His lore also involves him psychologically tormenting a planet’s leader to the point of insanity because the hive mind knew that simply killling him would make a martyr. Such a cool character with an even cooler model!
I was thinking swarmlord also. You can only take one and I think it’s meant to get reborn each time rather than being a class of organism like a hive tyrant
Genestealer Cults need more characters? That's the funniest joke I've ever heard. Named characters also dont really make sense for GSC as their end goal is to be eaten.
Tyranids have the Swarmlord who keeps getting reborn. In Necromunda they do too - the malstrain keep rebirthing this one dude. But I'm with you generally - if GSC have the choice between yet another character and literally anything else, gimme the else. Give us a big drill. A mutated goose monster. A pogo stick unit. Anything.
Magus Davien from Day of Ascension wasn't eaten, she left to spread the cult to other planets so there's possibility for GSC to have named characters as some sort of inter-planetary missionary. Of course she may have just been eaten on the next planet, because 'nids need their biomass
@@scoober1376 They could rebrand her as a kind of prophet of the star gods, that goes from planet to planet to spread the cults, would be a really cool idea for a named character.
Based just on lore it’s Trazyn or Orikan, but their in game models are a bit sad. I like Iluminor Szeras. For those who aren’t Silent King pilled, it’s the coolest non C’tan
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Everyone else here is wrong, the best imperial guard character is Sly Marbo and I will make no compromise, after all, the official name for exterminatus is Sly Marbo.
Enjoyed the video chaps! As much as I absolutely love Gaunts Ghosts the chronology of having them on the battlefield at the same time as Lord Solar who is as far as I recall from post m.42. Whilst having Yarrick ousted for being too old. Throws me for sure!
I wish I could enjoy the GG books. I read the first one, but couldn't finish the second one, and I'm on the verge of quitting the third one. Do they get better at some point?
@travisbrown9721 I'd personally say they are my favourite 40k books in existence. In my experience, I liked the first 2 but came to love the 3rd one. It introduces so many beloved characters to me that I was hooked. However, what's good for one person may not be good for everyone. I'd encourage you to try and finish Necropolis and then see from there.
Good video guys! I do wish you'd established at the start that your judging criteria was baded on more than the mini itself though. Because that would've helped inform some of your picks from the start, maybe if/when you do this for AoS you can state that up front. As usual, here are my picks, I hope you enjoy them, even if they're not all the same. Dark Angels- The Lion(obviously) Genestealer Cults- Reductus Sabotuer(they don't have any named characters, so I'm putting in my favorite sculpt) Grey Knights- Drago(hands do not exist in my reality) Chaos Daemons- Be'lakor, the Dark Master(obviously) Chaos Space Marines- Haarken Worldclaimer(that's *my* out-of-the-box pick! otherwise it'd be Abby) Black Templars- Helbrecht(I don't know anything about these guys, and I don't have much interest in learning either, but Helbrecht is a dope mini) Aeldari- (new)Asurmen(The paragon of paragons, the Guilliman of the Eldar, the guy I wanted to get a refresh for years after learning of him, I couldn't pick anyone else) Custodes- Trajann Valoris(who else could I pick but the man chad enough to win TWO Blood Games???) Chaos Knights- Knight-Abominant(see Genestealer Cults) Agents of the Imperium- Inquisitor Fyodor Karamazov(who else could I pick but the funny chair man from TTS?) Necrons- Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner(this is a joint spot because The Infinite and the Divine is peak) Ad Mech- Belisarius Cawl(only Ad Mech named character, the one responsible for Primaris, the only one in The Imperium with the guts to openly innovate again and Chaos God of Tax-Fraud; it's a pretty obvious pick really) Tyranids- Norn Emissary(I don't care if this doesn't have the Character keyword in game, it should, it's the most intelligent of Tyranid bioforms made to carry out the most important tasks and is connected most closely to their Norn Queen, this is a character in a trench-coat wearing funny glasses and you can't convince me otherwise) Space Wolves- Lukas the Trickster(out of all the Space Wolf Characters, THIS is the one I want to see get a Primaris update the most, because I think this dude in Phobos armor would look sick as fucc, plus, he played Magnus like a fiddle, and that's funny as Hell) Death Guard- Mortarion(sorry Typhus, your model is dope, but your father's is better) Imperial Knights- Canus Rex(only named Imperial Knight is an auto-pick, but the Iron Giant comparissons were good) Votann- Brôkhyr Iron-master(If we're not just picking Uthar the Destined, I'm picking what I think is an underrated Votann character) Adepta Sororitas- Morvenn Vahl(shes a High Lord of Terra, the Abbess Sanctorum of the Sisters, this was an easy slam-dunk pick) Astra Militarum- Lord Solar Leontus(some people don't like how clean he looks, those people are wrong, Leontus is awesome, have you seen what he does to prep for the Tyranid invasion at the start of the edition??? It gave me a new respect for the character) Thousand Sons- Ahriman(you've convinced me to pick him over Magnus, I hope you're happy with yourselves, I just want to see Ahriman play YU-GI-OH now) Orks- Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka(Prophet of the WAAAAGH! and faction leader of the Orks, this one was also obvious) Drukhari- Vecht(he pretended to be dead, and right now, he's pretending not to have a model, I know it's coming GW, you can't hide him from us forever!!!) Space Marines- Adrax Agatone(because I'm biased, otherwise. . . Shrike) Blood Angels- Dante(but Lamartes was a close second for me) World Eaters- Angron(I also don't like the current Kharn model) T'au- Farsight(Shadowsun IS cool, I think her questioning her loyalties is awesome, but Farsight did it first, he's got a model I like just a LITTLE bit more, and he almost fell to Chaos, which adds an additional interesting wrinkle to his character. Also, a T'au Civil War would be awesome! I'd love that to be what kicks off a new edition)
In terms of everything in 40k that currently has a model my favorite character lore wise and model looks is certainly Angron. But that will change once Fulgrim gets released. And also if somehow Sevatar or Peter Turbo get models too.
Hey guys thanks again for another episode as always. Some 2 cents if that’s alright. Castellan Crowe really enjoyed the books for him and the mini is amazing. Morven Vahl the walking church and her recent book was pretty good. KHARN ALL DAY! Farsight forever and thanks for inspiring me to finally share my painting I do. For someone whose been really self conscious about their abilities you guys have been a huge influence and a constant presence in the house for family hobby time and when the wife turns to me and goes this is good what’s wrong with you? I know it’s because you guys spread the real point of Warhammer which is self expression and to be happy about it not self conscious. Sorry for the long comment and oozing but thanks guys ready for next week that EC video is going to be hilarious considering how much EC big K has painted already hahaha 😂 cheers 🍻
As a Black Templar player, I will say that Grimaldus is my favorite character and his kit is so much fun. I also really like the Helbrecht kit a lot as well, but the banner is so much fun
Best space marine character is surely from the badab war, and therefore I think should be Lufgt Huron - trying to protect the imperium through administratum infuriations, it’s just so… real. He’s a good guy and a bad guy all at once in the most relatable way
Swarmlord, old one eye, deathleaper, old one eye, the Harbinger (named norn), doom of malantai (which was the progenitor for neurothropes), the red terror, and the parasite of mortrex (don't remember if they generalised it now but it used to be unique)
Personally, I really think that Tyranids would have a lot more storytelling potential if each of the Hive Fleets was controlled by its own Hive Mind. It would allow for the Hive Fleets to have allies and rivals with each other (Kronos already tags along with Leviathan, and Hyrda also likes to eat other Hive Fleets), and they could give unique characters to the main Hive Fleets. It was also make Devastation of Baal less cringe (if it was done in the future), Behemoth's personality trait could be that they do HATE Blood Angels, since atm the tactics displayed by the Tyranids in that book just makes the Hive Mind, the combined intelligence of all Tyranids, seem stupid and petty, and it reduces the Lovecraftian feel of the faction.
@@the_kieran_show actually it was a mention in fall of medusa campaign. basically it kept killing a poor ecclesiarch priest's guards till he went mad and demoralised the planet so much they didn't put up a fight when the nids started snacking.
@@the_kieran_show sorry to disappoint, but it was a mention or shorts story in i think the fall of medusa talking about how it brought a world to its knees on its own😜
Runner up for Tyranids should be the Carnifex because 🤘🏼. And my pick for Sisters would be Triumph of Saint Katherine. Excellent model and harrowing book.
I'd be so here for the T'au civil war. Left K you gotta get aboard any T'au story written by Peter Fehervari, they're beyond S-tier. I think he has an anthology coming out in Feb, available for pre-order soon if not already. "The Dark Coil". You won't be disappointed.
For Eldrad, I'm sure they retconned it, But he did crush Abbadon 1v1 in i believe the 11th? or 12th black crusade...i was at the games day in the mid 2000s as a teen when they announced this after the results. Cadia 777 shields.
Tyranid characters: Old one eye, The red terror, Parasite of mortex and i would 100% say that the swarmlord is a character since we dont know enough about them to know how many there actually are or if they are clones of 1 swarmlord or entirely just its own things
For Space Wolves, Bjorn is a fantastic pick, but shout out to Lukas. His book is so fun. Anyone that doesn’t like Space Wolves, read his book. It’s such an intimate look from within the chapter of the charade they keep up due to external and internal pressure. Leadership knows the chapter has to follow Russ’ boastful nature but they (and he) know it’s not genuine. So good. Flipped SW on their head for me.
@ yeah they sent him there when the new book came out, only named inquisitors now are the three that came with the box sets, Draxus, Greyfax and Coteaz
Swarmlord does have good lore. There is only one at a given time, when he is killed he respawns. Fought and beat Calgar, but Calgar won the rematch. Old One Eye has some good stories, I don’t think he dies and regenerates the way Swarmlord does. Old One Eye just persists. 3 Epic Heroes in the codex: Swarmlord, Old One Eye, and Deathleaper
@ still a great list of fun lore and looks. Glad you guys covered space marines, and would have been good to see a space marine discussion minus Guilliman. Thanks for the video.
Kharn's current model is pretty uninspiring but his 90s model is absolutely iconic. Also he's the best, purest boi in all of Warhammer K, and he's much better than Angron.
Tau have the Eight - I know that they kinda have, kinda don't have minis but you can deffinitely build them. Having the dedicated datasheets would give us 7 new characters!
I get Be'lakor has an amazing mini and I love him, but he really isn't a character in 40K. Feel like he should have been saved for the AOS list. I would go with Shalaxi Helbane personally. A keeper of Secrets who made freaking Skarbrand run away? That's badass.
Lucius' 30k mini is vassssstly superior to his current 40k mini. Looking forward to seeing his new 40k mini, along with Fulgrim. Can't wait! I'd have to go with Ragnar for the Space Wolves. Stopped Magnus from returning from the warp, and his time on Terra was fun as hell. Edit: with you guys being Brits and all, and liking Krieg... we know you will paint the new box. Therefore i have a charge for you: You must paint a full 2k Kreig list and take it to a tournament. Further, you must start each round with the declaration/battlecry "I'm runnin' Krieg, yeah! I'm running Kreig!" ( \m/ MAIDEN \m/)
It's bizarre to me that Vect hasn't had a model in decades at this point (his old one, which is very cool, goes for stupid money on ebay), he features very heavily in the Dark Eldar books, I suspect they are holding him back for when they eventually refresh the Dark Eldar. Plus how many characters do we get in vehicles these days? Not a lot so it would be a nice change of pace.
The restriction to named characters only is baffling, epic heroes are right there,still keeps chaos knights but at least you can include the objectively coolest nid. Deathleaper.
@the_kieran_show Might have to borrow this idea for a video on Ready Aim Roll (shameful plug). Unpopular opinion, Amalia Novena is a cooler mini, Celestine is rad but Amalia absolutely rocks.
There is only one choice for tyranids and that is the Swarmlord, all hive tyrants have A level of self-awareness and could be considered characters when compared to the rest of the swarm, but the Swarmlord is on a completely different level, Honestly can’t be compared to the other hive tyrants on the same scale.
It’s all space marines because the only thing games workshop releases is space marines while wondering why nothing else sells, even age of sigmar has space marines. Custodes Blade Champion
For necrons it would be a layup for trazyn if he didnt have such an old sad-looking finecast model. Insane to me that they refreshed imotekh, orikan, and szeras before him tbh. For sisters, ive always felt celestine's model was extremely overrated. Small for what shes supposed to be, not a particularly detailed or unique head or wings or armor, and fiddly. Kitbashed living saints using other winged GW kits look SO much better. Buuuuut its hard to think of a character in the range with comparably interesting lore.
I gotta say, the best tyranid character is the deathleaper. He's a great looking lictor guy, even has a biological cape.
That is just correct
I mean I agree, Kieran got it wrong 😂
Kieran is, in fact, a scrubby nub nub
His lore also involves him psychologically tormenting a planet’s leader to the point of insanity because the hive mind knew that simply killling him would make a martyr. Such a cool character with an even cooler model!
Best spacemarine is clearly alpharius disguised as Roboute Guilliman to play a prank on Cawl
Ah that was our second pick!
I think The Swarmlord should count as a named character? It's rather iffy, but i think only one Swarmlord can exist at a time.
It is iffy you're so right. Very difficult for both Nids and GSC
I was thinking swarmlord also. You can only take one and I think it’s meant to get reborn each time rather than being a class of organism like a hive tyrant
I think its one swarmlord per hive fleet but yeah I believe only one at a time.
Genestealer Cults need more characters? That's the funniest joke I've ever heard. Named characters also dont really make sense for GSC as their end goal is to be eaten.
Tyranids have the Swarmlord who keeps getting reborn. In Necromunda they do too - the malstrain keep rebirthing this one dude. But I'm with you generally - if GSC have the choice between yet another character and literally anything else, gimme the else. Give us a big drill. A mutated goose monster. A pogo stick unit. Anything.
Magus Davien from Day of Ascension wasn't eaten, she left to spread the cult to other planets so there's possibility for GSC to have named characters as some sort of inter-planetary missionary. Of course she may have just been eaten on the next planet, because 'nids need their biomass
@@riclacy3796 Necromunda is scaled to a single city typically, so it makes sense GSC would have characters in that game.
@@scoober1376 They could rebrand her as a kind of prophet of the star gods, that goes from planet to planet to spread the cults, would be a really cool idea for a named character.
People pleeeeeease. The GSC just need a big rig and a super brain goon.
If based on lore, how did you not pick Trazyn for the Necrons.
OMG TRAZYN
Or Imotekh the storm lord, the most powerful necron out there
Based just on lore it’s Trazyn or Orikan, but their in game models are a bit sad. I like Iluminor Szeras. For those who aren’t Silent King pilled, it’s the coolest non C’tan
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Thanks, so glad that comes across!
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Everyone else here is wrong, the best imperial guard character is Sly Marbo and I will make no compromise, after all, the official name for exterminatus is Sly Marbo.
Who could forget sweet sweet Sly Marbo
Enjoyed the video chaps! As much as I absolutely love Gaunts Ghosts the chronology of having them on the battlefield at the same time as Lord Solar who is as far as I recall from post m.42. Whilst having Yarrick ousted for being too old.
Throws me for sure!
How dare you question the holy unquestionable GW timeline! 🔔shame 🔔shame
I wish I could enjoy the GG books. I read the first one, but couldn't finish the second one, and I'm on the verge of quitting the third one. Do they get better at some point?
@travisbrown9721 I'd personally say they are my favourite 40k books in existence. In my experience, I liked the first 2 but came to love the 3rd one. It introduces so many beloved characters to me that I was hooked.
However, what's good for one person may not be good for everyone. I'd encourage you to try and finish Necropolis and then see from there.
The Tau heresy comment at the end made it worth finishing the video. Thanks for some great content!
😭😭 thanks for the support!
The Farsight Heresy is even being kicked off by someone picking up a chaos tainted sword!
Omg nooooo 😂😂
White Scars always overlooked and never given credit 😢 #fortheKhagan
One day we will ride again. #HaiChogoris
My boy Farsight deserves better Kieran
Help us Fletch. You've the power to right his wrongs.
"Electric Coolboy" is such an amazing nickname! And a good shoutout to a very fun band.
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Good video guys! I do wish you'd established at the start that your judging criteria was baded on more than the mini itself though. Because that would've helped inform some of your picks from the start, maybe if/when you do this for AoS you can state that up front. As usual, here are my picks, I hope you enjoy them, even if they're not all the same.
Dark Angels- The Lion(obviously)
Genestealer Cults- Reductus Sabotuer(they don't have any named characters, so I'm putting in my favorite sculpt)
Grey Knights- Drago(hands do not exist in my reality)
Chaos Daemons- Be'lakor, the Dark Master(obviously)
Chaos Space Marines- Haarken Worldclaimer(that's *my* out-of-the-box pick! otherwise it'd be Abby)
Black Templars- Helbrecht(I don't know anything about these guys, and I don't have much interest in learning either, but Helbrecht is a dope mini)
Aeldari- (new)Asurmen(The paragon of paragons, the Guilliman of the Eldar, the guy I wanted to get a refresh for years after learning of him, I couldn't pick anyone else)
Custodes- Trajann Valoris(who else could I pick but the man chad enough to win TWO Blood Games???)
Chaos Knights- Knight-Abominant(see Genestealer Cults)
Agents of the Imperium- Inquisitor Fyodor Karamazov(who else could I pick but the funny chair man from TTS?)
Necrons- Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner(this is a joint spot because The Infinite and the Divine is peak)
Ad Mech- Belisarius Cawl(only Ad Mech named character, the one responsible for Primaris, the only one in The Imperium with the guts to openly innovate again and Chaos God of Tax-Fraud; it's a pretty obvious pick really)
Tyranids- Norn Emissary(I don't care if this doesn't have the Character keyword in game, it should, it's the most intelligent of Tyranid bioforms made to carry out the most important tasks and is connected most closely to their Norn Queen, this is a character in a trench-coat wearing funny glasses and you can't convince me otherwise)
Space Wolves- Lukas the Trickster(out of all the Space Wolf Characters, THIS is the one I want to see get a Primaris update the most, because I think this dude in Phobos armor would look sick as fucc, plus, he played Magnus like a fiddle, and that's funny as Hell)
Death Guard- Mortarion(sorry Typhus, your model is dope, but your father's is better)
Imperial Knights- Canus Rex(only named Imperial Knight is an auto-pick, but the Iron Giant comparissons were good)
Votann- Brôkhyr Iron-master(If we're not just picking Uthar the Destined, I'm picking what I think is an underrated Votann character)
Adepta Sororitas- Morvenn Vahl(shes a High Lord of Terra, the Abbess Sanctorum of the Sisters, this was an easy slam-dunk pick)
Astra Militarum- Lord Solar Leontus(some people don't like how clean he looks, those people are wrong, Leontus is awesome, have you seen what he does to prep for the Tyranid invasion at the start of the edition??? It gave me a new respect for the character)
Thousand Sons- Ahriman(you've convinced me to pick him over Magnus, I hope you're happy with yourselves, I just want to see Ahriman play YU-GI-OH now)
Orks- Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka(Prophet of the WAAAAGH! and faction leader of the Orks, this one was also obvious)
Drukhari- Vecht(he pretended to be dead, and right now, he's pretending not to have a model, I know it's coming GW, you can't hide him from us forever!!!)
Space Marines- Adrax Agatone(because I'm biased, otherwise. . . Shrike)
Blood Angels- Dante(but Lamartes was a close second for me)
World Eaters- Angron(I also don't like the current Kharn model)
T'au- Farsight(Shadowsun IS cool, I think her questioning her loyalties is awesome, but Farsight did it first, he's got a model I like just a LITTLE bit more, and he almost fell to Chaos, which adds an additional interesting wrinkle to his character. Also, a T'au Civil War would be awesome! I'd love that to be what kicks off a new edition)
Some wicked picks in there dude!
In terms of everything in 40k that currently has a model my favorite character lore wise and model looks is certainly Angron. But that will change once Fulgrim gets released. And also if somehow Sevatar or Peter Turbo get models too.
Sevatar would be so cool!
Hey guys thanks again for another episode as always. Some 2 cents if that’s alright. Castellan Crowe really enjoyed the books for him and the mini is amazing. Morven Vahl the walking church and her recent book was pretty good. KHARN ALL DAY! Farsight forever and thanks for inspiring me to finally share my painting I do. For someone whose been really self conscious about their abilities you guys have been a huge influence and a constant presence in the house for family hobby time and when the wife turns to me and goes this is good what’s wrong with you? I know it’s because you guys spread the real point of Warhammer which is self expression and to be happy about it not self conscious. Sorry for the long comment and oozing but thanks guys ready for next week that EC video is going to be hilarious considering how much EC big K has painted already hahaha 😂 cheers 🍻
Thanks so much for the kind words dude! Glad to have you along!
The only answer for the Imperial Guard is Commisar Yarrick. I will not be accepting questions at this time.
Pour one out for big Yarrick
Nice one guys!
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As a Black Templar player, I will say that Grimaldus is my favorite character and his kit is so much fun. I also really like the Helbrecht kit a lot as well, but the banner is so much fun
Infinitely better!
Best space marine character is surely from the badab war, and therefore I think should be Lufgt Huron - trying to protect the imperium through administratum infuriations, it’s just so… real. He’s a good guy and a bad guy all at once in the most relatable way
best space marine character is such a rabbit hole to go down im not sure there's enough time! 😂
11:11 banelash purely because vince venturella’s banelash kitbash and paint scheme is the coolest shit ever
Not familiar with that, will go take a look!
@ its his slaaneshi knight golden demon entry from like 2 or 3 years back
Swarmlord, old one eye, deathleaper, old one eye, the Harbinger (named norn), doom of malantai (which was the progenitor for neurothropes), the red terror, and the parasite of mortrex (don't remember if they generalised it now but it used to be unique)
oooo thanks!
Personally, I really think that Tyranids would have a lot more storytelling potential if each of the Hive Fleets was controlled by its own Hive Mind. It would allow for the Hive Fleets to have allies and rivals with each other (Kronos already tags along with Leviathan, and Hyrda also likes to eat other Hive Fleets), and they could give unique characters to the main Hive Fleets. It was also make Devastation of Baal less cringe (if it was done in the future), Behemoth's personality trait could be that they do HATE Blood Angels, since atm the tactics displayed by the Tyranids in that book just makes the Hive Mind, the combined intelligence of all Tyranids, seem stupid and petty, and it reduces the Lovecraftian feel of the faction.
Each having their own hive mind seems like it would get really complicated to maintain though
The Electric Cawlboy joke is amazing, especially considering theyre my new favorite band
Need it on a t shirt
@the_kieran_show ill take 7
deathleaper had a whole book of homicide. also the mini is perfection
DID IT?! Give us the book title, we'd love to check it out!
@@the_kieran_show actually it was a mention in fall of medusa campaign. basically it kept killing a poor ecclesiarch priest's guards till he went mad and demoralised the planet so much they didn't put up a fight when the nids started snacking.
@@the_kieran_show sorry to disappoint, but it was a mention or shorts story in i think the fall of medusa talking about how it brought a world to its knees on its own😜
Runner up for Tyranids should be the Carnifex because 🤘🏼. And my pick for Sisters would be Triumph of Saint Katherine. Excellent model and harrowing book.
Great shouts!
I'd be so here for the T'au civil war. Left K you gotta get aboard any T'au story written by Peter Fehervari, they're beyond S-tier. I think he has an anthology coming out in Feb, available for pre-order soon if not already. "The Dark Coil". You won't be disappointed.
Sounds so so sick. Have pre ordered Dark Coil, thanks for the nom mate, can't wait to read it!
For Eldrad, I'm sure they retconned it, But he did crush Abbadon 1v1 in i believe the 11th? or 12th black crusade...i was at the games day in the mid 2000s as a teen when they announced this after the results. Cadia 777 shields.
He did also do some stuff to make sure Guilliman came back but would love to see him at the centre of something!
Tyranid characters: Old one eye, The red terror, Parasite of mortex and i would 100% say that the swarmlord is a character since we dont know enough about them to know how many there actually are or if they are clones of 1 swarmlord or entirely just its own things
All very fair points!
For Space Wolves, Bjorn is a fantastic pick, but shout out to Lukas. His book is so fun.
Anyone that doesn’t like Space Wolves, read his book. It’s such an intimate look from within the chapter of the charade they keep up due to external and internal pressure. Leadership knows the chapter has to follow Russ’ boastful nature but they (and he) know it’s not genuine.
So good. Flipped SW on their head for me.
Will give it a look!
Does eisenhorn count since he’s been sent to legends now?
IS HE!?
@ yeah they sent him there when the new book came out, only named inquisitors now are the three that came with the box sets, Draxus, Greyfax and Coteaz
Swarmlord does have good lore. There is only one at a given time, when he is killed he respawns. Fought and beat Calgar, but Calgar won the rematch. Old One Eye has some good stories, I don’t think he dies and regenerates the way Swarmlord does. Old One Eye just persists. 3 Epic Heroes in the codex: Swarmlord, Old One Eye, and Deathleaper
Yeah swarmlord and deathleaper are way better, Kieran got that totally wrong 😂
@ still a great list of fun lore and looks. Glad you guys covered space marines, and would have been good to see a space marine discussion minus Guilliman. Thanks for the video.
AESTHETIC ON POINT
*whispers
Aesthetic on point..
The custodes character you're thinking of is the blade champion.
That's the ticket!
Y'know, if for Necrons you guys picked Oltyx, I wouldn't have complained at all. Twice Dead King 🔛🔝
OMG I actually loved those books aswell. Went full smooth brain when we recorded this obviously 😂
I love kieran. And the t'au
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Kharn's current model is pretty uninspiring but his 90s model is absolutely iconic. Also he's the best, purest boi in all of Warhammer K, and he's much better than Angron.
Kharn is the true hero of the WE, but I don't like his current mini either.
He is much better than Angron! Correct!!
Ork honorable mention: Ufthak Blackhawk
That's a fun shout!
Tau have the Eight - I know that they kinda have, kinda don't have minis but you can deffinitely build them. Having the dedicated datasheets would give us 7 new characters!
Yeah would a cool expansion!
Ciaphas Cain (with his Aide Jurgen of course) deserves a mini
100%
For nids, I reckon The Swarmlord is a solid contender, epic hero and all.
Oh for sure!
I am the coolest indeed, I'm glad it's seen that way
And who could forget sweet Bjorn
I get Be'lakor has an amazing mini and I love him, but he really isn't a character in 40K. Feel like he should have been saved for the AOS list. I would go with Shalaxi Helbane personally. A keeper of Secrets who made freaking Skarbrand run away? That's badass.
Yeah id love to see him to just do....something in 40k
I Think the Best characters for me is cadre fireblade for tau, archon and lelith for drukhari
Interested on the Cadre take! Tell us more
Lucius' 30k mini is vassssstly superior to his current 40k mini.
Looking forward to seeing his new 40k mini, along with Fulgrim. Can't wait!
I'd have to go with Ragnar for the Space Wolves. Stopped Magnus from returning from the warp, and his time on Terra was fun as hell.
Edit: with you guys being Brits and all, and liking Krieg... we know you will paint the new box. Therefore i have a charge for you:
You must paint a full 2k Kreig list and take it to a tournament. Further, you must start each round with the declaration/battlecry "I'm runnin' Krieg, yeah! I'm running Kreig!"
( \m/ MAIDEN \m/)
The 30k one is newer than the 40K one so that helps 😂
Best genestealer character is from Necromunda... Is that mutated Adept with the pet imp. Imo.
Omg yes yes yes
It's bizarre to me that Vect hasn't had a model in decades at this point (his old one, which is very cool, goes for stupid money on ebay), he features very heavily in the Dark Eldar books, I suspect they are holding him back for when they eventually refresh the Dark Eldar. Plus how many characters do we get in vehicles these days? Not a lot so it would be a nice change of pace.
Yeah would be a great change of pace!
The restriction to named characters only is baffling, epic heroes are right there,still keeps chaos knights but at least you can include the objectively coolest nid. Deathleaper.
If you removed the restriction what would yours be?
@the_kieran_show
Might have to borrow this idea for a video on Ready Aim Roll (shameful plug).
Unpopular opinion, Amalia Novena is a cooler mini, Celestine is rad but Amalia absolutely rocks.
Why am I not surprised the Magnus simp is a Tau lover?
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For CSM id have to say Fabius Bile. Amazing character book. But man how can you skip Vashtorr
Ol' Fabius is another great shout! Don't think Vashtorr has had enough time in the sun just yet to be a contender
The space wolves broke Kieran brain 🤣
God I just hate them so much
@ just like my hate for tau 🤣
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There is only one choice for tyranids and that is the Swarmlord, all hive tyrants have A level of self-awareness and could be considered characters when compared to the rest of the swarm, but the Swarmlord is on a completely different level, Honestly can’t be compared to the other hive tyrants on the same scale.
Swarmlord is insanely cool!
Wouldn't count for multiple reasons, but the only named character for GSC is Hermiatus the Second Son
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It's obviously the Norn emissary. It's the Mouth if Sauron of Nids.
It’s all space marines because the only thing games workshop releases is space marines while wondering why nothing else sells, even age of sigmar has space marines. Custodes Blade Champion
Space marines go brrrrr
18:54 Nice thing is, if he quits, you could keep calling it.the Kieran show
Don't encourage him!
Best character for nids is definitely the deathleaper. Hes a Scottish Lictor. Gets his own kilt
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Best Custode character is Valyrian and I'll die on that hill.
Ooooh that's a great spicy take! 🔥
I paint flesh tearers we don’t have a character 😂😂
Isn't Gabriel Seth a FT character? 👀
@ not any more he’s been omitted from the codex and the website
Eldrad got a new model a few years ago.
And what a model!
You know TauHeresy is soooo coming
It’s already happening by the sounds of it 😂
*Army’s for the thumbnail. Or Armies’ if plural.
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Id be down for the tau heresy, just anything other than another sphere expansion
Yeah hold up on the sphere expansions, we get it bro you sphere expansion
If we're picking Lucius it is DEFINITELY not a "best model" list.
Noooo best CHARACTER
Fabulous Bill should have been the CSM pick
now that's a left field take
The AoS version of this video next ?
Definitely on the horizon!
There's no cooler character in T'au lore than Farsight, and there won't likely ever be a better one
The undisputable King 👑
Salamanders left the chat*
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Too cool for the video, had to go save innocents
We will do a whole space marine video! 🫡
Von Ryan’s leaders for Tyranids
Von Ryan's LEADERS?!
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Picking Caldro Drago as best character is actually insane. That dude has the worst lore in the whole of 40k
Surely theres worse, no?
The Lion is big E's hunt master on a leash. Meh.
He can go sit on the bench when Russ returns. :D
I really hope Russ comes back all grim and Gribbly 👀
The Ravenor and Bequin books are insanely good!!!!!! Better than the Eisenhorn books IMO, and The Magos is maybe the best Eisenhorn book.
Ooooooh that's a great sell. We'll get on it!
is that a warframe tshirt Kieran is wearing
Warmag! Close 🤣
No Sisters of Silence?😢
We went off each individual codex 🫡
Great video but it seems like you guys hate on a lot of stuff. I appreciate the work you guys do but why all the negative comments?
It's all in jest really. Don't take us so seriously, we don't.
Please give us a new updated roubute guiillymon
That would be awesome
@the_kieran_show viewer interaction?? Even with dumb comments?? You get a sub. I look forward to more of your videos!
Lemartes over mephiston?? No way
Crazy town
For necrons it would be a layup for trazyn if he didnt have such an old sad-looking finecast model. Insane to me that they refreshed imotekh, orikan, and szeras before him tbh.
For sisters, ive always felt celestine's model was extremely overrated. Small for what shes supposed to be, not a particularly detailed or unique head or wings or armor, and fiddly. Kitbashed living saints using other winged GW kits look SO much better. Buuuuut its hard to think of a character in the range with comparably interesting lore.
Yeah celestines model could do with some more touches!
Commisar Cain
A good shout for sure!
Nigel Stormcaller was a great model when he was rereleased.. sadly he looks so small and useless now
NIGEL 😭😭
Ahem... Slamanders?
If we do a dedicated space marine one 🫡
Really failed the English on the thumbnail text.
Help us Professor English
Guilliman is the right answer
Absolutely no way 🤣
But he is though…..
GW, don't listen to them, while Constantin Valdor would be cool, we want plastic Caladius and Venatari first please and thanks!
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Youve just picked the most expensive character for each lol. A lot of questionable picks here 😂😂
Hey, we're questionable guys 🤓
HA.HA.HA. Still Funny!
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Clicked off at Lion being the best DA CHARACTER. he objectively is not.
Teach us!
@the_kieran_show read some books. Lol
Algorithm boosting comment
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Ugh. Tau simp.
Cow fish people lover