric composition, air pressure and particles in the air. For instance atmosphere consisting gasses that have more mass will effect bullet trajectory by slowing it down as bullet needs to push all those gasses out of the way. Other thing is how much and what kind of light gets trough as this could effect eyes but also visual sensors. Taken single shots over distance of kilometers really is artillery art already and calculating all that is huge undertaking.
Sometimes I'm very sad with how GW don't use their IP for more games and stuff. There is so much interesting stuff in the fluff that would make a killer game.
I’m reminded of the story from an old issue of white dwarf where a vindicare is Hiding in one of the impressive sets of gargoyles over looking and imperial garden for some high official who is on the chopping Block. In the end he is actually thwarted by a groundskeeper because he has worked there for 40 years and notices how one of the shadows is slightly out of place.
If anyone was wondering how the Vindicare survived for six years on nothing but moss and birds. Page 147 of Dark Heresy: Ascension "The spy mask contains cartridges of concentrated food and water for extended operations" Arch can have that one for free I guess.
Full invasion force is easier and cheaper to replace, but takes more time and is not elegant as assassin. Eversor is utilized when you want to send clear message to someone and what to chance their decor towards red.
Hmm. This planet shows extreme resistance... Should we exterminatus theese heretics? No. Then what? How many eversors do we have in this Sector? Seven. Deploy all of them.
"Don't you need guardsmen here?" Says the slightly irritated vindicare alone in the battle field holding entire armies of Necron, Orks and Tau away with his sniper rifle.
Man, I guess these guys are a lot more than just "that dude with the sniper rifle", huh? 40k really goes extra on everything. Ah, looking forward to the Eversors in particular. They sound like a downright festive bunch. =D
I had expected that assassin after the Sky Knife to snipe the Eldar in the middle of a dogfight. While in freefall after jumping off an Imperial Ace's ship.
Give you the same missions but the options to play them through as each of the different kinds. Try and find the most effective way to do it like hitman. Or just fuck all of it send in the eversor.
Matt E heh, hitman style pre-mission load-out, but instead of picking gear, you pick the assassin temple to send. To be fair, you could still customize the gear, but mission approach would be dictated by which temple you pick. Play a traditional hitman style game with callidus, venum or vindicare, a more deus ex cyber-hacking game with vanus, or just play a DOOM style game with the eversor. Culexus would probably be like playing the killer in those horror/slasher games like friday the 13th or dead by daylight. The problem is the approaches are so different, most devs won’t be able to handle them all. Also, the maps would need to be HUGE. And by this I mean take ... let’s say the skyrim map, and make it possible to fire from the top of high hrothgar to the temple in markarth rendering all the way there and simulating everything over that huge distance. No computer would be able to run that kind of game. Because that’s the kind of shot a vindicare should be able to take in extremis.
That line about finding the shot makes me think. Was the Vindicare that missed the shot on Xaphan was taking that trick shot out of choice, or was the inquesition pushing him for a rapid resolution? I'd imagine a professional would have prefered not to take a gamble like that given the choice. But the Inquesition are not known for being as patient as a Vindicare assassin, so taking a few years to find a perfect shot that couldn't go wrong probably wasn't an option.
IMMentat you’re telling me basilisks and leman russ spam are not good reasons? Also if playing UA (and why would you not), titan spam to put the orks to shame, bloody Imperator titans that one shot anything and deep-striking baneblade-type tanks.
I remember in Dark Crusade I was getting ready to push the final part of the Tau stronghold, still bringing up more troops but was trying to soften up the enemy with my Vindicare, suddenly it starts the victory cinematic. Turned out the Ethereal wandered just into range right after I activated his special ability, from that day I never doubted the sniper.
Horus had a minimum of two. Too lazy to check the book, but one as a solo mission and one as part of the execution force is the absolute minimum since all clades tried at least once before the execution force of all combined assassins was sent. Though iirc the book states the eversor clade tried with several eversors instead of just one. And there have been cases when, to send a message, they unleashed as many as 5 eversors simultaneously on a target ... cluster. The command structure of a rebel guard uprising (because you don’t send an eversor to just kill ONE target) specifically, though by end they ended up killing the uprising. And one of the lovely fine chaps in skull-masks even survived by the end of it!
"Boom. Headshot." "Sniping's a good job mate. Challenging work, out of doors, and I'll guarentee you'll not go hungry. Because at the end of the day, so long are there's two people left in the imperium, someone's gonna want someone dead." "Dad... dad I'm a... I'm not an Eversor dad I'm a Vindicare! What the difference be is one is a job and the others mental sickness!" "I'll be honest with you, my parents do not care for it" "I think his mate saw me... yes, yes he did" "Feelings? Look mate, you know who's got a lot of feelings? Blokes who bludgeon their wife to death with a golf trophy. Professionals have standards. Be polite, be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet."
You know, the hypnotherapy might have other uses for the assassins. Considering the infiltration side of things, you might have a pile of things from it that are for different worlds and cultures so that the assassin can blend in for infiltration and exfiltration, along with different things about the specific planet to aid in things such as local predators and issues that could be for them there.
Ultimate apocalpse lets you have three of them and they are amazing for the guard just park them at a nice vantage point you enemy infantry just poinks out of existance even heroes get taken out in a few shots love em
Me personally, I could imagine the Vindicare assassins, hell ALL assassins are probably gene-boosted in some way. Maybe not like a Space Marine, but definitely given some cutting-edge and perhaps risky procedures to alter metabolism, muscle density and such. It could explain the 'moss and sea birds' farce, but it's my head-canon. Makes stuff far more easy to explain.
Kreigsman recruited by the Vindicar: "No thanks. You put too little emphasis on teamwork, Artillery, and CQB. Too much on this long-range shooting and NOT DYING nonsense....."
“Vindicare” is latin for “To punish, or to avenge” in its infinitive form. Quite fitting. It was pronounced with emphasis on the “A,” but then again, the “V” was pronounced like an unaspirated W. So it’d be something like “Wīn-di-kar-ay”in the Classical Pronunciation, with the lines representing long vowels. I’m not so sure on how the Ecclesiastical pronunciation would have handled the word, but I bet it would be “Vīn-dī-chā-rē.” Could a Catheric fact check me here? Thanks.
We are actually very confident about how Latin is supposed to be pronounced. Both Ecclesiastical and Classical. The former should be obvious since it has been in continual use by the church, but for Classical Latin we have actual period grammar books and writings that describe how high Latin was supposed to be pronounced. Either way the pronunciation of the e in Vindicare, if we take the Latin, is the same. The e is pronounced like “ay” as in “say”, not “ee” as in “pee”. The part that does change between ecclesiastical and classical is the initial “v”, which could be pronounced as close to an English V or W.
I think the first 9 chapters (ultramarines, iron hands, fists, salamanders, raven guard, blood angles, dark angles, space wolfs and white scars) don't worship him, but think of him as god like, not a god.
Loving the vids Arch, really gives some appreciation of just how much work vindicares put into a single shot. Also your comment on eversors at 41:12 had me in stiches. Brilliant
Did Tegedris remember to get his target's body and bathe it in acid? Because if he got all this data on target's patterns of behaviour and such, he would also've been informed that Dark Eldar can be brought back "from a single helix", so if he did not take time to utterly destroy the remains, the six years of waiting for an opportunity would only cause his target an inconvenience and some pain (depending on the whim of the Homunculus reviving him).
Recruitment poster: It’s as easy as point and shoot. Small script: some terms and conditions may apply, survival rate sub 10% of basic training, extended missions may be required (slime suckers will not be turned away), polymath preferred.
Imagine a video game where you can choose the temple you want and then they let you run amonk on a fairly large map! a kind of Hitman with multiple choices.
Assassin: I’m not a Eversor, dad. I’m a Vindicare. Dad: What’s the difference? Assassin: What the be!? One’s a job, the other’s mental sickness! -Vindicare justifying his career.
watching this video (specifically the story with the dark eldar pilot) has made me reevaluate what I want from a 40k tv show. I'd love for 40-60min "episodes" from 40k. Not a coherent story, but elements with the general theme running through. Think early black mirror. Imagine following the sniper along his journey to make that shot, the effort, the dedication, the patience, all for that final moment where he pulls the trigger and you follow the bullet going through the cockpit. Hell, I'd do it all without the sniper saying a single word. Just because 40k is grimdark doesn't mean it couldn't be sophisticated. But not just this, I remember hearing about some netflix animated series following a similar pretense, just short stories with general themes, Animatrix also comes to mind. This show could be used to set the groundwork for a true 40k character/story driven epic.
alternate idea, the whole episode is just the council of assasins deciding which branch should be the one to go for the target, with each of them going through how their organisation would do it. The Eversor section would just be a blurred red fever dream with enough blood to make Khorne proud.
kaplahworm hypothetical: unleash every single eversor in commoragh. Enjoy the show. Sad thing is, the degenerates drukarii would most likely enjoy it as well.
Maybe the Vindicare get some of the space marine geneseed organs (or a variant of them) implanted. The Haemastamen, the Preomnor and the Catalepsean Node come to mind, especially the later one would be extremely useful during extended camping sessions.
"Do I actually her the sound of the Emperor talking to me in my sleep or is that...." That was a hard one to explain why I was laughing hysterically to my family.
Vindicare: "Off the pillar, then the side of that Chimera, between the legs of that traitor guardsman over there, skip twice off that flakboard, then boom between the eyes of that Chaos Demagogue."
Eversor: "That seems needlessly complicated."
Vindicare: "...all right, fine. You charge in screaming and flinging melta bombs in all directions and leaving a trail of bodies, I will wait until you are halfway through and shoot him through the forehead."
Eversor: "Excellent."
Vindicare: "At least we're not working with a Callidus this time."
'Random Guardsman': "HEY!"
RottweilerAK 😂
I am greatly amused by this conversation.
You know what, a comedic book series about an assassin team would actually be great
@@scottland8698 I suggest you get your hands on the audiobook Nemesis from the Horus Heresy, its basically this conversation for 10 hours minus the comedy
This is the translated version. The eversor as heard by literally anyone else is: BLUGHUGHGHGHELE!
Vindicare: Dad, I'm not an Eversor, I'm a *Vindicare* !... Well, the difference is ones a job and the other is mental sickness!
(It’s a TF2 reference if you don’t get it)
I love this! also: Dad... dad pls put my mom on the phone.
WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Xayte I saw your comment on the Karl video, too.
Said in Australian accent, for some reason.
As far as the Kriegsman are concerned, the Vindicare assassin that was dispatched to remove Xaphan did absolutely nothing wrong.
Wrong. The Kriegsmen consider the VIndicare did something wrong by dying *in failure.* You see, sacrifice for the Emperor is good, but mostly if your sacrifice does something good.
Eric Van De Hey he went out fighting and shooting and snapping neck
Eric Van De Hey My interpretation is the Kriegsman don’t disapprove of the Vindicare’s failure, because if he succeeded, the Kriegsmen wouldn’t have had a years long siege in which to sacrifice themselves in droves for the Emperor.
But your point is valid too.
@@vandeheyeric one assassins failure is a krieg legion repentance
they wouldnt aprove of any plan that didnt consist of charging straight at him with bayonets
Vindicare: One Shot is all I need. Eversor: COCAINE!
Callidus: Incognito Mode Activate!
Culexus: Go ahead, summon some Daemons, I DARE YOU.
Venenum: Enjoying that muffin?
Vanus: Your secrets are not so secret anymore.
Maerorus: [REDACTED]
Eversor: I WILL PUT MY PAIN INTO YOUR SOUL!!!
Vindicare: one shot, one kill
Callidus: a knife in the dark can be worth more than a thousand swords.
Culexus: there is no hope against the void
Evesor: paint the walls red
Evesor....what walls
Eversor: "You're always stealthy if every plausible witness is dead"
Infocyte: Hey don't look at me. I wasn't even on the same planet when he had that accident.
@@BR4IN1N4J4R That's the Moniker of the Assassin Orders. You only fail the job if you get caught. If there's no witness', then there's no one that detected you.
@@BR4IN1N4J4R Yep, the Steiner scout lances have the same philosophy, full stealth maintained if there is no survivors.
"Snipins a good job mate" said Vindicar probably.
Guarantee you'll nevah go hungry. Because as long as there are Xenos breathing in this bloody galaxy, someone's gunna want somethin ded...
feeling? look mate, you know who has feelings? blokes for sacrificing their wife's to slannesh, Assassins have orders.
Never heard of a Vindicar throwing jars of his piss at people
"... It's challengin' work, outta doors."
@@jehovasabettor9080 Im fairly sure the vindicar trying to assasinate the cardinal just before the siege of vraks, waited for it to rain then did his business off a church spire.
Fanatics: "The great prophet was shot! Who did it?"
Imperial Official Investigation Squad: "Oh, it was probably one of those Ork Snipers"
Fanatics: "Death to the Green Skins!"
Assassin: "Wait? they fell for that one?"
If only...
@Maintenance Renegade oh that's funny. Committing mass murder and blaming it on a bunch of orks. Perfection
@Maintenance Renegade Just wondering, why do you have to kill the governor? Are you paid?
@Maintenance Renegade Sorry, I thought you were the player but still a fun story.
PS I didn't know you reply this quick
Officials: "Never underestimate simple minded fanatics"
Surviving an assassination attempt like that, with those precautions, proves that you are in fact *NOT* paranoid, but instead just, merely, cautious enough.
Just because you are paranoid does not mean they aren't out to get you
@@Rembanspellsong but it isn't paranoia if they really are out to get you
@@gokbay3057 It is if you managed to defend against them before you even knew they actually attacked you
I still firmly beleve that nobody in 40k is paranoid... enough.
@@gokbay3057 that was kind of the joke. And you can be paranoid and have people out to get you, if you think that people other then the people out to get you are after you.
Master assassin "What's the mission?"
High lord "Killing a dark eldar"
"Ok..."
"He is a pilot ace"
"Well now that might be a bit..."
"Mid flight"
*o come on*
"That hardly gives him a chance"
"Ye... so should we send an evesore?"
Starring eyes from across the room
I imagine the eversor just waving at him
@@MrJulio632 he was frozen while waving, and is kept in the conference room... just as an ornament
@@captainpuffinpuffinson4769 Definitively not placed there just in case someone and their company needs to.... go away.
@@MrJulio632 Eversor makes a slingshot, a really big slingshot.
@@SpecialKLSX and launched himself in the slingshot ? :D
9 year olds:OOOOH OOOOH OOOOH 360 NO SCOOOPE!!!!
Vindicare:*shoots a dark eldar between the eyes that's in a space craft moving above the speed of light in just under a second* This was a good warm-up.
Vindicare, better known by its low-Gothic moniker the "Boom, Headshot" temple.
Mikazuchi At least they’ll never be known as the 360 No Scope temple. That would be an abomination no self respecting Vindicare would ever associate with.
"Sniping's a good job, brother" -Vindicare Mundaer
Ah yes the Vindicare, one of the few humans in 40k capable of seducing a Farseer.
You spelled Heresy wrong
*Bolt Pistol Racking* Don't worry. Blood is nature's white-out. *B-BLAM*
Was wondering when I would find this comment
*Sheds a tear* a hero to us all.
Love can.... BOOM! HEADSHOT!
: eversore assassin enters battle
Commissar half a minute later:-
Someone for the god emperor hand this man a Snickers
Space Marine Chaplain: "BONER ACHIEVED!!!"
For all their strengths and training they have one weakness, red headed Eldar women
To be fair, that is mine as well.
Adrian Naranjo >red headed
You had me at that.
I mean, who hasn't though.
Heritics the lot of you..... although....if you could get her to dress up in something skimpy.hmmm noooo slanesh you will not have my soul this day!
@@kraigshall *BLAM* ONLY A FILTHY HERETIC WOULD FALL FOR A XENO.
The Vindicare Sniper: May or may not occasionally larp as an "Ork sniper" at the order of the Inquisition...
Better hope the Celestial Lions don't hear you say that.
@@robertnelson9599 You mean before or after that "Ork Sniper" performed an headshot over 2 kilometer distance?
@@TheWarriorofHonor Throw enough bullets downrange and one just might accidentally hit the target
OFFICIAL INQUISITORIAL RESPONSE: absolutely and demonstrably false. The so called “vidicare” sniper is a most malicious rumor spread by the enemies of the imperium. Most “Vindicare” snipers are simply filthy xenos marksmen such as the most feared and pernicious Ork sniper.
What if the mythic ork sniper actually exists
“Dad? Dad, I'm a- Ye- Not a "crazed gunman", dad, I'm a Vindicare! ...Well, the difference bein' one is a job and the other's a mental sickness! “
"Just put mom on the phone..."
*Guardsmen of Krieg at the Vindicare Temple looking at the Training Programm* - " huh nice leisure schedule they have here..."
Review of an Eversor action :
"Did we get him ? Was the assassination succesful ?
-I don't know... Do you have the ability to ID puddles ? 'cause that's all we have..."
He killed a lot of people. Maybe one of them was the target?
@@Zaprozhan Well, Eversor do practice the religion of piece, a piece of you here, a piece of you there, a piece of you everywhere and they are very well versed as missionary, bringing the religious enlightenment to others.
The Eversors is going to be hilarious, because I keep seeing Arch going, "and the mess, oh, the mess..."
Arch needs to see this so he says it in the video.
They'd give Orks what they want: A good fight.
Should make it a drinking game
I listen to various vids in the background while gaming, I've probably played this one 3 times now, I laugh every time that part comes up.
A Krieg soldier arrives at the Vindicare temple, sees the training program: "Eh, I'm used to it. When do we start any challenging stuff ?"
digs hole with Long gun
no true kriegsman would ever go to the vindicare. they go to the evesore and directly to the emperor in guts and glory. (preferably the targets guts)
@@fritzvoss5263 Evesore can't make happy gas mask noises, the filters are too quiet. One thing is sacrifice, another is heartbreak.
@@KaiserAfini The emperor protects. He shall provide! *Krieg eversor makes happy gasmask noise*
@@KaiserAfini what's this? Kriegsman is evolving!
When your selection process has potentially more attrition than some Space Marine Chapters.
Astares 1 in 100
Vidicare 1 in 10
Retail 100% casualties
One has to wonder how the preparation obsessed Dark Eldar responded to that surprise shot, but that was probably the point of the mission.
Probably sent them running back to the Webway, only to realize that they can't return to Commoragh empty-handed.
@@robertnelson9599 It's a shame the alpha legion went rogue. Siccing them and the assassins on trolling the dark eldar would be highly amusing.
catsareevil101 I assume it was either a massive shock to their system to see their ace pilot die suddenly in a place they felt was under their complete control, or they saw him die, went “Oh good, there’s a new opening for a promotion!” And continued their raid as if nothing happened.
@@jgw9990 Alpha Legion are still loyalists, not to the Imperium of Man but to the ideas of the Emperor. Anyway, the current Imperium of Man sucks in a way...a bad place to live in, I think even the Emperor would slap his face when he sees what's going on.
@@crypto1223 Why not both?
Vindicare: "Aims down scope" one shot one ki....
What the Vindicare sees: "Eldar tiddys"
Roboute Guilliman right next to him: "Click" Noice
Reed Drown delicious flat chest
@@jonathanwells223 Peanut smugglers.
He’s got a turbo penetrator all right.
So, vindicares have a thing for elder chicks then?
@@terriblefurry Look up love can bloom. It's a fanfic featuring a career and a vindicare.
I want to enhance Archs' points. The assassins have to find "the shot" on *different* planets with different weather and gravity from huge ranges. They also not only have to not only use and shoot but also maintain a monumental amount of varied weaponry. Holy shit, I love this content.
Was about to note that gravity can differ very much, but pretty easy to counter, but what makes things difficult is atmospheric composition, air pressure and particles in the air.
For instance atmosphere consisting gasses that have more mass will effect bullet trajectory by slowing it down as bullet needs to push all those gasses out of the way. Other thing is how much and what kind of light gets trough as this could effect eyes but also visual sensors.
Taken single shots over distance of kilometers really is artillery art already and calculating all that is huge undertaking.
Yeah bit of an oversight there not highlighting the sheer amount of different shit on any given planet they have to account for.
@@Hellsong89 Now this stuff is what I'm talking/thinking about!
@@Hellsong89 as much as I agree with the logic there but what's easier to deploy lol
I would like to see a sniper sim where you play as a vindicare assassin.
Like the Sniper Elite series but with more warhammer 4000.
Ouuuu that would be awesome! Though can your pc render 10000 orks+vehicles surrounding the warboss? :D
Needs another 0.
You need like two more 0's
If you think waiting 6 years in the eyehole of a statue sounds like fun.. ;)
Sometimes I'm very sad with how GW don't use their IP for more games and stuff. There is so much interesting stuff in the fluff that would make a killer game.
I’m reminded of the story from an old issue of white dwarf where a vindicare is Hiding in one of the impressive sets of gargoyles over looking and imperial garden for some high official who is on the chopping Block. In the end he is actually thwarted by a groundskeeper because he has worked there for 40 years and notices how one of the shadows is slightly out of place.
That is an amazing story holy shjt
Even in the grim darkness of the far future, the butler did it.
Having a full automatic triger finger, assasins pistol is as deadly as a heavy bolter on steroids.
Konrad Pałucki was the OG vindicarie assassin Jerry Mickleuck?
@@scottland8698 That's classified, escort this man to the brig.
*Chaos-Warlord´s head explodes* Amused grandfatherly laughter from the next subspire.
If anyone was wondering how the Vindicare survived for six years on nothing but moss and birds. Page 147 of Dark Heresy: Ascension "The spy mask contains
cartridges of concentrated food and water for extended operations"
Arch can have that one for free I guess.
"sending in an full scale invasion.. or an eversor"
Full invasion force is easier and cheaper to replace, but takes more time and is not elegant as assassin. Eversor is utilized when you want to send clear message to someone and what to chance their decor towards red.
I mean recruiting, drugging modifying an single flesh bag is much easier than arming an entire army of em
Hmm.
This planet shows extreme resistance...
Should we exterminatus theese heretics?
No.
Then what?
How many eversors do we have in this Sector?
Seven.
Deploy all of them.
Ah LIIVI, truly a hero and inspiration to us all. As he thought us that Love can indeed Bloom on a Battlefield.
He sees you when your sleeping~
He knows when your awake~
He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sakes!~
Boris Turk surprisingly appropriate imo
I wonder what the Santicar Giftsassin will get me this year! *open present, gun barrel pokes out and pressed into my nose* aaaaw bullets again?
Chomplet King beats getting an Eversor and getting... Eviscerated hehe... I’ll see myself out.
*Walks out door*
WWRRRRYYYYY!
Robot Santa knows everyone has been very very bad
Ah yes, Santa Claus, my favourite Chaos God.
"Don't you need guardsmen here?"
Says the slightly irritated vindicare alone in the battle field holding entire armies of Necron, Orks and Tau away with his sniper rifle.
_I am the reconnaissance sniper..._
*_WAAAH_*
For those who don't know :
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Pierre-Marie Caulliez ...I was actually thinking more like
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You arch could never make a short lore video with a smile.
Probably helps that 40K is so lore-heavy.
I see what is happening here....🙂
I see what you did ~♡
I hope the next temple is the Eversor. Hearing Arch scream like a lunatic for 45 minutes sounds like a good time.
Most likely they will be the last. Need the druggie nutcases as the final act
@@donwebber9071 I know, but a man can hope, lol.
Man, I guess these guys are a lot more than just "that dude with the sniper rifle", huh? 40k really goes extra on everything. Ah, looking forward to the Eversors in particular. They sound like a downright festive bunch. =D
Festive. Yes. Festive...
Festive in the Greenskin sense of the word.
@@robertnelson9599 I have little doubt that Orks consider being visited by an Eversor as a great gift from Gork...or Mork
They just know how to really party.
Their WRYYYYYMAS parties are to die for yes.
Your "Minni-Series" is longer than other narrators long vids ;)
I love it!
It's mini compared to Vraks or the Horus Heresy.
@@robertnelson9599 Well, true.
You forgot about the Wars for Armageddon.
Well the Vindicare is a fine tuned scalpel with pin-point accuracy, an Eversor is a man high on cocaine wielding a two chainsaws on fire
"... wrap up the video" ... when there are still 16 minutes left on the clock. yeah, thats going to be intresting ;)
I legit love those moments with arch
*Failed to stop the Vraks War*
Death Korps did.
Dont you mean started the VRAKS WAR
Some argue the cause of it
Failure means Mass Death!
dude he killed 30 milion with 1 shot. thats a hell of a shot to kill ratio.
I had expected that assassin after the Sky Knife to snipe the Eldar in the middle of a dogfight. While in freefall after jumping off an Imperial Ace's ship.
The Vindicare or: 360 YY No-Scope from the crane on Highrise
God dammit a game where you play as an Imperial assassin would be amazing.
Give you the same missions but the options to play them through as each of the different kinds. Try and find the most effective way to do it like hitman. Or just fuck all of it send in the eversor.
Matt E heh, hitman style pre-mission load-out, but instead of picking gear, you pick the assassin temple to send. To be fair, you could still customize the gear, but mission approach would be dictated by which temple you pick. Play a traditional hitman style game with callidus, venum or vindicare, a more deus ex cyber-hacking game with vanus, or just play a DOOM style game with the eversor. Culexus would probably be like playing the killer in those horror/slasher games like friday the 13th or dead by daylight.
The problem is the approaches are so different, most devs won’t be able to handle them all. Also, the maps would need to be HUGE. And by this I mean take ... let’s say the skyrim map, and make it possible to fire from the top of high hrothgar to the temple in markarth rendering all the way there and simulating everything over that huge distance. No computer would be able to run that kind of game. Because that’s the kind of shot a vindicare should be able to take in extremis.
The romance choice would be interesting
you can play as one in that Inquisition game, a Death Cult female assassin
The guys that make crisis would make a good one.
That line about finding the shot makes me think. Was the Vindicare that missed the shot on Xaphan was taking that trick shot out of choice, or was the inquesition pushing him for a rapid resolution? I'd imagine a professional would have prefered not to take a gamble like that given the choice. But the Inquesition are not known for being as patient as a Vindicare assassin, so taking a few years to find a perfect shot that couldn't go wrong probably wasn't an option.
Commissar: "Did anyone get that xenos filth's number plate? What, no-one?!"
The last thing you never see
Ah yes, that guys hidng somewhere killing my my heores during the battle in dawn of war.
Wolf Warrior
other than the bane blade and command team we did need a reason to play the guard :)
IMMentat you’re telling me basilisks and leman russ spam are not good reasons? Also if playing UA (and why would you not), titan spam to put the orks to shame, bloody Imperator titans that one shot anything and deep-striking baneblade-type tanks.
See, in the UA mod I have a great counter.
It's called *massed artillery bombardment fron every available Earthshaker in the vicinity*
I remember in Dark Crusade I was getting ready to push the final part of the Tau stronghold, still bringing up more troops but was trying to soften up the enemy with my Vindicare, suddenly it starts the victory cinematic. Turned out the Ethereal wandered just into range right after I activated his special ability, from that day I never doubted the sniper.
41.13 imagine what you have to do to get "more than one" eversor assassin sent after you. im pretty sure horus only had one sent for him
Ohhhhhh God emporor......I don't wanna think about that. Such action that requires the attention of two eversor.... How badly did you fuck up?!
Horus had a minimum of two. Too lazy to check the book, but one as a solo mission and one as part of the execution force is the absolute minimum since all clades tried at least once before the execution force of all combined assassins was sent. Though iirc the book states the eversor clade tried with several eversors instead of just one.
And there have been cases when, to send a message, they unleashed as many as 5 eversors simultaneously on a target ... cluster. The command structure of a rebel guard uprising (because you don’t send an eversor to just kill ONE target) specifically, though by end they ended up killing the uprising. And one of the lovely fine chaps in skull-masks even survived by the end of it!
Are we ever going to get the tempestus Scions imperial guard video.
You can't spell Vindicare without "I care" ♥
"Boom. Headshot."
"Sniping's a good job mate. Challenging work, out of doors, and I'll guarentee you'll not go hungry. Because at the end of the day, so long are there's two people left in the imperium, someone's gonna want someone dead."
"Dad... dad I'm a... I'm not an Eversor dad I'm a Vindicare! What the difference be is one is a job and the others mental sickness!"
"I'll be honest with you, my parents do not care for it"
"I think his mate saw me... yes, yes he did"
"Feelings? Look mate, you know who's got a lot of feelings? Blokes who bludgeon their wife to death with a golf trophy. Professionals have standards.
Be polite, be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet."
This is an entirely legitimate comment with depth, in no way meant to trip the algorithms into promoting dank 40k content.
What a fascinating video about Ork Snipers. I bet the Celestial Lions will be disliking this video.
You know, the hypnotherapy might have other uses for the assassins.
Considering the infiltration side of things, you might have a pile of things from it that are for different worlds and cultures so that the assassin can blend in for infiltration and exfiltration, along with different things about the specific planet to aid in things such as local predators and issues that could be for them there.
When Agent 47 and Golgo 13 just won't cut it.
They should totally make like a movie or anime about the 4 assasins and their adventures, would be one hell of a series!
"I don't count the shots that hit I count the ones that miss" - some edge Lord/vindicare
Ultimate apocalpse lets you have three of them and they are amazing for the guard just park them at a nice vantage point you enemy infantry just poinks out of existance even heroes get taken out in a few shots love em
Me personally, I could imagine the Vindicare assassins, hell ALL assassins are probably gene-boosted in some way. Maybe not like a Space Marine, but definitely given some cutting-edge and perhaps risky procedures to alter metabolism, muscle density and such. It could explain the 'moss and sea birds' farce, but it's my head-canon. Makes stuff far more easy to explain.
We absolutely need a Vindicare assassin meet the Sniper tf2 parody
Assassins always hold the moral high ground!
"shit has hit the fan at hyper sonic speed" best sentence thus far
Hmmm. So they'd made the Zap carry canon in the future too. 40k truly has everything.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to unkiester a weapon
The skylines in imperial cities is definitely prettier than what we have around today.
I love the way you tell those stories, like a proper storyteller of old. Keep on keeping on!
8:30 Turbo Penetrator Round.
_in the distance: Adeptus Mechanicus giggling_
Awesome, so the assassin's pistol is like Dredd's
They should make a more basic version for the Arbites
Arbites don't need them dude, they roll in fuckin Rhinos and use human scale bolters, shock mauls, and probably desert eagle calibre revolvers.
And shotguns. Big, fully automatic and with several different ammo type shotguns.
Kreigsman recruited by the Vindicar: "No thanks. You put too little emphasis on teamwork, Artillery, and CQB. Too much on this long-range shooting and NOT DYING nonsense....."
“Vindicare” is latin for “To punish, or to avenge” in its infinitive form. Quite fitting.
It was pronounced with emphasis on the “A,” but then again, the “V” was pronounced like an unaspirated W.
So it’d be something like “Wīn-di-kar-ay”in the Classical Pronunciation, with the lines representing long vowels. I’m not so sure on how the Ecclesiastical pronunciation would have handled the word, but I bet it would be “Vīn-dī-chā-rē.” Could a Catheric fact check me here? Thanks.
For the spirit of analytics, this was a good episode! Helps my long painting session! :)
We are actually very confident about how Latin is supposed to be pronounced. Both Ecclesiastical and Classical. The former should be obvious since it has been in continual use by the church, but for Classical Latin we have actual period grammar books and writings that describe how high Latin was supposed to be pronounced.
Either way the pronunciation of the e in Vindicare, if we take the Latin, is the same. The e is pronounced like “ay” as in “say”, not “ee” as in “pee”.
The part that does change between ecclesiastical and classical is the initial “v”, which could be pronounced as close to an English V or W.
I think the first 9 chapters (ultramarines, iron hands, fists, salamanders, raven guard, blood angles, dark angles, space wolfs and white scars) don't worship him, but think of him as god like, not a god.
Loving the vids Arch, really gives some appreciation of just how much work vindicares put into a single shot.
Also your comment on eversors at 41:12 had me in stiches. Brilliant
Seems like Arch either hates making messes or hates cleaning up messes.
Did Tegedris remember to get his target's body and bathe it in acid? Because if he got all this data on target's patterns of behaviour and such, he would also've been informed that Dark Eldar can be brought back "from a single helix", so if he did not take time to utterly destroy the remains, the six years of waiting for an opportunity would only cause his target an inconvenience and some pain (depending on the whim of the Homunculus reviving him).
It’s really more about the quality of the machine spirit rather than meat bag holding it.
Vindicare: if you hear the shot, you weren't the [first] target.
Your daily offering to the TH-cam Algorithm. Blessed be the zeros, and the ones.
Recruitment poster: It’s as easy as point and shoot.
Small script: some terms and conditions may apply, survival rate sub 10% of basic training, extended missions may be required (slime suckers will not be turned away), polymath preferred.
Imagine a video game where you can choose the temple you want and then they let you run amonk on a fairly large map! a kind of Hitman with multiple choices.
Assassin: I’m not a Eversor, dad. I’m a Vindicare.
Dad: What’s the difference?
Assassin: What the be!? One’s a job, the other’s mental sickness!
-Vindicare justifying his career.
watching this video (specifically the story with the dark eldar pilot) has made me reevaluate what I want from a 40k tv show.
I'd love for 40-60min "episodes" from 40k. Not a coherent story, but elements with the general theme running through. Think early black mirror. Imagine following the sniper along his journey to make that shot, the effort, the dedication, the patience, all for that final moment where he pulls the trigger and you follow the bullet going through the cockpit. Hell, I'd do it all without the sniper saying a single word.
Just because 40k is grimdark doesn't mean it couldn't be sophisticated.
But not just this, I remember hearing about some netflix animated series following a similar pretense, just short stories with general themes, Animatrix also comes to mind.
This show could be used to set the groundwork for a true 40k character/story driven epic.
Now imagine that whole scenario with an Eversor assassin.
just because I said it *could* be sophisticated doesn't mean that we can't have some fun every now and again!
alternate idea, the whole episode is just the council of assasins deciding which branch should be the one to go for the target, with each of them going through how their organisation would do it. The Eversor section would just be a blurred red fever dream with enough blood to make Khorne proud.
kaplahworm hypothetical: unleash every single eversor in commoragh. Enjoy the show.
Sad thing is, the degenerates drukarii would most likely enjoy it as well.
"Tell your men to stay out of my way"
I think the pronunciation for Vindicare could be this
Single assassin: a Vindicar assassin
The group: the Vindicare
"Vindicare have the most sophisticated and advanced stealth suit technologies.."
-They have nerfed Crysis suit.
The Vindicare, or as the 88th Siege Army calls them: “That jackass who crapped the bed so hard we got called in.”
Yet another grand video from one of the few quality 40k content creators. Thank you good sir.
Maybe the Vindicare get some of the space marine geneseed organs (or a variant of them) implanted. The Haemastamen, the Preomnor and the Catalepsean Node come to mind, especially the later one would be extremely useful during extended camping sessions.
Can't wait for the Culexus spookie bois
Krieg guardsmen looks over the Vindicare training regime: "Just another Tuesday then?"
Me, a Son of Dorn, hearing how Thick some walls are: Good Lord Arch! Stop teasing me!
"...founded by its namesake, Lord Havelock Vindicare"
"One Shot, One kill!" - Sniper 1993
So anyone make any LIVII jokes yet!?
Plenty, i've seen at least two so far
'One shot is all I need...' Make it double, shaken not stirred...
And no Love Can Bloom reference.
the comments got you covered lol
Thanks for uploading this. Waited Long for this Codex-Info. I Love those Assasins.
"Here's a touchin' story. Once upon a time you died, and I lived happily ever. The end"
So what happened to the imperial armor Series
It got stuck in the mud. Probably on Vraks.
AlphaOmega925 and then given a light downpour of high explosives
"Do I actually her the sound of the Emperor talking to me in my sleep or is that...."
That was a hard one to explain why I was laughing hysterically to my family.
As a big fan of the Imperial Guard in Dark Crusade, I gotta say that the Vindicare assassins are my favorite.
Hmm, might write a short story/novella fan fic about a Vindicare Assassin hunting down a senior Slaugth of The Amaranthine Syndicate, one day.