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@@silviachristandl5874 I mean one time i got response of "You responded to nothing" after person who commented removed their comment , so dismissing it is not all times correct decision .
I keep thinking of a guy with barely any clothes on and a shiv just running and screaming before jumping onto the back of an ork and repeatedly trying to stab it's neck
"What most people don't know about Killbots is that each one has a set kill-limit. And so, knowing their one weakness I sent in wave after wave of my own men till they hit their limits and shut down." - Fourteen Star Admiral Zapp Brannigan
When I learned you could double up on powerfists when taking the Lord Commissar as your HQ, I started trying to create the ultimate wall of meat shields for "Commander Hollyfield" This video reminded me of that strange experiment.
to put it into simple terms: one you at the very least get to shoot back at the asshats trying to put a bullet in you and the other option is where you Get tied to a post watch as 5-10 assholes with rifles make a semi-circle, raise rifles, aim and shoot until you are dead which would you take?
Tavern Burner shoot people and very likely die, or just die. Unless you're very lucky and survive the initial salvo, then prepare to eat another salvo or two
12:02 The drug they pump into them is called *_Friendzone_* !? No wonder they charge into battle with reckless abandon and a total disregard for safety, that stuff is hell.
Because their planet is such a horrible place to live that it makes you consider joining a penal legion. Where the chances of dying in the most gruesome ways possible is practically guaranteed
@eviltreemonster i believe its a prison world. Its also a toxic mining world were the guards can be just as violent as the prisoners, the food is probably even worse than standard imperial guard rations, and I think ive read from somewhere that the resource that the prisoners are mining are highly toxic (and they don't wear much protection). So the only way to leave a place like this is to join the chem dogs penal legion. Your chances of survival might not be much higher but its remarkably more comfortable (at least more comfortable than the former option of staying home)
@eviltreemonster basically. Imagine living on a toxic world with your only company being murderers, rapists, heretics, traitors, thieves, and angry guards who only means entertainment is shooting and abusing the prisoners (prisoners being you ofcourse)
Calimero Hœnir Absolutely! I suppose you could make a total of three movies, but most likely it would be the first book or maybe the short story from the omnibus.
Calimero Hœnir like the last chances go off in the last movie to fight a final desperate battle against the tyranids,where they all die in glorious slow motion while a voice over tells of how the invasion was driven back by a last minute appearance of the astartes before cutting to a memoriam plaque on a battle barge with the names of all the soldiers of the last chances carved upon it while appropriately sad music plays...that would be fucking awesome
I remember reading the Last Chancers book where there was one guy that survived and got a pardon. The guy's name was Kage (I think he held the rank of Lieutenant). His back story is that he was sentenced to a penal colony after either punching or outright killing his superior officer in his former guard unit (if memory serves). He attempted to escape by waiting for a resupply ship to arrive in which he would slip onto the ship dressed as a guard. Unfortunately for him his cover was blown and in his mad dash to get off the planet he tried to hijack a ship. Even more unfortunately, the guy coming off said ship was Colonel Schaeffer himself, who immediately subdued Kage and had him inducted into the legion because Kage was "the kind of scum he needed". However, after succeeding in the final mission and being the lone survivor of a group that numbered around 4000(?) to begin with, he made the somewhat fatal mistake of deciding to keep his penal legion tattoo instead of having it removed. He had come to see it as something of a badge of honor. When he tried to sign up for a different guard squad an officer saw the tattoo and began treating him like scum. The situation escalated into a fight in which Kage took the officer's ceremonial sword and gave him one cut for every soldier that died during his time in the penal legion (he had even taken the time to remember their names), all because the officer had said that they should've all just died. After that he passed out in an alley only to wake up with Schaeffer standing over him and ripping the pardon in half and welcoming him back into the legion permanently, the last words of the book being "Oh frag" (I suppose in this case "frag" is their equivalent to "fuck"). I believe he was also referenced in the first entry for the Last Chancers way back in a White Dwarf magazine once. During the pre-battle writeup the Last Chancers squad members, who were about to assault a place held by Chaos Space Marines, complained about how anybody could be expected to survive the mission. The silent Lieutenant (at the time unnamed) spoke up and merely said "I did", before returning to his duties, causing all squad members to just stare at him. The last I read regarding Kage is that he turned out to be a latent psychic (which explained his extraordinarily good luck) and got possessed by a daemon. He proceeded to shrug off its influence long enough to assassinate their target by throwing himself and the guy into a lava pit (I think) as an act of redemption. Sorry, I haven't read the books in a while so my memory of certain things is a bit hazy.
Would be an interesting concept, if some brutal "by-the-book" officer runs to some penal legion comissar and screams at him why all his guns have been stolen and so on... and the comissar just nods, turns around and turns out to be a space marine scout sargeant.
Sebastian Krant No, the Penal Commissar spins around, rips his skin off like a disguise, and Reveals himself to be a fully armored Blood Ravens Seargent. He grabs the Commissar's hat then proceeds to run away giggling.
17:37 "Though again artillery shells can occasionally be considered to be expensive, and penal legionaries...well their free...."-Arch hahahahahahahahahahah the irony.
You gotta imagine that some planetary governor _somewhere_ in the galaxy trades convicted pedophiles and serial torture-murderers to the dark pansies for whatever resource they have.
@@John-Stark the problem is, they might not die, they might come back as the pets of the dark pansies in a future invasion, drugged to the gills, and i mean literal gills cuz the Haemunculi decided gills were cool
Ah human mine sweeping, that brings back memories. Back in the '90s when I was in the US Navy, USS Aubrey Fitch guided missile frigate FFG-34, they had us sweep for mines in Port au Prince harbor prior to the "big invasion". Obviously the US has specialist ships to do this but someone fucked up and so there wasn't one available as to reduce maintenance costs all mine sweeps had been pooled together in San Diego and calling for one now would have delayed the invasion by a month. So we swept by going into the harbor to see if we blew up. They moved me from sonar watch to deck watch for the event. It was the first time I'd stood deck watch, but I preferred my chances for surviving a mine hit if I was top side. Anywho it was night and I was scanning the water in front of us with low light binoculars and what was the first thing I saw? All these little lights on the water in front of us. So I ducked inside the bridge and asked generally (because I had no idea who I was supposed to report to) "What the fuck is up with all these little lights on the water?" This was apparently very inappropriate and a junior officer was told to deal with me. JOs are silly people. Anywho he tells me and I quote, "Those were in the mission briefing. They do not constitute a hazard to navigation." Being that I hadn't been invited to the mission briefing, or had any briefing at all beyond stand on the deck and look for mines I pressed for an explanation - enlisted can get away with that in some parts of the Navy. He explained that those little lights were the desperately poor locals trying to catch fish by luring them up to the surface and grabbing them. We ran the fuck over those people. Must have killed at least a few dozen. Probably closer to around a hundred. They were definitely not a hazard to navigation. We didn't blow up and the next day the big amphib assault ships came in and restored El Presidente for Life to power. More importantly Clinton's misery farming operation was saved ensuring they could continue to exploit the impoverished natives of Haiti for decades and billions of dollars to come.
As I read the last couple sentences the image of a bald eagle saluting the american flag shedding a single tear while the USA national anthem was playing in the background popped into my head. God Bless America.
"They steal like the gypsies..." Hey, just because they disappointed the Emperor, doesn´t mean you have the right to insult the penal legionairies, Arch. :(
Well, wouldn't scrapping a malfunctioning lasgun be disrespectful to the machine spirit? Sure its a waste of resources, but when a techpriest has to choose between inefficient resource usage and pissing off the machine spirit... its pretty easy to guess what he'd do.
kampfer91 now I just imagine the emperor flying across the imperium on sanguinala,leaving toys and candy for all the loyal little kiddies in the galaxy,and coal for all the traitors
James.T .Adams *M41 996* *Sanguinala* *Random Hive city, unknown planet, Segmentum Obscurus* *Chaos space marine warband is hiding in the sewers planning to take over the city during the festivals* *Chaos Marine 1* So... how are we gonna take this place? *Chaos Marine 2* Silence you insolence fool! I'm trying to think! *Chaos Marine 3* I think I heard a noise somewhere... *Chaos Marine 2* Shut up! Go tell the Noise Marine what-his-name that he can come out now! *Chaos Marine 3* Sure whatever *Chaos Marine 3 exits small room they dug out of the walls of one of the sewer tunnels* Hey Varkas, you can come out now. But keep your gun turned off! *Varkas the Noise Marine* I hear it! It's coming for us! Here it is! *Chaos Marine 3* What are you ta.... *Chaos Marine 3 turns his head to see mountains upon mountains of coal traveling at 2000 mph going through the tunnels demolishing everything in its wake* *Chaos Marine 3* Shit *Varkas* THE EMPEROR'S WRATH IS UPON US! HAHAHAA *They were all killed by trillions of coal bits smashing into their bodies*
+Astartes Master Remiel and the hive city breaks out in cholera and dysentery because the already ilrepaired sewer system clogs and can't be repaired due to trillions of tons of coal. The city as always starts to fight itself for survival as plague and death erupts throughout.. And nurgle chuckles to himself as another hive city falls.
ya, well so does almost every other Special Regiment, but Arch hasn't got to those yet. Just wait a couple of months, maybe a few years, and we'll get a Last Chancers video.
One guy did manage to get out of the Last Chancers for a brief period (I don't have the book with me, so I don't have his name handy). After infiltrating an Imperial fortress, detonating the plasma reactors, and singlehandedly confronting a gene stealer, he earned a pardon and posting to an Imperial Guard regiment in a relatively quiet part of the galaxy. Unfortunately he didn't quite take to the quiet life and ended up killing his superior officers in a bar fight. When he awoke from his drunken stupor, Col Schaffer himself was standing over him tearing up the pardon and offered him a spot in the Last Chancers.
And then i think i remember that the one that survived took part in the third war for Armageddon killed von stab and then died falling into some lava or something because of demonic procession as he was an unidentified pysker or something.
Lt. Kage was his name. He completed dozens of missions with Col. Shaffer and won his pardon and was assigned to a guard regiment, but shortly after arriving got drunk and was involved in a fight with a fellow officer which he killed with his bare hands. When he awoke in an alley Col. Shaffer was standing over him telling him he was scum, but was the Col.’s scum and he still had a use for him. Kage continued to serve as Shaffer’s second in command until he died on Armageddon killing himself to resist a warp entity possession.
Solar Macharius having been studying on Stalin and the gulags with political prisoners doing essentially nothing wrong I can see how fucking horrible 40k prison world would be.
40K. Passive Aggressive British WW1 (in spaaaaaaace) parody that turned into a gigantic meme machine of sheer, unadulterated ridiculosity. And I love every minute of it.
Psychic cat exists in WH40k. It is called "Gynix", looks like a bobcat and is often in company of Eldar. Very high ranking Imperials occasionally get one too.
Although, you have to question the source. If there was a power in the galaxy stealing your people, you would say anything and everything to discredit it...especially if the grass really _was_ greener on the other side.
I just painted half a dozen Penal Leman Russ tanks for my personal 1373rd Penal guard army. They are basically rustbuckets with Latin writing on them about penitence. They are backup for my Maccabian Jannisaries
4:20 why would they need to force civilians into penal legions with fabricated crimes when they can just conscript whoever they want into the regular guardsmen regiments ?
Multiple reasons: The Imperium still is a realistic system (as realistic as a fantasy setting can be). This means, if everyday citziens get drafted (more than usual) this will reduce stability on the planet in question. Why stay a peacefull and loyal worker, if this doesnt change anythign? For the same reason, conscriptions are rare as fuck outside of planets close to (or that are) warzones. And it also has the tendency to reduce efficiency, if the workers disappear. Also: Guardsmen do have rights. Some regiments may not give a fuck about said rights, but guardsmen are still usually well respected people. Again, it ensures stability and discipline, that everyone has rights and duties. This means, that even a conscript in many regiments cannot be used as a penal legionaire. He still for example gets a regimental kit and unlike a penal legionaires command, an actual regimental command has to answer for to many unexpeceted casualites. Granted, some regiments use their conscripts as meatshields, but those are rare und usually they only do it if a) they have no better use for untrained personal or b) this statues changes, if the recruit proofs himself. And so, a penal legionaire may be more usefull than a conscript. Especially since the first is definetly, even for smaller crimes, a criminal and criminals are hardy folks in the imperium. And finally, the drafters in question might get moral issues with herding faithfull and good working citiziens to their doom for no reason. They are still people, after all. But if you tell them, that those people betrayed the emperors trust, than not giving them any weaponary turns from hard and unfair to well deserved and still to good for them.
+Sebastian Krant nope, when you start taking civilians and charging them w false crimes en masse they will revolt against the local gov. Even if the individual can't their friends and families and even the security forces will. If a known threat is nearby and you conscript in the name of defending the homeland the population won't like it but they will fight to defend their homes and families.. People don't like being lied to, or outright corruption. See every revolution/ civil war in history..
The problem is they know are false charges because the imperiums comes , see the planet dont giving enought resources and says , you guys arent giving enought resources so all of you are criminals and will be a penal-colony ."the wole planet" and the population dont riot?! wtf that was a plot hole.
@@enrlichhartman not quite what happened, it got turned into a penal colony where criminals WERE SENT; the original populace weren't criminalized en masse, tho they still had to deal with harsh living conditions
I like to think the one Last Chancer to make it all the way to redemption while still breathing and actually be rewarded for it was Colonel Shaeffer himself. Who better to lead the Simon Fenix’s of 40k on suicide missions and give them hope at the same time? A minute of genuine inspiration is worth an hour of fear after all.
It would be cool if there was a story where the Marines Maleviolent operated alongside a Penal Legion and actually on some level related to them and gained some kind of mutual respect.
Guardsmen do have basic rights and duties. Without such a system, discipline would be hard to enforce. Guardsmen have actually a pretty good live, if they are halfway usefull. And if they are not a) the meatshield line infantary variant or b) specialised in hellish fighting like attrition war, tunnel fighting or melee assault. The problem is just, that one miscalculated charge, one unexpeted foe or just one departure to a hellish warzone can destroy all that .However, the great masses of their foes, like Orks, cultists, rebels etc. are not that dangerous, since it will usually be small incursions, they will spend most of the time waiting and training and their colonels will try to not waste them. And so, during that time, the guardsman, while having a hard live, has a stable life. He has downtime. He may be expected to go in somewhere, shoot some people and than get back. He may fight for days, but he also has days where nothing happens. If you want to have him the first kind of days efficient, you need to treat him halfway decent the other days.
@@larkalfen9510 it uses whatever the planets it contains uses; there's no single currency since it's way too big for that to work; why should the affluent planet's currency be tied with the poor planets and thus drag down the value? i think the IG mostly get paid in goods anyway
This is why I like human regiments: an astartes can easily live 10,000 years, but a guardsman is lucky to live 10,000 days. They're in a perpetually hopeless situation but fight anyways. That's BRUTAL.
Last chances is actually a book series in Warhammer 40k and follows their adventures through the eyes of Lt. Kage. It's a good series written you gave thorp.
To each of us falls a task. And all the emperor requires of us guardsmen is that we stand the line and die fighting. It is what we do best. Die standing.
Forest elfranger Fucking Taldeer took one of the manliest of men from us when she could have just told him what was going on and helped him obliterate the enemy.
Mike A You can fall once you make enough space by slaughtering the enemies of the god emperor. Buzzy Bland Petty much that is the eldar in a nut shell. Keep very useful information to their selves and try to fucking kill us. Only to end up screwing over as many people as possible.
Shafer did pardon a lone survivor(Cant remember his name).....but he murdered a guardsman colonel shortly after in a drunken rage. He immediately got a chance to rejoin the last chancers and he took it.
Penal legions are the cushion for the pushin. It's like sticking the mercenaries and low morale units smack in the middle of formation so they can't break and run.
So two penal soldiers where advancing towards an enemy position, and while pinned down behind a few old oil drums, one turns to the other and said "I'm sick of this shit! I think we should run for it!" The second says "But we cant run, the Commissar is back there! He'll shoot us!" "Not if we all run at once!" "I don't think any of us would make it, he's kill all of us before we got close..." "Well if we can't kill one guy holding a las-pistol, how the hell are we supposed to kill 20 armed with bolters?!"
Yeah, should have used this one vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/4/4a/Savlar_Chem-Dog_Trooper_2.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20160403224426
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY HIS FUCKING NA-(vox transmission cut off for a moment before resuming)AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-(transmission ends)
"PENAL legion, I thought the Adeptas Sororitas requested a PENILE legion!" Also downvoting the video for "Irregardless". I got standards that I will maintain REGARDLESS of the actual quality of your video (which is quite high, a shame you were found wanting). If I catch you saying "a whole nother" you can upload me flying out to your place to tan your hide with my belt.
Hey Arch I have a question, there is still an entire universe outside the Milkyway right? I ask because if there is the Milkyway is just one of oh so many then that makes its species, no matter how powerful, little more than a tiny speck of a drop in the ocean of what should be out there and of little influence. But obviously this is not the case, what with gods being murder fucked into existence. This makes me think that that one tiny part isn't so tiny anymore because its all that is left. Did the Tyranids eat everything else already?
They say if every single lasshot, bullet, bolt, etc, in the Imperium hit and killed a tyrannid it would not scratch their numbers in the slightest. Though if the tyrannids ate everything else wouldn't that include other sentient life, therefore creating a god of om nom nomming? If we are just a drop in the sea then that means the entirety of the sea has been slaughtered and devoured and if that's the case then no matter how powerful the shadow of the Warp is that would have to make at least one more god. Also tyrannids evolve to resist whatever they fight so if they ate the rest of the universe then through all that war they should be nigh immortal by now.
I thought Penal Legions were legions dedicated to Penal justice, to punish penally individuals from the imperium who did not respect the law. After watching the video, all I can say is... All hail Chaos.
The Last chancers. And elite unit of men and women who survived. And at the end as.long as.you did your job and wasnt a coward you earned that pardon. Schaeffer also signed pardons to those who didnt make it, as.long as they didnt betray the unit or was a coward. They all earned their redemption.
Interesting to note about WW2 The Germans left several thousand minefields throughout the war. Now clearing these minefields was absolutely necessary as they occupied, Farmland, roadways, beaches, cities, railyards....The Jerries' really liked minefields, I digress. Anyway the Allies really needed to clear these fields but didn't have the manpower. What they did have, was German POWs. So they took said POW pointed them at minefields (at gunpoint) gave the prisoners knives, and told them to get digging. Minefields and Penal regiments a match made in hell.
Arch you have to do a video on the Last Chancer books. + there are a few people that have survived the 13th, one being Lieutenant Kage of the books. And the reason Schaffer is so happy to let them go, is because he knows, give em a month or two and he'll be seeing them once again.
Hey Arch! You are doing an incredible job, have followed you since 2015, and it has been a joy, and it still is. if it is not too much to ask for more wammer fantasy lores.
