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The quote "The innocence proves nothing" actually has a point in the lore sense. You could be unknowingly working for the forces of hell or aliens without knowing it. Also there is the quote "There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt."

Your reaction to the Sisters Of Battle is why they're my favourite faction. THEY'RE CHEESY TO THE POINT OF BEING FONDUE AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS!

You: what happened to Cadia? Me: (breaks down crying) 😭😭😭

I'm with Bricky on the Astra Militarium. There's something absolutely inspiring about a normal, every day people facing down the most horrible things imaginable, standing directly in the face of death against impossible odds. That concept echoes throughout history, going all the way back to the Spartans at Thermopylae.

I love how everybody is just cutting out the salamanders black joke and you just went and burst out laughing :D It reminds me the times when i am working with blind people, as I do quite a lot. There is not a human being in this world that will laugh harder at your joke about blindness then blind people.

The Emperor: They shall be untouched by disease or sickness! Nurgle, about to turn the Death Guard: Observe...

I like how literally every faction on the screen was met with "This is so cool", good luck picking your favourite😂. Especially the Sisters, they're so over the top but I love them for it lmao.

If you know Henry Cavill the actor, 36:46 those golden boys are his favorite army. Even uploaded pics of himself painting them.

He didn't mention Titans. If you thought Imperial Knights were massive... Let's put it this way: one of the Titans is so large it carries a full blown cathedral on its back. Some lore says they are 100s of meters tall, some say "only" 30 to 50 meters. All major races have their own types of Titans, too.

"What happened to Cadia?" The planet broke before the guard did.

I love when reactors get to the Sisters of Battle part. Everything about them screams excessive in the best possible way.

19:53 also, they aren’t just encouraged to interact with civilians on a regular basis… BUT ALSO THEIR BIRTH FAMILY!!! They’re genuinely required to continue to live with, help, and spend time with their family at home on their off duty days to strengthen their resolve to protect the innocent and keep their planets culture alive through them…. Which JUST thinking about it, is wild to think about, cause there’s a very damn good chance that the space marines that live hundreds of years may often end up living long enough to see another of their own family lineage chosen to be a space marine. So families might have multiple children over multiple generations being chosen for space marine status… which just sounds so much more wholesome with them LITERALLY referring to each other as brothers or uncles or great uncles.

Slight correction on the exterminatis bit inquisitors aren’t the only ones who can make that call space marine chapter masters, and high commanders in the military (think 5 stars or more) can also declare the “ultimate sanction of exterminatis” and in rare cases lower ranking officers might be able to call for it but this is more of a “we can’t hold or evacuate blow the planet before this gets any worse” scenario where they are probably on the planet about to get cracked

Since people can't seem to be helpful: Cadia was at a stable passage to the Eye of Terror, where a bunch of Chaos armies are holding up, so they were at the center of every major attack from there (and still pumping out regiments to fight all over the galaxy). During the last big attack, the bad guys bombarded the planet and crashed a special ship on it, which was enough to break the planet into pieces. The Cadian troops kept on fighting, either in an ordered retreat to ensure they can go on fighting even if that specific battle was ultimately lost or providing cover for the retreating troops, when there wasn't enough room on the landers to get everyone off the planet. This is the origin of the quotes "Cadia stands" and "The planet broke before the guard did" people are throwing around. Among the other videos people have recommended, I'd like to add the (extended) intro to Battlefleet Gothic 2 (Battlefleet Gothic 2 Fall of Cadia), that actually shows lot of the important events of that conflict. Bricky glances of this, but the original 18 legions (actually 20, but two, alongside their primarchs, have no official material apart from the fact that they must have existed for the numbering to work) are broken up into smaller chapters that all have their own colors and leaders and are only loosely connected to their direct brother-chapters of the same gene-line (some more than others). All this plays into the freedom of making up your own background and colors for the army that the tabletop game runs on. Space Marines have a special implant that can change their skin to be more resistant to radiation, and the specific radiation of their planet and it's interaction with their gene-seed is what causes their skin to turn coal-black. Next to the Salamanders, the Blood Angels (and many chapters of their gene-line) are among the nicest Space Marines and my personal favourites. They usually take up art as a means to learn to control their thirst for blood, but they still loose some of their number to the Res Thirst. Even when they get a hang of that, they have a second flaw, the Black Rage, which completely changes how they perceive the world. They start to believe they are among the defenders of Terra during the end of the Horus Heresy or even Sanguinius himself during that time, including his duel with Horus where he died (which he knew beforehand, by the way). I like this struggle to keep up their nobility against these overwhelming flaws. On the other hand, some of these chapters embrace their flaws and are among the most savage loyalist chapters. The Adeptus Mechanicus has a trinity theme going on, with the Machine God, his manifestation and physical avatar in the Omnissiah (the Emperor) and the Motive Force. The Motive force is the most abstract and manifests in technology as machine spirits, which actually is a thing even for things too small and simple to actually have any form of AI (never bring up the idea a sophisticated Machine Spirit might even be remotely related to AI, by the way). There are instances in the lore where well cared for tanks or weapons that are broken, have no ammunition or fuel or shouldn't be able to work for any number of reasons suddenly spring to life and save their crew with absolutely no explanation. Sisters of Battle: I feel it's worth noting than many of the Cherubs (the Angel-Servitors) are vat-grown for this purpose, so usually, no parents have to give up their children. Inquisition: I think Bricky is wrong on the Exterminatus thing. Most Space Marine Chapter Masters and even some Fleet Admirals have both the capability and authority to perform an Exterminatus, though usually with more restrictions and political backlash than an Inquisitor. Which makes the whole thing arguably worse. Kryptman is an Inquisitor that specializes in fighting the Tyranids, an extra-galactic alien species that could best be described as alien super locust. The Tyranids consume the biomass of whole planets and add it to their forces (alongside the remains of their own losses). As such, they come out of any fight they win stronger than before, no matter how close it was. Kryptman decided it was best to influence the path their fleets take by strategically removing planets they might target otherwise, by means of Exterminatus. The logic is a bit spotty, as the biomass might actually still be usable afterwards, I personally think it only worked at all because the Tyranids navigate with psychik senses, so they couldn't sense the planets anymore once everything on them was dead.

My favourite bits of Inquisition lore, is the Ordo Originatus and the Ordo Redactus, who, in a brilliant display of bureaucratic redundancy, have their entire point of being as trying to undo each other.

You have such a likeable chill personality. Definitely got a little crush going on. 40k has so much to explore, every time I click on someone's video I learn something new. Will check out more your reactions to learn up on the lore!

Cadia, the planet broke before the guard did. Here's a fun Fact, the Actor Henry Cavil is a massive fan of Games Workshop, and actually collects Custodians.

Kryptman was an Inquisitor that got kicked out of the Imperium because he overdid his job. Exterminatus is meant to be a last resort option, when they have no other choice on the table. Kryptman did not use it as a last option, in fact he did it as his first.

Nice reaction 😊 I was really surprised about your question about who would win a Culexus or a Grey Night. I never thought about it 😂

Inquisitor Kryptman was the one who first noticed an ongoing Tyranid invasion somewhere at the edges of the Imperium. To stop it he devised a "tactic" to let the Tyranids on the planet and he declared exterminatus to that planet. But since it was a big invasion there were a lot of planets that were exterminated. It did the job but the cost was so high that the other inquisitors deemed him a traitor.

As mentioned below the Titans from the Mechanicus (The tech people) was not mentioned, these can be as tall as 150 meters which is about the size of a 40 floor office building, however most Titans stand between 15 and 60 meters

Ahh, yet another reactor falling into the warhammer rabbit hole. Whilst normally I prefer to watch reactions with extra input (like reacts to ), this is giving me homey chill vibes, it's quite nice! Cheers!

Not to spoil anything about Cadia and the Cadian Imperial Guard, but I’ll just say this: The planet broke before the guard.

I have over 180 Wh40k books from the black library and there's still a ton of lore to explore. I love the Wh40k universe.

As someone who’s been in the community for a few years now…one of the nicest parts of 40K is that it’s filled with people genuinely eager to explain paragraphs about things you wanna know. Sooooo, it’s very likely I’ll reply to this comment as I watch this video answering any questions you have that I know well enough (or just feel like commenting on if you’re eager to learn more about a topic).

"I my god." That is an acceptable reaction when seeing your first Great Unclean One.

I was about 13 when the first fully dedicated Chaos-related expanded game rules came out for 40K in the form of Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness, in 1988. That book's astonishing art, rules and vision blew my mind and messed with my sleep for weeks. The way you rolled a 1000-sided dice (well, three 10-sided dice to give a 1-1000 result) to consult a table of random mutations ("gifts of the gods"!) gives some sense of how thorough it was. It was followed-up by the equally freaky and stuffed-with-goodness The Lost And The Damned. Incredible times. I loved how each book was stuffed with different interpretations via a mishmash of different artists' work, which added to how warped (chaos reference!) it all felt.

You know the best part, "If every faction is a villain, it's okay if all of them die fighting each other :D" Good excuse to smash toys together.

he undersold the custodes so much, like he said they could only take on 3 space marines and maybe win... but in reality 1 custodes could probably take on a few dozen normal space marines or a squad of grey knights with low to medium effort

45:55 holy shit I've never thought about that, I honestly have no clue who would win

Something he didn't mention about blanks with the sisters and the culexis is that any psyker cannot use their abilities within a certain amount of distance from the blank. So a gray knight would still win because he's still a badass space marine, but he would have to do so without his psyker abilities

While Bricky does not really go over ALL factions and the selection of some of the minor ones he did while he left out some other bigger ones, I still think it is a great entry to the entire topic.

My personal favorite legion is the Space Wolves. Werewolves have always been at the top of my favorite monster list, so naturally I choose the wolf vikings

If you found the Black Templars interesting, then I suggest you put The Templin Institute's Black Templars lore video in your que. After Bricky's other two videos, of course.

"My patience is not unlimited...unlike my power." Inquisitor Eisenhorn.

I feel Bricky didn't quite do the Emperor justice on two occasions. The first one being that the Big E didn't just show up and die and then have people worship him just because. At the time the Emperor stepped in, humanity had fallen from grace heavily as before 40k (10-25k ish) we were one of the most advanced races in the galaxy due to our super A.I. And as you can guess, this A.I turned against us terminator style and we fought the biggest galactic civil war our species had ever experienced. We won, but we were so screwed that we just fell apart right after as worlds turned back to caveman style fights for survival. The Emperor took all this in and he said no. He decided that he was going to once again unite our species and launched the Great Crusade which was a success. This is why he was so loved and people everywhere mourned his permanent enthronement. The man basically took the dying embers of our shattered race and breathed hope into it, kindling a fire so strong it's been burning for the past 10k years. He took us up when we had no other. Now sure he never wanted to be worshipped as a god but when someone as powerful as him brings light to an all but finished species, it's inevitable. The other thing is that the Omnissiah is NOT the machine god idk why Bricky said that. The machine god is by itself and the Omnissiah is the person that's thought to have the voice of the machine god permeating through him. And that person is the Emperor, that is why the Mechanicus and the Imperium can get along. They worship the Emepror but in a weird way and that has everyone looking at them funny and suspiciously, but it's ultimately Emperor worship so they get along.

48:45 "Innocence proves nothing" sounds over the top but it is actually a genius motto. Because yes, you can be 100% innocent but that doesn't mean you have not being used. without knowing, as a cog in a 200 year plan to summon a demon army near Terra. Your innocence proves nothing, you have to be eliminated for the sake of the the Imperium of Man.

Technically. The Chaos Gods are not evil. The warp is affected and changed by emotions. Emotional energy if you will. Every emotion in the material dimension directly influences the warp and the Gods.

The Cadians are worth looking into, i believe there is a great Video by The Templin Institute The Planet broke before the Guard!

Evil is a strong word for some of the factions and phobia implies an irrational fear and in 40k all those bad things you think the aliens are trying to do, they are.

welcome to the most amazing and crazy universe!!! ALL HAIL THE EMPEROR!!!! also the imperium is slowly getting consume by the heretics and xenos army in the current setting so when he said that "everyone is so powerful that it ends up cancelling each other out" is not happening right now the imperium is in a lot of trouble.....

I've been a W40K fan since I was 12. Since my brother first walked through the door with Black Templars! I was instantly hooked. This was over 2 decades ago and I still remember the fascination at these Darth Vader looking armored scary boys with machine guns and chainsaw swords! It makes me so happy to see how vast the fanbase has grown and how accessible it is to anyone and everyone willing to learn about it! Whether you play on the table top or in video games, whether you like to read the novels or simply paint the figures, it puts a smile on my face to see this IP grow to the popularity it deserves!

At around 46:00 you asked a who would win in a fight between a Grey Knight and a Calexus Assassin. Depends on who detects who first. But also, Grey Knights fight in squads and are the troops of a branch of the Inquisition and the Assasinorium have very close ties to the Inquisition as well, if it were to happen, that would be some mad shit. But if that were to actually happen, the Grey Knight is *still* an astartes. If it comes to a shoot out/melee fight, it could go either way.

Aeldari, Drukhari, and Ynnari are my favorites.

As you can see, the Imperium is jam packed with absolutely crazy factions. Being the human faction, they are sort of the "protagonists" since they're a future version of us (hopefully not literally lol). Of all the imperium factions I think I like the Adeptus Mechanicus the best. Their cybernetic augmentations are bizarre and awesome, the fact that they're basically the only ones who can *sort of but not quite* get away with heresy given their religious differences and worshiping the Machine God alongside the Emperor. I also really enjoyed the video game they made with them, Warhammer 40,000 Mechanicus, where they are fighting against Necrons in turn based strategy battles. That game also has an amazing soundtrack, give it a listen if you want, it's on youtube. Well time to watch part two!

My 2 fav factions are Eldar, for their awesome aesthetic, the harrowing lore and the tech. And Tyranids, I just love space monsters, man. EZ pick. A close 3rd would be Necrons!

Warhammer 40K is a bit wonky on the numbers side so I recommend adding a couple zeroes to every number stated in 40K. For example, they'll sometimes mention that 10 million guardsmen died in a specific battle, which is kind of unrealistic for the Imperium's vast numbers so people like to make it billions instead. The same goes for the number of planets the Imperium has, which is definitely more than millions. It's more likely that the Imperium houses trillions of humans under it since hive cities contain upwards of 10 billion on hive worlds (yes, multiple hive cities in a world), and there are many hive worlds in the Imperium, not to mention the Forgeworlds, Agri-worlds, Death-worlds, and more. The Emperor's "1000" people a day is quite small when you consider how vast the Imperium is, the problem is that it's not people they're rounding up but psykers (extremely rare and dangerous). The Imperium gathers psykers from all around its domain and goes to Terra (Earth) to keep the Emperor powerful enough to not die and power the Astronomican, they're just batteries really. The Imperium uses psykers for everything, communications, navigation through the Warp, combat, and more but they're looked down upon since they're not the standard "human" per se. 40K lore is so inconsistent sometimes that it's hard to draw feats from one book then compare it to another. Some say that Space Marines die every time they fight and others glorify them so much it's unbelievable.

I know I’m late to comment on this vid but a couple major changes happened since Bricky’s vids. First is the unaligned Daemon Vashtorr the Arkifane aka the Master of the Forge of Souls, went and helped Abbadon out by using his tech powers to give him the super ships known as the Arks of Omen. Secondly Primarch Lion El’ Johnson of the Dark Angels woke the hell up finally and is on the scene kicking ass in Imperium Nihilus, the part of the Imperium on the bad side of the galaxy after the Great Rift formed. Thirdly Vashtorr kinda rebuilt the Dark Angels home world of Caliban into a teleporting Daemon World called Wyrmwood and is trying to use it to acquire some super weapons hidden in the Webway dimension by the aliens called the Old Ones. Fourthly some older races: the Zoats, Beastmen, and Squats (Space Dwarfs) were reintroduced to the modern lore. While the first two are still minor factions the Squats, who are now known as the Kin, are now a major faction called the Leagues of Votann. The Kin are a genetically modified human descended race who live in Leagues, which are a bunch of independent nations in the galactic core who worship a bunch of super AIs called the Votann that are made of the digitized minds of their dead ancestors. Lastly as shown in your first Warhammer vid the Tyranids have invaded the galaxy yet again thus kicking off the Fourth Tyrannic War.

Thank you for the video twenty. Was good sitting here in Norway watching your reaction to it. He leaves out so much, quite understandably because of time constraints.. I just want to add on to what he tells that the "Grey Knights" he mentions comes from the Emperors own Gene Seed, just like his Custodes. Thats one of the reasons they are able to overcome deamons so effectively, because the emperor is anathema to Chaos. The other Legions/chapters come from the Gene Seeds of their primarch. Edit: Also Custodes are not really a space marine versions afaik. This is a bit more shaky, but i don't think these guys are made quite the same way as a space marine. Their biggest difference besides their fighting prowess and a big oversimplification is to say that Space Marines fight together as a unit, depending on comradery and unit tactics. While the Custodes are the unit. They are an island. They can fight together with each other, but their strenght lies in their individuality. They are each their own powerful island.

wow he really shat on those space marines chapters , even worse on the most loyal of them all, the Blood Angel Chapter. Gee Sanguinius was the Angel, with his gift he could see the future. He had the chance to save himself , instead he was the only one who stood by the emporer on horus ship and gave his life for him. When he says the angels are super - gay for Sanguinius, they worship his loyalty. Do to the horrible way he died and the fact he was one of the mightiest psykers in the Emperium of man , his deathcry echos through the warp , and every Blood Angel can hear it. They HEAR their Primarch , their Idol, dying for the Emporer. "My faith shields me" "For the Emporer" And the Space Wolfs ? he just about forgot to mention , that they are the Elite of the Elite of the Elite. Each single one of the is a champion. Space Wolfs do not need to move in Squads , each of them is a champion (i did mention that before ....), for the price of 20 Space marines of other chapters you get maybe 8-10 Space wolfs. They also do not need to stand next to each other in Formation , because their Leadership is that supreme. Uhhhhgggghhh ..... he really sucks at describing them. The Dark Angel Chapter. Inbred Loyalty. Fanatical Loyalists ,which of course is due to their history. The Only legion if i am not mistaken , that got split in the great heresy. They did not fall to chaps, but half of their chapter did. The only chapter that survived the downfall of their brothers, because you either never fell or you fell completly. "The Thief can be forgiven - through death!" "The Murderer can be forgiven - through death!" "The Traitor cannot be forgiven!" It would also have been cool if he would have mentioned, that the Sororitas are no normal Women but amazonian sect who worshiped the emporer. They were tricked into the service of the church by believing , their technolocigal wargear was holy magic, blessed by the emporer himself. Goge Vandire , the one who tricked them, betrayed Terra in the Reign of Blood and the ecesiarchy was besieged. This is when the personal guard , the pretorians of the emporer himself , lead The leader of the Brides of the Emporer Alicia Dominica, first of the sisters (which is what they called themselfs) and her bodyguards to the emporer himself , knowing their faith would stop them from harming him. Though not known what words were spoken, enraged by the enlightenment she perceived from the emporer , she returned to the eclesiarchy chanting curses all the way from the imperial palace up to the holy cathedral , charging into the high halls beheading Goge Vandire herself , thus ending the Reign of Blood. Goge is supposed to have said:"I have no time to die - i'm to busy." Gosh THAT is what tell about the fucking sisters , THEY ARE AWESOME ! Does this guy really know his Lore ? Cause i kind of doubt it.

*cracks neck* - "So there's this guy called the Emperor..."

"what happened to cadia?" me: shit will hurt you.

19:43 their skin is like coal… like not just color, but also texture… it’s like rocky and tough…. Which makes some of their rituals of burning themselves seem EVEN MORE unhinged if normal fire barely affects them.

watched about 4 of your 40k reactions, and I just have to say, you are dope. Love your sense of humour and your engagement with 40k just found your channel, for sure subbing

Messed up part is the emperor is a perpetual so if they actually let him just "die" he'd be reborn 😂

For reference, just the Horus Heresy, which is sort-of prequal to the main timeline, has over 50 novels, so far.

So fun fact about the Custodes Astartes. They will have war games with each other one group will attempt to breech the throne room and make an actual effort to bring his blade within inches of the God Emporor. And it’s not going easy. They are so equally determined that it usually boils down to a wrestling match. But in the entire time they’ve been training like that I believe only one actually made it in. And he immediately got head butted backwards out the door. They are also more likely to beat 19 space Marines. Due to them being so much tougher and literally bred for what they do.

There's honestly nothing funnier than imagining churches dropping from orbit directly into battle and being overwhelmed by religious hymns from space. Who the actual fuck came up with that.

I've been heavily into Warhammer 40.000 for 15+ years, and i still learn new things about the lore and universe on a regular basis because it's such a *_massive_* setting 💯🔥

Picking a Warhammer faction is like eating a potato chip, can’t have just one. I have Black Templars, Sisters of Battle, Orks, Death Guard & Blood Angels. Templars, Sisters, Orks & Death Guard are my top favorites though. I also have a box of Grey Knights that I’ll eventually open & paint.

TOP FIVE 1.Dark Angels 2.Blood Angels 3.Orks (GOFFS) 4.Imperial Guard 5.Traitor Marines

Oh boi get ready to get traumatised when you jump deeper into the lore! Welcome to Warhammer 40k We have cookies This is a lie

About the Inquisition being technically above the Space Marines, I'm not so sure about that. Because if that was the case, the Space Wolves would be in deep trouble. There's this Space Wolf called Lukas the Trickster. He is quite a legend amongst the chapter, for being such an uncontrollable prank storm that he never rose beyond the rank of Blood Claw, which basically is the newbie rank for Space Wolves. He once thought it was a brilliant idea to "accidentally" lock up an Inquisitorial delegation into the grox pen a whole night. Now that might seem like a nice little joke that woulod have pissed the inquisitor off until you learn that groxes are massive and aggressive reptiles domesticated to produce meat. And it was breeding season.

Custodes are smaller then Grey Knights, thats what makes them so incredible !

Question about Grey Knighrs vs Assassins is actually very interesting, they are in the same fraction, so i don't think they ever going to fight each other, but i woud like to know who would win too.

28:47 I mean he answered... lmao first video of yours and I loved it, will be watching part 2 next! :)

Starting today off with this one. So delightful to watch here. I never watched Brickey, just Weshammer and Majorkill so its still "newish". And its fun to see your reaction to the lore, its alot! Keep up the good content!

Ah, you're learning from Bricky. A good choice, but as you can see... he's just a little guy. One little guy. How's he gonna educate the masses when he's one little guy? Also think it's obvious what faction I like. - my reason is the fact I already have partially metal bones. My shoulders and left hip are made of titanium. Survived Leukemia, but had to get some rotten parts of my body sawed out and replaced. You can probably see why I'm partial to the Adeptus Mechanicus.

learn it...spread it....share it....play it....one of us...one of us

As a Tyranid player.... "Every 40k faction explained" boils down to .... THEY ARE ALL JUST FOOD!

Grandfather Nurgle loves you and accepts you for who you are. Free your mind from the shackles of the false emperor...

Bricky actually does quite a disservice because he's very much "Funny/In-Joke > Accuracy". To his credit, he's gotten a LOT of new people interested in the W04K lore, but he gets a LOT of stuff wrong, or stuff that goes UNSAID in this video is SUPER IMPORTANT due to context. Example No.1; The Astronomicon, it's not a navigating "beam" the Emperor puts out for each ship in Warp Transit... It's more of a "beacon" that acts as a static point of reference to triangulate your own position against the roiling gaseous/fluidity of The Warp/Immaterium that - as a separate dimension - does not adhere to the physics of material space or even the same flow of time. Example No. 2; About the Religious Zealotry and Xenophobia, The Emperor tried, and basically succeeded, to stamp out all forms of religion in humanity as a whole. It has always held humanity back from progress, and serves in nothing but fuel for in-fighting. The Galaxy, and every other species in it, is HOSTILE. Everything that is not human, be it Daemons from the Warp, or Xenos (alien) Races wants to either just purely eat, or genocide (absolute extinction), or torture/"rhymes with grape" every last man, woman, and child of humanity. So the way theses non-religious humans over the centuries and millennia started to see him as a True, Living God, without the Immortal, powerful Emperor (that brought them out of the "Age of Strife" and tried to uplift humanity to a renewed "Golden Age") being able to guide them, is kind of fitting. It also - IRONICALLY - is probably LITERALLY THE REASON that Humanity endured - and as the single most powerful faction on a galactic scale no less... The reason that humanity as a whole, in it's entirety, and as a species did not go extinct. The Xenophobia ensures humanity is galvanised as one against the sheer HORROR that is the W40K version of our Milky Way Galaxy. Because of this coupled with Humanity's sheer willpower, and prowess in survival at all costs - for 10,000 years humanity endures after the Emperor is broken and linked into the Golden throne on Terra.

This is also how I got introduced to 40K. Bricky does an amazing job summarizing the most important factions and stories for new people. I came out loving the Sisters of Battle that I got myself a few of the mini collections to build myself just to display. It’s a really deep and crazy universe. I really like it but I’m also barely scratching the surface!

3:35 While he is not technically wrong, its actually over 10,000 years lol.

This was a great video, I learned alott. Just finished listening to the horus heresy. And this is the first reaction video i’ve seen from you. So sweet and charming, made the video so much better :)

The guy who drinks blood is named Sanguinius? Apt!

13:14 "Congratulations Guardsman! That model of Lasgun in your arms has killed 99% of Xenos and Heretic troops across the universe for millenia! Unfortunately you're fighting the surviving 1%. Good luck and don't stop shooting."

Hail Cadians ! The planet broke before the Guard did.

3:17 Imperial guard gigachads: in a universe where humanity is surrounded by hostile high tech aliens, ancient robot people, daemons, so on and so forth, and despite having the likes of the astartes and all the other fun stuff, humanity continues to owe its existence to the Imperial guard, all of which are basically average humans.

I've been an Adeptus Mechanicus player for a few years now. Lot of fun to paint. Comlpetely insane lore. Gotta love it.

I am just going to point out, he is still really underselling just how horrific and awful living in the 40k universe is.

Yeeaahh, always awesome to see someone get introduced to 40k! Great to see what non-fans think of the universe. Welcome to the Hobby! Don`t take much of anything too serious (official lore can be confusing and contradicting at times). And most of all, just have fun!

As much as I love this guy's explanation, he left out one of the core factions of the Imperium. They're just as much the backbone as the Imperial Guard, and just as crucial: The Imperial Navy. Yes, I know most people are more focused on the army game, but the Imperial Navy are the ones who move the troops, provide air support, and, when needed, end worlds. An Inquisitor may give the order, but it's the guns of the navy that end worlds.

always fun to see new people showing interest in 40k, Welcome to the hobby.

average life expectancy of a guard ---- .10 seconds -- veterans at day 1 of survival

Who would win between a culexus assassin and a Grey Knight? A Grey Knight...hands down, not even a contest. Yes, culexus are super anti-psyker but part of the training GKs go through is having psykers probe their mind and torture them. They'd lose their ability to use their psyker powers with the pariah field amplified but they'd still be extremely capable marines. Pretty sure it's even stated lore wise that no loyal servant of the Emperor can beat them (aside from Custodes) period. Culexus assassin would be rofl stomped.

10:15 the emperor has been dying and reviving every single day for ten thousand years...i dont want to be in his place :)

That thousand deaths a day for the convenience of society line really hits different after the pandemic

The oil goes on the machine, not the robes BTW. The Adeptus Mechanicus has turned basic maintenance and operating procedures into religious ritual.

Luetin's videos are amazing as well, he just started another space marine series that is fun to watch and very educational; you should check his stuff out

"For over 100 years the Emperor has sat on the golden throne" Ah... back in Ediddys freshman butt surfing days

The sisters of battle also have "battle churches" which serve as mobile fortresses. Bristling with guns and everything. Yeah.

I absolutely love the death guard, I find Nurgle to be an absolutely fascinating character

I am a sucker for power armour, the cooler the better. Of my favorite 3, Grey Knights will always be #2.

"Oh what happened to Cadia." HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA, it got out of the way.

The emperor is SSS class as a psycher, when he was born a billion suns flickered in the darkness of space.

Because he covered so much he couldn't really dive into what makes each faction/legion special or any of their feats. There are some really cool things that had to get glossed over that can really make you like a certain faction, like how the battle sisters have such an overwhelming amount of faith that they manifest literal miracles from the warp without being psykers or how insanely powerful the Primarchs are and how their strengths manifest in their legions gene seed and ideology. I also haven't even attempted the table top game, I've only ever played the videogames and only recently got into the lore but it's easily my favorite fictional setting and so many of the books are ridiculously good I recommend at least thinking about reading/listening to the books, If you enjoy that kind of stuff I don't think you will be disappointed.

When you get so uncomfortable about signing the idea of murdering a planet you got to fix your hair.

The tech priest weird religion is actualy really cool. In several old lore story of the Adeptus Mecanicus (don't know if nowadays book say this too) but you can understand that if they are tech proeficient, compare to the rest of mankind, they have lost a lot too. So to save what can be save, they start ritualising the maintenance and other stuff. Like you have to recite what you do, in what order and respect this order, etc. Logic. Then several millenials pass and they remember the "songs" of maintenance and what have to be done during witch lyrics, but don't remember the meaning of the lyrics.