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Another awesome job to you guys! I almost thought I saw "Holy Rollies" instead of Holy rollers. 😅 If I may ask, are you guys thinking of making a video for the any of the Entente nations in Kaiserreich, like Republican France?
Interest fact While the Holy rollers were listed as being wiped out during the closing stages of the Battle of London. Elements of the unit were recorded as fighting in Glasgow, Paris and Dublin(concurrent to London) and Leeds, Liverpool Derry and Waterford (in the days after London). And the old Irish Naval service base in county Cork has a burnt out Grizzy with the Unit insigna desplayed and painted in the units style of camo. This tank (which had the Irish of fire piss written on it two barrel) was likely part of the battle of Waterford.
wait a minute, it's an imposter tank! the holy rollers never used a grizzly tanks. unless it was acquired during the last day of their fighting and used in desperation to continue to hold the line.
@@Paxamerican8470yep Before the Battle Of Earth, the Holy Rollers were short on regular scorpions and thus (much to Brigadier General Hall and Colonel Nguyen’s disagreement) had to requisition Grizzly’s to reinforce the Holy Rollers before the unit was hastily deployed to london
While the tale of the Master Chief gives humanity Hope, the saga of the "Holy Rollers" demonstrates that Spite can be just as effective in making men move mountains.
Even though this is not part of the actual canon for Halo, it is astounding how well this reimagining adds to the currently unsung exploits of the UNSC Army, integrates well many parts of the actual lore, and keeps many of the themes and spirit of Halo. It would indeed be enjoyable for more such formation stories to be done, such as with the Outer Rim Yacht Club, or other franchises. The Holy Rollers may be gone, but they shall be remembered. I'm also intrigued by what those "rituals" could be.
@@gunnerbowers2596 Yeah it would right? I mean maybe it would be called Halo the lost but not forgotten this show would be like a recounting from the veterans and survivors that fought and saw the Holy Rollers from the start of it formation to its end during the final days of the Human-Covenant war.
I was thinking of a Band of Brothers sort of story telling focus on the unit and its campaigns. My only real problem is the thought that they would have Spartans assigned to the formation, Army Pathfinders would make sense, besides who said a Halo story has to have Spartans at all they are a very small part of the universe as a whole.
“Unholy Bastard” was one of those names brass wanted changed. Master Sergeant wasn’t happy about it, but obliged nonetheless. It was changed just before we loaded up on a Navy transport. Caught the eye of the ship’s XO during embarkation: “Unholy Bass Terd.” XO looked at the Sarge who didn’t speak, didn’t smile, didn’t even blink. He just stood there chewing on a Sweet Williams. XO just walked away. God I miss the Rollers.
I’m guessing Unholy Bastard was the dead tank found at the site of the Holy Roller’s last stand in London. The tank and it’s crew holding the line. Even in death. o7
Another such name was „enflamed urine“: an attempt to pass the UNSCs request for a less vulgar name. When other tank crews responded saying it sounded like an STD, and the UNSC requested they change it despite their attempts to remain under the radar, the chose the name STD, claiming it meant Super Tank Destroyer
I think it was a huge mess stake to not make the TV series a canonical side story. Halo is perfect for those, and if would still allowed them to reference the games.
The book "Roughshod through Hell" focuses on the 1st ARCT's actions on Kolos. Its a harrowing read, and due to being written prior to later battles the author managed to interview several veterans and active duty soldiers. Definitely up there with *We Were Soldiers Once...and Young* and *A Soldier's Tale: Rain Forest Wars*
As the leader of an Arma 3 UNSC Army Mechanized unit, you folks are doing gods work. Between this and the unit structure video it felt like I was seeing a lot of what I've been playing and doing these last couple years come to life.
@Diseptibots It feels like that in certain ways, yeah. Especially the IFVs supporting armor. Only difference we're about platoon sized and have an airwing attached.
93 hours, bought with the fire of the guns and the lives of its soldiers, makes all the difference to those who lived to tell the story of this company
“Not many remembers the Army boys compare to the Navy, and I can’t blame the Government and the Navy itself, but it was our Troopers who held the ground against the Covenant. Nine of out Ten defenses engagements were held by Army personnel throughout the war, and there was usually a eighty percent lose rate or complete destruction of entire divisions or regiments. I remembered the ordering of thousands holding positions, retreats, assaults, and the activation of the Cole Protocol on the ground side, but I believe that it was the bravery of our tanks crews and logistics that made it possible for us Army Troopers to hold the line. When many of my logistics officers told me that they weren’t doing enough to help their divisions and regiments, I remember telling that they perform miracles everyday to make sure that we had enough to be active on the field, but sometimes I remembered seeing how my words didn’t reassure them about their abilities to resupply their divisions and regiments. The Army Tank crews were just as a daring and insane in their assault against covenant heavy armor, and was always surprised that they always bring back a massive kill ratio to their loses. The Navy and the Marines may have many of the glories of the war, but let it be said that the Army didn’t give it their all to making the Covenant pay for every inch of UNSC ground they take.” Former UNSC Colonel Jorge Garza of the 56th Armored Regiment “The Iron Fist”.
"Once again, it is our job to finish what the flyboys started. We are leaving the ship's platoon, and engaging the Covenant on solid ground. When we meet the enemy, you will rip their skulls from their spines, and toss 'em away, laughin'! Am I right, Marines?" -- Avery Johnson
MORE! No but seriously, that was everything Halo should have been this last decade: funny, sad, rich in detail, and at times just weird. Please more expanded lore for Halo and other universes. I'd love to see a similar sub series for something in Mass Effect.
Tankers and their mechanized infantry are a unique breed of soldiers. Stubborn yet adaptive and innovative. War itself develops a close knit culture within combat units. It's no surprise that war weary Amored units and their tankers often will simply refuse to die.
My Uncle told me when you are in your most vulnerable, i.e. a live fire situation, any previous greviances and prior biases are burned away as your mind goes into default survival mode. At that point, the bonds forged there are the same as primitive tribes- there are situations and rituals only they would understand. Example- my cousin Cory, who is in the navy, always asked someone he was on the same ship with if the 'air was buzzing' (their way of asking if they were getting air craft in). Small things really, but it is always need to listen to.
16:34 It is my headcanon now that the Scorpion is the Quiet Riot. Also you missed an oportunity to call the "Highway to Hell" a "Highway to Hall" after the Holy Rollers got there.
Sometimes you roll boxcars, sometimes you roll snake-eyes. What matters is what you do with the hand you're dealt, and the Holy Rollers did their best with a losing hand. Might not be cannon, but it's a great tale Templin.
The problem with using "doesn't follow the rules" as a way to make character cool is that you eventually end up with NOBODY following them... and then you understand why we're losing 😅
There were plenty of officers who followed orders and rules. Those men don't get stories written about them or legends spun. They do their duty and go home, to be forgotten by time.
Sometimes the people writing the rules are not as intelligent or well informed as they should be. Somebody far from the front might not have the best idea of how to conduct their operations.
I hope the Templin Institute will eventually talk about Zeon and their society, culture and technology with mobile suits, spaceships and Minovsky reactors in the future.
Templin Institute wishlist: 1. Free Planet Alliance from Legend of Galactic Heroes. 2. Boiling Isle from The Owl House. 3. Rapid Response Unit "Paw Patrol" from the Paw Patrol cartoon show. 4. Oarai High School from Girls Und Panzer. 5. War of Underworld from Sword Art Online. 6. Jura Tempest Federation from That Time I Got Reincarnated Into A Slime. 7. Equestria from My Little Pony Friemdship Is Magic.
"This had to be some of the toughest sum' bitches in the Army. I mean, honestly, these bastards did some of the most impossible shit. I would be proud to call them Helljumpers." Sergeant Major Petra 101st ODST Battalion Commanding officer Fireteam Libra 4
Chills and tears. This team excellently captured the "indomitable human spirit" theme that is so intrinsic to Halo, seen best in the BELIEVE campaign. The idea of retired soldiers rejoining the effort for the Battle of Earth particularly gets me. Incredibly well done.
You know I could totally see one of those Spartan teams assigned to the Holy Rollers actually being similar to that of Noble Team, mostly Spartan-IIIs in MJONIR Armor. As I am sure NOBLE wasn't the only unit like that after all...
They weren’t, but the cost of a single MJOLNIR suit would make it highly unlikely to happen. That, plus at that point they were Navy toys that the Navy would be reticent to give up
“Hope? This is the army son, my only job is to pour the firing piss of humanity into those poor dumb purple basterds” I couldn’t stop laughing for over 10 minutes, definitely one of the best sentences ever spoken.
There is a monument to WW2 veterans in the town where I live, and today I just noticed that the tank featured is named "the Holy Roller" funny coincidence
Love this video, but I did spot one issue: if the Holy Rollers were in transit to Reach during its fall, they would have had no idea until they arrived. If I remember correctly, slipspace comms were a post-war developmental stemming from Forerunner tech. So instead of them being diverted to Earth, more likely they arrived to find Reach already burining and executed the Cole protocol. After a series of random jumps, they could then have made their way to Earth.
If we're going for ideas Halo should take from 40k, then it should look as to why Astartes and Imperial Guard DON'T share equipment base and apply the same to Spartans. Give humans in UNSC weapons and vehicles sized for humans and not for Spartans ie for player model. Make Warthog carry 5-7 people and a turret, give back sights and grenade launcher to Halo AR. And instead give Spartans crew served weapons as their baseline. Ie GPMGs, HMGs, AGLs, ATGMs, antimateriel rifles, mortars and so on.
@@TheArklyte Well, there are weapons called Spartan Weapons, but they are proven to be too expensive to mass produce during the war with the Covenant. If that war didn't happen, the Spartans would have been running around with stuff like rifle size rocket launchers that shoot 38.7mm rockets and plasma sniper rifles.
@@WolfeSaber9933 ah yes, novels, right. Novels where every time Covenant wins solely through superior numbers despite same novels saying that they're supposed to have overwhelming technological superiority. Arbiter and Chief are equals? Spartan II's and Elites were equal models in multiplayer "simulation"? Well, let's claim that these few marines held off an attack of a hundred Elites!
Good. God. Damn. This was so good. This was sooooo good. Colonel Shiteater Hall! You guys have to have someone who served on your staff, this reads just too real lol. God damn, you guys earned yourselves another patron member with this one.
It would be great if this regiment became actual Halo lore. Not just in the expanded universe but a full fledged game. Find a good voice actress for Hall and maybe get them a custom sassy A.I. (move over Cortana your real replacement is coming) The developers could truly have lightning in a bottle.
As a Halo fan who lost all hope after the TV show this has resurrected my love for Halo thank you so much and I hope you do more of these videos in the future
This is the sort of story I think works so much better within the framework of Halo than the grand and elaborate extra secret aliens and super-duper machines. Lots of settings have those to begin with, what Halo has is the odd tone of a military sci-fi faction going up against a space opera faction in a bleakly one-sided war. The first minutes of the first game consist of finding out that the last desperate hope to force a tolerable end to the war has been completely routed and this unit's attempt to salvage something from it has failed. Right up until the war ends in a series of circumstances nobody in it could have possibly predicted, it's a series of pyrrhic victories and total defeats fought mostly out of the knowledge that the alternative to fighting and dying is just dying. Maybe that's hard to fit a grand, sweeping narrative in, but it excels for small stories of soldiers and leaders of otherwise-ordinary merit who happen to rise to their moment in extraordinary ways.
Seriously can we get more great stories like this. I crave this from halo but we don’t get this anymore from 343. I really wanna see more stories set during the human-covenant war. There was 28 years of conflict and it’s ripe for exploration. Halo 1-3, odst, reach take place during the final year of the war. Food for thought.
The Holy Rollers content has been some of the most inspiring and engaging I've seen from the Templin Institute. The Institute's work is always very well done, but this is magnifico.
honestly im just gonna say it, this in my eyes is just cannon to the halo universe afterall there is nothing in the lore that contradicts the existence of the holy rollers so I say fuck it their cannon afterall this is so well written it deserves it
We really need more halo games that are gritty and dark, showing the struggle of humanity's resistance against the covenant onslaught. No more spartans man, I wanna be a normal human and feel the fear and dispair as i fight against unstoppable and infinite numbers of aliens.
The creativity that has gone into creating the Holy Rollers, with a combination of canon material and sheer imagination... The story is quite moving too. Fantastic work!
My brother was assigned to the 1st Armored, but he didn't participate in the battle as he was in sick bay, recovering from a nasty allergic reaction to the spices in a burrito.
ah... burritos... still kicking arse in C26th huh? Huh? they found better spice than the Carolinas? what? it tasted better in the toliet?? oh... bless...
Honestly, these two videos have been some of the best you've done in my view - as much as I know this isn't official Halo canon it feels like it should be. The narrative you've built up around this idea is fantastic and I for one hope you continue it.
The Holy Rollers certainly made the Covenant pay and keep on pay! And defended their position in London to the last. We salute the Holy Rollers! Those magnificent bastards and bitches earned their place in Heaven’s Honor Guard!
"Hope? This is the army son, my only job is to pour the fiery piss of humanity into those poor dumb purple bastards." HOW THE F*** HAS THIS NOT BEEN SAID IN A HALO GAME ALREADY!!??
"Before I became a Spartan 4, I was an albeit temporary replacement for the infantry side of the Holy Rollers, have I underwent their hazing rituals? Yes, will I tell you about them? No, my former Company mates would rise from the graves and beat me down if I did and I would have earned it. I will say no matter how brief my time with the Holy Rollers, it was my most proud time in the UNSC armed forces, We were a shield to those who could not fight back, did we suffer casualities? A lot of em, but I am only lucky enough to be a survivor, I carry the memory of everything the Rollers did to protect Humanity and only smile, my only comrade from the Rollers, Heinrich and I are now part of the fireteam I lead, no I cannot speak on our current mission, but I will forever carry the spirit of the Rollers with me on my team." Spartan 101 Shawn Ryle callsign "Paladin"
As personal suggestion, would you be willing to try a video on your take on organizing as a Banished (Brute/ Sangheili) battalion commander , organizing BTG's compositions in different theatre of Operations, Dealing with Marine and Spartan guerilla ambushes as an example and the Logisitcs on what and how the Banished operate on a contested area just like on Zeta halo, and other wider range of Operations on ground warfare 💯😎
Absolutely superb, I loved the through-line that despite how badass they are they still suffered horrendous casualties and inevitable defeat like everyone else, by the nature of the war and their enemy
"No one ever talks about the Cascadian militia forces on Paris IV. Everyone says it was the Rollers that kept the Highway to Hell open and the supplies rolling. And sure, they might have owned the blacktop...but that blacktop had forests and rivers around it. Deep and thick. Places their tanks and 'Hogs couldn't dare get into lest they get bogged down. That was the realm of the Cascadians. For every obvious Covenant thrust the Rollers pushed back, a dozen more died to blades and traps. For every Banshee the Wolverines downed, three never took off from their landing strips because the pilots supplies were missing, poisoned or appropriated. The Highway may have been too Hell, but for the Covenant, it was the trees that WERE it. Never got why Hall didn't mention the two militia units at her side for that fight. Pride, maybe. Confusion. Coms blackouts...well. Militia units always ended up getting forgotten anyway. Thats just war."
Definitely not bad. The sharp and smart talk of Templin Institute style documentaries mixed with the greatest Sci-fi title of the last 20 years, Halo. Excellent.
*Holy Rollers Mount Up!* We've designed a limited edition poster showcasing the entire structure of the Regiment as well as some other merchandise that will be going live on the Templin Commissary this weekend! It will be available for one week only, so keep an eye on our Community page here on TH-cam. We'll be posting an announcement when the sale is live. shop.templin.institute/
Can you do the twisted metal tv and game world next please
Another awesome job to you guys! I almost thought I saw "Holy Rollies" instead of Holy rollers. 😅
If I may ask, are you guys thinking of making a video for the any of the Entente nations in Kaiserreich, like Republican France?
Can you do one for the UNSC Air Force
This video is like the Obama medalling Obama meme but for the Templin Institute's fictional fictional (two-layers of fiction) creation
Now this is a loathsome dung eater I can get behind.... upwind.
"The Covenant see us rolling! They hating!" - Holy Rollers regiment probably
"Try to beat our fighting dirty, try to beat our fighting dirty!"
Nah man its "They see us holy rolling, they glassin"
Yeah.. an blasting with plasma weapons too.. y'all was clean till then
It's all about the Pentiums baby... oh wait wrong one.
Also on the playlist “Highway to Hell”
"It burns when I pee," written on the barrel of a Scorpion.
"clap dispenser"
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography, "applause."
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography
Cheek Clapper
"Ban Hammer"
Seeing this pop up before finishing the video was so fucking funny
"One minute decides the outcome of a battle, one hour the success of a campaign, one day the fate of empires."
Glad to see another man of culture. Alexander Suranovs quote fits so well in this reimagining of halo.
Whoever came up with the name "The Holy Rollers" deserves a fookin' medal. True Legend
It absolutely oozes old Halo lore vibes.
It's the name of a Canadian Sherman that took part in D-Day, which might be the inspiration for this.
If you watched the vid on how they built this unit then they say the meaning of the Nickname "the holy rollers"
I got "the meaning" and the origin, but even then coming up with the name is a feat in it self.
Interest fact
While the Holy rollers were listed as being wiped out during the closing stages of the Battle of London. Elements of the unit were recorded as fighting in Glasgow, Paris and Dublin(concurrent to London) and Leeds, Liverpool Derry and Waterford (in the days after London). And the old Irish Naval service base in county Cork has a burnt out Grizzy with the Unit insigna desplayed and painted in the units style of camo. This tank (which had the Irish of fire piss written on it two barrel) was likely part of the battle of Waterford.
:)
wait a minute, it's an imposter tank! the holy rollers never used a grizzly tanks. unless it was acquired during the last day of their fighting and used in desperation to continue to hold the line.
@@Paxamerican8470yep
Before the Battle Of Earth, the Holy Rollers were short on regular scorpions and thus (much to Brigadier General Hall and Colonel Nguyen’s disagreement) had to requisition Grizzly’s to reinforce the Holy Rollers before the unit was hastily deployed to london
While the tale of the Master Chief gives humanity Hope, the saga of the "Holy Rollers" demonstrates that Spite can be just as effective in making men move mountains.
Even though this is not part of the actual canon for Halo, it is astounding how well this reimagining adds to the currently unsung exploits of the UNSC Army, integrates well many parts of the actual lore, and keeps many of the themes and spirit of Halo.
It would indeed be enjoyable for more such formation stories to be done, such as with the Outer Rim Yacht Club, or other franchises.
The Holy Rollers may be gone, but they shall be remembered. I'm also intrigued by what those "rituals" could be.
Those rituals must be inspired by the Bicollinian True Faith rituals
would have been a great TV show too.
I wonder if it's like a "This is my Rifle" kind of thing...
@@gunnerbowers2596 Yeah it would right? I mean maybe it would be called Halo the lost but not forgotten this show would be like a recounting from the veterans and survivors that fought and saw the Holy Rollers from the start of it formation to its end during the final days of the Human-Covenant war.
I was thinking of a Band of Brothers sort of story telling focus on the unit and its campaigns. My only real problem is the thought that they would have Spartans assigned to the formation, Army Pathfinders would make sense, besides who said a Halo story has to have Spartans at all they are a very small part of the universe as a whole.
“Unholy Bastard” was one of those names brass wanted changed. Master Sergeant wasn’t happy about it, but obliged nonetheless. It was changed just before we loaded up on a Navy transport. Caught the eye of the ship’s XO during embarkation: “Unholy Bass Terd.” XO looked at the Sarge who didn’t speak, didn’t smile, didn’t even blink. He just stood there chewing on a Sweet Williams. XO just walked away. God I miss the Rollers.
I’m guessing Unholy Bastard was the dead tank found at the site of the Holy Roller’s last stand in London. The tank and it’s crew holding the line. Even in death. o7
Now I’m imagining a tank with a painting of a devil-horned river bass on its turret. xD
Bonus points if it incorporates a turd emoji too!
Another such name was „enflamed urine“: an attempt to pass the UNSCs request for a less vulgar name. When other tank crews responded saying it sounded like an STD, and the UNSC requested they change it despite their attempts to remain under the radar, the chose the name STD, claiming it meant Super Tank Destroyer
The only thing holier than this regiment, is the vehicles of those who oppose them.
I'm dead
HE AP.
So say we all!
So say we all.
This would have been a SUBSTANTIALLY better setting for a Halo TV series than what we got.
I think it was a huge mess stake to not make the TV series a canonical side story. Halo is perfect for those, and if would still allowed them to reference the games.
If Templin wrote tv episodes, it would be better than 95% of all current shows.
The book "Roughshod through Hell" focuses on the 1st ARCT's actions on Kolos. Its a harrowing read, and due to being written prior to later battles the author managed to interview several veterans and active duty soldiers. Definitely up there with *We Were Soldiers Once...and Young* and *A Soldier's Tale: Rain Forest Wars*
Is it wrong for me to hope someone makes a Halo book called “Roughshod through Hell”? I’d really enjoy a book like that.
As the leader of an Arma 3 UNSC Army Mechanized unit, you folks are doing gods work. Between this and the unit structure video it felt like I was seeing a lot of what I've been playing and doing these last couple years come to life.
Og holy rollers?
@Diseptibots It feels like that in certain ways, yeah. Especially the IFVs supporting armor. Only difference we're about platoon sized and have an airwing attached.
@@hattyee205 what about Navy battlegroups?
What’s the unit name?
:p
“Blessed and dressed”
“Ready to impress!”
My headcanon of their mantra/chant
Damn, I want to use that and this division for a roleplay...
93 hours, bought with the fire of the guns and the lives of its soldiers, makes all the difference to those who lived to tell the story of this company
"It is noted that after the war, former members of the Holy Rollers are seen in former battlefields praying for the souls of members that were lost."
“Not many remembers the Army boys compare to the Navy, and I can’t blame the Government and the Navy itself, but it was our Troopers who held the ground against the Covenant. Nine of out Ten defenses engagements were held by Army personnel throughout the war, and there was usually a eighty percent lose rate or complete destruction of entire divisions or regiments. I remembered the ordering of thousands holding positions, retreats, assaults, and the activation of the Cole Protocol on the ground side, but I believe that it was the bravery of our tanks crews and logistics that made it possible for us Army Troopers to hold the line. When many of my logistics officers told me that they weren’t doing enough to help their divisions and regiments, I remember telling that they perform miracles everyday to make sure that we had enough to be active on the field, but sometimes I remembered seeing how my words didn’t reassure them about their abilities to resupply their divisions and regiments. The Army Tank crews were just as a daring and insane in their assault against covenant heavy armor, and was always surprised that they always bring back a massive kill ratio to their loses. The Navy and the Marines may have many of the glories of the war, but let it be said that the Army didn’t give it their all to making the Covenant pay for every inch of UNSC ground they take.”
Former UNSC Colonel Jorge Garza of the 56th Armored Regiment “The Iron Fist”.
"Once again, it is our job to finish what the flyboys started. We are leaving the ship's platoon, and engaging the Covenant on solid ground. When we meet the enemy, you will rip their skulls from their spines, and toss 'em away, laughin'! Am I right, Marines?" -- Avery Johnson
Such a badass 😂
Sir! Yes Sir!
MORE!
No but seriously, that was everything Halo should have been this last decade: funny, sad, rich in detail, and at times just weird. Please more expanded lore for Halo and other universes. I'd love to see a similar sub series for something in Mass Effect.
Yeah 😂
If I had a say, there would be a series of games based on the Holy Roller‘s most significant battles and campaigns
Tankers and their mechanized infantry are a unique breed of soldiers. Stubborn yet adaptive and innovative. War itself develops a close knit culture within combat units. It's no surprise that war weary Amored units and their tankers often will simply refuse to die.
My Uncle told me when you are in your most vulnerable, i.e. a live fire situation, any previous greviances and prior biases are burned away as your mind goes into default survival mode. At that point, the bonds forged there are the same as primitive tribes- there are situations and rituals only they would understand.
Example- my cousin Cory, who is in the navy, always asked someone he was on the same ship with if the 'air was buzzing' (their way of asking if they were getting air craft in). Small things really, but it is always need to listen to.
DEATH BEFORE DISMOUNT
Wasn't expecting Halo London fanfiction but I'm here for it
This is so much more than fanfiction
@@emberthecatgirl8796 it's really not though
@@emberthecatgirl8796 very good fanfiction is still fanfiction
Huh. Now I actually want someone to do a novelization fanfiction story about the Holy Rollers.
Finally military regiments that sounds like how military actually act in real life
16:34 It is my headcanon now that the Scorpion is the Quiet Riot.
Also you missed an oportunity to call the "Highway to Hell" a "Highway to Hall" after the Holy Rollers got there.
“Hall’s Highway”
This was epic, the Halo franchise desperately needs more stories like this to breath fresh life into its sci-fi military setting.
I imagine 93 hours might be the average lifespan for most infantryman at that time.
90 of those 93 hours is probably the disembarkation and traveling to the front.
More Reimagined episodes please!
Now I'm looking forward to the episode about the Task Force 89 "Outer Rim Yatch Club".
Sometimes you roll boxcars, sometimes you roll snake-eyes. What matters is what you do with the hand you're dealt, and the Holy Rollers did their best with a losing hand.
Might not be cannon, but it's a great tale Templin.
The problem with using "doesn't follow the rules" as a way to make character cool is that you eventually end up with NOBODY following them... and then you understand why we're losing 😅
The book is only as good as the people who write it. Sometimes, you have a better book in mind.
There were plenty of officers who followed orders and rules. Those men don't get stories written about them or legends spun. They do their duty and go home, to be forgotten by time.
@@williamlhuillier6663 /"Sabaton - Ballad of the Bull" can be heard in the background/
The old joke about American doctrine is that the don't follow their own doctrine. And operate in chaos
Sometimes the people writing the rules are not as intelligent or well informed as they should be. Somebody far from the front might not have the best idea of how to conduct their operations.
" Oh yeah? We'll make our own lore, with blackjack and hookers" - Templin Institute, probably
I hope the Templin Institute will eventually talk about Zeon and their society, culture and technology with mobile suits, spaceships and Minovsky reactors in the future.
Templin Institute wishlist:
1. Free Planet Alliance from Legend of Galactic Heroes.
2. Boiling Isle from The Owl House.
3. Rapid Response Unit "Paw Patrol" from the Paw Patrol cartoon show.
4. Oarai High School from Girls Und Panzer.
5. War of Underworld from Sword Art Online.
6. Jura Tempest Federation from That Time I Got Reincarnated Into A Slime.
7. Equestria from My Little Pony Friemdship Is Magic.
The guy hates Mecha so good luck
@@justinjeffries1554Not to mention Zeon being a fantastical take on _Those_ Germans + Imperial Japan.
"She-Who-Feasts-On-The-Feculence-Of-All-That-Crawls-Walks-And-Slithers"
Probably prettier in the original language.
Can’t help but imagine a grunt recounting how his unit was rolled over by “Fiery Piss”
"You will take London... When yee pry it from me cold, dead hands!" - Random UNSC solder who fought on November 20th, 2332. In the Defense of London.
And even then, good luck! Because I will have glued it to my cold dead fingers!
Templin Institute's content is pure unadulterated awesomeness to listen and watch.
"This had to be some of the toughest sum' bitches in the Army. I mean, honestly, these bastards did some of the most impossible shit. I would be proud to call them Helljumpers."
Sergeant Major Petra
101st ODST Battalion
Commanding officer Fireteam Libra 4
Chills and tears. This team excellently captured the "indomitable human spirit" theme that is so intrinsic to Halo, seen best in the BELIEVE campaign. The idea of retired soldiers rejoining the effort for the Battle of Earth particularly gets me. Incredibly well done.
You know I could totally see one of those Spartan teams assigned to the Holy Rollers actually being similar to that of Noble Team, mostly Spartan-IIIs in MJONIR Armor. As I am sure NOBLE wasn't the only unit like that after all...
They weren’t, but the cost of a single MJOLNIR suit would make it highly unlikely to happen. That, plus at that point they were Navy toys that the Navy would be reticent to give up
Spartans dont get assigned to non-augmented units.
@@communizzy SPARTAN III’s were Army units and didn’t belong to ONI or NAVSPECWAR.
@@Hellhound23691 I had a hunch, but couldn’t verify it with a couple seconds of googling. You’re right
*I consider this story as canon in my mind.*
“Hope? This is the army son, my only job is to pour the firing piss of humanity into those poor dumb purple basterds”
I couldn’t stop laughing for over 10 minutes, definitely one of the best sentences ever spoken.
There is a monument to WW2 veterans in the town where I live, and today I just noticed that the tank featured is named "the Holy Roller" funny coincidence
We remember the 93 Hours. Holy Rollers till we die. Hooah and a-fucking-men.
Love this video, but I did spot one issue: if the Holy Rollers were in transit to Reach during its fall, they would have had no idea until they arrived. If I remember correctly, slipspace comms were a post-war developmental stemming from Forerunner tech. So instead of them being diverted to Earth, more likely they arrived to find Reach already burining and executed the Cole protocol. After a series of random jumps, they could then have made their way to Earth.
A cool idea for the Holy Rollers, an idea from Warhammer, is to have their home base placed on a world full of Forerunner artifacts.
If we're going for ideas Halo should take from 40k, then it should look as to why Astartes and Imperial Guard DON'T share equipment base and apply the same to Spartans. Give humans in UNSC weapons and vehicles sized for humans and not for Spartans ie for player model. Make Warthog carry 5-7 people and a turret, give back sights and grenade launcher to Halo AR. And instead give Spartans crew served weapons as their baseline. Ie GPMGs, HMGs, AGLs, ATGMs, antimateriel rifles, mortars and so on.
@@TheArklyte Well, there are weapons called Spartan Weapons, but they are proven to be too expensive to mass produce during the war with the Covenant. If that war didn't happen, the Spartans would have been running around with stuff like rifle size rocket launchers that shoot 38.7mm rockets and plasma sniper rifles.
@@WolfeSaber9933 ah yes, novels, right. Novels where every time Covenant wins solely through superior numbers despite same novels saying that they're supposed to have overwhelming technological superiority. Arbiter and Chief are equals? Spartan II's and Elites were equal models in multiplayer "simulation"? Well, let's claim that these few marines held off an attack of a hundred Elites!
@@TheArklyte Ok, what are you getting at? You're sounding weird.
Eh, "home base" doesn't really work well when most are glassed throughout the war. Including those that once held artifacts after extraction.
Everybody laughter til the humans start to get religiously warlike
We really need more mechanized units in Halo. A really cool idea for a homebrew unit in Halo. I hope you guys can do more as this is amazing.
Ça j’aime ça ! Vraiment un des meilleurs concepts que j’ai vue depuis pas mal de temp ! N’hésitez SURTOUT PAS à en faire PLUS !
Merci beaucoup!
Attends templin parle français?
@@coconutperson1985Well he is Canadian
Good. God. Damn. This was so good. This was sooooo good. Colonel Shiteater Hall! You guys have to have someone who served on your staff, this reads just too real lol. God damn, you guys earned yourselves another patron member with this one.
It would be great if this regiment became actual Halo lore. Not just in the expanded universe but a full fledged game. Find a good voice actress for Hall and maybe get them a custom sassy A.I. (move over Cortana your real replacement is coming) The developers could truly have lightning in a bottle.
@@Banthisyoutube Sounds like the poor thing would be confused. I was thinking more along the lines of Ares or some mythological hero.
Loving the Halo content, this is a really cool format and discussion
Holy Rollers are well oiled fighting machines that give a butt kicking at the Covenant.
Fab stuff! You guy's should definetly build a battlegroup from a Mass Effect faction!
This was more inspirational and spoke to what Halo is truly about, more than a multi million dollar TV show
This is what i love about the institute. You somehow make amazing videos out of our daydreams and you have my respect and adoration.
This was well done please make more halo content!
I hope we get to see one of these videos for “Outer Rim Yacht Club”
These reimaginations are soo good.
If this gets canonized... ooh boy. Yall put ALOT of work into this. Keep slaying yall!
As a Halo fan who lost all hope after the TV show this has resurrected my love for Halo thank you so much and I hope you do more of these videos in the future
THANK YOU!!! For adding to and keeping the true lure of Halo rolling!...."Who Else But Us"...UNSC
This is the sort of story I think works so much better within the framework of Halo than the grand and elaborate extra secret aliens and super-duper machines. Lots of settings have those to begin with, what Halo has is the odd tone of a military sci-fi faction going up against a space opera faction in a bleakly one-sided war. The first minutes of the first game consist of finding out that the last desperate hope to force a tolerable end to the war has been completely routed and this unit's attempt to salvage something from it has failed. Right up until the war ends in a series of circumstances nobody in it could have possibly predicted, it's a series of pyrrhic victories and total defeats fought mostly out of the knowledge that the alternative to fighting and dying is just dying. Maybe that's hard to fit a grand, sweeping narrative in, but it excels for small stories of soldiers and leaders of otherwise-ordinary merit who happen to rise to their moment in extraordinary ways.
Seriously can we get more great stories like this. I crave this from halo but we don’t get this anymore from 343. I really wanna see more stories set during the human-covenant war. There was 28 years of conflict and it’s ripe for exploration. Halo 1-3, odst, reach take place during the final year of the war. Food for thought.
Absolutely love these kinds of videos, hopefully one is made for the imperial yacht club
The Holy Rollers content has been some of the most inspiring and engaging I've seen from the Templin Institute. The Institute's work is always very well done, but this is magnifico.
Two UNSC officials I'd follow to the depths of hell: Captain James Cutter and this Colonel Aria Hall.
honestly im just gonna say it, this in my eyes is just cannon to the halo universe afterall there is nothing in the lore that contradicts the existence of the holy rollers so I say fuck it their cannon afterall this is so well written it deserves it
maybe 343 might just co-op it...
We really need more halo games that are gritty and dark, showing the struggle of humanity's resistance against the covenant onslaught. No more spartans man, I wanna be a normal human and feel the fear and dispair as i fight against unstoppable and infinite numbers of aliens.
The creativity that has gone into creating the Holy Rollers, with a combination of canon material and sheer imagination... The story is quite moving too. Fantastic work!
My brother was assigned to the 1st Armored, but he didn't participate in the battle as he was in sick bay, recovering from a nasty allergic reaction to the spices in a burrito.
ah... burritos... still kicking arse in C26th huh?
Huh? they found better spice than the Carolinas?
what? it tasted better in the toliet?? oh... bless...
Honestly, these two videos have been some of the best you've done in my view - as much as I know this isn't official Halo canon it feels like it should be. The narrative you've built up around this idea is fantastic and I for one hope you continue it.
The Holy Rollers certainly made the Covenant pay and keep on pay! And defended their position in London to the last. We salute the Holy Rollers! Those magnificent bastards and bitches earned their place in Heaven’s Honor Guard!
This is one of my favorite stories you all have ever produced. Bravo.
Wow. Very well written. Definitely got me stirred emotionally.
Ahhhhh the good Inquisitiors voice, Stephen brings such gravitas
Please for the love of god make more of these combo videos. This was great
"Hope? This is the army son, my only job is to pour the fiery piss of humanity into those poor dumb purple bastards."
HOW THE F*** HAS THIS NOT BEEN SAID IN A HALO GAME ALREADY!!??
This was awesome! I loved that you built a regiment and then gave it a badass story to go with it. I hope you guys do more of these going forward.
You need to do one of these for Taskforce 89 for your pilot episode. THIS ONE ROCKS!
"Before I became a Spartan 4, I was an albeit temporary replacement for the infantry side of the Holy Rollers, have I underwent their hazing rituals? Yes, will I tell you about them? No, my former Company mates would rise from the graves and beat me down if I did and I would have earned it. I will say no matter how brief my time with the Holy Rollers, it was my most proud time in the UNSC armed forces, We were a shield to those who could not fight back, did we suffer casualities? A lot of em, but I am only lucky enough to be a survivor, I carry the memory of everything the Rollers did to protect Humanity and only smile, my only comrade from the Rollers, Heinrich and I are now part of the fireteam I lead, no I cannot speak on our current mission, but I will forever carry the spirit of the Rollers with me on my team."
Spartan 101 Shawn Ryle callsign "Paladin"
Rip to the crew of M808b 1928a, callsign “spite pisser”
I can’t believe I’m getting chills over a fictional military unit in a fictional universe that isn’t even cannon
You guys give me goosebumps just listening to a video about a make belief unit in a make belief setting. Well done!
As personal suggestion, would you be willing to try a video on your take on organizing as a Banished (Brute/ Sangheili) battalion commander , organizing BTG's compositions in different theatre of Operations, Dealing with Marine and Spartan guerilla ambushes as an example and the Logisitcs on what and how the Banished operate on a contested area just like on Zeta halo, and other wider range of Operations on ground warfare 💯😎
Assuming they can handle the Halopedia diving, yeah.
This is one of the finest examples of the HFY genre there is. Good job
Absolutely superb, I loved the through-line that despite how badass they are they still suffered horrendous casualties and inevitable defeat like everyone else, by the nature of the war and their enemy
I'm curious what opinions of the Holy Rollers are among Sangheili veterans.
Brought a tear to my eye with the setting of classic tragedy, very well done
"No one ever talks about the Cascadian militia forces on Paris IV. Everyone says it was the Rollers that kept the Highway to Hell open and the supplies rolling. And sure, they might have owned the blacktop...but that blacktop had forests and rivers around it. Deep and thick. Places their tanks and 'Hogs couldn't dare get into lest they get bogged down.
That was the realm of the Cascadians. For every obvious Covenant thrust the Rollers pushed back, a dozen more died to blades and traps. For every Banshee the Wolverines downed, three never took off from their landing strips because the pilots supplies were missing, poisoned or appropriated. The Highway may have been too Hell, but for the Covenant, it was the trees that WERE it.
Never got why Hall didn't mention the two militia units at her side for that fight. Pride, maybe. Confusion. Coms blackouts...well. Militia units always ended up getting forgotten anyway. Thats just war."
Well well well, looks like we need this as an armour coating and emblem in Infinite!
I am definitely setting up a Arma 3 match using the optre mod just to recreate this
Definitely not bad.
The sharp and smart talk of Templin Institute style documentaries mixed with the greatest Sci-fi title of the last 20 years, Halo.
Excellent.
Now I have this imagine in my head of Bovington dusting off all the war horses they got locked up there and pushing them into local defence
colonel Hall is basically general George S Patton
Hopefully you will see this. A challenge coin for the holly rollers would, personally , be a good merch idea.
Covenant divine manifest destiny is somewhat rendered mute by APFSDS and HE rounds turning their purple junk into scrap.
This needs to be made canon. Halo wars would be great for this
God Halo is an great setting, you could make so many compelling stories about what happened on the battle of earth alone
This is what it feels like to paint your warhammer OC faction lol
Really cool! You guys should do this for Task Force 89 too - they have a lot of potential as well
Goooood this was fantastic!
Now I must await a video on the Outer Rim Yacht Club!
so, when will that original military sci-fi setting you're working on be released? I'm counting the days.