This video ended up with more hot takes than I originally planned for. To clarify some things that I feel might stir some debate : The Necron's aren't weak because they have bad weapons or low numbers, it's their extreme infighting that keeps them mostly out of the setting The Imperium is a pretty Grim place to be, but as shown in novels such as the Eisenhorn Trilogy as well as the infinite and the Divine, there are numerous worlds full of culture and life. Only some Imperial worlds (generally hive worlds) are horrible oppressive places to be. The point about there being "goods" guys is based on them being compared to the bad guys, a tyrannical oppressive regime is utopia compared to HELL Thank you for coming to my TED talk, now here are some bewbies : www.patreon.com/majorkill
The group of fleeing Orks getting caught by blood angels terminators is funny, but still makes sense. Orks see red as faster but the WAAAGH can't make the space marines run at a higher speed, so how did it happen? The WAAAGH slowed down the Orks until they were slower than the terminators. Space marines weren't running any faster due to the WAAAGH, but they were now the faster of the two groups there, since red is da fastest color.
I always asked myself why the Orks haven't conquered the Galaxy yet, with their absurd physiology and reality warping powers and I read the antics they do like this and I'm like, oh...that's why.
@@bakedgoods7116 because if they "conquered" the galaxy, they'd have nothing to fight but themselves. Pretty sure MajorKill goes over it, but the krorks degraded to the modern orks because of a lack of conflict.
And I think that THIS is what happens with Yarrick, though the degree to which it does is up for debate. Yarrick gained a reputation among orks by his own merits as a soldier, then the WAAAGH causes itself to falter in his presence due to said reputation being ingrained into ork consciousness. Henceforth, a self-fulfilling prophecy is created.
I would like to add that, for the most part, red sub-factions tend to be faster - blood angels have lucifer pattern engines (which were alot stronger in 7th) and their jump packs, Saim Han Eldar focus on speed, Even White Scars incorporate alot of red into their color scheme. it's not universal, but it is present to a significant degree.
as soon as you said “if you can’t tell the difference between a meme and a misconception you need to get tested for autism... link in the description” went straight there and there it was absolutely amazing
Had to take it. I think that test leads towards perception bias - as in, not enough questions and most people could answer these questions differently every time they take it. A person who sees themselves as well organized and hating interruptions isn't going to react the same as my son, who gets stuck in loops and screams whenever his brother talks to him too loudly.. Just a thought.
He did invest his profits back into equipment and paying a decent wage for good workers. It's nice to see a RUclipsr evolving in their content and quality, while so many others stick to their same old lazy formula, with zero drive to improve. I commend MajorKill, for his drive and we'll earned success, all while having a great sense of humor. Humor not just aimed at others, but also plenty of self deprecating humor aimed at himself. It's refreshing & funny to see and makes him a down to earth likable bloke.
I think that the myth about the Guard being incompetent largely stems from most 40k video games being from a Space Marine perspective, and having campaigns that largely consist of saving worlds on which the Guard was defeated.... But everybody seems to forget, that in order for MArines to get involved, the situation has to be REALLY dire, so what we see in the games is an exception, not the rule
I was literally playing DoW the other day which is Blood Raven heaven, and I like playing Guardsmen. I forgot how WEAK they made the Guardsmen in that game compared to every other faction and was just like... Bro... No...
@@princeofdaemons7344 weak? I steamrolled with the Guard. Especially their Tanks caused much havoc. The biggest Problem of them is their low HP and Morality and that they can barely Spot stealth enemys. They depend a lot on commissars and Psykers or Priests mixed in the Regiments. But enough flashlights melt even Necrons
@@princeofdaemons7344 well you still have to consider that they are the average joes in a Universe full of world ending monstrosities. There is a joke that their Lasgubs are useless because they killed everything with it that was war to it. And legt is everything immune to it
@@pascalheinrich3990 My guy, I know. I played it when I was 7/8(yes I know) and I just remembered them being a lot stronger than they were. That’s all.
There's also the myth that Khorne "saved" Khaine from Slaanesh. That's not the case and hasn't been since 8th edition, where it was stated in an excerpt of the Craftworlds Codex that Khaine fought Slaanesh to exhaustion, rendering her too weak to consume the war god as she had the other eldar gods. Instead, she rent him into thousands of shards that he wouldn't challenge her again, each shard falling to rest in a craftworlds infinity circuit. This is great because it doesn't take power away from Khaine and just hand it to Khorne, it shows the war God being the badass he's supposed to be, even against a seemingly insurmountable foe.
It is noted that the Orkz cannot kill him BECAUSE they believe he's unkillable. That doesn't mean a Tyrannid couldn't walk up and chomp his head off, just that Yarrick won't be dying of an Ork shoota any time soon
@@industrialcamo Well, the Waaagh functions more like a psykic soup in which bigger masses of Greenskins are swimming. Everything this collective of Greenskins believes becomes reality to some degree within this soup. Therefore, a group of Orks that has never heard of Yarrik could easily kill him, whereous a bomb squig sent in by a group of Orks that DID hear of Yarrik and believe the stories to be true would most likely just wound him, but if the Waaagh energy is strong enough, he wouldn't die.
@@cibo889 Depends. Yarrik is not a super human. He is a tactical genius and a skilled strategist, but in combat, he is just a mere human - and a very old one on top of that. His augments aren't that helpful either, they're mostly aimed towards keeping up the myth about him in the Greenskin's minds. That doesn't help at all if the Orks he has to face never heard of him before, though. If he's able to use his wit in order to dispatch the Orks one by one over time with traps or ambushed, then perhaps he could kill a group of Orks indeed. But locked up in a cage with them, two Orks would be more than enough to kill Yarrik.
@@cibo889 Well, the fight between Ugulhard and Yarrik is the exact reason why I'm saying this. Ugulhard beat the shit out of Yarrik in just a few seconds, which is no surprise since an old human is no match for an Ork warboss. It was actually Ugulhard who ripped Yarriks arm off during the fight. After that, he thought Yarrik to be dead and didn't bother about him anymore, but Yarrik suppressed his pain, got up again and decapitated Ugulhard in front of his Orks. That's the actual reason why the Orks believe Yarrik to be immortal, because it seemed to them like he rose from the dead and took revenge on their warboss at that moment. Yarrik cut off Ugulhard's claw after he was dead already and attached it to the stump Ugulhard left him with in order to remind the Orks of what happened that day. He knew exactly what he was doing, since he was one of the Astra Militarums leading experts on Greenskins back then, that's probably why he was allowed to keep that claw despite using xenos tech being a capital crime. That whole scene showed that Yarrik is not really a good fighter anymore (if he has ever been one at all, we don't know much about that), but an outstanding strategist blessed with willpower beyond peer.
@@GodlordBazi war bosses regularly kill space marines with relative ease, yarrick held his own against ugulhard for about a minute which is extremely impressive for a normal human. In the books yarrick has been shown as a skilled fighter. (Incase you don’t know, there has been 2 yarrick novels released)
I'm pretty sure the whole thing about how Waaagh! energy allows ork technology to work is something GW just came up with to encourage ork players to go nuts and throw logic to the wind when customizing their trukks and battlewagons.
One Ork can make a scrap gun shoot with belief. A lot of Orks can make a car without an engine run with belief. A trillion Orks not busy killing each other couldn't warp time and space because they'd need to have a unified image.
@@GamerGrovyle It's not a coincidence that the more improbable pieces of Ork tech only start popping up once the WAAAGH!!! gets enough momentum (i.e. numbers) rolling.
One minor correction from The Infinite and the Divine. They dissolved the Awakened Council due to most of the council members dynasties starting the Great Awakening and the infighting because of it. There are still countless numbers of Necrons that have not woken up yet. Not all the dynasties have found or awoken all their tomb worlds and some minor dynasties have yet to start awakening.
If anything the Tau are far closer to being representations of Plato's Ideal Republic. It's a hierarchical society led by ascetic philosopher kings who separate people into solidified casts that best represent their spiritual/physical needs and gifts. The "Greater Good" is literally a ripped version of Plato's ideal of the "good" that all societies led by wise-men pursue, i.e a kind of harmonious, selfless civil virtue where everyone does what is needed of them in their perfect station to ensure eternal order and prosperity for the larger whole.
Thus a Authoritarian state with a bunch of Elites on top and keep people in a caste system you can never escape and you are forced to be sterilized if to many people are in a caste. So how are they not Communist.
@@slaughterthefalsegodempero1220 And even the strongest adherents to democracy admit it is ALSO a shitshow. It's just that all alternatives are worse (arguably, as many people believe OTHER systems are the lesser evil, like the US federal system, which is explicitly and intentionally NOT a direct democracy) The ideas that inspired communist thinkers & revolutionaries aren't KNEW and they aren't inherently evil. You can argue that the results are, and I think you'll find wide support across the political spectrum (including many communists) but if you thin the things you describe are inherent and exclusive to communism, I have some bad news. India was ruled by monarchs and THEN my rulers appointed by the British (a constitutional monarchy with limited democracy at the time) Many nations have practiced forced sterilization (including the US, which was actually the first nation to attempt it on a large scale between the 1890s to 1920s, though it was STILL practiced until the 70s. As for the caste system, India codifies it and there's certain an issue of "elites" over the lower classes basically everywhere, but if you think countries without communism are immune to it, you NEED more education, fella.
Imagine being a travel agent in 40k selling vacation packages. "Ah you can't got there anymore, or there, here is also off the flight list". "What happened"? "Oh. that Chaos thing again. You know how they are".
Ah, yes, I'm sorry to bother you but I'm afraid we have to reschedule. Garden worlds, you know, practically an all you can eat for the nids. May i interest you in this other garden world?
Except to common imperium civilians, it usually not undisclosed. The only exceptions is that if they were already there, and at that point they'd be extremely lucky if they got out alive.
Wait, I have a counter argument to the Orks not affecting other races: the Ultramarines are blue and extremely lucky, the Imperial Fists are yellow and have tons of bolt based dakka, the Salamanders are green and love punching Orks and making people do the burny dance, the Blood Angels are red and _are_ extremely fast, the Black Templars are black and ded 'ard and finally when was the last time you saw a purple space marine? Even the Emperors Children aren't purple anymore.
@@The_apostated wanna know something else? It doesn't just apply to space marines. Look at the Eldar. Biel-Tan are green and quite fighty, Ulthwe are Eldar Goffs, Alaitoc are blue and Asuryan's -chosen- people, Iyandan have all those lovely D-weapons on their Wraith army, Saim-Hann are the speed force incarnate and again _no purple Eldar_
The second point is something that's been really bugging me lately, you're supposed to establish a status quo to defend but a lot of the time authors want to skip the ordinary in favour of the extravagant but we don't know whats unordinary in a world until the author establishes what that ordinary looks like
I like to believe that orkz can be quite intelligent (at least when it comes to warfare tactics) and willing to negotiate with others if it means furthering the warboss's ambitions or perpetuating the violence.
Pretty big brain move by Majorkill, make entertaining videos that rehash and meme existing lore. Then uses as said videos to inspire a new video to rehash the fact that memes and lore are actually different.
The scale of good and evil factions, I love on how Necrons are just in the exact spot of "get of my lawn/tombworld". They are ultimate methhead who's too deep into alchemy to undo the damages of doing ancient gods meth.
I always envision the scale of Tau as the extreme good guys (as far as the universe is concerned) the necrons are in the perfect midpoint and the chaos space marines/ dark eldar are at the extreme bad guys end. I suppose the chaos gods themselves could be even further down the scale but i feel like they aren’t a faction in their own right.
@@remliqa Probably fighting in melee like a primitive warrior. In that case humanity in 21st century doesn't have honour either since we prefer missiles, guns and cannons over swords and axes.
I love the Imperial Guard, and thank you for pointing out how badass the Gudrunite guardsmen are! Dan Abnett, I dare to say, is Black Library’s greatest writers. Even the inquisitor series depicts the guard’s valor in spite of grim reality.
10:08 What about the war boss who used his wagh to go back in time to kill his past self to get a copy of his favorite gun? Granted, that short story from the (4th edition IIRC) codex ork is slightly older but pretty sure still has been brought up in somewhat more recent times in another more recent ork codex.
You can time travel using the Warp ... hell Humans from the Heresy times could if given enough dedication... like that one Sister of Silence who tried to warn the order about the Heresy and the 10k years of darkness... and since Waagh is a warp based power ... I see no issue with it being possible for the orks to time travel on occasion.
I remember this now! It is THE most Orky thing to ever happen in the lore, in my opinion. Kill your past self to steal from your past self to have two of your favorite guns.
Another misconception is that the Imperium never has tech advancements prior to Cawl when in reality it just progresses at a snail's pace various weapon patterns and artificiers armor come to mind. Another is that some the Imperium's wargear that are considered rare and/or produced on a single world. Its correct to a degree only when considering the size of the IoM said wargear could have tens of millions of copies made.
pretty much. with a military that goes into the millions and a population that goes into the billions, it's just easier logistically to keep producing an effective design until production of a new model is able to supply the demand across more than one million planets. and by that time you're going to have a surplus of easily billions of arms, armor, and supplies, so why not use them?
@@ravenguard0098 I'd have said the big issue was that the Cult Mechanicus is just that- a cult. Very few of its adherents understand the concept of experimentation or scientific enquiry, rather they horde the knowledge of (frankly phenomenal) past achievements of humanity without sharing, because knowledge is power. For a real-world example, its like the craft secrets of masons or blacksmiths in the middle ages (which some people actually did consider a form of magic) combined with rather absolute religious indoctrination. The knowledge exits that could make the Imperium a paradise secure from all hostile foes. But that knowledge is either locked away in thousands of hidden or forgotten vaults or is dispersed in the heads (or whatever body cavity the mem-coils are crammed in to) of a million tech priests that are frequently in violent doctrinal dispute with around 60% of the other tech priests and thus sharing of that knowledge to build something grand doesn't happen... It really is very very human no matter how much flesh they replace with metal.
@@daveharrison4697 lets not forget that said knowledge may have been tainted by either the men of iron or daemons this is why the admech don't bother with searching for archeotechs and STCs on mars but rather on other planets and also that the administratum/ministorum might be behind it like an example is when because of an error almost any forge worlds now can make vortex weaponry while initially only the most important forge worlds could
The fact that gold exists makes every other colours equally inferior. So it stands that the FABULOUS CUSTODES decked in full gold are the best thing ever. **Though it must be said that wearing slick, black, gold trimmed, Allarus pattern terminator armour is just as erogenous as wearing nothing at all.
Might as well add "the Tau sterilize the species that join their empire" heck even the whole "all ethereals have mindcontrol powers" is rather questionable when you have characters like aun'shi. Also, about the whole "everyone in 40K is evil" can we really consider the Orks and the Tyranids "evil"? I mean orks are pretty much bio weapons that are doing what they have been programmed to do and the Tyranids as far as we know are just animals
Lol no the Tyranids are not even close to animals. The hive mind is a supreme intelligence and can spawn highly inteligent organisms when it needs to. They also evolve by merging DNA with other species they find worthy. The Gene-Stealer cults exist... no animals could create such a complex mechanism. You cant argue the Orks to be a bio weapon and not categorize the nids the same.
The tyranids are not animals, but it isn't as much because of their ability to manipulate DNA as it is because most of their sub-species (I believe it was starting from the warrior and all above in the synapse hierarchy) are fucking sentient beings
If Ork WAAAGH affected other races, Blood Angels would be really good at charging, Imperial Fists would be really good with bolters, and Ultramarines would be really lucky. Hey wait a minute
Hmm i don't think that's true. Even if you include the swarms of Comorrah. The old Eldar empire had many many worlds each with a large population and large populations in the webway. I've never seen any source saying there were more now than then
Too be fair, they have 20 millenia since their fall at least, they are going to recoup their loss on population, but they are fighting at a disadvantage with death meaning being eaten by she-who-thirst and pretty much kill on sight due their cousins the dhukari or their own shenanigans.
As someone who is incredibly gay for everything Necron - I have to point out that a fully awakened Necron race would stomp the entire galaxy. The lore frequently states that even though billions of Necrons have perished during the great sleep - there are still *trillions* of Necrons still sleeping out there. The current biggest dynasty, the Sautekh, are currently considered one of the biggest threats to the Imperium alongside Chaos and the Hive Fleets. For context, the Sautekh are right next to the Tau Empire, and the only reason as to why haven't wiped them out is that that they consider the Tau to be such a non-threat that they don't even bother giving them a thought.
@@IronFreakV Damn. I always thought that Necrons were a quality over quantity kind of army. If they are actually that numerous, if they were ever united, the galaxy is boned.
@@minhducnguyen9276 Exactly, they are quality over quantity but it's not like they haven't got numbers. The old Necrontyr Empire was on a size comparable to current day Imperium, with the difference being that every living man, woman and child was turned into soldiers. Necron warriors weren't even warriors before the Biotranscendence: they were ordinary citizens. There's a reason as to why they went from getting their asses handed to them by the Old Ones to absolutely stomping them.
Actually, Space Marines aren't genetically augmented. They are biologically augmented. They are basically "bioborgs", who are like cyborgs, but with biologicals augmentations instead of cyberneticals.
@@idkusernameeggatron4652 At a fundamental level, Space Marines are Human, both in spirit and genetics. They are Humans who have been modified to be living weapons, to have a specific purpose, unlike the rest of Humanity, but that does not mean that they stop being Human at all. For practical purposes, They have been indoctrinated on a physical level. Although the Space Marines have a reputation for being asexual, the reality is that their biological augmentations only inhibit, but do not eliminate, their sexual appetites. In fact, it can be said that this depends more on the gene-seed in question, most of the Space Marines are asexual, but the Space Wolves continue to feel sexual urges. Lukas the Trickster has in fact had multiple children even after becoming Astartes. Which indicates that they are not infertile, most simply lose interest in reproduction and love.
I'm pretty sure they are genetically augmented but it doesn't make as big of a difference as the biological augmentations from the implanted organs. Space Marines are known to resemble their Primarch, but considering they recruit from worlds all across the galaxy... Well you aren't implying that all Space Marines that are ever recruited just coincidentally happen to look like their Primarch, are you? Particularly with the Alpha Legion, where Space Marines resemble their Primarch so closely that everyone in the legion can act as a body double for Alpharius. Now keep in mind that Space Marines are typically recruited right when puberty starts, which is when an individual's body most drastically begins to alter. The process of becoming a Space Marines must modify their genetics if they all start to look like their Primarch after they're done. Because definitely none of the organs are specifically designed to make that happen.
According to the writer that made the Tau, it was somewhat inspired by "Mission Accomplished" era U.S. foreign policy, complete with sanitized language, controlled media combat footage, and a "muh freedom" equivalent.
That’s kind of interesting because it always felt to me as much more imperial Japan, complete with a faux “we’re all in this together except you’re all still beneath us” and “We are conquering you so that you cannot be conquered but worse people” vibe. The fact that they refer to their periods of expansions as “spheres” is also kinda on the nose.
Yup, it's also the origin for their weird tacticool, doublespeak formation names. Continuing on from the concept of "bringing freedom" and sanitising their image
@@Somajsibere except that it doesn’t, America hasn’t expanded its borders in almost a century and doesn’t have a foreign coalition population that it is ruling over. The Japanese co-prosperity sphere is a distinctly imperial Japanese project that doesn’t have a clean parallel.
But oddly enough blood angels ARE known to have a lot faster armies what most other space marine chapters (bar white scars) have. Even the standard blood angel rhinos are build to turbo boost faster than ordinary rhinos. Oh and imperial fist DO bring better long range dakka than what is usual for a chapter. I never thought of that. Hmm
The Necrons alone could absolutely destroy the Nids. Hell even the Tau have found effective means of fighting back the Nids. An alliance between the three aforementioned races would roll the nids into a parallel dimension.
The nids that are currently in the galaxy maybe but those are the vanguards anyway soo doesn't really matter not like it'll happen cuz eldars generally see humans as monkeys they just help them cuz at least it prevents chaos particularly slaanesh and her servants to go on a crusade to exterminate the eldars and sacrifice their souls to the chaos gods and the necrons see pretty much everyone who isn't another necron as an insect at best
@@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593 I think the eldar are pretty fucking stupid for looking down on humans. I mean if they can't see the benefit of titans and dreadnauts (which they always get their asses handed to them by) then maybe they aren't meant to survive. Humanity wasn't the one who murderfucked a god into existence now are we
On the topic of good and bad "chapters" Squad of ultramarines was convinced by one of their members to save a mother with her child at the cost of multiple members of said squad. On the other hand, during the purge of Olimpia by Perty a marine failed to appeal to his comrades humanity when they were burning civilian houses and was then killed when he refused to torch a house.
I choose to believe him to be one of the lost primarchs, and that the Emperor exiled him because he refused to go along with the Emperor’s xenocide plans (remember Sigmar had good relations with the elves of his world). And just to piss nerds off I believe the second missing primarch is a woman.
Trillions of Guardsmen die every year. Trillions more defect to Chaos or Genestealers By our standards they have steel balls. By 40k standards they are cowards
@@christiandauz3742 um no, the entirety of almost every conflict in the iom are only accomplished via the guard, they are respected and even envied by a large majority of astarte chapters and many astarte willingly put themselves in harms way to help guardsman
I might be a 'glass half empty' kind of guy, but if it took a Galaxy spanning event to cause the Hivemind to recoil, than You can argue the theory that we have not seen anything yet and the swarm is on it's way might be true. Also, regarding the WAAAGH power and Yarrick. It's true he's a stone cold badass, intimidating warrior and a master strategist and we know that Imperium uses the technology to extend even their mortal heroes lives, but there is a theory that the Orks believe that he is nothing short of immortal and frankly, I choose to believe it.
There's a story where his aide talks about what a puny little old man yarrick is at the beginning and then when the orks get closer and yarrick puts on his ork claw, the side thinks how this total bad ass looks nothing like the puny old man he had just been. It's played well enough that you can still choose to believe it's just yarrick putting on his game face but I prefer to think it's the WAAAGH effect as the orks got close enough
The coolest thing about the Asuryani (that's Craftworld Eldar, for you uninitiated out there) that it feels like no-one talks about is the fact that _they are a freaking post-scarcity society_ . They basically are so prosperous that there is no class divide in their culture, & they essentially have no need for an economy. _How is everyone sleeping on that, that is amazing_ . I freaking love Eldar, man.
Same rule to the Lasgun applies to the Imperial Guard: It's a pretty neat and powerful weapon with a good durability, versality and good ways to recharge your ammo. but everything is way worse/better than the Lasgun/IG. Space Marine/Bolter, Ork/sho.. no shoota don't hit that good..
The one thing about Yarrik to my understanding is that because some orks think he is strong an ork may believe they should be less resistant to his attacks. Not making Yarrik stronger but this unique belief some orks have that make them weaker when fighting Yarrik.
Cawl refounded the Soul Drinkers with Primaris All the original Scythes of the Emperor are dead, willingly suicide themselves at Tyranids. Primaris seen as rebirth for Chapter Considering the Original Sin of the Scythes (Sotha, unofficual 11th Smurf Company post-Heresy) it's better some things are forgotten for a fresh start
I kind of wish that Humanity attempted to make peace with races like The Eldar or The Tau at least until they broke The Tyranids and Chaos Gods over their knee. I mean they all live in the same galaxy and are each threatened by The Tyranids and Chaos, it would make sense for at least a temporary alliance.
I wish so too, but they keep fucking themself over for god knows what reasons to the point alliances are not even dreams of them. Not a big WH40k fan, but all storys i saw so far are literaly "Didnt had to happen, happened anyways, now things are mote messed up"
I think they do, frequently, we even see Astartes working with Necrons and hell even Orcs can be reasoned with temporarily. The issue is that no one trusts nor can trust the others to ever put their collective interests first. So no alliance can really last. I'd bet there are places and entire worlds where despite the official line xenos are tolerated or even places where there are formal alliances. But all it takes is one overzealous Inquistor to show up and order an exterminatus or one farseer to order a planet wiped because of a vision that maybe it would save one craftworld and suddenly everyone is back to square one. The Aeldari are too proud. The Drukhari are too sick. The Orcs too bloodthirsty. The Imperium too dogmatic. Chaos too... Chaotic. Even the Tau I think are too ambitious. They'll have their slice of the Galaxy and they need it if they want to avoid extermination.
The fandom was pretty accurate until like 11 years ago where people overhyped the grimdarkness a lot and now we're compensating by downplaying everything
And now imagine actually having ADHD and trying to get through arch's siege of vraks. Then again, it's grimdark, then you zone out and whenever you snap back: still grimdark
From a multispecies, galaxy spanning story about defiance in the face of certain EXTINCTION, to StarCraft all grown up in one video. Damn dude, that let me down hard.
It’s good that these are just myths If all of the Eldar were just a small group of emotionless ,narcissistic edge lords. If 99% of the Imperium were an endless horde of depressed mindless cannon fodder. Or if the chaos were just a band of crazed endlessly evil devil’s ***k sucking traitors, The universe would be far more bland and less interesting. At least in my mind.
Ironically this video Clearing up misconceptions also features some inaccuracies, though the lore being as splintered as it is, it's possible that these things are accurate in some material, while directly contradicting others
7:07 "Slaanesh's balls are soon to be squished as well" that made me laugh so much XD . It's so ironic, I picture that in my mind, that would be hillarious. XD
With alot of people still spouting macarthy era propaganda, i doubt they even have the slightest clue what communism even is. So its no surprise they can miss one of its core tennants of a classless society.
@@anathematic758 Because a classles society was never fully implemented in Communist countries, there always was a ruling cast of comrades or revolutionaries that claimed their place as the first amoung equals, because after doing so much for their cause why would they resign?
Being warhammer 40k the collective sublimation of our fears, disillusion and grim, cynical outlook on our own 2k uncaring reality, this video is really consolating. "Chaos and bugs can be beaten!" "Life isn't so bad everywhere!" "The human institutions, even with their flaws, try their best to keep us safe!" are a joy to hear and harden my resolve as a man. Emperor be always praised
Making some observations, excuse the word wall: Craftworld Eldar are like Vulcans: yes, the Vulcans CAN feel emotions, they DO have feelings, but their way of life demands that they instead operate on logic and reason and not on their feelings. This is because they almost wiped themselves out in a WMD holocaust and created the Romulans (that’s not an exaggeration). Similarly, the Eldar have the Paths to prevent themselves from falling into obsession and completely lose themselves to their passions; this is how the Eldar caused Slaanesh, not that they were hyperviolent hedonists but that their passion for pleasure (given that none of them had to manually work anymore and could pursue lives of leisure) became an obsession with it that required greater depths of depravity to satisfy until the only way they could get their rocks off was for someone else to be gruesomely murdered. +++ As far as worlds never having seen conflict, there are some worlds that are “Feudal Worlds” because they have not yet invented a combustion engine: there is a story I read where a planet with _middle ages_ technology gets invaded by Orks, who eventually get repelled by Astartes, the Imperial Warhawks chapter, who are misidentified as the “Emperor’s Hunting Hawks” because these people also don’t speak Gothic. +++ The Imperial Guard are trained, professional soldiers, and yes some of them are VERY good at their jobs; the reason they are depicted dying by the dozens per second is because they get lined up against monsters who are individually far more powerful than a single human.
My favorite video of Majorkill so far! It's so refreshing listening to this more realistic version of W40K universe than the usual everything-is-doomed, one-sided version of it. Love it.
Part of the Problem with the meme lore is GW is directly responsible for it by playing into the meme's in a lot of the more recent books and stories. Its something you see really clearly with The Guard, you read a Ciaphas Cain novel it gives you a good idea of how The Guard would function (and how pleasant a lot of Imperial world's can be), briefing, sensible tactics, competent, experienced officers, but much of the rest just shows the Guard walking slowly into enemy fire and being massacred on mass 'cause Grimdark, The Fall of Cadia's literally meme set piece followed by meme set peice (and bares zero resemblance to the worldwide campaign, Imp. Navy shot Abbadons fleet out of space) and the rule sets haven't let you create seriously customised IG armies since 4th edition which really enforces the meme image, for the most varied fighting force (see any Sabbat World book) in history, an awful lot of em look like Cadians now.
He’s not up and off the throne, he’s kinda Morphed into a warp god in a way. Most of his essence is in the warp and the throne is the only thing keeping him bound to real space. I imagine whenever the throne finally fails there will be a whole new warp rift, like the eye of terror, to signify the emperor ascending to godhood.
@@ianharrison5758, until you realize that there is a nuke on the throne powerful enough to destroy Terra, because his death triggers it: all to stop Chaos from taking the home of humanity.
While I do agree with the Ork thing, personally I do like the idea that Yarrick is an exception. However, the Ork belief that he's unkillable doesn't actually make him unkillable, it's more like a debuff to the Orks facing him. It doesn't make him stronger but makes the Orks weaker or less combat effective. Yarrick can still be killed like any other human, he just has a sizable combat advantage against the Orks.
But what about yariks claw? From what I understand, they don’t understand why it works for him. With his implants, he is literally part ork, so I could def see him getting a power boost from the waaa.
Humans and Eldar teaming up to strategize just exactly how they could coax as many Orkz in the galaxy on one side of the Tyranid Hive Fleet with as many Necron on the other side to make the Tyranid threat a joke.
I mean yeah, but also... Imagine if all Blood Angels actually went super fast as soon as they got too close to a bunch of Orkz. That'd be really freaking funny. Then again, the Blood Ravens might actually get more use out of it, I mean, that speed boost probably is essential when it comes to "borrowing" some kind of divine relic.
What you said at 4:00 is just incorrect. I think you need to back this up with a reference. Dam Abnett said that 40k is the one setting he would never want to visit, for obvious reasons. Also leaves out the fact that all imperial planets are by in large violent theocracies with absolutely no democracy, and have a caste system that incorporates noble houses. You can point to some planets within Ultramar and claim they are functioning. But the whole setting is predicated on what was lost during the heresy.
The Orks can still lose more often to ultramarines due to the belief blue is a lucky color becuase it affects the Orks not the marines. they believe their enemy is lucky, thus are less effective against them.
(Edit: A few correction in reply) I think there is another myth, that being the lasgun is a literal flashlight. I don't think so. Lasgun can blow off limbs, giant holes in concrete, extremely fast firing rate, etc. A lasgun can kill all but the most powerful enemies. Even if a lasgun cannot kill a chaos daemon in one shot, well the super fast fire rate will get the job done. In my opinion a single guardsmen can kill about 3-5 normal daemon before he is overrun. A well place lasgun shot can go through a space marine armour like on the joints, etc. But that is unlikely, don't worry a tank can probably kill a few chaos space marine. Not to mention the all powerful hellgun or hotshot lasgun. "Those who doubt the power of the lasgun have never ran through a field of a thousand of them".
In fact, Lasguns are the modern equivalent to 50.Cal automatic anti-armor rifle, without the need of reload, who can recharge his battery with direct contact with solar energy (and doesnt have to be the sun, even a bornfire works) and without any recoil at all. But the enemies of the Guard usualy have a too high plot armor, until the Space Marines comes to save the day.
@@Zlyxon Huh I see. Never knew the average daemon is more powerful than an ork, thanks for the info. In that case it changes the situation, so.... Leman russ it is :) But against a normal genestealer cultists (like not up to 4th or 5th generation but like 1-3) and normal chaos cultists, and any other enemy on those level a lasgun can probably kill them right?
This video ended up with more hot takes than I originally planned for.
To clarify some things that I feel might stir some debate :
The Necron's aren't weak because they have bad weapons or low numbers, it's their extreme infighting that keeps them mostly out of the setting
The Imperium is a pretty Grim place to be, but as shown in novels such as the Eisenhorn Trilogy as well as the infinite and the Divine, there are numerous worlds full of culture and life. Only some Imperial worlds (generally hive worlds) are horrible oppressive places to be.
The point about there being "goods" guys is based on them being compared to the bad guys, a tyrannical oppressive regime is utopia compared to HELL
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Man, if only the skelly king could unite the Necrons and just say furck you to Choas and just refuse to die to the tyrinids.
Major daddy
@Jo Try not to cut yourself on all that edge heretic.
I must say, yourself and Lutin have rekindled my love for 40k lore.
Many thanks and go fook yourself
@Jo "Angels to some, demons to others" -- The Hell Priest (Pinhead... greater daemon of Slaanesh probably)
The group of fleeing Orks getting caught by blood angels terminators is funny, but still makes sense. Orks see red as faster but the WAAAGH can't make the space marines run at a higher speed, so how did it happen? The WAAAGH slowed down the Orks until they were slower than the terminators. Space marines weren't running any faster due to the WAAAGH, but they were now the faster of the two groups there, since red is da fastest color.
I can see that happening good way of phrasing it
I always asked myself why the Orks haven't conquered the Galaxy yet, with their absurd physiology and reality warping powers and I read the antics they do like this and I'm like, oh...that's why.
@@bakedgoods7116 because if they "conquered" the galaxy, they'd have nothing to fight but themselves.
Pretty sure MajorKill goes over it, but the krorks degraded to the modern orks because of a lack of conflict.
And I think that THIS is what happens with Yarrick, though the degree to which it does is up for debate. Yarrick gained a reputation among orks by his own merits as a soldier, then the WAAAGH causes itself to falter in his presence due to said reputation being ingrained into ork consciousness. Henceforth, a self-fulfilling prophecy is created.
I would like to add that, for the most part, red sub-factions tend to be faster - blood angels have lucifer pattern engines (which were alot stronger in 7th) and their jump packs, Saim Han Eldar focus on speed, Even White Scars incorporate alot of red into their color scheme. it's not universal, but it is present to a significant degree.
as soon as you said “if you can’t tell the difference between a meme and a misconception you need to get tested for autism... link in the description” went straight there and there it was absolutely amazing
95% of the viewers and 100% of the owners of this channel should definitely get tested.
It said I have a very strong likelihood of being autistic
As one with autism who decided "lets see what this says" and did it, it got the idea well
Apprently I also have a high likelihood of autism aswell
Had to take it. I think that test leads towards perception bias - as in, not enough questions and most people could answer these questions differently every time they take it. A person who sees themselves as well organized and hating interruptions isn't going to react the same as my son, who gets stuck in loops and screams whenever his brother talks to him too loudly.. Just a thought.
Bruh, this dudes vide quality is getting better and better.
I know right its awesome to see
He did invest his profits back into equipment and paying a decent wage for good workers.
It's nice to see a RUclipsr evolving in their content and quality, while so many others stick to their same old lazy formula, with zero drive to improve.
I commend MajorKill, for his drive and we'll earned success, all while having a great sense of humor.
Humor not just aimed at others, but also plenty of self deprecating humor aimed at himself.
It's refreshing & funny to see and makes him a down to earth likable bloke.
And he actually put the link to be tested in the description
@@masstv9052 unlike so many other channels who’ve stagnated…like Gamza…or Outer Circle…or even Arch
It's crazy to watch channels grow
I think that the myth about the Guard being incompetent largely stems from most 40k video games being from a Space Marine perspective, and having campaigns that largely consist of saving worlds on which the Guard was defeated.... But everybody seems to forget, that in order for MArines to get involved, the situation has to be REALLY dire, so what we see in the games is an exception, not the rule
I was literally playing DoW the other day which is Blood Raven heaven, and I like playing Guardsmen. I forgot how WEAK they made the Guardsmen in that game compared to every other faction and was just like... Bro... No...
@@princeofdaemons7344 weak? I steamrolled with the Guard. Especially their Tanks caused much havoc. The biggest Problem of them is their low HP and Morality and that they can barely Spot stealth enemys. They depend a lot on commissars and Psykers or Priests mixed in the Regiments. But enough flashlights melt even Necrons
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I meant individual units. As in on their own.
I forgot how weak individual units are for the IG.
@@princeofdaemons7344 well you still have to consider that they are the average joes in a Universe full of world ending monstrosities.
There is a joke that their Lasgubs are useless because they killed everything with it that was war to it. And legt is everything immune to it
@@pascalheinrich3990 My guy, I know.
I played it when I was 7/8(yes I know) and I just remembered them being a lot stronger than they were. That’s all.
There's also the myth that Khorne "saved" Khaine from Slaanesh. That's not the case and hasn't been since 8th edition, where it was stated in an excerpt of the Craftworlds Codex that Khaine fought Slaanesh to exhaustion, rendering her too weak to consume the war god as she had the other eldar gods. Instead, she rent him into thousands of shards that he wouldn't challenge her again, each shard falling to rest in a craftworlds infinity circuit.
This is great because it doesn't take power away from Khaine and just hand it to Khorne, it shows the war God being the badass he's supposed to be, even against a seemingly insurmountable foe.
Exactly.
“Insurmountable foe”…
I reckon Slaanesh likes to go on top.
@@Palocles ...why did you comment this
@@basketofsnake104 Because this is Slaanesh we’re talking about. 😂
how would you be too tired to eat something?
It is noted that the Orkz cannot kill him BECAUSE they believe he's unkillable. That doesn't mean a Tyrannid couldn't walk up and chomp his head off, just that Yarrick won't be dying of an Ork shoota any time soon
You're correct. But what about a bomb-squig too stupid to be aware of it's own mortality?
@@industrialcamo Well, the Waaagh functions more like a psykic soup in which bigger masses of Greenskins are swimming. Everything this collective of Greenskins believes becomes reality to some degree within this soup.
Therefore, a group of Orks that has never heard of Yarrik could easily kill him, whereous a bomb squig sent in by a group of Orks that DID hear of Yarrik and believe the stories to be true would most likely just wound him, but if the Waaagh energy is strong enough, he wouldn't die.
@@cibo889 Depends. Yarrik is not a super human. He is a tactical genius and a skilled strategist, but in combat, he is just a mere human - and a very old one on top of that. His augments aren't that helpful either, they're mostly aimed towards keeping up the myth about him in the Greenskin's minds. That doesn't help at all if the Orks he has to face never heard of him before, though.
If he's able to use his wit in order to dispatch the Orks one by one over time with traps or ambushed, then perhaps he could kill a group of Orks indeed. But locked up in a cage with them, two Orks would be more than enough to kill Yarrik.
@@cibo889 Well, the fight between Ugulhard and Yarrik is the exact reason why I'm saying this. Ugulhard beat the shit out of Yarrik in just a few seconds, which is no surprise since an old human is no match for an Ork warboss.
It was actually Ugulhard who ripped Yarriks arm off during the fight. After that, he thought Yarrik to be dead and didn't bother about him anymore, but Yarrik suppressed his pain, got up again and decapitated Ugulhard in front of his Orks. That's the actual reason why the Orks believe Yarrik to be immortal, because it seemed to them like he rose from the dead and took revenge on their warboss at that moment.
Yarrik cut off Ugulhard's claw after he was dead already and attached it to the stump Ugulhard left him with in order to remind the Orks of what happened that day.
He knew exactly what he was doing, since he was one of the Astra Militarums leading experts on Greenskins back then, that's probably why he was allowed to keep that claw despite using xenos tech being a capital crime.
That whole scene showed that Yarrik is not really a good fighter anymore (if he has ever been one at all, we don't know much about that), but an outstanding strategist blessed with willpower beyond peer.
@@GodlordBazi war bosses regularly kill space marines with relative ease, yarrick held his own against ugulhard for about a minute which is extremely impressive for a normal human. In the books yarrick has been shown as a skilled fighter. (Incase you don’t know, there has been 2 yarrick novels released)
I always thought that the true dicothomy in Warhammer 40K is Order Vs Chaos, not Good Vs Evil.
Dow went for order/ disorder
Tyrannical order vs dysfunctional chaos.
ah, winter assault fan see!
@@lordhamster9452 didn't whf online also do order/ disorder iirc?
@@theHeritress WHF?
Warhammer Fantasy? Sorry that I don’t know the short cut.
"Less intelligent parts of the community,so majorkill subscribers"
Is a statement that could only be delivered by an Australian
*is a statement that could only be delivered by anyone outside of his community
@@baizuo_6246 I am subscriber and fully accept dumbness
@@Ake-TL idiocy should be embraced
@@baizuo_6246 there is nothing wrong with being a dum dum
@@urmomgay0166 Those taking advantage of your stupidity, laughing all the way to the bank, would fully agree.
I'm pretty sure the whole thing about how Waaagh! energy allows ork technology to work is something GW just came up with to encourage ork players to go nuts and throw logic to the wind when customizing their trukks and battlewagons.
I think the waagh exists because otherwise there is no way a troglodite humanoid species like the orks can compete with any space age empire.
One Ork can make a scrap gun shoot with belief.
A lot of Orks can make a car without an engine run with belief.
A trillion Orks not busy killing each other couldn't warp time and space because they'd need to have a unified image.
@@GamerGrovyle It's not a coincidence that the more improbable pieces of Ork tech only start popping up once the WAAAGH!!! gets enough momentum (i.e. numbers) rolling.
One minor correction from The Infinite and the Divine. They dissolved the Awakened Council due to most of the council members dynasties starting the Great Awakening and the infighting because of it. There are still countless numbers of Necrons that have not woken up yet. Not all the dynasties have found or awoken all their tomb worlds and some minor dynasties have yet to start awakening.
If anything the Tau are far closer to being representations of Plato's Ideal Republic. It's a hierarchical society led by ascetic philosopher kings who separate people into solidified casts that best represent their spiritual/physical needs and gifts. The "Greater Good" is literally a ripped version of Plato's ideal of the "good" that all societies led by wise-men pursue, i.e a kind of harmonious, selfless civil virtue where everyone does what is needed of them in their perfect station to ensure eternal order and prosperity for the larger whole.
I think it’s more like the Indian Caste system
Thus a Authoritarian state with a bunch of Elites on top and keep people in a caste system you can never escape and you are forced to be sterilized if to many people are in a caste. So how are they not Communist.
@@slaughterthefalsegodempero1220 Because thats not what communism means ya nut
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And even the strongest adherents to democracy admit it is ALSO a shitshow. It's just that all alternatives are worse (arguably, as many people believe OTHER systems are the lesser evil, like the US federal system, which is explicitly and intentionally NOT a direct democracy)
The ideas that inspired communist thinkers & revolutionaries aren't KNEW and they aren't inherently evil.
You can argue that the results are, and I think you'll find wide support across the political spectrum (including many communists) but if you thin the things you describe are inherent and exclusive to communism, I have some bad news.
India was ruled by monarchs and THEN my rulers appointed by the British (a constitutional monarchy with limited democracy at the time) Many nations have practiced forced sterilization (including the US, which was actually the first nation to attempt it on a large scale between the 1890s to 1920s, though it was STILL practiced until the 70s.
As for the caste system, India codifies it and there's certain an issue of "elites" over the lower classes basically everywhere, but if you think countries without communism are immune to it, you NEED more education, fella.
@@slaughterthefalsegodempero1220 this is completely not how communism works trust me I experienced it first hand
Imagine being a travel agent in 40k selling vacation packages.
"Ah you can't got there anymore, or there, here is also off the flight list".
"What happened"?
"Oh. that Chaos thing again. You know how they are".
"just a minor chaos cult uprising, should be sorted in a couple years"
Ah, yes, I'm sorry to bother you but I'm afraid we have to reschedule. Garden worlds, you know, practically an all you can eat for the nids. May i interest you in this other garden world?
Except to common imperium civilians, it usually not undisclosed.
The only exceptions is that if they were already there, and at that point they'd be extremely lucky if they got out alive.
Those mostly peaceful chaos eruptions are just the darndest
Wait, I have a counter argument to the Orks not affecting other races: the Ultramarines are blue and extremely lucky, the Imperial Fists are yellow and have tons of bolt based dakka, the Salamanders are green and love punching Orks and making people do the burny dance, the Blood Angels are red and _are_ extremely fast, the Black Templars are black and ded 'ard and finally when was the last time you saw a purple space marine? Even the Emperors Children aren't purple anymore.
…
*Oh shit*
We’re doomed
The Soul Drinkers were declared renegade because of this... It all makes sense...
@@The_apostated wanna know something else? It doesn't just apply to space marines. Look at the Eldar. Biel-Tan are green and quite fighty, Ulthwe are Eldar Goffs, Alaitoc are blue and Asuryan's -chosen- people, Iyandan have all those lovely D-weapons on their Wraith army, Saim-Hann are the speed force incarnate and again _no purple Eldar_
@@steweygrrr welp that’s enough evidence for me
The second point is something that's been really bugging me lately, you're supposed to establish a status quo to defend but a lot of the time authors want to skip the ordinary in favour of the extravagant but we don't know whats unordinary in a world until the author establishes what that ordinary looks like
I like to believe that orkz can be quite intelligent (at least when it comes to warfare tactics) and willing to negotiate with others if it means furthering the warboss's ambitions or perpetuating the violence.
Is it true you guys normally greet each other by just strangling each other almost to death in the outback?
Yes
Followed by the traditional slapping in the face by mummified Kangaroo testicles.
@@Tree-beard or a sufficiently large fish
Not an Australian but LOL🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
I heard them aussies,
when they greet each other in the bush.....
Both are left greeted -.-
Pretty big brain move by Majorkill, make entertaining videos that rehash and meme existing lore. Then uses as said videos to inspire a new video to rehash the fact that memes and lore are actually different.
Marketing brilliance. Confuse the idiots with money making content. Then correct the idiots with money making content
sigma grindset
The scale of good and evil factions, I love on how Necrons are just in the exact spot of "get of my lawn/tombworld". They are ultimate methhead who's too deep into alchemy to undo the damages of doing ancient gods meth.
Like The tomb kings
I always envision the scale of Tau as the extreme good guys (as far as the universe is concerned) the necrons are in the perfect midpoint and the chaos space marines/ dark eldar are at the extreme bad guys end. I suppose the chaos gods themselves could be even further down the scale but i feel like they aren’t a faction in their own right.
@@Mankorra_Gomorrah nah, tau has no honor
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Define "honor" .
@@remliqa Probably fighting in melee like a primitive warrior. In that case humanity in 21st century doesn't have honour either since we prefer missiles, guns and cannons over swords and axes.
The guy actually put an autism test link in the description. And i honestly appriciate that
I love the Imperial Guard, and thank you for pointing out how badass the Gudrunite guardsmen are!
Dan Abnett, I dare to say, is Black Library’s greatest writers. Even the inquisitor series depicts the guard’s valor in spite of grim reality.
10:08 What about the war boss who used his wagh to go back in time to kill his past self to get a copy of his favorite gun?
Granted, that short story from the (4th edition IIRC) codex ork is slightly older but pretty sure still has been brought up in somewhat more recent times in another more recent ork codex.
You can time travel using the Warp ... hell Humans from the Heresy times could if given enough dedication... like that one Sister of Silence who tried to warn the order about the Heresy and the 10k years of darkness... and since Waagh is a warp based power ... I see no issue with it being possible for the orks to time travel on occasion.
He didn't use waaagh, he used warp travel and he gets out of the warp earlier than he entered it. That's how he arrived earlier than he departed.
@@MrFallenone Or like the word bearers who were sent to the baby primarchs and destroyed the gelar field to let chaos scatter the primarchs.
I remember this now! It is THE most Orky thing to ever happen in the lore, in my opinion.
Kill your past self to steal from your past self to have two of your favorite guns.
Another misconception is that the Imperium never has tech advancements prior to Cawl when in reality it just progresses at a snail's pace various weapon patterns and artificiers armor come to mind.
Another is that some the Imperium's wargear that are considered rare and/or produced on a single world. Its correct to a degree only when considering the size of the IoM said wargear could have tens of millions of copies made.
pretty much. with a military that goes into the millions and a population that goes into the billions, it's just easier logistically to keep producing an effective design until production of a new model is able to supply the demand across more than one million planets. and by that time you're going to have a surplus of easily billions of arms, armor, and supplies, so why not use them?
Also The munitorum and ministorum are handling things pretty poorly.
@@brok56 I think its more the Munitorum or the adeptus administratum in general than the Ministorum. As well general human corruption.
@@ravenguard0098 I'd have said the big issue was that the Cult Mechanicus is just that- a cult. Very few of its adherents understand the concept of experimentation or scientific enquiry, rather they horde the knowledge of (frankly phenomenal) past achievements of humanity without sharing, because knowledge is power. For a real-world example, its like the craft secrets of masons or blacksmiths in the middle ages (which some people actually did consider a form of magic) combined with rather absolute religious indoctrination. The knowledge exits that could make the Imperium a paradise secure from all hostile foes. But that knowledge is either locked away in thousands of hidden or forgotten vaults or is dispersed in the heads (or whatever body cavity the mem-coils are crammed in to) of a million tech priests that are frequently in violent doctrinal dispute with around 60% of the other tech priests and thus sharing of that knowledge to build something grand doesn't happen... It really is very very human no matter how much flesh they replace with metal.
@@daveharrison4697 lets not forget that said knowledge may have been tainted by either the men of iron or daemons this is why the admech don't bother with searching for archeotechs and STCs on mars but rather on other planets and also that the administratum/ministorum might be behind it like an example is when because of an error almost any forge worlds now can make vortex weaponry while initially only the most important forge worlds could
I feel like Majorkill mentioned the Eldar smashing thing only because he wants to smash an Eldar
Who wouldn't?
"I'm sure Slaanesh's balls are soon to be squished aswell"
*That probably wouldnt help*
He would probably enjoy it
@@alanfeetham6026probably regrow them and come back for another, harder, squishing.
The fact that you actually put a link to an autism test cracked me up
The fact that gold exists makes every other colours equally inferior. So it stands that the FABULOUS CUSTODES decked in full gold are the best thing ever.
**Though it must be said that wearing slick, black, gold trimmed, Allarus pattern terminator armour is just as erogenous as wearing nothing at all.
gold is a beautiful color indeed
#jackofblades 👏 damn straight
gold is amazing but i prefer platinum and damascus. imagine space wolves in full platinum .... god damn
@@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it bling and vikings sounds like you just created crunkmarinez
@@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it what color is platinum
Majorkill is always right so what lore he gets wrong becomes the actual lore because GW don't know how to make lore good
Bruh how this get 30 likes and a heart in only 2 minutes
@@Prenz01 because what you said are fax
gw literally makes the lore
@@avigailpekelman8239 they make it but they’re shit at maintaining it which is why people get shit wrong and why the lore is such a mess
Speech 100
Might as well add "the Tau sterilize the species that join their empire" heck even the whole "all ethereals have mindcontrol powers" is rather questionable when you have characters like aun'shi.
Also, about the whole "everyone in 40K is evil" can we really consider the Orks and the Tyranids "evil"? I mean orks are pretty much bio weapons that are doing what they have been programmed to do and the Tyranids as far as we know are just animals
We gotta keep telling Imperial citizens that the Tau will sterilize them otherwise they might switch sides goddamnit!
Lol no the Tyranids are not even close to animals. The hive mind is a supreme intelligence and can spawn highly inteligent organisms when it needs to. They also evolve by merging DNA with other species they find worthy. The Gene-Stealer cults exist... no animals could create such a complex mechanism. You cant argue the Orks to be a bio weapon and not categorize the nids the same.
depends on your view on ethics-does intent count or judgment by results
I've heard a theory that the Tau were so good at media presentation and propaganda that the inquisition initially misinterpreted it as mind control.
The tyranids are not animals, but it isn't as much because of their ability to manipulate DNA as it is because most of their sub-species (I believe it was starting from the warrior and all above in the synapse hierarchy) are fucking sentient beings
The fact that the link for autism testing is actually there has me dying
If Ork WAAAGH affected other races, Blood Angels would be really good at charging, Imperial Fists would be really good with bolters, and Ultramarines would be really lucky.
Hey wait a minute
One of the biggest misconceptions about the Eldar is that there are far more Eldar now than there was just after the fall. They're not a "dying race"
Hmm i don't think that's true.
Even if you include the swarms of Comorrah.
The old Eldar empire had many many worlds each with a large population and large populations in the webway. I've never seen any source saying there were more now than then
@@wraithship he said right after the fall
Too be fair, they have 20 millenia since their fall at least, they are going to recoup their loss on population, but they are fighting at a disadvantage with death meaning being eaten by she-who-thirst and pretty much kill on sight due their cousins the dhukari or their own shenanigans.
@@feto5310 ah yes. Very true then. Thanks for pointing that out
Give me a lasgun, they'll be a a dying race soon enough.
Necrons are hella strong. They just don't get along well with other dynastys, but are also kinda screwed because there sleeping protocol.
As someone who is incredibly gay for everything Necron - I have to point out that a fully awakened Necron race would stomp the entire galaxy. The lore frequently states that even though billions of Necrons have perished during the great sleep - there are still *trillions* of Necrons still sleeping out there.
The current biggest dynasty, the Sautekh, are currently considered one of the biggest threats to the Imperium alongside Chaos and the Hive Fleets. For context, the Sautekh are right next to the Tau Empire, and the only reason as to why haven't wiped them out is that that they consider the Tau to be such a non-threat that they don't even bother giving them a thought.
@@IronFreakV Damn. I always thought that Necrons were a quality over quantity kind of army. If they are actually that numerous, if they were ever united, the galaxy is boned.
@@minhducnguyen9276 Exactly, they are quality over quantity but it's not like they haven't got numbers. The old Necrontyr Empire was on a size comparable to current day Imperium, with the difference being that every living man, woman and child was turned into soldiers.
Necron warriors weren't even warriors before the Biotranscendence: they were ordinary citizens. There's a reason as to why they went from getting their asses handed to them by the Old Ones to absolutely stomping them.
Basicaly All of these myths come from the fact that Everything in 40k lore is over the top
Actually put a link for autism testing in the description what a goddamn legend.
Actually, Space Marines aren't genetically augmented. They are biologically augmented.
They are basically "bioborgs", who are like cyborgs, but with biologicals augmentations instead of cyberneticals.
Like spartan 2 in Halo.
I'm pretty sure their genetics are fucked up too. Like the organs are implanted but also viruses make the person not a human anymore
@@idkusernameeggatron4652 At a fundamental level, Space Marines are Human, both in spirit and genetics.
They are Humans who have been modified to be living weapons, to have a specific purpose, unlike the rest of Humanity, but that does not mean that they stop being Human at all. For practical purposes,
They have been indoctrinated on a physical level.
Although the Space Marines have a reputation for being asexual, the reality is that their biological augmentations only inhibit, but do not eliminate, their sexual appetites. In fact, it can be said that this depends more on the gene-seed in question, most of the Space Marines are asexual, but the Space Wolves continue to feel sexual urges.
Lukas the Trickster has in fact had multiple children even after becoming Astartes. Which indicates that they are not infertile, most simply lose interest in reproduction and love.
I do believe that the biological enhancement would in fact influence the genetic structure, sure that may not make them less human.
I'm pretty sure they are genetically augmented but it doesn't make as big of a difference as the biological augmentations from the implanted organs. Space Marines are known to resemble their Primarch, but considering they recruit from worlds all across the galaxy... Well you aren't implying that all Space Marines that are ever recruited just coincidentally happen to look like their Primarch, are you? Particularly with the Alpha Legion, where Space Marines resemble their Primarch so closely that everyone in the legion can act as a body double for Alpharius.
Now keep in mind that Space Marines are typically recruited right when puberty starts, which is when an individual's body most drastically begins to alter. The process of becoming a Space Marines must modify their genetics if they all start to look like their Primarch after they're done. Because definitely none of the organs are specifically designed to make that happen.
According to the writer that made the Tau, it was somewhat inspired by "Mission Accomplished" era U.S. foreign policy, complete with sanitized language, controlled media combat footage, and a "muh freedom" equivalent.
That’s kind of interesting because it always felt to me as much more imperial Japan, complete with a faux “we’re all in this together except you’re all still beneath us” and “We are conquering you so that you cannot be conquered but worse people” vibe. The fact that they refer to their periods of expansions as “spheres” is also kinda on the nose.
@@Mankorra_Gomorrah Tau take from a wide variety of influences for sure.
@@Mankorra_Gomorrah I mean that kind of sounds like the US if you think about it.
Yup, it's also the origin for their weird tacticool, doublespeak formation names. Continuing on from the concept of "bringing freedom" and sanitising their image
@@Somajsibere except that it doesn’t, America hasn’t expanded its borders in almost a century and doesn’t have a foreign coalition population that it is ruling over. The Japanese co-prosperity sphere is a distinctly imperial Japanese project that doesn’t have a clean parallel.
But oddly enough blood angels ARE known to have a lot faster armies what most other space marine chapters (bar white scars) have. Even the standard blood angel rhinos are build to turbo boost faster than ordinary rhinos. Oh and imperial fist DO bring better long range dakka than what is usual for a chapter.
I never thought of that. Hmm
Bro him guessing that when the tyranids get real strong the Lion will wake up was actually what happened like that’s crazy
"Necrons are weak "
pleased consider that again, we have a lot Lord of war options
I'm pretty sure if humanity, the eldar and necrons combined their tech they'd easily find a way to kill off the nids
The Necrons alone could absolutely destroy the Nids. Hell even the Tau have found effective means of fighting back the Nids.
An alliance between the three aforementioned races would roll the nids into a parallel dimension.
The Necrons already have its Gauss weaponry
Pretty much if any warhammer faction could be United at full strength they could destroy the nids
The nids that are currently in the galaxy maybe but those are the vanguards anyway soo doesn't really matter not like it'll happen cuz eldars generally see humans as monkeys they just help them cuz at least it prevents chaos particularly slaanesh and her servants to go on a crusade to exterminate the eldars and sacrifice their souls to the chaos gods and the necrons see pretty much everyone who isn't another necron as an insect at best
@@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593 I think the eldar are pretty fucking stupid for looking down on humans. I mean if they can't see the benefit of titans and dreadnauts (which they always get their asses handed to them by) then maybe they aren't meant to survive. Humanity wasn't the one who murderfucked a god into existence now are we
On the topic of good and bad "chapters" Squad of ultramarines was convinced by one of their members to save a mother with her child at the cost of multiple members of said squad. On the other hand, during the purge of Olimpia by Perty a marine failed to appeal to his comrades humanity when they were burning civilian houses and was then killed when he refused to torch a house.
I thought Sigmar being primarch was just a fan theory and that everyone knew it
Nobody ever thought he was a Primarch.
The Emperor on the other hand…
I choose to believe him to be one of the lost primarchs, and that the Emperor exiled him because he refused to go along with the Emperor’s xenocide plans (remember Sigmar had good relations with the elves of his world).
And just to piss nerds off I believe the second missing primarch is a woman.
The mad lad actually linked the test.
I wasnt awared that the imperium had "Nice planets" that is refreshing
I like to think the T'au are simply outgrowing the Aetherial Caste.
I mean the Farsight Enclaves have
My boy giving the credit the Guard deserves.
Cadia stands; the planet broke before the guard did!"
Trillions of Guardsmen die every year. Trillions more defect to Chaos or Genestealers
By our standards they have steel balls. By 40k standards they are cowards
@@henrypaleveda7760 For the Lord Castellan!
@@christiandauz3742 um no, the entirety of almost every conflict in the iom are only accomplished via the guard, they are respected and even envied by a large majority of astarte chapters and many astarte willingly put themselves in harms way to help guardsman
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Not the important ones
I doubt Guardsmen would have stopped the Prisoner of the Emerald Cave
I might be a 'glass half empty' kind of guy, but if it took a Galaxy spanning event to cause the Hivemind to recoil, than You can argue the theory that we have not seen anything yet and the swarm is on it's way might be true.
Also, regarding the WAAAGH power and Yarrick. It's true he's a stone cold badass, intimidating warrior and a master strategist and we know that Imperium uses the technology to extend even their mortal heroes lives, but there is a theory that the Orks believe that he is nothing short of immortal and frankly, I choose to believe it.
There's a story where his aide talks about what a puny little old man yarrick is at the beginning and then when the orks get closer and yarrick puts on his ork claw, the side thinks how this total bad ass looks nothing like the puny old man he had just been.
It's played well enough that you can still choose to believe it's just yarrick putting on his game face but I prefer to think it's the WAAAGH effect as the orks got close enough
This man is Warwick Davis if Warwick Davis had been average size.
10:58 okay now I’m just imagining a death squad of Imperial Fists now having their bolt rounds explode with the magnitude of Earth-Shaker artillery
I like the thought of Majorkill being an actual keeper of lore in the warhammer universe
@KoiWolf of the Space wolves with inverted gravity of course, due to being Australian.
TTS is canon for me and nothing you can say could change that
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The coolest thing about the Asuryani (that's Craftworld Eldar, for you uninitiated out there) that it feels like no-one talks about is the fact that _they are a freaking post-scarcity society_ . They basically are so prosperous that there is no class divide in their culture, & they essentially have no need for an economy.
_How is everyone sleeping on that, that is amazing_ .
I freaking love Eldar, man.
Ik you wanna bang some
My cat likes major kill so much shes starting clicking the videos on her own.... ive taught her well.
Everyone can unite against the tyranids tho, everyone is down to kick out the intergalactic invader everytime.
Same rule to the Lasgun applies to the Imperial Guard: It's a pretty neat and powerful weapon with a good durability, versality and good ways to recharge your ammo.
but everything is way worse/better than the Lasgun/IG. Space Marine/Bolter, Ork/sho.. no shoota don't hit that good..
The one thing about Yarrik to my understanding is that because some orks think he is strong an ork may believe they should be less resistant to his attacks. Not making Yarrik stronger but this unique belief some orks have that make them weaker when fighting Yarrik.
The Waagh actually needs more than a single ork to work. Thats something people forget
So it's not all grimdark...
*Inquisition detective story about rooting out the corruption in the Ecclesiarchy intensifies*
The mad man actually put a link for an autism screening in the desc. Bless.
I hope we get some new lore for the blood raven's, the soul drinker's and retcon some them.
And not let c s goto anywhere near a keyboard
The writers won't give anything to the blood magpies because they know they'll just steal lore and write themselves
Cawl refounded the Soul Drinkers with Primaris
All the original Scythes of the Emperor are dead, willingly suicide themselves at Tyranids. Primaris seen as rebirth for Chapter
Considering the Original Sin of the Scythes (Sotha, unofficual 11th Smurf Company post-Heresy) it's better some things are forgotten for a fresh start
@@christiandauz3742 We don't even know which legion there from since they're are not imperial fists.
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Or the Primaris which replaced them
I kind of wish that Humanity attempted to make peace with races like The Eldar or The Tau at least until they broke The Tyranids and Chaos Gods over their knee. I mean they all live in the same galaxy and are each threatened by The Tyranids and Chaos, it would make sense for at least a temporary alliance.
The tau are insignificant in the galaxy and they already have an peace with the eldar the ynari anyway
@@shadowlord1418 True that, though even if they're insignificant, they could serve as half-decent cannon fodder.
I wish so too, but they keep fucking themself over for god knows what reasons to the point alliances are not even dreams of them.
Not a big WH40k fan, but all storys i saw so far are literaly "Didnt had to happen, happened anyways, now things are mote messed up"
I think they do, frequently, we even see Astartes working with Necrons and hell even Orcs can be reasoned with temporarily.
The issue is that no one trusts nor can trust the others to ever put their collective interests first. So no alliance can really last. I'd bet there are places and entire worlds where despite the official line xenos are tolerated or even places where there are formal alliances. But all it takes is one overzealous Inquistor to show up and order an exterminatus or one farseer to order a planet wiped because of a vision that maybe it would save one craftworld and suddenly everyone is back to square one.
The Aeldari are too proud.
The Drukhari are too sick.
The Orcs too bloodthirsty.
The Imperium too dogmatic.
Chaos too... Chaotic.
Even the Tau I think are too ambitious. They'll have their slice of the Galaxy and they need it if they want to avoid extermination.
@@Kylephibbsky Good point
I'm noticing a surge of "no no guys the memes are just memes, its not all comicly bad" material for 40k of late.
Same, I wonder what's that about.
The fandom was pretty accurate until like 11 years ago where people overhyped the grimdarkness a lot and now we're compensating by downplaying everything
@@ryanrigley2558 But, wasn't that what the setting is about?
Lots of people only believe the memes and don't look into the actual lore and that's becoming more and more of a problem as of late.
@@Tacoguy1000 yeah but they made it seem horrible-no fun allowed-everyone suffers constantly-evil evil evil evil, you know?
It's amazing to see my art on the cover
6:32 I think that Tyranid swarm that has been theorized just arrived with 10th edition.
I'm glad you put the guardsmen thing out, as it is something I've understood for a while now.
Speaking of memes, ADHD watching major kill over Leutin makes me feel attacked lol I’ve tried watching L09, just can’t stay focused lol
I drift away too, but I think it is that English is not my native language,so I need to even harder concentrate. Or my ADHD kicks in.
same, ADHD gvng
Believing i ADHD is cope. I just acknowledge im dumb
And now imagine actually having ADHD and trying to get through arch's siege of vraks. Then again, it's grimdark, then you zone out and whenever you snap back: still grimdark
Leutins great for falling asleep to :D
the "everybody is evil" thing always pisses me off... i realy hope that at the end of 40 k we get to have a human, eldar and tau aliance
From a multispecies, galaxy spanning story about defiance in the face of certain EXTINCTION, to StarCraft all grown up in one video. Damn dude, that let me down hard.
The "Eldar can smash" got me right in the feels......of me crotch.
I feel ya brother.
It’s good that these are just myths
If all of the Eldar were just a small group of emotionless ,narcissistic edge lords.
If 99% of the Imperium were an endless horde of depressed mindless cannon fodder.
Or if the chaos were just a band of crazed endlessly evil devil’s ***k sucking traitors,
The universe would be far more bland and less interesting.
At least in my mind.
Ironically this video Clearing up misconceptions also features some inaccuracies, though the lore being as splintered as it is, it's possible that these things are accurate in some material, while directly contradicting others
And those inaccuracies are?
>Is a literal Secondary
>Tries to fix issues cause by Secondaries
>Doesn't source any of it
7:07 "Slaanesh's balls are soon to be squished as well" that made me laugh so much XD . It's so ironic, I picture that in my mind, that would be hillarious. XD
Nooo its always so revealing if people claim T'au to be communist while using a caste system... a CASTE system!!?! XD
With alot of people still spouting macarthy era propaganda, i doubt they even have the slightest clue what communism even is. So its no surprise they can miss one of its core tennants of a classless society.
@@anathematic758 Because a classles society was never fully implemented in Communist countries, there always was a ruling cast of comrades or revolutionaries that claimed their place as the first amoung equals, because after doing so much for their cause why would they resign?
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McCarthy was right
@@anathematic758 I fear many 'Murricans son't even get that Homer Simpsons "Damn Nazi-Communists!" was actually a joke.
@@targitausrithux2320 yeah like... Trump will drain the swamp amIrite? XD Oh 'Murrica...
Always remember Guardsmen can feel fear, and yet they have held the line for 10,000 years...
Being warhammer 40k the collective sublimation of our fears, disillusion and grim, cynical outlook on our own 2k uncaring reality, this video is really consolating. "Chaos and bugs can be beaten!" "Life isn't so bad everywhere!" "The human institutions, even with their flaws, try their best to keep us safe!" are a joy to hear and harden my resolve as a man. Emperor be always praised
Making some observations, excuse the word wall:
Craftworld Eldar are like Vulcans: yes, the Vulcans CAN feel emotions, they DO have feelings, but their way of life demands that they instead operate on logic and reason and not on their feelings. This is because they almost wiped themselves out in a WMD holocaust and created the Romulans (that’s not an exaggeration).
Similarly, the Eldar have the Paths to prevent themselves from falling into obsession and completely lose themselves to their passions; this is how the Eldar caused Slaanesh, not that they were hyperviolent hedonists but that their passion for pleasure (given that none of them had to manually work anymore and could pursue lives of leisure) became an obsession with it that required greater depths of depravity to satisfy until the only way they could get their rocks off was for someone else to be gruesomely murdered.
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As far as worlds never having seen conflict, there are some worlds that are “Feudal Worlds” because they have not yet invented a combustion engine: there is a story I read where a planet with _middle ages_ technology gets invaded by Orks, who eventually get repelled by Astartes, the Imperial Warhawks chapter, who are misidentified as the “Emperor’s Hunting Hawks” because these people also don’t speak Gothic.
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The Imperial Guard are trained, professional soldiers, and yes some of them are VERY good at their jobs; the reason they are depicted dying by the dozens per second is because they get lined up against monsters who are individually far more powerful than a single human.
My favorite video of Majorkill so far! It's so refreshing listening to this more realistic version of W40K universe than the usual everything-is-doomed, one-sided version of it. Love it.
But I like misconceptions of the lore which lead to over-used memes. :(
It's more like the other way around.
Part of the Problem with the meme lore is GW is directly responsible for it by playing into the meme's in a lot of the more recent books and stories. Its something you see really clearly with The Guard, you read a Ciaphas Cain novel it gives you a good idea of how The Guard would function (and how pleasant a lot of Imperial world's can be), briefing, sensible tactics, competent, experienced officers, but much of the rest just shows the Guard walking slowly into enemy fire and being massacred on mass 'cause Grimdark, The Fall of Cadia's literally meme set piece followed by meme set peice (and bares zero resemblance to the worldwide campaign, Imp. Navy shot Abbadons fleet out of space) and the rule sets haven't let you create seriously customised IG armies since 4th edition which really enforces the meme image, for the most varied fighting force (see any Sabbat World book) in history, an awful lot of em look like Cadians now.
I can’t believe he actually left a link in the description to go get tested 😂😂😂 what a legend!!!!
Wait, the Emperor is walking around now? I must have missed something.
I'm as lost as you are
Awakened, not fully regenerated.
@@awe-fullanimations4737, quick! Call the toaster fuckers, get them to get his ass back in power armor.
He’s not up and off the throne, he’s kinda Morphed into a warp god in a way. Most of his essence is in the warp and the throne is the only thing keeping him bound to real space. I imagine whenever the throne finally fails there will be a whole new warp rift, like the eye of terror, to signify the emperor ascending to godhood.
@@ianharrison5758, until you realize that there is a nuke on the throne powerful enough to destroy Terra, because his death triggers it: all to stop Chaos from taking the home of humanity.
While I do agree with the Ork thing, personally I do like the idea that Yarrick is an exception. However, the Ork belief that he's unkillable doesn't actually make him unkillable, it's more like a debuff to the Orks facing him. It doesn't make him stronger but makes the Orks weaker or less combat effective. Yarrick can still be killed like any other human, he just has a sizable combat advantage against the Orks.
But what about yariks claw? From what I understand, they don’t understand why it works for him. With his implants, he is literally part ork, so I could def see him getting a power boost from the waaa.
Humans and Eldar teaming up to strategize just exactly how they could coax as many Orkz in the galaxy on one side of the Tyranid Hive Fleet with as many Necron on the other side to make the Tyranid threat a joke.
The mad lad actually listed autism tests in the description
i haven seen such heresy since Horus himself lost all his hair! Good people in 40k? Ha!
I took the autism test and I scored "Strong Likelihood". Thanks Majorkill lmao
I mean yeah, but also... Imagine if all Blood Angels actually went super fast as soon as they got too close to a bunch of Orkz. That'd be really freaking funny. Then again, the Blood Ravens might actually get more use out of it, I mean, that speed boost probably is essential when it comes to "borrowing" some kind of divine relic.
What you said at 4:00 is just incorrect. I think you need to back this up with a reference. Dam Abnett said that 40k is the one setting he would never want to visit, for obvious reasons. Also leaves out the fact that all imperial planets are by in large violent theocracies with absolutely no democracy, and have a caste system that incorporates noble houses. You can point to some planets within Ultramar and claim they are functioning. But the whole setting is predicated on what was lost during the heresy.
Finally, someone who realizes that the imperial guard are incredibly good at their job.
When you check the description and he actually does have a real link to get yourself tested. Well played
“Just because Ahriman ‘dusted’ all his men doesn’t mean he’s evil. He was just trying to protect his men from becoming evil”
The Orks can still lose more often to ultramarines due to the belief blue is a lucky color becuase it affects the Orks not the marines. they believe their enemy is lucky, thus are less effective against them.
So psychological warfare would be super effective against the Orks. Wonder why the imperium hasnt adopted this tactic.
11:43
So... you're saying that we must look at the *greater good*
HOLY SH-
(Edit: A few correction in reply)
I think there is another myth, that being the lasgun is a literal flashlight. I don't think so. Lasgun can blow off limbs, giant holes in concrete, extremely fast firing rate, etc. A lasgun can kill all but the most powerful enemies. Even if a lasgun cannot kill a chaos daemon in one shot, well the super fast fire rate will get the job done. In my opinion a single guardsmen can kill about 3-5 normal daemon before he is overrun. A well place lasgun shot can go through a space marine armour like on the joints, etc. But that is unlikely, don't worry a tank can probably kill a few chaos space marine. Not to mention the all powerful hellgun or hotshot lasgun.
"Those who doubt the power of the lasgun have never ran through a field of a thousand of them".
In fact, Lasguns are the modern equivalent to 50.Cal automatic anti-armor rifle, without the need of reload, who can recharge his battery with direct contact with solar energy (and doesnt have to be the sun, even a bornfire works) and without any recoil at all.
But the enemies of the Guard usualy have a too high plot armor, until the Space Marines comes to save the day.
@@Zlyxon Huh I see. Never knew the average daemon is more powerful than an ork, thanks for the info. In that case it changes the situation, so.... Leman russ it is :)
But against a normal genestealer cultists (like not up to 4th or 5th generation but like 1-3) and normal chaos cultists, and any other enemy on those level a lasgun can probably kill them right?
@@MiniFuxy11 *Laugh in tempestus scions*
@@Zlyxon or was big boss tier soldier
@@rantingtheverse008
Marines shrug off shit that would kill them. Getting hit by Meltas and Plasmas barely inconveniences them.
I am completely speechless, to gang a new perspective not only to the imperium of man state, but the entire franchise’s lore.
You'll be saying Ultramarines don't like liking playing sax on top of tanks riding into war next
The world needs "The Devestation Of Baal" by an Australian.
Jus sayin.