40k Lore, Regiments Of The Imperial Guard! The Tallarn Desert Raiders! Armored And Dessert Warfare
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- Tallarn is a planet with a harsh past and a harsher climate! The tallarn desert raiders forged by it's unforgiving sulphuric sands into some of the best hit and run armored fighters in the Imperium of Man
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-Wake up
-Bow towards terra and praise the god emperor (who is the greatest)
-Hide under sanddune
-shoot holes into enemies water tanks and survival tents
-have breakfast
-Bow towards terra and praise the god emperor (who is the greatest)
-apply sunscreen because you are still as pasty looking as the englishmen who invented you
-march 15 kilometer without leaving tracks in the sand
-Bow towards terra and praise the emperor (who is the greatest)
-DInner
-Chat with the tank platoon
-Bedtime
-Wake up at midnight
-Bow towards terra and praise the emperor (who is the greatest) thank him for killing those enemies from this morning with his divine flame, the fucking sun
Islam, but Based?
@@Kerathislam but without the pedophilia
@@Kerath Thats what im thinking
@@Kerath always has been
Allah Imbiraturia Akbar
Mmmm Dessert Warfare. Far more tasty than Desert Warfare
The never ending love story between arch and misspelled titles continues
:) As far as i know, the swiss are experts in dessert warfare.
Yes, but desert warfare is grittier.
Did someone say a food war?
This must be what they mean by "food fight"
"What was once a verdant agriworld-"
Me: Alright so how did the Imperium-
"-Virus Bombed by the Iron Warriors!"
Me:....you have my attention.
For once the imperium wasn't the ones who fucked up a world
“Have you seen the Tallarn raiders around here?“
“Oh! Not to worry sir! they’ve gone to look at that pond over there. They’ll be back in minute.”
“Why?”
“Well, it’s the biggest amount of natural water they’ve ever seen, I believe they’re trying to contain it all.”
“They do know that there’s oceans on this planet?”
“Yes sir, but we’ll get there when we get there, they may go into shock”
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't even a word for sea or ocean in their native language.
@@edim108 well, if I do remember correctly, the Arabs (and likely others) noted the vast deserts of Arabia and North Africa as an ocean or sea of sand. I would very much hypothesize that the words do exist, but perhaps have different contexts.
Tallarn defeated the Iron Warriors.
IN A TANK BATTLE.
All the flex you need.
Beating the Iron Hands would be more impressive.
They beat two Chaos invasions (though with some Eldar help the second time) these guy are hardcore, that's some badass stuff yes.
In a tank battle, specifically, yes. In general, no. The Iron Warriors are basically Chaos Imperial First with a Primarch as strategically brilliant as Girlyman.
ʹThen the prophet spoke: saying ʹFrak this, for my faith is a shield proof
against your blandishments!ʹ
‐ Alem Mahat, The Book of Cain, Chapter IV, Verse XXI1
To think that somewhere on Tallarn there's Cult Worshiping Ciaphas Cain as Emperors prophet is absolutely hilarious
Speaking of Cain did GW killed him for real or is it a rumor?
I choose to believe that Cain lives
@@BSOE3058 Oh. It's one of those then. Shit.
@@thil2894in his books Amberly says he died and was then buried with full military honor but is always listed as being on duty since he had been declared dead several times already
@@thil2894 cain is dead for real according to amberly
Grew up with Tallarn, played them in the early 2000s, love'em, miss'em. Impacted me to the point I joined my nations Army, as an armor officer because of it. Thanks for a blast from my childhood arch!
Who does not love a combination of German north africa forces, their british counterpart, and a dash of operation desert storm in a single package?
It's an armored forces in a desert planet! The best playground of armored warfare!
Also the Lawrence of Arabia lads and the mujahideen, and the fremen
There's a ton ways for tallarn to be depicted and I wish they got way more love, there's gonna be way more desert or barren planets in the Galaxy than jungles or Ice given how rare water is
They should be one of the highest sought after regiments
@@PodreyJenkin138 How rare water is? Is this a heretofore unknown to me feature of _40k,_ or is this your particular misunderstanding about the universe?
@@boobah5643 actual water on planets in this galaxy, the amount of desert or barren worlds we have found compared to the amount with any form of H2O (since many have such a small amount or are too hot or cold or still don't have a atmosphere etc)
Essentially the rarity of garden worlds that are temperate or able to support a biosphere and planet life
I guess ice worlds also count
It's not a misunderstanding I'm correct
Need a Tallarn story with a with Colonel Commissar Lawrence Schwartzkopf.
Tallarn Desert raiders: hold Biel-Tan forces off.
Biel-Tan: actually explain why they're there.
.
And so they're on good terms now.
Amazing that diplomacy actually works. At least sometimes. LOL
The eldar know how to TALK?!?
And as usual for Eldar, they tried "diplomacy" only AFTER they got their shit kicked in.
@@60sSamas much as any animal does.
And they call us monkies. Ha!
For hot enviroments. One can use longer stroke engine with lower rpm, higher torqe, and a big radiator , a big collector and greater oil capacity. Engine will stay at least around the collant evaporation temperature (if there is enough collant and you do not maxrev it) . The longer stroke engine gives the cilindres and pistons more time to cool sacrificing horsepower (wats, energy over time) while increasing tourqe (basically the force the engine can exert, not enough torques and the vehicle can not even get going, gearboxes solve that problem to a degree),
Calculation for hrsprs is tourqe×rpm/5,252
and oil capacity increases the amount of shit that needs to heat up and can have its own seperate "radiator".
More spare parts will be needed because the engine lifespan is Mostly determined by howmany times it heated up to operating temperature and cooled back again and by how suddenly that occured. Termal expantion/contraction will over time cause warping and heatstress accumulation. Deserts tend to be preatty harsh since daytime operating temperature is preatty high and during the night it suddenly becomes quite cold (no moisture= poor heat retention) increasing the heatcycle stress. Combine that with a lot of uphill, downhill under max load with a deadline and occasional shelling on a "slippery" sandy surface and catastrophic errors can occur quite easily be it cooking the engine, a crash, tipover, blown clutches/gearboxes, or simple mechanical failure.
Dude this is GW they don't even have a high school level understanding of how viruses work or a primary school knowledge of the water cycle. Lol
Remember that time a space marine chapter slaughtered nearly a full army of Tallarn Desert Raiders due to "contact with the Xenos" and "Contamination"? Pepperidge Farm on Terra remembers...
Agra Peperigius? 🙃
Family huy reference?
Guardsman: “You see Commissar, there is a second S in dessert, not to be confused with desert.”
Commissar: “YOU DARE DESERT YOUR POST GUARDSMAN?!”
Guardsman: “No, commissar wait!”
I remember a audiobook drama about Tallarn soon after Tallarn was made into what it was, the narrator did such an awesome job of tone to give how depressing a situation it was
What was it called?
cant recall,, on one of the audible omnibuses they have there, was about a space marine reviving a damaged titan by making the surviving pilot into a vegetable lol so he could continue fighting@@PodreyJenkin138
@@PodreyJenkin138 Tallarn I believe.
@@jacklang3314 cool I'm gonna look for it thanks!
This is what I loved about the 40k community, even when GW seems to want to do so much to kill this franchise cool people sharing great lore keeps it alive
Damn i need to find that!@@jacklang3314
Tallarn really earn its place in armored warfare when their first recorded actions were against a majority of the Iron Warriors Legion, and they survived that heavy fisted beating from those calculated siege masters.
The Tallarn Desert Raiders are my favorite. Their hit-and-run tactics seek to do as much damage to the enemy as possible while taking a minimum of casualties. Because Tallarn does not have billions of bodies to stuff into a meat-grinder, they at least try to use their manpower resources efficiently.
The Tallarn prove that the Guard can be brave, cunning, and effective without being overtly suicidal.
On the upside of working in the desert. All you need to do to keep your las mags charged is leave it on your dashboard.
Nice to know Lawrence is still kicking around in the 41st millennium
33:30 One cheap solution is to run them only at night, when the air is much cooler, and try to hole up in some shelter or waypoint by the time the sun comes up.
Yes, gimme that desert guerilla warfare shit!
Mmm, that's some good shit right here ❤
Don't you mean dessert gorilla war?
You would think that a single Tank shell being fired, could cause a planetary cataclysm under the circumstances of a post virus bombing. All it would take was just a few embers to set off the gasses and sludge from the bombing
Desert guerilla tank regiment. Yeah, love these badasses! They're one of my favorite regiments of the Guard.
Frak this for my faith is a shield against your blandishments! A quote from ciafus kane the prophet of the emperor to the Tolan people.
You can spell "blandishments," but you can't spell Caiphas Cain or Tallarn? You make my brain hurt . . .
Been waiting for you to cover these sandy Emperor-botheres ever since I read the Cain novels!
Anyone else instantly recall CHAOS DESCENDS (by Karl The Deranged) the moment Arch said desert ?
"Congratulations, you have beaten the Iron Warriors!"
"We won? Praise the Emperor! What did we win?"
"A sad feeling."
"...aww."
You have to wonder if they didn't capture some Iron Warrior tanks and such to customize it.
Great, more Red Shirts.
0:40 - You've certainly covered their Primarch.
If it was that simple to destroy that Chaos artefact, they'd do that.
After this winter (that is still not over) a bone dry, hot as hell desert planet is starting to sound almost cozy
Come on down to Florida, we've been in the 70s almost all winter long, and even climbed into the 90s just yesterday.
@nadrewod999 do all the old people actually suck up enough moisture to make it a desert?
Even as far north as Virginia, it's been more of an extended late fall or early spring than an actual winter. It freezes regularly enough, but this week it's hit highs in the mid-50's.
But see when you are in scorching sun, choking dust and hot sand you dream about snow and blizzard
I wish you'd get back to doing Horus Heresy and the events of the 42nd millennium. I do get that you don't care for some of the newer plot developments (I disagree, but I understand your rationale), but... Respectfully, they're not leaving... And there's a lot of stuff that's happened. I'd love to see your telling of the Lion's return, for what it's worth.
aH The Tallaran Dessert Raiders. I too would raide the kitchen for dessert if I was in the army.
Ahh yes, the Tallaran Desert Body Bags featured in the Taros Campaign.
What you mean the campaign where their first freaking action wasn't to capture the water treatment facilities on a damn desert world?
@@aazz9676 That was after they figured they brought "enough" water and everything would be fine.
I like the idea of Tarlarn being ultimate desert tank force. But what they really lack in their fluff is strong Areonautica forces, at least in their PDF forces. All flexibility that they have, can't compare with ability to cover ground and destroy supply column provided by a pair of ground attack aircraft. Destroy a supply column, and desert will take largest of forces. Because tank and its crew is as good as their water and fuel gets them.
It is unfortunate that aeronautica forces are typically reserved for the imperial navy only. Because, again. Reducing the chances of a rouge regiment having all the tools it needs to sucsessfully rebel without getting stomped by every other loyal regiment around it.
@@Destroyer_V0 I had Tarlarn PDF in mind mostly, because many worlds field their own PDF areonautica. But yeach, combined arms as a whole is looked down upon by Munitorum, not including few select regiments. And yes, the Navy almost exclusively fields areonautica, not counting regiments like Phantine Air Corps.
God emperor knows I like 40k lore, but I absolutely love it when Arch puts out a video on it!!!
You came to the wrong desert heretic!
Another top quality Lore Video. Thanks again from the Substar's for your work!
Plasma gun, in the desert heat? Thats one hell of a recipe for disaster
Always happy to see that there's a new episode
With how often imperial gaurd turns to chaos.
The limiting of there combat prowness makes sense.
Rebelion is common in the imperium after all.
I think the White Scars would really love this guys.
8:20 Seeing what looks like 7.62 mm or something being belt-fed into a heavy bolter hurts my brain. Those should be about 2/3 of a red bull can-sized rounds, God Emperor damn it.
Yes! My favorite regiments! Glad you finally did a video on them.
One of two mistakes during the writing of the Horus heresy (because they bug me personally) was Ignance Karkasy mentioning his “mouth was dry as a Tallarans sandal” some time before Tallarn became a desert world. Either a careless sentence in an attempt to give the book a deeper flavour or Karkasy was snide who deserved what he got.
This is a good video, I was having a bad day today. It’s nice to have a Muslim inspired faction for once.
Chaos Marines: Alright, we just fly down there and get the artifact with zero civilian casualties. Yeah, but I promised Steve we'd virus bomb the next planet. Well a promise is a promise.
No, Steve the human can impossible have worked with Chaos 10000 years ago. He is to kind for that :p
A Steve always sometimes appreciates a promise kept possibly
Armoured Hit and Run and Ambush Warfare is awesome.
Ps: please release another video about aspect warriors, is my favorite serie in the channel
with all the hours of 40k content ive listened i couldve learned something useful like to fly fighter jets or all about plumbing but now im a warhammer scholar
Good to see that you’re stuff isn’t falling off the face of the platform
Happy to see more regiments of the militarum getting their own videos
sucks so hard gw sperged out about the tallarn model line, and the krieg models, and the steel legion models, and the elysium models, and the valhallan models, basically anything that aint cadia.
AK-47s for everyone!
can I have shoes?
Ive got to imagine a Tallarn air mobile regiment operating in the desert would be absolutely terrifying
Surprised you haven't covered this before, was awesome!
37:30 Three plasma gunners in one squad/fire team? That's going to have a high turnover rate.
The lore king never went away.
I have been looking forward to you talking about the Tallarn Desert Raiders. I was hoping when GW first made plastic Catachan's they would make plastic Tallarn's......... Still waiting
Tallarn always reminded me of Calth, until now. Thanks Arch!
I am most intrigued about the negotiations and cooperation between Tallarns and Eldar. Wonder how that went down exactly.
Well, in the ( daemons of chaos) codex it says they are on friendly terms, and Biel-Tan has committed to send help if chaos forces invade again.
So I'd say pretty well.
Forget these guys, now the Tallarn dessert raiders are the real menace
Always a good day when you upload, Arch. Hope you're going well
Space Afghanistan.
No, that's Armageddon
A stable connection to the warp. That sounds like a web way portal that leads to a collapsed part of the web way.
Arch would you consider ever doing a video on surviving Regiments from The Imperial Army like The Lucifer Blacks? I'd love to hear your takes on shit The Old 100 got up to.
I had a hunch back in the day that GW would discontinue the metal guard so over the coarse of the year before I picked of a platoons worth of troops and heavy guns. Talarn were the last ones to come in and a month later, they were all dropped
The irony of a Dessert Raider using a Plasma gun isn't lost on most people I hope.
Thank you for the upload arch 🎉
You've done so many guard videos. Could you please do a few more xeno lore vids? Like on Eldar Guardians or Tau gue'vesa
only thing the people on the planet heard before their flesh started to melt away was a faint yell from orbit: "fuck you in particular!"
I love "Dessert Warfare"!
Sounds delicious. Like that Cow and Chicken episode where they end up not in a Desert, but a banana split that looks like the desert.
@@Bill-ix2zc I remember Cow and Chicken!
Thank you for the awesome storytelling!
Need an Arch video on Logistics or some book recommendations!
Nice to see these tanky sandy dandys again. Remember seeing then in white dwarf about 20 years ago, always wondered why they never got more attention. Desert warfare and leman russ tanks, what's not to like?
I can’t wait for harokoni warhawks and vostroya
Can we please have more Guard Lore Arch. We all know its the single best Army in the game.
A fine regiment
Wouldn't... a virus bomb... on a permanent chaos connection be like... really grandfatherly bad?
EDIT: OK. So chaos did it. Cool. That makes sense.
Tallarn executioner is a great book 📕 might read it again , the Iron warrior invasion of Tallarn was brutal
Love the Tallarn and i wish we got more cool campaigns with them.
You could always run scouting forces at night to get around the heat of a desert, most deserts get pretty cold at night. You'd pretty much have to operate at night anyway if you wanted any kind of STEALTH about your actions. Keeping the sand out of the engine, axel bearings, suspension mountings etc. seems like a bigger issue imo.
Would love a video on the Finreht Highlanders
Thanks for the video.
Is he getting ready for taros campaign?
Tallarn was one of my favorite heresy books. Highly recommend
Ah yes, the Tallarn desert raiders, often known for Tiramisu cannons ;)
Are there any giant God worms on this planet by any chance???
Oh, gosh. I had a full army... then Codex Somewhere between 2 and 4 cane out and my will to paint figures died. Yep. I am that old. Once, a 2000 point Blood Angels army were something to brag about... 🤨
Desert?
*Commissarial screeching intensifies*
I'm all in for Dessert Warfare.
In hope of refuge from the sky, we bury ourselves inside
Thank you for this gift of water... wait, wrong desert warrior-people. How to make Fremen scarier? - give them Leman Russes and Desert Rats tactics.
round #2 : Can we get one on skitari?
So they fight like eldar?
Cool strategies. Are there any examples of this force fighting outside of a desert world? It seems there tactics are heavily reliant on the attrition caused by the environment.
I know this was an imperial guard video, but the iron warriors intro kinda wants to see a logistics video of how chaos space marine Void warfare. We know the regular astartes can't fill up on every voidship because they are each very valuable and need chapter serfs. How do the chaos variant go about it ?
Presumably they pick over the carcasses of their enemies when done or make a lot of visits to their own logistical centers owned on Chaos Worlds and/or the Dark Mechanicum...though that is a hell of a logistical tail...
so . . how did they do the warfare without ever igniting the athmosphere?
Wait...a squad is just twelve men?
(Ponders this.)
(Becomes shocked.)
But that's a rational unit size! This can't possibly Warhammer 40k!
I was expecting some sort of 40k fremen from dune. But this is a bit more unique.
yum dessert warfare
I think the Iron Warriors must've virus bombed my hearing...thus turning me to Chaos in order to regain my hearing. Warhammer 40k is a vicious cycle ain't it. Tallarn are one of my favorite guard units cause they remind me low key of some factions from other fantasy/sci-fi books. Also I really do wish I could hear talking better...just to be able to understand the words and the pitch/tone in a voice would be amazing. I would rather lose my legs or take a decade off of my life if I just got another 10 years to hear...
So literally every war world was some kind of paradise until there was a massive war, and the planet turned almost uninhabitable?
Is the background music from Fable? Where have I heard this background music before?
34:00 Would there not be example of this type of truck from Terra it self, from the unification war era? Surely since its so close to mars lots of nice tech was to be collected including designs from desert devilling warlords and empires, specially when i recall most of the planet was already back then turned into a radioactive desert by deleverage usage of nuclear weapons? Also its not just the vehicles that are taking the beating from the heat, but weapons as well. In high heat condition your are not able to shoot many shots before having to cool down the barrel and hotter it gets, longer it needs to cool, so for hit and run type of regiment, i would suspect they have lots of las based weapons that can charge from the sun it self to limit the strain on logistics and possibly something like hot shot variant to punch trough with few shots, then get the hell out of the dodge to cool off the weapons. Mentioned plasma weapons, kinda make sense as well, though optical based weapons in general... in god damn dust box of a desert... when just one speck of dust is enough to fry our current measly powered lasers lenses. Usually you need clean room to handle anything optical like that. How the hell are they doing maintenance on the desert field conditions of all places, with very limited logistics? On plasma its simpler but way hotter. That does increase logistics via gas that used to turn into plasma, but that should not be a issue. Its more about same optics problem as with las weapons since if i recall right plasma weapons use laser to turn gas into plasma.
Similarly would grav vehicles be far better suited to desert conditions? Then again i cant recall how noisy those are and grav field should be more easy to detect with auspects sensors, so maybe not, still might be less noisy to tank treads and allow far better mobility to tracked vehicles.