40K Imperial Armour! The Chimera! 

Hoodies? Bah i want a Inquisitor Arch resin statue!

+Arch Warhammer+ so what's the Chimera variant that looks like someone stuck an M2 Bradley IFV turret on the chassis.

Can I ask how your shit came to $32 fucking dollars? I could get your emblem on a shirt for half that right in town

will you ever cover the siege of vraks

if you wanna be a darling for the less lore heavy vehicles it be great if you maybe put 1-2 or even 3 of them in the same video :D call me spoiled but a 5-10 lore video is not why i work 5 days a week

'By the god-emperor if the first one doesnt deliver the emperor's justice the 152nd will' Death corps officer, probably.

My favourite variant is the one with all the guns.

Well, it is called a chimera.

Dakka *slaps Imperial Guardsman* this boy is so dead

*slaps imperial palace wall* this bad boy can withstand an assault from a titan

Roberto The Fifth *slaps baneblade* this bad boy can fit so many... shit we lost them

Well no. They are mechanised infantry not those white striped mine sweepers

Everybody's is dead, I better go pick up more meat shields so the enemies of mankind don't scratch the paint job.

Luke Doubtfire Aye second the motion

A thousand and one "Nay" votes...

AYE

Aye

AYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

+SgtGigawattz+ there's even a Chimera version that looks like it has an M2 Bradley IFV turret on the chassis. Complete with autocannon (unlikely to have dual feed mechanism though) and twin linked Hunter Killer missile launchers.

Napalm Bonerfart I forget is the Bradley the light tank or the one with tyres instead of treads? Also does being the commander mean you direct a group of tanks or just the one you’re in? I’m not all that familiar with how ranks work in armoured units, I do know that in the infantry commander is the rank just below captain, also army or marines? edit: little late but a tank anime helped me figure it out

dion jay woollaston The Bradley is the M2. It has treads, an autocannon, and twin TOW Missiles. The LAV-25 has wheels, as does the Striker system.

Imperial Shocktrooper thank you

dion jay woollaston No problem. I am not military, but I do study it. I share when I am needed.

with any luck in another year he will review the bainblade

Next video: It is NOT the Baneblade!

couldn't you call a rhino the same thing?

Mark Freeman that's the Tyranid's cooler box

Mark Freeman rhinos are are like the lunchbox with the pokemon print of the kid that always got cookies in stead of bread.

Get those methul bowkses

That's METAL BAWKES

Did I hear somebody mention heresy? Where's my promethium? Have you "borrowed" it again? I expect those tricks from the guard.

The guard is not that bad with this. Now if they get into the inquisition, that will be a _Interesting_ proposition.

Baker Tankersly Try telling the Administratum that. Well documented the guard like to borrow extra ammo packs for their lasguns. As for the Inquisition, we'll say no more about borrowing from them. They are still looking for that promethium tank themselves. I just hope A Random Crusader didn't just turn douchebag and drop me right in it. He's been after that promotion a while now and I told him it was mine. Borrowing is one thing, stealing my promotion another entirely.

Im referencing the all guardsmen party. also if you think about it, powerpaks being found in the field would allow for lowering the amount of lost packs. (my opinion if i was a leader is "take all the stuff off dead comrades, just register it and give the dog-tags of the fallen back to.

Who said what about the inquisition? I smell heretics and promethium- YOU KNOW WHERE THAT LEADS!

i am stealing that! XD

Material Approved for assembly and distribution. - Prefectus Tynel Jathron, Departmento Munitorum, Officio Tactica.

Made by servitors constructed from Arith/Kyle clones.

I'm getting the artillery hoodie for my son for Christmas ..... If I can convince his heretic of a mother that yes it's ok for a six year old to wear it

Tear resistant and machine washable, perfect for all your xeno-purging needs!

+ghola82+ Metal Boxes proceeds to crush entire Irk Horde in a matter of minutes.

+cnlbenmc *Chaos

It's more like BMP series of infantry fighting vehicles. Considering the Imperial guard has a lot of copy pastings from Soviet/Russian Armed Forces.

In an Only War campaign I ran for some friends of mine, they were part of an armored regiment from a border world and had reached a level of industrialization equal to our own. While the world couldn't afford to produce expensive and not-very versatile (technically speaking) Leman Russ, they had instead settled on creating Chimeras sporting lascannons as their main battle tank. Needless to say that they did well in their various running battle against the Speed Freaks ork tribes roaming the sub-sector.

DeathmasterSniktch Now there’s an idea they should be using more often.

+madquack64+ Except this thing literally looks as I described; M2 Bradley turret on Chimera chassis. Plus BMPs are very poorly armored compared to even a baseline Chimera, their shtick seems to be mounting a ludicrous number of different weapons on them.

Just las-cannons and not the twin-linked model?

Matthew Chirino awesome, I’ll go back to letting the warp overtake me. It is a good pain!

A Random Crusader - WE NEED A METHUL BOX TOO!!

Recaf?

Our enemies hide in METAL BAWKSES, DA KOWARDZ! TEH FEWLZ!! We...(asthma) We should take away their METAL BAWKSES!!

Snakehead ALL THE METAL BAWKSES

The Silver Hat *SINDRI!*

Yep been there. There was a time I was doing that as well.

hybrids?

Chimera's

I think the vehicle you're looking for is the Rhino Transport. Rhino basically is an M113 design wise.

+madquack64 _"I think the vehicle you're looking for is the Rhino Transport. Rhino basically is an M113 design wise."_ The Rhino is heavily armored and, from what I can tell, not amphibious in-universe. It also has multiple access points, including a rear ramp, two side hatches and a roof hatch that allows the occupants to open and egress or to fire out of. The Chimera is also about as common as dirt (like M113s) while the Rhino in the 41st millennium is nearly a holy sacred relic. The Chimera is much more like the M113 because of that.

+matchesburn+ except if you tried to put the armor from a Chimera on an M113 it would sink into the dirt and probably break the suspension if not the entire hull.

That explains a lot. Like the fact that that it is considered a holy relic explained why the Guards don't get the use them. Because that's so precious and valuable only Emperor's most loyal, brightest, and overall best. And not any random Joe Schmoe has been given Lasgun (the chaos Rhinos were mostly ones they had given to them before Horus Heresy) and a lot of people tend to forget about it being amphibious because nobody uses water terrain in the tabletop game and if they do you do it is too shallow or the body is too small to make much difference and I'm pretty sure rarely comes up in the other material (sadly, I'm pretty sure in dawn of war 1. Relic forgot about amphibious part despite there being some map that could have a made use of it.)

+cnlbenmc _"except if you tried to put the armor from a Chimera on an M113 it would sink into the dirt and probably break the suspension if not the entire hull."_ 1.) That's irrelevant, because what matters is the design and how it's used, not how much it weighs. Also, GamesWorkshop generally doesn't know anything about armored vehicles or aircraft. For instance the Rhino is only slightly (and I do mean slightly) longer than a Chimera but also almost 2 meters shorter in width yet is SOMEHOW able to manage having 10 kitted Space Marines inside of it whereas only 12 men fit in the larger Chimera. This doesn't even touch the fact that the Chimera is supposedly 38 tonnes *_with tracks smaller in width than even the M113._* So... By that measure, the Chimera is more likely to sink itself in the dirt (it wouldn't) than an M113 weighing that much. 2.) No, it wouldn't. The Israelis and other nations have added neigh ridiculous amounts of uparmoring and turrets (which have to be filled with ammunition) to the already-increasing-weight of the M113 series which ended, technically, with the M113A3 at 27,000 pounds. Believe me, we've exceeded that weight limit and then some. There's nothing stopping you from altering the suspension to take 38 tonnes of weight. After all, the BFV ballooned in weight from the 21t of the vehicle's prototype to well over 30t with all the upgrades (like BUSK system components, all that armor and reactor armor and turret cupola and guns and ammo and comms systems adds weight). Each variant is progressively heavier than the last and it does it in a size not that much bigger than an M113. Going by just stats, if for SOME REASON you just considered weight and size as the only comparable points, the BFV series is actually more alike the Chimera than the M113. Of course, anyone would find that notion to be absurd considering that the role and design of the vehicles is entirely different. The Bradley is an IFV (especially now). The M3 Bradley is designed to only carrier TWO passengers because the role of an armored fighting vehicle is more necessary than it being able to ferry troops. The Chimera is relatively small, it's common as dirt, highly modular/customizable, has more variants than stars, is amphibious and is widely used. It's a damn 41st millennia M113. Yes, the M113 and Chimera are different in stats, but not their role and function in the Imperium.

It's back!

Well who knows, some things have advanced and haven't been lost, maybe they have suspension that works on not too vicious terrain at 50kph. Besides some contemporary MBTs can manage nearly 50KPH off-road.

they don't have suspension but maybe they have other ways of keeping the crew comfortable enough, as for speed , it sis possible without suspension and the crew would be fine its the compenents like gun controls and engine that would suffer in a real suspensionless tank at that speed, guard stuff is tough so i gues they solved that issue, so the crew would be uncomfortable but no other negative side effects but it becomes way cheaper to build and operate. you probably find the crews and men they transport get used ot it anyway.

Suspension, who needs that we have 300 of these bad boys in the first wave alone

Andri474 That’s pretty much exactly how the Imperial Armour books read. They’re done up like in-universe history books with blueprint-style diagrams of the various vehicles and stuff. It’s awesome.

hay in lore a lasgun will blow your arm off, which means a head shot should always do the job, if you translated the lore to realife each shot is the equivilent of about 35grams of TnT directed in 1 direction (the target) which is lik strapping a large handgrenade on the target and seting it off.

Fiaura the tank Girl did a great job about the stats of Imperial army equipment, I know. And the laz espacially in higher setting is quite an impressive weapon issued to your standard infanterymen. agree. At least IF you hit something where it's has the desired effect. And since it is not a kinetic weapon it only works by heat. So hitting a Nid or an armoured enemy will not have the said devastating effect laz have on flesh. In that case I would rather have a good ol kinetic weapon.

Ipeter747 ikr that is some beautiful fucking art

+Jordan Scherr+ The Armageddon Steel Legion does combined arms all the time, they even make and export Chimeras in vast quantities and variants.

That's true, but also a very "tolerated" situation they basically earned through venerable service. As Arch himself has put it, "Imperial authorities will look the other way, provided they don't push their luck too far."

Keep in mind much of those combined arms forces are comprised of different regiments from the same world working together. You may have mechanized infantry from the 12th, armed tanks from the 36th, artillery support fire from 1137th, and a smattering of target acquisition and recon from the 63rd all under a temporary command structure but it's all still Steel Legion.

the guard in at least the modern codex uses combined arms all the time, the lore states indevidual regiments may not have completee combined arms so that a chaos rebelion has to be much bigger to be a serious threat, (instead of 1 regiment you need 2 or 3 just to function) for example a tank regiment often has small amounts of mobile artillery, infantry often have small amounts of artillery (and artillery oftne have small amounts of infantry), seige regiments have both artillery and infantry and a very small amount of tanks, mech regiments often have small numbers of tanks. plus they tipically par 2-3 diferent types of regiment together to get combined arms. its actually very similar to ww2 soviets at some points (where they have pure tank regiments supporting pure infantry regiments supported by pure tank regiments and all are independant.

brian anderson I feel bad for you

I wanted to like the merch I really did

i agree

It's a lowly Chimera, not a Valkyrie Dropship, it doesn't have one.

cnlbenmc That's Tech heresy.

Take this adept's toasters!

everything has one. Bolters have one. Lasguns have one. The chimera totally has one. Please go to the next admech outpost to be transfromed into a servitor so you can have one too :P

Or the fact that the Chimera actually has TWO ENGINES. That is the reason it pumps out so much horsepower