Yeah, a lot of the art available around the game and from Mike Franchina's Artstation has been around long before any of this stuff amalgamated into a game.
I used some of their art for a cult in my dnd game called the church in the glass, which was heavily inspired by eastern spiritual beliefs and meditation. I felt kinda silly when i found out that art was from a tabletop game lol
Really want to make a warband variant for the Order of the Dragon. They are mentioned in the timeline where in universe apparently Vlad the Impaler held the line when the Byzantine fell and impaled a million heretics.
something about the almost nervous or shy way the combat medic is stanced is genuinely so dope and disquieting, the way she’s posed gives her a vibe of both a traumatized 20-something bright eyed kid that wants to help and a vibe of someone who’s seen so much shit that they’ve gone half mad, and will save your life no matter how much you’d beg them not to. in reality, the far scarier part is that it’s probably neither, and whatever is in a combat medic’s mind is something that no human could or should comprehend, operating on some impossible, alien logic despite their obvious humanity.
Well according to the lore they wrote 1/3 of the Earth is under hells control. And since we know Europe, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Ethiopia (so therefore most of subsaharan Africa), most of North Africa, and European Russia are still controlled by god, for a fact. It can be deduced that India and China are probably under Hell's control.... As for the western hemisphere, donno. I haven't heard anything about it. And considering that timeline divergence happened pre-Erikson (or Columbus if you will), I wonder if the western hemisphere was ever discovered, and if so, then when? And what implications would that have....
20:20 These worlds are so grim and insane that the strangest and most bizarre aspect to this entire spectacle is the fact that people can find a partner they like, have a relationship and eventually get united in holy matrimony.
That's honestly what breaks immersion for me in most grimdark settings. Where do all these people that get mulched at insane rates for hundreds of years even come from? It takes roughly 15 years and A LOT of resources to make one of them, you'd just run out of people in a decade or two with casualty rates like that
@@abelbabel8484 What I also dislike is evil factions having absolutely no development on normal civilian life and how people actually live and procreate within this system, it’s something I’ve thought about extensively in my own setting, because even the most evil system must allow for the barest necessities like food, water, socialisation, entertainment etc. according to what precious little we know of the Heretics, we know that they sell human flesh in markets which implies at least a basic system of trade and economics. What do they eat? Where do they get the food? How do they maintain food supplies? Does property exist? Can an individual own property? Can an individual advance within this system and if they can, how? What do you get paid in? Can an individual find a person they love within this system? There *must* be some notion of reward in this system for the Heretics which is support as it’s implied that there is a deeper ideological reason to them being Heretics, rebellion against the ‘Tyrant-God’. Heresy implies individual initiative, otherwise they’d simply be uninteresting brainwashed slaves.
@abelbabel8484 like what? the highest I heard was millions people would still be able to reproduce under that and the already existing resources would concentrated better
@@isiahalcindor6278 na dude, look at real world societal collapses after wars, epidemics or catastrophes. You can't keep losing people at crazy rates for more than a few years before your whole thing disintegrates and decentralizes
Thanks, mate! I hope you enjoy the channel. :) I just don't really see the point in not being honest with folks that wish to complain about stuff, it just saves us all some times in the long run.
Wait... you're telling me the observers use a pole arm to pole vault over the barbed wire and into a Heretic trench? That was a hard right from grimdark into Buster Keaton... and I love it.
I have just recently discovered this game/ artwork and it’s right up my alley. I’m not sure if anyone here in the comments has ever encountered it before, but Wayne Barlowe’s “Hell” artworks would go hand in hand with this. He’s a well known and respected concept artist for movies and such, having provided art for the first and second Hellboy movies (among others), and the first thing I remember seeing of his back when I was a kid in the 1980s was “Barlowe’s Guide To Extraterrestrials”, which included a lot of Lovecraft’s creations. Within the last couple of decades, he created a series of amazing paintings featuring Demons, Damned Souls, Warmachines, and Architecture/ Terrain for his vision of Hell, and wrote a companion novel about the war in Hell called “God’s Demon”. The books that contain his paintings are prohibitively expensive, and I only own a copy of the novel (which is fantastic, by the way). However, you can view his art on his website, and judge it for yourself- but I’m betting that if you like this stuff, you’ll enjoy his as well. Anyway- sorry for the long comment, but I felt really lucky in finding this world, and so wanted to pass it on and share the wealth with his artwork if anyone’s interested.
Great comment. I have actually been looking a lot of his work as I am preparing to paint my Heretic warband and I want to take some inspiration from his color palettes and perhaps even some of the imagery for Kitbashing, basing, etc.
@@scannerbarkly Thanks, mate- I can’t wait to see how your warband comes out. I would love to work up some kitbashes myself out of some existing models that I’ve got but almost everything I have is from Forge World’s Horus Heresy range from the past 8 years or so. I’m sure I’d be able to find some inexpensive base models from my local games shop, though- I’ll let you know if I come up with anything decent! Thanks again for the videos, and for introducing me to the crusade.
@@nakenmil Right on- I love that stuff, I just wish I could afford to buy those books. The floating sigils above the demon’s heads are such an awesome idea. I’m about to read the novel again, as it’s been about a year since the last time, and seeing this artwork rewhetted my appetite for it.
@@tunguskalumberjack9987 The floating sigil, the souls-as-building-material, the warped animals, the indigenous salamandrines, etc. Amazing worldbuilding. I've never actually read the novels, I need to get on that!
Considering the divergence happened before the New World was found, North and South America are probably just chilling under the control of the native populations that were there originally. Assuming the rot of the open Gate of Hell hasnt spread to them. Asia is already involved in much of this since apparently the Gate opened in Jesurelem I think? So the Middle East is outright fucked and its spreading.
Probably hyper advanced in all their steampunk glory and are just watching the shitshow in their side news in the papers, while they focus on their own wars against onis, corrupted spirits, fallen deities, amalgams of foul karma, and a host of other rakshas and asuras.
I'm not sure the Americas have been discovered by Europeans in this world (the lore does seem to specify a time when the heretics took Gibraltar and gained access to the Atlantic, though). There are some ideas of war and religion being intertwined that are found in more than a few New world cultures that could be very interesting here. I'm imagining the Sardaukar scene from Dune but with Jaguar warriors being annointed with Heretic blood. Apocalyptic plains Indians cults from later on in our history, such as the ghost dance, would be very interesting too. As for Asia, Mongols would be very interesting for the same reasons
There are only two things I don't like in this setting. Both naming related: 1. The Captain Captains in the Sultanate 2. The Principality of New Antioch is ruled by a Duke. Either it should be a Duchy instead of a Principality, or it's ruler should be a Prince. XD
The use of Christian mythology is brilliant. It instantly resonates with many people and saves the Creators (ahem) a ton of world-building mythos. It’s all baked-in and wonderfully baroque.
I love this. It’s like my religious trauma had a baby with the cover of a Slayer album and it was raised by WWI documentaries. I’m greatly uncomfortable but also deeply intrigued!
@@chaosincarna I wouldn't go that far, I'm a believer, and I can definitely recognize that religious trauma can be a serious thing caused by those who practice my and other faiths; it's a shame more than anything, but it's nowhere near their fault.
@@chaosincarna Well I’m a Taoist now so I’m actually quite versed in things being larger than my ego. But here’s a tip, mate. You’re not gonna win people over to your faith with insults. You can’t bully someone into having faith. Better to be kind and try to lead by example.
Truly, one of my favorite lore details from the alternate warband options is the fact that Ireland and Scotland are still independent, holding their original names. Since, y'know, given the current circumstances, England hasn't subjugated them.
Antioch is reminding me of Cadia from Warhammer 40k. Guess I found the faction I'd play as if this game comes to retail. Shame they destroyed Byzantium from the universe, would've liked to see them as a faction. This universe would make for a good video game. Imagine an FPS...
@@Gabriel-hy8be I would love to see this Crusade on other fronts other than the Levant. If the Byzantine Empire still stands or a successor one at that I'm pretty sure the Balkans would be a warzone Serbia, Wallachia, etc I would love to see Mount Athos or the rest of Greece as a bastion Schema Monks with Greek Fire, Cataphracts, Akritai using guerilla warfare, etc
I'm actually not sure what will happen with Australia in this universe. Because England became so insular and focused solely on building an enormous mobile fortress for defence they never got around to colonizing the Americas, so I assume the same will apply to Aus.
@@scannerbarkly Huh? Where did you read it? Because from what I've seen youtube videos are the only sources of lore I know of. I couldn't find anything on the main page.
@@piotrx6833 That bit of lore is from the assorted lore primers and rulebooks you can get via the Discord. The British fleet gets wrecked in 1805 and Admiral Nelson gets killed in the fight. The loss of much of their Navy cripples the expansion of the British Empire, and instead they start to working on an enormous mobile fortress for defense which takes them about a century to complete.
imeprial knight, warlord titan, & battle Churches titan be like : need help? 🚬🗿☕ Trench Crusade : sure why not we fight monster we need monster to fight back 🚬🗿☕
Man I need to see the world out of Europe, imagine the Inca, Aztec, Japanese, Chinese, Indians and other regions fighting for their respective gods against the forces of hell.
No in this setting unlike warhammer 40k which has hopes of the imperium prevailing and surviving this setting gives Earth the biggest middle finger hell the Church literally started a Moon project indicating that Earth is on life support
@@dafq9149 Why are all you fucking losers dragging your politics into my comment section? Being a fucking gay kid in Idaho is not political, it's just being a person. People here are trying to have a bit of fun and enjoy some lore and you pricks are just moaning and begging for attention. It's fucking sad, bro. Now, either get with the program and talk about media you like and enjoy or imma, frankly, fuck you off the channel. You are ruining peoples fun with your snowflake bullshit.
That’s why I don’t have social media. I’ll get this book and play with friends. Think I’m going with the good old Catholics…they excel at dispensing with demons and devils. Unless one of my sons wants to play them, then I’ll go with the bad guys. That Mosquito looking armored demon looked pretty cool.
good video, an honest critique though: something about your tone in the first 15 seconds of the video literally brain melted me and I didnt hear a single thing until I passed a willpower check or whatever that was. Again good video though.
There was a Kickstarter a while back for a small handful of minis that kinda kicked off this whole thing, and since then it has grown into the game that is currently developing. There will be another Kickstarter for the game itself coming at some point this year. Until then, the community is just kitbashing anything we can get our hands on to make the models work.
it'd be interesting to see other factions like new Byzantines trying to reclaim there lost cities and lost honor as Rome leading an orthodox faction or maybe Even Jewish units but I am jewish, so I have to want that
That'd be awesome/hilarious. The Jews never left Jerusalem and they're just holding out behind the backlines of hell's foothold. Some hidden in terrorist organizations, messing with supply lines and such. Some living normal lives pretending to he heretics while secretly attending home-synagogue style meetings and donating to the terrorists.
i mean Islam has their own faction so it would not be amiss that there was jewish troops or factions. Im exited to get lore on what other religions did once hell broke out of the earth
'New Antioch holds no space for anything but meritocracy' HM *looks over at demonstrably incompetent lieutenant who, 'coincidentally', was promoted by their high ranking father* *scratches chin* WELL I AM SURE HE REALLY IS THE BEST THAT WAS AVAILABLE FOR SURE
@@scannerbarkly this channel CANNOT spread the propaganda of the New Antioch upper classes, because propaganda is solely the tool of the heretic. there is no propaganda in New Antioch, unless it is uttered by heretics who will meet with due justice in time amen
It looks like it's inspired by machine gun emplacements on old tanks. Maybe there's a tiny guy with a tiny machine gun who pokes out of there every now and then for point defense
They where never colonized, other then that we have no idea. At this point Europe knows of the new world but seems like its relation is more like that early Age of Exploration Asia or Africa.
For those curious this is from a Podcast Audio Drama called I am in Eskew. It follows the life of a Man named David who is trapped in a eldritch like city called Eskew which is nowhere and midfucky. It actively fucks with him every episode in an attempt to force him to embrace its weirdness. The same people also made a podcast audiodrama called the Silt Versus which is just as good amd recently concluded.
I wonder whars going on in other parts of the world. Like, is the americas being invaded by hell? Are samurai fighting demons? What about chinese xia soldiers?
Theory time!( the palidins don’t have the blood of the meta Christ ) they have the blood of a demon or fallen angel that’s why the armor burns something just doesn’t sit right with me if they truly had the blood of Jesus they’d be infinitely more powerful I’m not sure if any of you read the Bible but way back when angels saw men some wanted to mate with them they’re offspring became giants known as nephilum I think, these off spring between man and angel were evil and wicked that’s when god told Noah to build a boat and he drowned the earth. Paladins seem very similar to these creatures and I believe they are one in the same
Just like in 40K, God and Satan aim to keep up this "game" for all eternity. God could end this war in an instant. Since he is almighty. Satan, on the other hand is merely a fallen angel. So, Satan's goal is to win and overthrow the ultimate authority which is God, and God's aim is to not let Satan win. Not to defeat him...think about that.
I don’t know about India or the rest of East Asia, but Muslims have banded together under the Great Sultanate of the Invincible Iron Wall of the Two Horns that Pierce the Sky (Iron Sultanate for short)
There are rules for an Irish squad called the Eire Rangers. Their Cleric has an ability called "Away, Serpents", a Fianna warrior class and you can bring one Berzeker, Cú Chulainn style.
Dude, imagine a Hindu empire faction coming in from the east. Elephant-headed giants, snake charmer ascetc priests, warrior monks riding tigers, four-armed blood-drinking women soldiers, etc etc etc Bruh I just hyped myself lol
@@daniel11119 Scandinavia irl took until the 12th century to be officially christianized. If the gate to hell was opened in 1099, you can just say it crippled the conversion effort and people stuck with/returned to their older beliefs - rejecting a foreign faith that has unleashed hell on earth kinda makes sense imo.
I noticed that heretics sometimes display an inverted cross. It is a common misconception that the inverted cross represents Satan. I am Catholic, when Peter was martyred, he was crucified upon an inverted cross. For Catholics, an inverted cross represents Peter’s humility as he did not feel worthy to be crucified like Christ. The first church I ever attended, St. Peter’s Church in Kansas City, Missouri has an inverted cross carved into the stone at the entrance to the church. You will often see Catholics displaying an inverted cross with two keys, “The Keys of St. Peter”. We believe that Peter was the first pontiff of the Catholic Church. “Upon this rock I shall build my church”. God does plant within Catholic men the desire to fanatically and passionately fight to protect the flock of the one true King. He commands us to protect ALL people, especially those who do not share our faith. I was educated by Jesuit priests, an order of priests created by a former soldier (St. Ignatius Loyola). Jesuit priests are known as “God’s Marines”. This game and the lore are really cool. Deus vult. AMDG
Liked the video. Maybe work on your delivery though. I imagine you're reading from a script, and your delivery sounds like it. Still enjoyed the video though. I'm thinking about building a unite based on the real life Harlem Hellfighters.
I've specifically chosen my delivery because I'm talking about a war between heaven and hell, dudes getting their faces peeled off, monks being built into armor suits that slowly grate them to death, and people being fed the flesh and blood of some vat-grown Christ clones. lol Not really sure what way you'd like it delivered, but this is what I'm going with.
Believe in ME, and you shall be refortressed in ways unimaginable. This, from an atheist from birth and 53 years on. Haha! When a game has such strong generic religion-based concepts, the STRIFE that will occur in real-life becomes....pitiable
@@scannerbarklyBeelzebub and the Blackgrail is gonna be fire. Though I'm gonna play trench pilgrim's because there's something inspiring about a bunch of faithful dudes charging at hordes of demons.
I am compelled to say that your deadpan delivery perfectly suits the trauma implied by the setting.
Wait who made it?
This art is so old. I remember seeing this art back in High School. Nice to see its getting some lore and a game to go with it.
Yeah, a lot of the art available around the game and from Mike Franchina's Artstation has been around long before any of this stuff amalgamated into a game.
@@scannerbarklyThat’s amazing!
I used some of their art for a cult in my dnd game called the church in the glass, which was heavily inspired by eastern spiritual beliefs and meditation. I felt kinda silly when i found out that art was from a tabletop game lol
@@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062 let's be real here, plagiarism is heavily ingrained in anything relating to DnD.
@@gavinlangston603 i didnt mean it! D:
Really want to make a warband variant for the Order of the Dragon. They are mentioned in the timeline where in universe apparently Vlad the Impaler held the line when the Byzantine fell and impaled a million heretics.
So, Wallachia still stands? Cool.
In Romania he's a national hero who stood against the Turkish empire
Make the red dragon knights or dragon dragoons...
@@toi_technoAm Romanian can confirm.
Vampyre christans? interesting..
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life, long live new antioch
Suffer not the heretic , the mutant ; the daemon to live!
Praise Christ Jesus!!! I really like this world man, I hope it becomes what it os capable of becoming. This is just an awsome and original story.
@dustydesertdisciple6290 Sadly, the creators seem to have a bad case of brain rot, also known as Woke, but Im fairly certain that we can take over.
@@D990990990for Christendom!
@@D990990990if that’s true than they just need to keep it alive long enough for warhammer fans to sink their teeth into it and it’ll be carried on
Wake up honey, new Cadia just dropped.
Cadia was extremely poorly written and it's fall didn't made any sense
@@Dalekssupreme
You're horribly written and your opinions don't make sense.
@@legion4902 sick em
New Cadia already dropped? You can say the planet still cant stand
THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD
something about the almost nervous or shy way the combat medic is stanced is genuinely so dope and disquieting, the way she’s posed gives her a vibe of both a traumatized 20-something bright eyed kid that wants to help and a vibe of someone who’s seen so much shit that they’ve gone half mad, and will save your life no matter how much you’d beg them not to. in reality, the far scarier part is that it’s probably neither, and whatever is in a combat medic’s mind is something that no human could or should comprehend, operating on some impossible, alien logic despite their obvious humanity.
Just thinking of mystics in China, South America and the like being like
"The Fuq happening over there."
Well according to the lore they wrote 1/3 of the Earth is under hells control. And since we know Europe, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Ethiopia (so therefore most of subsaharan Africa), most of North Africa, and European Russia are still controlled by god, for a fact. It can be deduced that India and China are probably under Hell's control.... As for the western hemisphere, donno. I haven't heard anything about it. And considering that timeline divergence happened pre-Erikson (or Columbus if you will), I wonder if the western hemisphere was ever discovered, and if so, then when? And what implications would that have....
20:20 These worlds are so grim and insane that the strangest and most bizarre aspect to this entire spectacle is the fact that people can find a partner they like, have a relationship and eventually get united in holy matrimony.
That's honestly what breaks immersion for me in most grimdark settings. Where do all these people that get mulched at insane rates for hundreds of years even come from? It takes roughly 15 years and A LOT of resources to make one of them, you'd just run out of people in a decade or two with casualty rates like that
@@abelbabel8484 What I also dislike is evil factions having absolutely no development on normal civilian life and how people actually live and procreate within this system, it’s something I’ve thought about extensively in my own setting, because even the most evil system must allow for the barest necessities like food, water, socialisation, entertainment etc. according to what precious little we know of the Heretics, we know that they sell human flesh in markets which implies at least a basic system of trade and economics.
What do they eat? Where do they get the food? How do they maintain food supplies? Does property exist? Can an individual own property? Can an individual advance within this system and if they can, how? What do you get paid in? Can an individual find a person they love within this system? There *must* be some notion of reward in this system for the Heretics which is support as it’s implied that there is a deeper ideological reason to them being Heretics, rebellion against the ‘Tyrant-God’. Heresy implies individual initiative, otherwise they’d simply be uninteresting brainwashed slaves.
@@abelbabel8484just don’t look under the gas masks. Mind find someone younger than is comfortable
@abelbabel8484 like what? the highest I heard was millions people would still be able to reproduce under that and the already existing resources would concentrated better
@@isiahalcindor6278 na dude, look at real world societal collapses after wars, epidemics or catastrophes. You can't keep losing people at crazy rates for more than a few years before your whole thing disintegrates and decentralizes
Sir, your response every time someone starts complaining about warhammer, gw, or anything akin to that has earned you a subscriber in me.
Thanks, mate! I hope you enjoy the channel. :) I just don't really see the point in not being honest with folks that wish to complain about stuff, it just saves us all some times in the long run.
I am binge watching these videos and while being 40k fan for 25 years, this is grim af.
40k inquisition wish to be this metal..
Wait... you're telling me the observers use a pole arm to pole vault over the barbed wire and into a Heretic trench? That was a hard right from grimdark into Buster Keaton... and I love it.
Post apocalyptic evil kenevil
for the love of all that is holy, they have to make this a proper RTS game at some point
God i love the lore
Yes
I dont have confidence in the blind sniper priests.
Taking my man Paul literally when he said "For we live by faith, not by sight"
Doubt of His devouted sniper priests is punishable on pain of death.
They have the power of 360 NO SCOPE. What's not to love about them? 😂
Who needs confidence when you have faith
they have holy wall hacks
I have just recently discovered this game/ artwork and it’s right up my alley. I’m not sure if anyone here in the comments has ever encountered it before, but Wayne Barlowe’s “Hell” artworks would go hand in hand with this. He’s a well known and respected concept artist for movies and such, having provided art for the first and second Hellboy movies (among others), and the first thing I remember seeing of his back when I was a kid in the 1980s was “Barlowe’s Guide To Extraterrestrials”, which included a lot of Lovecraft’s creations. Within the last couple of decades, he created a series of amazing paintings featuring Demons, Damned Souls, Warmachines, and Architecture/ Terrain for his vision of Hell, and wrote a companion novel about the war in Hell called “God’s Demon”. The books that contain his paintings are prohibitively expensive, and I only own a copy of the novel (which is fantastic, by the way). However, you can view his art on his website, and judge it for yourself- but I’m betting that if you like this stuff, you’ll enjoy his as well. Anyway- sorry for the long comment, but I felt really lucky in finding this world, and so wanted to pass it on and share the wealth with his artwork if anyone’s interested.
Great comment. I have actually been looking a lot of his work as I am preparing to paint my Heretic warband and I want to take some inspiration from his color palettes and perhaps even some of the imagery for Kitbashing, basing, etc.
@@scannerbarkly Thanks, mate- I can’t wait to see how your warband comes out. I would love to work up some kitbashes myself out of some existing models that I’ve got but almost everything I have is from Forge World’s Horus Heresy range from the past 8 years or so. I’m sure I’d be able to find some inexpensive base models from my local games shop, though- I’ll let you know if I come up with anything decent! Thanks again for the videos, and for introducing me to the crusade.
Wayne Barlowe's hell art lives rent-free in my head, it's SO cool.
@@nakenmil Right on- I love that stuff, I just wish I could afford to buy those books. The floating sigils above the demon’s heads are such an awesome idea. I’m about to read the novel again, as it’s been about a year since the last time, and seeing this artwork rewhetted my appetite for it.
@@tunguskalumberjack9987 The floating sigil, the souls-as-building-material, the warped animals, the indigenous salamandrines, etc. Amazing worldbuilding. I've never actually read the novels, I need to get on that!
I wonder how North and South American and Asia are doing in the Trench Crusade universe?
Considering the divergence happened before the New World was found, North and South America are probably just chilling under the control of the native populations that were there originally. Assuming the rot of the open Gate of Hell hasnt spread to them.
Asia is already involved in much of this since apparently the Gate opened in Jesurelem I think? So the Middle East is outright fucked and its spreading.
Probably hyper advanced in all their steampunk glory and are just watching the shitshow in their side news in the papers, while they focus on their own wars against onis, corrupted spirits, fallen deities, amalgams of foul karma, and a host of other rakshas and asuras.
I'm not sure the Americas have been discovered by Europeans in this world (the lore does seem to specify a time when the heretics took Gibraltar and gained access to the Atlantic, though). There are some ideas of war and religion being intertwined that are found in more than a few New world cultures that could be very interesting here. I'm imagining the Sardaukar scene from Dune but with Jaguar warriors being annointed with Heretic blood. Apocalyptic plains Indians cults from later on in our history, such as the ghost dance, would be very interesting too.
As for Asia, Mongols would be very interesting for the same reasons
Colonialism wasn't a thing in TC, so there's not an awful much going on there of plot relevance.
@@richardseaton2423 I see
That Trench Cleric shoulder armor was taken straight from the Zaku from Mobile Suit Gundam.
Warhammer 40k: in the Grim darkness of the far future…there is only war.
Trench Crusade: Hold my Blood of Christ
I need the core rules, any artbook available, and a company to paint: what a mixture of WWI and Crudades.... Awesome
1. Never date children.
2. Never allow rules to govern your lives.
Meanwhile the aztecs: “yo this tamal is fire, life’s good”
There are only two things I don't like in this setting. Both naming related:
1. The Captain Captains in the Sultanate
2. The Principality of New Antioch is ruled by a Duke. Either it should be a Duchy instead of a Principality, or it's ruler should be a Prince. XD
The use of Christian mythology is brilliant. It instantly resonates with many people and saves the Creators (ahem) a ton of world-building mythos. It’s all baked-in and wonderfully baroque.
I love this. It’s like my religious trauma had a baby with the cover of a Slayer album and it was raised by WWI documentaries. I’m greatly uncomfortable but also deeply intrigued!
@@chaosincarna I wouldn't go that far, I'm a believer, and I can definitely recognize that religious trauma can be a serious thing caused by those who practice my and other faiths; it's a shame more than anything, but it's nowhere near their fault.
@@chaosincarna Well I’m a Taoist now so I’m actually quite versed in things being larger than my ego.
But here’s a tip, mate. You’re not gonna win people over to your faith with insults. You can’t bully someone into having faith. Better to be kind and try to lead by example.
@@chaosincarna ok lol
So what’s the point of even talking to me?
@@harmonlanager2670 Reassuring his own fragile ego and managing insecurities lol
@@abelbabel8484 I was about to say lol
just imagine what Australians are like in this universe
Truly, one of my favorite lore details from the alternate warband options is the fact that Ireland and Scotland are still independent, holding their original names.
Since, y'know, given the current circumstances, England hasn't subjugated them.
The city of Antioch broke before the guard did
Antioch is reminding me of Cadia from Warhammer 40k. Guess I found the faction I'd play as if this game comes to retail. Shame they destroyed Byzantium from the universe, would've liked to see them as a faction.
This universe would make for a good video game. Imagine an FPS...
Or an RTS.
@@lupisvolk2420I’m throwing money at the screen to make this happen yet nothings happening
Byzantium was destroyed, but I don't know if the entire Byzantine Empire was destroyed. The lore even mentions Varangian Guards in New Antioch.
@@Gabriel-hy8be I would love to see this Crusade on other fronts other than the Levant. If the Byzantine Empire still stands or a successor one at that I'm pretty sure the Balkans would be a warzone Serbia, Wallachia, etc I would love to see Mount Athos or the rest of Greece as a bastion Schema Monks with Greek Fire, Cataphracts, Akritai using guerilla warfare, etc
@@Gabriel-hy8be and, if I remember correctly, the bloodline of the Dukes of New Antioch are those of the Byzantine emperors
I want to make a mixed Scottish and Irish group. Galloglaigh.
Yes Good Idea
Happy to inform you of the Éire Rangers, if you haven't read or heard of them already. :)
Edit: I forgot about the Alban Assault Regiments, lmao.
I like the idea that the native Americans are just chilling ignorant of this entire thing lol
Yeah they just out there chillin (ripping each other's hearts out in sacrifice)
@qoph1988 compared to what's going on in the old world that's basically utopian, haha
I have no idea what I've stumbled into but I love it
Grimdark WWI against the forces of Hell
10:00
God Help us all, Judas Escargot is ALIVE AGAIN!
WHY DID THEY REBUILD JUDAS?!
WHOS IDEA WAS THIS?
Judas...escargot? That's a hilarious autocorrect of Iscariot.
I didn't catch that at first. 12 Paladins for 12 Disciples of Christ
Guess which one is the fallen paladin...
@@l0rf WE LOVE THE AI OVERLORDS.
HIS NAME OUGHT BE ERASED!
@@TheBuster0926 AI but it's written by the pope?
Meanwhile, both sides took one look at Australia and said “Nope!”
I'm actually not sure what will happen with Australia in this universe. Because England became so insular and focused solely on building an enormous mobile fortress for defence they never got around to colonizing the Americas, so I assume the same will apply to Aus.
The Americas are like: Huh. You smell something burning?
Australia is the Catchia of Earth. Everything wants to kill you and is very poisonous too.
@@scannerbarkly Huh? Where did you read it? Because from what I've seen youtube videos are the only sources of lore I know of. I couldn't find anything on the main page.
@@piotrx6833 That bit of lore is from the assorted lore primers and rulebooks you can get via the Discord. The British fleet gets wrecked in 1805 and Admiral Nelson gets killed in the fight. The loss of much of their Navy cripples the expansion of the British Empire, and instead they start to working on an enormous mobile fortress for defense which takes them about a century to complete.
imeprial knight, warlord titan, & battle Churches titan be like : need help?
🚬🗿☕
Trench Crusade : sure why not we fight monster we need monster to fight back 🚬🗿☕
Ngl the mechanized infantry look badass
9:06 *Bangs desk* These lads literally went to actual HELL and back?!
He saw crosses grow
Scannerbarkly is a chad and I’ll argue that all day
'...street preacher of Éire..."
As an Irish atheist I'm glad to hear we serve on the wall
☦☠✝😊
Did I just discover a new fiction universe?
Man I need to see the world out of Europe, imagine the Inca, Aztec, Japanese, Chinese, Indians and other regions fighting for their respective gods against the forces of hell.
Hope We See Them One Day
would make no sense, since God and the Devil exists all these other religions likely wouldn't be around anymore.
Aztecs will be part of the forces of hell since there gods are demons an in the game canon the existence of the God of Abraham is confirmed
I can see japoneses and maybe even Chinese converting to christianity or having a civil war between Partidaries of the old gods (Demons) and Converts
Like half of those are the forces of hell tho?
I'd definitely build a Kingdom of Alba Assault Detachment.
Same, with Irish skirmishers and berserkers. Galloglaigh.
Was Constantinople ever retaken? And did the Byzantine Empire ever recover?
No in this setting unlike warhammer 40k which has hopes of the imperium prevailing and surviving this setting gives Earth the biggest middle finger hell the Church literally started a Moon project indicating that Earth is on life support
Not a huge study of the Bible's Book of Revalation, but this is definitely some of the imagery that comes to mind.
New Antioch Stands!
Thanks for covering this dope lore. Most of the talk I’ve seen about trench crusades is dumb drama.
@@dafq9149 Sounds like dumb drama. The lore is still kickass and the art phenomenal.
It's pretty dumb isn't it? The new TC discord server is up and running and has about 2k members, its pretty cool if you want to dive into the lore.
@@dafq9149 Why are all you fucking losers dragging your politics into my comment section? Being a fucking gay kid in Idaho is not political, it's just being a person. People here are trying to have a bit of fun and enjoy some lore and you pricks are just moaning and begging for attention. It's fucking sad, bro. Now, either get with the program and talk about media you like and enjoy or imma, frankly, fuck you off the channel. You are ruining peoples fun with your snowflake bullshit.
That’s why I don’t have social media. I’ll get this book and play with friends. Think I’m going with the good old Catholics…they excel at dispensing with demons and devils. Unless one of my sons wants to play them, then I’ll go with the bad guys. That Mosquito looking armored demon looked pretty cool.
Sorry, I told you what would happen if you kept dragging this stuff into my comment section. See ya.
wonder how the sultanate would view New Antioch’s artillery, probably with a smidge of disgust at it’s primitive construction
I am eagerly, eagerly awaiting the day some highly-curated team is approved to turn this tabletop game into a PC game.
In the name of the Militant Christ the Lion, I can’t wait for the Helltide
good video, an honest critique though: something about your tone in the first 15 seconds of the video literally brain melted me and I didnt hear a single thing until I passed a willpower check or whatever that was. Again good video though.
Observers sound absolutely fucking nuts too, poor guys.
PRAISE BE NEW ANTIOCH, PRAISE BE THE DUKE, PRAISE BE GOD
It sounds like Pre-Space, beginning-of-conflict Warhammer 40k
the cadian shock troops will love this guys if they ever see them
*these
The Doom Slayer would Rip and Tear through hell
Ok memes aside it would be really cool if trench crusade got their own version of the doomslayer.
Pretty much paladins
Doom Slayer would instantly win the setting in a day.
So would Superman. Or any protagonist from any video game in the last 10 years
Doomslayer pre seraphim would be more fair.
Why do I have a feeling they never found god but some eldritch being that wants a part of this world.
Who says it can’t be both?
Where can i get models for this? This sounds so fucking awesome
There was a Kickstarter a while back for a small handful of minis that kinda kicked off this whole thing, and since then it has grown into the game that is currently developing. There will be another Kickstarter for the game itself coming at some point this year. Until then, the community is just kitbashing anything we can get our hands on to make the models work.
it'd be interesting to see other factions
like new Byzantines trying to reclaim there lost cities and lost honor as Rome
leading an orthodox faction
or maybe Even Jewish units
but I am jewish, so I have to want that
That'd be awesome/hilarious.
The Jews never left Jerusalem and they're just holding out behind the backlines of hell's foothold. Some hidden in terrorist organizations, messing with supply lines and such. Some living normal lives pretending to he heretics while secretly attending home-synagogue style meetings and donating to the terrorists.
@@Trent-m6j wouldn't call them terroists, more like rebels or militas.
i mean Islam has their own faction so it would not be amiss that there was jewish troops or factions. Im exited to get lore on what other religions did once hell broke out of the earth
@@SALAKIN_MUSHROOM_FINDER ...You're not crusading against them? LAME
'New Antioch holds no space for anything but meritocracy'
HM
*looks over at demonstrably incompetent lieutenant who, 'coincidentally', was promoted by their high ranking father*
*scratches chin*
WELL
I AM SURE HE REALLY IS THE BEST THAT WAS AVAILABLE
FOR SURE
There no way this channel would spread the propaganda of the New Antioch upper classes. No sir.
@@scannerbarkly this channel CANNOT spread the propaganda of the New Antioch upper classes, because propaganda is solely the tool of the heretic. there is no propaganda in New Antioch, unless it is uttered by heretics who will meet with due justice in time
amen
Hey, at least it isn't LaShonda from Newark
someone has to tell me, what the fack is that hole in guys chestplate, does his nipples have to breathe or something?
Armour built for, but not issued with, some expensive add on. Decoration, maybe?
It looks like it's inspired by machine gun emplacements on old tanks. Maybe there's a tiny guy with a tiny machine gun who pokes out of there every now and then for point defense
5:56 thats literally just the head of the lunagans/gans-boy U2 from ma.k
I would really like to know where New Antioch is geographically, I was very confused watching the video
Just east of the island of Cyprus, north of Tripoli!
Where the historical city of Antioch resides. New Antioch was built over the scorched bones of old Antioch.
send an alchemist over there bro they need the assist 😭😭😭
I know Byzantium fell but what of Trebazon what of Gothia there has to be some byzantine rump state
Varangian Guard mentioned....💀💀💀
Is this a Ttrpg I’m interested
Great video!
Is there a world map for this game ?
Not yet. The devs are working on it, but Mike does all the art solo and is a pretty methodical worker.
Ther Is A Fan Maed One
Nice one ❤❤❤❤love from Australia.Clay i am evangelical solider of god
They are thirst traps. nice.
I hope the world isn’t too sensitive so this can be a video game one day
Can i get one of those sisters? İ mean we need some combat medic over here
.....what the fuck happened to like the America's? Australia? We know what happened with all of them?
They where never colonized, other then that we have no idea. At this point Europe knows of the new world but seems like its relation is more like that early Age of Exploration Asia or Africa.
Damn the nether can be really scary
Who or what is Meta-Christ often mentioned in lore?
Clones of Christ.
For those curious this is from a Podcast Audio Drama called I am in Eskew. It follows the life of a Man named David who is trapped in a eldritch like city called Eskew which is nowhere and midfucky. It actively fucks with him every episode in an attempt to force him to embrace its weirdness.
The same people also made a podcast audiodrama called the Silt Versus which is just as good amd recently concluded.
what series is this it looks so cool
Pretty sure I found my faction
Bro why i cant find any lore info in Google? Id like to read some((
Catholic 40K
Who's the dude with the red helmet?
My sword is yours
Then whose sword do I have?
In Christ alone we stand Brother @tamlandipper29
Just vraks it
Artillery time
Vraks is overrated and is not as good of writing as people say it was.
New Antioch = Cadia. ; )
Antioch is cadia.
New antioch is if they just built more defenses on the leftover rocks from cadia's explosion
@@TheUSgoverment New Antioch stands!!!! ; )
I wonder whars going on in other parts of the world. Like, is the americas being invaded by hell? Are samurai fighting demons? What about chinese xia soldiers?
I hope Mexico has like this but with Virgin Mary of Guadalupe imagery
This a game?
Is this 40k or yust story.
So new Antioch owns?
Theory time!( the palidins don’t have the blood of the meta Christ ) they have the blood of a demon or fallen angel that’s why the armor burns something just doesn’t sit right with me if they truly had the blood of Jesus they’d be infinitely more powerful I’m not sure if any of you read the Bible but way back when angels saw men some wanted to mate with them they’re offspring became giants known as nephilum I think, these off spring between man and angel were evil and wicked that’s when god told Noah to build a boat and he drowned the earth. Paladins seem very similar to these creatures and I believe they are one in the same
Just like in 40K, God and Satan aim to keep up this "game" for all eternity. God could end this war in an instant. Since he is almighty. Satan, on the other hand is merely a fallen angel. So, Satan's goal is to win and overthrow the ultimate authority which is God, and God's aim is to not let Satan win. Not to defeat him...think about that.
Real question what are the muslims an others doing. Like India or is this ip to new for such wide scope
I don’t know about India or the rest of East Asia, but Muslims have banded together under the Great Sultanate of the Invincible Iron Wall of the Two Horns that Pierce the Sky (Iron Sultanate for short)
Gotta make some Na Fianna asap
There are rules for an Irish squad called the Eire Rangers. Their Cleric has an ability called "Away, Serpents", a Fianna warrior class and you can bring one Berzeker, Cú Chulainn style.
What's the end goal of this game, and where is God, and Jesus?
Llooks like its turning into mobile suit gundam
I would love to see a neopagan faction something that isn't allignned with neither god or the devil
I would love it too, but I have no idea, how they can justify in the lore that a pagans can still exist in this hyper-christian world.
@@daniel11119 perhaps something of nordic inspiration or quasy druidistic
That would be a 'instant buy' for me then ^^
Dude, imagine a Hindu empire faction coming in from the east. Elephant-headed giants, snake charmer ascetc priests, warrior monks riding tigers, four-armed blood-drinking women soldiers, etc etc etc
Bruh I just hyped myself lol
@@daniel11119 Scandinavia irl took until the 12th century to be officially christianized. If the gate to hell was opened in 1099, you can just say it crippled the conversion effort and people stuck with/returned to their older beliefs - rejecting a foreign faith that has unleashed hell on earth kinda makes sense imo.
Dark soul 11:35
Let's go
I noticed that heretics sometimes display an inverted cross. It is a common misconception that the inverted cross represents Satan. I am Catholic, when Peter was martyred, he was crucified upon an inverted cross. For Catholics, an inverted cross represents Peter’s humility as he did not feel worthy to be crucified like Christ. The first church I ever attended, St. Peter’s Church in Kansas City, Missouri has an inverted cross carved into the stone at the entrance to the church. You will often see Catholics displaying an inverted cross with two keys, “The Keys of St. Peter”. We believe that Peter was the first pontiff of the Catholic Church. “Upon this rock I shall build my church”. God does plant within Catholic men the desire to fanatically and passionately fight to protect the flock of the one true King. He commands us to protect ALL people, especially those who do not share our faith. I was educated by Jesuit priests, an order of priests created by a former soldier (St. Ignatius Loyola). Jesuit priests are known as “God’s Marines”. This game and the lore are really cool. Deus vult.
AMDG
Which is cool, but it is highly likely that Heretics wear it because of Eugene Vintras.
Yeah but it looks cool as hell
Liked the video. Maybe work on your delivery though. I imagine you're reading from a script, and your delivery sounds like it. Still enjoyed the video though. I'm thinking about building a unite based on the real life Harlem Hellfighters.
I've specifically chosen my delivery because I'm talking about a war between heaven and hell, dudes getting their faces peeled off, monks being built into armor suits that slowly grate them to death, and people being fed the flesh and blood of some vat-grown Christ clones. lol Not really sure what way you'd like it delivered, but this is what I'm going with.
@@scannerbarkly No problem. Still enjoying your videos.
@@scannerbarkly wants you to sound like mrcreepypasta 🤣
Believe in ME, and you shall be refortressed in ways unimaginable. This, from an atheist from birth and 53 years on. Haha!
When a game has such strong generic religion-based concepts, the STRIFE that will occur in real-life becomes....pitiable
What game / world does this take place in like 40k or what
It's a game called Trench Crusade. A tabletop miniature skirmish game.
death korps of krieg if vraks was krieg
Kriegers are overrated.
New antioch is based
Seems like it'll be a good franchise to move too if Warhammer fails. But needs vikings that are equally aggressive to everything
This... this is just Trenchfoot (the doom TC). Oh well...
first somehow. Antioch shall burn by the hand of Mammon
Bro, I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda with you on this one. lol Working on my Heretics warband right now.
@@scannerbarklyBeelzebub and the Blackgrail is gonna be fire. Though I'm gonna play trench pilgrim's because there's something inspiring about a bunch of faithful dudes charging at hordes of demons.
@@Saruman_Ring-Makerhell yeah brother