Awesome! Crass fan here as well- was going to comment that the Imperium’s museum had either “Penis Envy”, or in their “Heresy” wing, “Christ- The Album” . Thanks for the years of amazing art, mate!
Bruva Alfabusa dude, if you won't get these two wonderful nerds more guest roles in TTS, I will have to take action and write some snarky messages in the comment section of your videos. I might even go as far as using sarcasm, so better beware.
John Blanche has pointed out that his (the second one) picture of the emperor on the golden throne is meant to be the outer case of the sarcophagus that the few lucky pilgrims ever get to see rather than the corpse of big E
And god, the number of people in the comments of that video saying 'well what does he knows'? not realising that he both painted that painting and helped write some of the lore for early 40k
Still, concerning the 'dinosaur', I kinda enjoy the idea of Calgar occasionally going desk-hunting on an Exodite world...oh, new scenario for a Rogue Trader game.
Game idea: The Ultramarines under the leadership of Calgar must hunt down and capture one of several desks. As this is happening they are under attack from the local orks that just wants a fight. The desk moves whenever it has line of sight and are within a certain distance of a mini, but it may also roll a morale check for potentially extra movement whenever something dies in its vicinity. It will prioritize moving towards the closest edge of the board, but will not move within a certain radius of any minis, and will instead run away from them directly if the path to the edge is blocked by this radius. Ultramarines win by catching up to it and tagging it with a melee attack. Orks win by taking down Calgar or if the desk reaches the edge of the board and escapes.
@@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939 marine: "chapter master Calgar why are we looking for your new desk on this exodite world?" Calgar: "cause i want that thing" **points to nearby dinosaur** marine: "are you sure sir?" Calgar: "fuck it, get two of them" marine: "as you command"
How could you have missed out the greatest of all the Plot Generator scenario descriptions... *91-100* on the *Reprisal* chart: "As the governor of a hive-world you find it difficult to keep order at the best of times. Things have been getting worse since a madman started a new religion based around the premise that a vast floating pudding would appear to make life better for everyone - the people have stopped working, even the military has been affected and you can't rely on your own staff anymore. Yesterday you caught your mother reading a pamphlet entitled, 'The Pudding is coming - ten reasons why you should believe'. Today the prophet of this insane religion, the Rev. Jeronimo Kipling, will be conducting a whistle stop tour of the run-down city bottom district of Tumbletown. You have positioned a special unit to attack and kill him. The troops are dressed in civilian gear as you intend blaming the whole thing on a rival religious group (possibly the Anadentists or The Church of the Lucid Shirt Button). The target will be surrounded by the usual bodyguards and mobs, and his vehicle may be well protected." It's a straight skirmish/assassination scenario, but the names of the religious groups added for colour still have me crying on the floor with laughter, even today...!
they didn't 'retro'/bring them back for necromunda though: they were still part of 40k games when gw started making a game called confrontation (which then became necromunda). [el'sda2].
As the viewer who posted the first "it's not a dinosaur it's a Tyranid...." I was disappointed you didn't take the piss out of me. Specifically. True stories from Rogue Trader in the day: before me and my mates had properly read the rules we allowed Space Marines to be affected by Hallucinogen. I will never forget a deluded Brother Garibaldi blowing his comrade with his his Plasma Gun. Rubber Moss... oh boy, I once played a game with several large fields of the stuff and most of the evening was spent dealing with Astartes bouncing all over the place. Also Harlequins in Land Raiders. Thanks for another fun video 👍🏻
Regarding Gazkuls moving, missing eye, I wouldn't be surprised if he just decided to grow his eye back and then decided he looked badass with one missing.
With all the cool shit you brought up it seems you had the chance to read that book quite a lot. Here's an idea: why not do a complete Rogue Trader battle report, showing a lot more of the intricacies of the gameplay? You seem to have a handful of models and I'm sure playing with newer ones would be fine. I'm quite interested to see the game in action to be honest.
@@k-leb4671 I know it's been years since I posted this message but I have since come in contact with a community Rogue Trader players near where I live. We play a slightly modified and adjusted for balance version of the game. I can say the game is quite interesting but rather time consuming!
After years of league play when the rules lawyers really get into it, the game becomes unplayable. If you get a player with a hovering predator tank with 4 level 4 psychics with Tempi Fugit, Versus a player with a helicopter that can fly 120 inches above the board with orbital defense weapons mounted on it like Macro Cannons and Orbital Defense Lasers, the game is over at the first initiative roll.
God bless the old charm and D&D-like elements of Rogue Trader. Also, the Mongolian design of early orks amuse me since I heard they were evidently used as a reference of the design of the orc grunts in Warcraft 2. I don't know much about that controversy, but I still find it funny. Splendid video, great jokes, great clips, great editing, great music and sound. You two are amazing.
14:00 40 K THEORY:🤔🤔 ☝️😀 Maybe when he was younger he wanted a missing eye, so he wore an eye patch. Thought that was stupid so he got rid of it. Then he actually DID lose his eye, but instead of an eye patch got a robot eye instead 🤔
I would love to see someone do a video on the Lovecraftian influences that can be seen in both modern and old 40k. You know, because it would be interesting, not because I would have any sort of a vested interest in such a video being made.
I think the old emperor art is more accurate to what the emperor *actually* looks like, whereas the new one is the facade he casts about himself to appear greater than he is. In one of the books, a sister of silence is permitted within the golden throne room, and notices that the emperor is not a corpse. Far from it, in fact. He appears as an aging middle aged man, his mouth agape in perpetual torment to keep the imperium alive. He also frequently twitches and makes small movements, which the sister initially thought meant he was close to reawakening, but learned over time meant nothing.
I still remember marines could go renegade hire a eldar mercenary to fight for him while he nipped to the local bar for a pint - tis canon page 172 just above the pic of the emperor XD
The emporor looks more like a rotting corpse in the old one, while the new one looks like a skeleton. A rotting courpse always look sad, while a skeleton can look powerful
The scenario with Dr Gostello's Amazing Intergalactiac Psycho-circus is the hardest I've laughed at anything in ages. Thanks so much for showcasing it like this!
Love that old book. I read it regularly as visual and literary comfort food. The pic I always thought was coolest was the two renegade space marines sitting in a bar. Kinda sucked how renegade space marines eventually became synonomous with chaos space marines.
I still remember a squad of Orgryns trying to fly in random directions until they ended up off the board after being hit by a hallucination nade in 2nd ed. That and most of my Imp Guard army being swallowed up by a vortex nade that my Yarrick threw (because they had extra war gear options back then)
UnevenFrostgun *At the hospital one hour later* Ok Mr UnevenFrostgun we’ve got your X-ray back and apparently several major veins have been clogged by miniature plastic tanks. We’re gonna have to amputate.
Fun fact from the future (beware, spoilers for "Godblight" Guy Haley, you have been warned): Illyian Nastase is back in contemporary canon again, as an Aeldari seer who's part of Guilliman's own motley assembly of psykers in Ultramar, sent there by Eldrad Ulthran to defend the western parts of the realm. It's pretty rad.
"Hey this channel seems cool, let's check out some of their old videos. Oh, you're in a band? Cool! Wait, I listen to that band!" What an unexpected confluence of interests
More please, here's a few ideas I remember from my time with the book. Dreadnought armour could taken off. Elders were more a prate Mercuary force than what we now know. There is a up close picture of a craft world that has a nice little detached house on its hull. Finally all the info on the Badab sector.
It's always very interesting looking at the progenitors of modern things, like the very first computers or the first ever attempts that humans had at art. In this case it's quite nice that you have taken the time to show the progenitor of 40k, which was weird and warped, but still recognisable in some aspects. Thank you two sarcastic hellspawn for sharing. By the way, you're very good at painting :)
I think the scenario of fighting out-of-control robots while aliens attack could be done in modern 40k, with a little work. Use whatever robot minis you have on hand, and give them an appropriate data sheet (like something from AdMech). The "aliens" might be the other player, if they have a Xenos army. (Or just let the two players run whatever). Give the robots their own turn, with the players rolling off to determine who controls which unit during that turn. The players score points for killing robot models, so it's a race to see who can get them first. Or else the robots are incidental, and points are scored as normal (control the most objectives and complete secondaries of player's choice). Or some combination of the two.
Top video guys, I really enjoy your 40K content, Rogue Trader and Codex Compliant videos being the stand outs for me. Love to see some more RT and 2nd Ed goodness!
The females in power armour you refer to are, as you said, Adventurers in 40K. Yet the may also have been part of an attempt to model Sororitas/Sisters of Battle, which do date back to Rogue Trader. Especially true as these models have the same Ram's Skull symbol on their pauldrons as Sister Sin in the Sororitas artwork from Rogue Trader.
They were originally intended as female space marines but female models in other lines, notably the imperial guard, didn't sell well and they were repurposed as "adventurers" to give them something to do with the sculpts.
@@TheGreatJohnPlays Truth is, we're both wrong on this. One of Citadel's sculptors was inspired by the Sister Sin artwork for the Rogue Trader rulebook and without any official brief sculpted the two models in question as Female Space Marines. That's why they have the Ram's Skull yet no Wimples. This was apparently before RT's release. Back then they had a load of random model sculpts which Alan Merrett stuck in a drawer for stuff only to be released that month when they had nothing else, "Drawer 101". And those two models ended up in it, eventually to be released as "Adventurers". The reason why there was never any official Female SM models is because Indie stores asked Citadel not to do them due to a Fantasy mixed-gender range having undersold in the three years prior to 40K's release. There was only ever a handful of women models in Rogue Trader's Imperial Guard, yet RT Eldar were mixed-gender.
Nice video! As for good ol' Ghazghkull's eye, I think it's obvious: He really believed that his eye would eventually grow back, so it did; that's why he has both in his second mini. He then proceeded to lose his other eye, such was his luck. So if we ever get a new miniature for him, he might just have both eyes again.
I was in a Warhammer 40k league in the Rogue Trader Days My friend had a single model 2000 point army, it was a ratling on a hover board with a phase field generator mounted at the edge of the board, 100 inches of movement with a sychronized level 10 power field, a harlequin grenade launcher backpack with vortex grenades, 8 Jakero digital weapons, psionics. It was rediculous.
The Emperor on the Golden Throne has actually even different versions. In the 3rd edition he still had skin, and didn't look like a skeleton. No idea, if GW just thought, that the Emperor looked to healthy on the image, or if they wanted to show the failing mechanisms of the Golden Throne with modifying the artwork.
If I remember rightly, ghazghkull was just the name given by the player to the Ork warboss in the white dwarf battle report, opposite the blood angels (led by a first time seen, newly promoted, Commander Dante, who was removed in the game due to a wierdboy attack, and in the post game fluff was found alive but disfigured). Funny how things work out.
I started back with Rogue trader, I loved some of the random tables, you could even roll for your weapons and equipment, you'd never get that in pointed tournament play era where armies must be entirely equal in points to the dot. There weren't even any points!
I managed to buy some Rogue Trader space marines off a friend back when I was 15 and manage to still have them 20 years later mostly intact. In fact, I keep one in the showcase at my local GW in Franklin, TN, USA. It's really neat to see it next to say a freshly fully painted Primaris marine, lol.
Just an idea, but you could do something like ‘10 weird and wonderful things from’ and then go through a number of factions, like tyranids, orks or space marines
Eldar and Human relationships? Actually, y'know what... I accept this as still being cannon in "remote" places of the galaxy. Gives 40k some more interesting depth
Since I can't find an the answer for the cake scene on twitter, I'm going to guess it was interpretive art repressenting how GW treats their Warhammer 40k lore through the ages
starting to see how Cegorach and the Harlequins were born, a few proto-nods to them here. Was Alexis trying to be like Microsoft sally, or is that an audition for Microsoft Alexis voice?
At 5:42 I wasn't looking at the screen and I thought he said "robots are wondering about killing people" and I legit thought this was a scenario where you had to deal with androids contemplating the ethics of murder.
Fun fact, the hallucinogen grenades still live on in the Only War/Dark Heresy game systems. Giving Dark Eldar nightmares is probably the most fun I've had in my own campaign.
I made that deodorant tank! Mine was crap and I didn't have the right kind of deodorant container, but I remember making it. And it was shite. If I recall correctly, it had a square front end that kept falling off because I applied the glue after I'd applied the paint. Hey, I was young.
hahaaa I know I'm late to the party but this made me think of that Black Library story The Sigilite where Malcador shows this guy a load of old treasures from Earth's past, and now I keep thinking that when it decribes all the items that there is a Crass album in there hidden away at the back. Cheers for the upload.
Back then non-astartes wearing space armor was surprisingly common. But back then improvising was also, so having a non-astartes stand in for an astartes wasn't uncommon, so certainly people played non-astarte women in power armor as astartes. (for christ sake, even imperial guard males if they really wanted)
That illustration of the Crass band symbol in the RT book blew my mind. So cool, i didnt know anything about that. However, i do know that the guys at GW have a deep source of reference material. Not specifically that, but its a part of this game that made me keep 40K in my life since 1987. Yea, over half my life has 40k in it. Sweet. A good review of this sacred book, well done Snipe, Wib.👍
