In that case, Merry Christmas in advance Arch. May the emperor bring you much promethium to exterminate filthy xenos. I will enjoy my gift on the 23rd.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD. Merry Christmas from the blood God who is suprisingly jolly this year....for khorn anyway
Well the trenches is an obvious solution when the manpower would run dry in weeks if still standing above ground. Which the russians tried to do in the east, did not end well
+@@joshuafarrell8516+ That area of Vraks isn't anywhere near that big, in fact front width was probably significantly smaller than the area the Somme was fought over. The Germans however didn't have defenses anywhere near as comprehensive or have huge mechanized brigades to counterattack with.
@@cnlbenmc Generally speaking, I wasn't referring to Vraks, I meant in the context of a full-scale planetary war. I do however agree that each soldier being outfitted with a flashlight which can blast off entire limbs in one shot, and having support tanks the size of houses probably helps.
What I understood in this video. *High ranking officer:* _You're Going to Die!_ _You're Going to Die!_ _Everyone is going to die!_ *Radio Officer:* _Sir, sector 13 has 89% losses while sector 37 has only 88% losses._ *H.R.O.:* _Move all the forces from sector 13 to sector 37._
@@-Markus- or they're fighting too hard or the attack there was a faint or you know many other tactical things that don't matter they're doing something wrong if they're dying less than the rest
Krieg Guardsman #1: "So, we're basically waiting for the enemy to die." Krieg Guardsman #2: [shrugs] "Yup." Krieg Guardsman #1: "But, we're supposed to be killing them, right?" Krieg Guardsman #2: [shrugs] "Yup." Krieg Guardsman #1: "But we can't do that if we're sitting here." Krieg Guardsman #2: [shrugs] Krieg Guardsman #1: "So, how...?" Krieg Guardsman #2: [shrugs] Krieg Guardsman #1: [stands up, gets shot in the head, dies] Krieg Guardsman #2: [looks at the body, shrugs, takes his stuff, shrugs]
well its more they don't want their enemies to have that ammunition (and tanks) and that the world is a vital link in the supply chain and thus opening it up again is important. I mean imagine if the defenders of vraks turned to chaos... oh wait...
When the plan was set in motion, the amount of expended time, ammunition and manpower expended to secure it dwarfed what was to be had. The siege, initially, was meant to expend millions of men (and their things, really) to acquire billions of men's worth of equipment in return. Think about it, an arsenal world. Enough stockpiled supplies for entire armies, not just the few regiments thrown into this grinder.
Was the panoramic a custom commissioned work? If so, way to put together a clear presentation! I REALLY liked how you showed the offensive trench springboard with layered illustration. The artist has my approval for their stellar work as well.
It also clarified that the Krieg lines where unlikely to have been breached even if the Vraksians held on. The fact was, they had only punctured the outer most layer of a very thick onion. The fate they suffered was virtually assured by the layered lines. Edit: The only way they "might" have punched further would be the preservation of their vehicles. If a vast majority of the light vehicles made it, they would have stood some chance of reaching and exploiting the second line. Granted they would have needed to crew the turrets, and then turn them upon the artillery. But if they could, that might have allowed even further damage. Pour even more reinforcements through the gap, then Blitzkrieg the line. The interconnected defenses and heavy guns would have been in real trouble. In truth, the Vraksians weren't going to win this war. The American revolution of history was only successful because of additional outside influences. Napoleon was threatening Britain at large, along with plenty of smaller, but cumulative unrest. That, and growing internal pressure, basically forced the King and advisory to cut their distant losses. All the states/colonies had to do was hold on until the inevitable. The Cardinal simply didn't have a way of rallying similar support, nor any nearby diversionary wars. The Administratum of 40k had made up it's mind. Too bad for them, because something tells me this is going to cost the Imperium even more then they have already failed to realize.
dion woollaston to be fair both of those happened with far less destructive weaponry and the “hundred year war” was more like a series of smaller wars with the fighting flaring up then calming down for a bit. A world war lasting for twelve years of continuous fighting even without nuclear weapons involved would be catastrophic for the counties involved.
ethan maloney to be fair the first and second world wars were a series of smaller wars grouped together, the second was for the moment the first war where nuclear weapons were deployed, and both of those involved several countries and the death toll was sixty million but they all recovered over time, if you look at Berlin today you would be hard pressed to believe that it was reduced to rubble eighty years ago from constant bombing, artillery and Russian rocket fire, picture the modern warfare three Germany missions but worse
This video shines a massive light on the Death Korps. I always thought they fought like mindless machines, marching endlessly toward the enemy. Little did I realize that they fought with strategy, much less *good* strategy. Thanks, Archie!
15:50 This is critical information for me, thank you Arch. I am creating a Krieg trench system for Armies On Parade next year, starting with one 2x2 board of foxholes and early trenches for my Korps kill team, then add more modular-fitting 2x2 boards to eventually make up a 6x4 game table with a few different trench configurations.
@@AA-bn7tf Bloody commissars have no appreciation for holiday spirit. You didn't hear me say that by the way and absolutely no insubordination is taking place.
If available, yes. But the Death Korps doesn't have any Penal Legions, since none of them have disobeyed their suicidal orders. Basic training on Krieg weeds out deserters, psykers, mutants and heretics. To the point where the Commissars of Krieg have to liason with IG regiments and keep the Kriegsmen in their trenches when there's no planned assault, instead of assaulting out of them.
@@demrandom thats a bit of an exageration, the commissars are there because kriegers unnerve other guardsmen, the advisory roll is secondary as every now and then a Krieg commander will push for a victory (because experiance and training show that he can/will win) while the rest of the army is loosing, so the commissar reminds him of the bigger battle at large.
@@demrandom Krieger Penal Legions are assigned to core systems where there has been no conflict for centuries. A Krieger's worst nightmare: not being able to die for the Emperor.
this are not backround videos anymore... with all the high quality pictures and really good explanetion with visual aid makes it perfekt to watsch it :D keep up the reaaaaly good work .
_The Starburst shells sparkle beautifully in the night and cast a luminous glow on the drifting poison gas clouds throughout No Man's Land...Bat it is the deep Thrum of the Earth-Shaker rounds that give cadence to our march upon the Trenches of the Heretics, and to Glorious Sacrifice._ *(Rare excerpt of Krieg poetry)*
29:00 The only problem with this idea is that wherever troops are dying heaviest doesn't necessarily suggest the strongest part of the line in the area. Because oblique and enfilading fire is a thing. And indeed if the DKoK were inspired by the Great War, they would know that if they did a bit of research. This is why Australians during the Great War used 'peaceful penetration' infantry tactics against the lighter elements of the Western Front, while using mainstay forces to follow up against entrenched line positions that were harder to crack. Basically using mobility, experienced storm force grenadier attacks in force against an enemy that was in defilade, following up successful rear attacks by 'peaceful penetration' through enemy lines where they were weaker. This maximizes the 'fire efficiency' of friendly forces, reduces casualties, *and* increases territorial gains and inflicts chaos in enemy echelons, particularly in their commanders, who have trouble understanding the force strength of defenders who are suddenly suffering collapsing lines and struggle to understand where they should mobilize guard forces in reserve. This is also known as a 'staggered assault' whereby you create force superiority through maximizing your capacities of inflict enfilading fire engagements and destroy enemy cohesion, while maximizing enemy suppression through multiple axes of assault as the battle is waged. This is what the two companies of Australian soldiers also implemented against an entire division of Chinese soldiers at the Battle of Kapyong. The Chinese assumed the Australians were going to dig in, but instead what Ferguson did was order an artillery barrage against his own position in the middle of an enemy attack and simply kept his forces mobile in the darkness of the night, so as the Chinese leapt into the natural defensive points of where the Australians *should have been* (conventionally speaking) they were attacked on multiple fronts, Australian forces kept mobile outside their defences, while being blown apart by U.S. artillery. Transforming a 'defence' with 20:1 numerical inferiority, and transforming it into a staggered assault which maximized damage in a smaller field of condensed enemy numbers to beat back an overwhelming enemy force. Quite literally, if you're marching most of your troops towards where your soldiers are dying the 'least', all you're doing is marching headlong and simply *assuming* it's lighter defended. Where in reality it could be simply the salient of which is focussing its static defensive fire where it's most effective ... across the line of the front, as opposed to directly in front of them. Marching in strength on a weaker point is only ever useful in Soviet deep strike manoeuvre warfare. Whereby the idea is the overwhelm and leapfrog rested infantry past the initial shock force advance to collapse multiple echelons and bash open the line defensive. But it only works if you can attack in surprise. Hence the 'Maskirovka' doctrine. You don't bring a nuke to a knife fight. You maximize utility of all your soldiers, and you just make sure you have a good enough opposing knifefighter with a better quality blade. I get the DKoK is meant to be all about 'attrition warfare' ... but 'attrition warfare' doesn't mean 'stupid warfare by stupid people'. Battle of Kapyong is an example of attrition warfare, it's just an example of *how to properly fight a battle of attrition* ... And it's not like these ideas of warfighting weren't apparent in the Great War. Great War generals weren't stupid. They understood things like staggered assaults.
I'm seeing a planet full of lame ass normies called Qweeq. Due to someone sluring their speach, a regiment from Qweeq gets sent to Vraks. A bunch of weekend warriors wearing full dress uniforms show up. They have imperial flashlights. No. Actual Flashlights. They were trained on Qweeq for "night time operations" meaning they are used to find missing car keys at night when the Qweeq generals get too drunk and lose said car keys in the parking lot.
Comes home from late shift from hell. Opens RUclips. Sees that there is a new 50 minute Warhammer 40k video from Arch. Walks out of room, takes a hot shower, grabs a coffee and a beer, leans back into his gaming chair, feet on the desk. Rips off beermat with lighter, lights a cigarette and starts video. _"Grrreetings and salutations, friends and welcome back to the Siege of Vraks..."_ Has already almost completely forgotten about his ward full of patients who suffer from either severe diarrhea or delusions or preferably both. Begins to blissfully smile.
"Basically, you're out there doing all this so someone else, far, far behind the lines, can put a small line through your serial number and say 'Yeah, that didn't work either...' " 😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏 Once again, Arch shows us the difference between simply reading out information, and telling a story properly...
See when I was mentioning the "useless incompetent armchair general" ? Ludendorff would be proud ! xD I mean, Krieg is one hell of a IG regiment... when they have an actual battlefield commander ! xP
To be honest That applies to the imperial guard as a whole They do a great job when they don’t have inbred morons in the next system over giving stupid orders
The foxhole visual progression is going above and beyond! It's so awesome having visuals to go along with the description. Not that its needed with your thurificantly descriptive vocabulary. It really is an added bonus. Outstanding productions, all of these....
Perfect way to end the day.I have been here since the very first lore videos and now i can safely say the way you narrate the vastness of 40k is second to none.You have improved tremendously. The soothing voice,the occasional jokes and irony,they re spot on most of the time and it befits warhammer so well.Even the overuse of a ''particular'' adverb... Anyway,kudos for an awesome video!
Really like the thought put into these kinds of tactics and strategies. Shows the Death korps may be fanatical but they are definitely not stupid. Granted of course their penchant for sacrifice often does border on suicide. 😅
Awesome! I stopped watching tv because I could not wait for the next episode but I watch every episode of this several times then check several times a day for the next episode. I even went back and watched your "war for armegeddon" series again.
I just have to say, this episodic format of videos is really good! Gives me something to look forward to, gives you more time to put the videos together, makes us all happy :)
Tactical Dreadnought Magnus was the mage and the psyker who would man the Golden Throne in order to manage the Imperial Webway. Leman Russ was the executioner. Rogal Dorn the soldier, the siege master. Vulcan being either the smither or the primarchs humanity levels checker. Alpharius and Omegon the intelligence and saboteur chiefs. Corvus Corax the master of shadows. Jagatai Khan the conqueror (if faster the better). Everyone else is not so clear, they developed their specialities on the way.
I'd say the Lion is the extermimator along with the rest of his legion and Guilliman is that statesman that builds over what he conquers, Angron is the master of brutal assaults and so is Sanguinius. Konrad and his legion are the Emperor's terror troops who's main purpose is to strike fear into the enemy before finishing them off. Perturabo is also a master of siege but I have no idea if it was defensive or offensive. The Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus under the Warmaster's command would be the masters of attack and offensives itself.
@@TheGhostTrooper1 angron was originally ment to be what Vulcan was but the eldar and the butchers nails kinda fucked that up badly too but yeah he was ironically supposedly to be the most kind of the primarcs cause he was to represent the emperors emotions specifically his empathy if I remember correctly that is
@@theenderdestruction2362 I believe Angron was ment to be the Emperor's Compassion. So he could empathize, sympathize, and most importanly emotionally heal others from what I heard. I'm just wish right now that I knew more about the War Hounds :(
29:39 it is effective when you have no other way. The US military was planning a very similar method of working out Japanese defensive strength for the planned invasion of Japan in ‘45. First wave and second wave had the same objectives, but only the second wave had the specialists needed to achieve them. It’s brutal and heartless, but effective.
@@galendetta2334 Second drop was a kind of, “please don’t make us do this” from the members of the military that REALLY didn’t want to invade. And then MacArthur stepped in and ordered General Groves to start stockpiling nukes for the invasion. His plan involves dropping at least six but as many as nine atomic bombs during the invasion of Kyushu. Fun fact: a early’50s study (I forget the year) determined that 7 atom bombs of the Hiroshima type is all it would take to cause a nuclear autumn, where enough fallout would be in the atmosphere to prevent new crops from sprouting but wouldn’t be enough to cause irradiated snowfall. Just irradiated rain. For at least five years.
I keep hearing a high pitch ring in your vraks video series, your other videos dont have it. It's hard to listen too thought for a minute it was me. I don't think I can do the rest. Besides the ring it's damn good content. 44:38 to 44:40 it just comes in and goes constantly.
29:40 fun fact: the first wave of Operation: Downfall (the planned invasion of Japan in WWII) was intended to serve this purpose. It’s explicitly stated in some of the high level documents, but is pretty apparent when you realize the objectives for the first wave and second wave were identical, but only the second wave got combat engineers.
I've started listening to these while on duty. Its gotten to the point my section lead has to throw things at me to get my attention if they need me for something
You know, having air reconnaissance of the Wraxian line would have saved them along of dumb decisions. We had aircrafts in WW1 that scouted the enemy lines, and the Imperium in the 41st Millennia doesn't even use servo-skulls to scout the enemy lines at night?
Well you can say that they probably have reponses to that, knowing this system was imperial before, they knew any attempt to scout would just loose more material. Or maybe the author is dumb, idk ahaha
Question, for anyone who might know the answer: how effective are void shields at keeping out chemical weaponry? Judging from what little I know, it seems like it could be possible to attack a hive with its void shields still up by either shelling the shields themselves or the areas right at their edges with gas shells. The shields would keep the shells themselves out, but if my hunch is correct, the clouds of poison gas released on impact would still be able to ‘seep in’, as it were.
Will Rogers Problem sheer size of spire may make that strategy useless and the fact there are multiple examples of the air being recycled in spires so it may not travel far. Also sealed bunkers against chemical attacks.
Love your work Arch:) Keep up the great work. Love the pictures in stream and all that, it really helps to better grasp the story and stratagem. If there is one thing I would like more of, is pictures :) Ps: more 40k videos, I just can't get enough:)
Where can I find the photo for the front lines online, it’s been bugging me for months and I’ve tried reverse image searches but I can’t find anything. So if anyone can give me a link to the image of the front line shown at 20:18 then please do
Lucius Forge world is stated as having taken over the manufacturing of arms and equipment for the death korps, Krieg was refocused to only make troops, and as much of them as possible.
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Next one should be on the 23rd! a present! and then only 1 video the week afther probably on the 28th
In that case, Merry Christmas in advance Arch. May the emperor bring you much promethium to exterminate filthy xenos. I will enjoy my gift on the 23rd.
By the emperor
*Breathes heavily in Binary*
@@archmagosdeciuskronen1501 Hah! Your comment made my day.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD. Merry Christmas from the blood God who is suprisingly jolly this year....for khorn anyway
*Excited gas mask sounds.*
Admiral Attila *Breaths heavily in Binary*
Angry heretical sounds.
*H E A V Y B R E A T H I N G*
@@shingoji524 angry shovel waving at the heretic-
*HAPPY KRIEG NOISES*, get it right, scrub.
When its comes to attrition rates of warfare Krieg soliders considers WW1 casualty rates a "quiet uneventful saturday morning on the western front"
Well perhaps when the Somme isn't going on.
@@cnlbenmc A mere million or two ain't shit when the trench line you're storming is equatorial
Well the trenches is an obvious solution when the manpower would run dry in weeks if still standing above ground. Which the russians tried to do in the east, did not end well
+@@joshuafarrell8516+ That area of Vraks isn't anywhere near that big, in fact front width was probably significantly smaller than the area the Somme was fought over. The Germans however didn't have defenses anywhere near as comprehensive or have huge mechanized brigades to counterattack with.
@@cnlbenmc Generally speaking, I wasn't referring to Vraks, I meant in the context of a full-scale planetary war. I do however agree that each soldier being outfitted with a flashlight which can blast off entire limbs in one shot, and having support tanks the size of houses probably helps.
10:40
Arch: "There's a difference between sacrifice and suicide"
Kriegsmen: "THERE IS???¡¡¡"
Macro Mondo Krieg Sargent: Suicide is a Low Gothic Slang term for "Needless Sacrifice." Krieg Soldiers: Oooooooh.
Ignore him Krieger, suicide is badass, now, you see those bunkers...
Using our bodies to collect ammo is not sacrifice nor suicide!
It’s the deathcorps favorite hobby! As well as a great strategy!
Kriegsmen: "You acting kinda sus."
@@AdamDayXCOM *ArCh WaS nOt ThE iMpOsTeR*
What I understood in this video.
*High ranking officer:* _You're Going to Die!_ _You're Going to Die!_ _Everyone is going to die!_
*Radio Officer:* _Sir, sector 13 has 89% losses while sector 37 has only 88% losses._
*H.R.O.:* _Move all the forces from sector 13 to sector 37._
That only means sector 37 isnt fighting hard enough!
Holy shit, you’re right.
@@-Markus- or they're fighting too hard or the attack there was a faint or you know many other tactical things that don't matter they're doing something wrong if they're dying less than the rest
That's clearly a high IQ move that we simply don't understand.
@@Paid2Win to be honest it is as it prevent the good flank to be surrounded.
Krieg Guardsman #1: "So, we're basically waiting for the enemy to die."
Krieg Guardsman #2: [shrugs] "Yup."
Krieg Guardsman #1: "But, we're supposed to be killing them, right?"
Krieg Guardsman #2: [shrugs] "Yup."
Krieg Guardsman #1: "But we can't do that if we're sitting here."
Krieg Guardsman #2: [shrugs]
Krieg Guardsman #1: "So, how...?"
Krieg Guardsman #2: [shrugs]
Krieg Guardsman #1: [stands up, gets shot in the head, dies]
Krieg Guardsman #2: [looks at the body, shrugs, takes his stuff, shrugs]
Krieg guardsman #2: looks like the emperor just gave me rations for a whole year. 😎
*[Shrug] for the Emperor or [shrug] trying!*
@@RuSosan [shrug] Life
It be like that
Krieger Guardsman #2: Fucking rookie
Warhammer Lore.... Working..... Lore.... Working....
Fix Bayonets and watch for the Emperor.
Are... Are we the same person?
@@matijarasovic4627 hello brother. I'm you.
Jokes on you, I can listen to 40k lore will working...
@@poutiepanda9022 same here brother.
Haha rookies I'm watching instead of sleeping.
Just imagining the No-Man's-Land banter:
"You're the heretic!" "No, YOU'RE the heretic!" "NO, YOU'RE THE HERETIC!!!" Then blaster fire.
When you are about to start a boring train ride but this pops up
TerranGaming fam I had a 10 hour drive and I listened to the Horus heresy series
The Emperor protects, brother.
TerranGaming slow day at work and suddenly Vraks!
“THOUSANDS OF FEET MARCH TO THE BEAT, IT’S AN ARMY ON THE MARCH!”
Perfekt for working at reports, analysis and general lab work.
When you go to board the train and your mobile data cuts out. :(
imagine verdun with siege of wrax mod. now that would be some epic shit
Epic does not even begin to describe how truly amazing experience it would be :D
I would pay for it ^^
Shut up and take my money
Verdun is such a good game, I just wish it had a bigger player base and was made in a better game engine than unity.
Grand Ape I love the small but active verdun community I love dropping 60+ kills on the same names
Imagine Hell March in the background with every action the Death Korps takes and you won't be disappointed.
I just started playing it in the background.
best decision I've made all day
Sabaton- price of a mile
Eisregen - Marschmusik.
Sabaton - Last Dying Breath would also apply.
Sabaton ALL the Way!
Edit; Definitely Price of a mile.
So, Imperium wanted to secure ammunition stashes by expending even more ammunition than was in that stashes to begin with? Bloody genious.
Well later on things get... worse and securing the ammo becomes a secondary objective
Oh, it gets way, WAY worse.
Dont wanna spoil - so thats all im gonna say lol
@@carldimayuga6419 40K in a nutshell. Things are bad....and get worse
Much worse.
well its more they don't want their enemies to have that ammunition (and tanks) and that the world is a vital link in the supply chain and thus opening it up again is important. I mean imagine if the defenders of vraks turned to chaos...
oh wait...
When the plan was set in motion, the amount of expended time, ammunition and manpower expended to secure it dwarfed what was to be had.
The siege, initially, was meant to expend millions of men (and their things, really) to acquire billions of men's worth of equipment in return. Think about it, an arsenal world. Enough stockpiled supplies for entire armies, not just the few regiments thrown into this grinder.
"Ooooh hans
This will be the best vacation ever! "
Was the panoramic a custom commissioned work? If so, way to put together a clear presentation! I REALLY liked how you showed the offensive trench springboard with layered illustration. The artist has my approval for their stellar work as well.
Indeed. This is remarkably high quality even by the astronomically high standards of Arch Warhammer.
It also clarified that the Krieg lines where unlikely to have been breached even if the Vraksians held on. The fact was, they had only punctured the outer most layer of a very thick onion. The fate they suffered was virtually assured by the layered lines.
Edit: The only way they "might" have punched further would be the preservation of their vehicles. If a vast majority of the light vehicles made it, they would have stood some chance of reaching and exploiting the second line. Granted they would have needed to crew the turrets, and then turn them upon the artillery. But if they could, that might have allowed even further damage. Pour even more reinforcements through the gap, then Blitzkrieg the line. The interconnected defenses and heavy guns would have been in real trouble.
In truth, the Vraksians weren't going to win this war. The American revolution of history was only successful because of additional outside influences. Napoleon was threatening Britain at large, along with plenty of smaller, but cumulative unrest. That, and growing internal pressure, basically forced the King and advisory to cut their distant losses. All the states/colonies had to do was hold on until the inevitable. The Cardinal simply didn't have a way of rallying similar support, nor any nearby diversionary wars. The Administratum of 40k had made up it's mind. Too bad for them, because something tells me this is going to cost the Imperium even more then they have already failed to realize.
@@jordanscherr6699 One issue, Napoleon was 14 when the Americans gained independence.
@@etwas013 Lol! I stand corrected on that front.
Jordan Scherr mate do you even know that the American revolution happened way before Napoleon even fought his first battle ?
When your on the toilet looking at your phone and this pops up on notifications
*Shits bricks without fear or regret because the Emperor protects*
Do Tech Priests even need toilets?... I guess so...
The omnissiah protects
@@Xaxp Yes because not all tech Priests has removed their bowels.
"Only 12 years."
On Earth, a 12 year war would basically be the apocalypse.
For the death korps, that's an hour.
Martin Joseph compare that to DKoK 500 years civil war, 12 years are consider to be troop training programs time.
Martin Joseph guess you've never heard of the thirty years war or the Hundred Years' War?
dion woollaston to be fair both of those happened with far less destructive weaponry and the “hundred year war” was more like a series of smaller wars with the fighting flaring up then calming down for a bit. A world war lasting for twelve years of continuous fighting even without nuclear weapons involved would be catastrophic for the counties involved.
ethan maloney to be fair the first and second world wars were a series of smaller wars grouped together, the second was for the moment the first war where nuclear weapons were deployed, and both of those involved several countries and the death toll was sixty million but they all recovered over time, if you look at Berlin today you would be hard pressed to believe that it was reduced to rubble eighty years ago from constant bombing, artillery and Russian rocket fire, picture the modern warfare three Germany missions but worse
Guess you forgot about Iraq and Afghanistan.
Arch has really outdone himself. The class of presentation and level of artwork here dwarf the Armageddon series.
This video shines a massive light on the Death Korps. I always thought they fought like mindless machines, marching endlessly toward the enemy. Little did I realize that they fought with strategy, much less *good* strategy. Thanks, Archie!
Only because the rest of the military pokes them with a stick for running at them mindlessly
15:50 This is critical information for me, thank you Arch. I am creating a Krieg trench system for Armies On Parade next year, starting with one 2x2 board of foxholes and early trenches for my Korps kill team, then add more modular-fitting 2x2 boards to eventually make up a 6x4 game table with a few different trench configurations.
This is an amazing idea!
@@LilacMage It sounds to me like you just want to blow stuff up! How very Orky of you 😂
I wonder if the red poppies grow on vraks's bloodstained soil?
Kriegsman no. #6345 it would be poetically beautiful, not 40k enough. It would grow guns
Only if they are explosive.
Or try to eat someone
Poppies are a waste of the emperor's water and light. Let us hope algae grows on Vraks for the most efficient consumption by imperial forces.
A few patches of red algae, perhaps ?
Me: (At work.)
*Turns on RUclips for some work music, sees new arch video...* work can wait
Priorities of course.
Get to work. I don’t want the commissar to notice.
Yeah I don't need to do my school
@@AA-bn7tf
Bloody commissars have no appreciation for holiday spirit. You didn't hear me say that by the way and absolutely no insubordination is taking place.
Priorities are definitely in order!
I just imagined the Gaunts Ghosts face palming in unison if they saw Krieg doing it like this...
FOR KRIEG! FOR THE EMPEROR!
Colm Corbec don’t you mean... Qweeg? 38:30
You always were an arsehole Colm.
FOR THE WARMASTER! LUPICAL!
“Here the sound of the machinegun, hear it echo in the night.”
Mortals firing rains the scene
scars the fields
That was once green
know that many mortals will suffer
Know that many mortals will die
Several million lives at stake
Ask the fields of Vraks's sake
@@eaglefighter1295
And as the night falls the general calls
and the battle carries on and on
What is the purpose of it all
What’s the price of a mile?
Diz is getin gud. Oy you git where my fungus beer and my roasted Squig!!!
Grab your snacks it's time for Vraks
29:30 I get the feeling other regiments use penal legions for this part?
If I Know the death korp no
If available, yes. But the Death Korps doesn't have any Penal Legions, since none of them have disobeyed their suicidal orders. Basic training on Krieg weeds out deserters, psykers, mutants and heretics. To the point where the Commissars of Krieg have to liason with IG regiments and keep the Kriegsmen in their trenches when there's no planned assault, instead of assaulting out of them.
All Krieg are good boys and commit no crimes = no penal legions.
@@demrandom thats a bit of an exageration, the commissars are there because kriegers unnerve other guardsmen, the advisory roll is secondary as every now and then a Krieg commander will push for a victory (because experiance and training show that he can/will win) while the rest of the army is loosing, so the commissar reminds him of the bigger battle at large.
@@demrandom Krieger Penal Legions are assigned to core systems where there has been no conflict for centuries. A Krieger's worst nightmare: not being able to die for the Emperor.
this are not backround videos anymore... with all the high quality pictures and really good explanetion with visual aid makes it perfekt to watsch it :D keep up the reaaaaly good work .
I just listened once, then watched it. Definitely worth it.
KHORNE APPROVES! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! KHORNE FOR THE...wait a minute...
WHO PISSED IN MY KHORNE FLAKES?!
*laughs in Creed*
Herectic
*laughs in Slaanesh*
BURN HERETIC!
Lionbladier krieg soldiers #526710 he ate pineapples that morning... enjoy your khorne flakes.
_The Starburst shells sparkle beautifully in the night and cast a luminous glow on the drifting poison gas clouds throughout No Man's Land...Bat it is the deep Thrum of the Earth-Shaker rounds that give cadence to our march upon the Trenches of the Heretics, and to Glorious Sacrifice._ *(Rare excerpt of Krieg poetry)*
Thunder, you say? That’s a good opportunity for an en-lightning pun!
That was shockingly bad.
Gold854 Make another comment like that and I’ll *charge* you with dissent.
No need to light up an argument
Well now this conversation is getting electrifying.
Puns are HERESY! And you know WATT we do with heretics...
29:00 The only problem with this idea is that wherever troops are dying heaviest doesn't necessarily suggest the strongest part of the line in the area.
Because oblique and enfilading fire is a thing. And indeed if the DKoK were inspired by the Great War, they would know that if they did a bit of research. This is why Australians during the Great War used 'peaceful penetration' infantry tactics against the lighter elements of the Western Front, while using mainstay forces to follow up against entrenched line positions that were harder to crack.
Basically using mobility, experienced storm force grenadier attacks in force against an enemy that was in defilade, following up successful rear attacks by 'peaceful penetration' through enemy lines where they were weaker.
This maximizes the 'fire efficiency' of friendly forces, reduces casualties, *and* increases territorial gains and inflicts chaos in enemy echelons, particularly in their commanders, who have trouble understanding the force strength of defenders who are suddenly suffering collapsing lines and struggle to understand where they should mobilize guard forces in reserve.
This is also known as a 'staggered assault' whereby you create force superiority through maximizing your capacities of inflict enfilading fire engagements and destroy enemy cohesion, while maximizing enemy suppression through multiple axes of assault as the battle is waged.
This is what the two companies of Australian soldiers also implemented against an entire division of Chinese soldiers at the Battle of Kapyong.
The Chinese assumed the Australians were going to dig in, but instead what Ferguson did was order an artillery barrage against his own position in the middle of an enemy attack and simply kept his forces mobile in the darkness of the night, so as the Chinese leapt into the natural defensive points of where the Australians *should have been* (conventionally speaking) they were attacked on multiple fronts, Australian forces kept mobile outside their defences, while being blown apart by U.S. artillery.
Transforming a 'defence' with 20:1 numerical inferiority, and transforming it into a staggered assault which maximized damage in a smaller field of condensed enemy numbers to beat back an overwhelming enemy force.
Quite literally, if you're marching most of your troops towards where your soldiers are dying the 'least', all you're doing is marching headlong and simply *assuming* it's lighter defended. Where in reality it could be simply the salient of which is focussing its static defensive fire where it's most effective ... across the line of the front, as opposed to directly in front of them.
Marching in strength on a weaker point is only ever useful in Soviet deep strike manoeuvre warfare. Whereby the idea is the overwhelm and leapfrog rested infantry past the initial shock force advance to collapse multiple echelons and bash open the line defensive. But it only works if you can attack in surprise. Hence the 'Maskirovka' doctrine.
You don't bring a nuke to a knife fight.
You maximize utility of all your soldiers, and you just make sure you have a good enough opposing knifefighter with a better quality blade.
I get the DKoK is meant to be all about 'attrition warfare' ... but 'attrition warfare' doesn't mean 'stupid warfare by stupid people'. Battle of Kapyong is an example of attrition warfare, it's just an example of *how to properly fight a battle of attrition* ... And it's not like these ideas of warfighting weren't apparent in the Great War.
Great War generals weren't stupid. They understood things like staggered assaults.
38:30 The counterattack came as a complete suprise to the Qweeg Guardsmen. Interesting name for an imperial guard army
Kreigers first words qweeg
I'm seeing a planet full of lame ass normies called Qweeq. Due to someone sluring their speach, a regiment from Qweeq gets sent to Vraks. A bunch of weekend warriors wearing full dress uniforms show up. They have imperial flashlights. No. Actual Flashlights. They were trained on Qweeq for "night time operations" meaning they are used to find missing car keys at night when the Qweeq generals get too drunk and lose said car keys in the parking lot.
Comes home from late shift from hell.
Opens RUclips.
Sees that there is a new 50 minute Warhammer 40k video from Arch. Walks out of room, takes a hot shower, grabs a coffee and a beer, leans back into his gaming chair, feet on the desk. Rips off beermat with lighter, lights a cigarette and starts video.
_"Grrreetings and salutations, friends and welcome back to the Siege of Vraks..."_
Has already almost completely forgotten about his ward full of patients who suffer from either severe diarrhea or delusions or preferably both. Begins to blissfully smile.
"Basically, you're out there doing all this so someone else, far, far behind the lines, can put a small line through your serial number and say 'Yeah, that didn't work either...' "
😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏 Once again, Arch shows us the difference between simply reading out information, and telling a story properly...
See when I was mentioning the "useless incompetent armchair general" ? Ludendorff would be proud ! xD
I mean, Krieg is one hell of a IG regiment... when they have an actual battlefield commander ! xP
To be honest
That applies to the imperial guard as a whole
They do a great job when they don’t have inbred morons in the next system over giving stupid orders
FINALLY TIME TO DIE FOR THE EMPEROR!
*pokes head around corner* Did somebody say "Die for The Emperor"?
So many fortifications. Dorn would be proud.
The foxhole visual progression is going above and beyond! It's so awesome having visuals to go along with the description. Not that its needed with your thurificantly descriptive vocabulary. It really is an added bonus. Outstanding productions, all of these....
the art for this series is really great
Perfect way to end the day.I have been here since the very first lore videos and now i can safely say the way you narrate the vastness of 40k is second to none.You have improved tremendously. The soothing voice,the occasional jokes and irony,they re spot on most of the time and it befits warhammer so well.Even the overuse of a ''particular'' adverb... Anyway,kudos for an awesome video!
Krieg guardsman in the 5th wave finding out that the attacks been canceled:nooooooooooo
Damn thats some nice looking art. Kudos to the artists.
Really like the thought put into these kinds of tactics and strategies. Shows the Death korps may be fanatical but they are definitely not stupid.
Granted of course their penchant for sacrifice often does border on suicide. 😅
Commissar: There is a difference between sacrifice and suicide.
Krieg guardsman: And like that you've lost me.
We are Krieg guardsman, we fight for who gets to be in the first wave.
Fantastic map graphics! Bravo sir.
Awesome! I stopped watching tv because I could not wait for the next episode but I watch every episode of this several times then check several times a day for the next episode. I even went back and watched your "war for armegeddon" series again.
It is too bad there are not more epic stories like that that arch could do as his presentations really breath life into a story or topic
Great coverage of the seige of Vracks Arch, TY & keep up the great vvork .
just imagine if the Iron Warriors legion had remained loyal, and someday encountered and had to work alongside the Death Korp.... love at first trench
I just want them to meet the Death Korps on the battlefield, ultimate siege warfare ensues
"No plan survives contact with the enemy..." - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
An amazing video arch and really impressed with the quality of the visual aids.They alone should make historic war focus channels jealous or in aw.
tbh probing the enemy line with swarms of infantry whose purpose is to die sounds an awful lot like tyranids...
"Hmmm... Let's charge through the artillery they won't expect that!"
"Shut up Charlie 64092"
Your breakdown of the death core laughing so much.
Excited to listen to this!
Commanding officer: the risk is too great
Krieg officer: CHALLANGE ACCEPTED
I just have to say, this episodic format of videos is really good! Gives me something to look forward to, gives you more time to put the videos together, makes us all happy :)
Just a suggestion: What were the roles of the primarchs presumably as intended by the Emperor?
Tactical Dreadnought Magnus was the mage and the psyker who would man the Golden Throne in order to manage the Imperial Webway. Leman Russ was the executioner. Rogal Dorn the soldier, the siege master. Vulcan being either the smither or the primarchs humanity levels checker. Alpharius and Omegon the intelligence and saboteur chiefs. Corvus Corax the master of shadows. Jagatai Khan the conqueror (if faster the better). Everyone else is not so clear, they developed their specialities on the way.
I'd say the Lion is the extermimator along with the rest of his legion and Guilliman is that statesman that builds over what he conquers, Angron is the master of brutal assaults and so is Sanguinius. Konrad and his legion are the Emperor's terror troops who's main purpose is to strike fear into the enemy before finishing them off. Perturabo is also a master of siege but I have no idea if it was defensive or offensive. The Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus under the Warmaster's command would be the masters of attack and offensives itself.
@@TheGhostTrooper1 angron was originally ment to be what Vulcan was but the eldar and the butchers nails kinda fucked that up badly too but yeah he was ironically supposedly to be the most kind of the primarcs cause he was to represent the emperors emotions specifically his empathy if I remember correctly that is
@@theenderdestruction2362 I believe Angron was ment to be the Emperor's Compassion. So he could empathize, sympathize, and most importanly emotionally heal others from what I heard. I'm just wish right now that I knew more about the War Hounds :(
I’m contemplating saving these wonderful 50m for my flight tomorrow but by the holy emperor I think I won’t make it till tomorrow 😂
all of that is soooooo like real life WW1 trench warafre logistics, the authors really did their homework
The problem is that they gave the besiegers so many advantages, it doesn't make any sense that the Cardinal's forces would have any chance.
Is all the custom and collected artwork stored anywhere we can get at it?
My only complaint is that you didnt do this series before I found your channel so I could binge watch this series. Keep up the great work!!!
29:39 it is effective when you have no other way. The US military was planning a very similar method of working out Japanese defensive strength for the planned invasion of Japan in ‘45. First wave and second wave had the same objectives, but only the second wave had the specialists needed to achieve them. It’s brutal and heartless, but effective.
Hence why we dropped the sun on them twice
@@galendetta2334 Second drop was a kind of, “please don’t make us do this” from the members of the military that REALLY didn’t want to invade. And then MacArthur stepped in and ordered General Groves to start stockpiling nukes for the invasion. His plan involves dropping at least six but as many as nine atomic bombs during the invasion of Kyushu.
Fun fact: a early’50s study (I forget the year) determined that 7 atom bombs of the Hiroshima type is all it would take to cause a nuclear autumn, where enough fallout would be in the atmosphere to prevent new crops from sprouting but wouldn’t be enough to cause irradiated snowfall. Just irradiated rain. For at least five years.
@@alexander1112000 I mean if they didn’t surrender after the second the I would drop the third on Tokyo
you know i just noticed hes almost as good at this as a professional military historian doing a lecture series on a campaign.
I wonder why the binary code in the bottom left corner of the map spells jjt? Maybe the signature of the artist?
Jo Bo ... the 😯 Arch's real name
I can't believe someone noticed that
Wow, I never saw this one, but I love the quality! You even took the time to show us what each line would look like! Amazing!
@37:00 Are you sure there isn't a 40k version of Luigi Cadorna in the Death Korps' high command
Finally a Guardsmen Regiment that can make even the Lord of Iron smile.... IRON WITHIN! IRON WITHOUT MY FELLOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!
Traitors burn in holy promethium.
"Yeah, nope that doesn't work either..." lol
*Commissar:* Maybe advancing on foot through no man's land is not a great i-
*Kriegsman:* Cowardice! *BLAM!*
This was incredible. I'm astounded when I consider how good I thought you were when you first started. But this this insane. Thanks Arch.
I keep hearing a high pitch ring in your vraks video series, your other videos dont have it. It's hard to listen too thought for a minute it was me. I don't think I can do the rest. Besides the ring it's damn good content. 44:38 to 44:40 it just comes in and goes constantly.
29:40 fun fact: the first wave of Operation: Downfall (the planned invasion of Japan in WWII) was intended to serve this purpose. It’s explicitly stated in some of the high level documents, but is pretty apparent when you realize the objectives for the first wave and second wave were identical, but only the second wave got combat engineers.
And little did they know that the Siege of Vraks was going to be like 2020 - absolutely crazy.
I've started listening to these while on duty.
Its gotten to the point my section lead has to throw things at me to get my attention if they need me for something
I keep falling asleep while trying to listen to the series, must be the voice.
It is so cute that they want to play Iron Warriors. Perturabo would be proud of these little bastards.
A lore video. The one thing Arch is good at and able to do reading for to understand things better.
Unlike pathfinder.
Glory to the god Emperor.
I am very late comer to 40k and i enjoy these vids. Well done Arch
nice i just finished playing Dow 2 just find this video, thank You Arch :D
You know, having air reconnaissance of the Wraxian line would have saved them along of dumb decisions. We had aircrafts in WW1 that scouted the enemy lines, and the Imperium in the 41st Millennia doesn't even use servo-skulls to scout the enemy lines at night?
Author probably just forgot about it and wanted it to go bad.
In case you forgot these are warhammer writers. Half of them forgot whats the name of the regiments
Well you can say that they probably have reponses to that, knowing this system was imperial before, they knew any attempt to scout would just loose more material.
Or maybe the author is dumb, idk ahaha
Those servo skulls are expensive it's cheaper to use massive amounts of troops...
Welcome to warhammer 40k
@@jamesgarratt9334 god damn... Fuck the Imperium then
The art for this episode is amazing dude
Question, for anyone who might know the answer: how effective are void shields at keeping out chemical weaponry? Judging from what little I know, it seems like it could be possible to attack a hive with its void shields still up by either shelling the shields themselves or the areas right at their edges with gas shells. The shields would keep the shells themselves out, but if my hunch is correct, the clouds of poison gas released on impact would still be able to ‘seep in’, as it were.
Will Rogers Problem sheer size of spire may make that strategy useless and the fact there are multiple examples of the air being recycled in spires so it may not travel far. Also sealed bunkers against chemical attacks.
Excellent as always
V R A K S brought me back to this series
I love the art for this series
All of this talking about guns, artillery, bunkers and defensive lines is making me moist
knowing the traitors' soon to be ally...... those infiltration and sabotage possibilities suddenly become very real threats looming in this war.
"sharpen your shovels comrades! We march at dawn!"
Love your work Arch:)
Keep up the great work.
Love the pictures in stream and all that, it really helps to better grasp the story and stratagem.
If there is one thing I would like more of, is pictures :)
Ps: more 40k videos, I just can't get enough:)
Nice video Arch. Please keep up the good work. Looking forward to the next one.
Ooh, maps. Nice one Arch!
Where can I find the photo for the front lines online, it’s been bugging me for months and I’ve tried reverse image searches but I can’t find anything. So if anyone can give me a link to the image of the front line shown at 20:18 then please do
Pretty sure he commissioned it from an artist, hence why you can’t find it.
The artwork is really cool
Absolutely loved the graphics for the siege lines!
Lucius Forge world is stated as having taken over the manufacturing of arms and equipment for the death korps, Krieg was refocused to only make troops, and as much of them as possible.
You have comissioned some amazing art in these videos!
I love your content & your speaking style is amazing buddy, sub earned
FUk yess! New episode of the Siege of Vraks. Can we have the episode numbers on the videos titles Arch?
you make my skin tingle with excitement here arch