Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young men's lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee deep in mud Stuck in a trench with no way out
that's... tragic... humanity of this story paid the price in their innocence, and with innocence lost, they stopped caring. spite and anger is what drive them now.
Pessimism is built on uncertainty, it is a baseless fear. Experience is founded in cold hard fact. Nothing can be argued, nothing can be 'reinterpreted', it simply is. The Pessimist may be proven wrong, the experienced know they are right.
MAY THE EMPEROR PROTECT US IN OUR GREAT CONQUEST BY HIS WILL WE SHALT KNOW NO FEAR AND WE SHALL DIE WITH HONOR GLORY TO THE FIRST MAN TO DIE, GLORY TO HOLY TERRA AND GLORY TO THE EMPEROR
"To hope is to invite Doubt. To have mercy is to invite cowardice. Humanity has none of these. To hate is to know strength. To have contempt is to know salvation" Inquisition Stormtrooper - unnamed.
Right. When they didn't call their homework Earth or Sol, I immediately thought of the other story where this is just an outpost of this galaxy and giant battlefleets from the milkyway were on their way.
But that’s such an overused trope. Admittedly so is fuck around and find out. It’s just that’s it’s so much more satisfying to have a lost colony or last surviving humans let the aliens learn the hard way about humanity.
It would have worked better if they asked for help from sol, but it refused, so they had to deal with the aliens themselves. This way it represents the Terran humans as peaceful as well, hammering in the fact that the xenos are greedy, warmongering hypocrites
I was kind of expecting a peace sect of humanity that had broken off from the main branch and engaged in a centuries long competition with their more warlike brethren. The competition was to see what society would thrive the most, a peaceful one or an aggressive one. They had to admit defeat and were reuniting with their warlike kin whose fleets from Earth on the opposite side of the Galaxy were to begin arriving shortly. They were pleased to hear about the new conquest targets being given them and were even more pleased to find out that they were total bastards whom they could "Slaughter without restraint or remorse. So I don't give a damn if you sign this or not. You have about 3 weeks until they show up and start taking everything! From everyone and won't give a damn about any pieces of paper."
there is That kind of story here before... xeno come kill human all so evil then that human colony who civilization toward peace ask help from Earth which build only for War...so yeah human after that start Purge protocol....😂😂😂😂
Sounds like the space version of the American Amish Christians. We are happy and we choose peace, then they developed culturally while the US went into the Iron and steam age. Just imagine the difference the other humans would have. Think you could write this story?
Passhendale in the third battle of flanders has losses of around 250'000 on each side for a gain of 9.6km which gives roughly 25'000 dead for each kilometer on each side.
It's cute that the writer thinks we wouldn't have followed them to their holes and exterminated them. There wouldn't be any signing of any surrenders or conquest, we'd wipe them out to the last strand of DNA and destroy any data we had on their physiology to ensure they could never be resurrected in any way.
Greetings Mentlegent For the Rhyhtm that is Algo The enemy provoked what they got. I note, however, that it wasn't Earth they were fighting over. I kept waiting for human reinforcements from Earth to show up.
Why did i explicitely had the thought of every assault was deemed "The Somme", and "The Verdun" fronts since they were historically similar with casulties. And yet volenteers still streamed because the aliens neglected an Inportant rule. Mankind already called dips on that planet, and by god every life we expend, regretable or not will be done so to reclaim it. It's like every species ( in some stories) always give up around the end of the 19th century in our history books and think "Well they don't have all that funny mustaches and beards but they're relatively the same. Nothing to worry about". Ypu took shit and Mined it to hell, Put up some razor wire with artillery, machine guns, dogged defenders with guns ready and tracked locomotive logistics as well as Bunkers???? Looks like someone skimmed the WW1 section of our history books.
Writers dont understand strategy especially when the ending words are some half baked anti-war Aesop. Pacifism only works when you arent an idiot about it.
@SA McC Sadly we have yoused this exact strategy to great effect. Unless there was 100% fatality rate each one of those landings would be a success since you only need a few to disrupt the enemies battlelines.
The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of "Men who wanted to be left Alone". They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the "Men who wanted to be left Alone" are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. . . . Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these "Men who wanted to be left Alone", fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy . . . . but it will fall upon deaf ears."
I've found it weird how so many HFY seem to prefer the metric system, because when I looked at all the countries that have a flag on the moon, not a single one uses the metric system...
@@iLikeCoffee777 but most HFY don't happen before 1990s when NASA started mostly using metric They discontinued imperial in 2007, so any HFY story happening after 2007 whould use the metric system.
Reminds me of America immediately after WW2. They’re taking over so nothing like this can happen again. Of course, then politics happened, so look how long that promise lasted.
they should have began to think why humans wanted no further, they sould habe also listened, for wen a human draws a line in the sand, do not cross it.
In the song what's the price of a mile someone in the comments section calculated the number of deaths relative to how many miles they took. It was 83,333 people per mile.
Living such an easy life that you never would have to fight for survival does not make you greater, it makes you a spoiled child that looks down on those that built everything you whine about.
Hear the sound of a machine gun Hear it echo in the night Mortals firing rains the scene Scars the fields That once were green It's a stalemate at the front line Where the soldiers rest in mud Roads and houses All is gone There is no glory to be won Know that many men will suffer Know that many men will die Half a million lives at stake Ask the fields of Passchendaele And as the night falls the general calls And the battle carries on and on How long? What is the purpose of it all What's the price of a mile? Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young men's lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out
Thousands of machineguns, keep on firing through the night Mortars blaze and wreck the scene Gone's the fields that once were green Still a deadlock at the frontline, where the soldiers die in mud Roads and houses, since long gone Still no glory has been won Know that many men has suffered, Know that many men has died Six miles of ground has been won Half a million men are gone As the men crawled, the general called, And the killing carried on, and on, What was the purpose of it all? What's the price of a mile?
I don't really understand how ground wars feature so heavily in sci-fi when targeting installations from space with relativistic kill weapons is a thing. However, still a good story.
while accurate orbital strikes alone are insufficient to take a planet. If you want to acquire that planet's resources, liberate trapped populations, etc. if you have orbital supremacy and have identified an enemy position or fortress strike it to your heart's content. but at the end of the day, a relativistic kill weapon does not secure a mine or rescue the inhabitants of a town that has been enslaved to run said mine. or collect intelligence from the enemy base it only leaves a crater in the ground where the objective once stood.
@oscar phillips of course, some kind of ground action is generally still required, particularly to capture or subdue particular locations/installations etc, orbital supremacy would significantly reduce the requirement for large scale ground combat. With precise enough imaging and focusing, you can potentially shoot at individuals on the ground from space without collateral damage, leaving your heavier ordinance to take out hardened targets. Hell, you could even use weapons which don't damage buildings but kill biological organisms (such as focused microwaves) to target biological targets inside non-hardened structures.
@@SilverMKI and I don't dispute your claim that orbital supremacy should require less significant ground action in most cases. again true provided that such is within the technological capabilities of the species involved and there are no available countermeasures to such tactics. though given the usual scale of most shipboard weaponry would generally make them more suited to artillery roles. so I don't think that essentially sniping individuals from orbit would really be a thing at least not without a lot of collateral damage.
I absolutely hate the metric system if for no other reason than the goddamn advocates spouting endless dribble about its greatness while not being able to do anymore than regurgitate basic math in a subpar manner. There is no creativity nor beauty in the crap that is the metric system and I will hate it forevermore!
It's a Fecking measuring sistem, why should it be creative or beautiful? Let the sistem be practical, and the things created by it be beautiful and creative.
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who could pay the price for 1 km? *every Canadian soldier in history raises their hand.
me as Asta Militarum : First time?
@@xavierzaxavier5873 3rd! how's Cadia?
Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army on the march
Long way from home
Paying the price in young men's lives
Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army in despair
Knee deep in mud
Stuck in a trench with no way out
Every soldier, ask the Russians,British,Germans all have done the same.
@@krekolos421 Sabaton answers.
that's... tragic... humanity of this story paid the price in their innocence, and with innocence lost, they stopped caring. spite and anger is what drive them now.
When spite and anger take the wheel, they drive to dark places.
@@danielstellmon5330 I don't know about that, HE and nuclear weapons can be pretty bright.
Nah, those humans willfully blinded themselves and lived in their imaginations, totally ignoring reality.
Growth necessitates that innocence is lost
Not much different from the world wars when you think about it
"Is experience the same as pessimism?"
"It's worse."
Pessimism is built on uncertainty, it is a baseless fear. Experience is founded in cold hard fact. Nothing can be argued, nothing can be 'reinterpreted', it simply is. The Pessimist may be proven wrong, the experienced know they are right.
Pessimism could also be understood as preparing for the worst and being pleasantly surprised
We were hopeful, once.
Young, energetic, naieve.
We are wiser now.
~ High Lord Of Terra, 5th edition rulebook, Warhammer 40,000
Long live the emperor
Kadia stands!!!
MAY THE EMPEROR PROTECT US IN OUR GREAT CONQUEST BY HIS WILL WE SHALT KNOW NO FEAR AND WE SHALL DIE WITH HONOR
GLORY TO THE FIRST MAN TO DIE, GLORY TO HOLY TERRA AND GLORY TO THE EMPEROR
Blood For The Blood God
“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.” -Ennius
Yeahs
The aliens did done messed up when they requested for 40k to be made reality.
Humanity Collectively Starts singing: Lets Be Xenophobic its really in this year
"To hope is to invite Doubt. To have mercy is to invite cowardice. Humanity has none of these. To hate is to know strength. To have contempt is to know salvation" Inquisition Stormtrooper - unnamed.
Thats a 40k quote alright
Humanity Starts up Sabaton "the price of a mile" and watches as the GALAXY TREMBLES.
Death korp of krieg from a distance: they're confused but they got the spirit! Keep it going bois oh and try to take an objective will you?
well, Kreigboies understand, it's hard to fortify empty air as you do a suicide charge towards the ground. but good on you for trying
I was actually hoping that the humans from Sol system would have appeared and helped the splinter sect of human colonists.
Right. When they didn't call their homework Earth or Sol, I immediately thought of the other story where this is just an outpost of this galaxy and giant battlefleets from the milkyway were on their way.
@anath ardayaldar The twin suns thing tipped me off
But that’s such an overused trope. Admittedly so is fuck around and find out. It’s just that’s it’s so much more satisfying to have a lost colony or last surviving humans let the aliens learn the hard way about humanity.
It would have worked better if they asked for help from sol, but it refused, so they had to deal with the aliens themselves. This way it represents the Terran humans as peaceful as well, hammering in the fact that the xenos are greedy, warmongering hypocrites
@LightningBMW That would be more poetic, but we all know that humans are seemingly drawn to war. It's basically instinctive for us.
I was kind of expecting a peace sect of humanity that had broken off from the main branch and engaged in a centuries long competition with their more warlike brethren. The competition was to see what society would thrive the most, a peaceful one or an aggressive one. They had to admit defeat and were reuniting with their warlike kin whose fleets from Earth on the opposite side of the Galaxy were to begin arriving shortly. They were pleased to hear about the new conquest targets being given them and were even more pleased to find out that they were total bastards whom they could "Slaughter without restraint or remorse. So I don't give a damn if you sign this or not. You have about 3 weeks until they show up and start taking everything! From everyone and won't give a damn about any pieces of paper."
there is That kind of story here before... xeno come kill human all so evil then that human colony who civilization toward peace ask help from Earth which build only for War...so yeah human after that start Purge protocol....😂😂😂😂
Sounds like the space version of the American Amish Christians. We are happy and we choose peace, then they developed culturally while the US went into the Iron and steam age. Just imagine the difference the other humans would have.
Think you could write this story?
Passhendale in the third battle of flanders has losses of around 250'000 on each side for a gain of 9.6km which gives roughly 25'000 dead for each kilometer on each side.
Sabaton - The Price of a Mile
Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army on the march
Long way, from home, paying the price in young men’s lives
Thousands of feet match to the beat
It's an army in dispar
Knee deep in mud
Stuck in a trench with no way out
It's cute that the writer thinks we wouldn't have followed them to their holes and exterminated them. There wouldn't be any signing of any surrenders or conquest, we'd wipe them out to the last strand of DNA and destroy any data we had on their physiology to ensure they could never be resurrected in any way.
Bold of you to assume it wasn't a simple truce so we can rebuild forces to curb stomp the bastards
Yeahs we are not victorious if the enemy Still exists
Damn,never piss off an angry human. For the algorithm.
Do not open Pandora's box. You will not like what comes out to play.
Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army on the march
@@justinswinehart5361 long way from home
@@jyshot Paying the price in young men's lives
@@justinswinehart5361 Thousands of feet march to the beat
@@justincase9033 it's an army in despair
Humans "keep F-ing around xeno scum"
Xeno's "or what?!?!"
Humans "you'll find out!"
Here for the inevitable Sabaton fans
"Twinstar Solar System" ..i see..... oh you poor Aliens. How was the War against that Colony?
"THOUSANDS OF FEET MARCHING TO THE BEAT, ARMIES ON THE MARCH
8:02 that description of the soldier appears to match *A SPACE MARINE OF THE BLACK TEMPLAR CHAPTER!*
PURGE THE HERETIC, KILL THE MUTANT, BURN THE WITCH!!!
Helgan more like.
Sounds more like one of the scions to me.
@@germainsimada7591 The only space marines with black armour I know of are the Black Templar so that’s what I guessed they were
@@bushman1777 The only space marines with black armour I know of are the Black Templar so that’s what I guessed they were
Greetings Mentlegent
For the Rhyhtm that is Algo
The enemy provoked what they got.
I note, however, that it wasn't Earth they were fighting over. I kept waiting for human reinforcements from Earth to show up.
Bold of the author to think that humanity will not be the one doing the conquring in the first place
They lived long enough to become Heroic Villans of Justice.
Good old kill zone look never fails to scare an enemy
This is a prequel to one of the stories Agro has read.
linky please
linky please
linky please
link please
Don't call them Terrans.
careful least you wake the sleeping giant because he's pissed and disillusioned
So tell me what‘s the price of a mile? Although the start reminds me more of gallipoli
THOUSANDS OF FEET MARCH TO THE BEAT, AN ARMY ON THE MARCH
A buck-o-five
@@unga_bunga6004 this was playing in my head the entire time I was reading this
Six miles of ground has been won
Half a million men are gone
(do the math yourself)
@@justincase9033 51781 per km
Why did i explicitely had the thought of every assault was deemed "The Somme", and "The Verdun" fronts since they were historically similar with casulties. And yet volenteers still streamed because the aliens neglected an Inportant rule. Mankind already called dips on that planet, and by god every life we expend, regretable or not will be done so to reclaim it. It's like every species ( in some stories) always give up around the end of the 19th century in our history books and think "Well they don't have all that funny mustaches and beards but they're relatively the same. Nothing to worry about". Ypu took shit and Mined it to hell, Put up some razor wire with artillery, machine guns, dogged defenders with guns ready and tracked locomotive logistics as well as Bunkers???? Looks like someone skimmed the WW1 section of our history books.
There is no way humanity failed any landings given our history...
Agreed. Their strategy was awful.
Writers dont understand strategy especially when the ending words are some half baked anti-war Aesop. Pacifism only works when you arent an idiot about it.
@SA McC Sadly we have yoused this exact strategy to great effect. Unless there was 100% fatality rate each one of those landings would be a success since you only need a few to disrupt the enemies battlelines.
When all else fails, we drown them in our own blood
Have a great day Agro, take care of you and yours
The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of "Men who wanted to be left Alone".
They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know, that the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the "Men who wanted to be left Alone" are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. . . .
Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these "Men who wanted to be left Alone", fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy . . . . but it will fall upon deaf ears."
Emperor! We come for you!
Humanitys mistake was being too complacent.
9:35 Humanity will learn from this mistake, obliterate the elves and take what they have stolen.
"Sabaton price of a mile in the background" when the when the aliens attacked us and solider started talking
There are reasons why you don't poke the sleeping bear. If it wakes, it's likely to eat you.
sounds like Krieg shock troops to me
They awakened the fallen empire
I've found it weird how so many HFY seem to prefer the metric system, because when I looked at all the countries that have a flag on the moon, not a single one uses the metric system...
NASA uses metric
@@satibel NASA is not a country.
@@satibel it didn't when we put that flag there!
@@iLikeCoffee777 yes, but it's the system that is used in space
@@iLikeCoffee777 but most HFY don't happen before 1990s when NASA started mostly using metric
They discontinued imperial in 2007, so any HFY story happening after 2007 whould use the metric system.
hear the sound of the machine gun
hear it echo in the night
Mortals firing rains the scene
Scars the fields
That once were green
Still a deadlock at the frontlines
Where the soldiers rest in mud
Quantity has a Quality all it's own. . .
A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm
*When humans become mindless war machines:*
Reminds me of America immediately after WW2. They’re taking over so nothing like this can happen again. Of course, then politics happened, so look how long that promise lasted.
Listening to this after playing Helldivers hits different
they should have began to think why humans wanted no further, they sould habe also listened, for wen a human draws a line in the sand, do not cross it.
In the song what's the price of a mile someone in the comments section calculated the number of deaths relative to how many miles they took. It was 83,333 people per mile.
why you send in the kriegers if you want to break the enemy xeno
The Cult of Sacrifice is strong with this one. Vraks anyone?
Living such an easy life that you never would have to fight for survival does not make you greater, it makes you a spoiled child that looks down on those that built everything you whine about.
For the disembodied voice!
Hear the sound of a machine gun
Hear it echo in the night
Mortals firing rains the scene
Scars the fields
That once were green
It's a stalemate at the front line
Where the soldiers rest in mud
Roads and houses
All is gone
There is no glory to be won
Know that many men will suffer
Know that many men will die
Half a million lives at stake
Ask the fields of Passchendaele
And as the night falls the general calls
And the battle carries on and on
How long?
What is the purpose of it all
What's the price of a mile?
Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army on the march
Long way from home
Paying the price in young men's lives
Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army in despair
Knee-deep in mud
Stuck in the trench with no way out
The algorithm can take a hike but have no problem leaving a like
I can envision this story as a prelude to the Space Cadets songs Kill All Xenos and Wars of Expansion.
"Peft" hahaha, usually you're so good about catching typos. Edit: 10:45 for people for didn't catch it.
Thousands of machineguns, keep on firing through the night
Mortars blaze and wreck the scene
Gone's the fields that once were green
Still a deadlock at the frontline, where the soldiers die in mud
Roads and houses, since long gone
Still no glory has been won
Know that many men has suffered,
Know that many men has died
Six miles of ground has been won
Half a million men are gone
As the men crawled, the general called,
And the killing carried on, and on,
What was the purpose of it all?
What's the price of a mile?
*THE DEATH KORPS OF KRIEG*
Fueled by coffee and hate.
we know what we are. restrained not harmless
Thank you for the reading
Forgive not the violent greed of the sneering xeno. Repay fire with annihilation.
For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Disembodied Voice!
Huh. A story not based on human superior weapons.
🎶What's the price of a mile? 🎶
Very Kriegsman like this one. I approve!
Glorious
Hope everyone understand now why the IDF acts as it does.
can you post a link to the article plz?
Link is at the top of the description
Sabaton strikes again.
Good story but what's a kilometer
For the Algorithm11!
What's the name of this if anyone knows? Is this part of a book series..?
WWII in a future setting.
Where can I find the art for the thumbnail?
We have a twin Sun solar System 😂
That was awesome
That felt like bad writing though.
*What's the price of a mile*
I don't really understand how ground wars feature so heavily in sci-fi when targeting installations from space with relativistic kill weapons is a thing.
However, still a good story.
while accurate orbital strikes alone are insufficient to take a planet. If you want to acquire that planet's resources, liberate trapped populations, etc. if you have orbital supremacy and have identified an enemy position or fortress strike it to your heart's content. but at the end of the day, a relativistic kill weapon does not secure a mine or rescue the inhabitants of a town that has been enslaved to run said mine. or collect intelligence from the enemy base it only leaves a crater in the ground where the objective once stood.
@oscar phillips of course, some kind of ground action is generally still required, particularly to capture or subdue particular locations/installations etc, orbital supremacy would significantly reduce the requirement for large scale ground combat.
With precise enough imaging and focusing, you can potentially shoot at individuals on the ground from space without collateral damage, leaving your heavier ordinance to take out hardened targets. Hell, you could even use weapons which don't damage buildings but kill biological organisms (such as focused microwaves) to target biological targets inside non-hardened structures.
@@SilverMKI and I don't dispute your claim that orbital supremacy should require less significant ground action in most cases.
again true provided that such is within the technological capabilities of the species involved and there are no available countermeasures to such tactics. though given the usual scale of most shipboard weaponry would generally make them more suited to artillery roles. so I don't think that essentially sniping individuals from orbit would really be a thing at least not without a lot of collateral damage.
For the algorithm
How much is the price for peace seems more app
Zerg rush wins :(
Why Isent the rest of humanity helping this unga bunga colony?
cool
7th, 1 February 2023
algorithm
I absolutely hate the metric system if for no other reason than the goddamn advocates spouting endless dribble about its greatness while not being able to do anymore than regurgitate basic math in a subpar manner. There is no creativity nor beauty in the crap that is the metric system and I will hate it forevermore!
Okay, Boomer. 😆
It's a Fecking measuring sistem, why should it be creative or beautiful?
Let the sistem be practical, and the things created by it be beautiful and creative.
There is such thing as beauty in simplicity.
Where's the beauty in a drunken mathematician throwing dice to create a measuring system?
@@dalvarez40 100 ml of beer sucks. A pint? Perfection.
Depressing. There is no celebratory tone to this story. I personally think this story does not really fit r/HFY
Thousands of feet march to the beat it's an army on the march.
I could afford it I got that oil money