Astra Militarum the Imperial Guard Lore 

Unless it's 40k then it's par for the course.

An ork's eyes would glow at all the teeth lying about, similar to finding a pirate's hoard.

id use them to make bowls and cups and candle holders and even armour from the skullz

if you ask Khorne , he would say everything is perfrctly fine.

@@murderouskitten2577 More like he would be furious that they are not all skulls.

I think it would "Don't panic... ESPECIALLY if there a Commissar behind you. Cowardliness is punishable by death:"

Mandemon1990 lesson number 1 in the imperial guard,if there's something scary in the front,then put something even scarier in the back to balance out the men

Mandemon1990 You simply panic in the direction away from the Commissar. Since you don't want to die, you fight like hell because a guy legally obligated to murder you for not fighting or not fighting hard enough is eyeballing you.

Also, "When in doubt, FIX BAYONETS"

Sorry ... something on your back.

In the Texien militia we say" Open service is automatic citizenship."

(Me as a gaurd private) FOR THE EMPEROR!!!

@@Xarcht I would like to know more

Well as an Ally not a subject state, we follow our 1845 constitution. Very ancient and very open in language. There are a few new aditions, but I think you would feel at home if you are truly a free thinker.

Cadia still stands.

Other youtubers did videos on them like Italian Spartacus

@Noah Hornbeak standard imperial response time wym?

@Noah Hornbeak yes and I'm making a joke saying that's standard imperium response time

Yeah, something like that in RTS series about warhammer. Oh... It was butchered. Thanks relic. I do really hope that there will be others to take their place.

@@Ivan-qf4mt store.steampowered.com/app/4580/Warhammer_40000_Dawn_of_War__Dark_Crusade/ It's still good

@@michaelsands2356 i know, i play this game to this day, but... Holy shit relic I hope you will not fuck your future games up as badly. If only there was a new contestant.

@JoeRingo118 To be fair this shit ran ona single core notebook cpu with 1.6ghz and 1 GB ram total. Hence that silly restriction and the weird squad sizes

@JoeRingo118 True but rome did not have the same graphical stresses, rundering the same dude 120 times over vs terrain deformation and much more detailed 3D rendering. Now go play both games and pretend roman legionares rendered as 2D sprites most of the time looks comparable to 3D rendered spacemarines with dynamic visual changes mid battle

HERETIC!!!

Logan Stafford there are imperial guard regiments that stand as tall as space marines and don't need the fancy armor, they are called ogryns and while their intellect is at a level where they could be outsmarted by an ork they more than make up for it in brute strength, loyalty and endurance (they are also extremely claustrophobic unless their commander is with them)

No

@@esukgfjyijlgul5335yes

spot the ogryn enjoyer@@dionwoollaston5717

Its investigator Greg Sargent now.

Stealing is such a dirty word. I prefer “requisitioning”

I perfer 'on site acquisition'

Blud Rehvens motto

S.T.E.A.L. Strategic Transport (of) Equipment (to) Alternate Location

+William Roark (Inventor29) so commissar Yarricks must be made out of unobtanium then.

dappadan22 Well duh, and inside of them are shards of the Emperor's Balls of Collapsed Black Holes.

+William Roark (Inventor29) or the fear of the commissars bolt pistol. the terror of the commissars chain sword. motivation enough.

Sure they have those ball of steel. But as with every part Krieg. It does not continue to the next mission.

Krieg don't have balls. Radiation kills balls.

What Arch forgot to mention, that Kommisars do not come from the same homeworld as the regiments they are assigned to. Kommisars are orphans who's parents were officiers or other high ranking personal in the administration and who died in action or other. They join Kommisar schools at a very young age and are trained to be as cold hearted as they can be.

Good job Commisar

Commissar_Dan Its always good to see another loyal member of the Imperium too many heretical Chaos lovers around here

+Lord Commander Collins I am the Inquisition

+the Inquisition you lie

+MrAwsomenoob YES! XD

His bombing campaign against the pacifists of the Gandi Nebula is legendary.

Rolf Hartmann and who can forget the Conquest of the Retiree People of the Assisted Living Nebula

Did he not however have intercourse with a mutant who claimed to be a Xenos

it was a stable strain of mutantation declared human enough. scandalous? yes. heretical? up for debate

+thuzan117 EXACTLY... like those soviet charges... just pick up what you need from the dead. ;) same goes for grenades and med kits.

+The Dark master A soldier only has a certain number of rounds on him, so he needs to scavenge what he needs in the heat of battle.

Which is why rigging explosives to the dead is surprisingly effective

They make good sandbags and emergency rations too.

Cadia is the best. Let it be known the planet broke before the guard did

Death is No Excuse

The Cadian guard will never fall. Also someone hasn't heard of the martyr gift medkit, even in death you may serve the big fella.

Death Korps: Commissar sounds retreat, executes Commissar for cowardice

Death Korps certainly leads to a dead corpse

Pity the guardsman

Meanwhile tyranids be like "om nom nom nom"

wow thats awesome stuff, where did you quote that from?

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!

The guardsmen. The best faction in the universe. No matter what anyone says. The Guard is the best, like you said, a group of mer men, fighting Deamons and giant bigs.

indeed

40 mins = 0.3% 40k lore

what heresy is that? it's 0.003%

+Denis Dangelo what inquisition coverup is this its 0.00003

clealy you are all corrupted by chaos its 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000031

HE would be better for Fishing

I’m not 100% sure if that’s true of Flak Armour, with Carapace Armour I know it is.

Lord Inquisitor Steiner von Willhelm LoL no they can’t. The IG are literally just meat shields to delay the enemy until the Astartes arrive. Even if the IG regiment had a decent leader all he can do is throw his troops at the enemy since any other tactic is a guaranteed death sentence. What can you do against the ocean-like swarms of the Orks or the Tyranids? Necrons? Chaos Marines? Lasguns do literally nothing against them, and any armor the IG can field is either matched or outnumbered/outclassed by their opponents. You give the IG WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much credit to even think they can have a hope of fighting any of the enemies of the Imperium.

THANK YOU FOR THIS POST PLEASE CONTINUE TO EDUCATE THE IDIOTS

I wouldn't put too much stock in the numbers listed in books for effective armour protection etc. I remember reading (though I can't for the life of me remember where) that the land raider was given an impressive-sounding protection compared to steel plating - someone later did the calculations and found out that it was roughly equivalent to a modern-day main battle tank. I guess the best you can do is hope that the units in fluff line up reasonably well with real life - if not, it's forgivable outside of lore because you can't expect writers to also be experts in military engineering, and makes sense in lore as just one of those things that got messed up in the ~38.000 years between now and the future

that's a bit misleading, the Pak 44 would punch a hole straight through the flak vest, because the vest can stop 19MJ of thermal energy from burning its way through, purely kinetic energy it probably couldn't stop that, not to mention even if it did the guardsmen would be completely pulped. Normal rifle bullets, for example a 7.62x39mm standard ball round, puts out roughly 2100 joules at the muzzle, with .308 being about 2800 and x54r going as high as 3800, and in several books (specifically looking at Gaunts Ghosts) the Tanith troopers get mowed down by Blood Pact autoguns and stubbers, the standard stubber mentioned is a .30 caliber, and the autoguns are a heavier variant manufactured on Urdesh that was captured by the Bloodpact, I would assume that to mean something like a .30 caliber rifle, IE AK47 or FAL compared to lighter calibers used in rifles like the AK74(5.45mm) or M16(5.56). The flak vest's main priority is stopping fragmentation, but the fabrics used also spread the thermal energy across a large area. getting into stuff like specific impulse and bullet shape/composition is a bit much but suffice to say that a spitzer point bullet with a hardened core drilling 3KJ into an area about .27" across will penetrate anything wearable short of hardened metal plates. 40K also occupies the weird place in Sci-fi where not everything is some super advanced gizmo that works miracles, because either the super advanced stuff can't be made enough, or the simple stuff just works. It's very possible that in 40K high end autoguns have systems similar to the Kriss vector that redirects recoil energy, better propellants (or just using straight up explosives instead of combustibles), crazy AP rounds like the adamantium tipped bolter shells, lighter materials allowing for more recoil control systems to be built in, all of which would allow for pushing the muzzle energy of rifles higher and higher to get ridiculously OP guns, but honestly, I doubt that a 40K flak vest would fare well against .30-06 Black tip without hard plates inserted

"I like jacking off into my own mouth while looking at pictures of the commisar" ~dmvh222

meme queen popcorn machine edgy

dmvh222 dont deny it man, we all do it

meme queen popcorn machine Yeah, Commissars are sexy

lord dorn of course you would defend the guard after all they employ the same tactics as you at the iron cage incident

I especially love running a Tempestus Scions army with my kitbashed Knight House Infantry Auxiliary Regiment. It makes the big robot shine even brighter when we have lil army men standing at its' ankles. Really makes it feel like a true god machine.

TRIPLE KILL!

Zael Slyte MONSTER KILL

I just died laughing envisioning a bunch of soldiers with entrenching tools duking it out with peasants yelling "get hoed!" as they beat the soldiers mercilessly with the greater range of a garden hoe.

Spade is nastier in the hands of a spetnaz soldier. They can throw it lile an axe, cut off heads with it, or chop down trees with it.

​@@OryxificationNo melee weapon is sufficient in modern warfare, if you run out of ammunition you die..Be you Spetznaz, SEAL, of some untrained goat herder...

+Lord Captain He should have found a picture of a Felinid in guardsman uniform...

+Jens Heika Simonsen (The Sniper) ahhhh the Imperial Nekos, gone have to find some way to stretch there 2 lines of lore into a full video..... GW was more fun back in the day.

If I remember rightly there's a Black Library short story about a Guardsman who finds himself (and the regimental commissar) the sole survivors when their ship crashes on a world inhabited by centaurs who are the descendants of a long lost human expedition and who protect an STC from a splinter group of Chaos worshipping centaurs. The Guardsman regards them as friendly abhumans while the commissar insists that they have deviated too far from the human form and are Chaos-tainted mutants in need of purging. Just checked and the story is called “Children of the Emperor" by Barrington J Bayley and is included in the 40k short story anthology “Let The Galaxy Burn" which is a motherfucking beast of a book including 38 stories and totalling up to 750 pages and includes stories from eighteen different authors.

Arch Warhammer Well, you could write a book with more detail and sent it into the Black Library, then you'll have a lot to go from.

Arch Warhammer i found this,It's a big link i know. www.google.gr/imgres?imgurl=static.fjcdn.com/comments/Warhammer%252B40k%252Bwith%252Banime%252Bheretical%252Btrash%252B_088309369202801f68113f88fad8d6b7.jpg&imgrefurl=www.funnyjunk.com/channel/animemanga/East%2Bmeets%2Bwest%2Bcrossover%2Bcomp%2B11/tNfaLgA/4&h=820&w=977&tbnid=V-14fPKVMavtrM:&docid=Cz74fFnfbCnHtM&ei=BKAiVumDBYWfsgHul47YDA&tbm=isch&ved=0CD0QMygVMBVqFQoTCOmVmbGdysgCFYWPLAod7osDyw

Haha have I got news for you then! 😄

Hurry suggest a plan that someone give you a million dollars!

I guess you're a veteran main. Don't worry, my Ogryn will protect you.

+GothaBillsAndDeath Agreed.

+GothaBillsAndDeath That just makes me want to see an Imperial Guard game, only Xcom style.

+silverclawedwolf Mods.

+silverclawedwolf Don't think that would work very well for Imperial Guard. Xcom style would fit bit more for Deathwatch

+GothaBillsAndDeath The closest you can get to that is with Dawn of War (not 2) and its expansions (and maybe with the ultimate apocalypse mod)

Daniel Hoffman look up my boys the catachans. IG but don't like the authority of commissars or captains.

+LEGOSHADOWSPARTAN you don't know what you're asking for. There is o much lore on them in the Siege of Wraks and Orpheus War, Ach would disappear for MONTHS to study them. And then the resulting video would be HOURS long. Emperor save our souls...

+DoctorM42 just how we like it :D

You can find a lot of info about Krieg and other famous and well known regiments on lexicarum site.

Look it up.

Colonel, we meet again.

+MrJherime Nah screw the astartes, they are waaaay too over hyped and way too over done. The writers just keep buffing them because they are what sell most, it's like Space marines and friends now instead of Warhammer 40k.

Tyrannohamstersaurus But the sigmarines seem to be killable,they can die and lose battles and that makes their battles more suspenseful unlike the marines who send 4 dudes to kill entire planets worth of orks, eldar and daemons. I kinda respect that they are not that over powered in the lore.

Tyrannohamstersaurus The armour is created from the old world which is a dwindling resource that will eventually run out. Each time a Stormcast is reborn he loses a bit of his personality and intelligence so they might end up nothing more than moving husks. Also if a Relictor was not around their souls can get lost in the warp.

+MrJherime so my introducion into WH40K was the Dawn of war series ^^

+MrJherime so my introducion into WH40K was the Dawn of war series ^^

Krondon / SSR “And that’s why it’s mine”

I'm dead

The worse Lasgun is the one that manages to jam somehow

@@Rulytasho What about the one that manages to explode in your hands.

@@robertnelson9599 yeah, those could be awful for you and your brothers... but if you manage to take a tyranid with you, a Lasgun that explodes in your face have their advantages too.

Every time he says "that'll get it's own video" or equivalent

Thats absolutly lethal

hmmmmmBUT Moving on

By the fist 5 minutes you'll be dying of alcohol poisoning.

Why do you hate my liver?!

Infantrymen=Skaven confirmed?

Guy Hudson did you find out?

Scintillan Fusiliers, Mordian Iron Guard, or any 18th/19th century expy groups.

+Jens Heika Simonsen (The Sniper) cuz they look cooler!

+Arch Warhammer HERESY *+BLAM+*

Arch Warhammer They do stand more out from the normal green guardsmen... True... Though still...

+Jens Heika Simonsen (The Sniper) I think is that both group fight very similar, with the main difference is that the Warhawks are better equipped.

Adam Baker >_>

+Iron Gamer I do too, though, I am wondering why that is? Vaults of Terra even have adds turned off...

+Jens Heika Simonsen (The Sniper) .I like them because they feel longer and more in-depth.

Jonathan Vermont same

Jens Heika Simonsen I glad he doesn't have adds turned off because he needs to eat also you can get add block

kahzhoex He do actually have some long videos, the ones about the Armouries.

Commissar_Falk What? Are you married with another Commissar?

Caesar Himself they all died or at least 99%

Primarch Ferrus Manus what the hahahahahah hahaha

haha its called being HIGH AS BALLS all the time, I'm just enjoying my youth! yeah yeah thats a good excuse lol

When in Rome bang Caligula.

The planet broke before the guard did.

+Rellana1 good luck surviving their engagement against eldar first and getting to said eldar body before his comrades. And then the risk of bing BLAM'ed for the use of xenothech far outweighs the benefits of using said xenotech - if one is that desperate to imrove his chances he'd rater lie, stel and beg his way into special weapon operator, and make sure to be issued grenade launcher rather than plasma gun that would eventually kill or at least mutilate him, or flamer/melta that would force him into much less comfortable distance from the enemy.

I was thinking along the lines of I've read somewhere that the Imperium turns somewhat of a blind eye to higher-ranking Guard officers using captured Eldar Plasma guns,as they are more likely not to kill or mutilate the user,so the lesser ranked ones might be able to get away with it,but the Imperium being what it is,they'd probably execute the user on the spot,regardless of rank.

+Rellana1 Most xeno weapons are either too specialized for humans to use without training (As Jon said, Eldar weapons can only be used by them, and it wouldn't surprise me if Tau weapons have special way of working, so taking one would reduce your firepower since you wouldn't know what you're doing) or be too big to use, like a shoota. If you've trained the last part of your life with a certain weapon, you're probably going to be more efficient with that than if you suddenly pick something up from the ground you saw some alien use. Leave Xenotech to the Mecanicus. Avoid blam.

+Rellana1 I can just imagine a guardsman armed to the teeth with xeno weapons.

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Holy shit...how have they not run out of meat shields to throw at the xenos yet with that small of an army?

Most estimates I've seen put the Imperium at 4 quadrillion.

+TheRWS96 sort off there used to be some wierd centaur creatures called zoats before GW retconned them, however these are more like lizards then horses however considering how massive the galaxy is in warhammer 40k you can get away with homebrewing centaurs and aslong as it fits the lore most 40k fans will just look at it and go "well neat".

+TheRWS96 they did. Poor sods were called Zoats, and were exterminated by the Imperium for being FOUL XENO SCUM.

+TheRWS96 technically you could probably get away with centaurs as a stable strain of "beastmen" mutations, there where even rules for these "beastmen" back in a White Dwarf, and hell there is a plannet in the Imperium with nekomimi people soooooo yes?

+TheRWS96 "Children of the Emperor" by Barrington J Bayley has centaurs.

+Genetic Heresy you don't just kill cat girls they are given to slaanesh as gifts once a month

By 40K standards, it's the most peaceful planet in the galaxy

Lallepop Lord of Ahegao that's not saying a lot from what I have seen.

they are called ratings, they are a species of human that evolved differently to most. They are small, but agile and have good eye sight so they are used as snipers by the gaurd

sam swann ratLings. Ratings are naval personnel. Rate-ings versus rat-lings.

Did you come back for a rewatch?

so you know nothing than.just a typical thinking.maybe you should read or smthng

😲😲😲😲😲😲😲.....my god, mind blown

Much of the higher-end technology and equipment for many human colonies degraded and broke down from overuse over the many millennia from the Long Night to the 41st Millennium. Plus isolation from the greater community of Mankind while being left behind on a hostile backwater in some random corner of the galaxy might have left to some populations to adopt some... questionable habits. TL;DR version: Apocalypse level event happened; Human colonies are cut off from each other (their globalized economies/societies collapse and chaos and ultra-violence ensues). A lot of people are killed; shit breaks down, knowledge is lost, and there's not enough people left afterwards (or any at all) who know how shit works/made/or fixed.

You should watch "If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device", there's a whole episode all about The Emperor's past and Humanity (Pre-Imperium).

In the Eisenhorn trilogy, a meeting takes place on a human world that is still in the feudal age in a pocket of the galaxy that had not been invaded by any xeno's, so the characters have to meet in an abandoned castle so they can avoid 'spooking the locals'. For all we know, we're part of the imperium, and we're being kept in the dark since we haven't been exposed to chaos and tyranids yet!!!

FishizzleBoy well, terra is earth, and I do not really think we would not notice being the capital planet

+Nichita Mihai Fighting weaker tribes and orcs would surely work with 18th century warfare.... we are in the 21st century and most of their infantry is 21st century styled fighters throughout the empire the 18th century isnt the medieval period and single shot rifles are useful if used correct.

David Pursglove lol dude I know that 18 th century isn't medieval period. He also mentioned that some of the soldiers are equipped and organized in a Medieval fashion of warfare. And that for me is fucking ridiculous to have even in a SF universe. I'm sure that 21 st century military has no problem dealing with horse tribes barbarians. Just use automatic rifles and explosive weapons and you rout them by scaring the bastards.

alot of the worlds dont understand the technology and when they do they have to adapt to it.... lol plus orks = heavy Melee units galore making Melee combat useful so they are used more for melee on melee or somesort of ambush they'll most likely have a lazgun and a melee weapon :P

+Nichita Mihai True if you don't take into account the long night, practically all technological advancement went down the shitter on Earth, the mother-buggering Homeworld itself. I think i'm justified in believing that the Homeworld would be the most advanced place under human control (or at least damn close to most advanced) and there they had to reinvent Atmospheric flight! Thus the technology and tactical know-how on some far away backwater colony planet would more likely than not Atrophy Far Far more severely than on the Homeworld. Now the reason as to why an imperial guard regiment stationed on the aforementioned Backwater would lose the majority of their tactical understanding and technological superiority would mainly come in the form of lacking supplies in both men and equipment. Such a backwater wouldn't be worth much in the eyes of the Imperium and it has become painfully clear that the Imperium only modernizes what they consider 'important' worlds. 5 generations pass on the backwater with minimal Imperial contact and all of a sudden the entire regiment has weaker weapons less advanced tactical thinking because they haven't needed to advance, their weapons are more than good enough for them to win their current engagements and their a lot cheaper than the more modern Las-variants. At this point in time the regiment's command staff would be almost entirely composed of arrogant man-child types who have very little grasp on strategy due to them having incredibly cushy lives in the local capital. The Imperium also doesn't give a damn as to what weapons and tactics some backwater out in the middle of nowhere uses as long as their capable of catching a few bullets before they can hit the elite regiments. Technological Atrophy at its finest! Any Questions?

Nomadalien The entire Universe would be less chaotic and peaceful without the Imperium. Yes just leave it to the actual Chaos, Orks, Tyranids and the other Xenos and all the sudden the Universe is more peaceful.