"He- He fething WHAT?" "I don't fething know, Colm, he just started singing!" "Well, sing along with him! C'mon, Men of Tanith, are you still standing?" "YEAH, YEAH, YEAH"
"You're telling me the Tanith 1st managed to secure the objective, kill a squad of Chaos Marines, and banish a Daemonhost, all while *performing a song-and-dance routine?!*" "I've never seen anything like it, Warmaster!"
@@VoidsmanRulf "You've GOT to be fething kidding me! How the feth are we alive? Gaunt? Gaunt! How the feth are we alive?" "We're still standing. All you need to know, Colm."
Brostin: "Ey, Dalin...." Dalin: "...hm?" *both see Gaunt, Hark, Ludd and Blenner perform this on the battlefield * Brostin: "Dont fething tell Rawne about this... hell cry his eyes out for not being here and ....seing this. "
@@Lamplordable Three possibilities You'll corner him and then he will fight like a goddamn berserker just to live five seconds longer. He'll run away and accidentally kill whoever's trying to kill him. JURGEN EX MELTA. Remember, this is the guy who beat an ork warboss COMPLETELY on his own, and managed to get into a parry fest with two hive tyrants WHILE CONCUSSED, and survived.
It was on this day that the Noise Marines realized that bass boosted nonsense at increasingly loud volumes doesn't make music better. Dont worry after snorting an orphanage they forgot this little lesson.
@@anthonyrodriguez8788 ...it was the exact orphanage where the singing comissar had been raised. And then it became a rivalry like that of Yarrick and Gazkull.
Canonically, commissars come from the Schola. This means they are probably required to sing as part of their duties in a choir. Because something has to train their voice for shouting.
pretty sure one of the ten thousand Ciaphas Cain book kind of mention it....that an the fact that you can canonically bang a bolter bitch and its still lore friendly....take that Rogue Trader
No, schola is just latin for school. Schola Progenium literaly means "School of descendants" and just a place where all kind of orphans of distinguished people who died while serving the imperium are trained. They taught many things, including etiquette of high society, but adeptus ministorium priests aren't alike to Vatican clericks (at least outside of Age of Apostacy heh).
@@DarkDragonRus I'm sorry, I'll use the full name for everything Darkdragonrus. Also, No. They do have a variety of people come from the Schola Progenium, Overseen by the Adeptus Terra, Overseen by the High lords of terra, Overseen by The Emperor. They have sisters, Scions, commissars, some imperial guard officers and soldiers, imperial navy and the ilk. As we know from the Hero of the imperium, Ciaphas Cain's Retirement involved such a posting.
@@DarkDragonRus no it's a more general imperial school, higher grade but even no name orphans go there. It's honestly a really good thing in 40k, they somewhat do care for their orphans granted the orphans will become soldiers or admin and so on. Also, as everyone else says, high gothic is not latin.
@@tarektechmarine8209 If you lost you parents in service to the Imperium, you are enrolled immediatly, no question asked. From there you can go down many different roads. The assassin temples recruit from here, as does the Sisters of Battle and the Comisiariat. Even possible you could become Rouge Trader with enough skill and patience. But most are groomed to be Commisars and Imperial army/navy command.
There's a spoof of California girls by Katy Perry called "Imperium Girls" and it's the sisters of battle singing to redone 40k lyrics. I imagine a scene where the Sisters rescue some overwhelmed Guardsmen and start singing that.
Better yet they're holding their fire and fire at the same time as the "yeah"s melting anything with the conventrated firepower of 10,000,000,000,000,000 flashlights
Ciaphes: Jurgen, play my mix tape. Jurgen: Any particular track my Lord. Ciaphes: *loads his bolster pistol and ignites his power sword* Sir Elton John, Circa 21st Millenium. Jurgen: Good choice Sir.
As much as this seems funny, you have to remember something about Commissars; They're mortal men who have been tortured and trained (pretty much the same thing, really...) to the point that they can literally LOOK A DEMON IN THE EYE and not go insane or crap themselves in fear. If your Commissar starts singing, you SING!
Another thing about commissars that a lot of people forget is that the head blamming is supposed to be the *last* tool they use to keep discipline. They're trained with many other tools, both highly visible and utterly subtle for keeping men at their posts. This one discovered their troops answer well to the power of rousing battle chants!
@@addisonmartin3200Cain pointed out that there’s a natural Darwinian process at work there. There’s absolutely Comissars who act the trope. And they have an uncannily high tendency to have friendly fire accidents or otherwise disappear.
@@kagato23 Ciaphas Cain - Or: how glorious a career may come to pass by being just cowardly enough to consider survival, and just intelligent enough to think beyond the current instant.
Imagine crewmen directing flak lights to the stage that he is dancing and killing enemy demons on, the stage is build entirely from sandbags, corpses and tank barricades.
Reading through a lot of the comments on this video I am pleased to realize Caiphas Cain is 40k's Rincewind. I always knew this setting needed someone who would have the presence of mind to one day walk into the warp with a half-brick in a sock. And if that ever actually happens i hope its Cain.
POV: Your commissar is trying to encourage you to keep firing despite the fact the planet is literally splitting apart under your feet and there is a 0% chance of surviving the battle but the knowing that each warp beast slain is one less threatening the empire of man.
I could see a Commissar assigned to a Regiment who's planet is heavily focused on songs to empower them, singing this to embolden the troops in a really dire situation.
What makes this great is that it has the perfect smooth introduction and transition into the commissar singing so its not at all jarring that he starts singing bars and slinging steel everywhere!
The amazing thing is, I was stuck at a certain point in Warhammer: Boltgun, I put this on and within moments I was purging daemons like a true space marine, plowing through the hoards of enemies in my path
We had them surrounded. A single, solitary ruined building in which they were holed up. No longer even really trying to combat our overwhelming force, just to survive. Perhaps they were hoping we would leave them alone if they didn't fight back. We bombarded the ruin, a carpetry of Melta descended upon them, leaving naught but a smoldering crater. We circled in on the hole in the ground, safe in the assumption there was nothing but ash waiting for us. From the black smoke cloud, a single bolt escaped, and dug itself into the skull of the man to my left. He fell to the ground, instantly turned into a sack of worthless meat. The man to my right was next. I dove onto the ground, not a second too soon, as the man I had taken to calling my brother, who had been standing right behind me, was slain. From the smoke we heared the furious scream of a gruff-voiced man that instilled primal fear in our bodies. "I'm still standing."
You know, Sisters of Battle and Commissars are supposed to be singing hymns and reciting inspirational quotes…this is canon for me. Especially for Ciaphas Cain
I literally started listening to this, stopped it, added three levels of battle ambience, started it again, now there are screams and machineguns constantly just beneath the commissar's solo. It is so good.
How this would go against each faction Khorn: slightly impressed and catches himself jaming befor killing them Tzeentch: decides he just wants to style on them and makes his voice sound great and sing his heart out Slanesh: surprisingly lets them live for giving them the pleasure of the comisars singing Nurgle: just pulls out a living piano and jams out, then sings what a wonderful world with them Chaos space marines: just impressed (reaction based off legion and im not writing that much go nuts) Eldar: actually give them some respect and dont call them monkye, plus share one of their songs in a cultural exchange of sorts Dark eldar: like the song and decide to just kill the guardsmen and not horribly torture them, takes commisar back just to sing at their parties Orks: like the humiez muzic and it leads into a battle of the bands style contest against the commisar and his gaurdsmen vs da orks heavy metal wah song Negcrons: dont care much for the song and rather stop and sing thriller in sync while doing the robot and blasting them all (Trazyn gets a vox recording to display in his museam as an examle of mankinds culture) Tyranids: still act like normal but the gaurdsmen and the commisar are joyfully skiping through the hoards of bugs cutting them to bits with chainswords Tau: realize this commisar is an imbodyment of the greater good with his singing voice and let them leave unharmed
I was wondering where this disappeared. I missed it so much. Praise the Emperor! Also it sounds improved as well....Emperor Truly provides and protects!
Confused space marines when the commissar starts to sing like a Disney Princess Someone should animate this like a musical break from a Disney movie for real
I remember that fay so well. The regimental band played their hearts out as the commissar sang. It was the first time the enemy ran away from the field.
Been listing to the ciaphus cain series recently and I am *wheezing* at the mental image of Cain singing this, probably after being assigned as the schola tutor for commisars and thinking hes gonna have a peaceful retirement finally. "Jurgen?" "Yes commisar?" "Drop my needle."
It's sad that that this cover surprised me by not being out of context. This song is about recovering from a toxic relationship. Space marines won't sing something like that, they have forgotten these things if ever knew them. But comissars are ordinary people. They have ordinary lives, as far as military allows. And they fulfill their duty, no matter what happens outside of the battlefield. I'd say it is very disco.
My melee-focused support veteran when I take a sniper shot to the dome on damnation difficulty and have a sliver of health left(Commanding Shout is off cooldown and I am now fully aware of where the karker is, helbore in hand.)
This makes me think of the "nobledark" fanmade AU, in which things are both better and worse. This absolutely would fit that verse from what I've heard. the commissars there only use their bolt pistols on their own men when the enemy is about to subject them to something WORSE than death. Let me explain, in the nobledark AU humanity is allied with the Eldar and the Tau. But chaos is even stronger, and many Orcs have actually joined them, among other changes for both better and worse. Simply put: Grimdark = "everything is horrid and we must become horrid to combat the horrid." Grimbright = "high adventure amidst a devastated backdrop" "Nobledark = "everything is horrid, but to heck with that. as long as good men hold the line, the horrid will not claim us!!"
I always interpreted Nobledark as “things suck, and will continue to suck, but real substantive change is possible if the effort is made to achieve it.”
@@connormclernon26 exactly, and with enough effort and enough change, maybe, just maybe, things might actually stop sucking, but it'll take a long darn time of constant work for that to happen.
Sounds like how the Tau may mature as they keep trying to expand into the galaxy. After running afoul of one horrific revelation after another, they'll be forced to choose among these paths: "If someone is honestly mistaken and encounters the truth, he will either cease to be mistaken, or cease to be honest." Grimdark: The truth gets filtered and covered up as much as possible, resulting in increasingly desperate leadership and deluded masses. Grimbright: If the horrid reality isn't overwhelmingly difficult, having a whale of a time spreading and evolving the Greater Good. Nobledark: If the horrid reality *is* overwhelming, then rather than compromising as Grimdark does, developing a shining, authentic defiance against the pressing darkness. Even if the Tau fall, the Greater Good *will* win out! "This is more than anyone can bear, but we will persevere." -Vortigaunt, Half Life 2
I imagine the scene like this before the Commissar starts singing: The Commissar draws his blade and pistol before turning to address the men “Remember, the God-Emperor sits on the Golden Throne protecting us mortals from all manners of horrors, so we must stand FOR HIM!!!”
