That is probably the only 40k meme I can recall without a search and still my favorite by far. It's just so dumb but totally in line with 40k, to the point I'm still not sure it's a joke in-lore... cause I could totally see an IG commissar giving such an order.
Purple orkz actually does show up in one 40k instance. In the game Dakkajet: Flyboyz edition. You can choose different paint jobs To increase your plane’s stats. Choosing purple increases the “stealth” which mechanically does nothing.
making a video about "who can beat a swarm lord" based on encountering them in novels would be so funny because you've got all these named space marine characters who just barely manage to eek out a win with heavy damage sustained, and then Caiaphas Cain and Jurgen manage to get the win without even destroying their car.
19:20 As a french, listening to a human have to explain that WW1 was horrible felt weird because it made me realise how obvious it was for us. We're constantly reminded of how awful WW1 was in our culture. WW1 is taught at school, Verdun has an entire museum, but most importantly: there is a statue dedicated to the dead of WW1 in every french village,each statue has a list of the men who died as soldiers during the war. Even in the smallest villages I've never seen the number of dead go below 20. WW1 was rough.
Canadian here. Our history books and education does focus a lot on WW1, as it is considered to fill a role in our history somewhat equivalent to the American Revolutionary War to the US. Public education on history in Canada is largely a matter of "look how fucking crazy bad this was, let's not do it again if we can help it"
Same here in the UK, WW1 is taught just as much as WW2. Heck we have 'Remembrance day' and whole thing is you wear a poppy for the day since poppies are symbolic of World War 1 due to the fact they were the *only* thing to grow in no-mans land. With the UK you had the 'Pals Battalions' which were where entire towns worth of men would sign up all at once and be shipped out to the front as one big unit...with sometimes only one or two or often none at all coming home, villages and towns just lost an entire generation of young men. However, I do notice an interesting thing with, at least in the UK for the War in Europe during WW2 is taught about, the Pacific war is largely ignored/glossed over, at least it was during my primary school years some 30 years ago. Now I imagine it's included due to the fact that the Australians also took part in the Pacific campaign in a big way.
You read the deathtolls on something like Wikipedia. And you go "thats alot of people". But its so abstract. Memorials like that sound wonderful in honoring and makeing sure we remeber. And such an unecessary war as well. A terrorist shoots a prince in Sarajevo and now Germany and France are killing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of each others young men.
Polish here, as far as historiography goes, WW1 here is somewhat of an oddball, as it is considered costly, but ultimately beneficial event due to regaining independence and destruction of three empires that partitioned Poland in the tail end of 18th century. Meanwhile WW2 is the event that scarred collective consciousness.
Okay, i can actually contribute something here! For purple orks! The first audiobook I got was "The Rose at War", a Sisters short story collection by Danie Ware. It details the early life of Sister Augusta of the Bloody Rose, from new Sister to Sister Superior. The first story has a fresh faced Augusta with her squad cleansing Orks off a ship. She falls off the railing into the water below, and as she is trying to find her way out something is stalking her. She can't see it until its feet from her. And it is indeed, a sneaky purple Ork!
The lasgun charging is based on historical precedent. In the Battle for Hill 314 near the town of Mortain during the Normandy campaign, the 30th American Infantry Division was cut off from all supplies for a week while they held back a german counter attack. In order to continue using their radios to call in air support, they had to resort to squeezing every last bit of power from their batteries, which they did by placing the batteries in direct sunlight. This only gave them about six minutes of extra radio time per battery, but it was enough to continue to call in fire support. It did completely drain the batteries though, and they were unusable afterwards.
'The Imperial Infrantyman's Uplifting Primer' 2008. Page 20. (iii) Loading and unloading (a) *To recharge power pack* A laser power pack will last for many shots and can be recharged from a standard power pack. Placing the pack in an open fire will also have an effect, but this shortens the pack's life and reliability. It is recommended that this method of recharging is only used in an emergency.
Yup, as they mention, in several places in books and background lore the whole 'charging it in an open fire' is mentioned as a 'literally only do this if you have no other option'.
I vividly remember reading the line in that very booklet at a friend's place back in 2008 (after watching the DoW2 cinematic trailer that also dropped that day like 20 times in a row) and agreeing with him that this particular snipped of lore was incedribly stupid.
List of future memes: Tau can't Melee I am Alpharius Drive me closer, I want to hit it with my sword Lotara Sarrin scares the living piss out of Angron
That book Betrayer from the Horus heresy is an underrated gem & not only does it's captain scare the hell out of nearly all the World eaters but me too if she was nearby.
"I am Alpharius" is incredible because it's actually a meme in-universe among Alpha Legion. There's a meeting between the leaders of their factions, and one steps up with the whole Alpharius thing-face changed and all-and he gets dunked on almost to the point of crying, because everyone else thinks it's cringe. Alpha Legion are the best. :D They've been together for 10,000 years and the effect of time spent living as renegades has done unique things to their legion. It's less a hydra and more a bunch of snakes tied together pretending to be a hydra.
I loved that bit. Overall I think the book was mediocre, but seeing the way the Alpha Legion splintered after the Heresy was great. Daemon summoners, death cultist leaders, trait guard guerillas, and of course I Am Alpharius @@RaptieFeathers
I CATO SICARIUS demand to appear on the next episode so you can discuss the great deeds that I, CATO SICARIUS have performed in the past. (You read that in his voice didn't you?)
Something that was glossed over that's kind of a "missing link" in the whole "Guilliman/Yavanne ship/Guilliman loves Eldar" meme: the name of the Farseer who Eldrad sends as a diplomat to Guilliman is Illiyanne Natasé. It's not simply a random name they made up for this character, but a reference back to a character from the Rouge Trader era. This character, Illiyan Nastase, was the chief librarian of the Ultramarines before he was retconned with Varro Tigurius. Oh and he was also a HALF-ELDAR SPACE MARINE! So, this leads us back to the Yvraine/Guilliman ship and the joke "Where does a Half-Aeldar Half-Space Marine come from? Well, when a Primarch and an Aeldar prophetess have mild feeling for each other..."
Another ship more rooted in facts is Saint Celestine and Greyfax, where the latter first believed the living saint to be a demon in disguise and then fell in awe realising that no, she was the real deal.
I always thought that ship was more meme than anything, but in Fall of Cadia the first time we get an overly detailed description of any character at all is the first time Greyfax lays eyes on Celestine and the whole section is just Greyfax absolutely thirsting all over every tiny detail of Celestine's whole body. It is not subtle in the slightest to the reader, but then Greyfax has to make up a BS reason as to why she's so """interested""" in her.
Not only that but there is *several* times where Celestine purposefully flusters Greyfax by doing not so subtle innuendo at her because Celestine knows that the whole "Grr she could be a demon in disguise" is basically a terrible cover story. As @burnin8able mentions, the description Greyfax gives of finally seeing Celestine in Fall of Cadia is thirsty as fuck, like it's not even subtle about it. Not to mention Greyfax saves Celestine from Abaddon and does the whole "Yeah, well, erm, I didn't save you, just Abaddon was the bigger threat, if you didn't have your acolytes around you I would totally kill you...yeah..." The audio book 'Our Martyed Lady' has Celestine refering to Greyfax by her first name (Katarinya) and generally being friendly towards her, whilst Greyfax is her usually grumpy self but begrudgingly comes to accept the friendly nature of Celestine by the end of the book. The relationship gives off very Tsundere vibes from Greyfax especially since this takes place after Fall of Cadia.
It's more like a big tower but he's meditating on the primordial truth and his understanding of chaos. Corax is hunting him but he's not lile "being spawncamped" persay. So they reframe it only slightly.
@@keyanklupacs6333 Makes sense, iirc Lorgar is still moving and shaking in the galaxy too, but just how far from the truth this is would be interesting to see them address
Perturabo is literally a man-child. He was a child with a fully formed consciousness and intelligence. He never went through the mental formative years to become an adult. He is literally a child mentally, with the knowledge and responsibilities of a demigod.
Also love in cawls book, the man who discovered the goldilocks zone, the distance from a star where the temperature is safe for life to form, is named Gul de lac and named it the three ursine hypothesis, of course refrencing Goldilocks and the three bears.
Well, you guys got me to buy my first miniatures, paints and brushes in ~15 years. I hope you're happy for ruining my financial wellbeing, you monsters.
When you have Forgebreaker, a full set of Custodes armor and weapons, and one of Skarbarand's weapons lying around, there's not a whole lot of alternative answers.
The "blood magpies" meme comes from how the Blood Ravens in DoW somehow have a TON of relics in their possession. The best explanation for some of these is that they "borrowed" them from another chapter somehow.
Any time GW announces a new Space Marine or Stormcast model I hear the “Doofenschmirtz Evil Incorporated” jingle in my head because they’re about to tell me about their newest KILL-INATOR or EXTRAPO-LATOR.
My grandfather was friends with Vietnam vets and one operated machine gun he always said that he had a life of expectancy of 15 minutes in combat because once a firefight started he would be the number one priority of the Vietcong. He was a kind person and did live a full life. The more you zoom in the worst it gets
Been listening to a military history podcast called Lions Lead by Donkeys & after listening to a dozen or so episodes, it seems like that short life when bullets are flying, accident from friendly fire or communication breakdown from those in charge (or nobody in charge) happened a bunch.
So, the shovel meme is based on WW1 trench warfare. It was quite common for a soldier to use a spade to either assault a trench or defend a trench. It's a fairly heavy piece of steel that can be and was sharpened for use in melee. Essentially, not only can you hack a man to death with a shovel, but it's heavy enough to be a bludgeon too.
Since battle axes were a lot thinner and smaller than Fantasy designers think, a sharpened shovel is essentially a terribly designed doubleheaded battle axe.
Fact that every solider have shovel with him combined with how hard is to maneuver Lucius pattern lasgun(much longer than other patterns) in narrow trench to stab someone, gives very, very big chance that krieger will grab his shovel to smack some heretic in the head during CQC
The issue is when improvised weapons are assumed to be the default, but Krieg models come with trench clubs and hand axes. Also bayonets. Even if an E-Tool can be used as weapon, they have actual dedicated melee too.
The fact that they use the same whatever-ORS naming convention on AOS stormcast as space marines is maddening if you play both systems, sooo many "ors"
22:56 I want to add: when I was in the army in the early 2010s, we had an infantry fieldcraft manual that featured lots of information that I won't go into here, but one part showcased techniques to use when using your field shovel as a weapon. This manual was pretty outdated in many respects, but it was not WW1-age, it was rather probably put together towards the end of the Cold War.
That's not really a good equivalent, though. Land is a word that has meaning, before the existence of Warhammer. Wordle didn't exist as a word before the game. It's more like if a brand called Runners was named after John Runners and not because they sell running shoes.
@@ashtonhoward5582 sorry for thinking it's funny how close his name is to word ig? Like you really really don't see how that's a fun coincidence like at all? And even if you don't was there a need to be so pedantic about it? I just wanted to share something I thought was cool 😅
“He’s portraying a commander, you can’t look like you’re 90 and dying..” * Looks at the next presidential candidates * How does 40K understand this and reality doesn’t?
Purple being the sneakiest color is confirmed in the novel Catachan Devil, around the final 2 hours of the audio book, the kommando nob does mention it!!!! spread the news!!
I know for the Kreig shovel meme, the short movie "Exodite" (which is about the Tau, not the Exodites) I forgot if it was canon or not, but it does depict a Kreiger smacking a Stealth Suit with a shovel
The lasgun power packs being chargeable in a fire predates Dan Abnett's involvement in the 40k universe. The first mention I'm personally aware of is the core Rulebook for the 1995 Edition of Necromunda, where the fire charging is mentioned in the Lasgun entry on page 50
isn't it a stealth battlesuit too? like, yeah man, that malnourished trench freak is definitely going to slice through a suit of light power armor with a goddamn shovel.
My one issue with shovels as ccw is, that they keep us from getting cool Krieg sculpts with trench daggers, of which there were a bunch of interesting designs.
The "Land's Raider" bit is literally a running gag on Phineas and Ferb, e.g. the Tri-State Area was founded by a guy named John Tri-state. The absurdity is exactly appropriate for 40k, but there's diminishing returns. "Legio Astartes is actually meant to be Astarte's Legio" doesn't commit hard enough- we need more lore reveals like "The Emperor never held the rank of Emperor, it was just his favourite tarot card."
Dont know is a big meme, but my friend group loving joking that because of the audio books for Lords of Silence and Dark Imperium trilogy, Mortarian and Typhus are just Megatron and Starscream
The intersection between anime and warhammer has to be one of the strangest and most fascinating crossovers between fandoms around. So I want to see the warhammer anime memes.
It does make me sad that the crossovers aren't more accepted by the 40k community. 40k lends itself well to anime tropes with how over the top both can be.
29:40 The “I’m a tank” joke has been told in the actual Army for decades. I heard it as a private, my dad heard it as an officer. It isn’t a 40k meme, it’s a joke about whatever army you’re about to be sent to fight the next day. It goes back to at least Vietnam and I’ve heard claims it was a joke as far back as WW1.
Should be noted on the 15 hours thing that the vast majority of casualties in the IRL examples were fresh troops. If you survived those first few days expectancy jumped to ~a month, if you survived a month you were likely to survive the war. Which makes sense, since no amount of training is likely to prep you for a horror show such as stalingrad, verdun or the somme and if you don't have first hand experience you'd be likelier to make a mistake, which in such a context likely would result in death.
IIRC, the shovel over the bayonet is commonly referenced in “All Quiet on the Western Front.” The context is that an experienced soldier knows the bayonet is not useful against multiple attackers because it gets stuck. The scene is in the book and many of the film versions. Although not mentioned in the 2022 film version, there is a kill using a shovel. Enough people got exposed to AQOTWF in school (I think) to make people believe that IRL shovels are extremely common OR it’s just porting some other WWI popular media to a group that is very clearly inspired by WWI infantry.
The first time I met one of my not-quite-family members he had a handful of batteries, he was 'warming them to get a bit more charge out of them'. On a more serious note, I can rationalise the lasgun charging thing as some form of energy recycling. The gun gets hot as you shoot it, so the charge packs have integrated micro-thermoelectric generators to recycle that waste heat - something like: normally a lasgun will fire 300 shots per charge pack, but if you 50-shot burst it and let it cool off you can squeeze an extra 20-50 shots out of it depending on the environment. It also lets you slap 'charging ports' on any part of a vehicle that gets hot, which might be relevant for logistics.
That's kinda weird, because these days we generally try and keep batteries cool (some places I work have special fridges for the spare batteries - don't keep food/drinks in the same place). With a lot of newer batteries (outside car battery issues) - being too hot will drain them or cause them to catch fire - vs keeping them cool.
@@jonasstreich4405 It all kind of makes sense. Chemical reactions happen faster at higher temperatures, so theoretically a battery should discharge faster when warmer. So it's good to keep batteries cool when not in use or if they're providing enough power, but if they can't meet the power demand (like a nearly-dead battery) then warming them up might help. Of course, warming batteries will do bad things to their long-term lifespan and the fire risk is real, but the battery-warming incident was some 20-odd years ago with non-rechargeable AA batteries for a TV remote. I suspect it might have been misapplied wisdom regarding car batteries in very cold weather.
5:03 Power throuple: Guilliman, Yvraine, and Cawl Edit: 6:28 Power policule: Guilliman, Yvraine, Cawl, and Eldrad, uniting Imperium, Ynnari, Admech, and Asuryani, ready to conquer the universe
I can't remember the name of the book but it was a collection of guard stories. A creag got left behind, given up for dead, lost his memory, got conscripted in to a planetary clean up crew, and killed a cultists with a shovel. Not an entrenching tool mind you, a shovel. He ended up joining the guard again under a different name.
Make an episode about the 40k books Brad has read. You can call it The Definitive 40k Book Tier List and then clarify it's only the books Brad has read. Brad has too many suggestions for 40k books. "Read this if you like this faction.", "Read this if you like that faction."
Sticking to the plan... Sounds like something an Ultramarine would say... Going further, a 'plan' to fulfill a greater plan eric can't comprehend sounds appropriate.
The krieg shovel bit almost certainly comes from 'All Quiet on the Western Front' - wherein a senior sergeant explains that the ideal close combat implement was a sharpened shovel- instead of a new serrated bayonet that had been issued to new recruits. The reason for this was not that the bayonet was of poor quality- it worked very well- too well. The grevious cutting wounds would be near impossible to patch up and heal for field medics. French (and allied, I guess) troops that caught you with that razor-bayonet they'd kill you instead of taking you prisoner. Shovels, on the other hand, would kill a man just as well but would not draw the ire of the allies. It's a memorable scene, but 40k's fandom has utterly flanderized it for our krieg boys. The better question is why. Honestly? My 2 cents? Krieg is exactly like all of the other forgotten guard regiments that aren't cadian. They get very few books, and the books they get are inconsistent and weird- we still don't have a good understanding of basic facts about life on the planet krieg because Black Library keeps changing their mind on critical details. So the krieg fanbase takes whatever they can get that's memetic and runs with it. Kind of like the fact that the tactics the death korps use aren't actually wasteful in terms of manpower; trench warfare and siege tactics exist to attrition the foe while preserving ones own forces. They just deploy against impossible odds all the time and have a cult of martyrdom.
My personal headcanon for recharging las-packs in a fire isn't that they're empty mags recharging, but instead that they're either clogged in their inner workings or requiring heat in some form to bring out the rest of the energy still inside. Some would inevitably be made at a lower level of quality and precision on a massive scale and could jam up like they're dry when there's still more left in it. Like ink toner. The fire either melts something blocking the ammo or the heat re-energiezes a fuel source into becoming chemically active again. Or this is just hard-core copium.
Alright, screw it, I'm gonna be that guy. Astarte does not mean "space", even if it looks like "astra" which means star. Astarte is the Greek name for a ancient near-East goddess sometimes equated to Ishtar, goddess of war (and love, cause clearly those two are similar. "All is fair" and all that). The fact that they gave that name to a dude in the "canon" is... well, par for the course, really.
@@enkelainen Ye, she is in the Valdor book. Really good read and short for a 40k novel. Bonus point for her making herself immortal but aging herself into a corpse as a penance for a past of horrific warcrimes.
For the Shovels thing - Standard Issue war-gear in the modern German Bundeswehr, but also in the WWII Wehrmacht was a "Feldspaten" or "Klappspaten", a foldable spade. To unfold it, you hold onto the grip and swing it like a baseball bat. Hundreds of thousands of foldable spades were 'recovered' from the Battlefields in WW2, and they're still so plentiful that you can get one of these WW2 relic for a couple of bucks. The Myth that German soldiers - and therefor kriegsmen, which are modeled after WW2 Germans - used shovels for Hand-to-Hand combat was probably born from there.
Magnus using psykics and destroying the webway project would have been a 15 minute timeout but then Russ burned Prospero. A major overreaction and a completely reasonable reason Magnus turned traitor. BUT that completely ignores the fact that Magnus later discovered it was Horus that tricked Russ into burning Prospero. The moment Magnus found that out and didnt change side he was the bad guy of his story!
Practical, usable shovels have what's called a working edge. You're not going to be shaving with it, but it's sharp enough to push through roots with some force behind it, and roots are much tougher then human squishy bits. Also, have you seen what a IRL entrenching tool looks like from around WW 2? That gets nasty, and there's some documentation around Stalingrad of it being used there. Frankly I like the idea of Kregers having an entrenching tool as their preferred weapon of choice, especially the ones that are 'multi use' with like one side with a saw blade on it. It's short, it's brutal, and it's a compromise between the lack of leverage that a knife has and how awkward a bayonet is to use in truly close quarters. Bricky takes a _fat_ L on hating the entrenching tool. Frankly, I _love_ how stupid the names of Imperium stuff is. Taking the same stupid naming conventions as IRL bureaucracy and military, slap it onto the cranked up to 11 byzantine bureaucracy, and it's so perfect and helps drive home just how screwed humanity is. The one Ork meme that made me start paying attention was _way_ back in the day, the word of mouth about how awesome the setting was, was that you had all of these super serious factions in this grim dark setting, but there was a recaptured looted Leman Russ that both the IG and AdMech couldn't figure out how it went, because instead of an engine it had a box with 'enjin vroom vroom' in that space. When I asked reddit years ago, no one else could find a source but other people have heard of it and it makes me sad that wasn't something in the lore. Either Magnus was so stupid and had not enough agency over his own actions to be trusted to be on the same planet as a pair of safety scissors, or he did wrong. I'm giving Brad's legion the benefit of doubt as to not be following someone who shouldn't be trusted with a picture of safety scissors and landing firmly on Magnus did wrong.
37:35 Ok, props to Zephics on that Votann, I don't know if the gold Smiley Face on the helmet was intentional, but I can't unsee it now, and I unironically love it
If you want an even more terrifying life expectancy, during the Cold War NATO soldier stationed at the Fulda Gap life expectancy was projected to be measured in minutes not hours if the cold war went hot and the USSR rolled into western Europe.
I’ve got a few suggestions. One: TTS, specifically Kitten and Shadowsun having dated but it’s not “canon.” Two: Sly Marbo. Three: Lasguns being as powerful as flashlights but are actually really good. Four: Primarch GFs. Five: this one is an old one but the Empire ignoring that the Skaven exist
Also, here's the best (head-canon, not supported by lore) explanation I ever saw for the lasgun charger packs: originally these packs were not batteries for guns. They were dark age nuclear batteries to charge your whole house (not nuclear reactors, nuclear batteries like the kind America keeps losing in mountains). Then the "modern" Ad-Mech figured out how to make guns that are adapted to these plentiful batteries, but these batteries have safety features to stop you from burning your house down, so you have to override the safety with heat or a strong electric charge - that lets you override the safety (and thus fire your gun) for "a while", but when it cools down and the safety goes back on, you need to chuck it in a campfire to override safety again. There is a drawback in that you're killing yourself with radiation, but remember: Imperial Guard.
"These memes arent real" second meme in "dante wouldn't mind shuffling off the mortal coil" I just want to see GW make it canon that Dante is actually a perpetual, it'd be funny.
Purple ork confirmed in one of the opening short stories of Rose at War novel, where in one of the short stories, a Sister ends up in a fight with an Ork she didn't see until the end who was covered in purple paint.
Hey heads up from a Theology guy: Astarte is also the name of an ancient Levantine war goddess. Who also just happens to be the relative of Yahweh's divine consort Atherat/Asherah, a cousin of Ishtar, and is also related to Aphrodite. (Source: Overly Sarcastic Productions and Esoterica)
Let us also not forget Stavros Photo, inventor of the Photocopier; Claude de la Magnetique, who introduced the Magnetic Compass; and Glenda Baseball, who invented so many pieces of sports equipment that her name became synonymous with stickball itself.
Please cover Failbaddon the Armless next time and how much of the meme comes from the mini being ass vs. from the story/writing letting him down. Also check up on whether Ultramarines still get the "spiritual liege" treatment. Any older/4chan memes really, trying to figure out their origin/veracity isn't great because 4chan doesn't archive very well and is the website equivalent of a poxwalker
Pretty much every "kriegers fighting with shovels" fan depiction I've seen is a krieger getting ambushed while digging a trench and using the shovel they were digging that trench with as a weapon because its what they have already in their hand. "Ork jumps a Krieger while he's trench digging, he caves the ork's skull in and then resumes digging like nothing happened" sort of thing. There is also the cross-over meme of the Soldier from TF2 having a shovel as his default melee weapon, and an unlock called the market gardener which is infamous for the "Trolldier" playstyle (where you use rocket jumps to ambush people with a garunteed melee crit (market gardener crits 100% when you are in a "blast jumping" state)).
With the Guard, law of averages very much applies. When you have billions of soldiers constantly fighting galaxy-ending horrors and entire *planets* can be wiped out in seconds, that life expectency is gonna plummet.
As much as I agree with the "Ork memes are how you sell this game because they're fun" sentiment, I think the "I'm a tank" and "scream 'Bang!' to kill an Ork without ammo" memes need to go away. It's the most inaccurate, annoying representation of Ork magic and people will just be disappointed to hear that it's not how Orks work in the slightest once they get in and read up on them.
I'm sure I heard that "I'm a tank" joke completely disconnected from Warhammer long before I heard the Ork version. It was about soldiers taking part in a wargame with no funding for equipment.
"Drive me closer so I can hit them with my sword"
Always funny.
Probably the first WH40k meme I ever encountered. Those old demotivational poster memes were great.
or the better variant "Fly me closer so I can hit them with my sword."
That is probably the only 40k meme I can recall without a search and still my favorite by far. It's just so dumb but totally in line with 40k, to the point I'm still not sure it's a joke in-lore... cause I could totally see an IG commissar giving such an order.
Purple orkz actually does show up in one 40k instance. In the game Dakkajet: Flyboyz edition. You can choose different paint jobs To increase your plane’s stats. Choosing purple increases the “stealth” which mechanically does nothing.
I love how "Magnus did nothing wrong" evolved to "Magnus was told to do nothing and he did it wrong" :D
It's probably for the best because of the origins of X did nothing wrong.
My favourite spin on it is 'Damnit Magnus, this could have been an email.'
I know he did a LOT wrong but I pretend not to care because he is cool as hell still and kinda a tumblrsexyman which is just really funny for 40k
Idk i heard magnus did nothing wrong and is a good boy.
@@s.a.l.1974 Oh god you're right...Magnus is peak tumblrsexyman.
making a video about "who can beat a swarm lord" based on encountering them in novels would be so funny because you've got all these named space marine characters who just barely manage to eek out a win with heavy damage sustained, and then Caiaphas Cain and Jurgen manage to get the win without even destroying their car.
His name is Jurgen, and he is the most lovable smelly guardsman
@@MarkOfTzeentch thanks for the edit, gotta spell his name right, he's the Commissar's Aid after all.
Ahhhh. My fav commissar and my introduction to 40k novels. truly touched by the emperor he is
@@punkypink83 I hadn't started reading his novels until I had read quite a few others, but I agree they are an absolutely perfect introductory series.
Well of course they do, you can’t expect something so pathetic to be any trouble to a HERO OF THE IMPERIUM.
khornflakes for the milk throne
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
MILK FOR THE KHORNEFLAKES!
GUMMY FOR THE GUMMY GOD
SUGAR FOR THE SUGAR THRONE
TREATS FOR KHANDY KHORNE
@@destroyer-dv6jv BLOOD FOR THE EMPEROR!
SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE!
ARMS FOR THE ARMCHAIR
@@meccevil321 yes inquisitor this comment right here
"we'll never let a joke die", that's exactly why the emperor is still in his chair
19:20 As a french, listening to a human have to explain that WW1 was horrible felt weird because it made me realise how obvious it was for us. We're constantly reminded of how awful WW1 was in our culture. WW1 is taught at school, Verdun has an entire museum, but most importantly: there is a statue dedicated to the dead of WW1 in every french village,each statue has a list of the men who died as soldiers during the war. Even in the smallest villages I've never seen the number of dead go below 20. WW1 was rough.
There's the Iron Harvest too right? It's been a century and farmers are still digging up UXO and abandoned field guns
Canadian here. Our history books and education does focus a lot on WW1, as it is considered to fill a role in our history somewhat equivalent to the American Revolutionary War to the US. Public education on history in Canada is largely a matter of "look how fucking crazy bad this was, let's not do it again if we can help it"
Same here in the UK, WW1 is taught just as much as WW2. Heck we have 'Remembrance day' and whole thing is you wear a poppy for the day since poppies are symbolic of World War 1 due to the fact they were the *only* thing to grow in no-mans land. With the UK you had the 'Pals Battalions' which were where entire towns worth of men would sign up all at once and be shipped out to the front as one big unit...with sometimes only one or two or often none at all coming home, villages and towns just lost an entire generation of young men.
However, I do notice an interesting thing with, at least in the UK for the War in Europe during WW2 is taught about, the Pacific war is largely ignored/glossed over, at least it was during my primary school years some 30 years ago. Now I imagine it's included due to the fact that the Australians also took part in the Pacific campaign in a big way.
You read the deathtolls on something like Wikipedia. And you go "thats alot of people".
But its so abstract. Memorials like that sound wonderful in honoring and makeing sure we remeber.
And such an unecessary war as well. A terrorist shoots a prince in Sarajevo and now Germany and France are killing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of each others young men.
Polish here, as far as historiography goes, WW1 here is somewhat of an oddball, as it is considered costly, but ultimately beneficial event due to regaining independence and destruction of three empires that partitioned Poland in the tail end of 18th century. Meanwhile WW2 is the event that scarred collective consciousness.
Okay, i can actually contribute something here! For purple orks!
The first audiobook I got was "The Rose at War", a Sisters short story collection by Danie Ware. It details the early life of Sister Augusta of the Bloody Rose, from new Sister to Sister Superior.
The first story has a fresh faced Augusta with her squad cleansing Orks off a ship. She falls off the railing into the water below, and as she is trying to find her way out something is stalking her. She can't see it until its feet from her. And it is indeed, a sneaky purple Ork!
I was just posting this on several comments! Glad I'm not the only one who read that book. xD
The lasgun charging is based on historical precedent. In the Battle for Hill 314 near the town of Mortain during the Normandy campaign, the 30th American Infantry Division was cut off from all supplies for a week while they held back a german counter attack. In order to continue using their radios to call in air support, they had to resort to squeezing every last bit of power from their batteries, which they did by placing the batteries in direct sunlight. This only gave them about six minutes of extra radio time per battery, but it was enough to continue to call in fire support. It did completely drain the batteries though, and they were unusable afterwards.
What you're saying is it's based on a German tank
The SturmTiger, perhaps?
'The Imperial Infrantyman's Uplifting Primer' 2008. Page 20.
(iii) Loading and unloading
(a) *To recharge power pack*
A laser power pack will last for many shots and can be recharged from a standard power pack.
Placing the pack in an open fire will also have an effect, but this shortens the pack's life and reliability.
It is recommended that this method of recharging is only used in an emergency.
Yup, as they mention, in several places in books and background lore the whole 'charging it in an open fire' is mentioned as a 'literally only do this if you have no other option'.
I vividly remember reading the line in that very booklet at a friend's place back in 2008 (after watching the DoW2 cinematic trailer that also dropped that day like 20 times in a row) and agreeing with him that this particular snipped of lore was incedribly stupid.
List of future memes:
Tau can't Melee
I am Alpharius
Drive me closer, I want to hit it with my sword
Lotara Sarrin scares the living piss out of Angron
That book Betrayer from the Horus heresy is an underrated gem & not only does it's captain scare the hell out of nearly all the World eaters but me too if she was nearby.
"I am Alpharius" is incredible because it's actually a meme in-universe among Alpha Legion. There's a meeting between the leaders of their factions, and one steps up with the whole Alpharius thing-face changed and all-and he gets dunked on almost to the point of crying, because everyone else thinks it's cringe.
Alpha Legion are the best. :D They've been together for 10,000 years and the effect of time spent living as renegades has done unique things to their legion.
It's less a hydra and more a bunch of snakes tied together pretending to be a hydra.
I loved that bit. Overall I think the book was mediocre, but seeing the way the Alpha Legion splintered after the Heresy was great. Daemon summoners, death cultist leaders, trait guard guerillas, and of course I Am Alpharius @@RaptieFeathers
I CATO SICARIUS demand to appear on the next episode so you can discuss the great deeds that I, CATO SICARIUS have performed in the past.
(You read that in his voice didn't you?)
Noone can resist reading in his voice
Emperor TTS has rotted my brain.
i did
Cuntos Shitarius indeed is annoying
Who can't is my question
I stoped watching these bozos after they didn't rank Magnus high as a tank... They don't even know he is based on the Sturmtiger smh
Purple being the sneakiest color was made canon in Catachan Devil in 2022
I think it's been canon for a while. I remember reading a Sororitas book where they encounter a Kommando who painted himself purple.
Something that was glossed over that's kind of a "missing link" in the whole "Guilliman/Yavanne ship/Guilliman loves Eldar" meme: the name of the Farseer who Eldrad sends as a diplomat to Guilliman is Illiyanne Natasé. It's not simply a random name they made up for this character, but a reference back to a character from the Rouge Trader era. This character, Illiyan Nastase, was the chief librarian of the Ultramarines before he was retconned with Varro Tigurius.
Oh and he was also a HALF-ELDAR SPACE MARINE!
So, this leads us back to the Yvraine/Guilliman ship and the joke "Where does a Half-Aeldar Half-Space Marine come from? Well, when a Primarch and an Aeldar prophetess have mild feeling for each other..."
Another ship more rooted in facts is Saint Celestine and Greyfax, where the latter first believed the living saint to be a demon in disguise and then fell in awe realising that no, she was the real deal.
I mean…. Living saint basically = daemon prince of the emprah so technically…
I always thought that ship was more meme than anything, but in Fall of Cadia the first time we get an overly detailed description of any character at all is the first time Greyfax lays eyes on Celestine and the whole section is just Greyfax absolutely thirsting all over every tiny detail of Celestine's whole body. It is not subtle in the slightest to the reader, but then Greyfax has to make up a BS reason as to why she's so """interested""" in her.
@@burnin8ableIt's spicy enough to work and that's all I need
I have Greyfax, Celestine and a plan. I'm not sure it would count as a duel though....
Not only that but there is *several* times where Celestine purposefully flusters Greyfax by doing not so subtle innuendo at her because Celestine knows that the whole "Grr she could be a demon in disguise" is basically a terrible cover story. As @burnin8able mentions, the description Greyfax gives of finally seeing Celestine in Fall of Cadia is thirsty as fuck, like it's not even subtle about it. Not to mention Greyfax saves Celestine from Abaddon and does the whole "Yeah, well, erm, I didn't save you, just Abaddon was the bigger threat, if you didn't have your acolytes around you I would totally kill you...yeah..."
The audio book 'Our Martyed Lady' has Celestine refering to Greyfax by her first name (Katarinya) and generally being friendly towards her, whilst Greyfax is her usually grumpy self but begrudgingly comes to accept the friendly nature of Celestine by the end of the book. The relationship gives off very Tsundere vibes from Greyfax especially since this takes place after Fall of Cadia.
2 memes I'd like tested: Perturabo is a crying petulant man-child, and Lorgar is hiding in his house from Big Bird Corvus Corax
It's more like a big tower but he's meditating on the primordial truth and his understanding of chaos. Corax is hunting him but he's not lile "being spawncamped" persay. So they reframe it only slightly.
@@keyanklupacs6333 Makes sense, iirc Lorgar is still moving and shaking in the galaxy too, but just how far from the truth this is would be interesting to see them address
I believe the latest CSM codex states that Lorgar is out and about leading a huge host of Word Bearers.
@@SolarArmadillo that's what I thought, would still love a deeper look at whether it was ever true and to what degree
Perturabo is literally a man-child. He was a child with a fully formed consciousness and intelligence. He never went through the mental formative years to become an adult.
He is literally a child mentally, with the knowledge and responsibilities of a demigod.
Also love in cawls book, the man who discovered the goldilocks zone, the distance from a star where the temperature is safe for life to form, is named Gul de lac and named it the three ursine hypothesis, of course refrencing Goldilocks and the three bears.
I think it was more a bastardization of the fairytale and the real life thing, in 40k? Like goldilocks zone is misremembered
The shovel meme is very much real. In the Warhammer+ animation "The Exodite" a Krieger uses a shovel to kill a Tau Pathfinder.
Isn't the exodite an acquired fan animation though.
also in darktide the shovel id one of the modt common melee weapond
It wasn't Just a Pathfinder, it was a stealth battle suit (the older one, not the egg)
Shit would indeed do numbers. Just wait a week and do it then. barring that, wait for April Fool's Day
Well, you guys got me to buy my first miniatures, paints and brushes in ~15 years. I hope you're happy for ruining my financial wellbeing, you monsters.
As one of the few lovers of Blood Ravens, I'd love the myth tested about us stealing everything.
A meme bird enjoyer in more universes than one
@@DiggingForFacts purple parakeets all the way
When you have Forgebreaker, a full set of Custodes armor and weapons, and one of Skarbarand's weapons lying around, there's not a whole lot of alternative answers.
The "blood magpies" meme comes from how the Blood Ravens in DoW somehow have a TON of relics in their possession.
The best explanation for some of these is that they "borrowed" them from another chapter somehow.
Any time GW announces a new Space Marine or Stormcast model I hear the “Doofenschmirtz Evil Incorporated” jingle in my head because they’re about to tell me about their newest KILL-INATOR or EXTRAPO-LATOR.
My grandfather was friends with Vietnam vets and one operated machine gun he always said that he had a life of expectancy of 15 minutes in combat because once a firefight started he would be the number one priority of the Vietcong. He was a kind person and did live a full life. The more you zoom in the worst it gets
Been listening to a military history podcast called Lions Lead by Donkeys & after listening to a dozen or so episodes, it seems like that short life when bullets are flying, accident from friendly fire or communication breakdown from those in charge (or nobody in charge) happened a bunch.
So, the shovel meme is based on WW1 trench warfare. It was quite common for a soldier to use a spade to either assault a trench or defend a trench. It's a fairly heavy piece of steel that can be and was sharpened for use in melee. Essentially, not only can you hack a man to death with a shovel, but it's heavy enough to be a bludgeon too.
Since battle axes were a lot thinner and smaller than Fantasy designers think, a sharpened shovel is essentially a terribly designed doubleheaded battle axe.
Fact that every solider have shovel with him combined with how hard is to maneuver Lucius pattern lasgun(much longer than other patterns) in narrow trench to stab someone, gives very, very big chance that krieger will grab his shovel to smack some heretic in the head during CQC
@BlommaBaumbart that is very true. Battle axes weren't very thick.
The issue is when improvised weapons are assumed to be the default, but Krieg models come with trench clubs and hand axes. Also bayonets.
Even if an E-Tool can be used as weapon, they have actual dedicated melee too.
I don't know if it was common, a bayonet is a much more effective melee weapon.
My favorite objective marker update podcast is back!
The fact that they use the same whatever-ORS naming convention on AOS stormcast as space marines is maddening if you play both systems, sooo many "ors"
We better get the goddamn cereal episode.
22:56 I want to add: when I was in the army in the early 2010s, we had an infantry fieldcraft manual that featured lots of information that I won't go into here, but one part showcased techniques to use when using your field shovel as a weapon. This manual was pretty outdated in many respects, but it was not WW1-age, it was rather probably put together towards the end of the Cold War.
I mean it makes sense. When ranking makeshift weapons a shovel is probably gonna get pretty high up there.
My favourite real life "Land Raider" situation of all time is absolutely Wordle being created by a guy called Josh Wardle 🤣
That's not really a good equivalent, though. Land is a word that has meaning, before the existence of Warhammer. Wordle didn't exist as a word before the game.
It's more like if a brand called Runners was named after John Runners and not because they sell running shoes.
@@ashtonhoward5582 Wordle is a game about words
@@lizardlegend42 yeah, no shit. But that's the reason it's called Wordle and not Wardle.
@@ashtonhoward5582 sorry for thinking it's funny how close his name is to word ig? Like you really really don't see how that's a fun coincidence like at all? And even if you don't was there a need to be so pedantic about it? I just wanted to share something I thought was cool 😅
Another irl one: German food cake isn't German, but named is named after Samuel German.
You were expecting Alpharius...but it was me ALPHARIUS!
That meme is pretty much confirmed since Alpharius appears in every Alpha Legion book.
“He’s portraying a commander, you can’t look like you’re 90 and dying..”
* Looks at the next presidential candidates *
How does 40K understand this and reality doesn’t?
Purple being the sneakiest color is confirmed in the novel Catachan Devil, around the final 2 hours of the audio book, the kommando nob does mention it!!!! spread the news!!
Yeah Magnus did "nothing" wrong.
He was told to do nothing and even messed that up!
I know for the Kreig shovel meme, the short movie "Exodite" (which is about the Tau, not the Exodites) I forgot if it was canon or not, but it does depict a Kreiger smacking a Stealth Suit with a shovel
It started of as a fan project, but was licensed by GW for warhammer +. I'd say it is cannon since it was officialynpublished via GWs own channels.
The lasgun power packs being chargeable in a fire predates Dan Abnett's involvement in the 40k universe. The first mention I'm personally aware of is the core Rulebook for the 1995 Edition of Necromunda, where the fire charging is mentioned in the Lasgun entry on page 50
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The only example I can think of is the Exodite series from Warhammer+ where we see a Kriegsman use a shovel to kill a T'au.
isn't it a stealth battlesuit too? like, yeah man, that malnourished trench freak is definitely going to slice through a suit of light power armor with a goddamn shovel.
An older model, but yes.
Schrodinger's Busting
It either refers to Ray Parker Jr.'s song or Neil Cicierega's version
You can't be sure until you are
Sounds more like edging than busting to me
"Only in death does duty end."
Dante: Can my duty end, please?
As a Guilliman and Yvraine shipper I ship them as a political marriage to start to form the warhammer 40K ordertide
Girlyman to Cole: "the half-mask stays on during handholding"
One of the common memes you should talk about is corpse starch.
33:00 Charging with fire is also in Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, and mentioned (as a bad idea) in Munitorium Manual.
My one issue with shovels as ccw is, that they keep us from getting cool Krieg sculpts with trench daggers, of which there were a bunch of interesting designs.
TBH there's a bunch of interesting entrenching tool designs too, but they go with the 'modern' one with the D handle.
The "Land's Raider" bit is literally a running gag on Phineas and Ferb, e.g. the Tri-State Area was founded by a guy named John Tri-state.
The absurdity is exactly appropriate for 40k, but there's diminishing returns. "Legio Astartes is actually meant to be Astarte's Legio" doesn't commit hard enough- we need more lore reveals like "The Emperor never held the rank of Emperor, it was just his favourite tarot card."
Dont know is a big meme, but my friend group loving joking that because of the audio books for Lords of Silence and Dark Imperium trilogy, Mortarian and Typhus are just Megatron and Starscream
You forgot the great old ship of Gabriel Angelos and Farseer Maka
When there's something meme, in your memebourhood, who're you gunna call? POOR-HAMMER!
Little did you know the lawn mower was created by Diana Lawn.
$10 says the Emperor’s real name isn’t actually Jimmy Space
correct, his name is obviously John Emperor.
Nah it’s obvs. Jeff Mankind
M. Peroroff Mankind.
Why does this "dante" guy have toe armour? Like is he into feet or somthing?
He’s not a heel.
The intersection between anime and warhammer has to be one of the strangest and most fascinating crossovers between fandoms around. So I want to see the warhammer anime memes.
It does make me sad that the crossovers aren't more accepted by the 40k community. 40k lends itself well to anime tropes with how over the top both can be.
29:40 The “I’m a tank” joke has been told in the actual Army for decades. I heard it as a private, my dad heard it as an officer. It isn’t a 40k meme, it’s a joke about whatever army you’re about to be sent to fight the next day. It goes back to at least Vietnam and I’ve heard claims it was a joke as far back as WW1.
Should be noted on the 15 hours thing that the vast majority of casualties in the IRL examples were fresh troops. If you survived those first few days expectancy jumped to ~a month, if you survived a month you were likely to survive the war. Which makes sense, since no amount of training is likely to prep you for a horror show such as stalingrad, verdun or the somme and if you don't have first hand experience you'd be likelier to make a mistake, which in such a context likely would result in death.
35:44 it's a grimdark era, the people use sparingly the jokes they are given.
IIRC, the shovel over the bayonet is commonly referenced in “All Quiet on the Western Front.” The context is that an experienced soldier knows the bayonet is not useful against multiple attackers because it gets stuck. The scene is in the book and many of the film versions. Although not mentioned in the 2022 film version, there is a kill using a shovel.
Enough people got exposed to AQOTWF in school (I think) to make people believe that IRL shovels are extremely common OR it’s just porting some other WWI popular media to a group that is very clearly inspired by WWI infantry.
23:43 If you ever do a V2 on the objective markers, I think you need to add a Krieger shovel to a nod to this confirmed myth. 😂
Thanks for all the high quality purple Ork models you were able to find, Berilio!
The first time I met one of my not-quite-family members he had a handful of batteries, he was 'warming them to get a bit more charge out of them'.
On a more serious note, I can rationalise the lasgun charging thing as some form of energy recycling. The gun gets hot as you shoot it, so the charge packs have integrated micro-thermoelectric generators to recycle that waste heat - something like: normally a lasgun will fire 300 shots per charge pack, but if you 50-shot burst it and let it cool off you can squeeze an extra 20-50 shots out of it depending on the environment. It also lets you slap 'charging ports' on any part of a vehicle that gets hot, which might be relevant for logistics.
That's kinda weird, because these days we generally try and keep batteries cool (some places I work have special fridges for the spare batteries - don't keep food/drinks in the same place). With a lot of newer batteries (outside car battery issues) - being too hot will drain them or cause them to catch fire - vs keeping them cool.
@@jonasstreich4405 It all kind of makes sense. Chemical reactions happen faster at higher temperatures, so theoretically a battery should discharge faster when warmer. So it's good to keep batteries cool when not in use or if they're providing enough power, but if they can't meet the power demand (like a nearly-dead battery) then warming them up might help.
Of course, warming batteries will do bad things to their long-term lifespan and the fire risk is real, but the battery-warming incident was some 20-odd years ago with non-rechargeable AA batteries for a TV remote. I suspect it might have been misapplied wisdom regarding car batteries in very cold weather.
French fries are French’s Fries, German chocolate cake is German’s chocolate cake.
So when will there be a sexy Cawl Poster?
I agree with the comments on the Dante books. They’re what convinced me that he’s my second favorite 40k character, just behind Trayzn
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Power throuple: Guilliman, Yvraine, and Cawl
Edit: 6:28
Power policule: Guilliman, Yvraine, Cawl, and Eldrad, uniting Imperium, Ynnari, Admech, and Asuryani, ready to conquer the universe
I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank...
I can't remember the name of the book but it was a collection of guard stories. A creag got left behind, given up for dead, lost his memory, got conscripted in to a planetary clean up crew, and killed a cultists with a shovel. Not an entrenching tool mind you, a shovel. He ended up joining the guard again under a different name.
Make an episode about the 40k books Brad has read. You can call it The Definitive 40k Book Tier List and then clarify it's only the books Brad has read.
Brad has too many suggestions for 40k books. "Read this if you like this faction.", "Read this if you like that faction."
Dante just wants to take the forever nap.
Sticking to the plan... Sounds like something an Ultramarine would say... Going further, a 'plan' to fulfill a greater plan eric can't comprehend sounds appropriate.
The krieg shovel bit almost certainly comes from 'All Quiet on the Western Front' - wherein a senior sergeant explains that the ideal close combat implement was a sharpened shovel- instead of a new serrated bayonet that had been issued to new recruits. The reason for this was not that the bayonet was of poor quality- it worked very well- too well. The grevious cutting wounds would be near impossible to patch up and heal for field medics. French (and allied, I guess) troops that caught you with that razor-bayonet they'd kill you instead of taking you prisoner. Shovels, on the other hand, would kill a man just as well but would not draw the ire of the allies. It's a memorable scene, but 40k's fandom has utterly flanderized it for our krieg boys. The better question is why.
Honestly? My 2 cents? Krieg is exactly like all of the other forgotten guard regiments that aren't cadian. They get very few books, and the books they get are inconsistent and weird- we still don't have a good understanding of basic facts about life on the planet krieg because Black Library keeps changing their mind on critical details. So the krieg fanbase takes whatever they can get that's memetic and runs with it. Kind of like the fact that the tactics the death korps use aren't actually wasteful in terms of manpower; trench warfare and siege tactics exist to attrition the foe while preserving ones own forces. They just deploy against impossible odds all the time and have a cult of martyrdom.
My personal headcanon for recharging las-packs in a fire isn't that they're empty mags recharging, but instead that they're either clogged in their inner workings or requiring heat in some form to bring out the rest of the energy still inside. Some would inevitably be made at a lower level of quality and precision on a massive scale and could jam up like they're dry when there's still more left in it. Like ink toner. The fire either melts something blocking the ammo or the heat re-energiezes a fuel source into becoming chemically active again. Or this is just hard-core copium.
35:35 History does not repeat; It rhymes.
Alright, screw it, I'm gonna be that guy. Astarte does not mean "space", even if it looks like "astra" which means star.
Astarte is the Greek name for a ancient near-East goddess sometimes equated to Ishtar, goddess of war (and love, cause clearly those two are similar. "All is fair" and all that).
The fact that they gave that name to a dude in the "canon" is... well, par for the course, really.
Astarte was a woman funnily enough. The odd part is that every Amar I know is a guy so I'm a bit perplexed on that one.
@@curiousinquisitor59 That's crazy. After the Cawl book, I somehow remember Astarte being referred to as male. Old age, innit?
@@enkelainen Ye, she is in the Valdor book. Really good read and short for a 40k novel. Bonus point for her making herself immortal but aging herself into a corpse as a penance for a past of horrific warcrimes.
For the Shovels thing - Standard Issue war-gear in the modern German Bundeswehr, but also in the WWII Wehrmacht was a "Feldspaten" or "Klappspaten", a foldable spade. To unfold it, you hold onto the grip and swing it like a baseball bat. Hundreds of thousands of foldable spades were 'recovered' from the Battlefields in WW2, and they're still so plentiful that you can get one of these WW2 relic for a couple of bucks. The Myth that German soldiers - and therefor kriegsmen, which are modeled after WW2 Germans - used shovels for Hand-to-Hand combat was probably born from there.
Magnus using psykics and destroying the webway project would have been a 15 minute timeout but then Russ burned Prospero. A major overreaction and a completely reasonable reason Magnus turned traitor. BUT that completely ignores the fact that Magnus later discovered it was Horus that tricked Russ into burning Prospero. The moment Magnus found that out and didnt change side he was the bad guy of his story!
Hadn’t he already sold his soul to Tzeenchth at that point, so he didn’t really have a choice.
@@SolarArmadilloYes, which just adds to the 'Magnus did wrong' side of the argument. He damned himself long before Nikaea, let alone Prospero.
The guardsman lifespan thing is remarkably high if you think about it. 24 hrs for a real battle vs 15 hrs for the 40K universe is not a bad ratio.
Practical, usable shovels have what's called a working edge. You're not going to be shaving with it, but it's sharp enough to push through roots with some force behind it, and roots are much tougher then human squishy bits.
Also, have you seen what a IRL entrenching tool looks like from around WW 2? That gets nasty, and there's some documentation around Stalingrad of it being used there. Frankly I like the idea of Kregers having an entrenching tool as their preferred weapon of choice, especially the ones that are 'multi use' with like one side with a saw blade on it. It's short, it's brutal, and it's a compromise between the lack of leverage that a knife has and how awkward a bayonet is to use in truly close quarters. Bricky takes a _fat_ L on hating the entrenching tool.
Frankly, I _love_ how stupid the names of Imperium stuff is. Taking the same stupid naming conventions as IRL bureaucracy and military, slap it onto the cranked up to 11 byzantine bureaucracy, and it's so perfect and helps drive home just how screwed humanity is.
The one Ork meme that made me start paying attention was _way_ back in the day, the word of mouth about how awesome the setting was, was that you had all of these super serious factions in this grim dark setting, but there was a recaptured looted Leman Russ that both the IG and AdMech couldn't figure out how it went, because instead of an engine it had a box with 'enjin vroom vroom' in that space. When I asked reddit years ago, no one else could find a source but other people have heard of it and it makes me sad that wasn't something in the lore.
Either Magnus was so stupid and had not enough agency over his own actions to be trusted to be on the same planet as a pair of safety scissors, or he did wrong. I'm giving Brad's legion the benefit of doubt as to not be following someone who shouldn't be trusted with a picture of safety scissors and landing firmly on Magnus did wrong.
37:35 Ok, props to Zephics on that Votann, I don't know if the gold Smiley Face on the helmet was intentional, but I can't unsee it now, and I unironically love it
If you want an even more terrifying life expectancy, during the Cold War NATO soldier stationed at the Fulda Gap life expectancy was projected to be measured in minutes not hours if the cold war went hot and the USSR rolled into western Europe.
No views in 50 seconds, sad to see my favorite podcast fall off
I like how eric just goes with it as far as the energy pack with the lasgun
Here is the better question are any of the space marine legions not war criminals.
First instinct is salamanders, but uhh...
I don't think eldar children would agree.
I feel like the best contender would be Raven Guard
I’ve got a few suggestions. One: TTS, specifically Kitten and Shadowsun having dated but it’s not “canon.” Two: Sly Marbo. Three: Lasguns being as powerful as flashlights but are actually really good. Four: Primarch GFs. Five: this one is an old one but the Empire ignoring that the Skaven exist
Also, here's the best (head-canon, not supported by lore) explanation I ever saw for the lasgun charger packs: originally these packs were not batteries for guns. They were dark age nuclear batteries to charge your whole house (not nuclear reactors, nuclear batteries like the kind America keeps losing in mountains). Then the "modern" Ad-Mech figured out how to make guns that are adapted to these plentiful batteries, but these batteries have safety features to stop you from burning your house down, so you have to override the safety with heat or a strong electric charge - that lets you override the safety (and thus fire your gun) for "a while", but when it cools down and the safety goes back on, you need to chuck it in a campfire to override safety again. There is a drawback in that you're killing yourself with radiation, but remember: Imperial Guard.
"These memes arent real"
second meme in
"dante wouldn't mind shuffling off the mortal coil"
I just want to see GW make it canon that Dante is actually a perpetual, it'd be funny.
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The last line of The Horus Heresy series got me chills when i first read it: "...And then James woke up in his Workshop"
Purple ork confirmed in one of the opening short stories of Rose at War novel, where in one of the short stories, a Sister ends up in a fight with an Ork she didn't see until the end who was covered in purple paint.
Hey heads up from a Theology guy: Astarte is also the name of an ancient Levantine war goddess. Who also just happens to be the relative of Yahweh's divine consort Atherat/Asherah, a cousin of Ishtar, and is also related to Aphrodite. (Source: Overly Sarcastic Productions and Esoterica)
I think the biggest discredited meme is that Warhammer Fantasy is a prequel to 40k
Let us also not forget Stavros Photo, inventor of the Photocopier; Claude de la Magnetique, who introduced the Magnetic Compass; and Glenda Baseball, who invented so many pieces of sports equipment that her name became synonymous with stickball itself.
Please cover Failbaddon the Armless next time and how much of the meme comes from the mini being ass vs. from the story/writing letting him down.
Also check up on whether Ultramarines still get the "spiritual liege" treatment.
Any older/4chan memes really, trying to figure out their origin/veracity isn't great because 4chan doesn't archive very well and is the website equivalent of a poxwalker
Can’t believe purple was so sneaky that you guys couldn’t even find anything about them.
Now that is some dakka
Pretty much every "kriegers fighting with shovels" fan depiction I've seen is a krieger getting ambushed while digging a trench and using the shovel they were digging that trench with as a weapon because its what they have already in their hand. "Ork jumps a Krieger while he's trench digging, he caves the ork's skull in and then resumes digging like nothing happened" sort of thing.
There is also the cross-over meme of the Soldier from TF2 having a shovel as his default melee weapon, and an unlock called the market gardener which is infamous for the "Trolldier" playstyle (where you use rocket jumps to ambush people with a garunteed melee crit (market gardener crits 100% when you are in a "blast jumping" state)).
And here I was thinking that you were referring to giving Berillio a raise at the start...
As a space wolves player, you can cope and seethe all you want Tson boy, it won’t unburn prospero
If we're talking about 40K memes, I'd offer to share my own, but the Blood Ravens seem to have stolen them all.
Ork memes being such a big thing is extra funny when you consider their whole gestalt field thing is itself basically meme magic.
With the Guard, law of averages very much applies. When you have billions of soldiers constantly fighting galaxy-ending horrors and entire *planets* can be wiped out in seconds, that life expectency is gonna plummet.
McGrubber, that mcguffin needs to get to McDonald's so McLovin can get his daily McMuffin on. Then report to McGavin and McGrubbin.
I had a meme list that I call The horde of horrifying Humour, where there’s 1950 points of pink horrors, blue horrors, and pairs Brimstone horrors.
As much as I agree with the "Ork memes are how you sell this game because they're fun" sentiment, I think the "I'm a tank" and "scream 'Bang!' to kill an Ork without ammo" memes need to go away. It's the most inaccurate, annoying representation of Ork magic and people will just be disappointed to hear that it's not how Orks work in the slightest once they get in and read up on them.
I'm sure I heard that "I'm a tank" joke completely disconnected from Warhammer long before I heard the Ork version. It was about soldiers taking part in a wargame with no funding for equipment.