The Imperium of Man is Awesome
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0:00 - Intro
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2:21 - Reasons What It's Cool
17:31 - Conclusion
18:26 - With a Sledgehammer - เกม
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Can you please do a video on StarCraft factions in Warhammer 40k
no i will not try brilliant
....pancreas are you feeling well? Your still an elf simp right?
@@solwilkinson8551would you try raid shadow legends instead?
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BREAKING NEWS: ELDAR SIMP DOESN'T SHIT ON IMPERIUM (SHOCKING)
I'm legally obligated to make an "Imperium Good" video at least once or other 40k channels will behead me
@@pancreasnowork9939 Art imitates life I guess
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To talk shit to others you first have to learn their culture for maximum efficiency, this is just a Tzeench scheme
@@pancreasnowork9939 I feel betrayed I subscribed for Eldar simping not Imperium simping what the hell is this lol
@pancreasnowork9939
Passing up a perfectly good opportunity to go Diogenes on em.
Hot take man. Don't know if 40K fans will agree with this one
Oh shit, it's Alt. History Hub
Nope
Ratio+didnt ask+ork simp
Ikr... I mean who finds Space Marines cool?... Other then almost everyone... actually, Ignore what I said.
Ratio+didnt ask+ork simp
Pancreas blink twice if your being held hostage
Hal, Eli and Andy had an "intervention,"
Pancreas's don't have eyes.
the inquisition finally caught up to him
I honestly thought this was going to be 20 minutes of “look at Guilimans jawline”
Hasn't he already done that?
My man has been mewing for 10 thousand years
Yea, that's about the only reason I would side with the Imperium. It's also the reason I would side against it if G-Man decided to.
look at sanguinis's everything
@@ian7809 Guillichad stays winning
I really like how the ships look
Single best reason to like the Imperium
This along John Blance's drawings of Vostroyans in 4th edition rulebook got me hooked.
@@pancreasnowork9939when will you upload “Do or Don’t Ossiarch Bonereapers”?
Cathedrals with engines and broadside cannons of such stupidly large calibers that you could fit a fuckin yacht in there. Yeah. They’re fucking awesome.
I'm with you in that
Darktide really made me realize that being a zealous imperium fan is actually pretty fun
BLOOD FOR THE EMPEROR, SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE!
@@Riiveri inquisitor!!!
Witness your doom!
@Riiveri HERETIC BLOOD FOR THE PURGING GOD!!! TRAITOR SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE!!!
god is zealot fun in that game. just rush in and fuck hoards up while screaming like a fanatical maniac
A big part of why I love Victor Saltzpyre from Vermintide so much is that you get all the fun of righteous zealotry and utter disgust for your opponents, while still being a far more level headed person. He can shift between “I’m actually taking this rogue wizard suspected of crimes in for trial instead of just shooting her for heresy because that’s the right way to do things” and “THE CRIME IS YOUR FOUL EXISTENCE! THE SENTENCE IS DEATH!” In the blink of an eye.
The Empire of Man was actually pretty evil in earlier lore (Police state straight out of 1984 full of racism) iirc. Karl Fanz being there fixes all tho.
@@hoked2194 The Karl Franz is the "my realm is in very bad state, but at least I try" type of leader
That game is how I learned that screaming "I ABJURE THEE!!" Is great fun
Speaking of which, id love for Pancreas to do a vid on the Ubersreik Five.
Laws exist for humans...not for ratmen.
"How many space marine chapters are described as being different from the rest because of how valiant, self-sacrificing, or brutal they are?"
Mr. Bones 40k: "Am I a joke to you?"
Yes
"They're not like the other chapters, they're heretics in all but name"
Okay cool have them purged
@@ffwast "you can't solve all your problems by purging them!"
"That sounds suspiciously like heresy..."
Mine are botanists and cowboys.
Mine are the most dangerous type of different in the new Imperium - traditionalists!
Something I really like about the imperium is that since no one really invents anything new, with a few exceptions *cough* Cawl, they technology is a mishmashed of different levels of advanced due to the imperium getting it all from picking the bones of a better age of humanity. So you’ll have a guard regiment riding on horseback with Vietnam radios and plasma canons on their back and a medic carrying leeches in case their humors are imbalanced
Or all their most advanced tanks using *rivted armor.*
With the added fun that their humours *are* imbalanced thanks to warp leaks.
@@altechelghanforever9906 The rivets add AOE damage ;)
DUde they have space shits... they MANUALY RELOAD THEIR CANNOS. The imperium its insane leves of stupidity. The mechanicus (one of my favored), use incense instead of learn to code.
When I ran a lot of 40k roleplaying games it was pivotal to the players understanding is that they're part of a large, heavily wounded, old biological organism that has to be wrangled with no finesse at all. Just repeated beatings until its angry enough to fight again another day and spitefully pointed at what it needs to kill. No one cares about your character, if they live, die, succeed or fail it matters very little in the scheme of things because somewhere 25million guardsmen are being raised, loaded and sent on an invasion fleet to tear the arsehole apart of something they hate and don't care for niceties.
Introspection and Philosophy for how it got to be this bad aren't something you have the luxury for, you need to secure your shit, wear your helmet and make sure there's plenty ammo because something else just crapped the bed and needs killing right now.
The Grey Knights are so secretive, they didn't even make it in this video. 10/10
The Imperium already operates like the Holy Roman Empire in space. It only looks united when you focus on Imperial forces fighting aliens, because it takes a common enemy to get peers of the Imperium on the same page. Just look at the Badab War.
Its also said in one of the Caiphas Cain novels that rebellion against the imperium is common enough that the won't bother to record the damn thing once its crushed unless Chaos is involved.
@@GlitchTechV1 Heh, that's a neat way to explain why it's basically _always_ chaos when a rebellion happens. Genestealers and Tau Empire don't get to be the root of the problem often enough darn it!
@Sorain1 to be honest maybe just saying chaos was too broad of a term, since there were administrators who kept records of Galvanax and Keffia (Tau/Genestealers and Genestealers) like the papers of Sulla on Galvanax and the myriad of book reports on Keffia's system.
And well- let's be honest between tau assimilating another world, genestealers subtly attracting another hive fleet whe re it can get eaten before the administratum could get wind, and chaos cultists on the verge of summoning a demon to tear an entire planet half way into the warp thus endangering the entire sector, I can understand if Chaos took priority.
The Imperium is a cradle draped in shadows, a constellation of civilizations humming softly amidst the vast, indifferent void of cosmos. It's a lantern in the encroaching abyss, a defiant shout into the unending night, proclaimed by the unyielding will of a million worlds. Under the gaze of the God-Emperor, the meat and steel heart of humanity beats resolutely, a beacon against the swelling terrors that haunt the cosmic beyond.
I've made jokes about the tau being 40k version of Bretonnia with the introduction of the tau'va goddess sicretly being Lileath who actually survive the birth of Slaanesh.
I kind of like that idea
Oh thank god, i was trying to figure out who the brettonia was and i was leaning dangerously close to the imperial knights
I say the imperium has a lot of Bretonnia as well considering there Lords treatment of peasants and blind faith in a deity, just a lot less French.
@@plasticbag4102
Aren't the admech bretonnia?
I think the Tau are kind of the reverse wood elves (Ik Exodites exist but I doubt theyre getting more lore much less minis these days). They favor long range and excel in hit and run tactics but as where the wood elves are hard isolationists and it would probably be better for the taus interest if they laid low and didn't attract the attention of the bigger forces of the galaxy but instead they remain imperialists pushing the borders of the other factions and spreading as much as they can.
Imperium has a sci-fi estetic that I really like.
Half high tech, half low tech.
High tech stuff: Energy weapons, holograms, space ships, power armor etc.
Low tech stuff: Combustion engines, gunpowder weapons, basic plate armor, etc.
This is also the same reason I like the orks.
Their desilpunk estetic fits perfectly with half high tech, half low tech.
I’m a simple man. I see a group of giant men in power armor I am happy. I see cool army dudes, I am happy. Nuns are with guns? I’m cultured. Nuff said
deffo nuff said
My favorite thing about the Imperium of Man is when average people do amazing things. To me, seeing a person take on daemons and monsters while overcoming his own fear, is the coolest.
“Pity the Guardsman” in a nutshell. 😉
Ciaphas Cain! Ciaphas Cain! Ciaphas Cain!
I too own several Leman Russ.
@@gdaddy3695or gaunts ghost even though they mostly fight generic corrupted humans.
The planet broke before the guard did
Finally, some HIGH QUALITY TERRAN BLESSED slop.
"Someone can tell me to kill myself, which is the highest honor I can receive."
Truly the words of wisdom
I love that quote in context, and it only gets more fun out of context.
The Imperium is awesome in the same way that a slasher villain can be cool even though murder is bad.
It would be more akin to a documentary of a deranged serial killer if you are interested from a political angle. There's always justifications but are they valid is another question.
Yes, they are.
Are they horrible? Yes.
Are they relatable? Yes.
Besides, gotta cheer for the home team. The imperium is awesome!
saying they’re relatable with an ONI pic, checks out lol
if oni had much more free rain within the UNSC they would be doing things that would make the inquisition blush.
ONI would fit right in with the Imperium.
Says the oni employee lmao
343 oni depiction here. How have they massacred perception of halo.
Xeno (probably Tau): “There can’t be *two* great powers in the universe!”
Imperial: “Oh your a power alright, Just not a great one!”
Xeno: “Yea? What’s the difference?”
Imperial: *”PRESENTATION!!!”*
operation dominus
drop a fucking warlord class titan on them
Hold this L
Megamind quote goes hard
The only place one should every aspire to be like the Imperium is in every Stellaris playthrough
President Sly Marbo's platform of bigger knives for everyone was a huge hit.
A space elf fan saying something good about the human race, this is a rare sight.
Pancreas, blink twice if the Imperium fanboys are currently holding you hostage.
Staring contest, GO!
Elf lover caught supporting the mon keigh (this will not be forgotten)
The imperium is easily my favorite faction in sci-fi basically the Catholic Church and Roman Empire in space fighting against not one but four endgame threats tyranids, necrons chaos, orks , and still it holds its own against them while dealing with stagnation and corruption from within i still believe it has the potential to be one of the most powerful human factions in sci-fi especially with the return of guilliman
"Dealing with stagnation and corruption from within"
Yeah, they deal with it the same way I deal with my alcoholism, by drowning in it.
@@yaelz6043 they survive
there are people who believe in the imperial truth still
and they arent fucked over when they die
@@yaelz6043 They endure in the darkest Age of any civilization fighting threats that would make any of your brains explode.
But they still hold their ground and expand for they all live for the Glory of their Emperor, their divine Father
I choked on my drink with the cato sicarius moment because it just caught me so off guard
The way I would describe it is this, most factions in 40k are statues, rigid and recognizable from any angle, but the Imperium of man is H20, its shape is only limited to its container and its form can be a solid, liquid or gas, but at the end of the day its still H20.
Some one has probably already pointed this out but the imperial gard predates starship troopers buy at least a decade although the book is one of the inspirations for space marines
Oh god they got to him
The 40k universe blossoms as soon as you shift the focus away from the Astartes.
Personally, orks got me into Warhammer
Orks! Orks! Orks! Orks! Orks! Orks! ORKS!
That is a certified hood classic
The Boyz!
Same
Same here the boyz got me in
11:05 Cato stomping out that T'au and Guy Haley writing him to have super PTSD unironically made me like the character.
Funny thing is, it was actually necrons who got me into 40k all those years ago. Still my favourites, but IoM also gained a special place in my heart, with its grimdark.
I would like to see the Imperium split along Rogue Trader's morality.
Dogmatic - The Inquisition, Ecclesiarchy and Mars preserving the old intolerance and largely being proven right.
Iconoclast - Guilliman reforming the Imperium to be rational, pragmatic, and even ethical, but with unintended consequences.
Heretical - The Black Legion simultaneously conquering Imperial worlds and being more proactive defenders against xenos.
Seeing a split between Guilliman and the psychos could be really fun. Would love to play Black Templars fighting against the false prophet.
I'd prefer having Huron's forces win and do shit over the Black Legion. Failbaddon doesn't deserve to be the cool chaos guy anymore
There really isn't anything to prove right though. Most of the reason why the galaxy hates humans is because the Imperium kills anything that moves and looks remotely different. Other human civilizations were just fine with the other xenos.
@@robertspeedwagon982 I refer to the Black Legion being poster boys of a Dark Imperium, just as the Ultramarines would be poster boys of a Reformist Imperium. The Red Corsairs and Word Bearers are good foils for the faction of chaos that wants to carve out an Imperium they felt they were promised, rather than reave it or submit to the gods entirely.
@@SirBrasstion I really like the theory that Abaddon isn't trying to destroy the Imperium so much as to overtake it and become the new Emperor, using Chaos as a tool to achieve his goals. The guy is literally entirely about his own ego, he's the kind of guy who refuse to become a daemon prince because it would destroy his true self; and he is also the kind of guy to look at eldritch horrors and say : "You will help me achieve MY goals, not the other way around".
Abaddon's Dark Imperium in many aspects wouldn't be that different from the modern one anyways.
If the Imperium didn't take up most of the setting, in both the meta and literal sense, I wouldn't hate it as much. I lament the fact that GW is stuck in the feedback loop of "focus on Space Marines/Imperium because they make more money because GW focuses on Space Marines/Imperium" to the detriment of other facets of 40K and there's nothing more disappointing than hearing about a interesting xeno species or potential non-Chaos/non-Imperium aligned human factions that the Imperium of Man destroyed. If the Imperium of Man was like a third the size it currently is (with access to most Space Marine chapters, Custodians, Tempestus Scions ect ect) and the rest was made up of a myraid of diverse Balkanized states, then I would love the Imperium of Man instead of fucking hating it.
Also, this doesn't really have much to do with the video, but imagine if Jaghatai Khan was one of the Primarchs to return only for him to not think his Father's empire is worth saving so he calls his sons back to Chogoris and establishes his own Khaganate, becoming an entirely new faction made up of White Scar space marines supported by Mongolian flavored auxiliaries? That would be fucking awesome, I think.
The homebrew possibility for the imperial guard is truly limitless. For my example I've been working on a planetary naval regiment with Warships, Sailors and Marine infantry units. Mostly inspired by my naval service (2010-2014) when I discovered Warhammer 40k on board USS Essex and USS Bonhomme Richard while serving along side the 31st MEU. Ran into a bit of a stumbling block when I tried to convert the USS Bonhomme Richard LHD 6 (844 foot or 257m long if your country doesn't have its flag on the moon) to games workshop size and realized that wouldn't be physically feasible to build much less transport a fucking sea titan compared to a in world warlord titan at 108 feet or 33m being roughly 7 times longer as wide as 4 laid out sideways and at least as tall as 2. Much less how much fire power would be appropriate for a vessel that sized in 40k..... Battle ships aren't as long or wide but they carried guns larger than any ground emplacement ever could hope to with the exception of Thomas the trains very angry German cousin Gustav.....
It won't make for apractical unit, but it can still be the battlefield!
I use Warhammer lore to fall asleep, its cool enough to keep me entertained, dark enough to be interesting, but goofy enough to not be sad. Its like having your german grandma read you the brother's grimm fairy tales as a bed time story
9:50 if ever you look into the 3D printing scene, there are people who created models of Catachan soldiers based off WWE wrestlers and 90s action heroes.
I have a fairly extensive 3rd party Catachan army & am always on the lookout for more. Do you know the name of any company or sellers making these?
By the end of the day, fiction is an escapism from life. While others tries to take off their eyes from reality due to how bleak it is, others does it due to how boring & un-cathartic it is, meaning that they seek different things in their escapism
Maybe it has nothing to do with your comment, but I think this, Warhammer 40k, is quite complex.
From what I've seen, in the fandom there are only two extremes: Those who take it seriously and those who don't take it seriously. There is no middle ground. At least it doesn't seem like it.
On the side of those who do not take it seriously, it is often pointed out
the satirical content of the first editions and the exaggerated style of the game.
On the side of those who take it seriously, there is a lot of talk about the power of the setting to tell very deep stories, usually citing the most accepted BL novels and the pieces
of the most famous lore.
I think we are facing a case of "blind men and the elephant."
No one is absolutely right, only a part of it.
Taking 40k seriously can be harmful, especially considering that the story is in the hands of a company of dubious morality. Furthermore, given the chaotic nature of lore, no matter how much you try to improve, there will always be some problem, whether it be continuity or consistency.
But not taking 40k seriously is not the best idea either, because although it may not seem like it, lore is the main reason for the success of 40k.
People don't spend $50 to $60 on plastic just because it looks cool, no, they spend it on buying "Magneus Calgar, captain of the Ultramarines chapter or Horus Lupercal, the Warmaster, the Traitor, etc." Of course there will always be exceptions, but most of the content on 40k TH-cam is about lore or debates about it.
Just look at this beautiful channel, if you find a video on how to paint your figures, your member will grow 5 centimeters.
@@ramonayala7647 dude, this is beautiful. Dont hide it in the replies. Make a full comment so everyone can read it
I became a fan of 40K from Totalwarhammer. It was cool seeing all the scifi versions of the fantasy factions. And the guard is the best human faction, faith, steel, and gunpowder in space as humanity should be not that space marine garbage.
IMO the guard are closer to skaven tho. Sometimes its steel and faith, but alot of times its "lets bury this problem under a mountain of human bodies, so noone can see how incompetent I really am"
@@lennyztrobos8678Skaven would be dark mechanicum and guard at once
Fun fact: PNW already made a video on “The Imperium is Space Skaven”. ;D
@@UGNAvalon Need to watch that, thanx!
@@averageeughenjoyer6429the ratlings in 40K are just skaven that renounce their faith in the great horned one
I’m a huge Halo fan and realizing that The Imperium was basically The Covenant (especially from the Tau perspective) made me come around to thinking it’s right that they’re the “main character” of 40k
"This is a universe where how much gold you have on you determines how safe you are from deamons. Why are you trying to take it seriously?" That is amazing. Even as a Tau fan, that's amazing.
Edit: Yeah, I do hope the Tau can grow. They are kinda small now, but I like the idea that, despite how bad they are, they are the best option to go for in Warhammer. I just wish they would bring back the different species as troops, like the humans. Imagine an entire imperial guard army, but they are bashed with Tau weaponry. That would be fucking badass.
You saw they're bringing kroot units back? Almost makes me want to run tau.
Finally, a fellow Tau fan! 🫡
I do hope they drop the whole mind control addition because that really doesn't do anything for them. Having classic non-warp psychics however would be really cool.
Honestly this is the best take I’ve seen when it comes the imperium of man
I’ve seen way to many people aspiring the imperium way to much in a good vs evil way that this is really refreshing and a good reminder why i adore the imperium in the first place
''the imperium goes hard'' is probably the single biggest understatement I have ever heard.
also the whole ''the imperium is evil'' debate is dumb, not only is it made to be CARTOONISHYL dystopian on purpose, in the setting its also the ONE THING keeping humanity alive, and in the setting of 40k I would rather be alive under a flawed system then dead/having my soul devoured be daemons...its such a moot point.
it doesn't. the imperium is the single worst part of the setting
@flyin_solo2573 I would like to understand your reasoning for this. Why do you dislike the imperium?
@@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308 his reasoning is that the four-armed emperor is way nicer so let's welcome our new space friends in
"It's the ONE THING keeping humanity alive."
That's absurd, though. The human race was, despite all rumors to the contrary, never in danger of extinction during the Age of Strife. In fact, many gigantic human empires were experiencing a kind of Renaissance before the Imperium arrived. It was the Imperium's actions that led to 1) the Horus Heresy, 2) an ascendent Chaos capable of splitting the galaxy in half, and 3), as a result of 1), the arrival of the Tyranid in our galaxy.
The Imperium is the guy that barges into your house, holds your family hostage, and demands you thank them for protecting you from a random, different psychopath that also wants to enslave you.
The Imperium being the one thing keeping mankind alive in 40k is an idea I have mixed feelings on
On one hand, it shows just how dystopian and grimdark 40k is for humans and noone in their right mind would use it as a basis for anything in real life
On the other hand the statement is one misinterpretation away from making the imperium seem good (because justifiable = good to some people from what I've seen) and some people might use the fictional setting with fictional demons and magic as some roundabout justification for their racism, sexism, or any other -isms, after all if people can still unironically call themselves Nazis and think they're in the right then I would put past some idiots from getting the wrong idea and imposing it on others
It also discredits all the other species as it can also be twisted into the idea that the Xenos' cruelties driven by survival aren't justified but the Imperium's cruelties driven by survival somehow are which just feels dishartening
17:14
I just wanted to say that I appreciate the Frieren near the end of the video. 💜
The ending of rogue trader I got the other day is an interesting take on the future of the Imperium
Basically I have a C’tan shard under my control and made my own nascent imperium within the expanse and used my pet C’tan to obliterate my enemies and, when the Imperium came in numbers too great to stop, my son the Star god just shifted the entire expanse into a new dimensional plane making it impossible for the Imperium to come get us.
This is one of the things, I love to take the whole thing seriously in some ways, and it's also great to take it lightly. Being able to enjoy the whole range of the hobby is one of the best parts of it.
6:00 exactly why I LOVE the guard, so much modeling possibility. No 2 of my guardsmen look alike.
Well done! Also, the faction that got me into 40k...in 1987...was the Eldar. Where I remain to this day.
You did a really good job with this video. Not that its all that different from your usual quality, but I'm impressed that you managed to keep the fear from your voice doing the dialogue with a commissar's bolter pointed at your head.
"Dark Angels are the best Space Marines of aesthetic alone and its not even close"
And like that, I can now forgive the ending bit from the Morathi video lmao
Having back and forth nerd talk between friends is the best, even more so if you are able to back it up with table top dice rolls that bring on the glory.
Me and a close friend of mine would always ensure that my army HQ and his would close in on one another and take part in glorious melee combat. I either played a necron overlord or Ork warboss and he would play a blood angels smash captain. Neither of us would really claim victory by slaying the other but those dice rolls were still spectacular.
i like that you use pictures of the tabletop models. Thanks for another banger.
Tau trying to be diplomatic with any of the 40k races will never not end hilariously at the Tau's expense
I really like this video, the Imperium is an awesome faction and more positivity in Warhammer is always a good thing.
love your channel. you bring something really unique to the table. subbed
I can't think of a more metal sentence than "COME! SHOW ME WHAT PASSES FOR FURY AMONG YOUR MISBEGOTTEN KIND"
aesthetically i love tau things, excluding the tau themselves. bro brought gundams to go against walking cathedrals. also the tau with the farside enclave have huge potential to become the most technologically advance race in 40k if they continue to exist long enough. they small but they pack a punch.
The Imperium inspires me. The glory, the sacrifice, the tragedy, the refusal to ever give up no matter how bad things ever get, the faith and dedication, its my muse. I love them.
I really do like the Tau, even my favorite, awesome stuff and good thinking (Most of the time) but when I see almost anything related to the Imperium of Man, I can't help but think, damn that looks cool as hell
The imperiums attitude towards xenos is getting better and better over time, it's really only the high lords of terra that are light years from danger but still scared xenos will get them , most other factions will ignore them if violence is unnecessary but sometimes xenos help the imperium and vice versa
What id love to see is a schism in the mechanics with cawl actually progressing the tech they have closer to dark age tech (maybe a new mechanicus robot infantry unit?) But thats more because id love to see the men of iron or something close to what they looked like.
Just in time
Damn. Tried to be first but I was on console so I couldn’t comment.
The imperium already basically operates as a feudal empire, so a Crusader kings style game where you are playing as imperial nobility while having to juggle the threats of chaos and xenos would be so cool
My favorite part of the Imperium's lore is how they would be a good civilization to live in if not for how insanely hostile the rest of the galaxy is. Humanity once had a utopian interstellar civilization (akin to the Federation from Star Trek) before the Imperium and it collapsed because it was naive to the dangers of this setting.
The Imperium's totalitarian militarism is justified by the constant multiple interstellar scale wars they're forced to engage in, just to hold back the various existential threats to humanity.
Their xenophobia is justified by almost every alien they meet, at best, being aggressively expansionist themselves; or at worst, wanting to enslave, torture, genocide, and/or eat all of humanity.
Their strict theocracy is justified by the the genuine threat of a single rogue psyker causing an entire planet to fall to demonic invasion.
The abysmal conditions the average Imperial citizen endures is (usually) not the the result of an intentional act of cruelty from on high, but a pragmatic result of humanity collectively being in a state of constant war for survival.
The Imperium being the way it is makes perfect sense in its setting. If conditions in its setting were less hostile, it'd be able to provide utopian living conditions to pretty much all its countless trillions of citizens, but then we wouldn't have a badass setting for tabletop wargames, books, video games, etc.
Tactical Dark angels are my absolute favorite and it crushed me when I learned that on the table they focus primarily on bikebros and terminators.
>Checks title
>Checks date
Wait, this ain't April 1st
I cant believe you would say something so controversial, yet so brave.
Honestly, the Imperium is one of the best pieces of satire I've seen in my life. Its many ills are each, individually, the roots of our suffering in the real world, but combine them together in a world that, like you said, gets to be not real (yay), and it combines into comically evil in the best of ways (while not losing its satirical core).
There is only one part of this I take genuine exception to, and that is that Catachan wouldn't be a Liftocracy with tie-breakers decided on by notches on their huge knives
For right now, i'm team Trazyn; but i got into the hobby through the black templars.
Now if only Imotekh can become the Settra expy we all know him to be.
Nihilakh ascendant!
From a fictional perspective:
The Imperium of Man is basically metal as fuck. That's why people like the Imperium.
Also the Tau is jpop in this analogy, just in case you wanted a reason to shit on xenos
Pfft. Like I need a reason to shit on Xenos. Except for the mere fact that everything below my rib cage no longer exists.
I would say the votann are more like that nowadays, but i guess there isnt much to say since they are new
@@char1137tau is K Pop
"But deep down in our heart, we all know which faction got us into this hobby..."
Yeah, the lizardmen. You don't know me warmblood.
I also want say that the uniform for the guard is actually not inspired by Starship Troopers. Many elements of the lore are, but the iconic look came from the movie way after 40k and the Cadian look was already a thing.
The inquisition got him.
If you can't do a brutal takedown of something you love, you don't love it as much as you think.
11:05 na man who needs xenos when you have 10000 nuclear warheads, a resource rich solar system and accidentally pressed "We must ward off those who would threaten us." for first contact in Stellaris
"Rooting for the bad guys is a lot more fun in a setting where everyone is a bad guy."
Did you just describe Geopolitics?
Even the knife ears lover knows The Imperium greatness
As a Tyranid fan I like the Imperium because them's good eatin'.
For the books. "Double Eagle" imperial guard flying regiment.
If you want to read the 40k version of the early battles in northern france of WW2 and the blitz.
I got interested in 40k because those little parchment ribbons you see affixed to uniforms with wax are the coolest little detail in the world
For The Emperor Brothers 🔥
If they didn't want people to cheer for the neo-crusaders in space, they probably shouldn't have made Hell real.
The imperium is just the trolley problem on repeat with a very obvious extinction or survival option being far too often portrayed as evil.
This is an excellent phrase that I'm most definitely stealing. It applies to most things the imperium does. They are justified because they have no alternative and they are good because the end goal they are achieving is the survival of mankind.
Besides the cases of grim derp writing, which is writing that has a more logicl alternative that isn't being used to make a point of how grim and dark the story is. An example of this is imperial navy ships loading kilotone shells by slaves pulling chains insted of inventing pistons which is a literal steam age technology. There is examples of such grim derp writing from time to time.
Hate to say this... but on the future of the imperium pretty sure the below is what is going to happen.
1. The 40k end times will begin with the Tyranids, Necrons and Chaos ramping up.
2. Vashtor's encroachment on the webway will continue.
3. The emperor will wake up / resurrect as the God of man.
4. Everyone will flee into the webway to avoid the destruction of the universe.
5. The imperium will now be actually coded as good guys under the control of the emperor and after a time skip tyranids and chaos will start to break through but overall the setting will be more hopeful and "epic"
I could be wrong, but I doubt it with all of this stuff that has been happening in the lore.
I really loathe how GW changed the presentation of the IoM from "the least worst option," to "the utilitarian heroes."
11:39 i dont wanna start a war, but we all know that after posting this, they posted yet another artwork of Guilliman being basically Jesus, and his Ultramarines being paragons of all that is good in humanity. At this point it feels like the Imperium is unironically just good 70% of the time and then grimderp to overcompensate the other 30%
The Emperor of Man is overhated, in my opinion. Between people with genuinely good criticisms and people just making shit up, I genuinely think the Big E is a lesser evil compared to the other factions.
He's a piece of shit, an abusive dad, incredibly short-sighted which is inexcusable for a perpetual, and people often apple moral arguments to him. There's nothing wrong with that but compared to other factions (fallacious argument, i know) he really isn't the most evil person out there.
Ok so when you were mentioning about Homebrewing I was straight up thinking about this Guard Regiment Idea I have where they are just Bretonians so they are based around using Cavalry as their main force with horses dressed in elegant regalia with emblems from a myriad of Noble Families and bright colors, with peaseant Infantry that are just conscripts with a shitty Lasgun, and a few Bullgryns that work as Men-at-Arms who have really cool Ogryn sized plate armor with Medieval looking Melee weapons and massive kite shields that have the iconography of the Nobles they serve.
Basically just a Feudal World that fields a fairly competent military just because they throw bodies of peasants for the enemy to chew while the nobles use high tech to strike at the enemy from horseback and charge with their Bullgryn Men-at-Arms.
Weird thing to like, but the giant shoulder pads of the space marines, specifically the shoulder pads and the many designs they have always drew me in.
Thank you content creator, you are the Naggarothi soldier being stepped on by Morathi while I look on in wonder, experiencing this hobby while I watch with silent judgement.
Halo Lore again when? The Grunt Rebellion? The Taming of the Hunters?
I’m gonna get some more Halo stuff out relatively soonish.
Thinking ODSTs or SPARTANs, though ONI and individual races in Halo would be fun videos to make too so idk at the moment what’s coming.
@pancreasnowork9939 both are good, ODST before Spartans would feel more fluid to mention Buck and highlight the Special Forces from the Black Ops specialty of the Spartans. Regardless it would still be better than John Spartan series that lacked the flair of the novels and games.
The imperium sucks in every way possible and I love it so much. I’m in the boat of taking 40K pretty serious. But while the over all faction are all evil. I find the personal stories in them to be the best. My favorite is Gaunt and his ghosts. The imperium like you said. Just tickles my brian in all the right ways. The armor, the stories, the factions, the themes. I love the imperium of man.
"forgeworld worker to my imperium" has to be the best channel member outro yet lol
Pancreas uploading on Monday mornings/sunday nights is an unexpected blessing tbh
Honestly the one thing you have to admire about the imperial is how willing they are to throw themselves into the grinder in order to get a foothold in the galaxy.🐱
"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."
nope. imperium sucks.
Holy shit, Pancreas speaking in favor of the filthy mon-keigh? Between this and CM Punk back in the WWE, hell truly has frozen over.
17:13 I did not expect that Frieren jump scare lol
Love your videos ❤ Love chilling out after a hard days work and listening to you talking about my favourite hobby😊 If I could make a suggestion: you should do a video about Hammilcar bear-eater!