40k Lore, Regiments Of The Imperial Guard! The Athonian Tunnel Rats! Subterranean Combat Specialists

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The Athonian Tunnel Rats! hailing from the enormous subterranean hydroponics complexes on Athonos the rats have been hardened by inter gang and guild warfare into excellent tunnel fighters!
Lucky ones too! it's a rare necron tomb world that gets to keep it's human inhabitants post the alarm clock ringing
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@mrwri 10 месяцев назад

When you think about it, a hive city is basically just a massive cave system.

@edgarsantos3034 10 месяцев назад

An elevated cave system. 🤣👍

@deeezey_2239 10 месяцев назад

Giant hornet nest specifically

@marsfreelander5969 10 месяцев назад

You live in a above ground cave

@vadandrumist1670 10 месяцев назад

@@marsfreelander5969Well, "above ground" is...relative.

@shoother2257 10 месяцев назад

When you think about it your mom is also a massive cave system

@captainpuffinpuffinson4769 10 месяцев назад

Arch has gone very deep to find this regiment

@Doomer1984 10 месяцев назад

Ho ho, I see what you did there

@Infernal460 10 месяцев назад

Boooooooo... = )

@edim108 9 месяцев назад

Take my like and leave...

@KageRyuu6 10 месяцев назад

Regarding Flamers, that's what the Rebreathers are for, make the most out of your own oxygen supply while denying the enemy their's.

@gregdomenico1891 10 месяцев назад

The Skaven of Guard Regiments.

@curtisthornsberry4236 10 месяцев назад

Many hydroponic gardeners these days use aquaponics. Which includes fish farms with the system. Today we would use something like Tilapia, the fish poo acting as food for your tomatoes, peppers, and cabbage. I could only imagine the macro aquariums a hive world could sport to compliment their hydroponic stacks.

@NDA8666 10 месяцев назад

As a hydroponic farmer (aquaponics & vermiponic hybrid set up) I enjoyed and appreciated Arch's usual deep dive style on a completely different level for this episode lol. Good stuff as always Arch

@TheDandyMann 10 месяцев назад

I learned somening new today. Vermiponics. I never knew you could use the water seepage from worm poop as fertilizer.

@NDA8666 10 месяцев назад

@@TheDandyMann nothing beats a vermiculture bed as a bio-filter, let alone a general filter for large particles before the water is pumped to the plants

@TheDandyMann 10 месяцев назад

@@NDA8666 that really cool. In the future maybe I'll make something similar to the setup you work on. What kind of fish do you use for the aquaponics side?

@autopartsmonkey7992 10 месяцев назад

@@NDA8666actually many things are better.

@autopartsmonkey7992 10 месяцев назад

@@TheDandyMannanother poser with a tiny bit of info

@TheSeanoops 10 месяцев назад

Hey arch, I have to teach you a military term I learned from my cousin who is in the army. When soldiers are talking about how they illicitly acquired extra gear they do not say that they stole it, it fell off a truck, or that yoinked that shit; they “tactically acquired” it.

@trinitytest5986 10 месяцев назад

"Liberated"

@patricklehigh9019 10 месяцев назад

Strategically Transfer Equipment to Alternative Locations Via the fat electrician, fantastic channel .

@INSANESUICIDE 10 месяцев назад

Beg borrow steal, tried and true.

@nunyadambusiness6902 10 месяцев назад

We don't say tactically - we just say we acquired it, period... & when a soldier dies on the battlefield, the rest of the squad splits your shyt among the rest of us. Not like you'll need it anymore... 🤷

@justinwainwright5069 10 месяцев назад

@@nunyadambusiness6902where, when, mos and rank? Your statement makes me think you werent an Infantryman. We dont do that shit to each other.....everyone else, well....fuck POGs

@catsareevil101 10 месяцев назад

And the Necrons never returned or looked back at all? Every god in the galaxy must like that world to get blessed like that!

@jasonwright8546 10 месяцев назад

With the gargantuan amount of plant material being produced, there would be a huge amount of methane being generated from composting. This would surely be used as fuel to power the facilities. Skyscraper sized containers full of rotting vegetation and highly flammable gas, after another, after another... Also, there would have to be massive stockpiles of nitrates, and bio-char for carbon. So on Athos you have planet spanning complex structures, all sitting on top of nearly equally enormous storehouses and tanks of explosive materials. This situation would have to impact how conflicts are managed. One errant Phosphex round, and you could have a continent sized chain reaction haha!

@Furzkampfbomber 10 месяцев назад

Good point. But then again, after this happening a couple of times, one could assume that they would decentralise the storage of the most volatile materials. Even more so since the giant tanks you describe literally scream 'light me up in an attempt of sabotage'.

@TheFatalcrest 5 месяцев назад

😂 maybe they store those as far from vital function areas as possible and post up gaurd forces along with bribed local gangs to encourage....a wide understanding that such materials are best left alone

@alexadamson9959 10 месяцев назад

The necron lord literally just went “aight, imma head out.”

@WEXgamers11 10 месяцев назад

Every day we get closer to the sabbat world crusade

@Norbert_Sattler 10 месяцев назад

This seems like the perfect regiment to attach one Commisar Ciaphas Cain to. ^^

@carsoncasmirri3874 10 месяцев назад

Please. If Cain was fully getting back into the fight you KNOW that Valhalla will be the first ones to be chomping at the bit to get him back

@Lalle524 10 месяцев назад

A surprise to see you cover one of my favourite regiments in the lore. This will be a real treat.

@mrfelicio5873 10 месяцев назад

I love the idea of a massive self sufficient underground civilization that uses hydroponics as its primary food source. hope to see some similar stuff arch!

@autopartsmonkey7992 10 месяцев назад

Power ..it like everything is all about power. Making intense sunlight isn't cheap or easy. Compared to...idk...USING THE DAMN SUN

@mrfelicio5873 10 месяцев назад

yeah. but generating assloads of power is easy when you have access to advanced tech like the imperium@@autopartsmonkey7992

@TealWolf26 10 месяцев назад

Average Rimworld Enjoyer.

@arcticfox5118 10 месяцев назад

@@autopartsmonkey7992Depends on how you do it. Using mirrors to bounce large amounts in is pretty damn cheap and something we can and do use even with todays tech for pennys on the dollar. Plus keep in mind MOST plants actully do require some darkness. There have been many expariments that prove 24/7 light is pretty harmful. And even if you have space voodoo that alows 24/7 light asorbing plants. If you have a space based society, then its fairly cheep to set up a few solar mirrors to bounce light down into collectors on the ground compared to many other options. Daylight for growing is pretty damn easy to acomplish. Plus if you want to argue how its hard to bounce uv light super deep. Put the plants that need the most light at the top and the ones that need little/none down at the bottom. Heating and cooling would be your big expenses power wise and even that can be mitigated. Go deep enough and use geothermial, dump heat into plants that like it hot and save the actual cooling for only where its really needed. When you have a planet sized building, even simple low tech solutions are viable and in many cases better then high tech ones since you do hit a wall between cost, efficency and production.

@yankeehussar3614 10 месяцев назад

You should do a video on the beastmen regiments. They're still brought up from time to time and I think as a concept they're pretty interesting since unlike ogren or ratlings they're not hyper specialized and are capable of filling out all the roles of a "standard" guard regiment.

@kulehulfer4385 10 месяцев назад

More arch. Best lore tuber by far.

@hansstrudel9614 10 месяцев назад

Hey arch, would you be able to do a video on the Volacani Cataphracts? They seem like a super interesting traitor regiment that I’m trying to do my blooded as them for my black legion boys.

@harleycriswell8504 10 месяцев назад

I crave more lore videos on guard regiment's. I find them far more interesting than super soldiers in power armor

@seanbrennan5469 10 месяцев назад

I used to grow my whole houses vegetables needs hydroponically ... it was not cost effective even w/o paying for fertilizer (I used carp) but the lights and pumps added nearly doubled my power bill ..

@Kobold1650 10 месяцев назад

I like that planet wide nerd gardening led to cyberpunk essentialy.

@franckluciani9284 10 месяцев назад

yay ! a new regiment lore video from Arch :D hourraaaa !🎉

@Yacovo 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for giving this regiment more love than GW has in decades. Thanks for the video.

@juliusmalcovsky4092 10 месяцев назад

Great work again Arch. Thank you ❤

@adamredmayne1326 9 месяцев назад

Would love to see one of these on the Vitrian Dragoons, Love your work Arch!

@TheMCcreepermen 10 месяцев назад

2:41 I already "grow high" here we try to keep it away from the government tho...

@bullroarer-took 10 месяцев назад

Excellent video as always, arch. Keep it up!

@DISTurbedwaffle918 10 месяцев назад

Wake up. Realize you got up early. Decide to go and prank your sleeping family. As you leave the house, you stomp through the yard, smashing an anthill on your way to the car. You run over another anthill in your gravel driveway. Ants were busy last night, might have to take care of that when you come home.

@sardonicspartan9343 10 месяцев назад

Always enjoy learning about lore I haven't heard of before. Thanks Arch!

@pauldockins9635 10 месяцев назад

Excellent as always thank you for sharing

@chetmanly8831 10 месяцев назад

This is great content, I would be a fan of more guard regiment breakdowns. It taught a lot on the world and structure, making the imperium more interesting.

@brianjohnson5272 10 месяцев назад

Digging deep for a good regiment.

@matthieuleon310 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for not putting loud outro anymore! Don't wNt to wake up at the end. Good lore

@florianpierredumont4775 10 месяцев назад

*Krieg soldiers* : < Death from the surface ! > *Elysean soldiers* : < Death from above ! > *Athonian soldiers* : < Death from beneath ! >

@yetipotato8567 10 месяцев назад

Imagine how spooked these guys are in open field or a forest

@seelenverkaufer4861 10 месяцев назад

I am always happy to see an Arch video. ^_^

@Crusaderjack 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for making a video on my request Arch

@quigglebert 10 месяцев назад

Would love a deep dive into the sabbot worlds crusades, theyre one of my favourite areas of the lore

@foff3804 10 месяцев назад

No because it always devolves into gaunt's ghosts and their obscenely thick plot armor.

@zaqzilla1 7 месяцев назад

I imagine the Tunnel Rats and the Death Korps engineers being best bros. "You love shotgunning people in the back in tunnels? So do we! Did we just become best friends?"

@jameskazd9951 10 месяцев назад

I like these guys. i bet they and the death corps of Krieg would get along quite well and if combined could be absolutely terrifying and could probably take out forces that would absolutely decimate the average imperial guard regiment

@Furzkampfbomber 10 месяцев назад

I am not sure about that. When it comes to expertise, combat in extremely confined conditions etc., sure. The _attitude_ of the Death Korps is something the Tunnel Rats would have problems with, though, just as pretty much any other regiment.

@LorePlayingGames 10 месяцев назад

Athonos sounds like a pretty sweet setup for a Necromunda style game.

@mikkelnpetersen 10 месяцев назад

20:30 The units you don't lose this battle, can be used next battle.

@Tyrogandio 10 месяцев назад

"(...) might upset the delicate fee-fees of the greenery" 🤣

@zobblombie8155 10 месяцев назад

Man I love your lore vids

@InVinoVeratas 10 месяцев назад

Reminds me of the relationship between Gangs and Politicians in Jamacia. The winning political party would get all the benefits, and the loser wouldn't. Benefits in Jamacia's case would be access to basic amenities that most western societies take for granted, like say a warehouse that provides jobs, but they only provide it for the local residents, as each town is like its own militia, with Jamacian ganags fully in control of these millitant towns, and each town doesn't allow outsiders, without reprisal of a gunshot at said outsider.

@user-qe9hd7jy7d 10 месяцев назад

The Skaven of Guard Regiments.. More arch. Best lore tuber by far..

@aaronlaughter6471 10 месяцев назад

I love learning about new Imperial Guard regiments.

@IronCow8 10 месяцев назад

Blessed is the machine spirit that notifies me of new arch video's

@marcusblackwell2372 10 месяцев назад

"Tunnel Rats rule!" ...oh wait, wrong franchise

@greggs_sausageroll1608 10 месяцев назад

Love it when we get guard regiment videos :)

@ahel4523 10 месяцев назад

Imagine being the Master Blaster running the water treatment plant. You think food production holds power just imagine growing it with the water that isn't treated.

@SlothSkeleton 10 месяцев назад

Finally some love for the Tunnel Rats.

@matthewmarsicano5301 10 месяцев назад

First I've ever heard of this regiment

@honorguard7616 10 месяцев назад

another friday, another good watch by looks

@LaifuHaiku 10 месяцев назад

I imagine the tunnel rats must have some rat waifus in their rank.

@raumograeywolf5477 10 месяцев назад

Hehe "narrow field" good one there. The Imperium's Dungeon Crawlers, no?

@marcusaustralius2416 9 месяцев назад

Subterranean warfare basically encompasses any and all fighting throughout spacecraft, asteroid and moon bases as well as hive cities

@Vollification 10 месяцев назад

Best bit of my fridays :D

@irondarknessdarkness8900 10 месяцев назад

How have the Orks not heard about this place :]

@irondarknessdarkness8900 10 месяцев назад

or even better The Votann! and The Orks!

@maximus13161 10 месяцев назад

If only GW would flesh out the lore of these regiments. Because if they want people to buy the models for these regiments if they ever are made then you're going to have to make them interesting enough to buy over the other regiment next to it, lore helps quite a bit with that.

@hieug.rection1920 10 месяцев назад

My tinnitus from grenades going off a little too close inside mud huts and karez systems makes me quite sympathetic to this unit. I may have to make a platoon as I’ve never heard of them until now and they sound quite fun.

@angelo70 10 месяцев назад

Being ignored by a Necron Overlord... wow! The entire population of the planet won the lottery all at once and they don't even know it. Amazing!

@xironbeastx8677 4 месяца назад

I always imagined athonos as an agri-hive world with massive continent spanning hydroponics gardens with huge sewer systems like you described, but the fertilizer production also necessitated the need for massive factory farms for animals all over the galaxy, and a massive mechanicum presence to maintain all this stuff as well as helping to deal with the legions upon legions of servitors and likely cloning facilities on the world used to create the servitors that work the crops. The Tunnel rats work to fight this worlds versions of hive gangs which unlike typical hive world gangs are actually incredibly well funded and equipped interplanetary drug cartels trying to secretly use this world's massive hydroponics gardens to grow their illegal crops for export and the tunnel rats help patrol the gardens and destroy this stuff acting as this worlds DEA, and even extending these services to aid Adeptes Arbites units on other hive worlds.

@JackSpadeXI 10 месяцев назад

So, Skaven. These are just human Skaven.

@asajjy 10 месяцев назад

You Can Rat My Tunnel Daddy Arch

@Blood.Angel. 10 месяцев назад

Go home Slaanesh.

@omegawilliam95s36 10 месяцев назад

Hey Arch, how about a video on Forge Worlds. It would be an interesting topic, specifically on the actual logistical system one has on a system or sector.

@sunset7424 10 месяцев назад

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A VIDEO ON THESE GUYS FOR OVER A YEAR THANK YOU

@marsfreelander5969 4 месяца назад

Satchel charges and white phosphorus filled satchels would be horrific in a tunnel 5-7 pounds of high explosive or white phosphorus would reduce the habitability of a inclosed place remarkably expecially if there's also a small bomb in the phosphorus to scatter it about a little

@DocWolph 10 месяцев назад

A planet sized Vertical Farm.

@OzymandiasRex 10 месяцев назад

These guys vs Death Korps Engineers... Who would win?

@OzymandiasRex 10 месяцев назад

My money's on the men of Krieg.

@tarektechmarine8209 10 месяцев назад

Krieg have the equipment and training as well as being fanatics, I can safely put my bets on them.

@elysiankentarchy1531 10 месяцев назад

I would place my bets on the tunnel rats, the engineers would give them a run for their money but they do more than underground fighting while the tunnel rats are specialized for tunnel fighting and have experience, those two combined would give the edge to them I feel.

@sessy01 10 месяцев назад

Well which sounds worse? Bopped with an E-tool or stabbed with a trowel bayonet or power garden fork like it were lightning claws?

@Uberdude6666 5 месяцев назад

Plottwist: Athonos is actually growing weed for the nobility and rich people and stuff

@Deamon93IT 10 месяцев назад

They would almost love serving with the Deathkorps combat engineers (almost being the key word)

@YourBoyNobody530 10 месяцев назад

So, I have my own guard regiment that are miners using stuff like pickaxes, and dinamite along side other mining equipment, explosives, and typical guard equipment.

@robrib2682 10 месяцев назад

Ya know, a few years ago I kitbashed the radiation guns and the helmated skitarri heads from a rangers box onto a squad of guard infantry, and thank you for giving me an excuse for what they are because there is a startling correlation for what I made and what the artwork of this regiment looks like

@sasha1mama 10 месяцев назад

Neato torpedo* :p You forgot shotguns. A good trench gun can mist an entire tunnel with pellets, and that tends to ruin people's whole month. Heavy stubber in the right position can hold down an entire corridor and mulch anything remotely courageous enough to try it. I know our dearly beloved Death Korps are the go-to boys for dogged trench warfare, but the only difference between a trench and a tunnel is a roof. It seems to me the Athonians would excel rather spectacularly if you used them as trench-sweepers.

@lanasmith4795 10 месяцев назад

It was on this day that I remembered English isn't your first language. With the interesting mixing of personal and personnel

@duckman12569 10 месяцев назад

The first half of this video is just a horticulture lesson

@jasonsantos3037 5 месяцев назад

Interesting story about the tunnel rats.

@tierban5803 10 месяцев назад

Still cant wait for the Vostroyan firstborn video

@burnpitcav1519 10 месяцев назад

Not like you care, but I’m going to give you my two cents. I really like these little 20 to 30 minute videos you do on different units or groups. Not just for mankind but all races in the universe, it’s really cool to hear little synopses about each unit, gear and specialty. I know your deep hatred for GW but I really love your analytic statistic driven brain. I’m exactly the same way. I find it wet interesting how the unit was trained, supplied, and moved to/from the battlefield.

@draconisthewyvern3664 10 месяцев назад

@Arch why import nutrients? do what we did in ancient times and still do…night soil and night liquid, use processed bodies such as that of fish or animals , heck the imperium doesn’t exactly shy away from cannibalism use human bodies if need be. the entirety of a plant is not usually edible, so recycle the parts of the plant you can’t eat.

@dkbros1592 10 месяцев назад

Wow that planets would have fresh air and High oxygen

@raumograeywolf5477 10 месяцев назад

You describe hydroponics in much the same way, as regards advantages, I'd describe Axlotl Tanks. Especially when one's goal is defeating an Extinction Rate which is the consequence of Honored Matres

@Blood.Angel. 10 месяцев назад

LORE FOR THE LORE GODDDD

@connorsweeney6929 10 месяцев назад

Where's our sabat worlds crusade

@LethargicGM 10 месяцев назад

Think he said it would start coming out this winter.

@dionjaywoollaston1349 10 месяцев назад

i figured from the way they look these guys would have been a regiment in the death korps of krieg

@TechPriestLovesToasters 10 месяцев назад

I'd assume that gun emplacements would be a common tool, even if they were not as skilled at actually moving them. It's pretty easy to hold a tunnel if the one entrance is covered by a death machine the enemy doesn't have the bodies to block. For the same reason, I'd expect ruot style shields.

@moxtordoki96 10 месяцев назад

Lets see how many loretuvers do the tunel rats vid now

@DarkHorseSki 9 месяцев назад

Seems like they would be good at clearing space hulks.

@MrLolguy93 10 месяцев назад

*Diggy, diggy hole intensifies*

@jessicalacasse6205 10 месяцев назад

the water treatment plant working nonstop are the plants ... it is called biofiltration which is better than today decantation uv treatment US use now

@jessicalacasse6205 10 месяцев назад

i run an aquaculture and my biofiltered water is cleaner than municipal water tap water what is a btch is things like anti depressant ....

@ornu01 10 месяцев назад

Alright, more Guard!

@pewbunde6331 10 месяцев назад

*starts running in tunnels as I scream RATS*

@tomyorke3412 10 месяцев назад

Skaven? Yes yes

@Telthar 10 месяцев назад

I wonder if they have to import water somehow. Unlike Earth, where the water stays on planet and gets reused over and over... this world is actually exporting a significant amount of water through crops. Or if they are just slowly depleting their planet's water

@user-fg6kt7sl8s 7 месяцев назад

Cool universe

@garrettmastantuono8043 10 месяцев назад

So this presents an interesting thought that this world has no manpower tithe. Just as Kreig is not expected to provide food. I suspect that all of these guys are mercenaries or specially recruited by interested parties.

@mbp1652 10 месяцев назад

Let's go!

@WarDogMadness 10 месяцев назад

Dont clear rooms by peaking use grenades .

@thegametroll6264 10 месяцев назад

I'd love it if you did a play list for the imperial guard. I forgot how much I really enjoy them as my favorite imperium faction. Keep up the videos. Also I saw that you did a video on the leman russ but I'd love to see videos on tanks like the baneblade or the hellhound Flame Thrower tanks. A video on flamers of all calibers would be fun too. " FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR THE IMPERIUM!" * leading a charge from the cockpit of a baneblade, power sword drawn *