The Sabbat Worlds Crusade! The Battle For Balhaut And The Death Of The Archon And The Warmaster

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
  • Balhaut was the center of chaos operations in the sabbat worlds and the beating heart of the Archons empire! But more so then that it was a key step on the saints path to conquer these planets in the Emperors name millennia ago! And Warmaster Slaydo intended to follow in those footsteps! But can he manage it? The Imperial Navy would need to execute a complex strategy and the Imperial Guard would then have to drop into the teeth of massive Chaos forces. Casualties would be devastating. But the rewards might be greater still.
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Комментарии • 155

  • @SwordEncarmine
    @SwordEncarmine Месяц назад +101

    SLAYDO:
    The beati was a warrior. She exemplifies the Imperial creed, and the human spirit better than any figure in the annals. As a boy, she inspired me. I take this crusade as a personal matter, a duty greater than any I have yet undertaken for the Golden Throne. To repay her inspiration, to walk in her path and make free again the worlds she brought from darkness. I feel as if I am... a pilgrim, Ibram.
    - about Saint Sabbat, on the eve of the liberation of Formal Prime

  • @davidhaaijema4521
    @davidhaaijema4521 Месяц назад +172

    Damn Slaydo actually went "I refuse to send others into battle to die in my name while I sit here and do nothing".

    • @Gothraga
      @Gothraga Месяц назад +2

      Imperial incompetence at its finest❤

    • @robertnelson9599
      @robertnelson9599 Месяц назад

      How so?

    • @desperado3236
      @desperado3236 Месяц назад +11

      Given that he killed the archon, I wouldn't exactly call it incompetence. Just, perhaps not the best trade.

    • @1998topornik
      @1998topornik Месяц назад +6

      He was old but not without a spine.

  • @paulellington1505
    @paulellington1505 Месяц назад +84

    I like how this battle plays out. The limited yet successful deployments of the Astartes makes them feel special and gives them a kinda secret weapon status in wars like this.

    • @CantusTropus
      @CantusTropus 12 дней назад

      It also seems far more plausible than the stories where they get 10,000:1 kill ratios and conquer entire planets by themselves.

  • @AnotherHistorianWargamer
    @AnotherHistorianWargamer Месяц назад +55

    One of the things i really like about this Crusade and lore is that the regular Imperial Citizens mostly stay loyal and the majority of the fighting is done by established Chaos units. On Balhaut we know that at least some civilians fought with bolt action rifles against Chaos.
    No spoilers but Gaunt actually visits his own memorial chapel and geta corrected by the tour guide that actually he is dead.

    • @schaddenkorp6977
      @schaddenkorp6977 Месяц назад +5

      I loved that novel, one of the best in the series imo,

    • @Demicleas
      @Demicleas Месяц назад +6

      Yeah probably helps that many chaos controlled worlds didn't outright ban the worship of the emperor like most chaos forces would.

    • @TactWendigo
      @TactWendigo Месяц назад

      ​@@schaddenkorp6977I think that's the last audiobook before the switch to the shit tier narrator. It's awesome.

    • @schaddenkorp6977
      @schaddenkorp6977 Месяц назад

      ​@@TactWendigoInterestingly I've only listened to one GG audiobook, I had the omnibuses and novels (several hardback versions yeee) for the longest time that Salvation's Reach was the first and only one I've listened too. For me GG stops there, I haven't honestly cared to read the novels after that one as well. I think Abnett's declining health, (very) sadly, has affected his work over the last decade or so.

    • @TactWendigo
      @TactWendigo Месяц назад

      @@schaddenkorp6977 all the books are really good that I've read/listened to in the series it's just that at a certain point in the audio series they change to a horrible narrator. Larkin goes from being narrated like he's quietly going mad to comicly joker level crazy. It really sucks.

  • @NewGuy2534
    @NewGuy2534 Месяц назад +45

    Imperial High Command: Did you die?
    Commissar Gaunt: I did… but I lived!!!

    • @ranekeisenkralle8265
      @ranekeisenkralle8265 Месяц назад +7

      which only makes the name of his regiment all the more appropriate, don't you think? Gaunt's Ghosts.

    • @titanscerw
      @titanscerw Месяц назад +1

      First and Only

    • @griffin5653
      @griffin5653 Месяц назад +3

      ​@@titanscerwfor Tanith, for Vervun Hive. FIRST AND ONLY!!!

    • @4hedgesfamily
      @4hedgesfamily Месяц назад

      @@griffin5653 STRAIGHT SILVER!

  • @richardmyhan3369
    @richardmyhan3369 Месяц назад +154

    Slydo: *names a no-name, nobody as his successor, dies, refuses to elaborate* 😂😂

    • @Rockcrusher22895
      @Rockcrusher22895 Месяц назад +13

      Not that these generals and commanders would anticipate the success and failures that would come in the future from this decision

    • @cjv-x10a4
      @cjv-x10a4 Месяц назад +25

      @@richardmyhan3369 I'm suspecting his beloved saint was guiding him to that decision.

    • @richardmyhan3369
      @richardmyhan3369 Месяц назад +21

      @@cjv-x10a4 probably. Macharoth ultimately ended up being the right choice for the job.

    • @1998topornik
      @1998topornik Месяц назад

      XD

  • @rustkarl
    @rustkarl Месяц назад +52

    Little did they know, this was but the opening act for the bloody campaign for the Sabbat Worlds.

    • @Rockcrusher22895
      @Rockcrusher22895 Месяц назад +8

      And it only was going to get longer and bloodier with the worst aspects of the Chaos forces and their commanders were yet to show their hands

  • @trajanfidelis1532
    @trajanfidelis1532 Месяц назад +24

    "We gonna make Vraks look like a joke"- Warmaster Slaydo (probably)

  • @Yacovo
    @Yacovo Месяц назад +10

    Imagine failing so hard to cooardinate a landing that bulk transports hit ocean instead of land. Thanks for the video

  • @tylerandrews4375
    @tylerandrews4375 Месяц назад +72

    Getting in before the video is listed feels like being part of an exclusive club.

  • @Rockcrusher22895
    @Rockcrusher22895 Месяц назад +69

    The first mention of Gaunt as a Commissar leading troops into battle and a certain backwater world he was appointed command of over three founded regiments?
    (Breathes in deep)
    [Readying the camo-cloaks and las-carbines for the Guard]

    • @VioletDeathRei
      @VioletDeathRei Месяц назад +16

      I do love these reminders of why I love this franchise, even if GW can't stop reminding me why I hate them with all my heart.

    • @ralffsmith2655
      @ralffsmith2655 Месяц назад +10

      "Straight Silver"

    • @Iamnotthatkindoforc
      @Iamnotthatkindoforc Месяц назад +3

      sure as sure

    • @carsoncasmirri3874
      @carsoncasmirri3874 Месяц назад +8

      Straight silver lads

    • @ranekeisenkralle8265
      @ranekeisenkralle8265 Месяц назад +6

      *grabs the nalwood-adorned long-las* I'm getting too old for this feth.

  • @akuinator6350
    @akuinator6350 Месяц назад +24

    Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you make a cool Warmaster.

  • @orisaacs
    @orisaacs Месяц назад +11

    If you read Gaunt's Ghosts you knew shit's going down in Balahut

  • @cjv-x10a4
    @cjv-x10a4 Месяц назад +8

    To suddenly go from Marshall to Warmaster.😮
    Simply calling that a promotion would be the understatement of the year.😅

    • @DefaultFlame
      @DefaultFlame Месяц назад +1

      A brevet rank of marshal at that.

  • @TheIceman101418
    @TheIceman101418 Месяц назад +11

    Love Slaydo, he was a great character and for me made me think many Warmasters were like him because the Ghosts novels were the 2nd 40k thing i ever read.
    Cant wait to continue into worlds like Fortis Binary, Aexe Cardinal, Gerron, Salvations reach, Heritor Ashpodels return on Verghast and most importantly Urdesh

    • @Rockcrusher22895
      @Rockcrusher22895 Месяц назад +1

      Verghast, Gerron, Salvations Reach, and Urdesh are very important for the Crusade but, I say of them all Verghast is the most important one for the Ghosts as the true start of their legend

    • @TheIceman101418
      @TheIceman101418 Месяц назад

      @@Rockcrusher22895 I'd argue Monthax personally but Verghast was huge

    • @Rockcrusher22895
      @Rockcrusher22895 Месяц назад

      @@TheIceman101418 To my knowledge Monthax never happen according to Imperial historians and no records were ever made of any engagement that occurred on some unknown backwater ball of jungle and heat

  • @dagdamor1
    @dagdamor1 Месяц назад +36

    Ah, Balhaut.
    The Malevelon Creek of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.

    • @Rockcrusher22895
      @Rockcrusher22895 Месяц назад +6

      I believe that title would more likely go to the meat grinder of Cociaminus or the impregnable Fortress World of Morlond

  • @Matihood1
    @Matihood1 Месяц назад +23

    10:02 METAL BAWXES! THE COWARDS! THE FOOLS!

  • @youngthinker1
    @youngthinker1 Месяц назад +16

    I almost wanted a play by play of the fight between the two. But you have one really old man versus a chaos empowered old man, so might not be all that interesting.

    • @mdb45424
      @mdb45424 Месяц назад +2

      It would be basically range attacks as the choas slowly gets closer

    • @60sSam
      @60sSam Месяц назад

      Trump vs Biden? I'd watch that cage fight.

    • @dorn0531
      @dorn0531 Месяц назад +7

      It would last 6 seconds as Biden tripped over and broke his hip.

  • @gautierdarrambide5264
    @gautierdarrambide5264 Месяц назад +7

    What's great is that arch's storytelling sounds not like a lore video, but as a documentary.

  • @josephkalscheur5160
    @josephkalscheur5160 Месяц назад +4

    Something that has always bothered me about 40k, but is particularly egregious with this particular entry, is the numbers. Both the time and troop sizes are one or two orders of magnitude to small. I would enjoy it more if the initial fleet engagement was closer 16 hrs.

  • @GARfearfak
    @GARfearfak Месяц назад +4

    at 09:30 . translating into largesugar and hydrocarbon clouds?.. what?

    • @DarkVeghetta
      @DarkVeghetta 8 дней назад +1

      Yeah, that was my reaction as well. Sugar is a refined product made from beets or sugar cane. It doesn't occur naturally and certainly not in space.
      Warp fuckery?

  • @phantomjoker5
    @phantomjoker5 Месяц назад +8

    RIP the Warmaster

  • @apacalypsagon3758
    @apacalypsagon3758 Месяц назад +1

    Rest in piece warmaster. May you take your place amongst the emperor's finest.

  • @DarkSitesChannel
    @DarkSitesChannel Месяц назад +14

    For Arch and The Warmaster!

  • @mukingdom
    @mukingdom Месяц назад +1

    24:45 Reminds me of the Reddit story which went something last me this:
    Farmer and his daughter kept coming to the same pet store for new cats. After the 6th cat in 2 years, the store employee decided to ask what's up.
    The farmer "Well, the cats are treated really good, but they end up getting eaten by wild coyotees"
    The employee "Then it just sounds like you're feeding cats to coyotees"
    Farmer *silence
    Daughter *starts crying.
    Just Slaydo feeding his generals/marshals to chaos cultists lmao.

  • @nelsonhu3926
    @nelsonhu3926 Месяц назад +3

    We need a Gaunt's Ghost's Band of Brothers mini series. C'mon Amazon!!

  • @4hedgesfamily
    @4hedgesfamily Месяц назад +1

    FINALLY!! I was getting worried Gaunt and the Ghosts would get no mention. Gaunt's Ghosts is hands down my favorite series in 40K.

  • @sadwingsraging3044
    @sadwingsraging3044 Месяц назад +1

    RIP _WAR MASTER_ 😔
    You have earned your title and your rest.

  • @User107D
    @User107D Месяц назад +3

    I start to feel that Master Slaydo is having a rough times with this Crusade 😅

  • @krad_eno9399
    @krad_eno9399 Месяц назад +2

    Thank you for keeping at it!

  • @gialuquin88XD
    @gialuquin88XD Месяц назад +1

    My god, been waiting for this episode the whole week.
    WORTH IT.

  • @alithanar8
    @alithanar8 Месяц назад +4

    I was kinda hoping for a mention of Kowles disgrace but this was a good breakdown regardless

    • @Rockcrusher22895
      @Rockcrusher22895 Месяц назад +5

      Probably saving that part for Verghast later down the line in the Crusade

  • @TheDarkangelofshadow
    @TheDarkangelofshadow Месяц назад

    Gods above Arch. Your storytelling has really gone up in scale since Vraks. The images and the wordsmithing has really expanded

  • @MrDanno2
    @MrDanno2 Месяц назад +3

    Yeaa story time with arch!

  • @TerribleHeresy
    @TerribleHeresy Месяц назад +1

    You played an excellent game of Supreme Commander there, Makarov. Clearly you have the skills to play Aurora 4X.

  • @arstotzkangeneral3740
    @arstotzkangeneral3740 Месяц назад +2

    Gaunt finding his ghosts;
    Anyways now on to important matters lol

  • @Vulkanprimarch
    @Vulkanprimarch Месяц назад

    This new series is turning out great, with the artwork and animation. Arch has really taken it up another level!

  • @outfit5103
    @outfit5103 Месяц назад +2

    Arch: explains a in theory a plan that should end the conflict
    Me: so what will go wrong

  • @PersimmonHurmo
    @PersimmonHurmo Месяц назад +2

    YES! FEED ME MORE!

  • @brutalusgaming8809
    @brutalusgaming8809 Месяц назад +1

    Arch at his best.

  • @deaddropping5384
    @deaddropping5384 Месяц назад +1

    At this point I want to pick up the Gaunts Ghosts series.... but no library in my entire state has the first three books.

  • @4cammer
    @4cammer Месяц назад +1

    Great artwork as always Arch

  • @016Roi
    @016Roi Месяц назад +1

    Emperor protects!

  • @gorvarhadgarson5227
    @gorvarhadgarson5227 Месяц назад +6

    On a transport ship traveling through the warp, the crew try to ignore the daemons scratching at the flimsy Gellar field.
    Squat: ...Where are we going ta die again?
    Cadia: Does it matter?
    Squat: (shrugs) Suppose not.
    Krieger: (gossips in gas mask)
    Cadian; Balhaut? Really? With the War Master?
    Krieger: (confirms in gas mask)
    Tech Priest: Statement: Command has been moving troops around to confuse the enemy and any spies that may have embedded themselves in our units.
    Bloody Henry: I DO NOT KNOW WHERE I AM! ALL I KNOW IS I MUST KILL FOR THE SKU-GOLDEN THRONE!
    Cadian: ...(sniffles a patriotic tear) Throne Damn right, Henry.

  • @DMDemon1987
    @DMDemon1987 9 дней назад

    Sounds like it could it have been fate that the Archon and the Warmaster were destined to have that final battle here at Balhut. As if this was the chapter for them to come to a close and then the next leaders of both sides will carry on this crusade to bring it a close.

  • @MrEivindlunde
    @MrEivindlunde Месяц назад +3

    Infantry does the dying, navy does the flying

  • @ornu01
    @ornu01 Месяц назад +2

    Almost on time!

  • @eichler721
    @eichler721 Месяц назад

    Amazing video and a fitting fight for the Guard, the Emperor's Angels and the God Machines.

  • @davidanderkovics5230
    @davidanderkovics5230 Месяц назад +2

    i can appreciate the little guy... like that Ibram dude you mentioned. Yet another red shirt, doing his duty, got his 5 seconds of fame and that' it. It's not like he's going to contribute anything more to the crusade... and yet, there he is fighting...

  • @andrewmcgraw4811
    @andrewmcgraw4811 Месяц назад +1

    RIP Slaydo

  • @bastienbabineaux7362
    @bastienbabineaux7362 Месяц назад +2

    I miss a 40-50 Episode Series about Ghaunts Ghosts😋

  • @bendup7550
    @bendup7550 Месяц назад

    Getting better amande better

  • @redemption2
    @redemption2 Месяц назад

    I know that it wasn't the intention, but that tech priest in the upper deck with the extra limbs reminds me of Matara-kan.

  • @Blood.Angel.
    @Blood.Angel. Месяц назад +2

    LORE FOR THE LORE GODDDD!!!!!

  • @flatheadgg2443
    @flatheadgg2443 Месяц назад

    I'm missing some major details here like asphodel's minions trying to flood the olegarchy with neurotoxins and the massed concentration camps on the western plains housing the former imperial population, apart from that great stuff as always.

  • @REgamesplayer
    @REgamesplayer Месяц назад +1

    You constantly are rambling how Chaos is evil. However, here we have a force which is so competent as to land their landers in an ocean and to lose 42% of landing force to AA guns... Not to mention that in some places it was over 80%.
    Like, even the most inept Chaos commander doesn't do mistakes like these commanders. Slaydo's only worthwhile virtue in this is having back up of an Imperium as he is completely detached, stubborn old man who just wished to die for his martyr's cause.

  • @trixus4768
    @trixus4768 Месяц назад

    If Cybon and Draver would know that up until this point the Crusade was only a foreplay, they wouldn't be so eager to take Slaydo's place. What Urlock Gaur and Anakwanar Sek had to offer was much more than what these carrierists could afford to accept...

  • @fuhd9892
    @fuhd9892 15 дней назад

    imagine how much cooler Napoleon and The duke of Wellington would be if they had actually 1V1'd like our warmaster and archon here

  • @nanovox9418
    @nanovox9418 Месяц назад +4

    More trench crusade lore?
    I know your swamped

  • @Askoo783
    @Askoo783 Месяц назад +1

    Hey arch. Really love this format. But where do you get all this amazing artwork from ?

  • @cnlbenmc
    @cnlbenmc Месяц назад +1

    Glory to Arch and Glory to the Imperium!

  • @Chimera262
    @Chimera262 Месяц назад +1

    clouds of.....suger? did i hear that right?

  • @TheAlterspark
    @TheAlterspark Месяц назад +3

    For the algorithm!

  • @addisonbuckner4157
    @addisonbuckner4157 Месяц назад

    can you please do a series on gaunts ghosts at some point. its one of my favorite Warhammer series.

  • @jasonroberts4470
    @jasonroberts4470 Месяц назад

    Thanks 😊

  • @ukaszbiaek6641
    @ukaszbiaek6641 Месяц назад

    great series, like always

  • @johnronald6115
    @johnronald6115 Месяц назад

    I’ So glad I’ Never been sidelined in the rear

  • @TheIceman101418
    @TheIceman101418 Месяц назад +1

    Arch is still continuing the Sabbat crusade series right?

  • @male272
    @male272 Месяц назад

    Exterminatus Balhaut...give it to Ad Mech to build orbital stations and guard the Warpy IN/OUT door. Simple.

  • @-VOR
    @-VOR Месяц назад

    43:40 lol that's not Nadzybar.

  • @user-tj2hg3zi8n
    @user-tj2hg3zi8n 23 дня назад

    The death of Sladdo while killing the Archon and the appointment of this unknown. Tells me Sladdo and his appointed successor were religious zealots of the same group and Sladdo sacrificed for sainthood and put another of his group in charge to finish the groups plans.with allies behind the scenes.

  • @xuk6042
    @xuk6042 Месяц назад +1

    @Arch please fix your playlists to be in order 😂

  • @prokopiusvonvogelberg1396
    @prokopiusvonvogelberg1396 Месяц назад +4

    Primaris again. I'm starting to suspect that our lord does it to anger the autist and the pedant. Anyway, good video, no doubt about that. But them mk x patterns long before they were introduced...

    • @Filmmaster91
      @Filmmaster91 Месяц назад +2

      Especially for the White Scars of all chapters. My space mongol boys were a legion, throne damn it - it’s not like there wasn’t any imagery of them to draw upon before the Primaris showed up!

    • @cjv-x10a4
      @cjv-x10a4 Месяц назад

      Ya, I asked about that in an earlier episode as well. Is there a lack of art showing the White Scars fighting Chaos cultists?

    • @prokopiusvonvogelberg1396
      @prokopiusvonvogelberg1396 Месяц назад +1

      Where my reply?

  • @REgamesplayer
    @REgamesplayer Месяц назад +1

    Seems like undeveloped story. Imperium attacked and Chaos was here to be beaten in non-descriptive confrontation which was sure epic in scale and fighting everywhere. However, non of that is for us to know. Disappointed compared to how much detail there is in Siege of Vraks.

  • @quigglebert
    @quigglebert Месяц назад

    Gotta say, ive been fucking waiting for Balhaut

  • @Alex-xt1rr
    @Alex-xt1rr Месяц назад

    Is it just me or does Macaroth look a bit like Napoleon Bonaparte?

  • @thrall6647
    @thrall6647 Месяц назад +2

    Greetings prasie algorithm gods!
    Deim... 4 min late...

    • @nanovox9418
      @nanovox9418 Месяц назад

      Reeeeeeeeeeeeee

    • @nanovox9418
      @nanovox9418 Месяц назад +1

      Praise-praise horned ones most glorious form yes-yes

  • @kosherbeefcake
    @kosherbeefcake Месяц назад

    Slaydo sounds like the name of a clown fallen to Khorne.

  • @GUMMRUCHK
    @GUMMRUCHK Месяц назад

    Silver Guard sound like a very subpar Chapter.

  • @comradeweismann6947
    @comradeweismann6947 Месяц назад

    Comments for the algorithm

  • @Antwyrd
    @Antwyrd Месяц назад

    Background music a bit loud, and a bit repetitive.

  • @user-tj2hg3zi8n
    @user-tj2hg3zi8n 22 дня назад

    Elder farseer #1 Have you viewed the final duel between Sladdo and the Archon that is to happen two months from now. Elder Farseer#2 Not yet I will do it Tomorrow but I have talked to other farseers and they say it is quite a sight to see. Elder Farseer #1 wait I am getting a vision. It is of something noxious and subversive. Pain and suffering in it"s wake. Horror and fear. It may have something to do with Sla. ( Elder Farseer #2 rips w massive FART). Elder Farseer#2 Excuse me but the beans were really good. Elder Farseer #1 GAGH cough oh God's you monkey are you part human .

  • @Havocblackrain
    @Havocblackrain Месяц назад

    🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

  • @nanovox9418
    @nanovox9418 Месяц назад

    Praise be the Algorithm
    Fool meat must worship yes-yes

  • @crippletime
    @crippletime Месяц назад +1

    Algorithm comment

  • @Serbinderbintine
    @Serbinderbintine Месяц назад

    Engagement

  • @ciaphascain1062
    @ciaphascain1062 Месяц назад

    If you write it Ballhaut instead of Balhaut it litteraly means ballskin.

  • @colinscutt5104
    @colinscutt5104 Месяц назад

    Comment

  • @vagosnet82
    @vagosnet82 Месяц назад

    Comment for the Algorithm God

  • @Acesahn
    @Acesahn Месяц назад

    But what about Vrakis...? Don't continue one before finishing the other!

    • @johnkonig865
      @johnkonig865 Месяц назад

      Mate, he literally uploaded, "Vraks Remastered! A Clash Of Angels! Animated Warhammer 40k Lore" three days ago.

    • @Acesahn
      @Acesahn Месяц назад

      @@johnkonig865 I know, and then two of another great campaign! Do you read a book halfway and then start another?

    • @gorvarhadgarson5227
      @gorvarhadgarson5227 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@Acesahn But...he finished Vrakks. Years ago.
      The Remastered stuff you see hardly takes up time as much as Sabbar

    • @Acesahn
      @Acesahn Месяц назад +2

      @@gorvarhadgarson5227 Oh... my bad.

    • @gorvarhadgarson5227
      @gorvarhadgarson5227 Месяц назад

      @@Acesahn You cool man 😀 Now you can watch all of Vraks in between Sabbat videos!

  • @killerisdead3775
    @killerisdead3775 Месяц назад

    Lol

  • @nicoblake8140
    @nicoblake8140 Месяц назад

    969th to like 😂🎉

  • @avrande
    @avrande Месяц назад

    had to stop the video.. that annoying humming and squeeking background sounds gives me a headache...

  • @ProbablyFat
    @ProbablyFat Месяц назад

    Loving this!

  • @xax2952
    @xax2952 Месяц назад

    260 views in 45 seconds? you fell off bro

  • @ottovonbearsmark8876
    @ottovonbearsmark8876 Месяц назад +1

    I feel like the title gave a little too much away on this one 🫤

    • @cjv-x10a4
      @cjv-x10a4 Месяц назад +1

      Funny thing about that. If you looked a number of episodes ago, when arch showed General Dravere's description, it mentions Slaydo's death at the end.😅