@@Pierre2079-g1uconsidering that an artillery shell does as much, if not more damage, I think most millitaries would consider it a small price to pay for survival or victory…
The reason we will never get a full Codex Astartes is that it would have to be written by an actual military genius. The in universe one was written by Gulliman himself, who you must remember is basically a demigod of war and strategy. It would be like Sun Tzu's 'Art of War', but for every conceivable situation that could ever happen to an Ultramarine. It would literally take up a whole Library. It is said in Canon that not even an Ultramarine can memorize the whole thing, but that each battle brother must memorize several chapters so that "Within each Company there exists a complete unwritten record of the entire text".
@@jojo_sanders5342 yes but it was also the expanded laws made after the heresy known as the "book of judgment" iirc of which new legislation is created every single day And dorn's copy was outdated
There is another book, "The Liber Daemonicum," that is possessed by every single Grey Knight. The book is said to be made of wafer thin screens resembling pages. So, it isn't even the compilation of required knowledge. You would need the technology to craft the medium to store and relay said knowledge. I imagine the Codex Astartes is written in the same fashion.
About men in suits coming to speak with you, it happened to Tom Clancy after describing the layout of a Naval ship. They wanted to know who leaked such classified information. They weren't very happy the answer was along the line of "Nobody told me, I just thought how it should be designed and used logic."
He was interviewed by the FBI and asked where he got all his information. He then pulled military technical manuals for maintenance (that you can buy anywhere), open sourced technology manuals, and documents sent to him from government tech and manufacturing contractors who design and build the government equipment. He said you’d be surprised what you could get and learn when you just asked for it. His books also had to be vetted by the three letter agencies because he’d also interviewed ex military and three letter agency agents and used their stories they’d tell each other and others (basic bragging around the table and banter) as research for his books. Just to make sure he didn’t put something in them that he wasn’t supposed to know or be told by someone.
Trench foot is caused by lack of dry footwear. Socks and boots should be changed as often as possible and kept dry when not in use. If you get trenchfoot you're supposed to keep it clean and let it dry back out. If left untreated a number of issues from infection to flesh rot and more. You can get it in a desert you can get it in a snow storm you can get it on your hands.
This sounds like a really fucked up Dr. Seuss poem. Trench foot: You can get it in the sands, you can get it on your hands. You can get it in the snow, you can get it down below!
Two things to keep in mind about the Guard's humble Flashlight: Firstly, it was Big E's second choice for a primary infantry weapon. Mass production, maintenance, and supply of his first choice was not economically viable at the point Big E began launching crusades out into Sol. Secondly, the Lasgun has been the Guards standard infantry weapon for something on the order of twenty or thirty thousand years. With that length of time in service, the only foes that *would* remain are the Uncontacted, the Freshly Evolved, and the Adapted. Most of what The Imperium (and thus, the Guard) fight falls into that last category.
IIRC, the recoil is also artificial because the soldiers who transitioned to the Lasgun were really thrown off by the lack of feedback when firing and felt they lacked umph. So they threw in a weight that slams back when the gun fires.
1:06:45 Hans from Frozen: "It's amazing." Anna: What? Hans: We finish each other's Anna: Sandwiches! Hans: That's what I was gonna say- Hans stopped. The realization hit him like a boulder. In the 45 minutes since they had first met, he finally noticed that glint in her eyes. That touch of craziness. "The corruption!" Hans whispered to himself softly. He had never seen it before, but he had heard the stories. The horror. What it led to. He could not let it strike. Not here. Slowly he unclipped his laz pistol. Pulling it out while she turned away. If he had to be the one to do it, so be it. Before she turned around, he lept forward and delivered Emperor's mercy.
I like the theory that veteran Guardsmen are allowed to openly explain to new recruits that the primer has some "heavy embellishment." The main purpose of the primer would be to calm down the wider population of the Imperium (almost inevitable that a such widely distributed book finds its way to civilian hands.)
To Lysander and Koda: Standardized Necron infantry use the Gauss Flayer as their designated firearm of choice, which fires arcs of green electricity-like energy tendrils in an adjustable cone. Each tendril of electricity, once it makes contact with a target, will cause a certain area around the point of impact to undergo near instant molecular disintegration, as skin, then muscle, the nerves, then bone are stripped away layer by layer. This causes such excruciating pain that some guards lucky enough to only be grazed by the edge of the Gauss Flayer's conical area of effect may still die from the shock of having part of one of their limbs "flayed" into a pile of carbonized organic material. Going off of the description, I'd assume getting hit by a Gauss Flayer's electrical arc is like having someone blow your individual nerve cells up to the size of a person, them rub them down with a rusty cheese graters, and you can feel all of that. However, since the damage is stated to be caused by molecular disassembly, I don't think any wounds caused by a Gauss Flayer would be carterized by the attack, which means the injured party still has to deal with the problem of rapid blood loss due to their impromptu amputation.
I like the word bearers. They are so twistedly compassioned sometimes. Like I can't imagine any othe chaos legion actually convincing a guardsman through words and showing passion to join them. Only they'll sacrifice that guardsman because this way is actually 4 times as effective than just mass sacrifice
16:10 Ah, the propaganda of my fathers day. Which he said did nothing more than to make the young and foolish into the gullible and dead. He once, very nearly, got kicked out of the USCG due to possessing a copy of The Communist Manifesto. This was back when the Articles of War were a thing. When asked why he had it, his answer was "to know our enemy" and was told flat out by his commanding officer that was not his job and "they [command] would tell him who the enemy was." He, and our family, also suffered immensely every time he got a promotion. The US Gov. would send folks to "question" his parents, relatives, and acquaintances to ensure we didn't have any Nazi ties. They did this right up to his retirement where his last promotion was to LCDR. Our family has been in the US since 1868, but they still checked. He absolutely hated propaganda and rather preferred to study everything on his own and form his own opinions on things.
Voting for Space Marine Biology next episode, we need to see Koda be confused and bewildered at what goes into a space marine and how much it varies on literal vibes😂
Hey, long time viewer. I joined the marine corps and during boot camp they give us the “Guidebook For Marines”. It covers everything from the history, equipment, hygiene and uniform standards, moral standards for leadership. It’s as basically as close to government sanctioned propaganda and I’d be happy to send my own copy.
Honest question from a person of south america, is there actual propaganda like "we fight for freedom" or "to protect the people of america" or something like that?! (im asking sincerely, im not trying to ofend, sorry for the grammar)
@LestatLST Honestly, for the US army, we don't really have a handbook like the marines unless you count the ranger handbook, but our basic training is basically them doing a hardcore propaganda run on you just to "make you the write soldier". To quote a drill sgt I had.
If I lived in under hive feel insulted can you imagine trying to survive your day These upper level folks talking about you like you some alien hybrid mutant didn’t even have the nerve considered you human which is why they add the alien part
Sleep deprivation training was my favorite part of basic training, shit gets trippy. You'll just suddenly be somewhere with no clue how you got here but then shrug and just fall in line, people talking to trees or bushes, dudes just vanishing on you.
1:10 Orks are gangs, Chaos is chaos, the Imperium can't adapt, the Eldar have no structure, the Necrons can't reproduce, and the tyrranids are literal animals. The Tau are naive and small, but they are the only faction in the universe that seems to actually learn it's lessons and create functional solutions to issues that don't kneecap them fully in the future.
I think the Tau are meant to be the infant of the factions, young and naive but with potential. The other races basically have stagnated technology and reached their peak eons ago.
Hi Isyander and Koda, Army officer here. The equivalent to an Infantrymens handbook would be the Ranger Handbook and its not only purchasable by civilians but can be downloaded for free as a PDF through a simple Google Search. Enjoy!
My vote is for the Warp and I’m hoping the episode will be like a David Attenborough documentary where I&K discuss the Warp as if it’s a safari, only 40,000x more brutal. Also, this episode was really good and I readily welcome future book clubby episodes if y’all would be interested in making more.
Koda's instinct isn't too off. The Holy Roman Empire famously used the double headed eagle (and Russia historically). The Holy Roman Empire is often described as "Not Holy, Not Roman, and Not an Empire" 😂 so still fitting to the central theme of the Imperium.
Look up "The Bushman's Campanion". It an Australian book from the early 1900s (1916 Edition) about how to treat injuries and sickness while in the outback (or anywhere). While dated, it has some really good knowledge. The best part is most pages have a quote at the bottom. With a bit of tweaking it could come straight out of Warhammer 40k. "The Catachan's Campanion"
I was a medic for 14 years. Nowadays we differentiate between trench foot and immersion foot, and I have treated both. The easiest breakdown here is that cold and wet gives you trench foot while wet and warm gives you immersion foot.
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The problem with one of these for the Sister is that the printing and production costs would be exorbitant. Something like 23 volumes of 3 inch thick heavy hard covers, possibly with locks. heavily illuminated, gilded pages cover to cover. conservatively.
I would love to see a primer for a war where the Imperium has had to ally with the Tau or Eldar and the cognitive dissonance of explaining how this alien is your friend he fights for your freedom. Like how all of the Allied WW2 propaganda did a 180 on the Soviets after they joined the war.
While simultaneously creating the awful conditions that lead people to want something better, and seeding their mind with the exact kind of biases that leads them to seek out a cosmic savior. We love the Imperium, and her self sabotaging puritanism.
@nerag7459 "Shit, the workers want to get paid for working 18 hour shifts? Quick, frame them as heretics! The zealots will sort em out, and we can return to business as usual."
US Army Soldier here. You can look online and find unclassified Soldier Handbooks. I recommend specifically the US Solider’s Blue Book. It’s what we get in basic training. Btw still very possible to get trench foot. Rain, puddles, and other bodies of water easily stepped in are always a problem along with just being in humid environments. Everyone should know to bring spare socks and boots when they’re in the field. Foot powder is also typically a good call.
It must be so hard for Gulliman and his girlfriend to coexist in an environment like this, so tragic. I'm still waiting for that romantic novel though.
the chronology of 40k (ie from whenever 13th black crusade was started until the maletrix maledictum or whatever) was fixed by Roboute Guilliman, as i understand it he did it "before the Maledictum" and "after Maledictum". in any case, he fixed it to be the millenium M42 as the Indomitus was M41 (ie 40000, M42 would be 41000) our favourite administrator love his details, man fucked with the chronological timekeeping.
18:10 In regards to US infantrymen handbooks they can be found online and are not sensitive materials. You can even find the Marine Corps Riflemen's hand book online. (I also have a doc I can send of the Marine Corps Rifleman book if you don't want to look). I did my time in the Corps and miss it every day!
The soul of the Machine God surrounds thee. The power of the Machine God invests thee. The hate of the Machine God drives thee. The Machine God endows thee with life. Live!
A krieg general of my aquantance said that "the entire purpose of the Primer is to make sure a guardsman isn't utterly terrified and soiling his pants before even meeting his first Xenos. It is a comfortable pack of lies designed to make the average man believe they can actually win against the like of Tyranids, Orks etc. If the average Guard recruit knew what they were really up against, the comissars would have to shoot half the compliment of every troop ship full of fresh recruits before they even got to the ground." The man was very talkative and social for a kriegsman.
We need a story where Guilllimen finding a Primer on the battlefield, opening it and noticing it has not been updated in over 3 Centuries and going, no no no no no... then the next Black Library release is the Indomitus Primer, would be a nice in world joke.
I want a warp episode and for you to make it clear that we know jack shit about the deep warp following is some excerpts I'm shamelessly gonna piggy back of this and paste a collection of excerpts that are related to the deep warp. ‘There are layers,’ said Veil, impatiently. ‘Yes, there is stratum aetheris, the shallow ways. There is stratum profundis, the greater arteries, plunging deeper. There is stratum obscurus, the root of the terror. How does this help you? No living man can navigate the deep ways. Even he could not.’ ‘But you try to map it.’ ‘It could not be done.’ Veil shook his head with frustration. ‘He was wrong about that, at least. It is not a mirror. It moves like a living thing. It is a living thing. Touch it, and it trembles.’ He briefly lost his certainty. ‘I do not have the Eye, but still I have seen things. I have studied what they study. The complexity is… immortal.’ ‘Try to explain.’ Yesugei spoke softly. ‘I am fast learner.’ Veil exhaled, his eyes widening. ‘The Seethe is an ocean. All know this - it has currents, it has depths, it has storms. Near the surface, you can see the Cartomancer’s light. You can follow it. You can use your Geller aegis, and you are kept barred from the Intelligences. But even then, you are just below the upper limits. Go deeper and the aegis shatters. The lights go out. The Eye is blinded. When men say that they traverse the warp, they boast, for no mortal does more than skim across eternity’s face, like stones thrown by a child. We do not belong there. It is poison for us, and the deeper in, the worse the poison.’ 'Achelieux try to go deeper?’ Who knows? Maybe. He did not succeed. Do you know why not? Because it is impossible. It takes the power of a tormented sun just to puncture the shallowest shoals. No energy in our arsenal could possibly pierce further. String the reactors of a dozen battleships together, double their potential, and still it would not be enough. So no, he did not succeed.’ Chris Wraight, [Horus Heresy 36 - The Path of Heaven](wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/The_Path_of_Heaven_(Novel)) Note that this is from the perspective of a human at the time when knowledge of the warp was incredibly limited. And even then, he is simply explaining that warp capable craft only enter a shallower warp and that they can not enter the deeper levels which, as readers, we know is where daemons and the gods reside. The same novel also explicitly states that the Webway exists within the Deep Warp. He perceived the truth. Both thrones had been made for the same reason - to plumb the deeper ways, to free the species from the nightmare of the shallow warp, to bridge a link across the hidden paths, ones that only xenos had known, and which the Emperor had found some way to access. Dark Glass was the lesser node, the one where the technology had been tested, anchored in the furthest recesses of the void while the Great Crusade scoured its widening path ever further from the home world. In the chaos that had erupted since, the portal had been left behind, lost but not forgotten, neither by its creators nor its opponents in the labyrinthine halls of the Paternova. Path to Heaven by Chris Wraight We also know that Tzeentch is located in the same place as the Webway Along with the Visarch and the Yncarne, Yvraine suddenly found herself adrift - not within the webway, but without. They were stranded in a near-silent limbo, trapped on the top of the psychocrystal walls. The sounds of battle were muffled beneath them, and the cool void sucked in its breath at their backs. Yvraine did not look around, for she felt something there, in the darkness. A voice in her mind said should she do so, she would behold the Changer of the Ways himself, and learn the meaning of madness. Gathering Storm: Fracture of Biel-Tan This is a comment from John French (author of the book Fateweaver) about Kairos and the Well of Eternity Daemons are not living creatures. Each one of them is a facet of a Dark God’s power and nature. They are semi-independent, but ultimately they are only fragments of a greater whole. The mortal servants of Chaos are also slaves to the Dark Gods, their minds and bodies are twisted by the Warp, but they can still make decisions, hope, dream, and despair. They can plot and betray. That mortal independence, ultimately, is what makes the Gods crave their souls.! So where does that leave Kairos Fateweaver? Tzeentch wanted to look into the Well of Eternity but would not risk to go himself, so sent one of his Daemons, which is actually part of him… and now Kairos Fateweaver knows more of the future than Tzeentch himself, while existing as part of him. How does that work?! The answer is that it doesn’t. It makes no sense - because that would mean that Tzeentch both knows all of the future and past and does not. It means that part of him is, in one way, more powerful than the rest of him. And that’s fine. It’s fine because the story of Kairos Fateweaver, and the Well of Eternity, is just that; it is a story told about something mortal minds cannot understand, and can only describe through metaphor. Th**e Well of Eternity is just a name. There is no hole in the middle of a fortress that does not exist that goes down for ever. Tzeentch does not literally listen to his Daemons. All these things are just skins that are pulled over a part of the vast, intangible malevolence of the Warp. The truth really cannot be known. How cool is that?
Hey fellas, recent aussie veteran here. Trench foot, aka pitted keratolysis plus cold/wet is still very much an issue. The US boots thing is not a thing. Basically it works the same way as staying in the bath too long in warm environments, where your skin gets too moist and because you're wearing the same socks for who knows how long the bacteria go crazy. In cold environments it works exactly the same way, but with the addition of reduced circulation in your extremities due to the cold. This basically makes it multiple times worse, as the reduced circulation by itself is enough to do damage (see diabetes foot). Have fun searching up both diabetes foot and pitted keratolysis 😂
I've been waiting all week for a video. Even longer for a primer episode. I vote for a long overdue warp episode, and an episode on the punishements found in the primer.
18:15 I have a hand book or two you guys may want. Update: I guess I have six lol 😂 didn’t know my collection had grown. But yeah got things like the “Heavy hits for light packs” “the soldiers handbook” And others but I’m sure TH-cam would throw a fit if I listed them.
23:34 you absolutely can. Good boots help but the only sure fire way to avoid it is to change ya damn socks. Yes it's a pain in the arse to take you boots off, dry your feet, air them out and put on another pair of socks when all you want to do is sleep and you don't wanna unpack and repack the bag. But change ya damn socks
The fact that this primer, meant in-universe as the manual every one of the Imperium's endless hordes of essentially slave-soldiers get a copy of, is out of print and expensive IRL is one of the best, most hilarious pieces of ongoing irony in the world.
Listening to this episode just reminds me of my time in boot camp/combat school and I'm here for it. If I can find my old marine recruit's hand book I'll send it to you guys.
To be fair, I do not believe it's designed to lie to the soldiers for the sake of lying. It's the *Uplifting* Primer, it's purpose is, first and foremost, *uplift* the guardsman's spirits. They already know there's war everywhere, and they will face hard times. They do not need to know *everything* non-human and *about half* of "human" threats are, individually, more lethal than them. Tell them that, and you get less volunteers, less draftees, and a bunch of scared and disgruntled, *trained* troops huddled together on a ship, usually outnumbering the crew... Lying to them about what they'll face in order to maintain good spirits and discipline is kind of a necesity, at that point...
10:45 Something like this happened to me. I was posted as the nightshift guard for a very remote warehouse just before the blizzard hit Texas. Power went out, no communication equipment worked (cell/internet/landline), and no way my Dodge Avenger would make it through snow. Thankfully, dear, old dad was born in '31 and raised my little brother and I to be absolutely ready for when things went to shit. I may not be a licensed armed security guard but I do keep a hardcase in the trunk with carbine, pistol, ammo, and maintenance stuff. Especially for long 12hr shifts. So I get the posting, the drive REALLY sucked but was doable, settled in thinking it's not gonna be that bad and...well...yeah. Thank god I had food and water stashed away in the guard shacks fridge along with the non-perishables in my cars trunk. Boredom was the real enemy because that shit set in quick. Once communication went out, I assumed someone would be sent me way since it's a very remote post. But that wasn't the case. The good news was that I clocked an extreme amount of OT and bonus. The bad news was that the client became absolutely furious I had camped out on their property, armed, and tried to have me fired for it. They also claimed I damaged stuff in the warehouse and the bathrooms. Yep, fun times being along out in the Texas boonies snowed in guarding some morons cars.
To be fair, ork technology does have a tendancy to missfire and explode sometimes, however the orks usually just treat that as a bonus. Most orks find it funny when the guy driving the boomdakka snazzwagon accidentaly phases into reality in the same place as a wall.
I always loved the voices you hear in the factory/hab levels in the first space marine. That always had a wonderful tone that really gives you a flavour of what the average person is told
I second the statement! "more prayers need the word Smash in them." Also, Coda killing it this episode. Both of you gents, top tier. But that comment about Eldar looking 15 but actually being 500 years old. Lowered have mercé
Fun fact, the warp actually mirrors our real maps for gravity wells in the milky way. The spots where the warp tears into space is actually where NASA maps out the highest density/gravity in the galaxy
My favorite quote regarding the Lasgun is that The humble Lasgun was strong enough to kill 99% of Hostile aliens, unfortunately they're dealing with the remaining 1%
Gosh I’d absolutely love to have more of this read. Between the delight and shock of the reactions, and then the actually really interesting and immersive way this is written, it would be delightful to see more!
45:10 the Lasgun rules because it is a reliable direct energy weapon that has no recoil, can be charged in the field with their power cell magazines, delivers it's energetic payload at near-light speed which makes it harder to track the origin of shots, is versatile in function and relatively simple to modify, can have mounted accesories like lights/bayonets/underbarrel grenade launchers and (on planets with sufficient technological and industrial capacity) scales far better than chemical propellant firearms while being more efficient than railguns in nearly every way. Like any weapon system it has pros and cons(range is a big one for example) but for a galactic empire it is a perfect choice as primary infantry weapon for guardsmen.
I did have a military field med book at one point, because we lived with a family friend that was a vet.. It was like three inches thick, and it's how I learned how to pack wounds, create splints from both gear and nature, and even how to purify water, among a few other things.. Wish I held onto it, especially nowadays..
Just a reminder since the word heresy usually gets thrown around: In real medieval Europe, witches were not burned at the stake, they were hung. Heretics were the ones burned. You might ask "so witches arent heretics?" the answer is no, because witches and pagans existed within the framework of christianity. A heretic was someone who wants to change or in anyway alter a religion's theology(for example, christiasnity is a jewish heresy), wich is why many of those accused and burned alive where themselves priests and their followers, guilty of practicing a variation of the mainline authorized doctrine.
Love the video, i served in the marines recently as an infantryman, had a bunch of posistions, still have some of the training manuals and would absolutely love to see the similarities with this book, none of it is classified at all cuz most of it is out of date or basic knowledge anyways. keep up the good work
I definitely get not separating the dark eldar and others. When the chips are down, Dark Eldar and normal would work together and watch an entire world burn for each other, before theyd let a single one of their "brothers" go to She who thirsts. And as soon as you start trying to make shades of gray, all the eldar will take advantage of it. Best option: They are all the enemy and all need the Emperor's Mercy.
58:10 the imperium does have copiers they are called auto scribes. It's a person's torso bolted to the top of a box with quills replacing his fingers as paper feeds under him.
If I remember correctly, there is a short story out there that mentions the new primer says that tau have weak eyesight and weapons incapable of penetrating flak.
The eyesight thing is kinda true, it's not a huge difference but Tau do have slightly weaker eyesight than humans. What isn't mentioned though is that Tau have a lot more than just their eyes to help them aim and find targets.
The reason for the left handed thing is generally people (the majority) are right handed, and they used to wipe with their left hand, therefore the left hand was unclean. The word sinister, (according to what I've been able to find, french speakers correct me please) comes from the French word sinistre, which means "left handed".
The precursor to trenchfoot is called chillblains, sometimes used interchangeably. If a part of your body is exposed to chill and/or damp conditions for long periods of time you can develope blisters or itchy sores in that area. It also causes lack of oxygenation to the area which, once those sores open up, can lead to increased risk of infection and slow healing. You can get it for multiple reasons, but the biggest is damp socks and boots. Either because youre in a damp environment or simply just lots of sweat and not changing and drying your socks and boots. Its still a huge risk in almost any environment. This is one of the reasons "change your socks" is kind of a meme in military circles. Also. Change your socks. Always pack more socks than you need and an extra pair of boots if you can spare the room and weight lol.
Marine Corps Vet here…WE DO have little books that outline command structure, basic field movements, as well as how to set up basic field kit. Positive that a MilSurp store would have one for each branch!
They don't explain why ignoring the hordes of smaller Tyranid organisms and shooting the big ones is the way to do it, but it is genuinely good advice. Because that larger Tyranid might be a node in the synapse network. Not all of them are, but enough that taking them out (if you can manage it) will confuse the hordes around them. Not sure if this is still the case (the most updated Tyranid codex I've read is 7th edition), but from the very start the Tyranids have had the Shoot the Big Ones rule, specifically allowing enemy forces to fire on the bigger bioforms even when they would normally be forced to fire on other things. Again, not sure about the phrasing (it's in a box somewhere), but that's the gist of it.
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23:46 Soldiers still get treach foot. Most often during field problems (2 to 21 day training event). It hurts so much speaking from personal experience. Each step you take you feel the bottom of your feet pulling apart.
I remember hearing somewhere that IRL certain prayers that were done during medical care helped by timing the act to the length of the prayer, so the prayer would inadvertently be a way to properly time yourself.
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I had a military survival book with the quote “ a well placed hand grenade in a pond can provide fish for several days”
True
I mean... It ain't wrong
I mean it's true
And destroy the pond ecosystem
@@Pierre2079-g1uconsidering that an artillery shell does as much, if not more damage, I think most millitaries would consider it a small price to pay for survival or victory…
The reason we will never get a full Codex Astartes is that it would have to be written by an actual military genius. The in universe one was written by Gulliman himself, who you must remember is basically a demigod of war and strategy. It would be like Sun Tzu's 'Art of War', but for every conceivable situation that could ever happen to an Ultramarine. It would literally take up a whole Library. It is said in Canon that not even an Ultramarine can memorize the whole thing, but that each battle brother must memorize several chapters so that "Within each Company there exists a complete unwritten record of the entire text".
Imagine how incomprehensibly large and bloated the lex imperialis must be
If i remember correctly, rogal dorn used it as a support beam...or was it imperial law? @@aganaom1712
Imagine being the battle brother who has entire volumes on how to resist the various types of xenussy and remain faithful to the Emperor.
@@jojo_sanders5342 yes but it was also the expanded laws made after the heresy known as the "book of judgment" iirc of which new legislation is created every single day
And dorn's copy was outdated
There is another book, "The Liber Daemonicum," that is possessed by every single Grey Knight. The book is said to be made of wafer thin screens resembling pages.
So, it isn't even the compilation of required knowledge. You would need the technology to craft the medium to store and relay said knowledge.
I imagine the Codex Astartes is written in the same fashion.
Search for:
"US Army Training Comics"
"Military Field Manuals"
"US Army WII Training Films"
"WWII How to Behave in Britain"
I've watched how to behave in britain! It's been years, should rewatch it.
How to Behave in Britain is hilarious.
Literally warning the American troops to not freak out if British people don't act racist against black people.
@@thexenoist3493 Yeah, or to not be sexist against female officers
Those days? @@Tigerfish.
just straight up look preventative maintenance monthly
About men in suits coming to speak with you, it happened to Tom Clancy after describing the layout of a Naval ship. They wanted to know who leaked such classified information. They weren't very happy the answer was along the line of "Nobody told me, I just thought how it should be designed and used logic."
If i remember correctly, it was operation and maintenance of a nuclear reactor in a submarine.
Wasn't he in the military at some point?
@@thebighurt2495nope. His eyesight disqualified him from service in Nam.
He was interviewed by the FBI and asked where he got all his information. He then pulled military technical manuals for maintenance (that you can buy anywhere), open sourced technology manuals, and documents sent to him from government tech and manufacturing contractors who design and build the government equipment. He said you’d be surprised what you could get and learn when you just asked for it.
His books also had to be vetted by the three letter agencies because he’d also interviewed ex military and three letter agency agents and used their stories they’d tell each other and others (basic bragging around the table and banter) as research for his books. Just to make sure he didn’t put something in them that he wasn’t supposed to know or be told by someone.
I feel like a Necron version of the uplifting primer would just be a gif of Imotekh pointing at a guardsman and laughing.
Thank you for making me choke on my breakfast.😂
Absolutely fantastic image
Not a gif but like a stone chiselled hieroglyphic slab
@@lordgod9958 Engraved Necrodermis with the engraving glowing sickly green.
@@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179 it’s like one of those neon sign that go frame by frame
Propaganda is convincing everyone that this is the warp episode
😂😂😂
The warp
Yea😂
What do you mean it’s not? Clearly this talk of the imperium being brutal is heresy! Of the warp clearly, exterminatus approved.
Trench foot is caused by lack of dry footwear. Socks and boots should be changed as often as possible and kept dry when not in use. If you get trenchfoot you're supposed to keep it clean and let it dry back out. If left untreated a number of issues from infection to flesh rot and more. You can get it in a desert you can get it in a snow storm you can get it on your hands.
Yeah, and in freezing area, you could add frostbite to the lists of unfortunate problems.
War is hell
I almost got trench foot once it was the worst idea ever to not wear waterproof boots on a hiking trip in a bog
Yup, and trench foot isn't a _single_ infection either. Kinda hard to vaccinate against that. Nurgle must be so proud.
This sounds like a really fucked up Dr. Seuss poem. Trench foot: You can get it in the sands, you can get it on your hands. You can get it in the snow, you can get it down below!
@wahbegan I was tired when I wrote mine, but your's alot better
Two things to keep in mind about the Guard's humble Flashlight:
Firstly, it was Big E's second choice for a primary infantry weapon. Mass production, maintenance, and supply of his first choice was not economically viable at the point Big E began launching crusades out into Sol.
Secondly, the Lasgun has been the Guards standard infantry weapon for something on the order of twenty or thirty thousand years. With that length of time in service, the only foes that *would* remain are the Uncontacted, the Freshly Evolved, and the Adapted. Most of what The Imperium (and thus, the Guard) fight falls into that last category.
IIRC, the recoil is also artificial because the soldiers who transitioned to the Lasgun were really thrown off by the lack of feedback when firing and felt they lacked umph. So they threw in a weight that slams back when the gun fires.
This weapon guardsmen has killed 98% of the alien life in the galaxy. Sadly that last 2% are tough bastards and that is what we fight today.
What was his first choice
@@goiliath9s496I think it was Volkite weapons.
@@craig.a.glesneri think volkite was supposed to be the default for space marines
1:06:45
Hans from Frozen: "It's amazing."
Anna: What?
Hans: We finish each other's
Anna: Sandwiches!
Hans: That's what I was gonna say-
Hans stopped. The realization hit him like a boulder. In the 45 minutes since they had first met, he finally noticed that glint in her eyes. That touch of craziness.
"The corruption!" Hans whispered to himself softly. He had never seen it before, but he had heard the stories. The horror. What it led to.
He could not let it strike. Not here.
Slowly he unclipped his laz pistol. Pulling it out while she turned away. If he had to be the one to do it, so be it. Before she turned around, he lept forward and delivered Emperor's mercy.
Plot twist: Anna turns around "i am alpharious"
this is perfect, this should of been the true ending to frozen
"-There is no imperium brainwashing in Ba sing se. Here, lets get some mind prob- i mean, some corpse starch"
I like the theory that veteran Guardsmen are allowed to openly explain to new recruits that the primer has some "heavy embellishment."
The main purpose of the primer would be to calm down the wider population of the Imperium (almost inevitable that a such widely distributed book finds its way to civilian hands.)
To Lysander and Koda:
Standardized Necron infantry use the Gauss Flayer as their designated firearm of choice, which fires arcs of green electricity-like energy tendrils in an adjustable cone. Each tendril of electricity, once it makes contact with a target, will cause a certain area around the point of impact to undergo near instant molecular disintegration, as skin, then muscle, the nerves, then bone are stripped away layer by layer. This causes such excruciating pain that some guards lucky enough to only be grazed by the edge of the Gauss Flayer's conical area of effect may still die from the shock of having part of one of their limbs "flayed" into a pile of carbonized organic material. Going off of the description, I'd assume getting hit by a Gauss Flayer's electrical arc is like having someone blow your individual nerve cells up to the size of a person, them rub them down with a rusty cheese graters, and you can feel all of that. However, since the damage is stated to be caused by molecular disassembly, I don't think any wounds caused by a Gauss Flayer would be carterized by the attack, which means the injured party still has to deal with the problem of rapid blood loss due to their impromptu amputation.
all I see is nerd
@robertgraham6025
Welcome to the 40k fandom, battle brother!
@@robertgraham6025You come into MY HOUSE, watch a video of MY NERDY HOBBY, and then you have the audacity to call me NERDY?
How do necrons even top that weapon wise? Like do they just increase the length on the arc or make the bolts thicker?
Bro they got black hole guns and unexistors @KackyInventor
"My dear, poor guardsmen. How the Imperium has betrayed and lied to you. Please, let me show you the word of Lorgar and The Four."
I like the word bearers. They are so twistedly compassioned sometimes. Like I can't imagine any othe chaos legion actually convincing a guardsman through words and showing passion to join them. Only they'll sacrifice that guardsman because this way is actually 4 times as effective than just mass sacrifice
My fellow guardsmen say I stink but I say magic don't work
Comassar we have a problem
HERESY!!!!!
BLAM!
Move along citizen.
you dare speak heresy brother
16:10 Ah, the propaganda of my fathers day. Which he said did nothing more than to make the young and foolish into the gullible and dead.
He once, very nearly, got kicked out of the USCG due to possessing a copy of The Communist Manifesto. This was back when the Articles of War were a thing.
When asked why he had it, his answer was "to know our enemy" and was told flat out by his commanding officer that was not his job and "they [command] would tell him who the enemy was."
He, and our family, also suffered immensely every time he got a promotion. The US Gov. would send folks to "question" his parents, relatives, and acquaintances to ensure we didn't have any Nazi ties. They did this right up to his retirement where his last promotion was to LCDR. Our family has been in the US since 1868, but they still checked.
He absolutely hated propaganda and rather preferred to study everything on his own and form his own opinions on things.
Voting for Space Marine Biology next episode, we need to see Koda be confused and bewildered at what goes into a space marine and how much it varies on literal vibes😂
Oh man, have you seen Dr. Chris Raynor's videos breaking down Space Marine physiology? It's an excellent series, and he's a very fun presenter.
I would love the Ork version to modeled like a cookbook:
"Grotshank's Good Eat'ns"
Chapter 1: Humies
Part 1: Da Imperial Guardsman
That's assuming they take the time to differentiate them lol
@@skiadrum9029 Ya got ta diffrentate the humies, ya git! How else ya gonna know wich ones'll give ya a proper scrap?
@@saucevc8353Humies don't. The beakies do. Yous wanna a goot scrap, dem humies ar too soft.
Humies? They ain't half bad but not enough dakka.
ya git! orcz don' read! bookz'z fer big brain sof boyz'z!
15:12 Isyander - "I think for Me personally, if you can reason with it, it's worth some respect"
Commissar Loads his Las-Pistol behind Isyander.
Hey, long time viewer. I joined the marine corps and during boot camp they give us the “Guidebook For Marines”. It covers everything from the history, equipment, hygiene and uniform standards, moral standards for leadership. It’s as basically as close to government sanctioned propaganda and I’d be happy to send my own copy.
Honest question from a person of south america, is there actual propaganda like "we fight for freedom" or "to protect the people of america" or something like that?! (im asking sincerely, im not trying to ofend, sorry for the grammar)
@@LestatLSTas bad as it sounds, yes there is.😂
@@Weeb.mp5 oh my fucking god xD JAJAJAJAJA thank you so much!
@LestatLST Honestly, for the US army, we don't really have a handbook like the marines unless you count the ranger handbook, but our basic training is basically them doing a hardcore propaganda run on you just to "make you the write soldier". To quote a drill sgt I had.
@@chriswright1322 it's both concerning and terrifying. I'm glad we don't have any oil here xD
A good perspective on civilian broadcasting was in Ciaphas Cain: Duty Calls, where gene stealer hybrids were portrayed as under hive "insurgents".
Which is not entirely untrue but extremely simplifying and ignorant of the main issue. Just like the primer :)
If I lived in under hive feel insulted can you imagine trying to survive your day
These upper level folks talking about you like you some alien hybrid mutant didn’t even have the nerve considered you human which is why they add the alien part
Sleep deprivation training was my favorite part of basic training, shit gets trippy. You'll just suddenly be somewhere with no clue how you got here but then shrug and just fall in line, people talking to trees or bushes, dudes just vanishing on you.
Isyander & Koda, DJ Peach Cobbler AND Wendigoon uploads in the same hour?!
I must be in a wet dream
Slannesh take you… but yeah.
I'm conflicted between Isyander & Koda and Wendigoon.
So I will save both for tomorrow 😊
1:10 Orks are gangs, Chaos is chaos, the Imperium can't adapt, the Eldar have no structure, the Necrons can't reproduce, and the tyrranids are literal animals. The Tau are naive and small, but they are the only faction in the universe that seems to actually learn it's lessons and create functional solutions to issues that don't kneecap them fully in the future.
I think the Tau are meant to be the infant of the factions, young and naive but with potential. The other races basically have stagnated technology and reached their peak eons ago.
Send Kharn against the Tau. He'll kill 8 Trillion of them no problem
Hi Isyander and Koda, Army officer here. The equivalent to an Infantrymens handbook would be the Ranger Handbook and its not only purchasable by civilians but can be downloaded for free as a PDF through a simple Google Search. Enjoy!
My vote is for the Warp and I’m hoping the episode will be like a David Attenborough documentary where I&K discuss the Warp as if it’s a safari, only 40,000x more brutal.
Also, this episode was really good and I readily welcome future book clubby episodes if y’all would be interested in making more.
0:11 mostly Petty reasons
Koda's instinct isn't too off. The Holy Roman Empire famously used the double headed eagle (and Russia historically).
The Holy Roman Empire is often described as "Not Holy, Not Roman, and Not an Empire" 😂 so still fitting to the central theme of the Imperium.
The not holy not roman not empire bit is fucking dumb though, Voltaire was just stupid.
Episode 12 of fortifying for the imperial fists “enemy has taken out the second layer of trenches, support from an astartes strike team has been sent”
I think the fists may have had their day in the sun already
Oooooo
@@Pandolfinstein44When I searched I couldn’t find a video for them, I did see one for dorn though. If you do find one, do you mind linking it?
@@joegaming9952 my bad you're right I got mixed up cause of the Sigismund episode being the dorn companion episode
Look up "The Bushman's Campanion". It an Australian book from the early 1900s (1916 Edition) about how to treat injuries and sickness while in the outback (or anywhere). While dated, it has some really good knowledge. The best part is most pages have a quote at the bottom. With a bit of tweaking it could come straight out of Warhammer 40k. "The Catachan's Campanion"
the amount of glee in your face when talking about the uplifting primer is priceless
I was a medic for 14 years. Nowadays we differentiate between trench foot and immersion foot, and I have treated both. The easiest breakdown here is that cold and wet gives you trench foot while wet and warm gives you immersion foot.
Just taking time outta my day to tell you guys how much I love the videos. Not only are they very well made, they make me feel like I’m having a conversation with friends I wish I had. Keep doing great, guys!
The problem with one of these for the Sister is that the printing and production costs would be exorbitant.
Something like 23 volumes of 3 inch thick heavy hard covers, possibly with locks. heavily illuminated, gilded pages cover to cover.
conservatively.
Adeptus Ridiculous did bring a veteran and went through the Primer and mention alot of this is accurate if not word for word in the real ones
I would love to see a primer for a war where the Imperium has had to ally with the Tau or Eldar and the cognitive dissonance of explaining how this alien is your friend he fights for your freedom. Like how all of the Allied WW2 propaganda did a 180 on the Soviets after they joined the war.
Ah yes keeping the public of the imperium "safe from chaos"
While simultaneously creating the awful conditions that lead people to want something better, and seeding their mind with the exact kind of biases that leads them to seek out a cosmic savior. We love the Imperium, and her self sabotaging puritanism.
@@secutorprimus "When I first learned of the weakness of neoliberalism... it disgusted me."
@nerag7459 "Shit, the workers want to get paid for working 18 hour shifts? Quick, frame them as heretics! The zealots will sort em out, and we can return to business as usual."
@@secutorprimus Union=chaos cult
@@secutorprimus union=chaos cult
1:10:47 "They say monkey more than Ruckus and Freiza combined." LMAO
I remember Isyander mentioned a while ago that he wanted a copy of the Uplifting Primer.
I'm glad he finally got it.
US Army Soldier here. You can look online and find unclassified Soldier Handbooks. I recommend specifically the US Solider’s Blue Book. It’s what we get in basic training.
Btw still very possible to get trench foot. Rain, puddles, and other bodies of water easily stepped in are always a problem along with just being in humid environments. Everyone should know to bring spare socks and boots when they’re in the field. Foot powder is also typically a good call.
Propaganda? How can there be propaganda! You dare insult our gracious god emperor?!
And here I thought James Workshop, being English, simply meant to be taking a good look at something 🤣
It must be so hard for Gulliman and his girlfriend to coexist in an environment like this, so tragic.
I'm still waiting for that romantic novel though.
the chronology of 40k (ie from whenever 13th black crusade was started until the maletrix maledictum or whatever) was fixed by Roboute Guilliman, as i understand it he did it "before the Maledictum" and "after Maledictum". in any case, he fixed it to be the millenium M42 as the Indomitus was M41 (ie 40000, M42 would be 41000) our favourite administrator love his details, man fucked with the chronological timekeeping.
As a veteran I can 100 percent vouch this is accurate. It's such a shame they haven't updated this book
I got a propaganda at Slaanesh back in 2003 and now my soul is in a jar somewhere
Did someone sit on the jar by chance
@@nmr7203 I don’t wanna talk about it.
18:10 In regards to US infantrymen handbooks they can be found online and are not sensitive materials. You can even find the Marine Corps Riflemen's hand book online. (I also have a doc I can send of the Marine Corps Rifleman book if you don't want to look). I did my time in the Corps and miss it every day!
The legit version can only be gotten from Paris Island as a recruit. There's no classified info, but they're not the same thing.
The soul of the Machine God surrounds thee.
The power of the Machine God invests thee.
The hate of the Machine God drives thee.
The Machine God endows thee with life.
Live!
Is this the honest to god litany of activation?
@@viperblitz11it worked on my pc...
A krieg general of my aquantance said that "the entire purpose of the Primer is to make sure a guardsman isn't utterly terrified and soiling his pants before even meeting his first Xenos. It is a comfortable pack of lies designed to make the average man believe they can actually win against the like of Tyranids, Orks etc. If the average Guard recruit knew what they were really up against, the comissars would have to shoot half the compliment of every troop ship full of fresh recruits before they even got to the ground."
The man was very talkative and social for a kriegsman.
Do you guys ever wonder if robust guilded drake gets swampass after wearing the suit for so long
You know for a fact it was built to rectify that problem, yet still fails due to the added stress he has to expell like body heat.
@@lorddio663 u right
I believe the suits recycle his sweat into coolant.
He's a super bio engineered superhuman
I don't think he has those problems
We need a story where Guilllimen finding a Primer on the battlefield, opening it and noticing it has not been updated in over 3 Centuries and going, no no no no no... then the next Black Library release is the Indomitus Primer, would be a nice in world joke.
Why would he mind?
I want a warp episode and for you to make it clear that we know jack shit about the deep warp following is some excerpts
I'm shamelessly gonna piggy back of this and paste a collection of excerpts that are related to the deep warp.
‘There are layers,’ said Veil, impatiently. ‘Yes, there is stratum aetheris, the shallow ways. There is stratum profundis, the greater arteries, plunging deeper. There is stratum obscurus, the root of the terror. How does this help you? No living man can navigate the deep ways. Even he could not.’
‘But you try to map it.’
‘It could not be done.’ Veil shook his head with frustration. ‘He was wrong about that, at least. It is not a mirror. It moves like a living thing. It is a living thing. Touch it, and it trembles.’ He briefly lost his certainty. ‘I do not have the Eye, but still I have seen things. I have studied what they study. The complexity is… immortal.’
‘Try to explain.’ Yesugei spoke softly. ‘I am fast learner.’
Veil exhaled, his eyes widening. ‘The Seethe is an ocean. All know this - it has currents, it has depths, it has storms. Near the surface, you can see the Cartomancer’s light. You can follow it. You can use your Geller aegis, and you are kept barred from the Intelligences. But even then, you are just below the upper limits. Go deeper and the aegis shatters. The lights go out. The Eye is blinded. When men say that they traverse the warp, they boast, for no mortal does more than skim across eternity’s face, like stones thrown by a child. We do not belong there. It is poison for us, and the deeper in, the worse the poison.’
'Achelieux try to go deeper?’
Who knows? Maybe. He did not succeed. Do you know why not? Because it is impossible. It takes the power of a tormented sun just to puncture the shallowest shoals. No energy in our arsenal could possibly pierce further. String the reactors of a dozen battleships together, double their potential, and still it would not be enough. So no, he did not succeed.’
Chris Wraight, [Horus Heresy 36 - The Path of Heaven](wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/The_Path_of_Heaven_(Novel))
Note that this is from the perspective of a human at the time when knowledge of the warp was incredibly limited. And even then, he is simply explaining that warp capable craft only enter a shallower warp and that they can not enter the deeper levels which, as readers, we know is where daemons and the gods reside.
The same novel also explicitly states that the Webway exists within the Deep Warp.
He perceived the truth. Both thrones had been made for the same reason - to plumb the deeper ways, to free the species from the nightmare of the shallow warp, to bridge a link across the hidden paths, ones that only xenos had known, and which the Emperor had found some way to access. Dark Glass was the lesser node, the one where the technology had been tested, anchored in the furthest recesses of the void while the Great Crusade scoured its widening path ever further from the home world. In the chaos that had erupted since, the portal had been left behind, lost but not forgotten, neither by its creators nor its opponents in the labyrinthine halls of the Paternova.
Path to Heaven by Chris Wraight
We also know that Tzeentch is located in the same place as the Webway
Along with the Visarch and the Yncarne, Yvraine suddenly found herself adrift - not within the webway, but without. They were stranded in a near-silent limbo, trapped on the top of the psychocrystal walls. The sounds of battle were muffled beneath them, and the cool void sucked in its breath at their backs. Yvraine did not look around, for she felt something there, in the darkness. A voice in her mind said should she do so, she would behold the Changer of the Ways himself, and learn the meaning of madness.
Gathering Storm: Fracture of Biel-Tan
This is a comment from John French (author of the book Fateweaver) about Kairos and the Well of Eternity
Daemons are not living creatures. Each one of them is a facet of a Dark God’s power and nature. They are semi-independent, but ultimately they are only fragments of a greater whole. The mortal servants of Chaos are also slaves to the Dark Gods, their minds and bodies are twisted by the Warp, but they can still make decisions, hope, dream, and despair. They can plot and betray. That mortal independence, ultimately, is what makes the Gods crave their souls.!
So where does that leave Kairos Fateweaver? Tzeentch wanted to look into the Well of Eternity but would not risk to go himself, so sent one of his Daemons, which is actually part of him… and now Kairos Fateweaver knows more of the future than Tzeentch himself, while existing as part of him. How does that work?!
The answer is that it doesn’t. It makes no sense - because that would mean that Tzeentch both knows all of the future and past and does not. It means that part of him is, in one way, more powerful than the rest of him.
And that’s fine.
It’s fine because the story of Kairos Fateweaver, and the Well of Eternity, is just that; it is a story told about something mortal minds cannot understand, and can only describe through metaphor. Th**e Well of Eternity is just a name. There is no hole in the middle of a fortress that does not exist that goes down for ever. Tzeentch does not literally listen to his Daemons. All these things are just skins that are pulled over a part of the vast, intangible malevolence of the Warp. The truth really cannot be known.
How cool is that?
Hey fellas, recent aussie veteran here.
Trench foot, aka pitted keratolysis plus cold/wet is still very much an issue. The US boots thing is not a thing.
Basically it works the same way as staying in the bath too long in warm environments, where your skin gets too moist and because you're wearing the same socks for who knows how long the bacteria go crazy.
In cold environments it works exactly the same way, but with the addition of reduced circulation in your extremities due to the cold. This basically makes it multiple times worse, as the reduced circulation by itself is enough to do damage (see diabetes foot).
Have fun searching up both diabetes foot and pitted keratolysis 😂
Yay perfect timing, Love the videos and I stand for the Guard
I've been waiting all week for a video. Even longer for a primer episode.
I vote for a long overdue warp episode, and an episode on the punishements found in the primer.
18:15 I have a hand book or two you guys may want.
Update:
I guess I have six lol 😂 didn’t know my collection had grown.
But yeah got things like the
“Heavy hits for light packs”
“the soldiers handbook”
And others but I’m sure TH-cam would throw a fit if I listed them.
Love how you where mumbeling that "propaganda has hands" and I understood "has Hans" and that made me chuckle...
23:34 you absolutely can. Good boots help but the only sure fire way to avoid it is to change ya damn socks. Yes it's a pain in the arse to take you boots off, dry your feet, air them out and put on another pair of socks when all you want to do is sleep and you don't wanna unpack and repack the bag. But change ya damn socks
The fact that this primer, meant in-universe as the manual every one of the Imperium's endless hordes of essentially slave-soldiers get a copy of, is out of print and expensive IRL is one of the best, most hilarious pieces of ongoing irony in the world.
Listening to this episode just reminds me of my time in boot camp/combat school and I'm here for it. If I can find my old marine recruit's hand book I'll send it to you guys.
DONT FORGET THE SPOTIFY VERSION!
To be fair, I do not believe it's designed to lie to the soldiers for the sake of lying. It's the *Uplifting* Primer, it's purpose is, first and foremost, *uplift* the guardsman's spirits.
They already know there's war everywhere, and they will face hard times. They do not need to know *everything* non-human and *about half* of "human" threats are, individually, more lethal than them. Tell them that, and you get less volunteers, less draftees, and a bunch of scared and disgruntled, *trained* troops huddled together on a ship, usually outnumbering the crew...
Lying to them about what they'll face in order to maintain good spirits and discipline is kind of a necesity, at that point...
10:45 Something like this happened to me. I was posted as the nightshift guard for a very remote warehouse just before the blizzard hit Texas.
Power went out, no communication equipment worked (cell/internet/landline), and no way my Dodge Avenger would make it through snow.
Thankfully, dear, old dad was born in '31 and raised my little brother and I to be absolutely ready for when things went to shit. I may not be a licensed armed security guard but I do keep a hardcase in the trunk with carbine, pistol, ammo, and maintenance stuff. Especially for long 12hr shifts.
So I get the posting, the drive REALLY sucked but was doable, settled in thinking it's not gonna be that bad and...well...yeah.
Thank god I had food and water stashed away in the guard shacks fridge along with the non-perishables in my cars trunk.
Boredom was the real enemy because that shit set in quick. Once communication went out, I assumed someone would be sent me way since it's a very remote post. But that wasn't the case.
The good news was that I clocked an extreme amount of OT and bonus. The bad news was that the client became absolutely furious I had camped out on their property, armed, and tried to have me fired for it. They also claimed I damaged stuff in the warehouse and the bathrooms.
Yep, fun times being along out in the Texas boonies snowed in guarding some morons cars.
As a loyal citizen of the Imperium I am submitting my vote to this lovely vox for The Schola Progenium!
To be fair, ork technology does have a tendancy to missfire and explode sometimes, however the orks usually just treat that as a bonus. Most orks find it funny when the guy driving the boomdakka snazzwagon accidentaly phases into reality in the same place as a wall.
I always loved the voices you hear in the factory/hab levels in the first space marine. That always had a wonderful tone that really gives you a flavour of what the average person is told
Scolar progenia!!! Let's get a high school episode baby!!!!
1:10:48 The idea of Freeza and Ruckus both looking at an Eldar and thinking "Woah, easy there buddy" makes me smile to no end.
“How do you take that back” turn to the page on Psyckers… that’s how.
I second the statement! "more prayers need the word Smash in them."
Also, Coda killing it this episode.
Both of you gents, top tier. But that comment about Eldar looking 15 but actually being 500 years old. Lowered have mercé
Warp it's self is my vote. It would be really interesting to see you both dealing with that.
Fun fact, the warp actually mirrors our real maps for gravity wells in the milky way. The spots where the warp tears into space is actually where NASA maps out the highest density/gravity in the galaxy
@@elyrienvalkyrshiii we are fucked
My favorite quote regarding the Lasgun is that The humble Lasgun was strong enough to kill 99% of Hostile aliens, unfortunately they're dealing with the remaining 1%
16:16 Isyander... Was that an F.D Signifier reference? If so, respect my man 👊🏽
Gosh I’d absolutely love to have more of this read. Between the delight and shock of the reactions, and then the actually really interesting and immersive way this is written, it would be delightful to see more!
I need a video on the warp. I love warp shenanigans.
POG BEEN WAITING WHILE PUSHING SHOPPING CARTS!!!! THANK YOU FELLAS KEEP THOSE BUTTER SMOOTH WHISKEY VOICES COMING!!!!
Obligatory comment for the machine spirit!
Can't wait to see izander and koda bust open a couple copy's of different military handbooks and conpair notes for 2 hours.
4 views 56 seconds after upload? Y’all fell off. There’s no recovering
Koda transforming into a space wolf is the type of continuity i keep coming back every week for.
45:10 the Lasgun rules because it is a reliable direct energy weapon that has no recoil, can be charged in the field with their power cell magazines, delivers it's energetic payload at near-light speed which makes it harder to track the origin of shots, is versatile in function and relatively simple to modify, can have mounted accesories like lights/bayonets/underbarrel grenade launchers and (on planets with sufficient technological and industrial capacity) scales far better than chemical propellant firearms while being more efficient than railguns in nearly every way. Like any weapon system it has pros and cons(range is a big one for example) but for a galactic empire it is a perfect choice as primary infantry weapon for guardsmen.
I did have a military field med book at one point, because we lived with a family friend that was a vet.. It was like three inches thick, and it's how I learned how to pack wounds, create splints from both gear and nature, and even how to purify water, among a few other things.. Wish I held onto it, especially nowadays..
What was it called? There are multiple on the internet, most are probably not official.
Just a reminder since the word heresy usually gets thrown around: In real medieval Europe, witches were not burned at the stake, they were hung. Heretics were the ones burned. You might ask "so witches arent heretics?" the answer is no, because witches and pagans existed within the framework of christianity. A heretic was someone who wants to change or in anyway alter a religion's theology(for example, christiasnity is a jewish heresy), wich is why many of those accused and burned alive where themselves priests and their followers, guilty of practicing a variation of the mainline authorized doctrine.
In Isyander's world, everything's boiling down.
Love the video, i served in the marines recently as an infantryman, had a bunch of posistions, still have some of the training manuals and would absolutely love to see the similarities with this book, none of it is classified at all cuz most of it is out of date or basic knowledge anyways. keep up the good work
I definitely get not separating the dark eldar and others. When the chips are down, Dark Eldar and normal would work together and watch an entire world burn for each other, before theyd let a single one of their "brothers" go to She who thirsts. And as soon as you start trying to make shades of gray, all the eldar will take advantage of it. Best option: They are all the enemy and all need the Emperor's Mercy.
The ork version would be Da Boyz Pictcha Book O’ DAKKA.
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The Ranger Handbook is freely and widely available as a PDF on google, as is almost every TM and FM the army uses.
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58:10 the imperium does have copiers they are called auto scribes. It's a person's torso bolted to the top of a box with quills replacing his fingers as paper feeds under him.
If I remember correctly, there is a short story out there that mentions the new primer says that tau have weak eyesight and weapons incapable of penetrating flak.
The eyesight thing is kinda true, it's not a huge difference but Tau do have slightly weaker eyesight than humans. What isn't mentioned though is that Tau have a lot more than just their eyes to help them aim and find targets.
@@screamingcactus1753 Not to mention that even their sidearms can penetrate ceramite, let alone a sodding flak vest. xD
The reason for the left handed thing is generally people (the majority) are right handed, and they used to wipe with their left hand, therefore the left hand was unclean. The word sinister, (according to what I've been able to find, french speakers correct me please) comes from the French word sinistre, which means "left handed".
The precursor to trenchfoot is called chillblains, sometimes used interchangeably. If a part of your body is exposed to chill and/or damp conditions for long periods of time you can develope blisters or itchy sores in that area. It also causes lack of oxygenation to the area which, once those sores open up, can lead to increased risk of infection and slow healing.
You can get it for multiple reasons, but the biggest is damp socks and boots. Either because youre in a damp environment or simply just lots of sweat and not changing and drying your socks and boots. Its still a huge risk in almost any environment. This is one of the reasons "change your socks" is kind of a meme in military circles. Also. Change your socks. Always pack more socks than you need and an extra pair of boots if you can spare the room and weight lol.
Marine Corps Vet here…WE DO have little books that outline command structure, basic field movements, as well as how to set up basic field kit. Positive that a MilSurp store would have one for each branch!
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One of the double headed eagles symbols was the holy roman empire
Isyander: "I'm not gonna talk about punishments in this video."
Also Isyander: Talks about punishments for like 20min.
They don't explain why ignoring the hordes of smaller Tyranid organisms and shooting the big ones is the way to do it, but it is genuinely good advice. Because that larger Tyranid might be a node in the synapse network. Not all of them are, but enough that taking them out (if you can manage it) will confuse the hordes around them. Not sure if this is still the case (the most updated Tyranid codex I've read is 7th edition), but from the very start the Tyranids have had the Shoot the Big Ones rule, specifically allowing enemy forces to fire on the bigger bioforms even when they would normally be forced to fire on other things. Again, not sure about the phrasing (it's in a box somewhere), but that's the gist of it.
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23:46 Soldiers still get treach foot. Most often during field problems (2 to 21 day training event). It hurts so much speaking from personal experience. Each step you take you feel the bottom of your feet pulling apart.
I remember hearing somewhere that IRL certain prayers that were done during medical care helped by timing the act to the length of the prayer, so the prayer would inadvertently be a way to properly time yourself.