@@thatguy4076 the Heritor wasn't directly part of the dark mechanicum tho, apparently he's a self didact, just naturally so talented at engineering (and sorcery) that he picked the mechanicum's interest
@@DrKarmo this is the closest thing to dark mechanicum rep since the Horus heresy and it technically doesn’t even count lol At least the woe machines were pretty dope
It always felt weird to me that their wasn't at least a full convent of Battle Sisters involved in this campaign. Your think the imperial guard would have to fight an entire campaign against the Adepta Sororitas just to keep them away from Hagia. My own real criticism of Dan Abnett is that he's not the sort of author to let "Does this really make sense?" get in the way of the story he wants to tell.
He used to be, his work just isn't at the calibre it was 10-15 years ago (or at the least Black Libary had editor's who asked that question and they've long since been removed or given up)
except Hagia was a shrine world to the Saint Sabbat.. not to the Emperor. granted thats a pretty thin hair to split, but it is still there. might have been they never got around to establishing an order there as the Infadi priesthood, as noted in this very story, are majority men, and rarely do women achieve higher in the organization. this is very much true of the Marcabian Jannissaries as well. they are a shrine world that has no SoB presence on it. the irony that Sabbat was a woman, yet it is a male dominated faith on Hagia. i can correctly and deservedly compare them to population of India for this mentality. also in support of your question, there was a form of women priests that the Tanith encounters on the road in another story, prior to being assaulted by Infadi insurrgents. it is not clear if they are Sisters, but they are in some ways similar, though its also unclear if they really existed, or were a memory as they vanished shortly afterwards
@@shrubby-ov4yw I think your grasping for an inuniverse reason when there is a far simpler out of universe one, Dan didn't have a firm grasp on the Adepta Sororitas and their history (evidenced by the fact he had them participating in a campaign about a thousand years before they existed, something he's been tyring to reconcile ever since) and was just trying to write a joan of arc parallel and didn't really think about the wider structure much. You just have to see anything Dan writes involving ship combat to realise he has some really big knowledge gaps for a guy who has been writing 40k for over 2 decades.
@@maddlarkin valid but it is still a valid in universe reason. i cant argue that DA certainly fucked up not at least addressing the issue. but as i pointed out, its not that unusual that there wasn't a SoB presence there.
@@shrubby-ov4yw to an extent, though lorewise there should probably of been at least a Honour Guard of around squad size which isnt to uncommon on a holy world even if it doesn't warrent a full convent given the Saint was tied to the Order of our Marytered Lady (if I remember correctly) which as one of the major Orders Militant isn't likely to care what the local preists have to say on the matter (power armour and bolters settling most theological arguments). But again, I think this is a Dan issue as that connection wouldn't be established for another book or two
@@KondorDCS Soric was one of my favorite characters when he was around. His whole story is classic 40k tragedy. What makes it work too is everyone's actions make complete sense. I completley understand why Hark did what he did, and it led to an arc for Hark as well
Humiez iz weird tho. Pink and soft and alwayz runnin' dey gobz, but den you and da boyz show up ta krump 'em and they turn proppa 'ard wif lotz and lotz of dakka, and you got a proppa scrap. Humiez is weirder dan weirdboyz.
Cadian: (sees the Blood Pact fighting through his binoculars) They're using tactics! CHAOS IS USING TACTICS?! Squat: (is smoking a cigar, looking confused) Are they allowed to do that? Cadian: No! Krieger: (scratches his head when the Blood Pact starts making trenches)
@@tenebrisnarud9738 ahh but you see, Macaroth counted on those regiments defying the odds because it's what they always did, lol. Claims he saw everything coming like he is some strategic psyker, lol. If it wasn't for Gaunt, a couple of generals and the tanith having like I swear 3 or 4 soldiers that are blessed by big E (also the reincarnation of Saint Sabbat) the crusade would be floundering right now
@@NateMcBrady more rare than normal. Tanith and the 597th are canon examples yes. But its rare that they exist at all. Even mixed Cadian regiments are a rarity considering their extreme levels of toughness are considered equal across any gap
The longer this series goes on, the more I become interested in the grand campaign and the more I find Gaunt and his boys an irritating distraction. Maybe it's watching grand visionaries shape the fate of a sector through their great leadership, hundreds of millions of people struggle and die while Gaunt gets endlessly bailed out because he's special and is entirely convinced of such. He somehow manages to both be the protagonist of his novels and also have main character syndrome at the same time. It's a feat, but somehow he manages it.
@@MightyGachiman Biased, perhaps, but what he's saying lines up with my memories of the books (up through Traitor General). @RoboChocobo That's pretty messed up. The treat for finishing a book should be the book, not finding out what happened that I don't get to read about.
Dang bro missed one of my favorite details; the fact that the infardi would cover themselves and their equipment in literal r34 of the sait as the ultimate act of blasphemy.
Hearing that Guant was not just a religious man but a big fan of saint Sabbat. Tells me that he was a part of the religious cult that enabled the first war master to get the crusade going in the first place. Will hiding behind the scenes. Guant was probably just lower in the ranks of this cult . But clearly had favor with some Warp entity. Maybe the Emperor. Maybe a living saint that before he or she became a living saint. Was a big worshipper of Sabbat.
@@katathoombs he speaks the no no words and calls youtube and GW out on their bullshit regularly. They hate that fact. Also because he dared refuse the Warhammer+ money
@@katathoombs probably. Not hard to generate mass bots to attach to anyone's account and use it as "evidence" to mass report and try to shut him down. They've been doing that since the GW horseshit. Also just as likely, its one of his promoters using them to counter the algorithm suppression.
9:00 Still a real shame that stock doesn't appear to be made of nalwood. But that is a very small nitpick on this glorious serie. The Emperor protects.
@@shmee123ful he's got like 4 low level psykers around him at most times. Also ya he kind of is, later in the books he might not just be blessed by the emperor but a tool for other plans. Lol
Arch, you goofed the floof, you Canuck. Of the pilgrimage, two members did not heard the call of 𝘚𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘳. One was the driver of the Chimera, who Ban Daur lied to about stealing gold from the Shrine. The other was Vamberfeld. He was an outcast, or so he felt, to the Tanith. He thought the others were making fun of him. Bragg tried and tried to make Vams feel like one of them. But Vams always felt an outcast. And Gaunt and the others knew to activate the thing, and it would kill the activator. Vams was just in the right spot to pick up the dropped key and use it.
@@codyopperman5930 what's more, the consistency of him being purposefully obtuse or wrong is astonishing. He has huge biases and is injecting his headcanon a lot into lore videos
@@MightyGachiman ya. I'm not gonna attribute motive or reason but I see a lot of missed details or poorly explained points that changes context of the orginal work. I think the only reason I realize it here is because I know the series fairly well
If I did not know better, and I do infact not know better, I'd just about take Colonel Commisar Ibram Gaunt to be a Warp-shennanigans Lightning Rod... the Inquisition not doing it's job letting him run around.
@@nathanwood7525 in my opinion yes. I know I'm not arch. The gaunts ghosts series is the 2nd bit of 40k I ever got into, and had absolutely no idea what it was when I picked up my first book. I tell people that reading Ghosts (especially the first couple of books) is like band of brothers meets star trek (not really a treky btw). Some of the best war and character writing I've seen. Highly recommend picking up the first omnibus First and Only and then pickup the 2nd omnibus the Saint. Never binge read books before I found The Ghosts series but each book just kept me going further and further in. Are they all perfect or 10/10s no, but there are very few series that I think match Gaunts Ghosts
Anyone got the order of this series' episodes? Was going to double back to the beginning and watch it through up until now, but the playlist is all jumbled up.
Good luck finding anyones playlists that are not jumbled up. Some of the perople I follow number every vid. Yet every playlist is still messed up. Its YT messing things up, as per usual.
This is the reason I don't like the vast majority of Black Library's character development and the problems with much of 40K's randomly found super devices like this. Take Gaunt; not as a character, but how his entire story is "As he was about to die/be overrrun/ be captured, suddenly OUT OF NOWHERE...". He's as bad, if not worse, than John Grammaticus. I mean, how do you explain a literal deus-ex machina that nobody happened to know existed and shouldn't exist, that being -only- an M35 founded shrine complex using current age Imperial tech that for some reason included an almost Dark Age of technology-tier weapon that has the power to selectively kill tens of thousands of the enemy, and not only that, wipe out an entire fleet of warships far from the planet itself. Where did that tech come from? This is a somewhat modern facility by Imperial standards, not a dark age of technology-tier hive city reclaimated via the crusades. It'd be like if during the 13th Black Crusade, just after the Cicatrix Maledictum opened, during a battle on an M38 founded fortress world they'd suddenly find a weapon vault they forgot about, open it up, and it'd be riddled with friendly Mechanivores that would only attack the arch enemy, self-propel themselves into the warp, and proceed to delete 99% of the forces of Chaos. It just makes no sense why a weapon of this extreme power would just be sitting around on a somewhat newly founded world, that wasn't xeno tech, and didn't immidiately have the entire crusade's mission now be to grab that device and safely bring it to to Sol or somewhere ridiculously fortified considering this thing could be mounted on an Ark Mechanicus vessel and now be used to purge the galaxy of all Chaos and Orks. Let alone if they could somehow manage to replicate this thing, you just plant one on every single Imperium world and no longer have to worry about Ork or Chaos incursions every again.
@@ashleygarratt4961 he is closer to an anti-hero than a hero i agree. He more often gets caught in his own trap than establishing his dominance with his own. As Arch says, as a military commander he is second to none. As a political and commissariat character he is utterly horrendous. But I think that was the overall point. GG has been regularly described as "Sharpe in 40k space" and it is very clearly laid out as such. Sharpe was a fierce fighter, an expert rifleman and a brutal, cunning soldier. But he was a horrible gentleman, and a poor officer as was considered the "proper" of the time (which considering who he encountered and dealt with, would be considered more to the good than bad) so i treat Gaunt in the same vein. He isnt meant to be the perfect commissar or the perfect 40k hero. He is the best a horrible frightening universe has to offer in the situation he is in.
@@shrubby-ov4yw I see your point as an anti-hero but I think he is inferior copy of sharpe and the sharpe character works in the 1800 but in 40k Sharpe would be declared a insubordinate rogue and shot if he did what he does in 40k(in my opinion) also Bernard Cornwall is a better writer in my opinion (than Dan Abnett) Bernard Cornwall did his research into the Napoleonic war (the best available information at the time at least) and he made sharpe feel like someone who could have existed in the Napoleonic war. Dan Abnett just put a sharpe character in 40k with little adaptation to the seting or change the character to fit in the seting either(In my opinion)
@@ondrejsedlar7003 despises for sure, and he isnt very good at it. But yes you are correct he does come into his own when it matters the most. I believe they call that "character growth"
Between the Tanith 1st and the Valhallan 597th. It’s clear that mixed gender regiments are optimal. You don’t have to like it, but that is what peak performance looks like.
@@NovaXXX7 peak would be a reach. Only reason the 597th remained a virtually immortal regiment considering its suffering alongside Cain was a bureaucratic quirk of the Administratum and the Militarum. They were still considered two separate units, (the 296th and 301st respectively) so any and all reinforcements were supplied at twice the standard rate of other guard regiments. Also its SOP's were, like the Tanith, unorthodox by the quirk of being Valhallans. They did not also fight in large regiment formation but could engage as small independent cohorts which, while not uncommon in the IG, is not standard practice. They were good because they were different, dont blow smoke up their ass coz muh diversity
597th and Tanith 1st are just 2 regiments there are plenty of excellent single gender regiments which have notable reputations, 8th Cadian (was standard male regiment at time of 13th Black Crusade, most likely changed since) Necromundan 8th 'Spiders', Vitrian Dragoons, Royal Volpone 50th (like em or not they are Guard elite) Amazonia regiments, a famed all Female formation. Peak performance in the Guard has a lot more to do with doctrine, training, equipment, and leadership than it does with the genitalia of the troops
Imperial authorities act like evil men. Entirely concerned about results and appearances. In an ironic way, Chaos is more good than evil as it is primarily concerned about consistency. That is, Chaos Gods prefer consistency as their favorite trait amongst its followers due to themselves lacking and desiring such things. It is very ironic that Imperium is one secretly evil despite Chaos being one openly evil, but deep down it being more good than the force which claims moral authority over them.
Yes deep down the imperium are the bad guys because most nobles are dicks, much worse than the people with gods of plots, plague, murder, and grape (hate the modern internet btw).
I would absolutely not describe the chaos gods as valuing consistancy in anything but the vauguest meaning of the word. They are, at best, consistantly inconsistant 🤪
@@markcoroneos7811 It is written in Black Legion novel. You can take a look at their champions. The most blessed ones are ones who keep on delivering results. Typhus for example is a consistent thorn who always does some damage. Ahriman is also directly protected by Tzeentch who told Magnus not to kill him. Or Lucius who is given immortality. Kharn was also resurrected. Even in these series you will find Chaos leadership being consistent in what they are capable off. Heritor Asphodel even without his resources managed to climb right back to the top in a new world, from scratch develop his Woe Machines and cause severe issues to Imperium.
Im not gonna lie, even though he's dead, Heritor Asphodel was one of the coolest chaos characters ever, failbaddon should've learned more from him
dark mechanicum representation is extremely rare despite how important they are in the lore and how cool their twisted contraptions would be
@@thatguy4076 the Heritor wasn't directly part of the dark mechanicum tho, apparently he's a self didact, just naturally so talented at engineering (and sorcery) that he picked the mechanicum's interest
@@DrKarmo this is the closest thing to dark mechanicum rep since the Horus heresy and it technically doesn’t even count lol
At least the woe machines were pretty dope
@@thatguy4076 dark mechanicum in genefather
What? You're telling me that the man whose overall strategy boils down to "Just Fuckin' Send It" may have miscalculated?
Hey it worked for me in Hearts of Iron
Macaroth, when asked how far troops should be sent: Yes.
It always felt weird to me that their wasn't at least a full convent of Battle Sisters involved in this campaign. Your think the imperial guard would have to fight an entire campaign against the Adepta Sororitas just to keep them away from Hagia.
My own real criticism of Dan Abnett is that he's not the sort of author to let "Does this really make sense?" get in the way of the story he wants to tell.
He used to be, his work just isn't at the calibre it was 10-15 years ago (or at the least Black Libary had editor's who asked that question and they've long since been removed or given up)
except Hagia was a shrine world to the Saint Sabbat.. not to the Emperor. granted thats a pretty thin hair to split, but it is still there. might have been they never got around to establishing an order there as the Infadi priesthood, as noted in this very story, are majority men, and rarely do women achieve higher in the organization. this is very much true of the Marcabian Jannissaries as well. they are a shrine world that has no SoB presence on it. the irony that Sabbat was a woman, yet it is a male dominated faith on Hagia. i can correctly and deservedly compare them to population of India for this mentality. also in support of your question, there was a form of women priests that the Tanith encounters on the road in another story, prior to being assaulted by Infadi insurrgents. it is not clear if they are Sisters, but they are in some ways similar, though its also unclear if they really existed, or were a memory as they vanished shortly afterwards
@@shrubby-ov4yw I think your grasping for an inuniverse reason when there is a far simpler out of universe one, Dan didn't have a firm grasp on the Adepta Sororitas and their history (evidenced by the fact he had them participating in a campaign about a thousand years before they existed, something he's been tyring to reconcile ever since) and was just trying to write a joan of arc parallel and didn't really think about the wider structure much.
You just have to see anything Dan writes involving ship combat to realise he has some really big knowledge gaps for a guy who has been writing 40k for over 2 decades.
@@maddlarkin valid but it is still a valid in universe reason. i cant argue that DA certainly fucked up not at least addressing the issue. but as i pointed out, its not that unusual that there wasn't a SoB presence there.
@@shrubby-ov4yw to an extent, though lorewise there should probably of been at least a Honour Guard of around squad size which isnt to uncommon on a holy world even if it doesn't warrent a full convent given the Saint was tied to the Order of our Marytered Lady (if I remember correctly) which as one of the major Orders Militant isn't likely to care what the local preists have to say on the matter (power armour and bolters settling most theological arguments). But again, I think this is a Dan issue as that connection wouldn't be established for another book or two
Drinking game: take a shot every time Arch uses Gaunt's full name and title.
Sweet Throne Of Terra, my poor liver!
@@jankostrhun8725an Ibrahim in stead of Ibram must be worth at least two drinks
No thank you, I choose life.
No more! PLEASE! No more! Even the Space Wolves think this is too much!
Death by alcohol…
Been waiting, for the " Blood pact " for quite sometime.
This is going to get more interesting and more, more bloody from this point onwards.
@@tyrelltedtorreon2511 unfortunately true. And certainly not much better for either the Crusade or the Tanith.
I loved Hark's character. Tough but fair. Not as friendly as Gaunt, but still much better than most commissars.
Agreed. Hark is extremely well written
Hark is awesome. He becomes even better as the books go on. Hark and Soric was an amazing sub plot
@@TheIceman101418 Poor Soric, though....even if I understand what Hark had to do.
@@KondorDCS Soric was one of my favorite characters when he was around. His whole story is classic 40k tragedy.
What makes it work too is everyone's actions make complete sense. I completley understand why Hark did what he did, and it led to an arc for Hark as well
successfully regaining your honor after a reviously disastrous command failure that's soldiering
At this point you'd think Macaroth would have learnt to keep his gob shut
That's not a word
You’d think he would but…
Humiez iz weird tho. Pink and soft and alwayz runnin' dey gobz, but den you and da boyz show up ta krump 'em and they turn proppa 'ard wif lotz and lotz of dakka, and you got a proppa scrap.
Humiez is weirder dan weirdboyz.
@@Nurriek i understood every word. Except that hat *chainsword through the skull*
Macaroth as stated before is and was a Prideful Man..
14:16 I like Father Zweil's name for the Infardi cultists; "Ershul" because it can literally Mean *Loathsome DUNGEATERS!*
Now the Crusade would be faced with some of the hardest, toughest and bloodiest battles yet to come.
Cadian: (sees the Blood Pact fighting through his binoculars) They're using tactics! CHAOS IS USING TACTICS?!
Squat: (is smoking a cigar, looking confused) Are they allowed to do that?
Cadian: No!
Krieger: (scratches his head when the Blood Pact starts making trenches)
Overextending is the only tactic Macaroth knows, it's only thanks to certain regiments succeeding that the crusade managed to get as far as it has
@@tenebrisnarud9738 ahh but you see, Macaroth counted on those regiments defying the odds because it's what they always did, lol. Claims he saw everything coming like he is some strategic psyker, lol. If it wasn't for Gaunt, a couple of generals and the tanith having like I swear 3 or 4 soldiers that are blessed by big E (also the reincarnation of Saint Sabbat) the crusade would be floundering right now
The whole women in the guardsmen regiment mess in this campaign made me think Slaneesh is doing a little bit of trolling with them.
In 40k mixed regiments are normal
@@NateMcBrady more rare than normal. Tanith and the 597th are canon examples yes. But its rare that they exist at all. Even mixed Cadian regiments are a rarity considering their extreme levels of toughness are considered equal across any gap
@@NateMcBradyWomen are a valuable resource the Imperium doesn't enjoy throwing into a meat grinder.
@@victorrosenheart8036 eh, if it can hold a gun and stand on two legs like a normal human, they'll throw'em into the meatgrinder lmao
@@MrAdamske Nope, why waste a factory that produces more soldiers?
The old saying "Pride before the fall" comes to mind...
The longer this series goes on, the more I become interested in the grand campaign and the more I find Gaunt and his boys an irritating distraction. Maybe it's watching grand visionaries shape the fate of a sector through their great leadership, hundreds of millions of people struggle and die while Gaunt gets endlessly bailed out because he's special and is entirely convinced of such. He somehow manages to both be the protagonist of his novels and also have main character syndrome at the same time. It's a feat, but somehow he manages it.
The treat for finishing one book is to see how the campaign advanced by the start of the next one.
Arch is extremely biased here btw, the ghosts stories are really well written.
@@MightyGachiman Biased, perhaps, but what he's saying lines up with my memories of the books (up through Traitor General).
@RoboChocobo That's pretty messed up. The treat for finishing a book should be the book, not finding out what happened that I don't get to read about.
Having a really bad day ptsd wise. Thank you for posting this today.
22:12 is my favorite art for Magic The Gathering's terramorphic expanse. The Universe Beyond stuff had some cool lands in it.
Dang bro missed one of my favorite details; the fact that the infardi would cover themselves and their equipment in literal r34 of the sait as the ultimate act of blasphemy.
Hearing that Guant was not just a religious man but a big fan of saint Sabbat. Tells me that he was a part of the religious cult that enabled the first war master to get the crusade going in the first place. Will hiding behind the scenes. Guant was probably just lower in the ranks of this cult . But clearly had favor with some Warp entity. Maybe the Emperor. Maybe a living saint that before he or she became a living saint. Was a big worshipper of Sabbat.
With that constelation name I was expecting the Felinid homeworld to be a part of the story...
Furries are heretics! LOL
At least these Chaos boys got a leader who wasn't Abaddon.
one that can keep his arms on.
Arch has become quite popular,
I came across five bots in this comment section already.
@@katathoombs he speaks the no no words and calls youtube and GW out on their bullshit regularly. They hate that fact. Also because he dared refuse the Warhammer+ money
@@shrubby-ov4yw he does, and he does.
I wonder if they have anything to do with the bots, though.
@@katathoombs probably. Not hard to generate mass bots to attach to anyone's account and use it as "evidence" to mass report and try to shut him down. They've been doing that since the GW horseshit. Also just as likely, its one of his promoters using them to counter the algorithm suppression.
@@shrubby-ov4yw interesting!
@@katathoombs always two sides to everything. Until you can prove it beyond doubt its only theory
the imperiums plot armor remains impervious to everyones eternal surprise.
40:09 So is this where the inspiration for the giant Anti-Xenos Psy Pulse weapon from Space Marine 1 is from?
*Nine* sacred wounds, you say?
Some random obelisk, eh?
Holy cow! Secret midnight drop and I got here early?!?!
Praise the God Emperor!
The Enperor prote... ähhh provides^^
9:00 Still a real shame that stock doesn't appear to be made of nalwood.
But that is a very small nitpick on this glorious serie.
The Emperor protects.
the emperor must really gaunt to keep giveing him these Ws
@@shmee123ful he's got like 4 low level psykers around him at most times. Also ya he kind of is, later in the books he might not just be blessed by the emperor but a tool for other plans. Lol
Arch, you goofed the floof, you Canuck. Of the pilgrimage, two members did not heard the call of 𝘚𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘳. One was the driver of the Chimera, who Ban Daur lied to about stealing gold from the Shrine. The other was Vamberfeld. He was an outcast, or so he felt, to the Tanith. He thought the others were making fun of him. Bragg tried and tried to make Vams feel like one of them. But Vams always felt an outcast. And Gaunt and the others knew to activate the thing, and it would kill the activator. Vams was just in the right spot to pick up the dropped key and use it.
Arch is Norwegian not Canadian.
@@wintersking4290 he's also wrong, and therefore
@@codyopperman5930 what's more, the consistency of him being purposefully obtuse or wrong is astonishing. He has huge biases and is injecting his headcanon a lot into lore videos
@@MightyGachiman ya. I'm not gonna attribute motive or reason but I see a lot of missed details or poorly explained points that changes context of the orginal work. I think the only reason I realize it here is because I know the series fairly well
Love the lore series, but could you make the playlist start at the first video? I like rewatching them
As long as Arch doesnt order his PL, use mine instead, i´ve made one for rehearing them before going to bed
I just realized thexplaylist for this series is backwards
save them to your personal playlist in the correct order. it ignores the release dates somewhat, as it goes by which video added first
Anyone else see the halo reach wallpaper when he mentioned the sirenhold
where can I get the artwork of the blood pact soldiers at 28:15 please
If I did not know better, and I do infact not know better, I'd just about take Colonel Commisar Ibram Gaunt to be a Warp-shennanigans Lightning Rod... the Inquisition not doing it's job letting him run around.
Thank you for your work man, long may the blonde one utter the fluff
Mmm, The Green Man festival was getting a bit lively at 25:42...
There's one Skaven clan very similar functionally to the Blood pact... am i right???
Can you do a video about cloning and souls?
Hey arch, if you read this please answer.
I love 40K lore but hate GW is this book serie worth buying?
@@nathanwood7525 in my opinion yes. I know I'm not arch. The gaunts ghosts series is the 2nd bit of 40k I ever got into, and had absolutely no idea what it was when I picked up my first book.
I tell people that reading Ghosts (especially the first couple of books) is like band of brothers meets star trek (not really a treky btw). Some of the best war and character writing I've seen. Highly recommend picking up the first omnibus First and Only and then pickup the 2nd omnibus the Saint. Never binge read books before I found The Ghosts series but each book just kept me going further and further in. Are they all perfect or 10/10s no, but there are very few series that I think match Gaunts Ghosts
@@TheIceman101418 I very much enjoy the first book. thank you!
Another great lore video :D
Why oh why can’t we get cavil- gaunt? Great stuff
"Saint Sa-butt"
Anyone got the order of this series' episodes? Was going to double back to the beginning and watch it through up until now, but the playlist is all jumbled up.
Good luck finding anyones playlists that are not jumbled up. Some of the perople I follow number every vid. Yet every playlist is still messed up. Its YT messing things up, as per usual.
Oyeahhhhhhhh 9:51
Is Urlock Gaur dead?
Title should be Macaroth Overextends………again
Well Better Late than Never!
I loooove your pixel art
divine intervention
This is one time when deus ex machina is excusable.
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seven hells
This is the reason I don't like the vast majority of Black Library's character development and the problems with much of 40K's randomly found super devices like this. Take Gaunt; not as a character, but how his entire story is "As he was about to die/be overrrun/ be captured, suddenly OUT OF NOWHERE...". He's as bad, if not worse, than John Grammaticus.
I mean, how do you explain a literal deus-ex machina that nobody happened to know existed and shouldn't exist, that being -only- an M35 founded shrine complex using current age Imperial tech that for some reason included an almost Dark Age of technology-tier weapon that has the power to selectively kill tens of thousands of the enemy, and not only that, wipe out an entire fleet of warships far from the planet itself.
Where did that tech come from? This is a somewhat modern facility by Imperial standards, not a dark age of technology-tier hive city reclaimated via the crusades. It'd be like if during the 13th Black Crusade, just after the Cicatrix Maledictum opened, during a battle on an M38 founded fortress world they'd suddenly find a weapon vault they forgot about, open it up, and it'd be riddled with friendly Mechanivores that would only attack the arch enemy, self-propel themselves into the warp, and proceed to delete 99% of the forces of Chaos.
It just makes no sense why a weapon of this extreme power would just be sitting around on a somewhat newly founded world, that wasn't xeno tech, and didn't immidiately have the entire crusade's mission now be to grab that device and safely bring it to to Sol or somewhere ridiculously fortified considering this thing could be mounted on an Ark Mechanicus vessel and now be used to purge the galaxy of all Chaos and Orks. Let alone if they could somehow manage to replicate this thing, you just plant one on every single Imperium world and no longer have to worry about Ork or Chaos incursions every again.
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Is it just me but i don't like gaunt.as a character.
@@ashleygarratt4961 he is closer to an anti-hero than a hero i agree. He more often gets caught in his own trap than establishing his dominance with his own. As Arch says, as a military commander he is second to none. As a political and commissariat character he is utterly horrendous. But I think that was the overall point. GG has been regularly described as "Sharpe in 40k space" and it is very clearly laid out as such. Sharpe was a fierce fighter, an expert rifleman and a brutal, cunning soldier. But he was a horrible gentleman, and a poor officer as was considered the "proper" of the time (which considering who he encountered and dealt with, would be considered more to the good than bad) so i treat Gaunt in the same vein. He isnt meant to be the perfect commissar or the perfect 40k hero. He is the best a horrible frightening universe has to offer in the situation he is in.
@@shrubby-ov4yw I see your point as an anti-hero but I think he is inferior copy of sharpe and the sharpe character works in the 1800 but in 40k Sharpe would be declared a insubordinate rogue and shot if he did what he does in 40k(in my opinion) also Bernard Cornwall is a better writer in my opinion (than Dan Abnett) Bernard Cornwall did his research into the Napoleonic war (the best available information at the time at least) and he made sharpe feel like someone who could have existed in the Napoleonic war. Dan Abnett just put a sharpe character in 40k with little adaptation to the seting or change the character to fit in the seting either(In my opinion)
@@ashleygarratt4961 hey cant argue that tbh. But the comparison is there
@@shrubby-ov4ywThats because he despises politicking, but isnt beyond engaging in some if needed later in the series.
@@ondrejsedlar7003 despises for sure, and he isnt very good at it. But yes you are correct he does come into his own when it matters the most. I believe they call that "character growth"
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Between the Tanith 1st and the Valhallan 597th. It’s clear that mixed gender regiments are optimal. You don’t have to like it, but that is what peak performance looks like.
@@NovaXXX7 peak would be a reach. Only reason the 597th remained a virtually immortal regiment considering its suffering alongside Cain was a bureaucratic quirk of the Administratum and the Militarum. They were still considered two separate units, (the 296th and 301st respectively) so any and all reinforcements were supplied at twice the standard rate of other guard regiments. Also its SOP's were, like the Tanith, unorthodox by the quirk of being Valhallans. They did not also fight in large regiment formation but could engage as small independent cohorts which, while not uncommon in the IG, is not standard practice. They were good because they were different, dont blow smoke up their ass coz muh diversity
Any regiment, when led by a Hero of the Imperium, is good even when it should not be.
597th and Tanith 1st are just 2 regiments there are plenty of excellent single gender regiments which have notable reputations, 8th Cadian (was standard male regiment at time of 13th Black Crusade, most likely changed since) Necromundan 8th 'Spiders', Vitrian Dragoons, Royal Volpone 50th (like em or not they are Guard elite) Amazonia regiments, a famed all Female formation.
Peak performance in the Guard has a lot more to do with doctrine, training, equipment, and leadership than it does with the genitalia of the troops
@@maddlarkin well said, Larks
According to actual science, mixed gender regiments are the least combat effective by far.
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who decided to change the artwork of guant to be asian
Ewwwwww girls icky!!
Imperial authorities act like evil men. Entirely concerned about results and appearances. In an ironic way, Chaos is more good than evil as it is primarily concerned about consistency. That is, Chaos Gods prefer consistency as their favorite trait amongst its followers due to themselves lacking and desiring such things. It is very ironic that Imperium is one secretly evil despite Chaos being one openly evil, but deep down it being more good than the force which claims moral authority over them.
Found the simp.
@@elysiankentarchy1531 You seem to be lost. It is usually "Inquisitor, right here". People don't communicate here like they do on other social media.
Yes deep down the imperium are the bad guys because most nobles are dicks, much worse than the people with gods of plots, plague, murder, and grape (hate the modern internet btw).
I would absolutely not describe the chaos gods as valuing consistancy in anything but the vauguest meaning of the word. They are, at best, consistantly inconsistant 🤪
@@markcoroneos7811 It is written in Black Legion novel. You can take a look at their champions. The most blessed ones are ones who keep on delivering results. Typhus for example is a consistent thorn who always does some damage. Ahriman is also directly protected by Tzeentch who told Magnus not to kill him. Or Lucius who is given immortality. Kharn was also resurrected. Even in these series you will find Chaos leadership being consistent in what they are capable off. Heritor Asphodel even without his resources managed to climb right back to the top in a new world, from scratch develop his Woe Machines and cause severe issues to Imperium.