Imperium: We worship a cropse sitting on a golden throne Eldar: We're trying to create a new god to save us from the other evil god we created Necrons: We killed our gods and use them as Pokémon
And them being mushrooms is the secret to why nobody has managed to wipe them out despite them being as ancient as the Eldar and the Necrons. When Orks die, they release a whole bunch of spores that are really hard to completely wipe out, and those spores eventually grow into Orks again. Some old lore that might be retconned by now suggested that Orks might be a bioweapon the Old Ones were creating against the Necrons, but the Old Ones died before they could install the off-switch for them, and they went rampant from there.
Imperium - "we die for our god" Chaos - "we kill for our gods" Ork - "arr godz wunt u ded" Eldar - "our gods are dying" Necrons - "we captured our gods and use them as pokemon"
Yeah, I hate this shite Newcron 'Tomb Kings in Space' lore. They were so much more menacing when they were soulless omncidsl robots who wanted to wipe out literally all life, commanded by material anti-gods who were the direct antithesis of the Chaos God's and planned to cut the entire galaxy off from the Warp. The only ones who could finally defeat Chaos (except maybe the Tyranids), but at the cost of all sentient life.
I think GW's take on orks is the best, as it drops the iffy racism, and just makes them intergalatic football hooligans out on a pub crawl, it's great :D
@@Daktangle Oh everyone is xenophobic in 40k, including orks. But with the orks they are such loveable assholes you don't care. Especially compared to the Imperium which is Nazi Germany/Communist Russia meets the Catholic Church.
@i want to commit literal genocide. Some people believe the Orcs in fantasy settings represent black people. Kinda odd. I always thought black people in fantasy settings represent black people, but I guess it shows how much I know.
@@Tommy9834 ironically the ones who call orcs racist are the racists comparing black people to orcs. Like you said black people represent black people. Orcs are orcs
You should check out "If the Emperor had a Text to speech device" It's a comedic spinoff that gives you a little more lore in the first few episodes. It's animation isn't anything special, but it's dialog and writing is fantastic.
I would like to also mention that a lot of the jokes and references early on require decent knowledge of the lore beforehand so a lot of these will get missed, however around episode 8 or 12, somewhere there, it starts to diverge from the typical format of fairly obscure jokes and references to its own spinoff of the current lore.
No you are correct the war would have made the Horus heresy look like a light skirmish and the big E would have been a foot soldier in comparison to most combatants
@@table9198 the War in Heaven almost cause total extinction of all life in the universe, while Horus Heresy would only threatened mankind (and other races eventually), but yeah the former is bigger in scale than the latter.
@@table9198 Yeah when you think about it the Age of Strife makes the Horus Heresy looking like a skirmish as well and the Enslaver Plague for that matter.
If you’re curious, he did a followup video about “what 40K race to start with” that you specifically may be interested in. It’s like 45 minutes and explains the ups and downs of the main races for tabletop.
So in the past during the war in heaven, the Old Ones refused the Necrontyr immortality because they didnt like how violent the Necrontyr were. The first stage of the war is the Necrontyr getting their faces stomped by the Old Ones, then they make the Bargain with the C'tan and the second phase begins where they begin to fight the Old Ones equally and then begin to decimate them. Among other races, the Old Ones make the Eldar and Krorks. As the old ones die off, the Eldar birth an entire pantheon of gods into existence and begin to fight back and beat back the Necrons as the C'tan are too busy fighting over their spoils of war, the Necrons rise up and after they win they realise that unless they sleep, the Eldar will wipe them out. So they sleep for 60 millions years, in that time the Eldar rise to dominate the galaxy for millions of years which is when they grow complacent and only in the last 20,000 years was it when the Aeldari Empire collapsed with the Birth of SLaanesh, not that long ago all things considered
Actually it's not just about the Necron'tyr being a violent lesser race to the Old Ones. The Old Ones were sympathetic to their plight, and even if they could not in good conscience offer them immortality, they at the very least had the technology to undo the damage to their DNA caused by the solar radiation on their homeworld and ease their suffering, but they chose not to help them because the Old Ones were naturalists and regarded the Necron'tyr as a unique form of life that should not be tampered with, even if it lead to their race suffering. Naturally, the Necron'tyr did not take too kindly to this and THAT is when they declared war and earned the ire of the Old Ones.
There is also a chance that Old Ones were just scared of Necrontyr because they were already technology wise more advanced than Old Ones. Immortal Necrontyr could completely outclass Old Onrs even without Warp powers.
@@MrHeiska01 No. The Necron'tyr still hadn't figured out how to achieve FTL travel, and they certainly didn't have the technology to cure their condition, but the Old Ones did, and they vastly outclassed the Necron'tyr, driving them back and confining them to their home system. It was only after the Necron'tyr discovered the C'tan that their technological development spiked, and that was by virtue of having almost limitless power, space magic, and being turned into machines and having _thousands_ of years to develop weapons in a never-ending arms race against the Old Ones, Krork, the Aeldari, any other miscellaneous races the Old Ones created, and eventually the C'tan, without the burden of rest, sustenance, or even death to distract them. And even then, at their apex, the Necrons themselves still weren't quite on the level of the Old Ones, and only succeeded through sheer undying determination and the power of living gods who could warp the fabric of space and time on a whim.
@@Brutalyte616 Thats why I said in technology wise. What Necrontyr lacked was psykers and anything thing warp related. Necrontyr could not fix their condition because it wasnt related to biology, technology or anything else in science. However Necrontyr technology itself was better than Old Ones. Their ships had better defences, better weaponry and better everything else. But because they lacked Psykers they could not use Warp for FTL or adjust their technology to abuse Warp based powers. Old Ones easily outmanuvered even deadliest Necrontyr ships and weaponry with webways. That is also the reason why Necrons did beat Old Ones and even Ctan. Necron technology improved with Ctans help that they could break in the webway without Psykers and removed only advantage that Old Ones had. Current Necrons can still use webways without Psykers and can even just warp out of battlefield. All this is pure technology.
There is a funny relationship between the orks and their sort of nemesis, Commissar Yarric from the imperial guard. He has earned sort of a revered status amongst the orks because he always puts up a good fight and they keep saying that he just can't die. Ultimatly, Yarric haven't been defeated yet and he is more than 150 years old. So there is a theory that the ork willpower/imagination is keeping Yarric alive.
I think it's important to mention that, as the Eldar and Orks were created by the Old Ones, they are basically maximized for fighting power. Eldar were created as psychic masterminds, and Orks as brutish, strong, ultra violent mushrooms that feel no pain, have subconcious psychic power to make tech work by just collective imagination, and if they die, they leave spores behind to spawn another wave of greenskins.
The War In Heaven, The Horus Heresy and The War of The Beast are all very interesting to learn about. The War of the Beast is my personal favourite, as it was the war that made the Imperium understand the true threat of the Orks
@@jiminnyjom5001 Its more of Loken describing the state of the Astartes and Primarchs. Though the Horus Heresy isn't finished yet, I would love Garvi and his brothers fighting a Necron horde. Basically, he's recalling that the Astartes were bred to be everlasting. Age would not touch them. But flame and bolter? Not so much. They are ageless, but they can still be killed. They are demigods of war, but they can still be slain. I just feel like this is an apt quote for the Old Ones and the C'tan as a whole. Sorry for the confusion. "Immortal, but not invulnerable. Yes, they might live forever, but they would never get the chance. Immortality was a by-product of their Astartes strengths, but those strengths had been gene-built for combat. They had been born immortal only to die in war. That was the way of it..."
If you wanted to get into some more lore stuff, Bricky has a podcast called adeptus ridiculous on RUclips, where hes explaining different lore events to a friend new to 40k. Its very interesting and fun to watch.
Well isn't it Weirdboys are the actual smartest because they are self aware enough to realize that they were harnessing the Waaagh which they can't see with bare eyes?
Words can not begin to describe how happy I was to hear you reference Hot Fuzz after hearing ‘the greater good’. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the win!
Trazyn the Infinite is one of my favourite warhammer characters. He's basically just a big history nerd and uses his Necron worlds to store random historical artifacts and literal people kept in permanent stasis in big war re-enactments like wax dummies. Trazyn is the definition of chaotic neutral since he'll help almost any faction to preserve something he deems important. He was actually at Cadia when all the crazy chaos stuff happened there and helped them activate ancient Necron defenses on the planet to try and stop the daemons.
And helped himself to Usarkar E. Creed in the process. Still the best part of Trazyn is this letter to Inquisitor Valeria after she sent some troops to steal from Trazyn: Dear Lady, let me express my fulsome appreciation for your most generous gift. It is so very rare to discover another of my own kind that appreciates my work, therefore to find understanding amongst a member of another race is nothing short of a revelation. I realise that you briefly trod my galleries, but the fact that you spotted in so short a time that my Acabrius War collection was lacking three regiments of Catachan warriors reveals that you truly have a collector's eye for detail. And to send five regiments! Such generosity will allow me to weed out and replace a few of the more substandard pieces in my collection. If I might level a minor criticism, the instructions issued to your gift were manifestly not as clear as you thought, as most of them had to be forcibly restrained. Sadly it seems that the lower orders will always behave like an army of invasion, whether that be their purpose or not. However, this is a minor complaint and seems almost churlish under the circumstances, so please allow me to repay your gift with one of my own. Accompanying this message is the Hyperstone Maze, one of a series of Tesseract Labyrinths constructed at the height of the Charnovokh Dynasty. It is a trinket really, only of interest to scholars such as you and I, but I trust you will find it amusing; assuming you have the wit to escape its clutches, of course.
He Also Threw some of his terreract Vaults around and released random Units to help during the invasion of Cadia, I believe he threw one out which included Inquisitor Greyfax and her Retinue, amongst others including Random Spacemarine and imperial Guard units.
Starcraft was and still IS one of THE BEST RTS ever made. also lore and characters are amazing. first game was out in 1996 ( i think) and last one in 2015. all of em great
On the planes, even though "normal planes" are available as ground units, there's a whole subgenre of Warhammer games called Battlefleet Gothica, every faction has their own ships and fleets and you can battle with them. In Warhammer Fantasy you have Man O' War which instead of spaceships, you have naval ships.
@@DazsdWTP it’s not for tax purposes. It’s for intellectual property rights. Basically GW owns the IP for Warhammer, however Citadel is a subdivision which purely deals in manufacturing, thus it can subcontract manufacturing without risking loss of IP or compromising other IPs. Citadel also handle all of the R&D for paints and manufacturing, meaning they have their own patents and do business with other companies in selling their technology and manufacturing techniques.
Having three armies will definitely cost you, so I’d recommend just two. Since elite armies aren’t as expensive I’d say getting grey knights and one of the two swarm armies would be sufficient. If you really want to do all three that’s fine.
I'll put it everytime, luetin09 grey knights 2 part series lol. Also I love how you ask questions, then it almost immediately gets answered in the video.
luetin09 In general has a great series of lore videos that explain 40k a little more in depth. For sure if anyone watches bricky's intro to every warhammer race and wants to know more about a certain race, i'd go listen to luetin09's video on the subject.
Bricky is sort of underselling the Necrons. In the universe full of Op they blow every other faction out of the water. To start with, unlike almost every other faction in 40k, Necrons are STILL advancing in technology, there is a dude mucking about with time travel, other tries making necron-human hybrids, some other one just tries to become a straight up C'tan, you know, the usual. Also, they have this thing calle the Celestial Orrery, which is a machine that can blow up any star in the galaxy no strings attached. The only reason thay didn't blow up Terra is cause the dudes running it treat the galaxy as their own personal Bonsai Tree.
Man, speaking of advancing technology, I want to see what kind of crazy shit humans before the Men of Iron uprising can do. From what I recall (though admittedly that my memory is shit) there's this time-warp gun that fires its projectile into the past, thus killing your enemy before you even pull the trigger.
there not really advancing technology its more they were already at the height of there technology in the war in heaven but are slowly waking up more and more powerful weapons over time but most of there outlandish tech has been lost for example the time traveling tech and the human hybrid are non canon now
Untrue, there absolutely are consequences for using the Celestial Orrery to do stuff, which is precisely the reason they don't use it often to actively manipulate things. Besides a recreational image of the galaxy would be used for intelligence purposes also.
Absolutely love seeing you watch all these new races and going through the phases everyone goes through with 40k of “OMG I want to collect ALL of them”
My favorite thing about the Orks is how happy they are. To them it's just a big game, and in general, they have no concept that other species aren't just playing along and having as much fun as they are.
Yeah thats why you just can't dislike orks. They just can't comprehend other races dont enjoy the fighting. I mean if they didn't like it then why do those beakie humans keep coming back? For a good krumpin ofcourse!
I used to mainly play Eldar and Imperial Guard, but about a year ago, I saw a strange green light, and now I have fully converted into a Necron fanatic. I just fell so in love with their lore and their new models are just so epic.
You're gonna love his podcast Adeptus Ridiculus, where Bricky is just sharing the ridiculusnes of WH40k to a friend who also knows next to nothing of WH40k
The Orks are absolutely awesome. There's the story of Warboss Tuska Demonkilla for example, his spaceship was invaded by Chaos Demons when he was travelling through the Warp. They had a long, bloody fight and managed to beat the Chaos Demons back. For us puny hoomans, something like this would have been a horrible, traumatising experience. For the Orks that was the most fun they had in their lifes. Soooo... Tuska decided to gather some more Orks in a WHAAAAAAAAAGH!! and invade the Eye of Terror. After kicking some massive amounts of Chaos Demon ass, Tuska and his lads got finally killed off, but Khorne the Bloodgod was so entertained by them, that he resurrected Tuska and his warband, so that they can continue fighting hid Demons. So now, they spend all eternity fighting Chaos Demons in the Warp, getting resurrected by Khorne when they die and start all over again. That's an Ork's idea of paradise basically. xD Also, the Orks almost conquered the Imperium during the ''War of the Beast'' and managed to force a Tyranid Hive-Fleet into a tactical retreat during the ''Octarius War''. So never underestimate them!
Those start painting are a good way to get started, even though start collecting boxes are good value its easy to get overwhelmed so starting with those then a box or 2 of the basic infantry for the army you want then graduating to a start collecting is the best way to go.
The Necrons are tanks, literal walking tanks, amazingly hard to kill, and they hit incredibly hard. but they are slow, they suffer a lot when it comes to fast attack and other such things. loving the videos man, keep up the good work!
Watch Bricky's "What army should you play?" video! Lots of fun, love the content. I recently got into warhammer and I bought Necrons. I agree with you Necrons have the most badass lore!
@@Sunygamer05 total war warhammer was so successful that it made games workshop notice how much people love the old world. Alot of people were sad because the total war games came out after the end times ended which saddened a lot of people that wanted to get into it but not wanted to join sigmar.
Im late to this series and watching it all back to back, but i love how your reactions exactly match me and my brothers when we started playing as kids, all that joy and fascination! Brings me back!
I recommend you watch Luetin’s or the Templin Institute’s video on the Orks, they do have a deeper lore but they can be as stupid and simple as you wish, also look for the story for Tuska the Daemonkilla, he’s the funniest Ork ever
Absolutely love all the Warhammer content! Really want to get into playing the table top game. Currently collecting Chaos Space Marines but these videos are awesome to help pick another army so I can play against myself as sad as that sounds haha
as an Ork player, I always roll my eyes when the time comes for me to go up against my friend who plays gunline Tau. I have to dedicate almost half my army into Ork long range stuff like lootas and artillery just to bring down his minigun mechs which just chew through my boys. i always find ways to make my opponent laugh and have fun but it can really take out of the experience of playing Orks for fun when you need to spend half your points on shooting units just so you're not destroyed in the first turn.
I love Orks. Not just my favorite 40k race, but probably favorite fantasy race period. They're a good one to do a deeper dive on. Like how their technology and as Bricky says "imagination" works. How they travel the warp. How their economy works. How their reproduction works. How their society is structured. Comissar Yarrick's legendary feud with them. And so much more. It is both hilarious, but also obscenely interesting the whole way down. And like you said, they're like the only race in 40k that is actually having a good time.
To carry on from your point of "why aren't the Necrons the main baddies of the whole galaxy?" Well after the War in Heaven and the vanquishing of the C'Tan, the Silent King went off on a pilgrimage to the edges of the galaxy in self imposed exile, to punish himself for literally selling the souls of his whole race. And now he's returned from the galaxy's edge, and trying desperately to unite the Necrons and even talking with the other races like Humans and Eldar to stop fighting and work together. Almost like at the edges of the galaxy, he saw something *terrifying and GRIBBLY* and realised that the galaxy needs to get its shit together RIGHT NOW OR WE WILL ALL GET EATEN.
@Virtual shark We have to put it in too perspective that when people play against tau meta wise there were things like the fish of fury and the riptide wing and drone spam. And those are a few of the reasons why but those where, and any can correct me if I'm wrong, the only way to play and have a chance at winning is while playing with tau
The whole "Imagination made real" aspect of the Orkz is perhaps the best thing about them. Among the examples Bricky used, an Ork who believes 'ard enuff' that his gun will fire at the enemy will be able to fire his gun at the enemy. Even if it's pointed the wrong direction, has no bullets, or even a goddamn barrel, much less a muzzle.
Also to add orc did not come before Tolkien, at least that word. In Tolkiens work orc are another word of goblin, which did come before, but it thanks to Tolkien that orcs would become their own thing. Orcs are Tolkien but anything orc after him has barely a molecule in common with them XD. Ork from 40k has absolutely nothing in common except they are made for war and the name.
@@DeosPraetorian Yes, after doing some research he took the word from "orcneas" which is a word used to describe Grendel. Still the three letter word, orc, seems to not be part of it though so I would still give him credit for that. But you are right, he did indeed take the world from Beowulf. Not really surprising I suppose as he was a big Beowulf nerd XD.
The oaks are the light in this grim dark future. P.s an ork meck/titan type model cost (in a local store that sells 40k stuff an other things) $500 USD, pre panted. P.p.s. Starcraft is definitely worth it, if you haven’t played an rts. Because there’s a Warhammer 40k rts called, dawn of war (NOT dawn of war 3). Its old but fun. I recommend soul storm only because the best mod in history of DoW called ultimate apocalypse which adds, basically all the units in the lore of 40k including Titans, nukes, etc.
I've always loved the Eldar. The first models I painted in middle school were Orks, but as soon as I learned about the Eldar, I was hooked. The tech, the look, the lore, everything. Close 2nd would be Tyranids. I love cool alien lifeforms, like them =)
Armies of genestealers cultists are pretty cool because they have an insurgent sort of theme using heavy mining gear, improvised weapons and ambush tactics quite heavily.
Painting is for me, the best bit. It's not just about sticking paint on some models, its about how connected you become to the models as you do it, the lore you create in your mind for them.. and knowing when you look at them painted it was all your work. Also, with time, dedication, practice, watching videos of top skilled painters (some amazing personalities on RUclips... squidmar, miniac, marcofrisni are a few of my favourites) the more you practice the better you get! Also if you are as big a fantasy head as you say, you got to play one of the vermintide games with friends. Left for dead swarm style game, all set in warhammer fantasy setting. It's a godsend of a game
Necrons definitely are the strongest faction. The only reason why they didn't destroy everyone else is because they are literally just asleep. But they are waking up...
@@Azrael178 Yes, Szarekh the Silent King returned after millions of years to save the galaxy from the Tyranids. His plan as far as is known is: Unite the dynasties once again under his command, wake up as many Necrons as they can find, find if possible the ancient star and god destroying weapons of the Necrons and lastly, blank out entire sections of the galaxy from the warp, which has the unfortunate (for anyone not Necron) side effect of every living being slowly losing their soul while in these dead zones. I hope I don't have to explain why the rest of the universe is fucked if he succeeds at one of them, let alone all of those goals.
I love your reactions on these videos! Its kinda funny because I found your channel in the related videos from brickys warhammer factions videos, so i basically just rewatched both videos and enjoyed getting back into warhammer again.
I didn't like how Bricky didn't mention the specifics of the Etherials and how they shroud the atrocities they have committed, because that's where the grim darkness shows up in the T'au
By watching your videos I have gotten back into 40k. I am kind of in the same boat as you where I played a little bit in high school with the tau. But I stopped because I was a poor high school kid who couldn't really afford it or paint at all. But now I have chosen the necrons! I originally wanted to play the necrons when I first started but my friends talked me out of it. But not this time. I just ordered a canoptek doomstalker and a squad of skorpekh destroyers with the little canoptek plasmacyte which is a support unit for the destroyers. Can't wait to start building and painting them! It has been a pleasure watching your videos man. Keep it up!
There's a quote by Eldrad (one of the Craftworld Eldar's biggest head honchos) where he's like yeah the Orks have basically won at life, everybody else is worrying about not dying and existential crises, when the Orks spend their whole lives doing exactly what they love
To add on the c'tan. One was trapped in the noctus labyrinth which is on mars. So basically the omnissiah which the adeptus mechanicus is worshipping is a c'tan.
Necrons fight on the table top with weapons that are really good at ignoring your opponents armor, lots of rank and file soldiers that constantly come back to fight even after your opponent had killed them, special sheilding that means even the most powerful weapons in the game only hit about as hard as a regular gun, lots of tiny robotic bugs that tear people apart, HQ's that buff the shooting of units around them and have enough strength to cut through battle tanks like butter, and big (but random) artillery that can vaporize pretty much anything in one shot.
@@LaughingMan44 Oh dear the internet strikes again. I am too stupid to understand just as you are too ignorent to explain. My own rulebook bought in 1991 suggests the Old Slann as the oldest race though it is vague which is why I put the Slann in brackets followed by a ? but I suppose reading basic English is not your thing.
A painting timelapse would be cool mate, I used to love the painting part of this game but I never had the patience to play 😅 I'd suggest you stick with one army if your just starting out it's an expansive ass hobby
the T'au are divided into castes that all work together, the Earth Cast build, Water Caste talks, Air Cast are the pilots, and Fire Caste is the military... The 5th Caste are the Ethreals, and they unite (control?) the castes under the Greater good so they all work together... They focus on long range, seeing melee combat as barbaric. One tool they use are Markerlights, basically painting a target with a laser so other units shoot better. There are some good stories out there, if you want a good taste I recommend the story (book or audio) "Blades of Damocles" it's a war that takes place while the Imperium and Empire are first clashing and gives a good feel of both factions as well as hints as to why the T'au are not all rainbows and hugs. I also love the story "Broken Sword" that follows a former captain of the Imperial Guard that has joined the Empire. I would hold off on getting into T'au until they get a new 9th edition update, when Briky made this video it was 8th edition and T'au were close to the top, but in 9th they are the worst... The T'au also have other races that fight with them, the Kroot (cannibal bird like creatures), and the Vespid (fast incest race).
Look more into Orks, they are with out a doubt the most entertaining faction in 40k. Their 0 fucks given mentality, their tech held together with duct tape and belief, their accents, and the buckets of dice they throw on the tabletop, are top notch. There is one story where the IG ran out of ammo when facing an Ork charge, and they stand up and yell bang, and the Orks believe the IG weapons are firing, so by ork logic they were, and the charge was halted
Yeah and on the same battle suddenly one of the orks didn't die when the IG "shot" him, until he got close and they heard him yelling "I'm the tank! I'm the tank! xD
hey, do you know white dwarf? its the official Games workshop warhammer magazin and in the one from this month is a steam code for 12 free warhammer computer games (including some of the best, for example: dawn of war, space marine, Vermintide)
Orks are truly having the most fun in the universe. Another fun rule about them: "If da Dakka don' make noize den it aint dakka boiz" (Silenced weapons have no effect on Orks because they believe a guns sound equates to its power.)
You should watch the Channel; MajorKill, he explains lots of stuff about Warhammer40K, like space marine chapters, Tyranids, Tau and their factions, major battles, imperial guard regiments, etc
Has Majorkills vidoes got any better? His videos was quite funny the first 4 or 5 videos, however after more or less repeating the same jokes in every video i personally got bored🤣 but whatever floats your boat👍
Quick rundown of each faction's playstyle: Marines-Units with low numbers but high base stats, can be played with just about any style (melee, long-range, mechanized, infantry) depending on your chosen units and chapter. Grey Knights- Hyper-elite Marines, equipped with better gear and each unit is a psyker in its own right; lots of strong infantry and damage output, but little staying power or vehicle support Imperial Guard- Massed infantry and tough, cheap vehicles all with heavy firepower. Prefers long-range shooting and artillery over melee, but has specialized units for any need Battle Sisters- Cheaper, squishier marines with a focus on close-range shooting and very powerful melee units. Love their flamers and meltaguns, and can replace dice rolls from a pre-rolled pool Custodians- Incredibly powerful models equal to characters from other armies, but suffer from weak ranged power and extremely low numbers. Not that you care when nothing ever dies Ad Mech- Bizarre weapons bolted to cyborg soldiers and priest-engineers, backed up by funky steam/dieselpunk tanks and aircraft. Very powerful shooting but rather fragile infantry Inquisition/Assassins- Basically supporting faction(s), can be brought along with other Imperium armies without breaking army organization rules. Mostly single characters with special abilities Imperial Knights: Huge gothic mechs with chainsaws and tank cannons for arms. Only a couple models on the table but each is a small army in its own right, aggressive but struggle to score points Chaos Marines- Traitor counterparts to the loyalists, more incentives for melee over shooting and spooky Daemon units. Once again versatile but depends on your chosen units and Legion traits Daemons- Literally daemons from Hell, following a specific Chaos God or combining their powers. Almost exclusively melee, and play around god-based synergies between characters and units Chaos Knights: Once again counterparts to the loyalist versions, and once again more melee-incentivizing. Mostly just spikier Imperial Knights, but have some unique tricks and God-based bonuses Craftworlds: Fast, highly specialized infantry and jetbikes with surprisingly tough and versatile vehicles and badass aircraft. Lots of psychic power and damage, but squishy and many units are weak Drukhari: Bizarre army structure with effectively 3 different sub-armies: Shooty Kabals, blendy Wyches, and tanky Haemoculi. Overall very fast, very fragile, and make great use of many flying units Harlequins: Still fast, still fragile, but very melee-focused and have a huge bag of shenanigans to pull from. Only a few units (with something for each role) and are EXTREMELY dangerous in combat Orks: Usually massed blobs of Boyz and a variety of ramshackle vehicles, with a bunch of hilarious counterparts to Marine units. Love melee, but in numbers can also be played shooty quite well Necrons: Slow and immensely hard to kill, with cost-effective infantry blobs and regenerating vehicles. Reliant on highly specialized units for killing tanks and fighting in melee T'au: Strong guns, and mecha with jetpacks and even stronger guns. Next to zero melee damage, but not horribly squishy and can bring in alien auxiliaries to fill holes in their usual roster Tyranids: Versatile playstyles, can be horde or monster-based. Good psychic control. Rely on the auras of their command creatures to stay in control-lose the boss and your other bugs might go wild Genestealer Cults: Cheap, fragile units with 3 armies worth of trickery. Ambushes, sabotage, massed charges and disposable infantry themed after a civilian revolt, complete with stolen Guard units
Imperium: We worship a cropse sitting on a golden throne
Eldar: We're trying to create a new god to save us from the other evil god we created
Necrons: We killed our gods and use them as Pokémon
Orks: WE SMASHIN EVERYONE DAKA DAKA DAKA DAKA DAKA!
@@belafeldbusch3397 FOR GORK AND MORK! WAAAAGH!
@@mindyourowndamnbusiness EVERYTHING IS PAINTED RED! THAT MEANS WE ARE SUPER FAST!!!!!!
@@belafeldbusch3397 WAAAAHOOOOO!
Nids: What's a "god" and how can we omnomnom it?
“Orks look like they are just enjoying the slaughter.”
He gets it
Can't say slaughter without laughter
this git is into some big thinkin
They just like to fight.
Better the fight, happier the orks
In the grim, far future, there is only war. And Orks would not have it any other way.
The Orks in 40k are literally mushrooms. Yes. That’s a fact. Or more like a symbiosis but they basically grow from mushrooms.
Not even symbiosis, they're a full on fungus-animal hybrid race.
And them being mushrooms is the secret to why nobody has managed to wipe them out despite them being as ancient as the Eldar and the Necrons. When Orks die, they release a whole bunch of spores that are really hard to completely wipe out, and those spores eventually grow into Orks again. Some old lore that might be retconned by now suggested that Orks might be a bioweapon the Old Ones were creating against the Necrons, but the Old Ones died before they could install the off-switch for them, and they went rampant from there.
@@martenkahr3365 It's heavy implied they where engineered now but Warhammer lore is fluid anyways so who knows.
@@martenkahr3365 Farsight figured out how to
Well, HALF of them is fungus yes, good ole orks, one half symbiotic fungus, one half endlessly growing KRORK body lol
"Kinda sounds like the Royal Marines."
I can just imagine a bunch of Blood Axes cosplaying as Royal Marines now.
So is that ork kommandos are?
Him : "Necrons seem to have the most intersting lore out of them all..."
Me, a necron player : "Good..."
Yes!
"Another follower for the cause."
Now we have to hope he starts a Necron army to Help rid the galaxy of those young races
"We will watch your career with great interest"
Felt that
Imperium - "we die for our god"
Chaos - "we kill for our gods"
Ork - "arr godz wunt u ded"
Eldar - "our gods are dying"
Necrons - "we captured our gods and use them as pokemon"
Tau - "What are Gods ?"
Nid's - "------------------"
@@-JustHuman- nids: "mmmm this is finger lickin' good"
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 *C O N S U M E*
@@ablacktemplar1971 "What's a god? Can I eat it?"
Yeah, I hate this shite Newcron 'Tomb Kings in Space' lore. They were so much more menacing when they were soulless omncidsl robots who wanted to wipe out literally all life, commanded by material anti-gods who were the direct antithesis of the Chaos God's and planned to cut the entire galaxy off from the Warp. The only ones who could finally defeat Chaos (except maybe the Tyranids), but at the cost of all sentient life.
Steal a man's wallet he'll go poor for a day, get a man into 40K he'll go poor for life (that the joke XD)
Lmao! That’s a joke me and my friend keep saying about the hobby we both enjoy!
The average humans has only so many spare organs to sell ...
@@Reiver666 warhammer and motorbikes for me I'm poor as fuck
I really love the Warhammer Community sometimes :D
plastic crack!
Other: **calculated everything**
Orcs: chawaboga it is
orks : haha slap the machine goes brrr
adaptus mechanicus : NO !! YOU CAN'T DO THAT !! YOU MUST PRAY TO IT !!
@@abdullahwira9773 OI! IF WEZ SLAPZ IT, IT WORKZ! DATZ DA ROIGHT WAY! NOT PRAYIN TO YER MACHINEZ!
“Kinda sounds like the Royal Marines”
Orks literally talk like football hooligans Lmao
I think GW's take on orks is the best, as it drops the iffy racism, and just makes them intergalatic football hooligans out on a pub crawl, it's great :D
COME ON ENGLAND, SCOR SUM FUKIN GOALS
@@Daktangle Oh everyone is xenophobic in 40k, including orks. But with the orks they are such loveable assholes you don't care. Especially compared to the Imperium which is Nazi Germany/Communist Russia meets the Catholic Church.
@i want to commit literal genocide. Some people believe the Orcs in fantasy settings represent black people.
Kinda odd. I always thought black people in fantasy settings represent black people, but I guess it shows how much I know.
@@Tommy9834 ironically the ones who call orcs racist are the racists comparing black people to orcs. Like you said black people represent black people. Orcs are orcs
You should check out "If the Emperor had a Text to speech device" It's a comedic spinoff that gives you a little more lore in the first few episodes. It's animation isn't anything special, but it's dialog and writing is fantastic.
I would like to also mention that a lot of the jokes and references early on require decent knowledge of the lore beforehand so a lot of these will get missed, however around episode 8 or 12, somewhere there, it starts to diverge from the typical format of fairly obscure jokes and references to its own spinoff of the current lore.
The War in Heaven is the single largest war to ever occur in Warhammer lore, it's not even close (I think).
No you are correct the war would have made the Horus heresy look like a light skirmish and the big E would have been a foot soldier in comparison to most combatants
@@table9198 the War in Heaven almost cause total extinction of all life in the universe, while Horus Heresy would only threatened mankind (and other races eventually), but yeah the former is bigger in scale than the latter.
@@table9198 Yeah when you think about it the Age of Strife makes the Horus Heresy looking like a skirmish as well and the Enslaver Plague for that matter.
@@table9198 yeah when you consider that he is the human equivalent of the old ones, that mean the necron fought a species worth of emperor of mankind
@@table9198 yeah when you consider that he is the human equivalent of the old ones, that mean the necron fought a species worth of emperor of mankind
If you’re curious, he did a followup video about “what 40K race to start with” that you specifically may be interested in. It’s like 45 minutes and explains the ups and downs of the main races for tabletop.
OriginalHuman, I recomend you just focus on one , maybe two armies, cause they get expensive really fast
REALLY FAST 😂
@My irons are rusted half of your pension < $140? Might want to get on that my dude ;)
One army gets expensive let alone 2 😂
Indeed, 4 armies ouch I know!
I know I decided to get a tyranid army last month and some how I’ve already spent over $200! It’s still a tiny army
"Surely the Necrons are the biggest threat!"
Games workshop: "Should we tell him we just made the first new Necron units since the 1990's? Nah."
I kinda liked old Necrons more
Lorewise, if they all wake up, they can wipe the entire galaxy though.
@@steelbear2063 same
@@N0noy1989 hmm I think they might meet their match in the Tyranids though. Metal against flesh, whoever would win, everyone else loses.
@@TomorrowWeLive i mean, necron weaponry destroys biomass
So in the past during the war in heaven, the Old Ones refused the Necrontyr immortality because they didnt like how violent the Necrontyr were. The first stage of the war is the Necrontyr getting their faces stomped by the Old Ones, then they make the Bargain with the C'tan and the second phase begins where they begin to fight the Old Ones equally and then begin to decimate them. Among other races, the Old Ones make the Eldar and Krorks. As the old ones die off, the Eldar birth an entire pantheon of gods into existence and begin to fight back and beat back the Necrons as the C'tan are too busy fighting over their spoils of war, the Necrons rise up and after they win they realise that unless they sleep, the Eldar will wipe them out. So they sleep for 60 millions years, in that time the Eldar rise to dominate the galaxy for millions of years which is when they grow complacent and only in the last 20,000 years was it when the Aeldari Empire collapsed with the Birth of SLaanesh, not that long ago all things considered
Actually it's not just about the Necron'tyr being a violent lesser race to the Old Ones. The Old Ones were sympathetic to their plight, and even if they could not in good conscience offer them immortality, they at the very least had the technology to undo the damage to their DNA caused by the solar radiation on their homeworld and ease their suffering, but they chose not to help them because the Old Ones were naturalists and regarded the Necron'tyr as a unique form of life that should not be tampered with, even if it lead to their race suffering. Naturally, the Necron'tyr did not take too kindly to this and THAT is when they declared war and earned the ire of the Old Ones.
There is also a chance that Old Ones were just scared of Necrontyr because they were already technology wise more advanced than Old Ones.
Immortal Necrontyr could completely outclass Old Onrs even without Warp powers.
@@MrHeiska01 No. The Necron'tyr still hadn't figured out how to achieve FTL travel, and they certainly didn't have the technology to cure their condition, but the Old Ones did, and they vastly outclassed the Necron'tyr, driving them back and confining them to their home system. It was only after the Necron'tyr discovered the C'tan that their technological development spiked, and that was by virtue of having almost limitless power, space magic, and being turned into machines and having _thousands_ of years to develop weapons in a never-ending arms race against the Old Ones, Krork, the Aeldari, any other miscellaneous races the Old Ones created, and eventually the C'tan, without the burden of rest, sustenance, or even death to distract them. And even then, at their apex, the Necrons themselves still weren't quite on the level of the Old Ones, and only succeeded through sheer undying determination and the power of living gods who could warp the fabric of space and time on a whim.
@@Brutalyte616 Thats why I said in technology wise. What Necrontyr lacked was psykers and anything thing warp related.
Necrontyr could not fix their condition because it wasnt related to biology, technology or anything else in science.
However Necrontyr technology itself was better than Old Ones. Their ships had better defences, better weaponry and better everything else. But because they lacked Psykers they could not use Warp for FTL or adjust their technology to abuse Warp based powers.
Old Ones easily outmanuvered even deadliest Necrontyr ships and weaponry with webways.
That is also the reason why Necrons did beat Old Ones and even Ctan. Necron technology improved with Ctans help that they could break in the webway without Psykers and removed only advantage that Old Ones had.
Current Necrons can still use webways without Psykers and can even just warp out of battlefield. All this is pure technology.
There is a funny relationship between the orks and their sort of nemesis, Commissar Yarric from the imperial guard. He has earned sort of a revered status amongst the orks because he always puts up a good fight and they keep saying that he just can't die. Ultimatly, Yarric haven't been defeated yet and he is more than 150 years old. So there is a theory that the ork willpower/imagination is keeping Yarric alive.
I think it's important to mention that, as the Eldar and Orks were created by the Old Ones, they are basically maximized for fighting power. Eldar were created as psychic masterminds, and Orks as brutish, strong, ultra violent mushrooms that feel no pain, have subconcious psychic power to make tech work by just collective imagination, and if they die, they leave spores behind to spawn another wave of greenskins.
The War In Heaven, The Horus Heresy and The War of The Beast are all very interesting to learn about. The War of the Beast is my personal favourite, as it was the war that made the Imperium understand the true threat of the Orks
Holy crap , we really must've converted you into a Warhammer fan, I love it
yeah * happy gasmask noice *
"He who scoffs at the power of the lasgun has never run through a field of 1000 of them"
Orks: "tats a tewsday fer us"
In the words of Garviel Loken.
"Immortal, but not invulnerable."
Im new into this lore, i have read the first 5 books of horus heresy, AND NOW I KNOW LOKEN FOUGHT THEM?????? In wich book does this happen?
@@jiminnyjom5001 Its more of Loken describing the state of the Astartes and Primarchs. Though the Horus Heresy isn't finished yet, I would love Garvi and his brothers fighting a Necron horde.
Basically, he's recalling that the Astartes were bred to be everlasting. Age would not touch them. But flame and bolter? Not so much. They are ageless, but they can still be killed. They are demigods of war, but they can still be slain. I just feel like this is an apt quote for the Old Ones and the C'tan as a whole. Sorry for the confusion.
"Immortal, but not invulnerable. Yes, they might live forever, but they would never get the chance. Immortality was a by-product of their Astartes strengths, but those strengths had been gene-built for combat. They had been born immortal only to die in war. That was the way of it..."
@rat dante is a good example of verification of this. as well as astartes such as iakton of the luna wolves
@@randomguy-z2l Guilliman himself commends Dante for being the way he is. Him and Bjorn the Fellhanded are my favorite characters in current lore.
Nice.
If you wanted to get into some more lore stuff, Bricky has a podcast called adeptus ridiculous on RUclips, where hes explaining different lore events to a friend new to 40k. Its very interesting and fun to watch.
Also, big Ork knows best because they continue to grow as long as they live, so that guy is the oldest Ork.
Well isn't it Weirdboys are the actual smartest because they are self aware enough to realize that they were harnessing the Waaagh which they can't see with bare eyes?
Just like crocodiles
Words can not begin to describe how happy I was to hear you reference Hot Fuzz after hearing ‘the greater good’. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the win!
Crusty jugglers... 😂
Trazyn the Infinite is one of my favourite warhammer characters. He's basically just a big history nerd and uses his Necron worlds to store random historical artifacts and literal people kept in permanent stasis in big war re-enactments like wax dummies. Trazyn is the definition of chaotic neutral since he'll help almost any faction to preserve something he deems important. He was actually at Cadia when all the crazy chaos stuff happened there and helped them activate ancient Necron defenses on the planet to try and stop the daemons.
Created by none other than Matt Ward. The Spiritual Liege Himself.
And helped himself to Usarkar E. Creed in the process.
Still the best part of Trazyn is this letter to Inquisitor Valeria after she sent some troops to steal from Trazyn:
Dear Lady, let me express my fulsome appreciation for your most generous gift. It is so very rare to discover another of my own kind that appreciates my work, therefore to find understanding amongst a member of another race is nothing short of a revelation. I realise that you briefly trod my galleries, but the fact that you spotted in so short a time that my Acabrius War collection was lacking three regiments of Catachan warriors reveals that you truly have a collector's eye for detail. And to send five regiments! Such generosity will allow me to weed out and replace a few of the more substandard pieces in my collection. If I might level a minor criticism, the instructions issued to your gift were manifestly not as clear as you thought, as most of them had to be forcibly restrained. Sadly it seems that the lower orders will always behave like an army of invasion, whether that be their purpose or not. However, this is a minor complaint and seems almost churlish under the circumstances, so please allow me to repay your gift with one of my own. Accompanying this message is the Hyperstone Maze, one of a series of Tesseract Labyrinths constructed at the height of the Charnovokh Dynasty. It is a trinket really, only of interest to scholars such as you and I, but I trust you will find it amusing; assuming you have the wit to escape its clutches, of course.
@@chrisbumface2990
Man fuck Ward
He Also Threw some of his terreract Vaults around and released random Units to help during the invasion of Cadia, I believe he threw one out which included Inquisitor Greyfax and her Retinue, amongst others including Random Spacemarine and imperial Guard units.
Starcraft was and still IS one of THE BEST RTS ever made. also lore and characters are amazing. first game was out in 1996 ( i think) and last one in 2015. all of em great
But now... Activision-Bilzzard are a big nonce
On the planes, even though "normal planes" are available as ground units, there's a whole subgenre of Warhammer games called Battlefleet Gothica, every faction has their own ships and fleets and you can battle with them. In Warhammer Fantasy you have Man O' War which instead of spaceships, you have naval ships.
“The orks sound like the party of Warhammer 40k”.
Yes. Correct. They are the objectively best faction.
A tolkien fan too. Well gamesworkshop makes Lotr models too actually.
Stop! He won’t have any money left o_O;;
Well, Citidel makes the models technically
@@crapface911 well citidel is a sub division basically of games workshop probably for tax reasons or something.
@@DazsdWTP it’s not for tax purposes. It’s for intellectual property rights. Basically GW owns the IP for Warhammer, however Citadel is a subdivision which purely deals in manufacturing, thus it can subcontract manufacturing without risking loss of IP or compromising other IPs. Citadel also handle all of the R&D for paints and manufacturing, meaning they have their own patents and do business with other companies in selling their technology and manufacturing techniques.
Having three armies will definitely cost you, so I’d recommend just two. Since elite armies aren’t as expensive I’d say getting grey knights and one of the two swarm armies would be sufficient. If you really want to do all three that’s fine.
I'll put it everytime, luetin09 grey knights 2 part series lol. Also I love how you ask questions, then it almost immediately gets answered in the video.
luetin09 In general has a great series of lore videos that explain 40k a little more in depth. For sure if anyone watches bricky's intro to every warhammer race and wants to know more about a certain race, i'd go listen to luetin09's video on the subject.
Oh yesss....Man,luetin09 channel
@@arkthain1050 I keep reccomending him every time :D
@@KpaBaPa I leave a link to his channel every time in the comments...
Bro luetin is amazing i always write in the comments for him to look up his videos
"Tau are hooorible in melee"
Farsight Enclaves: *wheeeeze*
Bricky is sort of underselling the Necrons. In the universe full of Op they blow every other faction out of the water. To start with, unlike almost every other faction in 40k, Necrons are STILL advancing in technology, there is a dude mucking about with time travel, other tries making necron-human hybrids, some other one just tries to become a straight up C'tan, you know, the usual. Also, they have this thing calle the Celestial Orrery, which is a machine that can blow up any star in the galaxy no strings attached. The only reason thay didn't blow up Terra is cause the dudes running it treat the galaxy as their own personal Bonsai Tree.
Man, speaking of advancing technology, I want to see what kind of crazy shit humans before the Men of Iron uprising can do. From what I recall (though admittedly that my memory is shit) there's this time-warp gun that fires its projectile into the past, thus killing your enemy before you even pull the trigger.
Bricky said before though that he’s only giving a brief overview of every faction, so of course he undersold them due to time restraints.
Also they are the oldest race besides the Old Ones and the Ctan.
there not really advancing technology its more they were already at the height of there technology in the war in heaven but are slowly waking up more and more powerful weapons over time but most of there outlandish tech has been lost for example the time traveling tech and the human hybrid are non canon now
Untrue, there absolutely are consequences for using the Celestial Orrery to do stuff, which is precisely the reason they don't use it often to actively manipulate things. Besides a recreational image of the galaxy would be used for intelligence purposes also.
Absolutely love seeing you watch all these new races and going through the phases everyone goes through with 40k of “OMG I want to collect ALL of them”
My favorite thing about the Orks is how happy they are. To them it's just a big game, and in general, they have no concept that other species aren't just playing along and having as much fun as they are.
Yeah thats why you just can't dislike orks. They just can't comprehend other races dont enjoy the fighting. I mean if they didn't like it then why do those beakie humans keep coming back? For a good krumpin ofcourse!
I appreciate that the 40k universe has cool factions that I'm not interesting in collecting, they make for fun opponents.
dude. a paint stream would be amazing
I used to mainly play Eldar and Imperial Guard, but about a year ago, I saw a strange green light, and now I have fully converted into a Necron fanatic. I just fell so in love with their lore and their new models are just so epic.
You're gonna love his podcast Adeptus Ridiculus, where Bricky is just sharing the ridiculusnes of WH40k to a friend who also knows next to nothing of WH40k
every time he interupts to ask "where are the old ones or the Ctan now?" i can't help but grin xD
Fastest click in the west.
Fastest click in the east.
Fastest click in the north
Fastest click in the world.
Adeptus Ridiculous reference? :p
The Orks are absolutely awesome. There's the story of Warboss Tuska Demonkilla for example, his spaceship was invaded by Chaos Demons when he was travelling through the Warp. They had a long, bloody fight and managed to beat the Chaos Demons back. For us puny hoomans, something like this would have been a horrible, traumatising experience. For the Orks that was the most fun they had in their lifes. Soooo... Tuska decided to gather some more Orks in a WHAAAAAAAAAGH!! and invade the Eye of Terror. After kicking some massive amounts of Chaos Demon ass, Tuska and his lads got finally killed off, but Khorne the Bloodgod was so entertained by them, that he resurrected Tuska and his warband, so that they can continue fighting hid Demons. So now, they spend all eternity fighting Chaos Demons in the Warp, getting resurrected by Khorne when they die and start all over again. That's an Ork's idea of paradise basically. xD
Also, the Orks almost conquered the Imperium during the ''War of the Beast'' and managed to force a Tyranid Hive-Fleet into a tactical retreat during the ''Octarius War''. So never underestimate them!
OriginalHuman: asks a question, few seconds later: question answered.
Those start painting are a good way to get started, even though start collecting boxes are good value its easy to get overwhelmed so starting with those then a box or 2 of the basic infantry for the army you want then graduating to a start collecting is the best way to go.
When he pulled out those models.
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
The Old Ones were also the creators of the early, primate-like ancestors of Mankind on primordial Earth.
Original human: I haven't played starcraft, is it really good?
Koreans: What?
You should look into "If the Emperor had a Text-to-speech device" series. One of the best fan serials about Warhammer ever.
After he learns the lore a little more
You need some basic lore before, otherwise 3/4 of the jokes are just noise
I love the necron quote BRICKY used, from the pariah necron unit in the Dawn of war Dark crusade campaign when attacking they're strong hold
Remember to thin your paints!!
#2thincoats
I like the pause and chat. Totally enjoy watching you getting into warhammer
Always great seeing someone new come to the hobby with tons of excitement and enthusiasm. Welcome to the fold!
The Necrons are tanks, literal walking tanks, amazingly hard to kill, and they hit incredibly hard. but they are slow, they suffer a lot when it comes to fast attack and other such things.
loving the videos man, keep up the good work!
Watch Bricky's "What army should you play?" video! Lots of fun, love the content. I recently got into warhammer and I bought Necrons. I agree with you Necrons have the most badass lore!
Get this comment on top, people!
Watch Bricky's next video for what armies you should collect first imo.
The original warhammer fantasy is returning in a few years
really? how come?
Oh thank God. I hate sigmar.
@@Sunygamer05 total war warhammer was so successful that it made games workshop notice how much people love the old world. Alot of people were sad because the total war games came out after the end times ended which saddened a lot of people that wanted to get into it but not wanted to join sigmar.
@@Josh-ye9ol I think you've posted it on the wrong comment chain.
Eh, kinda.
Im late to this series and watching it all back to back, but i love how your reactions exactly match me and my brothers when we started playing as kids, all that joy and fascination! Brings me back!
I’d love to watch you try and paint while I paint along while watching you in stream! Glad to see you getting more into the hobby !
I recommend you watch Luetin’s or the Templin Institute’s video on the Orks, they do have a deeper lore but they can be as stupid and simple as you wish, also look for the story for Tuska the Daemonkilla, he’s the funniest Ork ever
Baldemort also has a great video about them
Awww he didn't mention the orks are just mushrooms
He is so happy now, it brings a tear to my eye.
Absolutely love all the Warhammer content! Really want to get into playing the table top game. Currently collecting Chaos Space Marines but these videos are awesome to help pick another army so I can play against myself as sad as that sounds haha
Interesting fact: Warhammer lore is a first book where orcs have a green skin. WH created green orcs
Wait, seriously? What color were they originally?
How interesting
@@enovos3138 Originally grey or something like that. For example Tolkiens orks and goblins.
@@enovos3138 Tolkien Orcs have black, grey and brown skin.
Ain’t green orcs from D&D?
This mans child like charm towards war hammer makes me so happy
as an Ork player, I always roll my eyes when the time comes for me to go up against my friend who plays gunline Tau. I have to dedicate almost half my army into Ork long range stuff like lootas and artillery just to bring down his minigun mechs which just chew through my boys. i always find ways to make my opponent laugh and have fun but it can really take out of the experience of playing Orks for fun when you need to spend half your points on shooting units just so you're not destroyed in the first turn.
I love Orks. Not just my favorite 40k race, but probably favorite fantasy race period. They're a good one to do a deeper dive on. Like how their technology and as Bricky says "imagination" works. How they travel the warp. How their economy works. How their reproduction works. How their society is structured. Comissar Yarrick's legendary feud with them. And so much more. It is both hilarious, but also obscenely interesting the whole way down.
And like you said, they're like the only race in 40k that is actually having a good time.
To carry on from your point of "why aren't the Necrons the main baddies of the whole galaxy?" Well after the War in Heaven and the vanquishing of the C'Tan, the Silent King went off on a pilgrimage to the edges of the galaxy in self imposed exile, to punish himself for literally selling the souls of his whole race. And now he's returned from the galaxy's edge, and trying desperately to unite the Necrons and even talking with the other races like Humans and Eldar to stop fighting and work together.
Almost like at the edges of the galaxy, he saw something *terrifying and GRIBBLY* and realised that the galaxy needs to get its shit together RIGHT NOW OR WE WILL ALL GET EATEN.
someone/thing like, y'know, the Nids or someone/thing else?
23:19 Love the Trazyn the Infinite pun he made 👉 Hammer and Bolter | Artefacts
Despite everyone hating Tau, I fucking love them. Everything about them.
For the Greater Good Brother
@Virtual shark We have to put it in too perspective that when people play against tau meta wise there were things like the fish of fury and the riptide wing and drone spam. And those are a few of the reasons why but those where, and any can correct me if I'm wrong, the only way to play and have a chance at winning is while playing with tau
@Virtual shark I know and I think I'll keep myself in 8th and/or 7th
I mean playing against them isn't the most interesting thing to do, but hating them is idiotic imo
Fire Warrior game brought me into 40k, so I will always have a soft spot for Tau
The whole "Imagination made real" aspect of the Orkz is perhaps the best thing about them. Among the examples Bricky used, an Ork who believes 'ard enuff' that his gun will fire at the enemy will be able to fire his gun at the enemy.
Even if it's pointed the wrong direction, has no bullets, or even a goddamn barrel, much less a muzzle.
Also to add orc did not come before Tolkien, at least that word. In Tolkiens work orc are another word of goblin, which did come before, but it thanks to Tolkien that orcs would become their own thing. Orcs are Tolkien but anything orc after him has barely a molecule in common with them XD. Ork from 40k has absolutely nothing in common except they are made for war and the name.
Iirc he said he got the word from Beowulf
@@DeosPraetorian Yes, after doing some research he took the word from "orcneas" which is a word used to describe Grendel. Still the three letter word, orc, seems to not be part of it though so I would still give him credit for that.
But you are right, he did indeed take the world from Beowulf. Not really surprising I suppose as he was a big Beowulf nerd XD.
One of my favorite quotes from an ork book describes a debate as "A meeting of the minds, via headbutt"
The oaks are the light in this grim dark future.
P.s an ork meck/titan type model cost (in a local store that sells 40k stuff an other things) $500 USD, pre panted.
P.p.s. Starcraft is definitely worth it, if you haven’t played an rts. Because there’s a Warhammer 40k rts called, dawn of war (NOT dawn of war 3). Its old but fun. I recommend soul storm only because the best mod in history of DoW called ultimate apocalypse which adds, basically all the units in the lore of 40k including Titans, nukes, etc.
Here i thought oak wood was pretty heavy due to it's density, still resistance to warping though which would be useful for the imperium.
I've always loved the Eldar. The first models I painted in middle school were Orks, but as soon as I learned about the Eldar, I was hooked. The tech, the look, the lore, everything.
Close 2nd would be Tyranids. I love cool alien lifeforms, like them =)
last time i was this early horus was still loyal
Armies of genestealers cultists are pretty cool because they have an insurgent sort of theme using heavy mining gear, improvised weapons and ambush tactics quite heavily.
Well, if you wanna go for both Space Marines and Necron the intro set has both inside.
Painting is for me, the best bit. It's not just about sticking paint on some models, its about how connected you become to the models as you do it, the lore you create in your mind for them.. and knowing when you look at them painted it was all your work. Also, with time, dedication, practice, watching videos of top skilled painters (some amazing personalities on RUclips... squidmar, miniac, marcofrisni are a few of my favourites) the more you practice the better you get! Also if you are as big a fantasy head as you say, you got to play one of the vermintide games with friends. Left for dead swarm style game, all set in warhammer fantasy setting. It's a godsend of a game
Necrons definitely are the strongest faction. The only reason why they didn't destroy everyone else is because they are literally just asleep. But they are waking up...
I feel like it comes down to Necrons vs Tyranids
@@dorianrichards924 isnt the tyranid invasion the only reson sezarek is waking them up at mass?
@@Azrael178 Yes, Szarekh the Silent King returned after millions of years to save the galaxy from the Tyranids. His plan as far as is known is: Unite the dynasties once again under his command, wake up as many Necrons as they can find, find if possible the ancient star and god destroying weapons of the Necrons and lastly, blank out entire sections of the galaxy from the warp, which has the unfortunate (for anyone not Necron) side effect of every living being slowly losing their soul while in these dead zones.
I hope I don't have to explain why the rest of the universe is fucked if he succeeds at one of them, let alone all of those goals.
@@testgeheim8207 He is also trying to reverse the biotransference. He has made a deal with Illuminor Szeras to achieve this.
@@dorianrichards924 and orc's
I love your reactions on these videos! Its kinda funny because I found your channel in the related videos from brickys warhammer factions videos, so i basically just rewatched both videos and enjoyed getting back into warhammer again.
I didn't like how Bricky didn't mention the specifics of the Etherials and how they shroud the atrocities they have committed, because that's where the grim darkness shows up in the T'au
Cuz it's a brief overview
@@DeosPraetorian that's horse shit, Ricky said in the video Tau aren't evil or grimdark. So that's misinformation.
Yeah they're literally communists in space.
By watching your videos I have gotten back into 40k. I am kind of in the same boat as you where I played a little bit in high school with the tau. But I stopped because I was a poor high school kid who couldn't really afford it or paint at all. But now I have chosen the necrons! I originally wanted to play the necrons when I first started but my friends talked me out of it. But not this time. I just ordered a canoptek doomstalker and a squad of skorpekh destroyers with the little canoptek plasmacyte which is a support unit for the destroyers. Can't wait to start building and painting them! It has been a pleasure watching your videos man. Keep it up!
Please react to "astra militarum" by the templin institute, it showcases the amazing imperial guard
There's a quote by Eldrad (one of the Craftworld Eldar's biggest head honchos) where he's like yeah the Orks have basically won at life, everybody else is worrying about not dying and existential crises, when the Orks spend their whole lives doing exactly what they love
Dude, please react to "Commissar Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM" and "Vostroyan Charge"
These are funny as hell!
Ciaphas Cain is great after you have read at least 1 or 2 of his novels. otherwise it is funny, but not at perfectly on point.
To add on the c'tan. One was trapped in the noctus labyrinth which is on mars. So basically the omnissiah which the adeptus mechanicus is worshipping is a c'tan.
Time to ask him to watch "If The Emperor had a Text to Speech Device"
Day 1
I really like your enthusiasm as you are finding out more and more about this universe
keep it up
in recent lore the first 3 chaos gods were actually created due to the sheer amount of fuckery that happened in the war in heaven
Necrons fight on the table top with weapons that are really good at ignoring your opponents armor, lots of rank and file soldiers that constantly come back to fight even after your opponent had killed them, special sheilding that means even the most powerful weapons in the game only hit about as hard as a regular gun, lots of tiny robotic bugs that tear people apart, HQ's that buff the shooting of units around them and have enough strength to cut through battle tanks like butter, and big (but random) artillery that can vaporize pretty much anything in one shot.
Bro finally you watched the Ork, the best faction. Now I highly recommend the Helreasch series and as always awesome video
Your ability to ask for stuff which is going to be explained 5 mins in the future is impressive :D
The Orcs date back to the War in Heaven. They were made by the old ones (The Slann?) as a bio weapon against the Necrons
the Brain Bois
Not the slann, and they're not the same universe anymore
@@LaughingMan44 lol I played WFRP back in the day. It was always the Old Slann in those original books. Did they change it in Age of Sigmar?
@@leeSouthend The Slann aren't the old ones themselves, they were created by the old ones. It's very basic lore you seem to not understand.
@@LaughingMan44 Oh dear the internet strikes again. I am too stupid to understand just as you are too ignorent to explain. My own rulebook bought in 1991 suggests the Old Slann as the oldest race though it is vague which is why I put the Slann in brackets followed by a ? but I suppose reading basic English is not your thing.
Watching these parts every time its uploaded has become my daily routine
A painting timelapse would be cool mate, I used to love the painting part of this game but I never had the patience to play 😅 I'd suggest you stick with one army if your just starting out it's an expansive ass hobby
the T'au are divided into castes that all work together, the Earth Cast build, Water Caste talks, Air Cast are the pilots, and Fire Caste is the military... The 5th Caste are the Ethreals, and they unite (control?) the castes under the Greater good so they all work together... They focus on long range, seeing melee combat as barbaric. One tool they use are Markerlights, basically painting a target with a laser so other units shoot better.
There are some good stories out there, if you want a good taste I recommend the story (book or audio) "Blades of Damocles" it's a war that takes place while the Imperium and Empire are first clashing and gives a good feel of both factions as well as hints as to why the T'au are not all rainbows and hugs.
I also love the story "Broken Sword" that follows a former captain of the Imperial Guard that has joined the Empire.
I would hold off on getting into T'au until they get a new 9th edition update, when Briky made this video it was 8th edition and T'au were close to the top, but in 9th they are the worst... The T'au also have other races that fight with them, the Kroot (cannibal bird like creatures), and the Vespid (fast incest race).
Look more into Orks, they are with out a doubt the most entertaining faction in 40k. Their 0 fucks given mentality, their tech held together with duct tape and belief, their accents, and the buckets of dice they throw on the tabletop, are top notch.
There is one story where the IG ran out of ammo when facing an Ork charge, and they stand up and yell bang, and the Orks believe the IG weapons are firing, so by ork logic they were, and the charge was halted
Yeah and on the same battle suddenly one of the orks didn't die when the IG "shot" him, until he got close and they heard him yelling "I'm the tank! I'm the tank! xD
I love when orks put a draw of an engine with "brum brum" noises and made the tank move
hey, do you know white dwarf? its the official Games workshop warhammer magazin and in the one from this month is a steam code for 12 free warhammer computer games (including some of the best, for example: dawn of war, space marine, Vermintide)
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Orks are truly having the most fun in the universe. Another fun rule about them: "If da Dakka don' make noize den it aint dakka boiz" (Silenced weapons have no effect on Orks because they believe a guns sound equates to its power.)
omg lmao. xD
You should watch the Channel; MajorKill, he explains lots of stuff about Warhammer40K, like space marine chapters, Tyranids, Tau and their factions, major battles, imperial guard regiments, etc
Has Majorkills vidoes got any better? His videos was quite funny the first 4 or 5 videos, however after more or less repeating the same jokes in every video i personally got bored🤣 but whatever floats your boat👍
@@tavelpiraten7357 He has changed a bit
Quick rundown of each faction's playstyle:
Marines-Units with low numbers but high base stats, can be played with just about any style (melee, long-range, mechanized, infantry) depending on your chosen units and chapter.
Grey Knights- Hyper-elite Marines, equipped with better gear and each unit is a psyker in its own right; lots of strong infantry and damage output, but little staying power or vehicle support
Imperial Guard- Massed infantry and tough, cheap vehicles all with heavy firepower. Prefers long-range shooting and artillery over melee, but has specialized units for any need
Battle Sisters- Cheaper, squishier marines with a focus on close-range shooting and very powerful melee units. Love their flamers and meltaguns, and can replace dice rolls from a pre-rolled pool
Custodians- Incredibly powerful models equal to characters from other armies, but suffer from weak ranged power and extremely low numbers. Not that you care when nothing ever dies
Ad Mech- Bizarre weapons bolted to cyborg soldiers and priest-engineers, backed up by funky steam/dieselpunk tanks and aircraft. Very powerful shooting but rather fragile infantry
Inquisition/Assassins- Basically supporting faction(s), can be brought along with other Imperium armies without breaking army organization rules. Mostly single characters with special abilities
Imperial Knights: Huge gothic mechs with chainsaws and tank cannons for arms. Only a couple models on the table but each is a small army in its own right, aggressive but struggle to score points
Chaos Marines- Traitor counterparts to the loyalists, more incentives for melee over shooting and spooky Daemon units. Once again versatile but depends on your chosen units and Legion traits
Daemons- Literally daemons from Hell, following a specific Chaos God or combining their powers. Almost exclusively melee, and play around god-based synergies between characters and units
Chaos Knights: Once again counterparts to the loyalist versions, and once again more melee-incentivizing. Mostly just spikier Imperial Knights, but have some unique tricks and God-based bonuses
Craftworlds: Fast, highly specialized infantry and jetbikes with surprisingly tough and versatile vehicles and badass aircraft. Lots of psychic power and damage, but squishy and many units are weak
Drukhari: Bizarre army structure with effectively 3 different sub-armies: Shooty Kabals, blendy Wyches, and tanky Haemoculi. Overall very fast, very fragile, and make great use of many flying units
Harlequins: Still fast, still fragile, but very melee-focused and have a huge bag of shenanigans to pull from. Only a few units (with something for each role) and are EXTREMELY dangerous in combat
Orks: Usually massed blobs of Boyz and a variety of ramshackle vehicles, with a bunch of hilarious counterparts to Marine units. Love melee, but in numbers can also be played shooty quite well
Necrons: Slow and immensely hard to kill, with cost-effective infantry blobs and regenerating vehicles. Reliant on highly specialized units for killing tanks and fighting in melee
T'au: Strong guns, and mecha with jetpacks and even stronger guns. Next to zero melee damage, but not horribly squishy and can bring in alien auxiliaries to fill holes in their usual roster
Tyranids: Versatile playstyles, can be horde or monster-based. Good psychic control. Rely on the auras of their command creatures to stay in control-lose the boss and your other bugs might go wild
Genestealer Cults: Cheap, fragile units with 3 armies worth of trickery. Ambushes, sabotage, massed charges and disposable infantry themed after a civilian revolt, complete with stolen Guard units