40k Lore, Regiments Of The Imperial Guard! Catachan Jungle Fighters! The Hardest Men In The Imperium 

Kinda want to see a book about a Catachan Vet crash landing on a Fire Warrior op and get a kind of reverse-Predator scenario now

Every time I hear about Catachans, I'm reminded of a story I heard about a new Commissar in one of their regiments: "Welcome sir to the Catachan 419th "one short" regiment! Glad to have you here. See sir we have this tradition in the regiment for all the new commissars, just two small things to get the integration going eh, something good for morale. We have a wee lil' Catachan Devil tied up in that tent over there, to show you have what it takes you have to get in the cage and pull one of its teeth. Got lotsa teeth, easy job. After you did that you have one task left, to show you'r really one of the men: you gotta satisfy one of the lasses. Gotta few volunteers on a dry spell so you just ask around and yeknow really make some good lovin'. If she likes you after that, welcome to regiment sir!" So the young commissar, bewildered, confused and utterly green behind the ears wanders to the tent with the Devil cage. He closes the flap behind him and climbs into the cage. The men outside soon hear a great racket, a banging, tearing sound interspersed with terrible screaming. They grin to each other, knowing full well the paperwork will be minimal. Then after the banging falls silent and to everyone's surprise the Commissar appears, shirt gone, sleeves torn off his greatcoat. *"Right, who was the girl with the teeth problem?"* This is the story of how Commissar Jason "the devil's man" Statholme joined the 419th.

I remember the old days of the Catachan Jungle Fighters Codex, even Deathwing Terminators started to sweat when the trees began speaking Low Gothic

I find one of the most hilarious recent lore on catachans is in the tau novel Commander Shadow, where kroot have been eating the catachans corpses "Recently however, I have received a number of disturbing reports. The kroot increasingly refuse to obey the orders of their tau superiors and have taken to wearing red scares around their foreheads. They speak in the gue’la language when they think no one is listening." catachan's genes are so strong they are overwriting the rest of the kroot genome xD

I like the idea of an Imperial Commander wondering why the Catachan keep requesting detonation packs during a relatively quiet period in a war. He looks into it only to find out that it's relitivly quiet because the Catachan have used their previous detonation packs so well. He authorities their request, stays out of their way, gives them whatever they want, and lets them do their own thing. He wins the war, gets a promotion, and makes sure to always have lots of Catachan guardsmen in his army from that point on.

I’m sad to not hear how Catachan actually fought off a Tyranid Hive fleet. Let me be clear, the planet itself did the fighting. And after a while the small Tyranid Hive fleet LEFT the system to find an easier meal. Even the TYRANIDS could not beat the planet.

If I still remember during the Indonomous Crusade Catachan was attacked by Chaos cultists. The invaders were slaughtered from a combination of the Jungle Fighters and the wildlife. When Bobby G got there, he was expecting a fight. What he got was reinforcements. Since going to Crusade is still safer than staying at home.

There also exists a creature that in the early drawings of Catachan wildlife looked like a barnacle from Half-life, but with a maw lined with razor sharp rasping teeth where the tongue should be. This lovely little thing is called a Catachan Face-eater, presumably it drops on you and eats your face. So Catachan even has drop bears.

Col Straken: If your sending that many men after Sly Marbo you'll need just one thing. Local Corrupt Arbites: What? Straken: A good supply of Bodybags.

I imagine an Asura's Wrath style avatar of the Catachan planet just having a bemused chuckle as an invasion force of literal demons, heretical demigods and possessed abominations smashes into the surface only to immediately die because their drop pod landed on a freaking TOAD.

I think I remember in some of the more recent lore, the World Eaters actually invaded Catachan following the opening of the Great Rift... and the Jungle Fighters barely noticed. The WE's casualties against the jungle alone forced them to retreat.

Do you you think Catachan is the only planet where a passing Tryanid Hive fleet would think: “Yeah…. Let’s give this one a miss and move on”?

Arch talking about Sly Marbo. The voice inside my head : AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Could you imagine the amount of fun the orks would have on Catachan. They might actually be in heaven fighting the locals and wildlife 24/7.

My mental image of the "Colonizing" of Catachan boils down to this: Ship Lands. Ship lands on a Greater Toad. Ship? What ship?

When I heard sly marbo, I immediately heard his signature battle cry in the back of my head and I was half expecting Arch to play a clip of it.

Sly Marbo is basically what happens if you take Rambo and then tack on every single Chuck Norris meme, slightly modified to fit. If you drop this guy in the path of a hive fleet he will not only survive but he will singlehandedly kill every single Norn queen in his path. How will he do that without a spaceship? Sly Marbo has his ways...

Thanks for standing up for 40k over the last few weeks. Loved your podcast with Sargon. Keep up the great work.

I'm having fun imagining that attempts were made to transport Catachan wildlife to Cadia... and there are now several space hulks floating through the Warp that are too deadly for demons to exist on... because they are full of the survivors of an all dinosaur battle-royale.

I like the ideal of sly marbo being a perpetual. Eventually youd learn from your mistakes after dying a thousand times.

I heard Sly Marbo once shouted a Noise Marine to death

Sly Marbo once destroyed 15 Tyranids with one hand grenade. Then the grenade exploded.

GW needs to do something at least once with marbo. Maybe a chapter in a book where a force of loyalists are saved and discover the wrecked remains of mighy traitor forces and a small scratch on the wall saying M.A.R.B.O. Even more epic if it was in a space marine book.

A Yautja hunting party took one look at this planet and noped the f*** out of there.

"Sarge They're in the trees, they're in the trees!" "Son, they ARE the trees"

I love that even chaos can't invade the planet without immediately dying.

Catachan: When you ask someone from the northern hemisphere to describe Australia, this is likely what they will come up with.

I think of the jurassic park scene where a Catchan is in the jungle and turns to see a lictor, his last words being, "Clever Girl"

World Eater Virus: NOPE, FUCK THIS SHIT IM OUT!

"Death world? Sounds like a vacation trip for me!" Any catachan trooper

Sly Marbo is the only creature in the galaxy that space australia checks under the bed for.

Wow regular arch releases…. You said you were going to reluctantly make videos but on a regular schedule is wonderful. I could get really used to this. Thank you again for biting the bullet and doing this for us. It wouldn’t be the same without your videos.

Catachan: just a scratch. Commissar: scratch? My arms been hacked off. Catachan: it will grow back.

Catachan Devils being local insects that are the size of armored vehicles, with chitin strong enough to be armor plate and scything pincers that can cut steel.

I started collecting 3rd Edition when Catachan was the first plastic Imperial Guard. The mini Catachan codex was cool (for the time), it had some jungle Carnivorous terrain rules and scenarios

Arch + Catachan jungle fighters = drop EVERYTHING and watch immediately

What's next, Fenris? 2:40 - Perhaps they did some rock-connaissance (!) 8:50 - Ah yes, the 40K version of John Rambo. 14:00 - Along with the Sisters of Battle and the Salamanders. 18:00 - Didn't stop the Death Korps of Krieg. 26:50 - They're so tough that they didn't need the help of Big Papa Ultrasmurf to fight off the Daemons.

Sly Marbos comment on this video: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

6:02 I Like this Arch headcannon; unlike the Templin Institute's version...

I've heard that when numbering regiments, it's not always sequential, to disguise actual army numbers from your opponents, even when referring to which grouping they're from.

Arch, you joke about Virus bombing but in 5th edition codex a warbad from the Iron Warriors did virus bomb Catachan, and the invading Chaos Lord was killed upon planetfall from being strangled by Col. Iron Hand Straken with a poisonous root. So many unanswered questions there but... details.

Catachan. The only place where base-line humans MIGHT be able to start keeping up with Astartes. Why haven't they created a chapter from this place again?

in my head conan theyre all made out of jelly beans. theres no reason to believe this but im convinced of it

A good flamethrower - or plasmathrower - would be great. The humidity being high means easier to control spread of fires and lower likelyhood of it growing out of control. As for the plants, they'd probably burn fine, but their seeds might be flameproof, a common adaptation on Earth. Also acidproof, and maybe explode when disturbed to scatter seeds because the pod/fruit's juices are now superheated by the fire.

Tyranids come to eat catachan.... Catachan eats the Tyranids

Would you consider doing a video on the Night Lords? I really want to see your perspective on the whole "legion was made up of the worst dregs scraped from the proto-Imperium's prisons" lore being kept even after Space Marines were retconned to require pre-adolescent boys as the raw materials, because seriously, if anything is up there with the World Eaters in proving the Emperor was either terminally arrogant or far less brilliant than the Imperium believes, it was him signing off on a plan to take pre-adolescent cannibals, serial killers, spree murderers and rapists and then turn them into super soldiers.

An entire planet populated by the cast of "Predator".

Krieg Guardsmen: Okay i've fought Orks, Eldar dire avengers, tyranid swarms, and Chaos scum in the trenches of Vraks all in the hopes of getting sacrificed in the name of emperor but that planet *Points to Catachan from the spaceship void window* That planet scares me.

If you don’t know how to handle a knife by the age of 3 you might not live to see your 4th birthday-a catachan

"Enough of this ! clear the trees, bring the flamers !!! -HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ! -WHAT IS GOING ON !?! What is this NONSENSE ?!? -... Sir ? ... the Jungle is... Laughting..."

My head cannon is that you released this on the 26th, it was my birthday. Yaya me!! A new catachan arch video!!! Lol

Well, if they had transplanted Catachan flora and fauna to Cadia, it would simply have eaten the Blackstone fortress.

Somehow, for some reason, this was an extremely entertaining episode. Humor landed perfectly. Great job!

I like the idea of a Dawn of war style game where a Catachan regiment is available, but you don't control them directly. You just tell them "I want X done/killed" and leave it to them to try to accomplish that task.

you can always tell a Catachan is near by the sound of CCR

This better be 33 minutes of Arch screaming "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Finally the RU-vid algorithm did me a favor bringing me here lmao

Unfortunately the catachans have been ruined for me. In the Catachan Devil novel it is confirmed that when charging, the catachans Naruto run. That is not a joke. That really happens.

Appreciate another great upload. I've been waiting for this video in particular. Love the jungle homies.

Little known fact, Carachan has been invaded by the Tyranids twice.

Lol 30 years of playing never got the "jungle fighter" pun/play on words. Thank you arch

they def have a machine to make red bandanas

Well Done Arch❕👍🏻👍🏻

Funny, the Planet May eats the World eater Virus. This gave me a smile

Planet of the 80’s action heroes.

Just 1 minutes ago, I was thinking of listening to the adeptus ridiculous podcast of catachan jungle fighters again while I’m working out right now. Then this happened, haha! Brilliant timing!!!!

FINALLY ITS HERE IVE WAITED FOR EVER

“Who’s going to maintain a mining site..?” Glares in space dwarf

"I've lost half my squad ot foot rot, the plants are carniverous, and they have spiders the size of main battle tanks. It's almost like home."

Catachan fighter *tries to strangle ork* Ork- *choking*"get offa me ya git!"

Transporting the wildlife of Catachan to Cadia you say? That's if they could get the local wildlife off the planet to begin with and transporting it to another planet without the ship turning into a catachan space hulk. Like to see the terminator squads deal with that problem.

Yesterday I was just picturing a Catachan dude showering, with a knife still strapped to his thigh. He finishes, steps out…and stabs his towel with said knife to make sure it wasn’t one of those sneaky predators.

Luv me Catachan, Luv me knives, 'ate xenos, simple as

Catachan's PDF: The Hardest Game Wardens in the Galaxy.

I read somewhere that a species needs at a minimum of 100 'breeding' pairs. This avoids any short term inbreeding issues.. but in the long term you might have genetic problems if anyone from the original 200 had something going on genetically. I believe (I'm too lazy to look it up), something called the 'Founder's Affect'.

Great video and I love the Tanith First and Only, Elysian drop troops, Harkoni Warhawks, Tallarn Desert Raiders far more then the Catachan but they are a great Regiment none the less.

Sly once threw a hand grenade and killed 15 orks, then the grenade exploded

Ah yes the example of if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger

Nurgle during the invasion: "goddamn that stank!"

Catashan is how I like to pronounce it personally

I always thought that they used regiment as in the UK (and the commonwealth to a degree) we use the regimental system. The number of soldiers in each regiment varies all the time due to requirements. And since regiments act like independent entities (soldiers are loyal to their regiment first and foremost) that usually operate on their own (unless they are doing something more specialist where for example they get an Airbourne regiment working in tandem with an armoured regiment). And since they have their own customs, traditions, and quirks, that it was a suitable model for the Imperial Guard.

Is it really Cata-chan!? I always thought it was Kat-A-Kan

Another great vid

Catachan is kind of the poster child of Death Worlds.

I love the Rambo regiments.

The men and women who can push around space marines.

I absolutely love the image of world eaters and demons landing on Catachan and immediately getting ripped to pieces by the wildlife. All while the local Catachans say "Did you hear something?".

Comment for the algorithm, praise Arch!

A giant frog Look-out-belowing the original exploratory ship is now my headcannon🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I miss the 40k of old when it didn't take itself so seriously.

[libationes deis algorithmi]

"You aint seen what we've seen" -catachan Jungle fighter Dawn of war 2 retribution.

It's pretty funny since I just a couple of days ago searched if you had a specific video on this topic 😅

Deploy Catachan soldiers and Mantis Warriors to the same warzone- watch as the enemy is whittled down without ever being able to retaliate.

I remember an awsome Guard tale about a super experienced death world unit. They had a high rate of Camisar deaths. 😆

Those are men to have with you in a fight. Unlike their cousin regiment (cousin, if you put special in front of it) the Nahcatac Shrubbery Pokers.

Honestly a Velociraptor piloting a helicopter gunship wouldn't even be the weirdest thing involving the Imperial Guard, much less the whole of 40k

In one of the imperial armour if you worked out the math for an Infantry regiment for the example it's about 3.5 thousand per regiment. Granted this obviously changes

So basically a planet of Rambo-like warriors

I do wonder how the Dark Eldar would survive on Catachan...