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You have, even in real life, soldiers and warriors that stood head and shoulders above the rest. There is no reason that shouldn't be exaggerated in the exaggerated universe of 40k.
Remember when an angry marine defeated an Avatar of Khaine by giving a reasonable marine a nickname thus turning him into a named character? Good times.
Fun fact about Solitaires As Harlequins are eldar performers, all members of a troupe have a specific role for any given play. The Solitaires, however, play only one specific role in one specific play. The play is Fall of the Eldar The role is Slaanesh themselves So yeah, one more reason be uncomfortable around solitaires
@@shamsulhaqramzi378 The actual Fall of the Eldar (the event, not the play) is so potent that it psychically links itself to Eldar performing or watching the play. Any Eldar trying to play the role of Slaanesh either go insane from psychic backlash OR kind of actually invokes Slaanesh to possess them. Solitaires either prevent this out of sheer willpower or just outright tank that shit because they can
@@korawitbuttramee618 some daemon engines alone will eat an entire tank company for breakfast (literally for some of them mind you that's how some daemon engines replenish their ammo) let alone a greater daemon
I've had a theory for awhile that there's only one guy at GW who actually likes eldar. When forced to choose to either write for the harlequins or craftworlds, he choose harlequins, for he knew the rest of the writers would bastardize the other, and harlequins represent the best of eldar so he choose to save them and have their lore actually be good.
One absolute unit that makes space marines look pathetic is Majorkill because he pushes warhammer hentai onto the local people like why aren't more chapters doing it.
I know this can be said for most every army but imagine how much force would be brought to bear if the entire cult mechcanicus mobilized against one enemy. All of that dark age of humanity tech that is being horded but never used by the toaster touchers.
Awesome video mate, love it! As a fellow Custodes fan, do you know where the quote where Emperor would rather watch 1000 Space Marines die before one Custodes comes from? I need to shove this down my space marine friends throats, verbally
You can’t count Sebastian Yarrick. The Ork’s believe he is the greatest warrior in the Universe, second only to the immortal Emperor himself. So, naturally, he has plot armor.
Makes video about units that make Space Marines look pathetic....uses image of Daemon possessed Argel Tal making Custodes look pathetic.....this is why I love your content 🤣🤣🤣
The custodes barely fit in here, in the same book where Vendatha killed a bunch of Word bearers in 3 seconds the other custodes included Aquillion was killed by the Gal Vorbak (possessed space marines) 1 vs 1 -Aquillion even had his head ripped off, by Argel Tal.
Well Anggrath, the greatest daemon combatant of them all, a literal world ender, got stabed in the chest and deteated by an alpha psyker and a few grey knights, "cuz them iz daemon expertz lol". I don't think i need to explain to you why this is very fucking autistic,but this is warhammer so here we go: Sanguinnius almost died to a much weaker bloodthirster, granted he had 0 prep time and didn't know much about daemons, but he was a primarch, the greatest warrior primarch. And he was losing. Yet Hector Rex 1vs1 the greatest daemon of Khorne and lives to talk about it
@@bloodangel19 to be fair, that probably had more to do with the sword Rex was wielding than anything else. If he had gone in with any other weapon, he WOULD have fucking died.
The funniest thing is powerscaling characters is not supposed to be a concept in a grimdark setting. Named or unnamed character can either survive, die in glorious combat or die in the stupidest reason possible and with everything in between. At least that is what I read in the Storm of Iron.
@@SpaghettiToaster That is one of the things I like about the setting. They have good set up and shown to be really powerful then got deleted because they got cocky.
@@littlejohn8435 That's alright, as long as they actually did get deleted because they got cocky or some other believeable reason. But it has to be consistent across books, and stronger characters should not be randomly defeated by weaker ones without some justification being given.
@@oliverp3545 all right khaine did manage to stomp c'tan and win and that was during the war in heaven and survived slaanesh until khorn stomped him if it wasn't for GW stupid plot armor
Majorkill I gotta give it to you I don't like elves. Never did. I'm just more of a dwarf guy in fantasy terms but it's perfectly fine to like elves. Like even I admit that Legolas on LotR is fucking badass. But the Eldar? Never cared for them much. Poor CW are only now finally getting new models, Dark Eldar are sweat Goblins and Harlequins honestly just try too hard. But your tales about some Eldar make even me look at them differently. Is a Solitaire the epitome of "This is my OC, don't stealthy!" ? Yes but damn they sound pretty fucking sick
I think you're working backwards on how being a named character pans out. You're one of untold billions whose name is meaningless until you do something worthy of your name being worthy of being recognized. Nobody cares about some rando among millions of randos killed in a chaos invasion, but stand up to a god-like being in an attempt to save your leader and get giga-clapped and your name is worth remembering.
A reminder that Angron once fought Tarzyn the infinite until Tarzyn pulled out red caped Custodes fresh from the 30K years ready to fight and Angron went "nope not gonna fight that guy" turned around.
Genuine question, how does Slannesh claim Solitaire souls if they're Blanks? I now have the headcannon that Slannesh puts the Blank souls in a glass jar labeled "Do Not Touch"
so i believe the way it works is that all eldar repress their souls so slaanesh can't claim them (farseers walk along this thin line)solitaires don't care. They literally use full prime eldar power. the same kind of power that is a beacon to slaanesh. that is why slaanesh has a claim on their soul.
iirc Solitaires have a role in Harlequin Troupes to play the role of She-Who-Thirsts in plays that depict The Fall of the Eldar, doing this attracts the full and undivided attention of Slaneesh on them and their souls. Understandably, to be chosen to play the role of a Solitaire is pretty much an extended death sentence, but it's an absolutely critical role in a Troupe. *Edit:* Was mistaken and had switched the cause and effect around. Szymon below corrected me.
Orks are swarming the position, when suddenly, Popeyeius the Brave stands up and pops the top off a can of Nutri-Sprouts, downing it all in one go. He then proceeds to wallop the attacking orks with a single mighty uppercut
The scariest part about the Custodes is that the whole bloodgames thing with releasing something like a tyranid hive-tyrant in the palace is considered relaxation for the proper Custodes. People think their sworn oath of vigilance and never leaving the palace means they largely laze about on guard duty, but no. Those are the ones rotated off duty for a bit of relaxation. The rest are still downstairs holding back the endless horde of demons that have been assailing the imperial palace from the Magnus-made warp hole for the past 10 000 years.
I thought the Emperor was keeping the gateway shut specifically so the Custodes didn’t have to keep fighting the damn things. Why would the crazy bastards open it back up?
@@TheCorrodedMan Not keeping it shut, just keeping it from expanding. If he could close it completely it wouldn't have been such a big problem in the first place. Keep in mind, we're not talking about a normal warp rift, this is reality trying to turn itself inside out and create another Eye of Terror where the warp itself extends into normal reality. Not even the Necrons could permanently close the one by Cadia that eventually tore open during the Black Crusade.
@@petsan97 Wasn't there some pylons or something that were to be used to close the eye of cadia, I remember seeing that in a game called battlefield gothic armada 2.
@@konosmgr Sort of. The Cadian Pylons were built by the Necrons to contain the already existing Eye of Terror. They were essentially massive psychic dampeners that forcefully calmed down the warp surrounding Cadia, kept the eye from expanding and weakened any warp-entities in the area. This, and the constant attacks by said weakened warp entities is why Cadia became known as a fortress world, it was literally holding back hell. If I recall correctly, the pylons were already strained by holding back a massive warp storm, which Abbadon and his crusade exploited by throwing everything they had at it, and overloading the pylons, and the focus of the Cawl campaign was to protect/rebuild the pylons with the help of Trazyn the Infinite, local Necron troll.
Sisters of Silence rarely works alone, if you see (or feel) one there is likely four to nine others nearby, as to your Q'' The Solitare would win 9 times out of ten since conbat of the sort Solitares exels in is not the Sister fortherd they are anti psykers first and foremost, not frontline combatants against anything else like the Solitares. The Sisters can be just as good if not better against Demonic intrusions do, since a group of them can more or less automatically shut down most portals
@@fireybee8140 dont know, but yes there are plagues that screw with the necrons. Still, that doesn't really change the fact that choas doesn't have much reasons to fight necrons as it's often not beneficial to them
I don't play the table top game (nor do i have any interest in doing so) but from what little i DO know about WH-40K is that the books/lore does NOT carry over in to the game accurately at all.
@@barklordofthesith2997 No, it does not. If it did, Necrons and Tyranids would be unstoppable, and Custodes wouldn't even be present. Of course, this is 40k Lore we're talking about here, where one book shows Custodes being gods and the next one deciding a few Harlequin Clowns could slaughter their way past them. 40k in general, and damn near everything about it, is messy and sloppy. Still cool as shit, if a bit frustrating.
I would put the Triarch Praetorians in the list instead of either the Overlords or the C'tan shards. They are literally the necron equivalent of the Custodes. But anyway I am always happy when I see that my metal-skeleton egyptian boys kicking ass and praising them for it. Even today I can't really forget how in the Fall of Damnos short story the Necron Lord (not even an overlord, just a regular ass lord) the Undying kicking Cato Sicarius ass, I hate the book as the ending is stupid, but that start where Sicarius is mocked by an ancient sadistic veteran metal grandpa is just sweet.
@@BigBroKuma Nah. Severed, Infinite and Divine are good books. I heard good things about the Twice-Dead King: Ruins too. Oh and the new ork books not terrible either. The Fall of Damnos was a Cato Sicarius story, I know it was about him, I know he will win. I just hoped not in a retard deus-ex-machina plot armor way. I mean the guy literally losing and then rewarded a second chance, 2 times in the story.
Genuinely curious, aren't overlords like primarcs and praetorians are like custodies, meaning overlords deserve the spot? Are super elite soldiers really stronger than their leader? Also, where do lychguard fall in all of this? You'd think they'd be as powerful as praetorians because they're pretty similar and very bad ass
@@sagebrown5643 Overlords are more of a political position and not every overlord is a good fighter, sure they have millions of years of experience and fought a war that burned reallity itself, but I would say the most basic overlord and lord possibly only as strong as a usual chaptermaster, sure there are ones that Primarch level, but there are more overlord then Primarch ever was. But I honestly would love to see a battle between Imotekh and Guilliman (If Black Library can invite somebody who can actually write good military tactics). But anyway Overlords deserve a spot, but I personally not put the Necron face HQ unit in the list cause. Everybody knows that an overlord can whoop any SM anytime, but how many people knows about other necron units? And secondly, yes Triarch Praetorians are stronger than overlords (generally speaking power level can differ), most of the overlords are afraid of the praetorians and their elit executors. Lychguard strong. They are somewhat between a custodes and a first company of a SM chapter. But it is just mine idea.
@@BigBroKuma Twice Dead King and Engine of Mork are pretty great! The former is mostly about the state of Necron minds, machines and relationships and the latter has an ork mutant with access to the intellectual power of a krork!
i always thought space marines were the least interesting part of 40k, not that they dont have some cool characters, but I'm more into the guard, the sisters, the inquisition, etc... you know, Real humans. There are abhumans too, which have major drawbacks to their advantages.
I think space marines function best as support characters. They are angels of death, so they should show up to help when all faith is lost, and then leave.
Forgot the Incubi my mate? The elite dark eldar mercenarys with they're massive two handed swords, they're badass armour and the Fakt that you have to kill one of them and an aspect warrior of the craftworld Eldar to become one.
To be fair Sanguinius was handicapped during his first round against Kabanda because of how many of his Angels were dying. When Sanguinius fought Kabanda again during siege of Terra he clapped Kabanda's cheeks so hard that 10,000 years later hes basically still constipated.
Krieg commissar is just a normal man, and is more likely to have his head blown off because he’s standing up straight distracted by killing own his terrified soldiers
@@ieatmice751 with Krieg its the other way around. Krieg commisars have to prevent their soldiers from doing overly suicidal nonsense. They are very often killed by their own soldiers for stopping them from dying for the emperor
The Lamenters could use a Custodian in their corner. Imagine how much better they'd be treated if one of the Emperors own guardians supported the most cursed of chapters? For those we cherish, we die in glory!
Well good news. That one custodian saved The corpses of his bros, preventing The nids from getting that Genes of custodes. Could you guys imagine a tyranid with a sample of custodes dna.
Aren't Custodes genetically descended from the Big E himself? Living beacons of his light, second only to his sons? Chances are the Emperor's light would simply disintegrate the Nid or Nids that consumed the Custodes DNA for daring to try and alter it
From the recent novel "The Gate of Bones" We follow a Chadstodian and his fight against the arch traitors in support of papa Smurf. Spoilers. . . . . . He ends up fighting an entire war band with 4 of his brothers, sisters of battle, and some guardsman. Fights and is killed by a ancient Chaos Sorcerer in termi armour but his 2nd custodes brother avenges him immediately. I like the fact just cause you are named doesn't mean you won't get clapped.
Interestingly, it seems the Harlequin Solitare has a similar ability to a Necron Pariah. They also have negative souls due to formally being human beings that were converted into Necrons. Unfortunately they’ve been mostly phased out, but they were one of the absolute best units Necrons had.
Ehh they're OK but they have trouble fighting Astartes. There's a story about Vect coming to power in the 36th millennium where the Astartes invaded Commoragh and did some serious damage with pretty acceptable losses.
Majorkill, I'm going to be building and painting a model of the "GOD-EMPEROR OF MANKIND" in the coming weeks. I'll send pics when it's done. If that works out, I'll consider buying all 18 Primarch models and paint them up nice too. 😎
That's why they are so tough. Big E noticed the exploit. If being named makes you invincible, then I'll make some soldiers and give them all several books worth of names each. Boom, hacked.
