Noob Reacts to Every single Warhammer 40k (WH40k) Faction Explained | Part 1
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Thank you to all that recommended that I reacted to this video! Was an absolute blast to watch 😱 I'm just gonna say it. I love WH40k, and I love you guys 😍❤️
The emporer not a Good guy. But better than some others. But that I mean he was a fascist and fanatical Atheist, but at least he wasn't a literal demon like his enemies.
To answer your other question yes the emperor can communicate but his communication is limited. He can send dreams to people to guide them.
However Who we can send it to and where Is limited. So most of the Time the imperium Is run by the council known as the high lords of Terra. They rule in the emperor's name .
Welcome to the fun, I look forward to seeing you learn more about it :)
factions are mostly bad and follow theyr own interests. Individuals can be good tho.
its also important to note that tens of millions of guardsmen on a single battle are relativly rare. Like only the bigggest battles goe into the hundreds of millions of guardsmen, the large majority are a lot smaller.
All members of Mechanicus have different amount of their organs replaced with mechanical stuff. Usually the more robotic you are - the more respect you'll have from your fellow mech people. But they also all have a human brain. They believe that artificial intelligence is pure evil, so if they need a robot to do a specific task - they'll stick a human brain in a machine and meddle with it until all it can think and do is that specific task.
Aiaiaiai, thank you so much for your comment! I'm learning 🧠🤯 It's so cool and awful that they are jamming human brains into machines and tamper with it to make it work. That is just WILD! 😱
@@OleHerland Well the reason why Ai is no no and use human only is because at some point we have terminater war, Ai just have to rebel so human are fucking scared of them.
@@Raven675 That is so wild! Can't wait to see/learn more about that war. Must be some epic lore/stories from that war!
@@OleHerland no, actually the dark age of technology is left pretty vague, we don't know hy the AI rebelled, was it chaos, human mistakes or bad treatment? no one truly knows and the only one who could know what happened, would be the emperor since he was there, but he never told anyone about it
@@OleHerland Nope, nothing at all. We can only have snippets of what that Era of humanity was like, and it was wild. Think of Halo but ramped up to a billion with cocaine and steroids mixed in.
so, a small correction, the imperium is not based in the just the nazi, in reality they are based in every single dictatorship and empire to ever exist on earth like Soviet Union, the British empire, the Russian empire, the Japonese empire and the Roman empire and etc.
The main thing is that it's all of the bad empires and dictatorships to ever exist. It's a high criticism of all of them! It sucks to live in the Imperium, just like it sucked to live in everything the Imperium is based on. Fascist dictatorships suck to live in, even if there are real external threats to 'justify' your rampant xenophobic control. Is it even worth it if the fascists are correct? That there is both a physical and a spiritual battle in Chaos that must be fought at all times with intense propaganda and religious fanaticism, patriotic dogma and unflinching loyalty? What're you fighting for anymore at the end of it all? The right to live in a squalid hive city while the upper echelons of society necessary to run a dictatorship languish in luxury you'll never get to even see?
It's based on fascism. That's the word you're cooking for.
@@SamoanSamuraiWow I didn't know the British, Soviets, Japanese, and Romans were all fascist. It was my understanding that fascism started in Italy somewhere around 1919.
@@SamoanSamurai Not just fascism also communism, What the word you're looking for though is totalitarianism which it is mimicking and all its forms. But it also mimics with the chaos and elements of chaos, anarchy
@@lqg4395 People often misconstrue fascism and totalitarianism as the same thing when you can be totalitarian without being fascist but if you are fascist you are always a totalitarian society.
1:25:00 I feel like I should mention about this as I used to misunderstand it until someone explained it a bit better. "Innocence proves nothing" doesn't really mean what it sounds like it means. In 40k, the corrupting powers of xenos and chaos can sometimes be very insidious and manipulative. For example, a civilisation may be plagued by a disease, be begging for relief and a cure, and end up unknowingly or unwillingly worshipping the chaos god Nurgle. These people may have done nothing wrong. They would have been oblivious to the dangers of their actions through no fault of their own, only acted to try and save themselves and the ones they love, and be innocent victims of the powers of chaos. However, in such a scenario, the Inquisition knows that although these people are by all means innocent, that doesn't mean they are not guilty of aiding the enemies of the Imperium and need to be destroyed.
Makes so much sense when you put it like that. You might truly think you are innocent, but you are being used without knowing it. Sounds a lot less hash with "innocence proves nothing". When you know, you know
Name checks out.
Both definitions work depending on the context they are placed.
Sometimes it’s the imperium being a dick, sometimes it’s the scenario mentioned above.
21:39 That is the Primarch Angron. His legion was known as the World Eaters. They fell to the chaos god Khorne, god of violence and bloodshed. This...isn't even Angron's final form.
THIS IS NOT HIS FINAL FORM?! Wow, that is insane to think about!! Thank you so much for your comment! :D
Put it this way, Angron doesn't skip wing day...
@@OleHerland you can now get his model in his current form for the tabletop
- The Emperor is a hardcore atheist. Prior to his galactic crusade, he purged ALL religions on Earth.
- A thing that Bricky doesn't mention was that humanity was already advanced and spacefaring prior to the Emperor's emergence. And then, they had an AI uprising which the humans won but left them utterly devastated. Since then, all forms of AI are completely outlawed. In the case of the Imperium, it is one of the highest forms of heresy. So if you can't use AI, what do they use?
Servitors.
What are servitors, you may ask? They are slaves (usually criminals, sometimes they're not) that have been lobotomized, dismembered, and reassembled with cybernetic "enhancements" to serve the Imperium. There will be times that they will be found mumbling or repeating words, as if trying to remember their past selves.
- Lasguns are definitely the weakest, until you have 1000 of them firing at you.
- Guardsmen are known to have a 90% mortality rate on their first deployment. Most of them die due to combat and some die because they were used as "motivation" to "improve" morale. Cadia was destroyed after some asshole threw a moon-sized space station at the planet. So, most Cadians will often say "Cadia still stands!", "Cadia lives!", or "The planet broke before the Guard did." as copium.
- Do you know what the Mechanicus consider heretical, besides AI? Inventing or developing new things.
Like the Imperium, they degraded hard. None of them know or understand how their tech works anymore and require Gothic Binary chanting through their bible/sacred texts (which basically is just an instruction manual and what their chanting is just the words "Press the ON button").
To clarify, the Omnissiah and the Machine Spirit are two totally different things. The Omnissiah is basically their Jesus, and they refer to the Emperor as such.
- Not only do they kill anyone near demons, the Grey Knights also kill people who have seen them...even at a glance.
- Adeptus Custodes. The faction that Henry Cavill mains as.
3 Space Marines are too small. Try like 10, and they'll still win with pure dominance.
- Psykers are usually the targets for the Culexus assassins because they can bypass their abilities, almost rendering them invisible to their senses. There was also a story where a normal guardsman saw one (that had their power amplified a bit), took out his gun and shot himself.
- If you get spotted by an Inquisitor, you are essentially dead. If you are guilty, you will die. If you are innocent, you will be killed anyway because you wasted their time.
- For Exterminatus, it can range from saturation bombardment, nuking the planet, virus bombing, planet core cracking (essentially a giant laser boring straight down to the core), etc.
It is always meant to be a last resort, nothing more...except if you're Kryptman.
Fidus Kryptman was an Inquisitor who was responsible for nuking so many Imperium planets to prevent them from being invaded by space bugs (Tyranids). He essentially overdid the thing, leading to the Imperium kicking him out and branding him as a traitor. He is one of the main causes why there are so many xenos-related exterminatus memes.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing so many interesting facts! Was just a blast to read through 🤯
@@OleHerland humanity in the dark age of technology was bassically a star trek faction, when warpstorms, ai rebellion and psykers caused the human empire to collapse also a lot of allied xeno races got wiped out, more dangerous xenos raided worlds, enslaved billions and though some alliances like the Interex who were human and alien working together survived there wasn't much left. When the emperor sarted the imperium he wanted to unite all humans, societies like the interex were wiped out for only the way of the imperium was the true way (don't forget the imperium has never been "good", even before the horus heresy it was a pretty scary thing if you were an innocent alien species
@@OleHerland AI now stands for Abominable Intelligence
@@OleHerland One common saying about Cadia is "The planet broke before the Guard did" because as the planet was TEARING ITSELF APART there was still Lasgun fire that could be seen from the evacuation ships upon the various pieces of the planet as the soldiers there kept fighting the forces of Chaos.
The planet was turning into rubble and the soldiers were still fighting the good fight in the name of their God-Emperor.
F***king Kryptman. The guy thought he knew what was up, unfortunately for him his two plans were not effective. He managed to thwart one tendril with his campaign of mass extermination. He had to resort to kidnapping genestealers and throwing the at the orks to attract the rest of them in a fight against them. Which also made things tenuous at best. Whoever comes out of that war victorious will certainly be a nightmare to deal with.
The most funny thing about Sisters of Battle is why they exist.
Basically, the Ecclesiarchy had too much power, their leader tried to take power in the Imperium, they were beaten and they were forced to sign a treaty where they shall have no men in arms under their command.
So, they decided to give weapons to women, because they're not men :D
That is super funny! Sneaky, I like it 😂
That sounds about right lmao.
1:26:29 I shall now list off all of the people who outrank inquisitors: The Emperor, Primarch, and Custodes (whos number is never more than 10,000). That’s it. That being said, inquisitors are usually kept in check by other inquisitors.
The inquisitors as a concept is so interesting. But it's also really cool to know that there are some above them. Makes it even more exiting!
40k nerd here, custodes are usually under 1000 in number.
@@catosicarius3027 I’m pretty sure you missed a zero there. Because every source I’ve looked at says that the number is 10,000
And the Sisters of silence
@@joshtompkins1538 yeah I probably got it wrong, always heard it as 1000.
16:17 just to clarify, the Warp is the realm of thought. EVERYONE has some level of connection to the Warp, and any thoughts that someone has is manifested in the Warp. This means that what a psyker is capable of is limited by three things: the strength of their connection to the Warp, the strength of their will, and their own imagination. That’s it.
Thank you for clarifying! So many concepts to take in at once 😅
@@OleHerland this is why blanks are despised by even regular people. You know that feeling in your gut when something bad is about to happen. Imagine that all the time when your around blanks.
Suggestion, when you pause to comment on something, rewind a bit so you dont miss things.
Also, about collecting them, you don't just collect them, you build and paint them, that's why fan art will look better than the minis
Thank you so much for your comment and tip! I'll do my best to take that with me so it's easier for me to catch everything (and maybe also for the viewer).
Oh, you build them AS WELL as paint them? Holy moly, my characters are probably not going to look great 👀
@@OleHerland
It is fine. Everyone in the community that has minis has been through that. I think they can even point you to easy to paint minis as well a ton of videos on tricks and tips.
@@OleHerland you can find boxes with a brush, some paint and 1-3 minis to start you off. And A LOT of tutorials on YT
Hey, been in the hobby since 94, and I'll do my best to fill in a few things and answer some of your questions.
This is probably going to be a long post.
With the idea that 'everyone is some flavour of evil'... It's a good example of the idea that it's all based upon perspective... Each faction/race in 40k looks at themselves as being 'the good guy'. So in that idea, everyone else is 'the bad guy'.
Space Marines have a neurological link to their armour, combined with the strength of the marine and the mechanics of the armour gives them the ability to move faster then they appear to be able to.
For the Adeptus Mechanicus, they will replace what they are able to... But no AI. In 40k, AI stands for Abominable Intelligence, as since the times of the 'Dark Age of Technology', every AI that has been turned on will turn against humanity in less than a second. So all AI is banned.
The Sisters of battle were formed by the Imperial Church because of a law that said they could not have a even a single man as a fighting force... So they made one with women to step around the law.
The Adeptus Custodes are the oldest organisation of the Imperium, created by the Emperor himself before he unified humanity and formed the Imperium.
They surved a number of roles, but the main 2 functions of the Custodes were to guard the Emperor, and to be his companions. To talk to him as equals, and offer him council.
Currently the Custodes only guard the Imperial Palace on Terra (Earth) with a few very rare exceptions.
Partly because they are so few, with the number of Custodes only allowed to number no more that 10,000 at any one time. This limit was placed on them as a rule by the Emperor himself.
The Vindicare assassin's rifle has a lot of computer aided readouts that relay information about the weather, gravity, and other factors that influence the path of the bullet, this doesn't mean that they can't shoot without these systems, it just adds to the level of training they go through.
With the Eversor assassins, they have a small bomb implanted into their body... So if the Eversor is killed or seriously wounded... It explodes and it reacts with all the chemicals in the blood of the Eversor to make the explosion bigger that the bomb could do on its own.
With the idea of the line 'Innocence Proves Nothing', it's more along the lines of 'your guilty of something... Maybe not what we originally thought you might have been, but we will find out what you are guilty of'.
And Inquisitiors are answerable to other Inquisitiors. And there is a council of high Inquisitiors that are elected officials, and all of the other Inquisitiors are able to vote in this matter.
At the end of the day, there are many who just collect the miniatures and don't play the table top games. You can enjoy the hobby as you want to.
Hey @vamprosmortimer5133 and thank you so much for your comment! It was really interesting to read through, and I learned a lot!
So cool that you have been in the hobby since 94! That is one year less then MY LIFE 😅 Really appreciate you sharing some of your knowledge.
Space Marines are so interesting and I'm getting so exited about the concept of them. I reacted to "The Armoring Of A Space Marine" and it was epic. Also I've read some comments about all their extra organs 👀
It's so interesting with the AI hate, and it's insanely relevant to today climate. AI is getting more and more advanced in the real world, and it's actually starting to have an impact into peoples lives already. Maybe the 40k universe is on to something!
Kinda funny that The Sisters of battle is formed to get around the law. Laws are made to get around I guess 😂
Wow, The Adeptus Custodes got even cooler with one of their functions being talking to the Emperor as an equal (before he became...that). And a hard limit on 10 000 makes them even more interesting. Bad ass!
The extra information about the assassin's where also wild! 😱
Thank you for taking the time to help me understand the universe better. And, just saying that it's ok to enjoy the hobby as you want to. When you say it it is obvious, but before I heard it "out loud". I was in the mindset that there is a "set way" and "rules". Maybe it's just because it's such a strong minded community because it's so much knowledge involved in the WH40k universe 🤔 Anyway, thank you so much for your comment!!
Your very welcome, I've seen the lore change a lot over the time I've been into 40k, but it's mostly stayed fairly consistent. If you have any questions about the lore, I'd be happy to answer to the best of my abilities, or offer a video for you to maybe do a reaction to.
@@vamprosmortimer5133 Thank you so much for being so helpfull!
I have a discord community that mostly have people from my livestreams hanging out. I've just created a wh40k category there where I hope to get some help with lore and what videos/order I should react to. Here is an invite link: discord.gg/ymyTDTfn2M
And if you don't want to join there, I'm super happy for your help here also! :D
@@OleHerland The Sisters of battle were originally the bodyguards/assassins/concubines of the then de facto ruler of the Imperium *Goge Van Dyre* second only to the Corpse Emperor and he was just the worst guy ever.
He would ask crowds of people if they agreed with his methods. Those who spoke up would be shot dead on the spot regardless of gender or age.
He turned the "Schola Imperium" which is a School for Orphans whose parents died in service to the imperium into a legalized slave trade operation. Any especially strong boys or beautiful girls he would have sold to the highest bidder.
He would visit planets WITHOUT NOTICE and if there was not a parade waiting for him including food, drink and especially women, he would perform Exterminatus on the planet. Just wipe it out without allowing any protest or excuse because they did not have a parade prepared should he arrive unannounced.
Eventually a civil war started against him with him besieged on Holy Terra (Earth) itself where he could potentially last for decades.
So the leader of the Custodes traveled to the leader of the Sisters of Battle and left some of his men hostage in exchange for her following him to the Emperor's throne room itself, where they did... something. What happened is only known to the two of them and possibly the Emperor. But when she emerged her previously dark hair was now white as a crayon and she was capital-P Pissed.
She went straight to Goge Van Dyre, denounced his lordship and sentenced him to death.
Goge in response merely said "I do not have time to die" after which his head was cut off. Ending the civil war.
If you want to get into the books, the Eisenhorn Trilogy by Dan Abnett is a great introduction to the 40k Universe.
It follows an Inquisitor as he goes about his work and shows what life is like to actually live in the Imperium.
Thank you so much! Got that one on my list now! It sounds like a really good way to get into it. From "one person view". Thanks again!
@@OleHerland Absolutely recommend this. I'm a writer now and these books and its follow up trilogy are probably the reason why. And I think to clarify there are lots of comparatively heroic people- especially individual characters - Eisenhorn and Ravenor are interesting examples of that. They are haunted by the occasional evils they commit to save thousands or billions of others. But because of the nature of the setting many are forced to make such difficult choices - like the few good ones doing what they can in a theocratic fascist regime.
Also the book series about Gaunt's Ghost from Tanith, is pretty good !!
@@etiennetremblay2026 these books are the definitive guide to guard versus chaos. It literally follows one regiment of guard, and their fight against chaos. I have read everything up to the warmaster and I am absolutely enthralled by this series.
Those series are incredibly good with Gaunts Ghosts probably being one of the best series i’ve ever read but the Ciaphus Cain books are much better for a beginner. Yes I am incredibly biased because I prefer Cain to Gaunt and Eisenhorn but I still think they provide the best starting point for a person to get into 40K.
Also I think I should point out that I love all 3 of them and have read each book in their respective series (for Eisnhorn this includes the Ravenor books and the Bequinn books as well) multiple times I just think Cain is the best place to start.
If you're looking to get into Warhammer lore, i'd suggest either the "Ciaphas Cain" novels for a view into the more normal aspects of the setting along with some fun humor from Ciaphas always getting in way over his reluctant head.
And for a more serious take the back workings of the imperium the Eisenhorn Trilogy is a fantastic read!
Oh, and if it's more convenient i do believe most or all of those books are on audiobook too.
Cia cia...
For the Imperial Knight’s each group of knights are piloted by royals. Each legion has their own house. Like the main Knight is piloted by a Princess 👸and the other Knight’s are her family.
I am pretty sure it is called princeps, isnt it?
That is really interesting, thanks for sharing! So there is basically a medieval theme going on there? ⚔️👸
@@user-zb1yl7ve2b unless you take Uthak (from Brutal Kunnin) as your source it is indeed princeps
@@OleHerland the knights were machines sent with collonists to other worlds, over time however these worlds became verry feudal and the people who could pilot these giant walkers became rulers of their worlds, forming knightly houses that pass on the walker from generation to generation.
though i could be wrong because my knight lore is a bit rusty
@@user-zb1yl7ve2b that's the Titan pilots.
First rule of being a warhammer 40k fan "YOU DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN ANY WAY OR FORM IN THAT UNIVERSE"
Hehehheheh, REALLY starting to get that now 🤦♂️🤣😅
1:10:00 Someone may have answered this, but I'll answer it anyway. Short answer: yes, there are lots of layers.
The slightly longer answer is that the Imperium of Man is actually incredibly diverse in its capabilities and its politics. The Imperium has over a million worlds in its domain, all at different distances from Terra (Earth). Many of these planets will have a specific role or resource to provide to the Imperium as a whole. You'll get forge worlds mass manufacturing weapons and machines; feudal worlds where daily life for its populace is just peasantry and farming to feed the galaxy; sometimes they'll just serve as fortress planet in a strategic position or they'll be there to just mass produce and mass train soldiers. Some will be clustered together and form a local system and network of planets, some will be isolated and have to mostly fend for themselves. When there are wars happening throughout the galaxy some planets will get invaded, others will be cut off, others will take on a whole new purpose. Cries for help and reinforcements can sometimes be heard quickly but it can also often take years, decades, or even hundreds of years before reinforcements arrive. This means the Imperium might land on a world expecting to find a normal planet but it could be overrun be xenos, completely deserted, or it might have been reduced to a medieval society after the total collapse of their planet. With so many worlds, it's technically possible for a civilisation on a planet to be as advanced as the Egyptians, as the rest of the Imperium, or anything in between. It's a fun fan idea that our planet might just be a world lost to the Imperium, and that any day we could see battleships descending from the sky and space marines fighting through our streets to ensure our compliance in returning into the fold of the Imperium. The beauty of 40k is if you have an interesting or cool idea for a political system, culture, or conflict in this universe, it's probably plausible that it could exist.
Thank you so much for your answer! It really opened my mind to think in even broader lines. Wow, almost everything is possible as you write with this vast of a universe. I love it. The thought of Space Marines just plowing through our planet now is quite the image!
Important to note: Bricky has an alt account, Adeptus Ridiculous, where he goes over a different 40k topic each week, teaching his (not quite as much a noob anymore) noob friend DK more about the universe. They even review the books from time to time.
"We want to follow this man because he's so charismatic".
A lot of humans thought that yes. The ones who didn't received a visit of the Space Marines and either died or surrendered. The Emperor was the good guy in the same sense that Gengis Khan wa the good guy XD
Hehehe, I'm half way through my Gengis Khan book, so I see what you mean 😅Thanks for your comment!
@@OleHerlandif you like Ghengis/Mongols, you should check out Jaghatai Khan of the White Scars space marine legion ;)
Could be worse in one instance during a game of space marines and guard vs chaos I simply dropped a nuke on my own troops because I knew that it would kill more of the enemy than my own troops where six of my own troopers died in the blast vs twelve chaos demons
😅👀
Gotta love those Deathstrike Missiles
If you're really interested in 40k I cannot recommend "Gaunt's Ghosts" and "The Infinite and The Divine" enough! Gaunt's Ghosts is a series of books and every single one of them is PHENOMENAL! The first one is called "First and Only" and it's both an amazing novel and a really good introduction into Imperium- not just army and war and such, but also everyday life in it.
The Infinite and The Divine is a single book and it follows two aliens (Trazyn the Infinite and Orican the Diviner) and it's fantastic!
It's a mix of dark comedy, a heist novel, a bit of buddy cop, and good bit of high stakes action all in one and it's one of the best 40k books out there!
And if you want something more I recommend the Night Lords trilogy: Soul Hunter, Blood Reaver and Void Stalker. It's so good that it made me buy an entire army of Night Lords!
Thank you so much for your comment! That sounds almost dangerous to read. I'm going to be overly addicted!
Added them to my list. Going to check them out once my head is a bit above water 😅😍
Gaunt himself is a hard man, but also a good guy.
He's like Space Patton, if Space Patton was also a Space Commisar.
@@SiegeTF Harsh but fair and he cares about his subordinates as they go across the stars tearing Chaos a new one.
Bricky's part 2 for this is great as it goes over the Chaos and Xenos factions, and they are all *incredibly* interesting
Thank you so much for your comment! Actually reacted to that video today!! Was just horrible and amazing at the same time. In true WH40k fashion. Here is the video if you are interested 😍 ruclips.net/video/3Fgr_lg7KEU/видео.html&ab_channel=OleHerland
The main problem with inquisitors for the miniature game, is that they're individuals, with maybe a group of guards, but they're not fit to fight armies. They're much more fit for a novel, a role play game, etc... Than for a game of armies ^^'
There was a game centered around inquisitors, with a lot less figurines, but it didn't really became popular and they end it.
Wow, I can see how there could be made a bunch of REALLY good games centered around the inquisitors! They are such cool characters. Imagine a fully fledged RPG almost like Skyrim or Fallout 👀A boy can dream!
Respect for new fathers
Respect Nurgle 🫶
Primarch Vulkan is a pretty chill guy. Also, Rylanor was a pretty good guy (mostly because of his stance and unshaken loyalty). Also, Garviel Loken was a good person that kept his ideals straight when all his legion fall to Chaos.
1:20:39 Eversore assassins actually have a bomb strapped to them for this exact reason.
Makes sense! Cause that seams like one hell of a killing machine!
32:00 This is actually a common myth, but it's not true (at least in WW2), and was mostly invented by post-war German memoirs and cold war movies. It was actually more the case in WW1 where the Russians were entirely unprepared
With regards to the Imperial Knights there is another type of walker from the Mechanicus (The tech people) these are called titans and they come in varied sizes from the small scout titans to very big ones that are the size of an average 20-40 floor office building.
Huh, 20-40 floor office building sized?! That is HUGE. Thank you for your comment! 😱
A Knight has a pilot. A Titan has a CREW.
Hey Ole I am a veteran of over 30 years of lore , I would humbly recommend from two resources for your entertainment. First for your audiobook or Quality Print preference to start with the Black Library novel “Eisenhorn trilogy “ by Dan Abnett and for a Epic reaction series for your reaction fanbase the “Astartes Project “ and “Helsreach” series fan made films. Love your energy and wholesome curiosity of this unmatched Universe that I have loved since 1987. Enjoy this journey my brother I am here with you. FOR THE EMPEROR !!! 🥳 Big Aloha from Hawai’i 🥰🙏🇼🇸
Hey you, and thank you so much for your really nice comment! Made my day 😍❤️30 years?! That is wild to think about, says something about how good WH40k is!! 😱 Can't wait to just dive deep into the universe and just enjoy the process of learning!
Thank you so much for your recommendations! I've taken a screenshot of your comment and put it on my list 😍 FOR THE EMPEROR!!! 🕺⚔️ Big Tusen takk from Norway! ❤️
@@OleHerland Also if you ever decide to check out a Space Marine novel, my highest recommendation would be 'Dante'. It's probably one of the best books that illustrates how a boy becomes a Space Marine, all the trials, processes and changes he has to go through, and the road from becoming a common battle brother to the greatest Chapter Master in Imperial history. Not to mention it'll make you love the Blood Angels chapter.
Recommendation
Get audible.
Listen to Horus rising, the first heretic, the emperors legion, the mark of calth, and echoes of eternity.
Preferably in order.
Thank you so much for the recommendations!
Put it on my reading list. Can't wait to get started. I just imagine it's going to be amazing when just information about the universe is making me so exited 😱 Thank you again!
Great recommendations and order too. I second this.
17:20 That eagle symbol, since it's double headed, I would say it's more connected to the Byzantium symbol. Although it has an in-game lore meaning.
Thanks for your comment!
@@OleHerland well, the double-headed eagle definitely has strong nazi implications these days, but eagles in general have been associated with empires ever since the reign of Rome, and specifically double-headed eagles have been symbols of empire and sovereignty since the rule of Constantinople (the Austrio-Hungarian Empire used a double headed eagle, and the USA even now uses the bald eagle as its symbol, not to mention all the others myriad examples across european history). The double-headed eagle specifically symbolised dominion over both east and west, traditionally - in 40k, the Imperial Aquilla has one eye closed and one open - blinded to the past and open to the future, or fixed upon the past and blind to the future, depending on interpretation. Also, you will notice that one side of the Aquilla looks more mechanical than the other - this symbolizes the union of the Imperium with the Adpetus Mechanicus, which is technically an autonomous client-state to the Imperium as per the terms of the Treaty of Mars, signed by the Emperor Himself back in the founding of the empire.
The always on walkers are a little more to it than that. The Magos who created them deliberately hid the on off controls in a fit of paranoia, and when another faction of the mechanicus killed him for being a heretek, and burned down his lab the secret was lost. Fortunately the factory that makes them churns them out activated.
Great vid! If you enjoyed both part, i would also recommend bricky's "every space marine legion" video, it's in the same style as this one and gives a lot of insight into the poster boys of 40k :D
Thank you so much for your comment! I gotta check that one out 🤩
I have never had a problem with people pausing the video when watching a reaction but today I'ma be that guy cause my goodness at the pauses. Anyway I'm at least happy to see your excited about Warhammer.
Hehe, sorry 😇 But thank you for your comment 😊
Psykers for clarification are more so channeling the Warp which is the collective mental soup of all human emotions and souls to reshape reality. Create bolts of lightning where there was none, launch blasts of fire by making the air into nitrogen etc...
Psykers are useful but very dangerous because the Warp is heavily infested with Chaos. So if you channel too much you'll start channeling Chaos, which isn't very healthy, so a Psyker who loses control might quite literally implode and create a rift into the warp which is always going to have Daemons and other Warp monstrosities crawling through them.
So in the Guard if your fellow soldiers get even the slightest suspicion that you the Psyker might be losing control they're going to shoot you in the head rather than take the risk.
So something to note, that I’m sure people already have said: the emperor (sometimes known as Big E) destroyed ALL religion when he rose to power. He believed that the only way we as a people could be unified is if we pushed ourselves towards a single belief…supremacy of the stars. That’s why we now colonize 1,000,000 worlds. When the Horus heresy made him unable to do much at all, the Ecclesiarchy made up a bunch of lies to convince the imperium that the emperor was a deity worth honoring. This vision of the future was what the chaos gods showed Horus, which convinced him to perform his coup. Big E essentially lied to his sons about a bunch of crap, and in anger half of them sought to remake the imperium in their vision of its future instead of the corrupt future we got.
haha, love that you call him Big E. That is so funny and cool 😎
None of the comment's so far have explained this I think. Kind of crazy since it seams to be such a huge part of the 40k lore 😱 So that is what happened. Thank you so much for your comment! Learning so much 👀😍
@@OleHerland No problem. The events that lead up to the current 40K timeline are really interesting, from the Age of Strife, the Dark Age of Technology...the Great Crusades...an the Horus Heresy. Most of my knowledge comes from Adeptus Rediculous, which is a weekly podcast hosted by Bricky himself and his co-host DK Diamonte. They cover a new topic every week...and have over 100 episodes at this point. It's a really great way to learn the lore slowly over the course of a few weeks while you do things like play games or drive to work.
@@OleHerland BTW the greatest irony in all Ecclesiarchy is that their holy book - lectitio divinitatus - that describes Emperor as a deity, was written by Lorgar, one of Primarchs, that was very religious, and his legion, Word Bearers, played the main role in corrupting Horus, because Lorgar was corrupted by Chaos before Horus. They were so corrupted, that they've sent their troops to warp to become hosts of demons (these hosts were later known as Gal Vorbak).
So, basically, Ecclesiarchy's most sacred writing is created by one of the biggest heretics in WH40K lore.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it before)
The Death Korps of Krieg are the gas mask soldiers in the Imperial Guard section and they have some very interesting lore so I very much reccomend checking them out
About the question of broader politics and civilian bureaucracy at 1:10:20 it is actually a frequent plot point that the mechanicus, ecclesiarchy, space marines, imperial guard, and navy all have their own chains of command. Unless an operation has been clearly planned and laid out, you often get a bunch of groups with their own objectives, and the need for battlefield commanders to compromise and petition their own allies for help.
So for starters, space marines are genetically enhanced as which increases their size as well as strength, other abilities include having the hearing and smell of a dog in which they are more than capable of listening in on a conversation about half a mile away, all the while being unable to get motion sickness, their eye sights are improved giving them the vision of a bird of prey and is able to see everything in ultra high definition, other abilities include things like, a third lung and second heart for increased oxygenation, night vision as well as a neurological web which allows them to directly interface with their suit of armor allowing them to move as if they’re not wearing anything all the while their suit gives them additional strength. Other features include built in drug application devices either for injecting protein or food, combat stims like slaught which hightens the users sense of awareness as well as increased levels of aggression, as well as other drugs like morphine or pain killers. Other suit functions include a built in waste disposal system allowing the user to wear the suit indefinitely, and last ability of the suit particularly that of later models of power armor is versatility.
It's super fascinating how the space marines have so many insane features! Thank you so much for you comment 🤩
@@OleHerland and that’s only half of it if your interested I can give you a few pointers towards some really great 40K channels however it is my personal opinion so there is a bit of self biases
Planet destruction generally happens from orbital battleships using whatever weapon they have or choose. Typically it’s a literal weapon mostly not so far beyond what we could accomplish today if we decided to destroy earth. For Cadia however it was a literal massive star ship….. being thrown at the planet.
Wow, thank you so much for your comment! I must admit I haven't thought much about how to destroy a planet before I got into Warhammer 40k 😅 It's crazy to think about. They ramed a whole starship into the planet?! Damn, that is next level 👀
I've lived and breathed Warhammer and 40k since I was 7 (oh god, that was almost 30 years ago) and the surge of interest in this weird and wacky universe over the last few years has been amazing!
The closer thing to put this on your brain is the audiobooks, they are amazing.
Ive never played the tabletop but you have an infinite amount of lore to explore, you can search videos, read wiki, read a book, listen an audiobook, , there are things for everyone.
I cannot stress enough how good some audiobooks and books are.
When I heared you say you wanna watch more horrific stuff, I instantly subscribed,
finally somebody who admits it :)
Welcome to wh40k
Hehehe, thank you! 😍 We are in the same boat. Let's go!
1:10:00 Yes, in the first Ciaphas Cain book "For the Emperor" Commissar cain and Inquisitor Amberley investigate the murder of a tau ambassador while tensions continue to rise in the "shared" planet, there are mentions of civilian life (kinda averave) and imperium diplomats
if you want some really good warhammer art, John Blanche (recently retired) was an official warhammer artist for like 20+ years, and his style is incredibly distinct and very evocative, really well represents the gritty and bizarre nature of the imperium, especially Mechanicus
So things that aren't war are rarely covered - people that say that's all that exists have clearly not read enough. There are worlds that have gone for hundreds perhaps a thousand years without a major rebellion or war - some of them even are nice (called "Imperial Worlds" as compared with "Hive Worlds" covered in ecology ruining cities, or "Death Worlds" where the ecology is so dangerous basically all they export is the terrifying people who deal with it). They have places that have gone without war for longer than any point in human history on Earth, some are even noble republics, or have legal rights for their citizens (unless they piss off the inquisition). They probably do have to muster a regiment of imperial guard once a generation of millions of soldiers - that likely won't come back - that's the cost for their peace, and probably a lot of the things they make are for export or Tithe to the imperium. There are after all a million worlds in the imperium. There are politics and Nobility and lots of other stuff (recommend the Eisenhorn Trilogy as a good intro to this) one important thing I'd note is even though there are probably genius' lost in the crunch that don't make it, and there is a degree of corrupt nepotism in some safer jobs the ruthless politics, death, assassination, and needs of management also means that despite the massive gaps in their awareness and inefficiencies of the staggering bureaucracy and the ignorance of dogma frequently the people in positions of power- especially higher up ones are actually some of the best for the job because they survived the brutal meritocracy to make it there and have lived a thousand years doing so. And even though they treat people like statistics and are ruthless pragmatists they may be some with the only mindsets a human can possess to just not make things worse and try to cope with the infinite problems before them. Some might be great even compared with Primarchs like Lord Solar Macharius (basically Alexander the Great), others like members of the inquisition radically disagree about what is good for the imperium, but any organization that can maintain 70% of it's members as insanely capable and devoted people working for the betterment of mankind (even when using demons to do it) is worth not dismissing as zealous dangers, and if any are a genuine danger or are just perceived as one unlike with regular cops they will get together and kill them. Even though they only "answer to the Emperor and themselves" 'themselves' is a genuine threat to each other.
The good parts are until recent history when basically everyone is at risk again, but plenty of the lore is in the 41st millenium where that was true.
The big feature of war is that we don't focus on those places because there' probably 20,000 major wars going on literally all the time, not mentioning rebellions, cults, or other subversive danger. I'd recommend the Templin Institute videos on Warhammer 40k as good introductions to the vibe and overview but most lore videos don't discuss the places where that isn't true. There have also been videos that talk about how endless war is unrealistic or unsustainable - and if it was the way people talk about it it probably would be. But when you have a million world's with only 150,000 on the front line at any given time it's possible (to be clear the front lines are like everywhere there aren't hard borders the imperium is more like the pepperonis on pizza than a clearly defined line).
Also lots of other things we assume to be inevitable in the future aren't really around in this setting - and you could just go along with that but I think it's better for your imagination to assume because of the nature of how the Warp and Chaos has become more active over time eventually exploding with the birth of Slaanesh our expectations for what the most useful or valuable things would be (like AI or automated drones or living in space) are now wrong. Best example is the Adeptus Mechanicus don't innovate, now what if the fact that the entire Mechanicus and Imperial Guard have been worshiping and revering this model of Lasgun for 5000 years means it doesn't jam when they are fighting chaos because they have empowered it's platonic form in the Warp with the defense of belief. Even if they design a gun with other tech that should be better on paper - it just isn't unless it's insanely pseudomagically better. Same with genetic modification or cybernetics - only the holy time tested revered shit works.
Thank you so much for a fantastic comment! It was so cool to read, and I feel like it seriously boosted my understanding of 40k's scale and contents. It feels almost impossible to understand how the Imperium could have a million worlds. That alone could feed my imagination for a while. Just wow all around. Thank you again!! 🤩
With regards to the Grey Knights, who are resistant to the temptations of Chaos, Castellan Crowe is immune. The piece of wargear (weaponry) he uses is the Black Blade of Antwyr, found in a temple dedicated to a dark and heretical god. Even though brothers of the Purifier order are allowed to speak with the Castellan, they are only allowed to briefly, because the blade temps those who are within its aura, which is similar to a tear or scar in reality. As a recommendation, if you're interested in playing Grey Knights, Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters is an excellent game to play.
Fun to see how intensely you reacted to this. Warhammer really is in a league of its own. It does indeed make all other universes seem bland by comparison, and the artwork speaks for itself. It just speaks to some of us innately. What you were going through during watching this video, I went through as a kid in school, watching trailers and reading Lexicanum articles on the school computers lol
Thank you so much for your comment! And hell yeah, I agree 100% with how you are explaining this. It's an insane and fun journey and I'm just in awe how cool and epic it all is! I'm so glad I get to just dive into this, and get so many great comments with personal experiences and helpful tips. I'm so happy, thank you! 🤩
If you want to learn more about a specific topic in the 40k universe, Bricky also has a podcast he and his co-hosts, DK and Shy, upload every Wednesday morning PST called Adeptus Ridiculous. I'm not a podcast kind of person since I find most of them to be rather dull, I've watched every episode of Adeptus Ridiculous. It's my go-to when I'm doing something and want to listen to something in the background.
There's also other great channels that do a great job as well like Luetin08 and Weshammer.
You REALLY need to read (or listen to) the Eisenhorn triology. It's an awesome introduction to life as a citizen of the imperium and the Inquisition 👍
imperial knights are the nobles of terra and mars (mostly mars), to be a knight you have to posses the ability to control the walker without it frying your brains (that is a special skill you get at birth).
they are mostly a part of the collegia titanica of mars (or titan legion as it is called), a faction that bricky forgot to mention.
the meccas are owned by the cult mechanicus (the robotic priest guys), and they come in different sizes as fallowes:
--- the 10 meter class or knight that you see in this video.
--- the 20 meter class called the warhound scout titan (fast and versatile, not that strong in a battle).
---- the 30 meter class called a reaver titan (quite rare these days because the cult mechanicus lost the blueprints for them).
---- the 50 meter class called the warlord titan (quite common and mostly used in battle).
the 100 meter class called the imperator (or the walking cathedral because of the temple on his back), very rare to see this type of titan due to the fact that it requires 10k people to operate and a very rare type of noble called a princeps (or principalis).
hope this helps you understand more... so sad that bricky forgot about the titan legion (they are a main force in the empire, one of the only reason why the empirium is still a force not to be messed with).
The Knight Houses and the Collegia Titanica are separate entities. Indeed, the Questor Imperialis have remarkably little to do with the Mechanicus. (And, in many ways, the Titan Legions are beyond the authority of the mortals that comprise the Adeptus Mechanicus).
Basically:
* the Questor Imperialis owe their allegiance to the Imperium (and rule individual planets), and utilise single operator mechs.
* the Questor Mechanicum owe their allegiance to the Mechanicus (de facto ruling planets, but as vassals to specific forge worlds), and likewise utilise single operator mechs.
* the Collegia Titanica pay lip service to the Mechanicus, and use multi operator mechs.
If you want to know more about the game, Midwinter Minis has a great vid called "How to Play Warhammer 40k" (based on 8th Edition)
Loved your reaction ❤️
Thank you so much for both your comment and nice words 😍❤️
Took a screenshot of your comment and added it to my list! Sounds like the perfect video for me🤩
@@OleHerland Midwinter Minis also has a version for 9th edition (current eddition) and I would reccomend watching both.
@@mkstarstorm8822 Thank you! Added that also to the list 🔥
The great thing about 40k is the sheer variety in the universe. For instance, there's a lot of Space Marine Chapters who would think nothing of sacrificing millions of people in order to achieve their objective, but there's also chapters like the Salamanders, Space Wolves and Lamenters who would and have sacrificed themselves without a second thought to protect the people.
1:31:30 There are books about the Inquisition, check out the "Eisenhorn" novel series which is about Inquisitor Eisenhorn.
man i enjoy reactions of ppl that are new to 40K so much. lets see what your reaction is to chaos or drukhari.
Thank you so much for your comment! Starting to learn about this universe is just WILD! Ao much fun and horror in one grat package 👀
@@OleHerland if you like this check your second video.
@@OleHerland ruclips.net/video/RaMNtvuu-U4/видео.html
Here is a video about most factions based on how they play on the tabletop rather than lore.
You are very good at this. Entertaining af, asking the right questions, paying attention. :D Looking forward to more.
You are way to kind and good! Thank you so much!! 😍😍😍😍
Any "good guys" were murdered by the Imperium in their crusades. As Bricky once said "friendly xenos? My brother in the Emperor, we killed all the friendly ones"
Pauses video, "oohh cant wait to hear more" plays video. Pauses video, "i want to just fill my brain with the lore" plays video. Its like yo, make a reaction but those pauses were literally self correcting with just watching the video and not breaking up the flow. That said, good video, love your reaction.
The imperial knights are normally piloted by a royal bloodline human, but they also have tech teams and weapon teams sometimes that are all inside the mech itself.
Little known fact: every time Bricky says CHUNK or CHONK, you get to add 1 year to your lifespan.
1:29:38 the destruction of a planet is often a huge thing and takes a lot of work, the Inquisitor is usually the one who signs the paper and/or presses the launch button, and the exterminatus can be done in many ways, usually through orbital bombardment.
Inquisitor books are really cool. Others have told you already, but the Eisenhorn series is very good, the audiobook version is very good.
1:03:51 no, he has the sword so that no one else can use it and get corrupted.
AAAAHHHHH, Thank you so much for clarifying!! Makes much more sense then my gibberish 😅
About the only people the Inquisitors can't question or order or what have you is Custodess. Both of them act with the authority of and answer only to the Emperor, but any Inquisitor who tried to order a custodian would either find himself laughed out of the Imperial Palace or just dead on the spot lol
You gotta get to painting, man! I have only painted 5 Space Marine heavy intercessors so far after starting, but it's so fun. And they look cool as fuck. Even if I never play an actual game of 40k, I love seeing my little group of Blood Angels that I can put on my bookshelf
Heres a little correction about the adeptus mechanicus. they actually believes that the emperor IS the omnissiah or at least a living incarnation of it
To know more about the hobby, like painting and playing, you can go in a Warhammer store. They usually do free initiations for these aspects of Warhammer. People are always nice and really happy to talk about anything about Warhammer.
Thank you so much for your comment! That sounds like a really good plan 🤩 So far, the Warhammer community seams really nice!
By the way, brother. In that part where you said you want to paint miniatures with fitting music, I highly recommend the soundtrack of Warhammer 40K: Darktide, and also the group Keygen Church. Both extremely fitting for the 40K universe. Look up Tenebre Rosso Sangue from Keygen Church. Absolutely epic track.
Hi gentle listeners and let me welcome to you tonight’s special guest
THE NIHILIS PATTERN LASGUN
The Nihilis pattern lasgun is made on the planet of necromunda , the Nihilis lasgun is a pattern of lasgun famed all across the galaxy for its reliability and dependability, in which its reliability in killing its operator makes it one of the most hazardous firearms in the entire imperium in which it has a higher user mortality of that even managing surpass the survival rate of that of the humbled plasma gunners and in its regards for dependability in terms of its impracticality, in which the weapon lacks any bayonet attachments and was incredibly unreliable even for lasgun standards, the Nihilis pattern lasgun is also famed across the imperium for its unique and again hazardous qualities in which the guardsman or guardswoman would suffer a sever case of hair loss, cancer but most common cases was users death in which 99.999% of the time most users if not all users would unexpectedly die if exposed for prolonged periods of time with the Nihilis pattern lasgun, however due to a miscommunication error with the departmento munitorum the munitorum accidentally ordered as well as handing them to several entire guard regiment, in which by the time the error was realized unfortunately resulted in the loss of half an entire regiment, later notes has been added that any soldier issued with a Nihilis pattern lasgun should return their weapon 2-3 months later at the closest supply depot in order to be reassigned a new lasgun, in which time 2-3 months the user will unfortunately have to suffer with the listed ailments as mentioned earlier but for those who might have skipped or forgotten, possible side effects include
Death
Hair loss
Cancer
Rickets
And death just for good measure, however as a sign of forgiveness and penitence, the house of vaan Saar has reissued any regiments or individuals with the Nihilis pattern lasgun with all new plasma guns in which the selector switch has be bolted down to the overcharge setting.
What? Is this a true part of the lore? That is wild 👀 Epic mistake 😅
@@OleHerland
This is the wiki for the Nihilis pattern lasgun
Produced by House Van Saar in the hive city of Necromunda, several of these lasguns were recalled due to logistics errors. Lasguns issued between M35 and M40, with serial numbers 00001475 through 72341110 were recalled as they were originally intended for personal use, but issued to the Astra Militarium by mistake. Issues with these lasguns made them operate outside of normal combat parameters. These included: Above-average Combat Efficacy, Temperamental Machine Spirit, No Bayonet Attachment Point, Unexpected Operator Hair Loss, and Unexpected Operator Death.
Soldiers issued these lasguns were instructed to return these weapons to the regimental quartermaster. Replacements were expected to be issued in 2-3 months depending on distance from nearest forge world and warp-time dilation on delivery vessels. As an apology for the mistake, regiments issued the faulty lasguns were issued almost-new condition Plasma Guns that were permanently locked to the overcharge setting.[41]
Like much of Van Saar technology, these lasguns bathe radiation upon their wielder, slowly killing them
I've been a massive WH fan since the early 1990s, and I love seeing someone new getting into the lore...
22:12 trust me you don't. There isn't a single 40k fan that wants to live in that universe.
Hehe, starting to get that more and more 😂
53:00 Relatable, that's pretty much the same relationship i have with my computer
I really like when someone talks about something they have no clue of because they can have a maybe see things different than us who are so deep in the Lore. The Idea that nurglings eat from the Guts off the bigger deamons Sounds really Like it would fit into Warhammer 40k.
Should watch Emperor text-to-speech series too! its hilarious
If you want to check out more with Bricky, I would recommend the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast (also on RUclips). He explains Warhammer stuff to his friend, who's a newcomer to Warhammer. It's funny and covers a lot of the lore, tabletop and some of the books.
quick thing regarding imperial knights: the knight is piloted. So the term Knight refers mostly to the pilot.
these pilots are decendants of noble houses, which adhere to tradition an think themselves to be better then regular humans.
just saying this, beccause you seemed to think that the knights walker himselve was the actual knight.
great video tho
Thank you so much for your comment and adding a bit to the imperial knights! Also, thank you for the kind words and checking out my video ❤️
I've heard "Knight" used to refer to both the mecha and their pilots.
Unfortunately the inquisition is be right. 😅
In Warhammer 40k Innocence proves NOTHING. You can be corruptet by Chaos without you know it.
If an Demon manipulated you, you can go to church, smile, think it`s a wonderful day to serve the emperor. Until an Chaos cultist send a signal to your mind and you stand up and kill all peoples in the church without you know, what you are doing.
Yes it`s a dark universe. ^^
Shit, now I'm starting to understand more the "innocence proves nothing". If you don't even know it yourself that you are corrupted! WH40k is just amazingly brutal. Thanks for your comment!
Crazy thing about the Eversor Assassins: they have mini-nukes inside their bodies just in case that are triggered when they happen to be killed. Can't have your target escape after all. ^^
"Is there audio books of this"
My son.
May I introduce you to the black library and audible?
Because yes.
The galaxy pattern lasgun has a 1000 capacity magazine with a life expectancy of up to 10,000 rounds and as bricky mentioned the lasgun is a highly destructive weapon, in which it’s highly effective against soft skinned or mostly organic targets, such as humans, being a thermal energy based weapon the lasgun can produce a serious amount of heat and again as bricky mentioned is highly reliable and extremely simplistic in which case it would be akin to give every modern day soldier the equivalent of say a fifty cal sniper rifle with a thousand round magazine capacity with the simplicity of a lightbulb, granted more complex and simpler versions of the lasgun can be produced depending on the technology of the world it is produced on, not only that but a lasgun is a soldier’s blessing, in which power packs/ magazines can be recharged whilst in the field either via a chimera charging station or designated charging points, meaning that a guard mechanized unit has virtually unlimited ammunition as long as there’s sufficient power to recharge the power packs, however in a pinch leaving the power packs in the sun can also slowly recharge the pack, or alternatively throwing the thing into a fire can also achieve the same results however at the cost of the powerpacks lifespan is considerably shortened as well as has a higher chance to explode. Outside of the occasional cleaning and ritual to appease the weapons machine spirit (AI) the gun can be deemed ready for action, all the while the focusing lenses or barrel must be replaced regularly after 10,000 rounds via a tech priest, but the gun can fire an additional thousand rounds in a pinch but would cause significant damage to the weapon itself of left unchecked, other advantages include access to different types of power packs, each possessing unique abilities and characteristics, such as the standard type four which has the regular thousand rounds, type one allows the user to fire a much more powerful shot but at the cost of weapon damage, type two gives the gun more ammunition over the standard style four, type three increases the power output twice as that of the type one but has less that a few shots available and is mostly given to snipers, type three gives of a much weaker shot but gives the users a much larger ammunition pool, unlike the type two which just gives you a few extra shots, they don’t last long, and that’s about it.
Other lasgun variants include
Longlas which are marksman designated rifles and are give extra punch as well as an optic for added range
A hotshot lasgun is a beefier and more powerful version of the standard lasgun which requires a power backpack rather than a power pack and does twice the amount of damage the standard lasgun does but they tend to be more complex and harder to produce thus are mostly given to shock troopers or veterans as they will need the added punch.
The hotshot volley gun is a double barreled lasgun in which it operates the same as a lasgun but has twice the rate of fire, ideal for hoards or heavily armored targets in which digging into the armor is the only viable option.
Helguns are far far more powerful than even a hotshot lasgun and are only given to say inquisititorial stormtroopers or those of extremely high positions of authority in which regardless of the enemy, you want to put down in a single shot and is even capable of damaging tanks,
Finally whilst not entirely a lasgun but other laser weapons include
The multi laser which is just a laser LMG which is commonly fitted on chimeras or heavy weapon mounts and are useful in clearing out lightly if barely armored opponents.
The big brother of the lasgun is the lascannon in which it’s basically just a massive laser cannon which is either mounted to tanks or heavy weapons supports like a tripod and are used to dealing with enemy vehicles or heavily armored targets and are also used and carried around by space marine devastators
Thank you so much for all the extra information! So many different aspects and usecases for that weapon 😱 So many interesting facts!
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither and you'll beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the machine is immortal. Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah
You mentioned Dark Brotherhood- so..
Would love to see some Elder Scrolls Lore reactions!
From watching his video, my personal favorite factions would be the Imperial Guard, The Sisters of Battle, Custodes, Blood Angels, Salamanders, and Space Wolves
Random piece of lore to contribute. But when it comes to Blanks or Pariahs, they don’t suppress their connection to the warp like Bricky said, but in fact don’t have a connection to the Warp at all. That lack of connection isn’t just a genetic difference but it’s also spiritual, meaning they’re born without a soul.
i am a huge warhammer 40k nerd and stumbled upon your channel while looking for some fresh warhammer content XD i seriously recomend learning about the night lords but mostly their primarch Konrad Cruze hes insane and super interesting but theres also no wrong way to dive into 40k i think there are just ahrder ways i know first hand the way i got into the hobby was reading the horus heresy book series which has around 50 books in it alone so what i recommend is podcasts and videos like Luetin he makes great content and has some early breaking into the universe videos but this universe is awesome its the best mashup of metal asf while satireing the entire human species in the most badass over the top way imaginable im always happy to see somone new enjying the hobby
45:54 few things that Bricky forgot to mention about the Adeptus Mechanicus.
The machine god of the AM is actually called the Deus Mechanicus. The Omnissiah is the physical manifestation of the Machine God; which the AM believe the Emperor of Mankind is. He’s basically seen as like a prophet to them.
Also the reason the AM are allowed to worship the Machine God extends beyond the Imperium’s reliance on them for weapons (though that is still a HUGE part of it). It goes back to the time of the Emperor himself. Back when he was beginning his great crusade he made a pact with the Adeptus Mechanicus, in order to enlist their services in his conquest of the galaxy.
That was super interesting to read, thank you so much for your comment! It's really nice to get extra information to enrich my understanding of the 40k universe!
Yes there are human pilots inside the Imperial Knights. The Chaos Knights as well, but in most cases the Chaos Knight pilots merge with the machine physically while the Imperial Knight pilots only do so mentally. And the Eversor assassins usually explode when they can’t be recovered. The chemical cocktail in their blood allows this and they can actually activate it themselves, through mental commands.
PS Inquisitor Cryptman was actually excommunicated from the Inquisition.
The Emperor is basically the north star for interdimensional travels
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal."
fun fact: those ironstriders aren't just big walkers, they are perpetual motion machines. The Magos who designed it was ridiculed and ostracized by his peers and after he died the secrets to its designs died with him. The current Mechanicus are terrified that they cannot get the machines to start again so instead of powering them down they just leave the Ironstriders running on treadmills until they are needed, then a skitarii tries to drop onto its back and wrangle it into service.
That is so cool and so funny at the same time 😅😂 Gotta do what they can to make it work 😂 Thank you for your comment 🤩
This is my favourite reaction, I really appreciate how you paid close attention ❤
Imperial knights are vehicles with their pilot mentally fused to it. I think that when the pilot does, their mind gets added to the machine.
Welcome to the universe! Hope you have fun learning more and more and more and more and more…. And more and more and more about WH40k for the next several years no matter how intensely you study the lore… it’s expansive.
…but enjoyable!
In every Impririal Knight is a pilot wich is pysical connectet to the maschie. but they can go outside the machine as well^^
I recommend watching the Astartes animation.
Also If the emperor had a text to speech device. It is a cool series that does a good job of setting up the lore for newcomers.
Also: The Warhammer Universe is huge. The Game exists since the 80s after all
It's WILD and I love that it's so huge! Then there is a lot to enjoy!
Someone has probably mentioned this already but Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies are about the Inquisition. All of the novels are on Audible. Some parts of Eisenhorn has some pacing issues but they are still great. Bequin is also about the Inquisition but can be a bit confusing at points and it's not finished yet and definitely shouldn't be read unless you have first read Eisenhorn and then Ravenor. Or listened to whichever you perefer.
22:30 Well I for one can not wait for AGI to make virtual reality to be on the same quality of the matrix, soo I can plug in, become Roboute Guilliman and lead the Indomitus Crusade in glorious conquest across the galaxy. Or enter the court of Slaanesh as a Daemon Prince and enjoy every pleasure imaginable on a daemon world of my own making. The bliss is that we can explore the dark nature of our mind without compromising ethics.
Welcome to the club, enjoy catching up to 40K lore for the foreseeable future and by that i mean the next 20 years of your life..minimum
The story of the USSR sending men into battle without a rifle is a myth. It comes from the movie Enemy at the Gates which is about the battle of Stalingrad. It never actually happened though. The Soviets did have shortages during WWII but then again so did everyone.
What made the USSR unique in WW2 was their willingness to endure catastrophic casualties that no other country could or would have endured. Conservative estimates have the USSR casualty rate at 50 TIMES higher than the US.
You are absolutely not wrong about GW taking inspiration from the Eastern Front for 40K though
The movie "Starship Troopers" is a spot on representation of the Imperial Guard.
Hilarious film, do recommend.
"Is that the Emperor? The Emperor is so nasty!"
He's speaking dangerous words! H E R E S Y !