BADAB WAR PRELUDE: DEATH AND TAXES | Warhammer 40k Lore 

Just a bit of trivia, The Badab War and Huron Blackheart have been part of 40k lore longer than Chaos has.

As it says on page 209 in the eighth volume of the book of Lorgar: "Tax evasion is pretty cool".

Imperium: "Pay Taxes." Lufgt Huron: "I will not. What are you going to do about it?" 5 Billion dead, large number of Astartes Chapters ruined and entire sector turned into war torned space. Lufgt Huron: "Well that escalated quickly."

Badab War: A conflict that escaled badly without the influence of Chaos nor Xeno species. Just the Imperium being the Imperium.

Oh yeah, the story of the guy who should be the *actual* Warmaster of Chaos.

oh boy, the lamenters finally make some good friends who care about them. Things are finally looking up for the better!

Lufgt Huron: I DON'T CARE WHO THE IRS SENDS, I'M NOT PAYING TAXES! Lamenters: ...are.....are we the bad guys?

I love that fact that reason lamenters were ones who managed to destroy hallowed heart is that they were more resilient to its malign influence. Even more so than other warders

It's believed that the Astral Claws were an Ultramarine successor chapter. Also: In the distance a single fin is seen breaching the surface and everyone ignores the ominous "Dun-dun" music.

Dk had a Idiot savant moment at the beginning. He probably leveled up.

Its unknown whose geneseed the Astral Claws have, but given how Huron acted, Ultramarine seems pretty likely to me.

It's also important to note that "tithes" in this case also include gene-seed, so all of those tithes not being paid, directly correlate to more marines being produced by the Astral Claws. By the time first shots had been fired the Astral Claws were significantly larger than a normal chapter. Also, little side story about the lead-up to the Badab war is that while all of this was brewing, an Astral Claws successor chapter known as the Tiger Claws that was considered a dead chapter had reemerged as a strike cruiser of them had reappeared after being stuck in the warp for around 1000 years (though to them it was much shorter). Seeing as they were the last of their chapter, the Tiger Claws sent an envoy to Terra to ask for the release of their chapter's gene-seed to repopulate the legion. This envoy, the most senior officer still alive amongst the Tiger Claws, subsequently disappeared after delivering the request and the case was thus dismissed by Terra. Fearing that this was a not-so-subtle way of trying to make the chapter's death stick, the Astral Claws would hide the remaining Tiger Claws amongst their ranks, giving them new names. Shortly thereafter, Huron would stop paying tithes.

Bit of an ackshually here: the encounter with the space hulk and the following berating of the lamenters happened BEFORE the Charnal Guard were removed with the chapter master telling the inquisitor to sod off. This entire conflict can all be traced back to an inquisitor being petty and calling upon some favors that end up having the Astral Claws’ plans rejected in the middle of them explaining them multiple times

Taking a moment to pour one out for the Lamenters.

Huron: I tried it your way. Now we do it my way. Administratum: Mister! When we are done with this Massive Xenos Invasion, we are going to have a serious talk! ... go to your room! Huron: No. Administratum: Wait until your father gets home! Huron: MY FATHER IS DEAD!!

Huron: “I’m *NOT* paying my taxes!” Lamenters: “it’s all down hill from here… Again.” *Badab War happens* Tyberos: “I’m going for a walk…” Astarion Molac: *deploys at full chapter strength* “Waz good, brothaz?!”

Oh boy, the Lamenters! I sure hope nothing bad happens to them in this civil war!

One of my favorite stories from 40k is the Lamenters near-solo fight against the Unhallowed Heart. So many times I read stories about Space Marines where they are riding in an APC to attack a fort or charging across trenches and it just feels like a waste of super humans/something the guard could handle. But riding boarding torpedos onto a daemon infested hulk the size of a moon that has a kilometers wide radius of psykic paranoia that makes mortal men kill themselves with the intention of overloading plasma reactors to try and destabilized the mass is... not something the Guard could handle. It's demigod over the top warfare at its finest.

The issue is that Bricky knows about Monster Musume to the point of recognising characters from the show.

As Bobby G said to Dante: "A line must be drawn between good and what is evil, got if the Great Enemy comes with offers of power to a wretch, what reason does he have to refuse hell if he dwells in it already?"

Don't forget each of the three plans were made basically from the ground up to be better than the last, and the meetings due to him queuing took place over the course of like 120 years or so

There's a book I read a while ago called "A Libertarian walks into a bear", which tells the story of how libertarians took over a town in New Hampshire and how their tax and government free "utopia" was shattered by bears. This is similar, only with Astartes instead of bears and a few billion more dead.

It's adorable how DK thinks the Firehawks are the big showcase,little does he know they're only a prelude to the Red Wake. Lol

Glory to the Lamenters, they deserve it.

That’s actually a good point. Most great tears in reality that don’t disappear after some plot reasons are usually because something Terrible Happened. Makes me want to imagine that the Maelstrom had a minor chaos entity/god manifested there? Maybe Be’lakor or Vashtorr?

“When the tax man comes to your door, your numbers either add up, or you will be subtracted from the equation.” -an Accountant

Huron is the most American figure in 40k, the man just refused to pay his taxes and eall hell broke loose. Also, limit breaker DK actually nailing the quote is kinda impressive.

Ah, the Badab War. When GW wrote interesting stories about the Imperium, and when they released fun campaign books for players, before Competitive became the only way to play the game.

Man Huron just wanted the resources to fully CLEAR OUT the Malestrom, (something he has already proven to be possible with the Astral Claws and Malestrom Wardens effectively pushing into the Malestrom) so that the Malestrom would be safe from constant threat and the Imperium wouldn’t have to station 4/3 whole chapters there full time any more. Effectively increasing Imperium productivity and resources while freeing up more astarties to fight the good fight somewhere more important.

They had enough resources to self sabotage but DEFINITELY NOT ENOUGH to lend a helping hand when needed. God i love warhammer (I am aware the imperium is stretched thin from fighting everything in the galaxy but i love how everything played out)

Ah yea, good ol' Huron "Abadon, but competent" Blackheart's war against taxes

On tonight's episode of the Ridiculous Tour: Bricky clones himself too many times and combines with all of them to form THE WALL. DK keeps singing about how each major character in this episode is a Badab mamajama. And Shy performs the entirety of the freebird solo on a harpsichord! All this and more to come after the break!

Badab war? This is going to be good! Multiple videos on this amazing topic! YES LETS GO!!

I like this in ways I can't describe seeing someone in 40k do something productive is amazing and refreshing. Its sad this will end in heresy.

As an American, I salute Lufgt Huron. He did nothing wrong... Until he did everything wrong and everything went to shit.

The oldest tale from Terra: Your employee lives their job and do anything for the company just to be mined until he gave up by his superiors that see their effort as just what they are suppose to do. "I know thar we didnt approve your promotion, and your raise, and your vacatuons, and your amazing project, but just leaving the company is really not thinking about your colleagues, buddy😢"

Imperium Pros: Untold billions. Cons: Administration.

Lugft Huron was a model space marine, who became a chaos space marine model.

“I don’t care who The Imperium sends, I am not paying taxes!” Luffy Huron

Tonight on Ridiculous Gear! Bricky signs up with the true Warmaster of Chaos, DK gets the boarding party treatment from the entire Minotaurs Chapter, and Shy starts an Imperial Civil War over purposefully ignoring Luft Huron’s emails.

Confirmed: DK is now a Psyker. Sacrafice him to the emporer.

"The Unhallowed" was an Ark of Omen. "The Unhallowed Heart" was a Space Hulk that the Lamenters fought and destroyed, just prior to the Badab War. Close, but not exactly the same. Because GW reuses previous names CONSTANTLY.

"i aint payin no taxes"- Chapter master of the astral claws

Just as its true that leaving a monkey on a typewriter for eternity will eventually produce shakespear, when confronted with endless warhammer lore DK will eventually guess the topic correctly.

I think if I had the entirety of a planet available to me in almost any way I could desire, I would have a hard time not abusing my position.

Lets gooooo badab war! Ive got 2k points of carcharodons and I just painted an intercession killteam of lamenters for my buddy!

I honestly think that sometimes Badab is more interesting then the Heresy.

More lamenters content this shall sustain me for a season

The Lamenters are the only Astartes who are truly inheritors to the Emperors design. Change my mind.

Space Marine Huron: "Stupid corrupt planetary governors never wanting to pay taxes! I'm taking over!" *five minutes later* "That's it! The Imperium doesn't respect our planet I'm not paying taxes!"

"I don't care who the IRS sends, I'm not paying my taxes"

Bricky: how did you know DK: it came to me in a vision

Can't believe we're getting Badab! Love it! I used to play Huron' boys back in college, so its got a special place in my heart.

This was one of the first 40k stories I read, super excited for next week!

My favorite war and lore. I plan on painting a bunch of Astral Claws up one day

It felt a little understated in the video, but Huron had TWO jobs. The first was to extract resources from the region for imperial taxes, but the other was to safeguard the imperium from pirates, xenos, and chaos in the maelstrom. The badab system was like a small cadia. By refusing to send taxes, and instead using those resources to defend the system, Huron was performing his primary objective as a space marine, "Protect the Empire." It'd be insane to send a fleet in with a scorched earth policy to shut down this "rebellion", wouldn't it? After all, all you'd do by fighting Huron at this point is ruining all the resources you were fighting for in the first place, as well as opening up another costly front in the imperium's many wars. It'd be a lose lose situation. Just. Like. Vraks.

Guys I am so happy you finally did this because the badab war is one of my favourites topics in 40k! Awesome series

Oh boy! More lore with a couple of awesome nerds!

Shadowsword (I think thats the right book) goes into a governors family accidently inviting in some chaos, good book worth a read

Guy Haley´s Shadowsword Book is another good example how bad things can get if you dont wanna pay your Taxes

the best part of my workday now is when you guys release a new video while I'm here my staff love yall and it's funny when they ask me if there is a new episode out yet

Monster Musume's Arachnee only wants to tie you up. None of that nightmare bs.

Imagine the vox trashtalk between the Fire Hawks (who are perpetually itching for a fight) and the Mantis Warriors (a chapter known to not take too kindly to people trying to boss them around) trying to bully their way through or get them go away respectively before it actually came to blows.

5:42 Just want to throw a shoutout to this fan-art I love it so much

why do i have a feeling Bricky was watching isyander and koda's streams before making this episode?

The start of an another awesome series

Ah Lufgt Huron the Killdozer of The 41st Millennium

Watching this while my puppy is eeping on top of me

Lufgt Huron's name entered the chat: That one Star Phantom....I'm about to wreck that whole man's day.

Huron is warhammer’s killdozer story

Monster Museme Spider Lady is a Dominatrix and she will tie people up for some "fun" time.

I knew this story before even the internet was a thing, but it's just so much more cooler hearing from Adeptus Ridiculous. 😂❤👍

I thought the opening when DK was asked to guess was a skit.😂

Are y'all ever gonna do that book club episode or...

Finally an episode on the best chaos character

If the topic guess is anything to go by, DK’s latent psychic potential is starting to manifest

I hope they mention the tyrant’s guard in the next episode. Huron’s personal guardsmen equivalent force that was astarte trained with his astartes holding the command positions in it for peak performance

Lugft Huron has one of the coolest terminator models, super stoked I snagged one before FW took it out of production a few years ago. 17-year old me with the Badab books would be greatly pleased lmao

If the Imperium just bothered not to cut costs, this would ironically have costed waaaayy less than it did. ^^

Yippie art (Also bricky, dk and shys models look so good)

DK getting the episode topic right is like the one time Jason figured it out in The Good Place :P.

The Badab War is my favorite. Part of what inspired my homebrew chapter

Oh I REALLY hope they do more of the Eisenhorn books. They're genuinely some of my favourite books in the entire setting.

Guilliman - "dUmb BLuE BoOk sPlItS tHe cHaPTers uP" - "Told you assholes"

Shocked DK didn't try to call it the "Bad Dab" War like he did in the Lamenters episode

Ive been waiting for this. My Army of choice via CSM

You never disappoint dk, never.

Loving the new poster...they are always usually so well done...both the thicc dumpies and the more srs stuff. Also I'm interested in your presentational take for Badab...listened to another RU-vidr years ago make a video based on this before my hearing loss which isn't really relevant but it's getting worse anyways I barely understand you guys compared to like 5 months ago but I will continue listening for as long as I am able to cause I love your content.

The administratum cares not from whom the taxes flow, only that they flow

Before watching this video, I learned about the War for Badab from Arch's very long series. I would wacth it everytime I eat dinner.

Alternate title: Lufgt Huron and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

I love this place. Shy shows a picture of Quelaag, DK swoons and loves it, Bricky hates it.

Can you guys do an episode on the solar auxillia so i can understand how they can go toe to toe with space marines in legion imperialis epic and be their own faction 😂

Always neat stuff.

Bricky misspoke and said the qu and had me shook for a second

Tax evasion is a crime, Huron! Its an obligation!

DK Tzeentchian Cultist confirmed! And a powerful psyker! (but we already knew that ;) )

Cant wait to fall asleep to this

If I remember correctly the Unhallowed Heart had no daemons accompanying it. The only thing it had was some form of psychic presence strong enough to drive people insane, suicidal, or cause them to have a brain hemorrhage.

Can't wait for Big Daddy Shark to roll in just ripping and tearing