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Hello Majorkill, Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.
And if GW doesn't screw up their own lore, Corvus should have an insane power level because he almost took out Lorgar in Daemon Primarch form, and also a tanked all the firepower from Lorgars bodyguards with nothing but a bruised face and dented armor.
@@DatGitGhaz I mean, they can be. I prefer to play up the gothic overtones that GW has shied away from in recent years. To me, the Raven Guard are a cursed and dour chapter, who haunt the halls and towers of Terra. Prone to melancholy, but loyal to the Emperor, they go into battle in true midnight clad. He died for the Imperium. So shall we. You betrayed the Imperium? You die first.
When you read the lore about the Host of Crowns, and then the pre-Heresy Deathwing, it's clearly indicated to not be a strictly Terminator-armoured force; that didn't come about until after the Lion laid down for his nap. As to the Deathwing Companions specifically, their FW models are not Terminators, but there are rules that allow it as an option.
Also seeing how some of the traitor ones got either karma'd out of existence (like Eidolon) or fell to their own first captains/primarchs/loyalists/angry rock throwing would be neat
There was actually one cool thing about the Morlocks: they had a variant of terminator armor called Gorgon Pattern with special void shields that converted absorbed hits into bright flashes of light that would blind attackers.
@@nadaningunos9339 and also some kind of toxic byproduct that kills the wearer unless that have extensive cybernetic augments. ... Which if you're veteran enough to be an elite in the Iron Hands basically boiled down to the "OH NO! Anyway..." meme.
Untrue. The Gorgons are a separate formation and unlike the morlocks still exist in modern 40k but don't participate as they currently guard Ferrus' skull. Also the Morlocks wore cataphract armour whereas strangely during the heresy the Gorgons wore indomitus armour way before it was used on a large scale.
It’s funny that other primarchs described magnus’s sehkmet as robots. In battle, the thousand sons use their magic to basically meld their minds so they operate as one more effectively. I’d imagine the sehkmet would do that best of all.
Huscarls are very much something most descended from germanic tribes had in one form or another, the earliest version of professional soldiers and knights for those regions. Translates to house guard or soldier, they very much are not vikings (even they those of the nordic variety could raid to accompany their lord, the closest thing to a huscarl viking would be the Jomsvikings). Angolo-Saxons who arguably fought the Vikings the most, if not a close contender, also had huscarls due to their similar Germanic heritage, and the Angolo-Saxons primarily defeated the vikings invaders with the use of fortifications, specifically fortifying towns in a specific way known a burgh (many locations names are still influenced by this). A walled settlement with means of food production, however minor, to make sieging and assulting even a town a major challenge for the primarily quick raiding vikings. The creation of use of such fortified towns eventually forced the vikings into actual battle, with the angolo-saxons having mixed success until eventually winning/losing to the norman invaders. Point of all that? The Angolo-Saxon huscarls have more in common with their Imperial fist equivalents than that of vikings/space wolves. That being said i would have like the Space wolves to have had that name to be a lit less wolfy... Love the chapter but agree with majorkill, they just slap Wolf in front of pretty much everything to name it.
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Magnus proved his overwhelming nerdiness when he finalized the formal name of his Scarab Occult, the Sekhmet. In Egyptian Mythology, Sekhmet was a Warrior Goddess who was sent to Earth by Ra to punish mortals for conspiring against him... and killed _so many_ of us that we almost went extinct, and _would_ have if Ra hadn't felt pity for us and recalled her, slaking her thirst for blood by dying a strong beer red with ochre so that it resembled blood. Kinda fitting when you realize that in the Sekhmet you'd need to be a mid-Beta-grade Psyker or _higher_ to be successful. I wonder if Big E taught Magnus the stories of this Mythology during the years He spent in psychic communication with Magnus before their first physical meeting... y'know, talking about the good ol' days when _He_ was a relatively young man still; I mean, The Emperor would _still_ be about four-thousand years old when Egypt really rose to prominence, but that's neither here nor there.
I love the Sekhmet, and it's a shame that they don't get talked about more. A group of elite Terminator-armored Astartes, all of them Beta+ level Psykers trained to a level of absolute mastery over their powers, conditioned to subsume their individuality and work as a unit to the point where Ferrus Manus admiringly compared them to robots. I can think of very few fighting forces that would be more terrifying to fight.
Some legions had multiple super-elites. Sons of Horus had Luperks - their elite company of Possessed. Word Bearers had Anointed before they founded Gal Vorbak and still have them - who are basically anpther Justaerin clones. An Alpha Legion had Efreti - a unit of space marine James Bonds doing shady black ops.
@@kevinnoonan5534 They did. I want to blame Angron, but he had nails in his head and his legion hated him. Probably why they didn't join the Devourers. Such a wished role for so many, dissed so deeply.
Angron really is a sad story especially since he was supposed to represent the emperor's compassion. Dude was supposed to be a paladin and ended up a rage monster.
The White Scars have a category of Keshig called the Ebon Keshig. They were like sister repentia for space marines. But had termi armour and power glaives
Iron Warriors do field elite Tyranthikos Siege Terminators as an elite infantry choice unique to IW in HH, who are basically veterans in the Stor Bezashk, but there's also a case to be made for their Iron Havocs heavy support, who were some of the best shots bar none in all the Space Marine Legions, especially with heavy weapons.
I always wondered what the other races in 40k thought of the emperor and the primarchs... I thought about it because (i think it was) in "Dark Imperium" one of the Eldar met Girlymann and was disgusted by a comment that Eldrad Ulthran made that the primarchs were in some aspects superior to the eldar
Physically hed stomp them . The only advantage they usually have Is speed which guilliman also has . Also lack of a planet sized ego is a huge advantage and hes a better organizer and statesman than any of them . And he usually doesn't approach everyone with a superiority complex acting like he knows everything better like the eldar do . So yeah .
The Shadow Wardens were stealthy, as all elite Raven Guard are, but they weren't the stealthiest Astartes in the Legion. That title goes to the Mor Deythan. They had a more basic, downgraded version of Corax's invisibility power they inherited through their gene seed, allowing them to 'shadow walk'. This ability was very rare, so they were/are scarce in number, meaning it's members were all experienced veterans, with new additions being almost unheard of. They were/are the last word in Astartes stealth and infiltration tactics with unique war gear designed to make as little noise as possible, along with stuff like snipers, shotguns and volkite weapons. IIRC they were also kept secret from most of the legion, bar its leaders, to aid in the effectiveness of their infiltration tactics. They also have a stealthy battle cant that sounds like wind. I'd love to see a video on these guys, or just a passing mention, but alas, there isn't a great deal of lore about them due to the Raven Guard getting shafted by the writers. A shame imo, as they are my favourite legion.
@@alexv1387 Yes and no they are more tech and tactic related stealthiness, more akin to "Knock knock, whos there? Sees Delivery man, then bang bang". Where as Raven Guard's is more like "knock knock, whos there? Silence, open the door, no ones there, then suddenly a knife is shanked into your back". Their stealthiness is more magical in a sense they literally turn invisible with innate warp/ genetic magic.
I think it’s safe to say that the Justaerin inspired Abaddon’s rebranding of the Sons of Horus into the Black Legion, especially when they’re referred to as ‘Abaddon’s own Black Legion’ in Horus Rising
Dude, the palatines blades ! From the Emperor's Children ! Nobody cares about the Phenix guards These guys go alone on battlefields to hunt the best enemy elements, and are all amazing duelists. There is even one of them that managed to land a hit on Ferrus Manus in a 1v1 fight in a training cage ! (Akurduana)
@@valentinblue1952 yea, but curze interrupted the fight to defend lorgar/taunt corax. Had the gal vorbak openly flaunted their daemonic influence and curze seen it beforehand, he would probably have left lorgar to be killed by corax. He pretty much shuns him immediately after saving him anyway
Absolutely love the Scarab Occult and Sekhmet Terminators. They’re probably the most powerful type of “elite” Space Marines, and makes me wonder what would’ve happened with the Thousand Sons if they weren’t the smallest legion…
To be fair, all the Emperor's Children used winged iconography and bladed weapons so I wouldn't say the Phoenix Guard were trying to emulate the Custodes, rather that they were just following the theme.
I swear GW gets off on making the iron hands look weak Also the iron hands had a prototype terminator elite called the gorgons who where very close to the modern terminator but more iron hands and they are very dope
The Morlock on that pic looks cool. They must have been a beautiful sight to behold when they charged together and filled the gaps between heavy tanks and dreadnoughts. BL should write more novels on particular campaigns during the great crusade era.
Major, curious which chapters have the most friendly kills while still labelled as loyalists From memory the Emperor's spears were a chapter the imperial guard hated fighting with due to collateral
Hate to be that guy, but the Wolf Guard are called within the legion the Varangyr, which translates roughly to Wolf Gaurd. Imperial scholars take everything litterally.
That actually kinda seems like the old norse word "Væringjar" which means Varangian, and the Varangian guard were both largely Norse and pretty famous for their competency as an elite bodyguard unit in Constantinople.
@@axdisputed1339 I think that's the point. Same word with a similar meaning. So the term Wolf Gaurd, could be a litteral translation of a more symbolic term. Since Leman Russ was the Great Wolf, the Wolf Gaurd could also mean Russ Gaurd. Huh, never thought of it like that until now.
Yes Need the Space Wolf, Wolf Gaurd, to Protect the Wolf King when the Wolf time comes Its just tiresome I can't read a single Space wolf book without becoming ill
The XVI had two elites, the Justaerin and the Catulan Reavers. The idea was that both would compete to be higher in his favor, spurring each other to greater heights
The space wolves full troop run down because Majorkill is a Lion lover and won't read our lore: Warriors: line troopers Huscarls: Sargents Thegns: a weird rank that basically meant you would never be premoted further but highly respected/ veteran Sargents. Varangyr: They are leman Russ' personal elite. Priests: Speaker of the dead, Caster of Runes, Iron Priests. Jarls: Great Company Leaders Einharjar: Russ' inner circle
Just grabbed me a signed calendar, love your no nonsense style of presenting the lore. I've watched you grow from warhammer geek with passion to a genuinely talented and motivated presenter who somehow has a hot missus... so well done mate keep up the good work!
0:00 Topic Intro 1:36 Channel Intro 1:42 I - Dark Angels - Deathwing 2:46 II - [REDACTED] 2:52 III - Emperor's Children - Phoenix Guard 3:51 IV - Iron Warriors - Iron Circle Elite 4:31 V - White Scars - Keshig 5:16 VI - Space Wolves - Wolf Guard 6:12 VII - Imperial Fist - Huscarls 6:40 VIII - Night Lords - Atramentar 7:54 IX - Blood Angels - Sanguinary Guard 8:46 X - Iron Hands - Morlocks 9:17 XII - World Eaters - Devourers 10:32 XIII - Ultramarines - Invictarian Suzerian 11:14 XIV - Death Guard - Deathshroud 12:19 XV - Thousand Sons - Scarab Occult (Sekhmets) 13:09 XVI - Luna Wolves - Justaerin 13:43 XVII - Word Bearers - Gal Vorbak 14:25 XVIII - Salamanders - Pyre Guard 15:08 XIX - Raven Guard Shadow Wardens 15:38 XX - Alpha Legion - Lernaearen 16:05 Outro
What makes the lLernaean terminators special, is their weaponry. They are strapped to the teeth with volkite chargers (arguably the coolest weapon in the setting) and conversion beamers for their "lieutenants" (arguably another of the coolest weapons in the setting).
_I think_ Perturabo just built them himself, and this was after Phall so heresy priorities and all that, but even in 40k you can still field battle robots from Legio Cybernetica. It's just heavily restricted.
i really want majorkill to talk about the destroyers squads like the blooded hand of angron or bloody tear of the blood angels,they were so overuse by mortarion
The Gal Vorbak of the Word Bearers had a successor chapter, the Vakrah Jal. Argel Tal formed them personally from surviving Space Marines after Istvaan V. They were more elite than even the Gal Vorbak and are described to have Terminator Armor. We don't know if they still exist.
Im a space wolves player so I'm definitely biased, but the wolf guard terminators are so cool. I have two squads that I love dropping into my opponents backlines
14:03 he never thought that and went to his certain death against Corax to save them "and for the first time in his life, he went to engage in a battle that he had no hope of winning"My death is my own as well""
The Wings of the Hexagrammaton weren't limited to different companies, but rather dispersed throughout the ranks. It was only once it made the transition from legion to chapter that it was consolidated into the First company. Not only that, but they didn't exclusively wear Terminator armor, the Deathwing Companions models wear artificer MK4 armor
As much as I am loving the shorter videos that come regularly I do miss the older long form ones. I get why it is more cost effective and productive but I would like it if I could get just one a year
Hold up...isn't the XIX's elite force the Mor Deythan? The Raven Guard that inherited Corvus' ability to wraith slip and who were all trained by Corvus personally?
The video title says "Elite Forces",(in which case you'd be correct), but it seems to be generally more geared to the honour guard-type units, which for the XIX Legion, were the Shadow Wardens.
Fun fact, the Dark Angel Legion's Deathwing weren't just bodyguards and were not required to wear terminator but usually did. A prime example of this were their Deathwing Companions; "The Deathwing Companions are formed of the finest warriors and longest-serving veterans in the Deathwing, each sworn by stringent oaths to ensure the survival of the officers placed into their charge. Most famous among their ranks are those that have taken a death-blow meant for their charge and survived - such warriors are granted the right to wear bone-white armour in recognition of their selfless devotion."
I would say the Mor Deythan AKA The Shadow Masters are the Elite of the Raven Guard due to the fact members of said formation inherited a modicum of their primarch's ability to shadow walk. In M42 the gene is so rare the reformed formation has 4(?) Members currently.
@@ravenguard0098 I would hope not, the point would be to remain unseen... Reminds me of the 8th edition silliness of Centurions infiltrating to within 9". Or dreadnoughts. The Raven Guard should be sneaky but there should be lines that don't get crossed
@@LordGrantius still funny though regardless though I wonder what is the ratio of vanguard primaris:firstborn/normal primaris is. Since vanguard SMs are tailor made for them hell Chapter Master Shrike uses MK X phobos armour whilst other chapter masters tend to use Gravis/Terminator or Artificiers armour.
I was looking forward to the assessment of the badass unit of stealth marines so secretive they were unknown even to the rest of the legion. Instead I hear about the 'on the surface' marines that everyone knew about. I suppose Corax would have preferred it that way though. His secrecy was so impenetrable that even a lore master overlooked them. Mission successful.
The sangi guard doesn’t actually wear sanguinius face anymore, that burden only fells to Dante. The guard are wearing their own faces on their helmets. Source is the Novel devastation of Baal, Dante mentioned it in the first quarter of the book.
Iron hands Morlocks,salamnder firedrake terminators,and the deliverers for the raven guard,why are these guys never talked about?is their lore not fleshed out enough or is it because most of them died on istvan?
@@felipestriker187 the firedrakes have plenty of lore and exist into 40k and a number of them escaped hell almost all the bands of the shattered legions you see have a firedrake with them lol shame he didnt mention Numeon sacrificing himself in mount deathfire mind or how the captain of the firedrakes fills in as chapter master. or how they can field 120 terminators which is more than the deathwing
Word bearers had the Vakrah JAL acting as their elite 1st company elite formation post Calth as Lorgars favoured with Argel Tal as the companies Preator Company wide they were trained in the fighting pits of the world eaters ships and armed with dark mechanicus alchemical flame / melta weapons plus the first recorded chaos demon ‘embued weapons. Additionally the word bearers terminator elite were called the Anointed.
Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus also had the Catulan Reavers an Assault Team who were part of the 1st company and designed to compete against the Justaerin and promote "healthy" competition
I want to hear about the rear echelon astartes. They're still superhuman monsters but they're comparatively unskilled or untalented to their brothers. Someone had to be World Eater who sucked in melee or A Thousand Son that was the weakest psyker.
"i spent my life wanting to see your face, yet i only ever saw your back. I longed to feel your approval, yet all i received was your scorn. I longed for you guiding hand, yet you only struck me. Many call you monster, i called you father " Pretty much every world eater
Detail: The Raven Guard's elite isn't Corax's bodyguard (Shadow Wardens) but the Mor Deythan (Shadow Masters) they were the best of the best in stealth, inheriting the Ravenlord's invis. You mixed up the too, which is understandable since the Shadow Wardens only show up in one book where they're Shadow Masters without the cool invis. Mor Deythan could also do anything else than guarding Corax because, let's be honest, the Sire of the Ravenspire can't really get into danger, his Primarch ability is a "get out of jail free" card. Also the Deliverers were the XIXth's termies but they were more blunt force than elite.
Space wolves also have Harthains that are the second commands of the wolf lords, and only the oldest and most seasoned/skilled wolf Guard protected there wolf lords know as the Wolf Guard of (insurt name of wolf lord)
I feel like for ravenguard it would be dark furies or deliverers (deliverers hated corvus corax and in 30k if they are in the same army or fighting corvus they instantly die)
To be accurate, the Space Wolve’s elite guard’s name is officially called Varagyr in their language. Wolf Guard is just what uncultured mass, who couldn’t pronounce their name, call them.
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Moral of the story, Primarch's don't need Honour guards and the Legions that tried to establish them had incredibly high mortality rates
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Make video on lucius the eternal and all these space marines chapters
raptors
silver skulls
storm giants
Mantis warriors
Noise marines
Sons of malice
Sons of antaeus
Black vipers
Covenant of fire
Dragonspears
Dark krakens
Red scorpions
Stormwatchers
Marines errant
Scythes of the emperor
Howling griffons
Mortifactors
Steel confessors
Red hunters
Iron snakes
Excecutioners
Angels sanguine
Death spectres
Emperor's spears
Star phantoms
The doom eagles
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ollanius pius
Soul forge
Daemon engines
Warp smiths and dark mechanicum
Pain engines
Helbrutes
Krorks
Obliterators
Electro priest
Abominatious
Hello Majorkill,
Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.
Guy you suck, I don't get paid for another 2 and a half weeks
"That was for appearance. Do you think I actually *need* a bodyguard?" - Corvus Corax to his Raven Guard Legion's Elites
And if GW doesn't screw up their own lore, Corvus should have an insane power level because he almost took out Lorgar in Daemon Primarch form, and also a tanked all the firepower from Lorgars bodyguards with nothing but a bruised face and dented armor.
Same with the fact aquaman's actor has bodyguards that look like minibosses you have to fight to get to him lol
Corax, for reference, one handed a heavy bolter. He lifted up, carried, and used a heavy bolter, a crew operated weapon, with one hand.
@@NemFX if the Raven Guard was half as cool as their primarch I'd 100% be a Raven Guard player
@@DatGitGhaz I mean, they can be. I prefer to play up the gothic overtones that GW has shied away from in recent years. To me, the Raven Guard are a cursed and dour chapter, who haunt the halls and towers of Terra. Prone to melancholy, but loyal to the Emperor, they go into battle in true midnight clad. He died for the Imperium. So shall we. You betrayed the Imperium? You die first.
Worth noting that Deathwing during Heresy weren't a terminator-only group, as represented by Deathwing companions from Forgeworld
The Deathwing Companions were Terminators.
@@robertnelson9599 Deathwing Companions wore normal armor, I think you're talking about the Inner Circle Knights Cenobium.
Oh damn I just commented on this
When you read the lore about the Host of Crowns, and then the pre-Heresy Deathwing, it's clearly indicated to not be a strictly Terminator-armoured force; that didn't come about until after the Lion laid down for his nap. As to the Deathwing Companions specifically, their FW models are not Terminators, but there are rules that allow it as an option.
@@bradsimpson8724 Deathwing in 30k also used weapons that the newer DA don’t have , and tactics.
Ultramarine's honor guard should be called "ultra guard"
Super ultra honorable brother
Why not Ultra Pro?
Ultra Lords
There not space wolves guys.
@@myself2noone it’s gw they are always like this in naming
Fun fact: the death shrouds are also a selection program, the lords of contagion (basically super chaos lords) all used to be death shrouds.
Noice!
Hey majorkill, please make a video on who the first captains of the 20 legions were and what happened to each of them.
Yesssss, some great lore there to be had. Or even notable second founding chapter masters like Nassir the Flesh Tearer
@@Nomadith Definitely!! Nassir, Fafnir Rann and others are OGs
Also seeing how some of the traitor ones got either karma'd out of existence (like Eidolon) or fell to their own first captains/primarchs/loyalists/angry rock throwing would be neat
@@Nomadith Eidolon is still alive in 40k though
@@SirOrdo wasn't his body taken over by Lucius? I may be rough on that bit.
There was actually one cool thing about the Morlocks: they had a variant of terminator armor called Gorgon Pattern with special void shields that converted absorbed hits into bright flashes of light that would blind attackers.
Ahhh...the OG conversion fields. Those things were fun in 2nd edition.
But with the side effect of being permanently encaged in their armor
@@nadaningunos9339 and also some kind of toxic byproduct that kills the wearer unless that have extensive cybernetic augments.
... Which if you're veteran enough to be an elite in the Iron Hands basically boiled down to the "OH NO! Anyway..." meme.
Untrue. The Gorgons are a separate formation and unlike the morlocks still exist in modern 40k but don't participate as they currently guard Ferrus' skull.
Also the Morlocks wore cataphract armour whereas strangely during the heresy the Gorgons wore indomitus armour way before it was used on a large scale.
It’s funny that other primarchs described magnus’s sehkmet as robots. In battle, the thousand sons use their magic to basically meld their minds so they operate as one more effectively. I’d imagine the sehkmet would do that best of all.
Magnus even had Psker-bots (take that Perbty even my robots are better than yours)
Kinda weird that the Huscarls are Imperial fists and not space wolves, you'd think the space vikings would be the guys with Huskarls but i guess not.
Amusingly the Wolves have Huscarls (veteran sergeants), Thegns (Varagyr terminator sergeants) and Jarls
Huscarls are very much something most descended from germanic tribes had in one form or another, the earliest version of professional soldiers and knights for those regions. Translates to house guard or soldier, they very much are not vikings (even they those of the nordic variety could raid to accompany their lord, the closest thing to a huscarl viking would be the Jomsvikings). Angolo-Saxons who arguably fought the Vikings the most, if not a close contender, also had huscarls due to their similar Germanic heritage, and the Angolo-Saxons primarily defeated the vikings invaders with the use of fortifications, specifically fortifying towns in a specific way known a burgh (many locations names are still influenced by this). A walled settlement with means of food production, however minor, to make sieging and assulting even a town a major challenge for the primarily quick raiding vikings. The creation of use of such fortified towns eventually forced the vikings into actual battle, with the angolo-saxons having mixed success until eventually winning/losing to the norman invaders.
Point of all that? The Angolo-Saxon huscarls have more in common with their Imperial fist equivalents than that of vikings/space wolves. That being said i would have like the Space wolves to have had that name to be a lit less wolfy... Love the chapter but agree with majorkill, they just slap Wolf in front of pretty much everything to name it.
@@TheStormfury I want more Anglo-Saxon imperial fists!
The wolves do have Huscarls but they aren't their elites who are the Varagyr or even above them was the Einherjar
@@FoxHound-ut1hu True ,King Harold had to dismiss the fyrd(part time troops) to their farms and only fight beside his Huscarls at Stamford Bridge.
Devourers: "NOTICE US!!!"
Angron: "No!"
Also Angron: FUCKING SLOWPOKES
Angron: _incoherent screeching_
vulkan: hello friends from the world eaters how's your bodyguarding over that angry sour puss coming along😄😄
devourers captain: I don't know let's find out, hey angron wanna join me and the other honor guardsmen for beers and poker night
angron: F*** OFF!!!🤬🤬
devourers captain: about as much as you expected! 😒😒
Cue up fury road spray paint scene "WITNESS ME!!!"
Excellent abridged reference lol
Magnus proved his overwhelming nerdiness when he finalized the formal name of his Scarab Occult, the Sekhmet. In Egyptian Mythology, Sekhmet was a Warrior Goddess who was sent to Earth by Ra to punish mortals for conspiring against him... and killed _so many_ of us that we almost went extinct, and _would_ have if Ra hadn't felt pity for us and recalled her, slaking her thirst for blood by dying a strong beer red with ochre so that it resembled blood.
Kinda fitting when you realize that in the Sekhmet you'd need to be a mid-Beta-grade Psyker or _higher_ to be successful. I wonder if Big E taught Magnus the stories of this Mythology during the years He spent in psychic communication with Magnus before their first physical meeting... y'know, talking about the good ol' days when _He_ was a relatively young man still; I mean, The Emperor would _still_ be about four-thousand years old when Egypt really rose to prominence, but that's neither here nor there.
God-Emperor of mankind, the OG cosmic boomer.
I imagine Magnus already knew real Terran history despite it all being gone.
Sekhmet was also made from the eye of Ra so that's another correlation with Magnus being a cyclops
I love the Sekhmet, and it's a shame that they don't get talked about more. A group of elite Terminator-armored Astartes, all of them Beta+ level Psykers trained to a level of absolute mastery over their powers, conditioned to subsume their individuality and work as a unit to the point where Ferrus Manus admiringly compared them to robots. I can think of very few fighting forces that would be more terrifying to fight.
What if the Emperor was the Sekhmet?
Some legions had multiple super-elites.
Sons of Horus had Luperks - their elite company of Possessed.
Word Bearers had Anointed before they founded Gal Vorbak and still have them - who are basically anpther Justaerin clones.
An Alpha Legion had Efreti - a unit of space marine James Bonds doing shady black ops.
Luperks were after their descent to chaos worshipping? Or what coz calling your legionaries the possessed is weird .
If I recall correctly, the Dark Angels also had the Ravenwing.
@@nakedicaro Dark Angels had The Six WIngs of The Hexagrammaton >.>
And the Salamander Firedrakes and Pyroclasts
1st- Deathwing
2nd- Ravenwing
3rd- Dreadwing
And the Ironwing, Firewing, and Stormwing
The story about the Devourers actually made me sad. Just probably being part of that legion was a shame and anxiety.
In a legion devoted to brotherhood, the entire legion broke on the lack of it
@@kevinnoonan5534 They did. I want to blame Angron, but he had nails in his head and his legion hated him. Probably why they didn't join the Devourers. Such a wished role for so many, dissed so deeply.
Angron really is a sad story especially since he was supposed to represent the emperor's compassion. Dude was supposed to be a paladin and ended up a rage monster.
@@Banthisyoutube-zs6sx Not so sure on that. It's not a nice story either way.
@@Kareszkoma its true though angron's primarch power was originally the ability to ease others pain......until he had hate nails jammed in his skull
The White Scars have a category of Keshig called the Ebon Keshig. They were like sister repentia for space marines. But had termi armour and power glaives
Iron Warriors do field elite Tyranthikos Siege Terminators as an elite infantry choice unique to IW in HH, who are basically veterans in the Stor Bezashk, but there's also a case to be made for their Iron Havocs heavy support, who were some of the best shots bar none in all the Space Marine Legions, especially with heavy weapons.
I always wondered what the other races in 40k thought of the emperor and the primarchs...
I thought about it because (i think it was) in "Dark Imperium" one of the Eldar met Girlymann and was disgusted by a comment that Eldrad Ulthran made that the primarchs were in some aspects superior to the eldar
Majorkill should make a video on this topic
he might be the imperiums greatest mind but not their greatest power
@@otrain46 lol okay, what does that have to do with the eldar
Physically hed stomp them . The only advantage they usually have Is speed which guilliman also has . Also lack of a planet sized ego is a huge advantage and hes a better organizer and statesman than any of them . And he usually doesn't approach everyone with a superiority complex acting like he knows everything better like the eldar do . So yeah .
Mmmm, eldar salt tastes so good
The Shadow Wardens were stealthy, as all elite Raven Guard are, but they weren't the stealthiest Astartes in the Legion. That title goes to the Mor Deythan. They had a more basic, downgraded version of Corax's invisibility power they inherited through their gene seed, allowing them to 'shadow walk'. This ability was very rare, so they were/are scarce in number, meaning it's members were all experienced veterans, with new additions being almost unheard of. They were/are the last word in Astartes stealth and infiltration tactics with unique war gear designed to make as little noise as possible, along with stuff like snipers, shotguns and volkite weapons. IIRC they were also kept secret from most of the legion, bar its leaders, to aid in the effectiveness of their infiltration tactics. They also have a stealthy battle cant that sounds like wind.
I'd love to see a video on these guys, or just a passing mention, but alas, there isn't a great deal of lore about them due to the Raven Guard getting shafted by the writers. A shame imo, as they are my favourite legion.
*quiet Ravenguard favourite legion club fistbump
@@secretlythreeducksinamansu3546 username checks out. Victorus Aut Mortis
Aren't the Headhunter Kill Teams of the Alpha Legion the most stealthy?
Ah, fellow sneaky beaky fans.
@@alexv1387 Yes and no they are more tech and tactic related stealthiness, more akin to "Knock knock, whos there? Sees Delivery man, then bang bang". Where as Raven Guard's is more like "knock knock, whos there? Silence, open the door, no ones there, then suddenly a knife is shanked into your back". Their stealthiness is more magical in a sense they literally turn invisible with innate warp/ genetic magic.
I think it’s safe to say that the Justaerin inspired Abaddon’s rebranding of the Sons of Horus into the Black Legion, especially when they’re referred to as ‘Abaddon’s own Black Legion’ in Horus Rising
The Atramentar have such a cool name. I loved it as soon as I read it.
Dude, the palatines blades !
From the Emperor's Children !
Nobody cares about the Phenix guards
These guys go alone on battlefields to hunt the best enemy elements, and are all amazing duelists.
There is even one of them that managed to land a hit on Ferrus Manus in a 1v1 fight in a training cage ! (Akurduana)
Majorkill said “elites”, but he only covered each legions’ honor guards.
Ancient Helveticus of the Ultramarine Honour Guard: "A foe without honour is a foe already beaten."
Orcs, Dark Eldar and Tyranids: *Dies*
Chaos: Dies
@@jackdaw3822 orc is mostly honorable
@inquisitorkryptman7893 yeah to be fair, they then to go for straight up fights. No tricks, no back stabbing, just a battle
I firmly believe if the Gal Vorbak had changed into their demon forms early on Isstvan 5, Konrad would have let Corvus kill Lorgar.
Well, No. Lorgar fought Corax because He slaughtered the Changed Gal Vorbak in the dozens
if lorgar was committing war crimes on civilians konrad would have went “i didn’t see shit.”
@@valentinblue1952 yea, but curze interrupted the fight to defend lorgar/taunt corax. Had the gal vorbak openly flaunted their daemonic influence and curze seen it beforehand, he would probably have left lorgar to be killed by corax. He pretty much shuns him immediately after saving him anyway
Absolutely love the Scarab Occult and Sekhmet Terminators. They’re probably the most powerful type of “elite” Space Marines, and makes me wonder what would’ve happened with the Thousand Sons if they weren’t the smallest legion…
To be fair, all the Emperor's Children used winged iconography and bladed weapons so I wouldn't say the Phoenix Guard were trying to emulate the Custodes, rather that they were just following the theme.
I swear GW gets off on making the iron hands look weak
Also the iron hands had a prototype terminator elite called the gorgons who where very close to the modern terminator but more iron hands and they are very dope
Yeah they get hit by the worf effect hard
Iron babies
The Morlock on that pic looks cool. They must have been a beautiful sight to behold when they charged together and filled the gaps between heavy tanks and dreadnoughts.
BL should write more novels on particular campaigns during the great crusade era.
Major, curious which chapters have the most friendly kills while still labelled as loyalists
From memory the Emperor's spears were a chapter the imperial guard hated fighting with due to collateral
I think ether minotaurs or marines melevolant
I think the space sharks are up there because i think they exterminatis a titan legion
Minotaurs, Carcharodons, and Marines Malevolent probably
Emperor's Spears are reckless but don't butcher allies. They're stretched too thin to be killing the people who are helping them.
Also blood angels
I think a video on why Corvus Corax was a bad ass would a great idea next.
Hate to be that guy, but the Wolf Guard are called within the legion the Varangyr, which translates roughly to Wolf Gaurd. Imperial scholars take everything litterally.
That actually kinda seems like the old norse word "Væringjar" which means Varangian, and the Varangian guard were both largely Norse and pretty famous for their competency as an elite bodyguard unit in Constantinople.
@@axdisputed1339 I think that's the point. Same word with a similar meaning. So the term Wolf Gaurd, could be a litteral translation of a more symbolic term. Since Leman Russ was the Great Wolf, the Wolf Gaurd could also mean Russ Gaurd. Huh, never thought of it like that until now.
@@axdisputed1339 not Istanbul
Yes
Need the Space Wolf, Wolf Gaurd, to Protect the Wolf King when the Wolf time comes
Its just tiresome
I can't read a single Space wolf book without becoming ill
@@adrienwatson2179Eh, I've grown to ignore it.
Sanguinary Guard aka the unit that determines if they win on tabletop.
You're also going to want more in your army than in the actual lore. XD
The XVI had two elites, the Justaerin and the Catulan Reavers. The idea was that both would compete to be higher in his favor, spurring each other to greater heights
The space wolves full troop run down because Majorkill is a Lion lover and won't read our lore:
Warriors: line troopers
Huscarls: Sargents
Thegns: a weird rank that basically meant you would never be premoted further but highly respected/ veteran Sargents.
Varangyr: They are leman Russ' personal elite.
Priests: Speaker of the dead, Caster of Runes, Iron Priests.
Jarls: Great Company Leaders
Einharjar: Russ' inner circle
Just grabbed me a signed calendar, love your no nonsense style of presenting the lore. I've watched you grow from warhammer geek with passion to a genuinely talented and motivated presenter who somehow has a hot missus... so well done mate keep up the good work!
As far as i See it the Ultramarines Had 3 types of Elite Units. 1. Invictarius Suzerain, 2. Victrix Guard, 3. Honor Guard
And fourth, which is I Cato Sicarious, because I, Cato Sicarious am elite amongst elites!
@@macshadow1150 Alas, how could ive forgotten
2:02 The Deathwing also have their own video game.
0:00 Topic Intro
1:36 Channel Intro
1:42 I - Dark Angels - Deathwing
2:46 II - [REDACTED]
2:52 III - Emperor's Children - Phoenix Guard
3:51 IV - Iron Warriors - Iron Circle Elite
4:31 V - White Scars - Keshig
5:16 VI - Space Wolves - Wolf Guard
6:12 VII - Imperial Fist - Huscarls
6:40 VIII - Night Lords - Atramentar
7:54 IX - Blood Angels - Sanguinary Guard
8:46 X - Iron Hands - Morlocks
9:17 XII - World Eaters - Devourers
10:32 XIII - Ultramarines - Invictarian Suzerian
11:14 XIV - Death Guard - Deathshroud
12:19 XV - Thousand Sons - Scarab Occult (Sekhmets)
13:09 XVI - Luna Wolves - Justaerin
13:43 XVII - Word Bearers - Gal Vorbak
14:25 XVIII - Salamanders - Pyre Guard
15:08 XIX - Raven Guard Shadow Wardens
15:38 XX - Alpha Legion - Lernaearen
16:05 Outro
What makes the lLernaean terminators special, is their weaponry. They are strapped to the teeth with volkite chargers (arguably the coolest weapon in the setting) and conversion beamers for their "lieutenants" (arguably another of the coolest weapons in the setting).
Thanks for grinding out so much good'ol fashioned A.D.D. crack lately it's much appreciated!
We now need a in depth video on the Iron Circle Elite.
*Battle Robots in 40k?* - that screams tech heresy.
_I think_ Perturabo just built them himself, and this was after Phall so heresy priorities and all that, but even in 40k you can still field battle robots from Legio Cybernetica. It's just heavily restricted.
The intro didn’t age well, we are all several steps behind
i really want majorkill to talk about the destroyers squads like the blooded hand of angron or bloody tear of the blood angels,they were so overuse by mortarion
None chaos aligned warp entities and magic would be a cool video ngl.
The Gal Vorbak of the Word Bearers had a successor chapter, the Vakrah Jal. Argel Tal formed them personally from surviving Space Marines after Istvaan V. They were more elite than even the Gal Vorbak and are described to have Terminator Armor. We don't know if they still exist.
No they wasn’t, they where weaker then main Gal Vorbak , most of them die on Istvaan v them Gal Vorbak didn’t take same way as argel tal did
They were weaker dude. Gal Vorbak are to Vakrah Jal what custodies or gray knights are to space marines.. kinda.
Heresy-era Gal Vorbak are on the same tier as custodes.
I never heard of this, thank you for telling me about it man.
Being part of the 1st company in the Imperial fist during the great crusade is one of the best roles.
Im a space wolves player so I'm definitely biased, but the wolf guard terminators are so cool. I have two squads that I love dropping into my opponents backlines
Major kill might hit 500k by the end of the year i realy think this mad lad might be able to do it
MajorKill just got my A3 calendar so I could support, it’s a 2022 calendar lmao, but it’s pretty freaking awesome good work.
5:21 Magnus the Red: "FACKING FURRIES!"
14:03 he never thought that and went to his certain death against Corax to save them "and for the first time in his life, he went to engage in a battle that he had no hope of winning"My death is my own as well""
The Wings of the Hexagrammaton weren't limited to different companies, but rather dispersed throughout the ranks. It was only once it made the transition from legion to chapter that it was consolidated into the First company. Not only that, but they didn't exclusively wear Terminator armor, the Deathwing Companions models wear artificer MK4 armor
"None of them are elite, they are delete" that's a brilliant line, MAN.. i love it
As much as I am loving the shorter videos that come regularly I do miss the older long form ones. I get why it is more cost effective and productive but I would like it if I could get just one a year
this was awesome, what about a video about the Specialists from each Legion? Or Specialist units from the Horus Heresy?
Hold up...isn't the XIX's elite force the Mor Deythan? The Raven Guard that inherited Corvus' ability to wraith slip and who were all trained by Corvus personally?
The video title says "Elite Forces",(in which case you'd be correct), but it seems to be generally more geared to the honour guard-type units, which for the XIX Legion, were the Shadow Wardens.
Blood angels litterally never fail to make me love them
0:04 to be fair, at that bodyweight, Eddie Hall also needed a rest after getting up too quick lmao
Fun fact, the Dark Angel Legion's Deathwing weren't just bodyguards and were not required to wear terminator but usually did. A prime example of this were their Deathwing Companions;
"The Deathwing Companions are formed of the finest warriors and longest-serving veterans in the Deathwing, each sworn by stringent oaths to ensure the survival of the officers placed into their charge. Most famous among their ranks are those that have taken a death-blow meant for their charge and survived - such warriors are granted the right to wear bone-white armour in recognition of their selfless devotion."
Coming from late 2024 the Nikocado pic on the intro hits different
Ive been burning through several of your videos today but i really think this one is my favourite. cheers
I would say the Mor Deythan AKA The Shadow Masters are the Elite of the Raven Guard due to the fact members of said formation inherited a modicum of their primarch's ability to shadow walk. In M42 the gene is so rare the reformed formation has 4(?) Members currently.
Alas, not in terminator armour
@@LordGrantius Stealth Terminators especially ones that could literally turn invisible to mortal eyes would be a sight to see.
@@ravenguard0098 I would hope not, the point would be to remain unseen...
Reminds me of the 8th edition silliness of Centurions infiltrating to within 9". Or dreadnoughts. The Raven Guard should be sneaky but there should be lines that don't get crossed
@@LordGrantius still funny though regardless though I wonder what is the ratio of vanguard primaris:firstborn/normal primaris is. Since vanguard SMs are tailor made for them hell Chapter Master Shrike uses MK X phobos armour whilst other chapter masters tend to use Gravis/Terminator or Artificiers armour.
I was looking forward to the assessment of the badass unit of stealth marines so secretive they were unknown even to the rest of the legion. Instead I hear about the 'on the surface' marines that everyone knew about.
I suppose Corax would have preferred it that way though. His secrecy was so impenetrable that even a lore master overlooked them. Mission successful.
Considering the Phoenix Guard's aesthetics I guess Fulgrim must've be a huge fanboy of Valdor and his fellow golden banana boys. 😅
I love this mans content, keeps me coming back everytime
Yoooo I'm so glad to hear the calendars have 2 weeks left, my first paycheck hits next week let's gooooo
i would like to see a video about the different titan legions in the future
Glad you got 2023 calenders now :) time to buy myself and a mate one.
The sangi guard doesn’t actually wear sanguinius face anymore, that burden only fells to Dante. The guard are wearing their own faces on their helmets. Source is the Novel devastation of Baal, Dante mentioned it in the first quarter of the book.
11:30 to those who need to know Deathguard elites in terminator armor with nurgle blessings are tough as nails.
The way they described the atramentar in the night lords omnibus made them seem pretty badass
I just can't take the Space Wolves seriously, man. The fuck were GW thinking putting the word "wolf" in EVERYTHING?
I got my Shipping conformation for my MajorKill Plush today. The Hype is REAL.
Iron hands Morlocks,salamnder firedrake terminators,and the deliverers for the raven guard,why are these guys never talked about?is their lore not fleshed out enough or is it because most of them died on istvan?
I think it's both
@@felipestriker187 the firedrakes have plenty of lore and exist into 40k and a number of them escaped hell almost all the bands of the shattered legions you see have a firedrake with them lol
shame he didnt mention Numeon sacrificing himself in mount deathfire mind or how the captain of the firedrakes fills in as chapter master. or how they can field 120 terminators which is more than the deathwing
I wish you spoke of Mor Deythan while talking about RG:)
I've always wanted this topic to be covered!
Love when you cover the space marines! More like this!
I live your vids majorkill keep up the good work you absolute mad lad
Just wanna save thanks for all the hard work. Love the videos and the particular spice you flavor them with 😁
Could you ever do a video on the destroyer legions?
Victrix honor guard has some of the most dapper styling in the warhammer setting
I love what your channel is about boss.
5:26 Why is one Space Wolves' head a lot more detailed than the others...
video of non chaos aligned warp entities and magic would be pretty cool ngl
Man. I just hope you don't get burnout from pumping out the content so fast.
Stay safe and fresh!
You've gotten better with your hand gestures
Word bearers had the Vakrah JAL acting as their elite 1st company elite formation post Calth as Lorgars favoured with Argel Tal as the companies Preator
Company wide they were trained in the fighting pits of the world eaters ships and armed with dark mechanicus alchemical flame / melta weapons plus the first recorded chaos demon ‘embued weapons.
Additionally the word bearers terminator elite were called the Anointed.
Them Gal Vorbak where weaker then Mains ones
Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus also had the Catulan Reavers an Assault Team who were part of the 1st company and designed to compete against the Justaerin and promote "healthy" competition
2 weeks until calanders gone forever!..........next video, Hey, have you seen these calanders? Love it mate!
I want to hear about the rear echelon astartes. They're still superhuman monsters but they're comparatively unskilled or untalented to their brothers. Someone had to be World Eater who sucked in melee or A Thousand Son that was the weakest psyker.
I’m pretty sure that if you weren’t up to snuff you were discarded
I love how the Blueberry Bois used their elite troops to motivate others to those same high standards.
It's very much how the real military works.
"i spent my life wanting to see your face, yet i only ever saw your back. I longed to feel your approval, yet all i received was your scorn. I longed for you guiding hand, yet you only struck me. Many call you monster, i called you father "
Pretty much every world eater
I'm just here to remind everyone that Leandros is the worst ultramarine
Plot twist, he’ll be right in space marine 3 and Titus will fall to chaos
I want to make a kill team with elites from each Legion and back story as to why they are together
The mawlocks were gorn? Never knew that, I guess ferrus was friendly with lizard-men and didn't blast them with a bamboo cannon..
Alpha Legion: sometimes the greatest subterfuge is just punching out the other guy’s skull so you can keep your cover
Detail: The Raven Guard's elite isn't Corax's bodyguard (Shadow Wardens) but the Mor Deythan (Shadow Masters) they were the best of the best in stealth, inheriting the Ravenlord's invis.
You mixed up the too, which is understandable since the Shadow Wardens only show up in one book where they're Shadow Masters without the cool invis.
Mor Deythan could also do anything else than guarding Corax because, let's be honest, the Sire of the Ravenspire can't really get into danger, his Primarch ability is a "get out of jail free" card.
Also the Deliverers were the XIXth's termies but they were more blunt force than elite.
Babe wake up, majorkill posted a new video
Space wolves also have Harthains that are the second commands of the wolf lords, and only the oldest and most seasoned/skilled wolf Guard protected there wolf lords know as the Wolf Guard of (insurt name of wolf lord)
majorkill has made so many videos recently its fucking amazing
You know your naming convention is bad, when Rogal Dorn makes fun of it.
I feel like for ravenguard it would be dark furies or deliverers (deliverers hated corvus corax and in 30k if they are in the same army or fighting corvus they instantly die)
To be accurate, the Space Wolve’s elite guard’s name is officially called Varagyr in their language. Wolf Guard is just what uncultured mass, who couldn’t pronounce their name, call them.