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Комментарии • 2,6 тыс.

  • @buckpackerson9947
    @buckpackerson9947 4 года назад +6945

    "The Commissar is dead?"
    "Keep fighting he might be faking it "

    • @fumarc4501
      @fumarc4501 4 года назад +511

      “Do we poke him?”

    • @seand.g423
      @seand.g423 4 года назад +408

      @@fumarc4501 *pulls out Bolter* "I'm on it."

    • @Hellsong89
      @Hellsong89 4 года назад +430

      @@seand.g423 *Gets shot into head by bolt round and figure steps fully into view behind the wreck of tank* "I'm your new commissar Titus Alrod! Now rest of you point your weapons at the enemy and charge for name of the Emperor!... or else"

    • @zandrmandr8300
      @zandrmandr8300 4 года назад +104

      Hellsong89 FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!

    • @AbyssWatcher745
      @AbyssWatcher745 4 года назад +145

      Krieg Guardsman: Commisar? Do you mean handler?

  • @TheCellpool
    @TheCellpool 4 года назад +5781

    THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID
    CADIA STANDS

    • @diladrin3733
      @diladrin3733 4 года назад +155

      CADIA STANDS!

    • @King31j
      @King31j 4 года назад +100

      FOR CADIA!!

    • @MrGhjkl63
      @MrGhjkl63 4 года назад +96

      CADIA LIVES *STOMP STOMP*

    • @kevinbarber2795
      @kevinbarber2795 4 года назад +27

      Cellpool *STOMP STOMP*

    • @catosicarius3262
      @catosicarius3262 4 года назад +73

      The privilege to fight for your home, on your home. Not everyone is so lucky

  • @mees9704
    @mees9704 4 года назад +3562

    Astra Mili-what? YOU'RE IN THE GUARD SON

    • @bayonetenthusiast5703
      @bayonetenthusiast5703 4 года назад +225

      THE WALL OF GUNS

    • @scottland8698
      @scottland8698 4 года назад +29

      Beat me to it

    • @killian9314
      @killian9314 4 года назад +3

      I don't get the reference

    • @Jfk2Mr
      @Jfk2Mr 4 года назад +119

      @@killian9314 in IoM there are two official languages - low and high Gothic (guess what language is more popular). Astra Militarum is term used in high Gothic, and Guard is in low Gothic

    • @thehappy15a
      @thehappy15a 4 года назад +1

      F

  • @user-unos111
    @user-unos111 4 года назад +3240

    "You see, necrons have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shut down." Solar Commander Zapp Brannigan.

    • @fumarc4501
      @fumarc4501 4 года назад +381

      “Whatever it is, I’m prepared to send wave after wave of men to their deaths to see it done. Right men!?”
      **cough** “you suck!”

    • @theomnissiah-9120
      @theomnissiah-9120 4 года назад +204

      @@fumarc4501 Zaap : commisar find him

    • @user-unos111
      @user-unos111 4 года назад +179

      @@fumarc4501
      "The key to victory is the element of suprise. SURPRISE!" Zapp Brannigan pre-battle speech to the Elysian drop trops.
      (Edit) For those who don't get the joke: ruclips.net/video/lYNpgXBLawc/видео.html

    • @inkedseahear
      @inkedseahear 4 года назад +38

      @@user-unos111 Coming back from a successful exterminatus of the disable heretics of the eldarly nebula

    • @MrAwsomenoob
      @MrAwsomenoob 4 года назад +120

      "The tau though weak and womanly are masters of the arts. They made this tapestry in my honor while I was still killing them."

  • @jonaswolff4314
    @jonaswolff4314 4 года назад +470

    "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.- Dwight D. Eisenhower"

    • @johnbourlier7883
      @johnbourlier7883 3 года назад +23

      Unless that dog is a tiny chihuahua. And it wants a truck. Then size wins.

    • @alonelyperson6031
      @alonelyperson6031 3 года назад

      @@johnbourlier7883 Which size ?

    • @Joseph-mw2rl
      @Joseph-mw2rl 7 месяцев назад

      "Shimmy shimmy yay shimmy yay shimmy yay"
      -Robert J Oppenheimer

  • @luminous6520
    @luminous6520 4 года назад +2452

    “For every one of us who falls, *ten more* will take his place!”
    “Well, let’s see ‘em fight *all* of us!”

    • @Eatmydbzballs
      @Eatmydbzballs 4 года назад +32

      HAIL HYDRA! No wait...

    • @cheezypasta9231
      @cheezypasta9231 4 года назад +72

      Someone order an Earthshaker?

    • @mikhailbychkov5042
      @mikhailbychkov5042 4 года назад +93

      *Chaos Berserkers* : BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
      "FLEE! They're to much for us!!"
      *leads the Berserkers into an ambush*
      "Though they broke our backs!? *HA!* "

    • @Lightscribe225
      @Lightscribe225 4 года назад +38

      "When in deadly danger
      When beset by doubt.
      Run in little circles
      Wave your arms and shout"

    • @internetzenmaster8952
      @internetzenmaster8952 4 года назад +12

      *Ork Warboss in the distance:* _"CHALLENGED ACCEPTED HUMIE! WAAAAAAAGHH!!!!"_

  • @redeye3869
    @redeye3869 4 года назад +1907

    My favorite part in Cadia Stands is when these two guardsmen escape the destruction of Cadia onto a Space Wolves ship, and two Space Marines on the ship make the Aquila and the two guardsmen stop but the one that brought them there just says: “Do not fear. They are saluting you.”

    • @danielhaire6677
      @danielhaire6677 4 года назад +718

      The Space Wolves have long held high regard for the Guard dating all the way back to the first battle of Armageddon.
      For those who don't know the story, when Chaos and their Daemon masters invaded Armageddon, the Guard fought side by side with many Space Marine chapters as well as others in some of the fiercest fighting on the planet. Afterward, the Inquisition decided that members of the Guard knowing about Daemons was too high a risk to the Imperium and ordered the murder of those units. To protect hose who had stood side by side with them, the Space Wolves managed to get the last couple of living Guard Divisions to their homeworld of Fenris. Upon tracking them, the Inquisition had the planet besieged with their ships and ships of the Grey Knights Chapter. Their threat was that if the Guard units were not handed over, then the Space Wolves and their Chapter World would be all declared Excommunicatis Traitoris and subjected to the Exterminatus. To prevent this, the Guard en mass volunteered to sacrifice themselves one last time. They marched out to their doom with heads high.
      Because of this honor, those Guardsmen are the only non-Wolves whose names are listed amongst the honored dead of the CHapter. Also, the Wolves' distrust and hate of the Inquisition and the Grey Knights were born.
      Thus the courage of the two rescued from Cadia resonates with the Wolves as this time they could truly protect the heroes.

    • @jamescawl6904
      @jamescawl6904 4 года назад +181

      @@danielhaire6677 It was only Two chapters of space marines during the first war of armaggedon The Space Wolves and The Grey Knights.
      Also The Space Wolf Chpater master killed the Grey knight chpater master on 1 v 1 combat.

    • @sebbarker982
      @sebbarker982 4 года назад +33

      What's trillions but a multitude of billions

    • @MansMan42069
      @MansMan42069 4 года назад +10

      @@jamescawl6904 Space Wolves are nothing but pandering and special pleading. Hypocrites. Hyperion cracked grimnar's daemon axe anyway. And it was only a Grand Master. They still have Kaldor Draigo.

    • @jamescawl6904
      @jamescawl6904 4 года назад +48

      @@MansMan42069 yeah arent the Grey knights the Super Elite speehs marines?
      How many Grey knights died during the Months of shame? Dont forget Joros the Super Mehreen who got 1 shotted and Hyperion was about to be killed by the space wolves if Bjorn didnt teleport at the command bridge.

  • @The_Viscount
    @The_Viscount 4 года назад +1526

    "Commissar, sir, the enemy is running!"
    "Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"

    • @thorrenn2375
      @thorrenn2375 4 года назад +6

      He might be faking it

    • @y.kazayaki3681
      @y.kazayaki3681 4 года назад +20

      @Cian Abroad that's an actual quote from Dawn of war 2 Commisar

    • @utubrGaming
      @utubrGaming 2 года назад +1

      Ciaphas Cain: That's good. Jurgen, reverse at full speed. I want to, uh, report to command that we have a victory. Everybody else, advance!

  • @hansmercredi3636
    @hansmercredi3636 4 года назад +700

    That Guardsman that stood in front of Horus to protect the emperor makes me tear up
    What a hero

    • @alejandrochalco6893
      @alejandrochalco6893 3 года назад +31

      a tear runned through my face during that part .......for the emperor.

    • @MoltenUprisingMK
      @MoltenUprisingMK 3 года назад +22

      I get emotional whenever Cadia is mentioned.

    • @nebsam7137
      @nebsam7137 3 года назад +3

      What I have never seen this happen can you please explain where this claim is from?

    • @nebsam7137
      @nebsam7137 3 года назад +3

      Oh never mind I didn't finish the video

    • @lordbalthosadinferni4384
      @lordbalthosadinferni4384 Год назад +1

      RIP Olanius Pious

  • @StylesV13
    @StylesV13 4 года назад +2101

    Dark Angel: "Take up your weapon guardsmen."
    Guardsmen: "The Emperor Protects!"
    Dark Angel: "Yes. He does."

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 4 года назад +169

      Aaaaaaactually *(Pushes up Nit-Pick Glasses)* The Space marine wasn't a Dark Angel. His markings and heraldry are that of the Angels of Vengeance chapter, a successor chapter to the Dark Angels. Still, that is an awesome scene from an awesome video and all the glory in the universe to Guardsman Rains, for being ready to fight three Tyranid Hormagaunts, armed only with a bayonet and on a broken leg.

    • @cycoticmongoose
      @cycoticmongoose 4 года назад +50

      weldonwin and his adamantium balls

    • @nikolayvladimirov8633
      @nikolayvladimirov8633 4 года назад +4

      @@weldonwin which video is it from?

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 4 года назад +6

      @@nikolayvladimirov8633 ruclips.net/video/6bgi5STRe8E/видео.html

    • @TheFaroe
      @TheFaroe 4 года назад +3

      @@nikolayvladimirov8633 ruclips.net/video/6bgi5STRe8E/видео.html&feature=emb_title Enjoy

  • @lockretvids
    @lockretvids 4 года назад +524

    "A Guardsman's LIFE is to die. My job has always been to send them where they CAN die. I'm not afraid to spend men, but I never waste them!" - General Castor

  • @christophermares4069
    @christophermares4069 4 года назад +788

    “We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. The might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy - the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so badly that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial - carved into the heart of Chaos."
    FOR THE EMPEROR!!
    EDIT: for all the people. I know it the grey knight quote and saying, but I really liked it because if you take the chapter out and SPACHMARINE. It a great saying for the Guard. If the space marine can take all the credit for saving the emperor. When we know a imperial guard who wasn't even a follower of the faith of the god emperor. Then I believe the guard can take one quote from the SPACHMARINES.

    • @ImpudentInfidel
      @ImpudentInfidel 4 года назад +5

      Ok, so the Grey Knights are also here. That's nice.

    • @lordfrostdraken
      @lordfrostdraken 4 года назад +3

      Bruh, take your OP space marines to the OP space marine video

    • @ZethHolyblade
      @ZethHolyblade 4 года назад +4

      I thought the guard didn't know about the forces of chaos.

    • @jackmorriss9547
      @jackmorriss9547 4 года назад +3

      @@ZethHolyblade Sshhhhhhhhh

    • @Robert_Douglass
      @Robert_Douglass 4 года назад

      For the Emperor of All Humankind!

  • @tonic9914
    @tonic9914 4 года назад +689

    Some say the standard-issue weapon of the Guard are their lasguns. Some people are wrong.
    The greatest weapon of the Guard are their Emperor-blessed TITANIUM BALLS

    • @dionjaywoollaston1349
      @dionjaywoollaston1349 4 года назад +62

      Ben Tran he who mocks the lasgun has never faced a thousand of them

    • @bryanmanuel4945
      @bryanmanuel4945 4 года назад +35

      @@dionjaywoollaston1349 One Lasgun shot is a small dingy but millions of lasguns shooting is death to traitors and heretics.

    • @bryanmanuel4945
      @bryanmanuel4945 4 года назад +24

      @Lord Admiral Spire While the Lasgun would be a very OP weapins in normal universe,but in 40k everything is so OP a OP weapon considering it goes up against Tyranids,Orks,Traitor Astartes,Daemons the whole delights of 40k,

    • @Fyrebrand18
      @Fyrebrand18 4 года назад +16

      Titani-what? EMPEROR BLESSED ADAMANTIUM BALLS! STANDARD ISSUE FOR THE GUARD!

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 4 года назад +27

      Space Marines aren't brave. Being truly brave, is being a weak, fleshy human with no genetic enhancements, no inches thick power armor and no rapid-fire rocket launcher. The Imperial Guard have only their flak armor, their lasgun and the man beside them for protection and the courage to stand their ground against the very worst the cruel universe can throw at them. And they do, in their billions they stand their ground, bayonets fixed, they hold their ground against the darkness. Imperial Guardsmen are brave, they are *Heroic*

  • @galahad3195
    @galahad3195 4 года назад +3733

    "Alone, they are nothing. But they are never alone."
    Badass.

    • @pannedesalle4142
      @pannedesalle4142 4 года назад +64

      Dis hit me da most :C

    • @user-unos111
      @user-unos111 4 года назад +57

      Sly Marbo: Am I a joke to you?

    • @dantefromdevilmaycry9857
      @dantefromdevilmaycry9857 4 года назад +7

      Dark Templars?

    • @ΒαγγέληςΠρίντεζης
      @ΒαγγέληςΠρίντεζης 4 года назад +58

      For where i fall, ten more shall take my place, and a hundred for each of them. So strike me down, i am the harbinger!
      -Ollanius pius

    • @michaelkean5969
      @michaelkean5969 4 года назад +40

      @@ΒαγγέληςΠρίντεζης Man man so badass that Horus had to utterly obliterate him our of existence because he could not stand to have such a mere mortal show no fear in his presence, he basically stood in front of Horus a mere mortal infront of the 12ft tall demi-god and flipped him off.

  • @ImperatorPenguin
    @ImperatorPenguin 4 года назад +209

    "To each of us falls a task. All the Emperor asks of us guardsmen, is that we hold the line and die fighting. It's what we do best: we die standing."
    - General Sturnn, Dawn of War: Winter Assault

  • @CheesecakeAndMatcha
    @CheesecakeAndMatcha 4 года назад +253

    I love that the Imperiom of Man is this, clusterfuck of different cultures that are heavily based on real on going cultures or long forgotten ones

    • @TheRedKing247
      @TheRedKing247 4 года назад +26

      Something that just isn't talked about enough is just the sheer size of the Imperium. It's so big and galaxy spanning that the Imperium is really more of a loose confederation of millions of planets than an actual unified central body. This is why the Inquisition and Ecclesiarchy is so necessary, because really the only thing holding the Imperium together is the belief in mankind and the Emperor, along with the force applied by those two institutions. Also keep in mind, the only real way that planets are able to communicate with any sort of short time span is through psykers, otherwise they're reliant on radio or cable forms of communication once in a local system, so without instantaneous communication it's incredibly hard to have any sort of unified culture or government.

  • @cheezypasta9231
    @cheezypasta9231 4 года назад +444

    Enemies of the Imperium hear me
    You have come here to die
    The immortal Emperor is with us and we are invincible
    His soldiers will strike you down
    His war machines will crush you under their treads
    His mighty guns will bring the very sky fall upon you
    We are the Imperial Guard and today is our victory day!

    • @jacobjurgensmeyer6134
      @jacobjurgensmeyer6134 4 года назад +29

      Ah, I see you're a fellow man of culture as well

    • @jessicamason2526
      @jessicamason2526 4 года назад +10

      good quote but I gotta say you misquoted a bit of it "His mighty guns will bring the very sky fall upon you" should be "His mighty guns will bring the vary sky crashing down upon you"

    • @fumarc4501
      @fumarc4501 4 года назад +3

      WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!

    • @NODnuke45
      @NODnuke45 4 года назад +5

      "I can feel the warp overtaking me... IT IS A GOOD PAIN!"

    • @Bublito
      @Bublito 4 года назад

      *Adept of the Collegia Titanica. Stands by*

  • @fairhair1539
    @fairhair1539 4 года назад +250

    At the end of the day, though he's been ferried through hell on a ship that's ten thousand years old to some godforsaken, war-torn rock; though he deployed from high orbit with nothing but a grav chute; though he is one of ten million men and women snatched from his homeworld to fight a war he barely understands; though he has been given a weapon that fires small suns and may annihilate him as he fires because the knowledge of how it functions has been lost; though his company is supported by tractor-tanks that run on anything you can burn; though he wages war against a devouring hivemind, ravenous demons and hordes of hyper-advanced aliens with strange technologies and sorceries he never dreamed existed; no one will remember his sacrifice, there will be no records of his deeds, no glorious parades in his honor, and no remembrance of his name. All he will earn is a shallow, unmarked grave on a forgotten world untold lightyears from home.
    Yet for all this thankless sacrifice a Guardsman is a man, just like you. He has no millennia-old genetic engineering, no prophetic leader, no miracles of faith. He has his lasgun, his orders, and those beside him. He is an Imperial Guardsman.
    And he will hold the line.
    +++ CADIA STANDS HERETIC +++

  • @sword4005
    @sword4005 4 года назад +4024

    A large group of Tau soldiers are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a small hill: "One Imperial Guard is better than ten Tau!"
    The Tau commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the hill, where upon a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence.
    The voice once again calls out: "One Guardsmen is better than one hundred Tau."
    Furious, the Tau commander sends his next best 100 troops over the hill and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again Silence.
    The calm Guardsman voice calls out again: "One Guardsmen is better than one thousand Tau!"
    The enraged Tau commander musters 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the hill. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought! Then silence. . .
    Eventually one badly wounded Tau fighter crawls back over the hill and with his dying words tells his commander: "Don't send any more men. . .it's a trap! There's two of them! . . ."

    • @SuperShiki666
      @SuperShiki666 4 года назад +758

      a 9 year old cadian with a broken chair can beat 100 tau soldiers in melee

    • @Madhattersinjeans
      @Madhattersinjeans 4 года назад +610

      That joke is so old it's got editions of the bible before Rome fell.

    • @L0stEngineer
      @L0stEngineer 4 года назад +188

      @@Madhattersinjeans you think that's bad, I got an old Navy one about a Gloriana class battleship and a light beacon planet.

    • @bryanmanuel4945
      @bryanmanuel4945 4 года назад +137

      @@SuperShiki666 I better report thag heresey,You assume the Nine year old couldn't defeat a thousand

    • @scottland8698
      @scottland8698 4 года назад +14

      Jonathan Schmidt this I want to hear

  • @MathiasCzR01
    @MathiasCzR01 4 года назад +829

    Commissar: You there trooper!
    Guardsmen: Yes Sir?
    Commissar: You see those dislikes! I want them gone...
    Guardsmen: Understood sir!

    • @lucareali7645
      @lucareali7645 4 года назад +21

      Commisar : call the basilisk

    • @danielhaire6677
      @danielhaire6677 3 года назад +3

      Tell the Commisar not to worry. I reported the dislikes to the Inquisition. They sent the Sisters of Battle to deal with it.

    • @tranquoccuong890-its-orge
      @tranquoccuong890-its-orge 3 года назад +2

      261 xenos & chaos things clicked on the dislike button
      however, facing them is an astra militarum company of over 25 thousands guardsmen

    • @danielhaire6677
      @danielhaire6677 3 года назад +2

      @@tranquoccuong890-its-orge And they are pissed off Cadian Shock Troops, at that.

    • @APPLEPIE978
      @APPLEPIE978 2 года назад +16

      Holy shit, he actually made it happen.

  • @generalkenobi5173
    @generalkenobi5173 4 года назад +2585

    *Commiser:* "Do i see an enemy encampment guard?"
    *Artillery Guardsmen:* "Yes sir?"
    *Commiser:* "I don't want to anymore."
    *Artillery Guardsmen:* "Yes sir!"

    • @BenersantheBread
      @BenersantheBread 4 года назад +80

      "Someone call for an Earthshaker?"

    • @Bublito
      @Bublito 4 года назад +19

      *Power of a Titan. In one blast* - Shadowsword

    • @Legitpenguins99
      @Legitpenguins99 4 года назад +52

      *Commiser* : "That encampment offends me"
      *Artillery Guardsman* : "Im on it"

    • @beastwarsFTW
      @beastwarsFTW 4 года назад +15

      "Shatter their sky!"

    • @matthiuskoenig3378
      @matthiuskoenig3378 4 года назад +28

      *deathstrike Commander*: gunner, do you see that continent?
      *Gunner*: yes sir?
      *Commander*: I don't want to...
      *Gunner*: understood sir!

  • @thatrandomguy8157
    @thatrandomguy8157 4 года назад +1451

    FOR THE EMPEROR!

  • @WarOfWolves
    @WarOfWolves 4 года назад +455

    I actually got chills when they introduced the Death Korps like that.

    • @deathkorpswatchmaster2414
      @deathkorpswatchmaster2414 3 года назад +24

      You better

    • @MoltenUprisingMK
      @MoltenUprisingMK 3 года назад +9

      I had to suppress a laugh when I saw their horses had gas masks.

    • @somebodyoncetoldme5203
      @somebodyoncetoldme5203 3 года назад +37

      @@MoltenUprisingMK You do know that horses actually had to wear gasmasks in WW1 right?

    • @hekmatyar4476
      @hekmatyar4476 3 года назад +9

      Everyone loves the death korps of krieg if someone doesn’t hope that the emperor himself will intervene

    • @KriegCommisar
      @KriegCommisar 3 года назад +1

      Good

  • @L0stEngineer
    @L0stEngineer 4 года назад +1956

    Despite it's grim dark setting, no science fiction franchise gives me as much hope as Warhammer 40k.
    No other franchise dares to predict that we will not only be around in 38,000 years, but we will be able to fend off mindless monsters, literally demons from hell, and entire civilizations intent on our destruction. Warhammer40k predicts we can hang on not with fancy wonder technology or godlike A.I's, but with nothing more than overpowered flashlights, bayonets, faith and the human spirit.
    The emperor protects! (but don't retreat or the Commisar will have to shoot you.)

    • @jhoughjr1
      @jhoughjr1 4 года назад +76

      yes, he does.

    • @rodrigojalcacanarte3011
      @rodrigojalcacanarte3011 4 года назад +114

      Well, for 100.000 years the mankind was in survival mode and still conquer the planet that was Earth. Still we're here, in 40k years the humankind is a Mass of survivors...The planet fall, but the Guard stand is only the most recent example

    • @lookatthepicture4107
      @lookatthepicture4107 4 года назад +38

      This is poetry

    • @stratigangames508
      @stratigangames508 4 года назад +159

      @@TonyBustaroni yes. It is silly. That's kind of the point.

    • @hamanotaiki3591
      @hamanotaiki3591 4 года назад +97

      @@TonyBustaroni yeah we know its stupid, a lot of us do but we dont care.

  • @Yokou32
    @Yokou32 4 года назад +847

    "We're the Death Korps of Krieg, son. Did you think that was just a pretty name? We never retreat. We fight an we die, that's the Krieg way."
    Lieutenant Konarski, 933rd Death Korp of Krieg

  • @88amona
    @88amona 4 года назад +200

    Imperial citizen: Sir, your next at the cashier. Sir? You okay?
    Catachan Retiree: The trees keep talking to me. (Helicopter Rotor sounds slashing).

    • @commanderstorm8874
      @commanderstorm8874 3 года назад +12

      I don’t think a soldier would like long enough to retire

  • @abnegazher
    @abnegazher 4 года назад +78

    THE WALL OF GUNS!
    -Corvus Corax in despair.

    • @internetzenmaster8952
      @internetzenmaster8952 4 года назад +7

      'Corvus Corax in despair' So... his default mood then?

    • @rahadityap2375
      @rahadityap2375 2 года назад

      Even the fricking primarch fell embarass infront of Literal Alpha Chad Catachan Jungle Fighter

  • @spartanblast9189
    @spartanblast9189 4 года назад +52

    Whoever made the first concept art of the Imperial Guard must have been thinking “What if we just got World War 1 and put it on steroids?”

    • @deathkorpswatchmaster2414
      @deathkorpswatchmaster2414 3 года назад +6

      No that's mainly the death korp of kreig. Everything else is based on something different with mass cas

    • @thomashsiai6250
      @thomashsiai6250 3 года назад +1

      Whoever made the first concept art of the Imperial guard must have been thinking “What if there were no condoms?”

  • @captainkeyes1523
    @captainkeyes1523 4 года назад +215

    “Others are present where the fighting is thickest, leading their soldiers through example” *Shows Ibram Gaunt fighting like a by the throne boss*

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 4 года назад +25

      Not Pictured, Ciaphas Cain fighting a Daemon Princess of Slaanesh with a chainsword

    • @Eiskralle1
      @Eiskralle1 3 года назад +1

      @@weldonwin twice!

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 3 года назад +4

      @@Eiskralle1 Or Cain fighting a Genestealer Patriarch, also with a chainsword... or an Ork Warboss... Or a World Eaters Berzerker... ALSO TWICE

  • @lloydzabala6552
    @lloydzabala6552 4 года назад +409

    The Lasgun: the AK of the future

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 4 года назад +47

      Lasgun: I'm what AK wants to be when it grows up.

    • @lucastark1784
      @lucastark1784 4 года назад +33

      We need an AK pattern lasgun stat.

    • @RKidd-ex3rh
      @RKidd-ex3rh 4 года назад +36

      I bet there's some actual AK's still around even in the 41st millennium.

    • @alexrowe7063
      @alexrowe7063 4 года назад

      @@RKidd-ex3rh I bet money that even that technology is lost in the 41st

    • @kennycai8695
      @kennycai8695 4 года назад +11

      @@RKidd-ex3rh If the M2 Browning (the Heavy Stubber) is still in service, I wouldn't be surprised if some hive worlder carried one of those.

  • @sqocks8254
    @sqocks8254 4 года назад +397

    That moment when you feel patriotic for a fictional empire...

    • @theone-tg4ey
      @theone-tg4ey 2 года назад +11

      ya have to dream it first before making it reality right? or something like that, I dunno

    • @BuilderB08
      @BuilderB08 2 года назад +28

      @@theone-tg4ey Thing is, we don’t want it to be reality, like *really* don’t

    • @Archangelm127
      @Archangelm127 2 года назад +7

      Well, it *is* our species... /shrug

    • @ianharrison5758
      @ianharrison5758 Год назад +2

      @@BuilderB08 I admire the guard for standing their grand against the BS they have to deal with, but I have no interest in making that our reality

    • @jenniferlumiqued
      @jenniferlumiqued Год назад +2

      A fictional nation that will soon be non fiction

  • @DanielDiCenso
    @DanielDiCenso 4 года назад +127

    "Commissar, sir, the enemy is running!"
    "Well, keep firing until they stop!"

  • @Peter_Turbo4
    @Peter_Turbo4 4 года назад +70

    Astra mili-whatnow?
    *YOU'RE IN THE GUARD SON*

  •  4 года назад +79

    Grey Knight: The Guard's valor and faith is inspirational.
    Inquisitor: True, it's a shame we have to mind-wipe them.

    • @iglidor
      @iglidor 4 года назад +3

      That is still the better option.

    • @baconwhale6414
      @baconwhale6414 4 года назад +1

      Better than having the entire planet deleted from existence.

    • @danielhaire6677
      @danielhaire6677 4 года назад +6

      Tell that to the Guard Divisions murdered by the Ordo Malleus and the Grey Knights following Armageddon.

  • @kevinkellyantonio3040
    @kevinkellyantonio3040 4 года назад +104

    Came here to hear Larissa's Voice once more,
    its too bad she left the Institute

    • @LeavingGoose046
      @LeavingGoose046 4 года назад +32

      Oh she left? I wondered why I didn't hear her anymore. Her voice was one of my favorite things about this channel :(

    • @supersayan8951
      @supersayan8951 3 года назад +9

      Why did she?

    • @danielhaire6677
      @danielhaire6677 3 года назад +18

      @@supersayan8951 After hearing her 40K work, she was drafted by the Adeptas Sororitas as a Battle-Sister.

  • @The-Samuil
    @The-Samuil 4 года назад +257

    You misspelled "The Wall of Guns"

    • @tatepultro
      @tatepultro 4 года назад +16

      @@Valk369 ...Don't do that.

    • @The-Samuil
      @The-Samuil 4 года назад +11

      @@Valk369 ....and he's dead. Again

    • @gabrielaubry1334
      @gabrielaubry1334 4 года назад +12

      @@Valk369 Do not boop that merry suicide bomber.

    • @tatepultro
      @tatepultro 4 года назад +9

      @@Valk369 Do not boop that merry suicide bomber.

    • @dionjaywoollaston1349
      @dionjaywoollaston1349 4 года назад +5

      M. Tate Pultro but boop

  • @dustin1931
    @dustin1931 4 года назад +20

    18:29 "Against the terrible foes of mankind, a single guardsman alone can do nothing, but a guardsman is never alone..."

  • @AbyssWatcher745
    @AbyssWatcher745 4 года назад +139

    *They have held the line for ten thousand years! And they shall hold the line for ten thousand more!*
    Also looks like the institute is aware of retcons about the guardsmen/terminator/custodes lol

    • @Ra.vanZon
      @Ra.vanZon 4 года назад +11

      In the grim darkness of the 40th millennia there is no retcons

  • @chaosknight9131
    @chaosknight9131 4 года назад +141

    "Enemies of the Imperium, hear me. You have come here to die. The Immortal Emperor is with us and we are invincible. His soldiers will strike you down, his war machines will crush you under their treads, his mighty guns will bring the very sky crashing down upon you. You cannot win. The Emperor has given us his greatest weapon to wield. So make yourselves ready. We are The First Kronus Regiment, and today is our victory day!" - Governor-Militant Lukas Alexander

    • @pretzelbomb6105
      @pretzelbomb6105 3 года назад +1

      So this is where Rimmy got that speech.

    • @ThePumpkinRot
      @ThePumpkinRot 2 года назад +1

      Dawn of war Dark crusade guard campaign.

  • @BlackMethos
    @BlackMethos 4 года назад +84

    *Chaos Marine*: "Pathetic human. Your flashlight cannot hurt me!"
    *Guardsman*: "Maybe not. But how about two dozen of 'em?"
    *CM*: "Aw crap..."

    • @grimgoreironhide9985
      @grimgoreironhide9985 4 года назад

      *20000

    • @Hellsong89
      @Hellsong89 4 года назад +6

      Still not, but two dozen will possible give the last guy enough time to overcharge his flashlight and with small luck from emperor get trough the Chaos Marines armor and even with better luck hit something important. Now this is repeated by dozens and dozens of squads, can Imperial Guard easily defeat thousands of Chaos Marines with mere losses of tens of millions and that is what you call supreme victory!

    • @BUSSTISEBOOST
      @BUSSTISEBOOST 4 года назад

      *Cough* *Laughs Fanatically in Plague Ridden Armour*

    • @legionofthedamned157
      @legionofthedamned157 4 года назад +6

      @@BUSSTISEBOOST EAT LASCANON

    • @frankdelgrosso8297
      @frankdelgrosso8297 4 года назад

      Cannot even say how many people I have frustrated by tying up thier Elietes with throngs of guradmen.

  • @rootentootenbluebucko25
    @rootentootenbluebucko25 4 года назад +29

    “The Guard does two things, we stand in line and we die for the Emperor. In other words, we die standing!”

  • @literalsarcasm1830
    @literalsarcasm1830 3 года назад +23

    Join the Imperial Guard. Defend Humanity. And if you're lucky, you might just live long enough for the Astartes to swoop in and take all the credit.

  • @kelllessley4017
    @kelllessley4017 4 года назад +59

    At last, Templin Institute is free of Paradox

    • @TurKlack
      @TurKlack 4 года назад +1

      Uhm..what exactly happened?

    • @joeandrew8752
      @joeandrew8752 4 года назад +2

      What does that mean? I thought they were always independent?

  • @BenersantheBread
    @BenersantheBread 4 года назад +14

    Even through the lens of a fictional institute chronicling the Imperium, your video gave me chills. I love the Templin Institute!

  • @windtalkersblah
    @windtalkersblah 4 года назад +55

    "I have at my command an entire battle group of the Imperial Guard. Fifty regiments, including specialized drop troops, stealthers, mechanized formations, armored companies, combat engineers and mobile artillery. Over half a million fighting men and thirty thousand tanks and artillery pieces are mine to command. Emperor show mercy to the fool that stands against me, for I shall not.
    - at the outset of the Salonika Crusade, 733.M38
    Warmaster Demetrius

    • @RealShuraalex
      @RealShuraalex 4 года назад +4

      All things considered a relatively modest force for the setting.. just sayin.

    • @lookatthepicture4107
      @lookatthepicture4107 3 года назад

      Half a million men for a warmaster?
      Was this a last stand?!

  • @Mister_Kourkoutas
    @Mister_Kourkoutas 4 года назад +14

    “The Legionnaire who scoffs at a lasgun has never had to charge across an open field against a hundred of them.”

  • @caad5258
    @caad5258 4 года назад +38

    "Where I fall, ten more shall take my place! And one hundred each of them! So strike me down! I am the harbinger!"

  • @williamtorres4140
    @williamtorres4140 4 года назад +10

    "Serving as the First and often only line of defense" and sometimes Being The First and Only! For Gaunt, For Tanith, Straight Silver, First and Only!

  • @Belisarius2546
    @Belisarius2546 4 года назад +19

    For the Emperor, in his most holy name.
    By the Omnissiah, and the machine spirit.
    Let none stand before us!

  • @joerider2508
    @joerider2508 4 года назад +8

    HELL YES MY BOIS! Guard were my first 40k army so i appreciate you giving them some love

  • @semi-automaticdooropened9007
    @semi-automaticdooropened9007 3 года назад +9

    Commissar: I have bad and good news, firstly, it is probable that none of you will survive this battle
    Guardsman: and what are the bad news?

  • @deenadayalan3562
    @deenadayalan3562 4 года назад +32

    If any other universe fanboy says their army will easily defeat imperial guards let alone an astartes, their spirit will break when they realise the truth.

    • @rahadityap2375
      @rahadityap2375 2 года назад +4

      if other universe army said
      " We did it, We kill Hundred milions of Guardsman ".
      The Other Bilion guardsman will
      also reinforce continue infinite
      until the entire those universe army was completely destroyed because unending guardsman, Even if their army killing entire guardsman it will continue other bilions and bilions
      until those universe army losses
      his ability and eventually destroyed and killed by guardsman

    • @user-unos111
      @user-unos111 Год назад

      Interim Coalition of Governance: "Challenge accepted"

  • @olehinn3168
    @olehinn3168 4 года назад +37

    12:54
    Wait , that's not the Tacktica Imperialis!
    That's HERESY!!!
    **Blam**

  • @mitchellmitting6678
    @mitchellmitting6678 4 года назад +3

    Astra Milita-what now? Your in the Guard now son.
    Honestly, everyone calls it the Imperial Guard, this will never change

  • @generalkenobi5173
    @generalkenobi5173 4 года назад +42

    *I cried watching this it was too beautiful too emotional for me to hold back the tears.*

  • @tjappacloud7538
    @tjappacloud7538 4 года назад +16

    Ollius pius is the most badass character to have ever existed

  • @rays5073
    @rays5073 4 года назад +9

    He holds the line...
    AND HE HAS HELD THE LINE FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS!

  • @kirk7528
    @kirk7528 4 года назад +4

    My favorite lore channel covering my favorite faction in my favorite universe!

  • @jare3459
    @jare3459 4 года назад +7

    all the guard regiments are why I love imperial guard because you know when end times come they will be last one standing

  • @yunanklaus1195
    @yunanklaus1195 4 года назад +37

    Krieg Sergeant: Looks like the Xenos are surrounding us, sir. The men are really happy about it.
    Krieg Officer: Hot damn, wish everyday is as good as today. Why can't they do this every time we fight?
    Krieg Sergeant: You know it sir, Xenos are cowards.

  • @kupper123
    @kupper123 4 года назад +34

    THE IMPERIUM STANDS DEFIANT AGAINST THE DARKNESS.

  • @Terenin
    @Terenin 4 года назад +1

    I am so very, very happy you intentionally OMITTED the over-hyped glory-hogging bastards from the initial mentions of the Imperium's various forces. Thank you so much for that, and for a delivery that me tear up several times in awe and respect.

  • @A_Machine
    @A_Machine 4 года назад +13

    "At night, entire horizons are ablaze with the fire of heavyguns. A declaration to the enemy's of man that THEY have come HERE to DIE!"
    I fuk'n love that. Oorha.

  • @SpanishDio
    @SpanishDio 4 года назад +26

    "Stalingrad? Bah, we call that Tuesday"

    • @nickkohlmann
      @nickkohlmann 4 года назад +1

      Hahahahahahahahahaha

    • @Ower8x
      @Ower8x 4 года назад +1

      you mean we call that a tea time :D

  • @tylercherry465
    @tylercherry465 4 года назад +3

    I've always appreciated how each different planetary militia is based off historical military powers

  • @CapitalTeeth
    @CapitalTeeth 4 года назад +1

    If you ask me, the Astra Militarum is humanity's sheer endurance on full display. Billions, perhaps even trillions die on the daily to protect the Imperium where the Space Marines can not.

  • @davidstanley1453
    @davidstanley1453 4 года назад +3

    When she mentions the Tanith First and Only! Yesssss!
    Adore this vid, great work!

  • @jamesmckenna5453
    @jamesmckenna5453 4 года назад +13

    A soldier once asked me, "when did the guard form?"
    I told him of a legend, of a myth so old no one knows if it's even true or not. Passed down through the countless generations of guardsmen.
    Tens of thousands of years ago, before the Emperor, before the first age of the Imperium, when mankind was still reaching for the stars. Their was a simple soldier, one you would find anywhere. He saw the first portal open to hell and in a desperate defense fought legion after legion. In time he would stand with others against the hordes invading Holy Terra, never yielding even as his rage grew. Soon, he was forced to make a choice: retreat to the distant colonies or charge into the heart of the enemy. He chose to stand, alone, against impossible odds. His wrath upon the demons instilled a level of fear unmatched in their history, and to this day they still fear those soldiers armed in green armor. The constant reminder of the one being they could not defeat.
    He was the first to hold the line in the name of mankind, as you in turn do so soldier. . .

  • @lordhamster9452
    @lordhamster9452 4 года назад +6

    Commissar : must force his soldiers to hold the line at all cost.
    Meanwhile with Kreig guard

  • @trajicsolitude5791
    @trajicsolitude5791 4 года назад +9

    "MEN OF TANITH!"
    "DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER"

  • @TheVoiceOfReason93
    @TheVoiceOfReason93 4 года назад +20

    "CADIA STANDS!"

    • @diladrin3733
      @diladrin3733 4 года назад +5

      THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID

  • @NGC4261
    @NGC4261 4 года назад +4

    I cry at the end of the video. the guardsmen will never stand alone!!!

  • @UllyrWuldan
    @UllyrWuldan 3 года назад +3

    How am I just discovering this channel, holy crap its great

  • @REDemon14
    @REDemon14 4 года назад +2

    "For against the terrible foes of mankind; a single Guardsmen alone can do nothing, but a Guardsmen is never alone."
    Kinda have me chills the first time I heard that

  • @helium3782
    @helium3782 4 года назад +5

    6:48 Valhalla = WW2 Russia
    7:17 Armageddon Steel Legion = WW2 Germany
    7:37 Mordian Iron Guard = WW1 France
    8:09 Desert Raiders = WW2 British SAS in North Africa
    8:35 Krieg Death Corps = WW1 Germany in appearance, WW2 Japan in everything else
    9:02 Catachan = Vietnam War Vietcong

  • @Jormungrandrserpent
    @Jormungrandrserpent 3 года назад +1

    the Imperial Guard is badass because mere mortals go toe to toe with so called gods and foul xenos. At the end of the day that is some epic levels courage and duty that would make the Emperor himself shed a tear at the sheer level of badassery the Guard brings to the theater of war!

  • @MrSporkster
    @MrSporkster 4 года назад +1

    The production values for this channel are through the roof. Absolutely superb.

  • @tommyfortress7515
    @tommyfortress7515 4 года назад +21

    Templin institute: "Death korps of Kreig"
    Me: "KASRSKIN SQUAD READY FOR DUTY!"

  • @angelosmortis3081
    @angelosmortis3081 4 года назад +5

    I love the space Marines I'm a blood Raven my self but I really fancy being a imperial guardsmen a normal mortal men that faces countless horrors but still managed to hold the line ... For the emperor ....

  • @draochvar9646
    @draochvar9646 3 года назад +1

    Nice to see some light shone on the humble grunts of the Guard.
    HARAKONARI AN TELLIKA REGALA! WARHAWKS PRESENT AND READY FOR ACTION!

  • @SwiftGundam
    @SwiftGundam 4 года назад +18

    This was a long one. Clearly, you've been working on this on for a while. And with all the regiments listed, you have more than enough for dozens of videos on each one.

  • @Lulu-ex7fc
    @Lulu-ex7fc 4 года назад +3

    Always feel a bit choked up when she gets to Pious.

  • @tonyjedioftheforest1364
    @tonyjedioftheforest1364 3 года назад +1

    A good video for someone new to Warhammer to learn about the background of the army’s.

  • @Hitchclif
    @Hitchclif 2 года назад +1

    Fucking hell why did that introduction make so emotional? It's a fiction army fighting fiction enemies for their fiction god, and even after knowing that, I feel like crying

  • @maxwelljacobs2715
    @maxwelljacobs2715 4 года назад +5

    Imagine a dude in some hall with a super fan scream. That is me now in a college hallway.

  • @karlvik2168
    @karlvik2168 4 года назад

    God damn, first a pity the guardsman reference, and then a section on ollanius pius? This video truly does the guard justice.

  • @LegionesCataegis429
    @LegionesCataegis429 Год назад +3

    "If every Space Marine were to fall, the Imperium will degrade faster. If every Imperial Guardsman were to fall, the Imperium will be reduced to ashes within days."
    - Random comment I found from another 40k-related video.

  • @gaiuspadme6344
    @gaiuspadme6344 2 года назад +2

    A single guardsman alone can do nothing, BUT a guardsman is never alone!! LESGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
    how can you get so hyped for a fictional universe, The emperor is really with us.

  • @khartog01
    @khartog01 4 года назад +2

    In the immortal words of Commissar Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM, "Frak this!"

  • @andreproudian7032
    @andreproudian7032 4 года назад +4

    "Astra mili what? Your in the guard son!"

  • @Red_Fox_87
    @Red_Fox_87 Год назад +1

    Both the writing and voice acting in these videos are fantastic

  • @240pixel
    @240pixel 4 года назад +1

    Every 40k video from you guys gives goosebumps! love it!

  • @Derginator
    @Derginator 4 года назад +4

    Inside a guardsman beats the heart of a man, more powerful than any weapon in the universe.

  • @Killzoneguy117
    @Killzoneguy117 3 года назад +3

    "A guardsman lives in the present because he has no future"

  • @derargent4692
    @derargent4692 2 года назад +1

    In Holy Terra, in this entire Imperium. WE RESPECT OLLANIUS PIUS, the CHAD

  • @joeblack5393
    @joeblack5393 4 года назад

    Quite possibly your greatest video so far.
    PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD

  • @randomlyentertaining8287
    @randomlyentertaining8287 4 года назад +8

    15:36 "Illegally modified to deliver more energy per shot."
    Wait, there's laws on show strong a lazgun can be? I'm real new to warhammer and that doesn't make sense.

    • @tomaszkrol9465
      @tomaszkrol9465 4 года назад +4

      No, because when you use more energy per shot you faster run out your battery. Instead of reloading, GRAB YOUR BAYONET AND KILL THESE XENOS SCUM!

    • @KruberFan
      @KruberFan 4 года назад +1

      there are illegal multi-barrel lasguns, that's what I remember off the top of my head

    • @p_serdiuk
      @p_serdiuk 3 года назад

      Obviously yes, because its electrical components are made to specification and don't like excess voltage or amperage just like any other electrical device.
      It's like trying to overcharge an electric car, of course something will burn out eventually if you try.

    • @blackvial
      @blackvial 3 года назад +4

      Only a certified Tech-Priest is allowed to make modifications to your weapon

    • @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong
      @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong 2 года назад

      Pretty sure the unsanctioned modification of imperial equipment would be considered some kind of tech heresy. Gotta get those toasterfuckers on Mars to dip it in oil and mumble in binary for a few weeks first.

  • @eversincexx
    @eversincexx 4 года назад

    naming and describing every single regiment gave me goosebumps, 40K & the templin institute are truly a level above everything else

  • @AegisRamble0
    @AegisRamble0 4 года назад +4

    Out of all the myriad of factions and sub factions within WH40K, the Imp-Guard is perhaps, no it is with certainty, my favorite. And only for the simple fact that they are truly Mortal, they are truly brave, and they are truly worthy of respect. The other factions possess some grandiose augmentation or genetic BS to be effective. The Guard have their fear, guts, faith, and simple damned stubbornness. That's it. And that's way more BA than some goon in poofy armour. At least to me.
    All the factions are cool, but the Imp-Guard are the real badasses, to me.

  • @papasult11
    @papasult11 3 года назад +4

    Tell me if I'm wrong but I think lasguns are like Ak47, but in space