40k Lore, Regiments of the Imperial Guard, The Savlar Chem-Dogs! Penal Legionnaires Of Savlar 

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Being stationed on a world along with a Ratling regiment, a regiment of Chem Dogs and Blood Raven's Space Marines, that's the nightmare that keeps Munitorum logistics officers awake at night.

Sergeant: "So what's the R.O.E?" Comissar: "Shoot anything with more limbs than four." Hans: "So..." Sergeant: "No Hans, that does not mean you get to shoot the tech priests, you have to wait for one of them to die to loot them like everyone else."

I can only imagine the face a Commisar would make when he asks who's tanks are doing such a wonderful job disrupting an enemy flank and gets told that they're from a PENAL legion. Presumably just after executing a tank crew that woke up one morning to find they somehow no longer had a tank.

Their homeworld is so bad, that service in a Penal Legion is a privilege. The Chem Dogs are as close to Chaos Cultists that the Imperium gets.

As a US Marine myself i feel like we have a lot in common with the chem-dogs. Especially in how we're treated by the higherups. We also "tactically acquire" equipment just to get the job done too lmao "gear a drift, is gear a gift"

One small technical correction, the Savlar Chem Dogs aren't a penal regiment, they're a regular numbered Guard regiment tithed from a penal world, admittedly this is for the most part a distinction without a difference (beyond it's members being volunteers rather than directly sentenced to service and thus lacking bomb collars) but there is one key point, as a tithed regiment there is a chance no matter how small that a Chem Dog could claim a world they've won via right of conquest and given the sheer size of there Imperium there's a world out there somewhere ruled and built in the image of a Chem Dog regiment...

**chemdogs leaving a battlefield** Commissar: “anyone forget anything?” **rustling and clanking of various items** Chemdogs: (in unison) “no.” Commissar: “thought so.” I like to think, so long as they play it smart, and are extremely lucky, a chemdog regiment could snowball out of control in terms of firepower.

I can just imagine a chem dog veteran talking to a new recruit when they see a Krieg soldier: 'Kid, no matter how badly you want to, *do not* take their gas masks. Trust me...'

Ah the Chem-Dog’s. For when the use of the Death Korps is considered a gross waste of resources and you need ablative shielding capable of firing back.

A Chemdog RPG style game would be great. Looting, finding better and better weapons/gear, ‘potions’ to help you on your quest.

As an addict in Recovery, the Chem Dogs are my favorite regiment. I love them and simultaneously find them really funny.

The Salvar Chem Dogs sound like an army of Fallout protagonists. Drugs, loot, no sense of self preservation, and no morals to be found. Peak murderhobos.

A thought occurs, if they steal whatever they can get their hands on, notably including the gear and vehicles of nearby allied units, the only thing preventing them from becoming a highly effective combined arms formation is their lack of a functional command structure. They are truly one charismatic leader from being an unstoppable force.

Arch, I’m curious how the whole criminal justice/punishment system/imprisonment works in the Imperium at large considering it decentralized nature… would love a video explaining in more detail!! Love your work so I’m sure it’d be fascinating regardless

I gotta wonder what was the conversation that happened between the Chem Dogs and their Commissars when they came back with a damn tanks "Guardsmen, is that a Leman Russ?" "Uh yes sir, that would appear so" "....carry on then"

As a proud commander of the Necromundan 713th Regiment, my boys and I really appreciate the Chem Dogs. They're always good to us, often have some nifty shit for trade, and goddamnit they're kin after all.

Ah the Chemdogs. Fight Loot sleep repeat. I love these guys. I mean honestly the idea a group of just hardened criminals that will rob there allies and the enemy alike blind and then turn them loose on the enemy.

I wonder who's the better thief, A veteran Chem-Dog, a Blood Raven Captain or a Deathskull Warboss

It's just such a shame with all this awesome fluff for the Imperial Guard Regiments have, that MOST of all the Regiments will NEVER have plastic models (Valhallan, Tallarn, Steel Legion, Mordian Iron Guard). I've been waiting since 3rd edition when the Catachan mini codex came out

I can easily see a Chem-Dog yelling prison shank as it repeatedly stabs a Ork in the neck

Chem dog vet: remember freshmeat , it's only stealing if ya get caught

The Hive Gang be gangster until the mad lad loot obsessed drug fueled psychos with a looted tank bust into your “fort” and make it their HQ…. Actually are we sure that’s not a RPG game that could be based on this? Be part of the Chem Dogs on a Hive reclamation, be open world with some missions and get all the loot you want to shape and craft your “Guardsman” into whatever you want? Sounds like a wasted opportunity GW!

Imagine how bad life has to be on a planet that staring down a ravenous horde of giant bugs and near certain death is considered an improvement.

DRUGS FOR THE DRUG GODS! STIMS FOR THE STIM LORD

Ah the Chem Dogs. …..anyone seen my wallet?

If the dev team for raid shadow legends put half the money and energy into the actual game instead of "all to marketing", they would be the no1 mmo of the next 20 years.

",,,,,to be sent home." That's comedy tragedy, irony, and horror

Love the Savlar Chemdogs I introduced several first time gamers in Only War to this Regiment as the intro to make sure they didn't get too attached. Then after several characters dying I let them play as Mordians, Steel Legion, and such. Later we went back and they played as Commissars to a Penal Legion and it was fun to watch them try and rangle the cats without murdering all their meat shields for the Orks coming after them.

The part about the hive cities makes me think that Darktide should've featured the Savlar Chem-Dogs.

These regiment sound like the Dirlewanger Brigade from WW2. They were the worst of the worst; the SS’s penal legion. Those men were ruthless.

recruiter: "hey guys, do you like violence?" Savlar resident: "you son of a b*tch I'm in."

Imagine an underhive gang made entirely of old Chem Dogs who came to clean up the place of orks/genestealers/cultists and then just didn't want to leave. The Munitorum could easily decide that forcing them out would be far more effort than it's worth, and so just abandons them there.

Arch, by Girliman's buttcheeks, when do we get a video on the criminally underappreciated Commissar?

Commander: Sir, the objective is too heavily guarded and manned. Marshall: Send in the Drug Addicts, so they can acquire more arms and ammunition, if they fail- the objective will have less ammo to use on the following regiments

"Sir I do not have any live rounds, blank rounds, pyrotechnics or parts there of in my possession an I'll report anyone who does" Said no Chem dog ever

I do love tongue in cheek Arch. Please do more "colorful" Guard regiments.

I can’t blame anyone forced to fight for the guard doing what they need to for the sake of trying to stay alive. Especially in 40k!

lol I'd rather stay here on this death world then get sent home to that death world

All in for more Guard regiments on this channel.

I can't help but wonder what they could be spending their ill-gotten wealth on seeing as they're presumably in the Chem Dogs until they die. I'm picturing a Chem Dog secretly sending his loot to his wife and kid somewhere complete with heartfelt letters begging his son not to repeat his mistakes.

Holly shit Arch I think you just found me my new favorite guard regiment, I laughed so hard at the stolen/ looted armored devision. Reminds me of the kleptomaniac from the all guardsmen party DND campaign, but on a regimental level, simply beautiful.

A storie about them fighting dark eldar would be interesting as hell

The Chemdogs aren't a penal legion. They are a Regement that just happens to be recruited from a Penal World. There is a difference.

I've always assumed that the Savlar Armour regements is mostly Bane Wolves and Malcador Infernuses with the chem upgrade. But Leman Russ Executioners track to for the same reason they have more Plasma weapons than other special weapons. Who cares if a Savlar blows up?

I have been a fan for many years and I absolutely love your content. Keep up the wonderful work!

25:48 to be fair, the draft riots were going on at that point and the cruiser was firing at them because they thought they were rioters not to stop the gangwarfare, same thing with the army going around shooting people also fun fact about the soldiers that were in NYC at that time: they just came from a little known town called gettysburg and had zero chill in dealing with this

Ah, the Chem Dogs... Gotta love some undisciplined but very clever and resourceful scumbags. Just... post some extra sentries on your OWN supplies...

Elves in the sponsor , that's a grudge....

Lore starts at 2:55.

Ah the Chemdogs, the Deathskulls of the Imperium.

A chemdogs biggest treasure, is a big a** backpack to carry all his stuff.

"You can keep that, mate! Won't fetch me more than a few credits on the market anyway. All this death-and-glory crap isn't really my business. I'm in it for the loot." - Sergeant Joto of the XXIInd Savlar upon receiving a medal for bravery after the bloodbath at Trenia.

Ah yes, you mentioned this variation of the Dirty Dozen in space in your Penal Legion video. 4:25 - Ah yes, THAT world, a popular place to visit for Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. 9:19 - Well, it could be worse, they could've been sentenced to become servitors. How many of them sign up for fun? 21:25 - A lot of screams of "WAAAGH!!!" during that. 23:41 - Ah yes, THAT reference.

So what you're saying is that I can play a full chaos army, and have them all somehow be loyalists? Cultists as Savlar Chem Dogs, Thousand Sons as Blood Ravens, Dark Mechanicum as edgy Mechanicus?

Commisar looking at a nervous tankless commander: So....would you explain to me my dear commander, HOW IN THE NAME OF THE GOD EMPEROR YOU "LOST" A REGIMENT OF THE IMPERIUM'S TANKS?????" Followed by, "Never mind, *bang*

Savlar Chemdogs are basically Death Korp of Krieg on a massive amount of space meth.

I always like this imperial guard regiment if for no other reason than they show you that while the imperium for certain worlds is nothing but a drain on resources as far as the local population is concerned, that's only the well-off planets who are not under threat or in need of something. For the latter planets it's much more a case of this galaxy spinning bureaucracy is giving untold billions the ability to sustain themselves and the vain hope of a better tomorrow because without it they would likely just die within a generation

S.T.E.A.L.- Strategically Transfer Equipment to Alternate Locations

With enough chems you can turn up for DAYYS!!!

savlar chem-dogs so basically they are to standard penal legions what the death korps is to standard imperial guard regiments best deployed alone or with others of the same and you put them where the others fail also i wonder if a death korps guardsman and a savlar chem-dog would be able to share the importance of their respective facial fashion?

By pure coincidence I rewatched the penal legion video yesterday. This is a surprise to be sure but a welcome one !

I always wanted to know more about the chem dogs so thank you very much on the video!

Will we ever have a video about the deathguards or Mortarion ? Not Nathaniel Garro

I've often assumed that the Savlars would get along well with Techpriests from Stygies VIII. Techpriest Erwin Copernicus: "Say there trooper. Is that a bit of Xenotech that you looted from the battlefield? Here, have this large bag of stimms in exchange for it and don't tell the Inquisitor."

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Finally! The Savlar Chem Dogs get some attention

I have to say Arch has saved my sanity on countless night shifts at work. I put his videos on while working and a twelve hour night shift can just fly by. I've been so engrossed in some of his videos that sometimes I almost forget to go to break. Baldemort, Luetin and several others as well have made my existence as a mindless factorum servitor a little more bearable.

Minitorum Clerk: sir. I just received a call from the security commander and he's raising all kinds of hell. Minitorum supervisor: why what's happened?. Minitorum clerk: well it appears somebody stole his safe. (Walks into supervisors office to see its been stripped of everything) Minitorum clerk: sir. What's happened?. Minitorum supervisor: Marcus. It appears we are victims of the chem dogs march to war.

Love the chem dogs thieving scum but Don put them next to the halflings there would be no kit left.

Strange, i thought you already did a video on this... Oh well. I bet other regiments, even other chemdogs serving alongside them, would have to keep a really close eye on their equipment. Even the ones nailed down. And especially the contents of the medicae tent. Incase you wind up having to go there after being shot in the ass only to find out all the pain killers and other useful drugs have mysteriously disappeared during the night. Aswell as half your other stuff. Including the stuff you spent all day nailing. Like the blood ravens, they sound like they would prove the term 'steal everything not nailed down' to be wishful thinking as everything, including the nails would be gone if you looked away for a second.

Damn the last time I was this early my girlfriend dumped me!

"Can you believe it guys? Some just left this lying about" ... "Is that a fucking Baneblade?!??".

You live in a winter hellscape. Which sleeping bag is the best to survive the winter?

Okay for the 71st Regiment of the chem dogs where'd they find the tank how they manage to steal it and how they got rid of the crew that's my only question

"Jan, why do you have sister of battle armor?" "My boyfriend gave it to me."

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This is like having chaos cultists but on the imperial side.

So I think we found out what happened to the 100 Baneblades…

If you deployed Chem Dogs with Death Corps, how long do you think it'd take for a full blown war to break out

I know in normal penal units, they have the opportunity to be transferred to the regular army where they can recieve the regular army pay, benefits, and even the eventual retirement. I wonder if there are any recorded cases of chem dogs being transfered from penal legions to non penal units or being given the right to settle on conquered worlds?

Arch: "...Lehman Russ Executioner..." Me: _WHERE THE FUCK DID THEY GET THAT!?_

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Do Mordant Acid-Dogs next, to keep it positive.

I actually have a question, arch, if you see this. Do you receive sponsorship money biased upon activity inside the little ad segment or is it just a flat pay out and we can skip without thinking?

Raid Shadow SHTTTTT is one of the scamiest games there is out there ...... one of the TOP worse pay to win games . top top list up there next to Lord mobile..

"If Trazyn had his own legion"

Criminals can improvise and adapt

It would be cool if there was any lore on PMCs. There is no shortage of work in the 41st millennium.

Am I the only one who imagines zholkers command staff joining the chemdogs and being kidnapped by dark eldar and thinking to themselves fuck the justice system.

LMAO the background music to RAID Shaddow Legend is slowed down, remixed version of Two Steps From Hell's Mass Effect 2 trailer music!! xD The song title is "Heart of Courage". BTW that was some awesome trailer. The game was awesome as well!

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Penal world? Does that mean that the Savlar Chem Dogs is 100% diverse?

It is said that if you put the Chem-dogs and a ratling regiment together that battlefield equipment will simply disappear.

Love all your lore Arch. Hope to see Catachan Jungle Fighters sometime.

Hey Arch, can we get a Damocles Gulf Crusade video/miniseris?

No mention of their cavalry. Sad chem-steed noise. ☹️

Perfect subject for me I’ve just started re-reading guants ghosts ! Guard done well are superb great job arch as usual 🎉 👏

The Savlar Chem Dogs: a Regiment created on the idea that the E4 Mafia is INDEED the Mafia.

I love kit bashing armies… that’s why I play Orks and Chaos Marines… but I have always dreamed of making a Penal Legion (like the Chem Dogs) … where I guess using Genestealer cultists + Imperial Guard + nercromunda gangs would create the best results… Hell… maybe using Genestealer Cults would represent the Chem Dogs better then the Astra militarm???