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let's see if i can summerize the point of the guard to see if i got it correctly: The guard are practically cannon fodder, ......in the universe of 40K, where all sorts of monstrosity imaginable, natural and unnatural coalice at the same time in a battlefield, place them anywhere else, and then you see the emperor working through them.
You should do you outro a few times in your Night Lord voice, maybe shock a few more interactions out of people. Or make them wet themselves one of the two
The Guardsmen are some of the bravest, in my opinion, people in the Imperium. They are normal humans asked to stand and fight the same battles as the Astartes, who know no fear.
Oh the Astartes can feel fear. Strip one of his armour and equipment and strap him to one of Fabius Bile's operation tables and I can guarantee that he'll feel fear.
if I recall correctly, I think I heard somewhere that the basic armor they get is the equivalent of mall cop armor, so yea.... takes guts to rush a heavy bolter or a multilaser in just that
Bravest men in the whole damn setting, and they make for a relatable POV. We all fantasize about being Astartes, or maybe Inquisitors, but in truth? We’d probably all be conscripts.
@@mrpizzacat8273 exactly start out fighting either Chaos Cultists or GeneStealers on a planet as a white shield drawn up as the rest of the Guardsmen where drafted for a war zone and then a Rebellion happens and the White Shields have to come to try and put it down. The. After that war you are given your full Guardsmen rank and head to fight either Orks or Tyranids using tanks and such. Then as a Veteran he you go face some Chaos Deamons or other horrors. Honestly being drafted by the Inquisition at the end would be great to lead into a 2nd game as a Imperial agent.
How they haven't yet done a game with the same heaviness of Battlefield 1 I have no idea. It would be an amazing opportunity to get better advertisement of the Guard and they could commission a Band Of Brothers/Pacific style show or even a Gaunts Ghosts show done in a similar style to Sharpe. Screw it, I sense a new writing project coming to me. May the Emperor guide my pen! For the Guard! For the Imperium! For the Emperor!
Conscripts may seem like useless fodder for the Imperial Guard, but one must remember that these men and women will survive battles and wars and become into veterans who train their more younger compatriots, and later become Heroes of the Imperium of their deeds are remembered and acknowledged by many. It is true that many will die, but so long as one of them survives the Spirit of the Imperium will live through them.
@@f4u5tus clearly haven't got enough. Not lore accurate until you've got at least 4 HQ's pumping them out on auto with a rally point that's vaguely related to your objective 😅
I’m going to have to dig out a new thesaurus, I’m running out of superlatives. Brother Baldermort, brilliant, superb, deep understanding of the subject and a fantastic performance BBB, BBB indeed.
To quote "He is an imperial guardsman drawn from some forgotten corner of the Imperium to fight for his species and for the safety of the people he loves. He is a factory worker, a farmer, a storekeeper, a father, a brother, a son, a mere man. And against creatures like you, teeming and numberless, powered by the very will of thirsting gods ... He holds the line. He has held the line for ten thousand years. +++END QUOTE+++ - Another cracking tale from Brother Baldermort ... it's a cruel world.
HELL YEAH Thanks for giving my Boys the Cadian Whiteshields some love! I love your guard videos perfect way to end the work week! I hope that you been well Balders sending all my love and support! When things clear up let me know so we can talk about the painting thingy.
When I first started playing 40k, I was in the army. Light infantry machinegunner. I always felt an affinity towards the guard because of that, and they will always be my favorite army. Always nice to see them get their turn in the light!
Love the Gaurd Just remember Astartes, Mechanicum, a Saint, The Inquisition all fled. While the GAURD stood, all while the planet cracked, they never broke.
They didn't flee they returned to orbit after the war was lost and 10's of millions of Cadians did as well. However there was not enough transports or time for all the 895 million Guardsmen on Cadia. But they did make the most heroic stand possible knowing their life was already gone.
There is a time for standing when you can make a difference, and a time to withdrawl to be more effetive down the line. Those left on Cadia had no line of withdrawl, standing to fight was their only option. That said. In no way does that subtract from the heroism on that day. The planet broke, before the Guard did.
@@theodoreslavo5385 Yup, and the aforementioned Mechanicus, Saint, Astarted, Inquisitor went on to revive Guilliman and save the Imperium Just having fun
Recruit: What’s a gun baby.. Guardsman: Gun babies…? Oh yeah it’s what we call a Cherub with a las or auto pistol.. The creepiest & most horrifying thing you will ever see.. Heard it even scared off a Dark Eldar raiding party once.. Recruit: Holy shit.. Guardsmen: Right, Dark Eldar aren’t spooked by much..
commissar sipping her recaff: Imagine trying to give one a bolt pistol........ (Mental image of cherub getting blasted across the room from recoil) *BLAM YEEEEEEEEEET
@@Psychoangel-d23 i honestly wouldn't put it past the homunculus covens to give some of the babies and kids they torture a working gun to shoot them with as to give them hope just to steal away.
Thank you uncle Baldy, the astra militarum has always needed a damned good story, or two, in order to give them the glory and hope they deserve. Luckily that duty fell to you
This is why I adore the Guard, and the Empire in Fantasy. They're just regular folk doing their best in settings that are WILDLY stacked against them, and doing it surprisingly bloody well at that. I can't identify with an 8' tall brainwashed superhuman, but I can identify (Or pretend to) with a guardsman holding his ground against unspeakable horrors for the sake of his mates and his people.
Brilliant just brilliant at the end of your tale I'm man enough to proclaim I had a tear of pride in my eye for the "Whiteshields" no longer. Not many authors can invoke that type of emotional reaction from me but you my friend did so, and did so with ease it would seem...
I always get the feeling with each biscuit that He is crafting "The Baldyverse" of Lore I can almost see His Characters journeying towards each other is a Greater Narrative Event Or, I've had 5 minutes too many to think. In any case, the Narratives are amazing fun
It hasn't been long but my good in this heat is just fantastic to chill and listen to you spin yet another marvellous tale. They you Baldermort and Mrs B. Amazing as ever.
That story was particularly well done! As always you have a amazing talent in writing and narrating that is only getting better and better. At least our protagonist was from a fortress world, just imagine being on a agri world and summoned to your local provincial capital only to be mustered up, being a hive world menial and just redirected onto a transport ship one day without warning, or a civilized worlder having a night at the local pub and waking up in a processing center. How you could just be grabbed or ordered one day, gathered up to fight enemies you didn’t know existed in a imperial guard you only vaguely were aware existed.
You know this entire week I have been seeing videos showing love for the guard and I have to say I've owed them so much more respect over the years. Going to have to make them one of my preferred forces
In a fight between Star Wars Storm Troopers and a batch of Imperial Guard, I’d have my money on the guardsmen to win, to not break and run, and to carry the day.
"welcome to the guard. we have processed your intake form and your letter of condolences for your death has been sent to your next of kin" "im not dead though..." "yes but by the time it arrives, you most certainly will be... likely them as well, unfortunately. but we find that sending them immediately has an almost 0.0006% successful delivery rate in select core sectors. can't get THAT kind of service with the navy"
Hell yeah dude. Another bold take (Bald take?) on the inner journey of the field soldier. You do these kinds of pieces like no one else, making the subject feel unfailingly like a real person in a deeply unreal scenario. That's why you're the best!
I've always loved the guard. I was first introduced to them from lutins video of Colonel Bane. The guard more than proved their worth during the fall of Cadia
Special forces and flashy units get the movies and video games made about them, but your sverage infantry dog-soldier is what wins wars. Jets, tanks, navy SEALs, artillery, all of it is only there to assist infantry. Without regular infantry none of the rest matters.
When the two meter tall genetically engineered supersoldier gets split in half by a BUG, and all you have is a flashlight and a helmet with a white stripe on it.
And when you fight and somehow you survived as your entire platoon fired so much rounds into the Hive Tyrant that it turned into soupt paste. And then the local commissar walks towards you and for a second you think you’re about to be shot but then you realize he’s smiling and… salutint you?!? And then he wiped away the white strip and tells you « you’re in the guard now, son » as you salute back, not even noticing that you are soakes in the blood of the tyrannids
It’s great if you run Cadian you can actually bring them, they’re more expensive but they do a great job nonetheless, from screening the enemy to laying down ranks of organised fire, very worth bringing but that’s just my 2p on the matter
"Only in the Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes are courage and expertise perfectly blended. In other troops they are present in varying degrees and proportions, and many scholars have debated their relative merits. For my own part, I come down on the side of courage. For courage can sometimes make a virtue of inexperience. _I myself have commanded Imperial Army troops whose probitor units have achieved great things, because they were too inexperienced to realise that their goal was impossible._ " Leman Russ
From every hundred men you take to battle, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are fodder to spent enemy arrows, nine are good fighting men, they will make war and we are lucky to have them, but one, one, is the warrior, and he, will bring all of them back... Human, is pretty badass as it goes... we have made it this far in our history just by what we have, normal baseline mouth breathing humans...
Bravery is not the absences of fear, that is madness, but rather Bravery is the presence to act and stay collected in the face of danger... I know I have nothing but respect for all my brothers and sisters in uniform past, and present, And I worry for those yet to be sent into harms way. I wore the Electric Turtle I wore the Beer Keg Farts for the Inquisition Comments for the Algorithm
The Flashlight Boys actually are really damn effective, it just so happens that everything in Imperial space that they were so very effective against has been wiped out. Everything that remains or gains a foothold despite the Guard is reasonable to consider an Astartes-grade threat.
"There is one thing, the emperor can." Me: Messing up his kids badly? Oh... yes, messing up planets, I forgot. I enjoyed the story, though. The enthusiast in me getting drawn into the heroic setting, batteling the cynical philosopher I am.
If Leman Russ has faith in the Whiteshields after having them under his command then I have faith in them too. Inexperience can make for horrible battlefield situations but it has its own merits too. Older experienced soldiers know the horrors of war and will do their best to find cover while those young with no experience will charge into the thick of things if ordered to. A real world example is The Normandy Landings on June 6th of 44, the first ones to hit the beaches were mostly 18-20 years old and the landings were their first taste of combat.
Survive ten minutes, and you're a sargent a common joke in the astra militarum, but just because is a joke does not mean it can't happen. still is difficult to think that the astra militarus is better than any military we have,likely will never be exemplified, most writers are not also military elite. Also damn, i felt the pride of the emperor listening to that story, rest well fallen, you are by the emperor now, giving a lasbolt to the arse of a daemon in the warp in His army.
A timely vid, spent the last week contemplating what to do with the Baneblade kit i bought.... do i loot it into Orky o.t.t. madness like i do with everything, but it's such a lovely kit as is, so i had pretty mutch decided to do some guard ( wallet not happy ) and then this vid turns up to cement that decision. Happily i dug out some 20 + yo guard minnies an one of the old luitenents will make an excellent tank comander. 🙂
When you consider that everything in the 40k vers is turned up to 11 and in the case of mind rending terror on the battlefield it's up to 20 the fact that baseline humans can even be deployed is testament to their grit and determination. Hell the Necrons literally fought GODS and beat them. The Nids strip world's to their bedrock and even consume their core and atmosphere. Yet against these threats that would annihilate any other setting the baseline humans of the guard stand.
I discocered your channel with this video that I'm rewatching now. By the Emp I was not ready for the quality that you provide! Thank you so much for your work, this is amazing
People making fun of the Conscripts for being crappy at fighting is like making fun of a overweight person just starting to go to the gym. What ever you think of them, they prove they are braver then most, to push forward and do what they need to do despite the challenges they face.
Guardsmen and their entire variety of regiments are often overlooked in a "haha fire a flashlight and be cannon fodder" type of way but i always thought most PDF forces from 40k would humiliate our current elite divisions severely.
People talk about flashlights all the time, but I like to look at it another way. Sure, 10 lasguns might hurt a Space Marine or Tyranid Warrior, but you don't need to, because here comes a Heavy Weapons Specialist with a Plasma Gun to burn a hole through it. 100 lasguns may severely damage a tank, but you don't need to, because there's a few guys in cover behind the tank with Meltaguns AND there's a Lascannon emplacement down the road. Lasguns won't do much to something like a Land Raider or Daemon Engine beyond damaging vision ports or fouling up external weapons, but you don't need to worry, because here comes a group of Leman Russ Annihilators to tear that fucker a new one. The Lasgun is the foundation upon which the Guard builds their firepower.
@@0liver_Clothesoff Lasgun tckles to lure attention, then his twenty or so heavy weapon friends come from cover to wreck your shit. Agree with you on that one
This is why the guard is the best for me I'd rather have a regiment of the guard than a legion of space marines And that is also true on the tabletop even tgough i know i will lose i still use my guard if i take down a chaos knight by charging it i already won
I loved the part in which he said 'even the elites of today the navy seals,green berets ,sas etc would be ripped asander by a single squad of gaurdsman.
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let's see if i can summerize the point of the guard to see if i got it correctly: The guard are practically cannon fodder, ......in the universe of 40K, where all sorts of monstrosity imaginable, natural and unnatural coalice at the same time in a battlefield, place them anywhere else, and then you see the emperor working through them.
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You should do you outro a few times in your Night Lord voice, maybe shock a few more interactions out of people. Or make them wet themselves one of the two
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"Astra Mili-what? You're in the Guard son."
And proud of it.
Astra are Conscripts
GUARD ARE PROFESSIONALS
Heres your rebreather and 2 magazines if your lucky. Good luck sonny jim.
Never understood that fething high gothic
My favorite meme of all time.
The Guardsmen are some of the bravest, in my opinion, people in the Imperium. They are normal humans asked to stand and fight the same battles as the Astartes, who know no fear.
True very true and also, if one can literally feel NO fear, can one truly have courage?
Oh the Astartes can feel fear. Strip one of his armour and equipment and strap him to one of Fabius Bile's operation tables and I can guarantee that he'll feel fear.
There's the Eldar, they KNOW how screwed they are if they die.
As sure as sure indeed.
if I recall correctly, I think I heard somewhere that the basic armor they get is the equivalent of mall cop armor, so yea.... takes guts to rush a heavy bolter or a multilaser in just that
Bravest men in the whole damn setting, and they make for a relatable POV. We all fantasize about being Astartes, or maybe Inquisitors, but in truth? We’d probably all be conscripts.
This would be an amazing game to start as a whiteshield and earn your way to full Guardsmen and later a Veteran.
Fromsoft makes it soulsborn hard just to make it feel right lol
I want it to be an almost impossible FPS Souls like.
@@mrpizzacat8273 exactly start out fighting either Chaos Cultists or GeneStealers on a planet as a white shield drawn up as the rest of the Guardsmen where drafted for a war zone and then a Rebellion happens and the White Shields have to come to try and put it down. The. After that war you are given your full Guardsmen rank and head to fight either Orks or Tyranids using tanks and such. Then as a Veteran he you go face some Chaos Deamons or other horrors. Honestly being drafted by the Inquisition at the end would be great to lead into a 2nd game as a Imperial agent.
Make it a darksouls game too. Kriger cursed by Nurgle to revive and be “corrupted” despite his faith
How they haven't yet done a game with the same heaviness of Battlefield 1 I have no idea. It would be an amazing opportunity to get better advertisement of the Guard and they could commission a Band Of Brothers/Pacific style show or even a Gaunts Ghosts show done in a similar style to Sharpe.
Screw it, I sense a new writing project coming to me. May the Emperor guide my pen!
For the Guard!
For the Imperium!
For the Emperor!
Conscripts may seem like useless fodder for the Imperial Guard, but one must remember that these men and women will survive battles and wars and become into veterans who train their more younger compatriots, and later become Heroes of the Imperium of their deeds are remembered and acknowledged by many. It is true that many will die, but so long as one of them survives the Spirit of the Imperium will live through them.
*most will die
I've played enough ultimate apocalypse to know conscripts don't make it that long
Minefield go brrrrre
my Guardsman shake with pride when I drop Artillery on them to kill the enemy that may or may not have over run them
@@f4u5tus clearly haven't got enough. Not lore accurate until you've got at least 4 HQ's pumping them out on auto with a rally point that's vaguely related to your objective 😅
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! " But it's " Saviour of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot...
I’m going to have to dig out a new thesaurus, I’m running out of superlatives. Brother Baldermort, brilliant, superb, deep understanding of the subject and a fantastic performance BBB, BBB indeed.
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To quote "He is an imperial guardsman drawn from some forgotten corner of the Imperium to fight for his species and for the safety of the people he loves. He is a factory worker, a farmer, a storekeeper, a father, a brother, a son, a mere man. And against creatures like you, teeming and numberless, powered by the very will of thirsting gods ... He holds the line. He has held the line for ten thousand years. +++END QUOTE+++ - Another cracking tale from Brother Baldermort ... it's a cruel world.
In this case, he's even lower than a guardsman.
He's a conscript! One has to earn the title of Guardsman.
HELL YEAH Thanks for giving my Boys the Cadian Whiteshields some love! I love your guard videos perfect way to end the work week! I hope that you been well Balders sending all my love and support! When things clear up let me know so we can talk about the painting thingy.
Oh sugar. I’ve been mostly off grid this week. Sorry! At a tournament tonight and tomorrow. Will try to catch up Sunday if I can! Apologies.
@@Baldermort all good 😊 nothing to apologize for! Sunday works for me!
Best intro, best narrator, best lore master, and one if the best fans of our hobby. We're spoiled friends.
When I first started playing 40k, I was in the army. Light infantry machinegunner. I always felt an affinity towards the guard because of that, and they will always be my favorite army. Always nice to see them get their turn in the light!
Love the Gaurd
Just remember
Astartes, Mechanicum, a Saint, The Inquisition all fled.
While the GAURD stood, all while the planet cracked, they never broke.
They didn't flee they returned to orbit after the war was lost and 10's of millions of Cadians did as well. However there was not enough transports or time for all the 895 million Guardsmen on Cadia. But they did make the most heroic stand possible knowing their life was already gone.
There is a time for standing when you can make a difference, and a time to withdrawl to be more effetive down the line. Those left on Cadia had no line of withdrawl, standing to fight was their only option.
That said. In no way does that subtract from the heroism on that day.
The planet broke, before the Guard did.
@@eichler721 I know
Im just being dramatic
@@theodoreslavo5385 Yup,
and the aforementioned Mechanicus, Saint, Astarted, Inquisitor went on to revive Guilliman and save the Imperium
Just having fun
@@adrienwatson2179 ew tho
Recruit: What’s a gun baby..
Guardsman: Gun babies…? Oh yeah it’s what we call a Cherub with a las or auto pistol.. The creepiest & most horrifying thing you will ever see.. Heard it even scared off a Dark Eldar raiding party once..
Recruit: Holy shit..
Guardsmen: Right, Dark Eldar aren’t spooked by much..
commissar sipping her recaff:
Imagine trying to give one a bolt pistol........ (Mental image of cherub getting blasted across the room from recoil)
*BLAM YEEEEEEEEEET
Ah come on, dark eldar torture babies like its their monday
@@KalashVodka175 But they arent getting SHOT at by babies. normally
@@Psychoangel-d23 i honestly wouldn't put it past the homunculus covens to give some of the babies and kids they torture a working gun to shoot them with as to give them hope just to steal away.
@@SikenServent insert r2d2 scream*
This one is one of my all time favorites. I love your description of the empire always taking more the it has. Bravo sir
Thank you brother Trejo.
* bows to brother Trejo*.
As a retired Catachan lumberjack, I can assure you Baldy is dead right about the boys in the Guard. This video gives me goose bumps every time 😢
Thank you uncle Baldy, the astra militarum has always needed a damned good story, or two, in order to give them the glory and hope they deserve. Luckily that duty fell to you
This is why I adore the Guard, and the Empire in Fantasy. They're just regular folk doing their best in settings that are WILDLY stacked against them, and doing it surprisingly bloody well at that. I can't identify with an 8' tall brainwashed superhuman, but I can identify (Or pretend to) with a guardsman holding his ground against unspeakable horrors for the sake of his mates and his people.
Beautiful story baldermort. A reminder again that even the humble human can be the most formidable warrior if they are trained and experienced enough
A guardsman may not hold a cancle to an Astartes' physical qualities but they more than match them in bravery
Brilliant just brilliant at the end of your tale I'm man enough to proclaim I had a tear of pride in my eye for the "Whiteshields" no longer.
Not many authors can invoke that type of emotional reaction from me but you my friend did so, and did so with ease it would seem...
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
The first thing I listened to from your channel was The Fall Of Cadia. Ever since I haven’t stopped. So I owe you a big thanks
40k version of 'Learning by doing'.
Nice to get a story from that perspective, thank you!
I always get the feeling with each biscuit that He is crafting "The Baldyverse" of Lore
I can almost see His Characters journeying towards each other is a Greater Narrative Event
Or, I've had 5 minutes too many to think.
In any case, the Narratives are amazing fun
It’s called abundance Tertius. And it’s restarting soon. Apologies for the delays.
@@Baldermort The appetizers are tasty, and the smells from the kitchen are entrancing.
@@Baldermort
I can keep a secret
Shhh
It hasn't been long but my good in this heat is just fantastic to chill and listen to you spin yet another marvellous tale. They you Baldermort and Mrs B. Amazing as ever.
That story was particularly well done! As always you have a amazing talent in writing and narrating that is only getting better and better.
At least our protagonist was from a fortress world, just imagine being on a agri world and summoned to your local provincial capital only to be mustered up, being a hive world menial and just redirected onto a transport ship one day without warning, or a civilized worlder having a night at the local pub and waking up in a processing center. How you could just be grabbed or ordered one day, gathered up to fight enemies you didn’t know existed in a imperial guard you only vaguely were aware existed.
This story was friggin excellent. I hope this guy's story continues!!
Definitely what I need to get this weekend started and to get me in the mood to build my new Chaos Knight Rampager
Have fun brother!
@@thekingmoose8004 thank you
31:05 "the Emperor is hardly infallible" .....Perhaps you could discuss this with me...Immediately...Commissar Stauffen
This was ridiculously well done. Guardsmen are easily overlooked and the blood and bones of the empire
My day has suddenly gotten much better. Thank you Baldemort.
Hey great job on the Distractible intros! Really a work of art.
Could this be the long lost past of General Mastima?
This may be my favorite video yet. Feels so relatable....good ol militarum
You know this entire week I have been seeing videos showing love for the guard and I have to say I've owed them so much more respect over the years. Going to have to make them one of my preferred forces
Mesmerizing. Loved it! Thank you very much!
In a fight between Star Wars Storm Troopers and a batch of Imperial Guard, I’d have my money on the guardsmen to win, to not break and run, and to carry the day.
Having joined the army and recapped and joined the Marine Corp, l can understand the sentiment.
This got me so pumped up!! Cause at the end of the day I AM A GUARDSMAN OF THE ASTRO MILITARUM!!!
One of your finest, Baldermort!!! And I say that knowing well that you have provided masterpieces aplenty. This was outstanding!!!!
Always love seeing the guard getting some attention
Company of Heroes 2 voice:
*"FRESH CONSCRIPTS HAVE ARRIVED"*
SCHOOLS OUT VOLKSGRENADIERS
That's a kinder title then what they really are, "bullet sponges"
"welcome to the guard. we have processed your intake form and your letter of condolences for your death has been sent to your next of kin"
"im not dead though..."
"yes but by the time it arrives, you most certainly will be... likely them as well, unfortunately. but we find that sending them immediately has an almost 0.0006% successful delivery rate in select core sectors. can't get THAT kind of service with the navy"
lmfao this made my whole morning 🤣😂🤣
"We have one rule in the guard, keep moving forward."
-An unknown Steel Legion Seargent.
Hell yeah dude. Another bold take (Bald take?) on the inner journey of the field soldier. You do these kinds of pieces like no one else, making the subject feel unfailingly like a real person in a deeply unreal scenario. That's why you're the best!
Your story at the beginning was so good i didn't want it to end. Thanks for the excellent work
The Steel Legion, Catachan Jungle-Bois, and Cadian Shock Troops are my favorites along with the Death Korps of Krieg.
For me the guard are the bravest of the brave. Not enhanced just human. I salute you. Now hold the line.
I've always loved the guard. I was first introduced to them from lutins video of Colonel Bane. The guard more than proved their worth during the fall of Cadia
Special forces and flashy units get the movies and video games made about them, but your sverage infantry dog-soldier is what wins wars. Jets, tanks, navy SEALs, artillery, all of it is only there to assist infantry. Without regular infantry none of the rest matters.
They are the God Emperor's favourite MOS.
Nothing quite as strong and vicious as a man already dead and buried.
Balder, you legend. Holding it down for the lore-heads.
When the two meter tall genetically engineered supersoldier gets split in half by a BUG, and all you have is a flashlight and a helmet with a white stripe on it.
And when you fight and somehow you survived as your entire platoon fired so much rounds into the Hive Tyrant that it turned into soupt paste. And then the local commissar walks towards you and for a second you think you’re about to be shot but then you realize he’s smiling and… salutint you?!? And then he wiped away the white strip and tells you « you’re in the guard now, son » as you salute back, not even noticing that you are soakes in the blood of the tyrannids
It’s great if you run Cadian you can actually bring them, they’re more expensive but they do a great job nonetheless, from screening the enemy to laying down ranks of organised fire, very worth bringing but that’s just my 2p on the matter
Fantastic story my friend! You truly are blessed in what you do.
"Only in the Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes are courage and expertise perfectly blended. In other troops they are present in varying degrees and proportions, and many scholars have debated their relative merits. For my own part, I come down on the side of courage. For courage can sometimes make a virtue of inexperience. _I myself have commanded Imperial Army troops whose probitor units have achieved great things, because they were too inexperienced to realise that their goal was impossible._ "
Leman Russ
YES MORE GUARD CONTENT PLEASE !!! May the God-Emperor Make it so
Thank you sir! You honor us with your lore videos.
Aye brother
Hail brother!
Now that was an AWESOME story told by a true natural thank you sir I enjoyed that video immensely well done!!!
From every hundred men you take to battle, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are fodder to spent enemy arrows, nine are good fighting men, they will make war and we are lucky to have them, but one, one, is the warrior, and he, will bring all of them back...
Human, is pretty badass as it goes... we have made it this far in our history just by what we have, normal baseline mouth breathing humans...
Bravery is not the absences of fear, that is madness, but rather Bravery is the presence to act and stay collected in the face of danger... I know I have nothing but respect for all my brothers and sisters in uniform past, and present, And I worry for those yet to be sent into harms way.
I wore the Electric Turtle
I wore the Beer Keg
Farts for the Inquisition
Comments for the Algorithm
I hope this conscript survives into the Baldermort tales.
Your work stands up there with the BEST, Brother B. Well Done!
The algorithm broke before the guard
His first war was against Tyrannids?!
*Oh no.*
More like meatshields
The Flashlight Boys actually are really damn effective, it just so happens that everything in Imperial space that they were so very effective against has been wiped out. Everything that remains or gains a foothold despite the Guard is reasonable to consider an Astartes-grade threat.
Have listened to this one several times. The part about the parents felt a little too familiar. Brilliant.
Then Grayfax killed a ship load, to stop any heresy within infecting others! Even after they killed the warped out guy, with unrelenting laz fire!
That was a fun story to have playing whilst glossing my stairs
As usual your readings take a story and elevate it to an epic. I aspire to have the courage of a Guardsman.
The men and women of the imperial guard the reason the imperium still stands after 10,000 years
Brave Hero's of The Imperium each and everyone of them!
Well i now i want Baldermort to narrate an entire audio book based on the life a Guardsman (If there is such a thing) .
Fifteen Hours. It was my first book and honestly my favorite black library writing.
"There is one thing, the emperor can."
Me: Messing up his kids badly?
Oh... yes, messing up planets, I forgot.
I enjoyed the story, though. The enthusiast in me getting drawn into the heroic setting, batteling the cynical philosopher I am.
Excellent video! Your voice is fantastic Baldemort.
Thanks for listening! :)
Hellz yeah. Fantastic work as ever. Keep it up ❤️
Ah pour guardsman. An neverending teil of bravery and suffering
This was so good. Amazing job 👏 keep up the amazing work you do.
Boldermort could easily write propaganda for the Imperium itself. Screw xenos and traitors, HUMANITY FOR LIFE!
If Leman Russ has faith in the Whiteshields after having them under his command then I have faith in them too. Inexperience can make for horrible battlefield situations but it has its own merits too. Older experienced soldiers know the horrors of war and will do their best to find cover while those young with no experience will charge into the thick of things if ordered to. A real world example is The Normandy Landings on June 6th of 44, the first ones to hit the beaches were mostly 18-20 years old and the landings were their first taste of combat.
I'm getting you to do my eulogy at my funeral. You could make a trip to the loo sound like an epic.
Congratulations whiteshield you have been promoted from meatshield to expendable
Survive ten minutes, and you're a sargent
a common joke in the astra militarum, but just because is a joke does not mean it can't happen.
still is difficult to think that the astra militarus is better than any military we have,likely will never be exemplified, most writers are not also military elite.
Also damn, i felt the pride of the emperor listening to that story, rest well fallen, you are by the emperor now, giving a lasbolt to the arse of a daemon in the warp in His army.
A timely vid, spent the last week contemplating what to do with the Baneblade kit i bought.... do i loot it into Orky o.t.t. madness like i do with everything, but it's such a lovely kit as is, so i had pretty mutch decided to do some guard ( wallet not happy ) and then this vid turns up to cement that decision. Happily i dug out some 20 + yo guard minnies an one of the old luitenents will make an excellent tank comander. 🙂
When you consider that everything in the 40k vers is turned up to 11 and in the case of mind rending terror on the battlefield it's up to 20 the fact that baseline humans can even be deployed is testament to their grit and determination. Hell the Necrons literally fought GODS and beat them. The Nids strip world's to their bedrock and even consume their core and atmosphere. Yet against these threats that would annihilate any other setting the baseline humans of the guard stand.
There's a reason why the Wall of Conscripts is a valid strat
What a great video, thanks for always making gold.
I discocered your channel with this video that I'm rewatching now. By the Emp I was not ready for the quality that you provide! Thank you so much for your work, this is amazing
Good afternoon baldy! I'm going to enjoy this very much! Just thought I'd let you know I didn't get a TH-cam notification for this.
I love the music! Great video as always, you make painting so much better.
People making fun of the Conscripts for being crappy at fighting is like making fun of a overweight person just starting to go to the gym. What ever you think of them, they prove they are braver then most, to push forward and do what they need to do despite the challenges they face.
Baldermort I loved this story!! I was listening to this omw home and sat in the driveway fixed by the story haha great job!!
Guardsmen and their entire variety of regiments are often overlooked in a "haha fire a flashlight and be cannon fodder" type of way but i always thought most PDF forces from 40k would humiliate our current elite divisions severely.
People talk about flashlights all the time, but I like to look at it another way. Sure, 10 lasguns might hurt a Space Marine or Tyranid Warrior, but you don't need to, because here comes a Heavy Weapons Specialist with a Plasma Gun to burn a hole through it.
100 lasguns may severely damage a tank, but you don't need to, because there's a few guys in cover behind the tank with Meltaguns AND there's a Lascannon emplacement down the road.
Lasguns won't do much to something like a Land Raider or Daemon Engine beyond damaging vision ports or fouling up external weapons, but you don't need to worry, because here comes a group of Leman Russ Annihilators to tear that fucker a new one.
The Lasgun is the foundation upon which the Guard builds their firepower.
@@0liver_Clothesoff Lasgun tckles to lure attention, then his twenty or so heavy weapon friends come from cover to wreck your shit. Agree with you on that one
@@0liver_Clothesoff Lasguns cut down the traitor guard and cultist meathshields so the heavy weapons can get a clear shot.
This has to be my favourite. The narrative is so deep and emotional. Brilliant, I salute you sir.
Ive always prefered your Guard videos over any others. I love them all but the guard has always been my favorite
This is why the guard is the best for me
I'd rather have a regiment of the guard than a legion of space marines
And that is also true on the tabletop even tgough i know i will lose i still use my guard if i take down a chaos knight by charging it i already won
Amazing story and lore again. Really good.
I loved the part in which he said 'even the elites of today the navy seals,green berets ,sas etc would be ripped asander by a single squad of gaurdsman.
Chill end~Tunage .
TY
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