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Could you maybe to a short of Tarasha Euten aka Guillimom

No

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Fun fact during WWII when the nukes where droped on Japan the egg heads did not know if the nukes whould set the whole air on earth on fire.

I think Marines use surface bombs because most of the time they dont have proper exterminatus uses. Local imperial command propably wouldnt supply that to the local crusaders that ignore the power structure and dont give a damn about economical losses. While a plasma reactor bomb is something a techmarine can whip up in a week from spare spaceship parts.

Not only, he confused the Mayans for the Inca, the Mayan empire was gone for more than a century before the Spanish showed up Edit: I have been told that was the Aztecs that Cortes butchered, I am just as uninformed as Dk and I was thinking of the acts of Francisco Pizarro on the Inca. According to someone in the replies, the Mayans were more city-states in conflict than an empire and eventually those city-states were reclaimed by the jungle while the people simply returned to smaller communities.

​@@42ndguardian The mayans never were an empire they were a bunch of city states that waged war against each other just like ancient greeks.

Hernan Cortez was a war veteran who fought against many Ottoman expansion campaigns.

Honestly? Based. There are few people less deserving of being remembered than Cortez or Pizarro.

I mean, with a forehead that big he’s gotta have a giant collection of lore in there

This is a very good point to remember . An inquisitor likely had a entire invisible war behind the scenes to prevent a exterminatus but all everyone sees is the big boom at the end.

Pride fits as a reason holding back the numbers.

Kryptman: "My Mama once said, Keep going until you succeed, not to let failure stop you." *Proceeds to exterminatus several planets*

Was about to say this XD

​@@rerako4755 LOL hey now, that was strategic! 😂

It's alright sometimes it goes over people's heads during recording. Example: I kept on talking about Shili, the Togruta homeworld but I pronounced it as Csilla the Chiss Homeworld

Bro wth spoilers

@@crushersbutlessedgynow you're literally reading the comments about exterminatus.. And you don't expect spoilers? That's on you, mate.

I came here to the comments to be mildly put out that they didn't mention that in this video as it's so dang good.

asteroid strike exterminatus approved for orc nation.

"You think you're smart, do you? You're getting sent to the BLUE chair, idiot"

More realistically the problem is that asteroids are trivially easy to stop for spacefaring civilizations. I mean the Orks make ships out of them and real life humanity or its successors probably will too

"And you will sit in the blue chair."

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Not sure 40k writers understand scale; a planet is mostly metal and the metal in one planet could build a fleet that dwarfs every other fleet in the 40k galaxy. The Earth alone has enough metal for something like 100 TRILLION Universe-class Mass Transporters, one of the biggest ships in the Imperium But, I suppose 40k isn't unique in that regard. It certainly gets it more right than most, at least as far as hive city populations go, although it still tends to low-ball just how massive such a city would be.

Only they had direct authority to launch them, anyone else either needed to get permission from Big E or the Warmaster, or from the High Lords of Terra

And even then Horus was a grey area on of he actually had the authority or not. For the short time that mattered anyway.

I’m sure The Lion could also use them, the Lion got to break every rule in the book

I thought they stopped because someone realized that, "...wait, we're using a _virus_ to kill off a whole world. Isn't that Nurgle's thing?"

That makes what Herman Von Strab did in the 2nd war of Armageddon a whole lot worse than it already was.

This... is true.

That's a story in a paragraph. Emperor bless.

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@@Twinsidedsoldier I think I went a bit overboard but blame Thunder Child for that lmao I was listening to music as I typed it out

This was a fookin acid trip to read

i mean we definitely need the devestation of baal

​@@antigrav6004 And Dante, Mephiston, the Sanguinor and others

Pre and post Hersey World Eaters can ONLY commit exterminatus.

@Knoxcom *a scarab gets into the room*

@Knoxcom Human astronomers are baffled why there's a giant skeleton constellation in the sky. Priests claim this to be the divine representation of the emperor preserving the backbone of the imperium across the bounds of space. Experts brought from the Mandragora system maintain that the planets previously occupying that sector were deemed "unfaithful" and strayed from the God-Emperor's light.

​@@consolescrub4031Oh that's funny!

would love to see boltgun's sassy nurgling in darktide lmao

Indeed, what makes it tenuous is just that warp travel to and from the planet is disrupted. They turn to expendable death row inmates for special missions because they need every tool they can get. It's also why half those missions involve securing resources for the war effort.

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​@@amargwari2431 wow there buddy it's just a joke don't lose your head over it

@@darthchungus9964 YOU DID IT AGAIN!!!!

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Life eater virus can't reproduce, it dies after it has wiped out all life. that is the opposite of helping Nurgle.

It would not surprise me in the slightest if The Imperium in it's infinite wisdom dropped the Life Eater virus on Plague cults several times

​@SCP - 1669 - 53 bullshit. This has to be false

​@SCP - 1669 - 53 Was it Sly Marbo?

⁠@@maverickso8397I actually remember hearing something similar somewhere so might not be bs

Slight correction. Firehearts are Anti-matter missiles effectively. There is also the fun Psychic weapon that the Eldar Empire used to have that involved a psychic plague that caused everyone on a planet to kill each other and the only way to stop it was for the Eldar that activated the device that did this to activate it again. They used it as a policing tool.

Imagine being exiled from the Inquisition for being too cruel. What an overachiever, give this man a round of applause.

Trochaic Heptameter actually

Lmao way to reset the counter

Wasn't it that they needed his permission to use the life eater as I remember fulgrim ordering one in anger on a elder world I think in his book

LMAO no they didnt. They just had to explain why they couldn't take the world.

@@karlrichards7188 It may have been specifically the virus bomb. I remember a conversation of the few loyalist in the fleet right before Horus played his hand on isstvan debating if Horus even had the authority to use it as warmaster or not.

Reminds me of Konie Kruze and Peter Turbo, who legitimately thought that by doing an exterminatus, one of them on a rebel planet, their heads were going to be on the chopping block if they didn't rebel too.

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Yes. 90-99% of the time, they excommunicate (A.K.A. put out a death warrant on) whoever put out the Exterminatus order. Thus, they aren't as prevalent as the jokes make them out to be, not every Inquisitor has committed one... Edit: I don't think that Eisenhorn or Ravenor have ever needed Exterminatus, but I obviously could be wrong since a lot of their career happens "off-screen."

Inquisitor Kaput of the Ordo Excorium

@@jagnestormskull3178 Look up Inquisitor Kryptman who Extermatus so many systems as his overall war against Levianthan fleet as a Galactic Cordon to starve them out. He got excommunicated from Inquisition, but still had enough sway to put in a lure to set Levianthan to Octarius Sector and fight against the Ork Empire there. Unfortunately for everyone not Tyranids, they won and came out much stronger.

​@@dyingearth I know about Kryptman. He coined the term "Tyranid" after the first planet that they were known to have struck on, Tyran. Although the First Tyrannic War was a success, that f--king idiot decided that it would be a good idea to put two unstoppable forces (Orks and Tyranids) against each other, and in the process of setting it up, destroyed something like twelve planets. Kryptman is a great example of an Inquisitor who used his Exterminatus power cruelly and wastefully, then got excommunicated for it. As for the Octarius War, I thought that was still ongoing. Isn't Ghaz there now, trying to build up enough of a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! dat he can summon Gork an' Mork? Yes, Kryptman still had a lot of political capital within the Ordo Xenos itself, excommunication isn't technically the be all and end all for an Inquisitor's career, but it's still a death warrant that any other Inquisitor can cash in on. _Ex-Inquisitor_ Kryptman is almost definitely constantly watching his back, even more than regular Inquisitors. In another example (SPOILERS AHEAD FOR _The Magos_ and the _Bequin_ series), Eisenhorn had either been excommunicated or otherwise declared a Renegade/Heretic, but he still had enough political capital within the Ordos Scarus to get an Ordo Hereticus Interrogator (and more importantly, his Rosette) to join his crusade against the Cognitae, because that Ordo Hereticus guy believed them to be much more dangerous than one Inquisitor who just went off the reservation.

That cutscene is on YT. Heresy is like a tree so when you think about it, radical inquisitors are just bonsai professionals.

Hah, "dwarfs".

+1

Yes

Either they become less zealous because of the responsibility....or they become the exterminatus inquisitor meme

So...they become the Inquisition?

Cyclonic Torpedoes kind of need atmosphere to work, so it might not even destroy the ship launching it, much less an entire fleet...

​@@bubbasbigblast8563I guess the sheer detonation of such a large charge alone in a pressurised ship was pretty destructive. Then the rubles of the ship went crashing into the rest of the fleet. Or maybe it's just an other case of "it sounds cool so let's roll with it"

@@mat5977 It's the latter. Even the complete destruction of every actual anti-ship torpedo in an Imperial ship just screws up the ship it's attached to, it won't reach out far enough to hit a nearby ship. It wouldn't even work with a Nova Cannon, cos those shells don't prime until moments after firing.

@@AGrumpyPanda If we're being technical a warp shell has a range of friendly fire in that it will destroy the ship firing it if it's too close to the target (this was a plot point in Lords of Silence) so some nova cannon rounds could destroy the ship. That said, this is karma for all the times the imperium have sacrificed a big ship by overloading the reactor to wipe out a whole fleet (or two in the tyrannid battle for Macragge). I would note that Talos fired several cyclonic torpedoes into a moon which was implied to be a dead rock so they can presumably still have some impact if not as destructive when an atmosphere is lacking (it may have had an atmosphere but it was never mentioned).

@@consolescrub4031 Lords of Silence is referring to a specific variant nova cannon round then, rather than the standard munition.

Phosphex is a funny one, 'cause earlier in the Crusade, all the Legions had it. But the stuff is so horrific that its production was banned and only the DA had access to the remaining stock. Yea, it is THAT bad.

Kryptmen: Observe…

Yeah but Virus Bombs by design leave nothing behind to regrow. Papa Nurgle does not approve.

Nurgle's gifts always bring about rebirth and new life in some form or another, he is the god of nature and life after all. An Imperial virus bomb wipes out all life in minutes, Nurgle actually hates them. They break the cycle of life and destroy his work plus the life eater virus has no ability to reproduce. A single use virus that can't spread, Nurgle has no use for such things.

It makes the most sense against a Tyranid situation especially if the biosphere collapses and it's just more effort than it'd be possibly worth defending one planet as opposed to several when a tendril is on the rise. Otherwise? Maybe for like heavy chaos shenanigans where the planet is pretty much already gone so might as well take it out but situations like Darktide wouldn't warrant one

It really dependson the situation and there certainly are circumstances where nothing but exterminatus will suffice.

I don't want to know what Nurgle's Sleep Paralysis Demon looks like.

@@__-tp4tm Probably just Mr. Clean.

​@@__-tp4tm probably virophages. Virophages are tiny virusses that infect larger virusses. To put it simply: it is the diseases' disease. Getting infected with a virophage while you're suffering a viral infection actually makes you get better faster as the virophage infects the virus and prevents it from reproducing.

Probably not, but there are things in reality that make them VERY nervous: Blanks. Because a sufficiently potent blank, like a Culexus, can do something alsmost nothing else can: grant a daemon true death. For immortal creatures, that is just about the scariest damn thing out there.

I guess the Tyranid Hive Mind, everything else is just a guppy compared to them.

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