The codex astartes says the chapters had to shrink down when not in crusades... so the black templars just never stopped crusading. they are templar crusading knights, in 40k power armor.
That makes a lot of sense, we need to do a little more research on them just because we are still confused as to who their enemies are. But we are loving this so far!
The day a Black Templar, and chaplain at that, says he will kill the Emperor is the day the Warp turns calm, Chaos worshippers become orderly pacifists and Games Workshop will try to make friends with its fanbase
Calling this a fan work is only part of the story. The fan work is animation over a heavily abridged version of the audio book, with some redone dialogue and sound effects in places. The full audio book is about four times as long, and read by Jonathan Keeble. That in turn is a reading of a novel by Aaron Demski-Bowden. Both novel and audio book are official products.
Primarchs are way bigger than average space marines and treated with way more respect, holding a near-religious status among their space marine sons. There are 20 known primarchs with 2 being erased from history at some point in time. From the remaining 18, half turned traitor and the other remained loyal. Many of the loyal ones are either missing or dead, with the only active loyal primarch so far being roboute guilliman who leads the ultramarines. I also think you guys should react to "who are the space marines" by the channel 40k theories. It's very informative and will help clear some stuff up.
To be fair Primarchs are demi-gods basically and insanely strong. Robute basically ripped apart demons and Chaos Marines with his bare hands after waking up, after 10 000 years of stasis....And even being in his presence - heals illness and wounds for normal people...
The slap is an ancient knightly tradition. A reminder of oaths taken, and to always stand for yourself, your brothers, and your sworn duty. The best unsaid thing about the Astartes is that they, despite being so far removed biologically from mankind (being posthuman), they still are confronted by all-too-human trials and tribulations writ large. They have fears, failings, and emotions the same or deeper than the rest of us. The "Archenemy" they refer to that killed Mordred is Chaos. Daemons, and the warp. Those followers of the Primordial Annihilator, or the "Dark Powers" and the 4 Gods of Chaos. Chaplains also catch their brother marines when they be slippin'. The Black Templars are on an Eternal Crusade stemming from their founding and inadherence to the codex astartes. They hold no homeworld, and sail around in their flotilla led by their flagship the Eternal Crusader, and seek out any combat theater they can find invited or not, and recruit from basically wherever they please.
I hope you guys continue with the video helsreach is a great story I've loved everything about it I've probably seen it well over a couple hundred times even if you guys don't watch it through with a reaction please take the time to watch the whole thing. You will not be disappointed
Thank you for the kind words 😊 we loved reacting to it but want to try and add a little more to our conversation about it so I'm glad you enjoyed our discussion after! We'll have more coming soon!!
You guys are in for an incredible story. There's actually a part 2 to this tale that not many people talk about. That is the story of the Celestial Lions Chapter. They too were a successor chapter of the Imperial Fists just like the Black Templars. I don't want to spoil anything, but man it's worth checking out.
You did it, you mad lads did it. I'm happy. Also you guys must also watch Black Templars and sword brethren. The Black Templars is set in Armageddon the place where helsreach took place and sword brethren takes place in a unknown plant besieged by the black legion. Also the ship is called a battle barge, and the thing squad Grimaldus was in is called a drop-pod. And the armors squad Grimaldus was was a mark 4 maximum (Kaidor), mark 5 heresy(Artarion), mark 6 corvus (Bastalan), mark 7 aquila(Primus and Nerovar) and mark 8 errant(Grimaldus). Also this is the second battle of Armageddon.
The bit about the BTs not using artillery and support is mostly not true. They love melee and purging with swords and hammers, but they aren't idiots if the job requires ranged support they will use it and use it well, it's not what they like, but they aren't one of the psycho chapters that will charge into certain death for no good reason.
rumors had it that the Black templers were also in parts modelt after the Teutonic Order to boost sells (3rd edition) in main continental europa and/or germany especially. in the 2nd. edition they dont realy showed up and warhammer / Wh40k . was not so wide spread.
@@GMineo oh it did, sells exploded (at least where i come from) with the 3rd edition. gw would not be "the" company it is today without the succsess of that . and i know many who played black templer back than.
That's crazy. Thank you for letting us know! It's always cool to learn how the company influences the game other than from the perspective of telling the 40k story, so learning about stuff like this is always so neat
The Black Templars are the descendants of Rogal Dorn, but more specifically of Dorn's second in command, First Captain Sigismund, the Emperor's Champion. When the Imperial Fists Legion was divided into Chapters, Sigismund was given one of those Chapters, who were named the Black Templars, who swore that they would continue to Crusade across the stars until humanity controlled the galaxy and no enemy of Mankind remained. As a crusading Chapter, the Black Templars have no singular homeworld, but are instead split amongst fleets of ships, with each fleet serving as a single Crusade, flying off independently to conquer worlds and kill aliens, heretics, and mutants in the Emperor's name. They recruit from countless different worlds (including Armageddon) rather than only one. Helbrecht is the High Marshal, the most senior commander of the Black Templars, and leader of what is called The Eternal Crusade, because their quest to rid the universe of enemies will never end. Grimaldus is made Reclusiarch here, making him the most senior Chaplain in the Chapter, and in charge of the chapter's relics and most sacred rites. A common tradition amongst the Black Templars is the use of weapon chains. Sigismund took up this practice during the Great Crusade, and Black Templars continue it: a Black Templar cannot be disarmed because his weapons are affixed to chains wrapped around their arms.
That last bit is a detail we hadn't noticed yet! Kinda cool when you think about it, but makes me wonder why they started using weapon chains during the great crusade and not before.
@@GMineo The use of weapon chains actually comes from one of the Traitor Legions, before they turned. The World Eaters used them, as it had been a part of the gladiatorial combats on Nuceria, the world were Angron, the World Eaters' Primarch was found. Sigismund spent time sparring with Khârn, Captain of the World Eaters 8th company, and adopted the technique. Of course, those events were before the Heresy, and ten thousand years ago, so nobody remains who remembers them... well, except Khârn.
Wow! Thank you for that, you're living proof that we still have only scratched the surface of Warhammer knowledge and we are excited for the time when we might know as much as all of you!
@@GMineo I've been a fan of 40k since the early 90s and spent a few years writing for the tabletop RPGs between 2009 and 2012, contributing to a dozen or so books. I've picked up a lot of knowledge over nearly thirty years of being part of this community, and I enjoy opportunities to share that knowledge.
It's amazing! We were scared to jump into it because of how long it is, but are really enjoying doing it piece by piece so we don't feel too confused and can get answers from our lore master. Thanks for watching!
@@GMineo Depends on the chapter and the state of the marine. Spending time in the warp can make it hard to asses a marines service life as time flows strangly. The oldest serving loyalist spacemarine is Chaptermaster Dante of the Blood angels, who is topside of 1,200. We also had a marine hit by a temporal weapon that aged him a few thousand years and he was still in active service for some time after that. If you are talking marines interned in Dreadnaughts then they live a LOT longer. Partly is the armor plating, partlythe fact they are only wheeled out when really neaded and partly the amount of time they spend in stasis. The oldest of them is said to be Bjorn the Fellhanded of the space wolves. He is over 10,000 years old and was around to witnis the birth of the imperium. Other marines that old are some of the new Primaris. Long story short after the emperor fell a Primarch called Guiliman was put in charge. He reformed the imperium and the spacemarine legions into chapters. Another thing he did was pick out a particular genius and task him with building a better spacemarine. Given 10,000 years access to forbiden lore and licence to tinker in ways others felt unthinkable he succeded. He built up a large legion of these marines over time and held them in stasis, some of them being from the dawn of the imperium.
One of my favorite short stories of the Black Templars involves a Heavy Weapons Squad (approx. 6 Marines) facing off against an overwhelming force of Khorne Cultists (Regular Humans, but Blood-crazed Berzerkers). Upon seeing the thousands of enemy coming at them, the BT Sgt. keeps having the Squad fall back once they get too close, often losing a Marine in the process, which the BT Corporal is almost mutinously against further falling back, since in his eyes, falling back is shameful. However, each time the BTs fall back, the Cultists are so crazed that they kill a good amount of their number, for Khorne "Cares Not From Whom The Blood Flows", so that after a third fall back, the four Marines that are left are able to finally defeat them. After the battle, when the Corporal, who was ready to come to blows with the Sgt., is reprimanded, the Sgt. saying basically, 'Have faith in your superiors and don't ever question me again, pup!'. Great Story!
Wow that's crazy! We haven't gotten into the stories of chapters yet but once we get an overview of all the factions we'll be diving into everyone more closely!
Hey guys, i highly recommend Luetin09's videos about warhammer, its really good for beginners and veterans both. Another thing i recommend is Counterpoints breakdown of the Angels of Death series. It features the Blood Angels. But the good thing is that 1.its fucking epic and second. It gets explained.
Hi CommunistGoat! Copy that, we'll take a look! We are so excited for all the amazing content that we get to be a part of and watch now that we're becoming a part of the Warhammer community! It's a great group of people
The Black Templars are a successor chapter of the Imperial Fists they are sons of the Primarch Rogal Dorn. They are a fleet based crusading chapter and they are also religious fanatic zealots plus they don't like normal humans very much and have an extreme dislike for Pyskers this gets them into conflict with other chapters that have Liberians (space marine Pyskers) which is ironic because the Emperor was a Pysker. Also unlike other chapters the Black Templars worship the Emperor as a god like the rest of the Imperium, other space marine chapters don't worship the Emperor as god they view him based on the Imperial truth set 10 thousand years ago in the time of great crusade were the space marines don't view the Emperor as a god but the greatest human ever.
We didn't know they didn't like humans or Pyskers! Will that come up at all in this? Because it seems like they are going to be working with normal humans a lot during this.
Technically, the skulls are servo-skulls, drones made from the skull of devoted servants of the Imperium. Servitors take on many forms, and are more often corpse-like cyborgs rendered mindless so they can serve only one purpose.
servo skulls not servitors... those are a different... they are still human in body... servo skulls are made from loyalist technicians of the cult mechanicus . servitors are mostly made out of criminals, and people who did not obey the law to some extent.
Okay, before we get started, here's the background of this story. Back around 2000, Games Workshop held a global 40K campaign event called the Third War for Armageddon. The Second was already part of the background and this event gave real 40K players the chance to determine a piece of 40K history. After the event ended, a number of stories were written based on it, including the novel Helsreach by Arron Dempsky-Bowden. The book was later released by GW as an audiobook. Richard Boylan took the audio and created animation to go with it. It was a one-man fan project released in 13 instalments. 3:57 - We should punish YOU as a heretic for even suggesting that. Grimaldus is a Space Marine Chaplain, a spiritual leader of the Space Marines. Moreover, he is a Black Templar, probably the most spiritually fanatic of all loyalist Space Marine chapter. 4:28 - Listen more closely: 3:34 He said 'I live only to slay FOR the Emperor.' imitations 11:52 - To be clear: this is not just jumping between present and past, but also between Grimaldus' premonitions of doom. 12:03 - The average life span of a Space Marine is 250 years, mostly because they get killed a lot. The oldest Space Marines have lived to over 1000 years, though those are EXTREMELY rare circumstances. This of course does not count the pilots of Dreadnoughts, who are kept in stasis between engagements and can thus be kept alive indefinitely. 13:55 - Again, to be clear, this squad is GRIMALDUS' squad, not his predecessor's. He has been fighting beside them for decades in most cases. Only his rank is different. 14:14 - That was a pessimistic fantasy of Grimaldus'. It wasn't real. 14:48 - The Archenemy is Chaos. The previous Reclusiarch was killed in a duel with a greater demon. It's not really important. 17:42 - No. Helsreach was just one of several major engagement zones during the Third Armageddon War. It was not more valuable than any other major conflict zone, though it did have the distinction of being the site where the planet was first settled, and so had some symbolic value. It just seems like it was more important because it's the location that was explored most in-depthly in literature after the fact. 17:51 - There were over 50,000 Space Marines from 25 chapters involved in the Third Armageddon War. Of all of those, only 100 Black Templars were assigned to defend Helsreach, and the only other major Space Marine contingent in the city was a group of 70 Salamanders that temporarily reinforced them later in the war. The majority defenders of Helsreach were 6 regiments of Armageddon Steel Legion (Imperial Guard). 19:19 - Now you're getting into deep-dive stuff. The whys for the orks invading Armageddon aren't that relevant to this story. All that really matters here is that Ghazkul came back to get revenge for losing the last time he came. Let these guys get a handle on the basics first. 21:04 - Seems like he's confusing the Black Templar neophyte training order with advancement in other parts. Grimaldus was not just a regular Sword Brother, he was one of the Chaplains. There were a score of Chaplains under Mordred, not just Grimaldus. When Mordred died, there were three or four chaplains up for his position. Grimaldus was just the choice favored by Mordred. The final decision was made by Helbrecht, the Chapter Master of the Black Templars. 23:41 - As previously noted, at least 25 Space Marine chapters contributed substantial resources to this war. Of all the chapters that came, the Black Templars came in the greatest numbers, which by tradition made their Chapter Master commander of the Astartes forces in the warzone. As will be addressed later, Helbrecht specifically assigned Grimaldus to command the defense of Helsreach as a personal growth exercise. As for the Black Templar's relation to the Imperial Fists, that means about as much as a combat knife to a fire caste warrior. The Black Templars have 0 interest in fortification and protection. All they care about is slaughtering enemies and conquering lands. It's against their nature to defend a location, a fact which greatly annoys the marines NOW and will cause some drama with the Salamanders later. The defense of Helsreach is, to the Black Templars, LITERALLY the worst assignment in this entire war. 25:40 - Okay, most of what this guy says here is right, but it's mostly stuff that's secondary to their main drive. The main thing that drives the Black Templars is that they treat the world as if the Emperor's Great Crusade never ended. Their motivation is to keep crusading, to keep conquering and expanding the Imperium and to destroy it's enemies. Most of the other stuff he mentions stems from this idea.
As usual your lore guy did a great job introducing everything. I have a couple little details I think will cement who the black templars are. He mentioned they are from the Imperial fists which are the sons of rogal Dorn. His entire thing was fortification building up defenses et cetera. Rogel is the one who built the Imperial palace and the fortifications within on terra. You can think of every other chapter chapter descending from the Imperial fists in that light except the black templars. They represent The fury and anger of their primarch. They are nearly the inverse of Imperial fists. They are mad. And to add to your lore master's point on their numbers there is an exception in the codex on recruitment. You are only allowed 1000 members numbers unless you are on a crusade then it doesn't apply. So the black templars are on an eternal crusade that never ends and nearly have enough space Marines to make them A legion. But they're always kept at different parts of the Galaxy so no one can really tell how many there are but if they call a lbut if they cool at least in 1 place they would likely be 20,000 50,000 of them. And they've literally streamlined the recruitment process because they die so quickly. They are the largest chapter. They do not do anything someone else's way, they only do things their way. Oh, and They hate heretics so much that they'll kill you for heterocromia. ( 2 different color eyes. )
Thank you as always for the extra info! What surprises us is how angry they seem to be from what we are learning, almost so much that we are surprised that they are able to work with even normal humans and such.
@@GMineo There is a story somewhere about some situation happening and one of their leaders got really injured and they were trying to take him to the hospital and a bunch of people came over trying to help Or something of that nature and they just cut through 2000 or so people so that they wouldn't be delayed. Most space Marines see humans as nothing more than token resources to be thrown away. The black templars especially will happily kill a million people if it means they can accomplish the objective 10 minutes faster. One of the only factions that cares about humans at all are the salamanders. You'll actually see this interaction at some point. But at the end of the day they are incredibly intelligent and if they don't manage the resource properly they will die.
Damn that's crazy. We're so excited to dive more into the black templars while we watch helsreach, and it sounds like we might learn a little bit about the salamanders as well? Thank you as always for your lore drops. They are a huge help to us!
The codex astartes says the chapters had to shrink down when not in crusades... so the black templars just never stopped crusading. they are templar crusading knights, in 40k power armor.
That makes a lot of sense, we need to do a little more research on them just because we are still confused as to who their enemies are. But we are loving this so far!
The day a Black Templar, and chaplain at that, says he will kill the Emperor is the day the Warp turns calm, Chaos worshippers become orderly pacifists and Games Workshop will try to make friends with its fanbase
Heh heh heh heh. You know the difference between a Black Templar and a Word Bearer?
A coat of paint.
Calling this a fan work is only part of the story.
The fan work is animation over a heavily abridged version of the audio book, with some redone dialogue and sound effects in places.
The full audio book is about four times as long, and read by Jonathan Keeble. That in turn is a reading of a novel by Aaron Demski-Bowden. Both novel and audio book are official products.
WOW that is kind of awesome. This must have taken an enormous amount of work! We're glad we're able to react to it along with y'all!
Primarchs are way bigger than average space marines and treated with way more respect, holding a near-religious status among their space marine sons. There are 20 known primarchs with 2 being erased from history at some point in time. From the remaining 18, half turned traitor and the other remained loyal. Many of the loyal ones are either missing or dead, with the only active loyal primarch so far being roboute guilliman who leads the ultramarines. I also think you guys should react to "who are the space marines" by the channel 40k theories. It's very informative and will help clear some stuff up.
To be fair Primarchs are demi-gods basically and insanely strong. Robute basically ripped apart demons and Chaos Marines with his bare hands after waking up, after 10 000 years of stasis....And even being in his presence - heals illness and wounds for normal people...
21 primarchs* 😉
The slap is an ancient knightly tradition. A reminder of oaths taken, and to always stand for yourself, your brothers, and your sworn duty.
The best unsaid thing about the Astartes is that they, despite being so far removed biologically from mankind (being posthuman), they still are confronted by all-too-human trials and tribulations writ large. They have fears, failings, and emotions the same or deeper than the rest of us.
The "Archenemy" they refer to that killed Mordred is Chaos. Daemons, and the warp. Those followers of the Primordial Annihilator, or the "Dark Powers" and the 4 Gods of Chaos.
Chaplains also catch their brother marines when they be slippin'.
The Black Templars are on an Eternal Crusade stemming from their founding and inadherence to the codex astartes. They hold no homeworld, and sail around in their flotilla led by their flagship the Eternal Crusader, and seek out any combat theater they can find invited or not, and recruit from basically wherever they please.
I hope you guys continue with the video helsreach is a great story I've loved everything about it I've probably seen it well over a couple hundred times even if you guys don't watch it through with a reaction please take the time to watch the whole thing. You will not be disappointed
We're glad we've struck a chord with you all! We will be continuing it for now so look forward to more episodes from us soon!
The “arch-enemy” is Chaos.
Great reaction, boys, and the fact that you mixed reaction with lore expert discussion make this even more great
Waiting for next parts
Thank you for the kind words 😊 we loved reacting to it but want to try and add a little more to our conversation about it so I'm glad you enjoyed our discussion after! We'll have more coming soon!!
Story of the Third War for Armageddon is about to begin
Thank you for the clarification! We knew there were some before but not positive on which this was
You guys are in for an incredible story. There's actually a part 2 to this tale that not many people talk about. That is the story of the Celestial Lions Chapter. They too were a successor chapter of the Imperial Fists just like the Black Templars. I don't want to spoil anything, but man it's worth checking out.
Okay! We'll look into it. Thank you for the suggestion. We are loving helsreach so far and can't wait to see what happens next
You did it, you mad lads did it. I'm happy. Also you guys must also watch Black Templars and sword brethren. The Black Templars is set in Armageddon the place where helsreach took place and sword brethren takes place in a unknown plant besieged by the black legion. Also the ship is called a battle barge, and the thing squad Grimaldus was in is called a drop-pod. And the armors squad Grimaldus was was a mark 4 maximum (Kaidor), mark 5 heresy(Artarion), mark 6 corvus (Bastalan), mark 7 aquila(Primus and Nerovar) and mark 8 errant(Grimaldus).
Also this is the second battle of Armageddon.
We did it just for you 🥺 We'll look into those to watch! Thank you as always for sticking around to explain and experience this with us!
Can you react Five(ish) minute lore - Sigismund by Old Man
The First HighMarshall of the Black Templars
we will add it to the queue!
The bit about the BTs not using artillery and support is mostly not true. They love melee and purging with swords and hammers, but they aren't idiots if the job requires ranged support they will use it and use it well, it's not what they like, but they aren't one of the psycho chapters that will charge into certain death for no good reason.
Yesssss
The start to an excellent series. You're going to love it
We are already loving it!! Can't wait for more soon :)
rumors had it that the Black templers were also in parts modelt after the Teutonic Order to boost sells (3rd edition) in main continental europa and/or germany especially. in the 2nd. edition they dont realy showed up and warhammer / Wh40k . was not so wide spread.
Interesting! Did the introduction of the Black Templars help at all?
@@GMineo oh it did, sells exploded (at least where i come from) with the 3rd edition. gw would not be "the" company it is today without the succsess of that . and i know many who played black templer back than.
That's crazy. Thank you for letting us know! It's always cool to learn how the company influences the game other than from the perspective of telling the 40k story, so learning about stuff like this is always so neat
4:33 kill for the emperor
Yeah we DEFINITELY missheard that bit hahaha
The Black Templars are the descendants of Rogal Dorn, but more specifically of Dorn's second in command, First Captain Sigismund, the Emperor's Champion. When the Imperial Fists Legion was divided into Chapters, Sigismund was given one of those Chapters, who were named the Black Templars, who swore that they would continue to Crusade across the stars until humanity controlled the galaxy and no enemy of Mankind remained.
As a crusading Chapter, the Black Templars have no singular homeworld, but are instead split amongst fleets of ships, with each fleet serving as a single Crusade, flying off independently to conquer worlds and kill aliens, heretics, and mutants in the Emperor's name. They recruit from countless different worlds (including Armageddon) rather than only one.
Helbrecht is the High Marshal, the most senior commander of the Black Templars, and leader of what is called The Eternal Crusade, because their quest to rid the universe of enemies will never end. Grimaldus is made Reclusiarch here, making him the most senior Chaplain in the Chapter, and in charge of the chapter's relics and most sacred rites.
A common tradition amongst the Black Templars is the use of weapon chains. Sigismund took up this practice during the Great Crusade, and Black Templars continue it: a Black Templar cannot be disarmed because his weapons are affixed to chains wrapped around their arms.
That last bit is a detail we hadn't noticed yet! Kinda cool when you think about it, but makes me wonder why they started using weapon chains during the great crusade and not before.
@@GMineo The use of weapon chains actually comes from one of the Traitor Legions, before they turned. The World Eaters used them, as it had been a part of the gladiatorial combats on Nuceria, the world were Angron, the World Eaters' Primarch was found. Sigismund spent time sparring with Khârn, Captain of the World Eaters 8th company, and adopted the technique.
Of course, those events were before the Heresy, and ten thousand years ago, so nobody remains who remembers them... well, except Khârn.
Wow! Thank you for that, you're living proof that we still have only scratched the surface of Warhammer knowledge and we are excited for the time when we might know as much as all of you!
@@GMineo I've been a fan of 40k since the early 90s and spent a few years writing for the tabletop RPGs between 2009 and 2012, contributing to a dozen or so books. I've picked up a lot of knowledge over nearly thirty years of being part of this community, and I enjoy opportunities to share that knowledge.
Yes the moment I've been waiting for..... thanks dudes and there are more of this i don't wanna spoil it but you'll love it.
We hope so! We're in it for the whole thing now!!
Glad you guys are watching this! Probably my favorite 40k fan work out there. The ones that are left anyway lol. Thanks games workshop. 😂
It's amazing! We were scared to jump into it because of how long it is, but are really enjoying doing it piece by piece so we don't feel too confused and can get answers from our lore master. Thanks for watching!
I can hear the audio double plus I can see you have hard time hearing it.
Headphones guys, I recommend them
200 hundred years is so young for astartes)
Oh shoot 👀 what's old for an astartes then 😂
@@GMineo Depends on the chapter and the state of the marine. Spending time in the warp can make it hard to asses a marines service life as time flows strangly.
The oldest serving loyalist spacemarine is Chaptermaster Dante of the Blood angels, who is topside of 1,200.
We also had a marine hit by a temporal weapon that aged him a few thousand years and he was still in active service for some time after that.
If you are talking marines interned in Dreadnaughts then they live a LOT longer. Partly is the armor plating, partlythe fact they are only wheeled out when really neaded and partly the amount of time they spend in stasis. The oldest of them is said to be Bjorn the Fellhanded of the space wolves. He is over 10,000 years old and was around to witnis the birth of the imperium.
Other marines that old are some of the new Primaris. Long story short after the emperor fell a Primarch called Guiliman was put in charge. He reformed the imperium and the spacemarine legions into chapters. Another thing he did was pick out a particular genius and task him with building a better spacemarine. Given 10,000 years access to forbiden lore and licence to tinker in ways others felt unthinkable he succeded. He built up a large legion of these marines over time and held them in stasis, some of them being from the dawn of the imperium.
Let that be the last blow you receive unanswered
I would call Grimaldus a “sigma male”. You will see why. He doesn’t take shit from ANYONE outside of his chapter.
That makes A LOT of sense 😂 we were trying to pinpoint who he was similar to
We need more of there reactions
The Emperor protects.
The forces of Chaos are referred to as the archenemy
when you can, I recommend you to watch: the last church
Got it! We'll look into that after we finish helsreach
Told you it's gonna happen :)
We got you!
Bros can’t wait till the next episode
It's up! And 5 & 6 will be dropping within the next week or so as well!
One of my favorite short stories of the Black Templars involves a Heavy Weapons Squad (approx. 6 Marines) facing off against an overwhelming force of Khorne Cultists (Regular Humans, but Blood-crazed Berzerkers). Upon seeing the thousands of enemy coming at them, the BT Sgt. keeps having the Squad fall back once they get too close, often losing a Marine in the process, which the BT Corporal is almost mutinously against further falling back, since in his eyes, falling back is shameful. However, each time the BTs fall back, the Cultists are so crazed that they kill a good amount of their number, for Khorne "Cares Not From Whom The Blood Flows", so that after a third fall back, the four Marines that are left are able to finally defeat them. After the battle, when the Corporal, who was ready to come to blows with the Sgt., is reprimanded, the Sgt. saying basically, 'Have faith in your superiors and don't ever question me again, pup!'. Great Story!
Wow that's crazy! We haven't gotten into the stories of chapters yet but once we get an overview of all the factions we'll be diving into everyone more closely!
Hey guys, i highly recommend Luetin09's videos about warhammer, its really good for beginners and veterans both. Another thing i recommend is Counterpoints breakdown of the Angels of Death series. It features the Blood Angels. But the good thing is that 1.its fucking epic and second. It gets explained.
Hi CommunistGoat! Copy that, we'll take a look! We are so excited for all the amazing content that we get to be a part of and watch now that we're becoming a part of the Warhammer community! It's a great group of people
The Black Templars are a successor chapter of the Imperial Fists they are sons of the Primarch Rogal Dorn.
They are a fleet based crusading chapter and they are also religious fanatic zealots plus they don't like normal humans very much and have an extreme dislike for Pyskers this gets them into conflict with other chapters that have Liberians (space marine Pyskers) which is ironic because the Emperor was a Pysker.
Also unlike other chapters the Black Templars worship the Emperor as a god like the rest of the Imperium, other space marine chapters don't worship the Emperor as god they view him based on the Imperial truth set 10 thousand years ago in the time of great crusade were the space marines don't view the Emperor as a god but the greatest human ever.
We didn't know they didn't like humans or Pyskers! Will that come up at all in this? Because it seems like they are going to be working with normal humans a lot during this.
Chaos is the arch enemy.
That makes sense for the Imperium!
Finally. Thank you!
Of course! We're glad to be able to do it! Thanks for watching ❤️
Try to react to darktide
We'll look into it. Thank you for the recommendation!
By the end of this series you will change in a way that words cannot describe and have a sense of pride to have been a part of the journey.
We can't freaking WAIT!
This is exciting.
just for you 😎
The floating skulls are called Servitors. Mindless, Cybernetic drones, or so it's thought. Made of actual human flesh mixed with technologies.
That's FREAKYYY! I have no doubt that won't be the darkest thing we will see in this series though
@@GMineo oh no. The Daemonculaba is soo freaking morbid, but y'all ain't ready for that. 😆
Technically, the skulls are servo-skulls, drones made from the skull of devoted servants of the Imperium.
Servitors take on many forms, and are more often corpse-like cyborgs rendered mindless so they can serve only one purpose.
@@N0-1_H3r3 and also criminals and such.
servo skulls not servitors... those are a different... they are still human in body... servo skulls are made from loyalist technicians of the cult mechanicus . servitors are mostly made out of criminals, and people who did not obey the law to some extent.
Looking forward to seeing your reaction to the rest. I promise you it’s good.
More coming soon! We promise 😊
Okay, before we get started, here's the background of this story. Back around 2000, Games Workshop held a global 40K campaign event called the Third War for Armageddon. The Second was already part of the background and this event gave real 40K players the chance to determine a piece of 40K history. After the event ended, a number of stories were written based on it, including the novel Helsreach by Arron Dempsky-Bowden. The book was later released by GW as an audiobook. Richard Boylan took the audio and created animation to go with it. It was a one-man fan project released in 13 instalments.
3:57 - We should punish YOU as a heretic for even suggesting that. Grimaldus is a Space Marine Chaplain, a spiritual leader of the Space Marines. Moreover, he is a Black Templar, probably the most spiritually fanatic of all loyalist Space Marine chapter.
4:28 - Listen more closely: 3:34 He said 'I live only to slay FOR the Emperor.'
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11:52 - To be clear: this is not just jumping between present and past, but also between Grimaldus' premonitions of doom.
12:03 - The average life span of a Space Marine is 250 years, mostly because they get killed a lot. The oldest Space Marines have lived to over 1000 years, though those are EXTREMELY rare circumstances. This of course does not count the pilots of Dreadnoughts, who are kept in stasis between engagements and can thus be kept alive indefinitely.
13:55 - Again, to be clear, this squad is GRIMALDUS' squad, not his predecessor's. He has been fighting beside them for decades in most cases. Only his rank is different.
14:14 - That was a pessimistic fantasy of Grimaldus'. It wasn't real.
14:48 - The Archenemy is Chaos. The previous Reclusiarch was killed in a duel with a greater demon. It's not really important.
17:42 - No. Helsreach was just one of several major engagement zones during the Third Armageddon War. It was not more valuable than any other major conflict zone, though it did have the distinction of being the site where the planet was first settled, and so had some symbolic value. It just seems like it was more important because it's the location that was explored most in-depthly in literature after the fact.
17:51 - There were over 50,000 Space Marines from 25 chapters involved in the Third Armageddon War. Of all of those, only 100 Black Templars were assigned to defend Helsreach, and the only other major Space Marine contingent in the city was a group of 70 Salamanders that temporarily reinforced them later in the war. The majority defenders of Helsreach were 6 regiments of Armageddon Steel Legion (Imperial Guard).
19:19 - Now you're getting into deep-dive stuff. The whys for the orks invading Armageddon aren't that relevant to this story. All that really matters here is that Ghazkul came back to get revenge for losing the last time he came. Let these guys get a handle on the basics first.
21:04 - Seems like he's confusing the Black Templar neophyte training order with advancement in other parts. Grimaldus was not just a regular Sword Brother, he was one of the Chaplains. There were a score of Chaplains under Mordred, not just Grimaldus. When Mordred died, there were three or four chaplains up for his position. Grimaldus was just the choice favored by Mordred. The final decision was made by Helbrecht, the Chapter Master of the Black Templars.
23:41 - As previously noted, at least 25 Space Marine chapters contributed substantial resources to this war. Of all the chapters that came, the Black Templars came in the greatest numbers, which by tradition made their Chapter Master commander of the Astartes forces in the warzone. As will be addressed later, Helbrecht specifically assigned Grimaldus to command the defense of Helsreach as a personal growth exercise. As for the Black Templar's relation to the Imperial Fists, that means about as much as a combat knife to a fire caste warrior. The Black Templars have 0 interest in fortification and protection. All they care about is slaughtering enemies and conquering lands. It's against their nature to defend a location, a fact which greatly annoys the marines NOW and will cause some drama with the Salamanders later. The defense of Helsreach is, to the Black Templars, LITERALLY the worst assignment in this entire war.
25:40 - Okay, most of what this guy says here is right, but it's mostly stuff that's secondary to their main drive. The main thing that drives the Black Templars is that they treat the world as if the Emperor's Great Crusade never ended. Their motivation is to keep crusading, to keep conquering and expanding the Imperium and to destroy it's enemies. Most of the other stuff he mentions stems from this idea.
Thank you so much for this! It answers all the questions we had so far
As usual your lore guy did a great job introducing everything. I have a couple little details I think will cement who the black templars are. He mentioned they are from the Imperial fists which are the sons of rogal Dorn. His entire thing was fortification building up defenses et cetera. Rogel is the one who built the Imperial palace and the fortifications within on terra. You can think of every other chapter chapter descending from the Imperial fists in that light except the black templars. They represent The fury and anger of their primarch. They are nearly the inverse of Imperial fists. They are mad. And to add to your lore master's point on their numbers there is an exception in the codex on recruitment. You are only allowed 1000 members numbers unless you are on a crusade then it doesn't apply. So the black templars are on an eternal crusade that never ends and nearly have enough space Marines to make them A legion. But they're always kept at different parts of the Galaxy so no one can really tell how many there are but if they call a lbut if they cool at least in 1 place they would likely be 20,000 50,000 of them. And they've literally streamlined the recruitment process because they die so quickly. They are the largest chapter. They do not do anything someone else's way, they only do things their way. Oh, and They hate heretics so much that they'll kill you for heterocromia. ( 2 different color eyes. )
Thank you as always for the extra info! What surprises us is how angry they seem to be from what we are learning, almost so much that we are surprised that they are able to work with even normal humans and such.
@@GMineo There is a story somewhere about some situation happening and one of their leaders got really injured and they were trying to take him to the hospital and a bunch of people came over trying to help Or something of that nature and they just cut through 2000 or so people so that they wouldn't be delayed. Most space Marines see humans as nothing more than token resources to be thrown away. The black templars especially will happily kill a million people if it means they can accomplish the objective 10 minutes faster. One of the only factions that cares about humans at all are the salamanders. You'll actually see this interaction at some point.
But at the end of the day they are incredibly intelligent and if they don't manage the resource properly they will die.
Damn that's crazy. We're so excited to dive more into the black templars while we watch helsreach, and it sounds like we might learn a little bit about the salamanders as well? Thank you as always for your lore drops. They are a huge help to us!
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Consider us hooked! It's on the list lol which seems to be growing SOOO quickly
@@GMineo :3 hypu.. its definitly one of the most things people are hyped for with their anniversary stream.. they are also doing an anime collab