A good read that I enjoyed, heavy vibes of Apocalypse Now and similar stories that portray the everyday insanity of war. Felt quite grounded, not the usual OTT 40k - mainly IG and Tau grunts going mad fighting on a cesspit planet.
It is. I remember how in the end captured Tau advisor sees who humans really are and shivers in absolute fear, because he sees to what lengths humans can go pursuing their goals. -no worries, two small wrongs make one big right! -Small wrong? You call this SMALL WRONG?
Little known fact, that's actually the reason why Malal has been retconned into nonexistence. Khorne got super pissed about the Sons of Malice because wanton destruction is basically his thing, so he stormed GW's office and Henry Cavil himself to complain about it. Not wanting to be turned into red smears on the floor, they acquiesced to his demands.
Well, isn't canon that the Emperor one time went into the warp and over an unknown amount of years/centuries/millennia (warp shenanigans) took power that was meant to go to the Chaos gods for himself? And they hate him because he is basically infringing on their collective claim on all of humanity's souls?
@@damienmccuinn1956Oh yes, definitely the best option for stopping the chaos gods is to pile all their traits onto our captive psyker godhead while he's still incubating, that's gonna turn out great!
Lore: power armor is available to high ranking officers, bodyguards and special characters depending on prosperity of their homeworld. Rogue Trader: Abelard, where is my super suit?!
@@adamorick2872 they say that some upstart imperial shouldn't try to tell Adeptus Mechanicus what is and isn't a tech heresy. Plus they like how the local name of tech priests hails to pre-DAoT era of humanity.
Being hundreds of meters up in the sky battling a mortal enemy, both mortally wounded and about to explode in a blast of fire while both are losing their mental sanity to the influence of an evil dark god of violence. One of the most 40k death that i have ever seen
@torinnbalasar6774 The whole planet was some sort of warp nexus, there has been multiple stories on it where strange fuckery is going on. For example at one point a genestealer infected Tau and a machine spirit controlled iron hand team up to destroy a mutated tyranid spore nidus in a xeno temple on said planet. Not to mention a closed time loop between a commissar and the arkan confederate guard unit deployed to the planet. Truly this planet is ripe for a table top adventure book or two.
Ok - I know that story. Imagine a jungle world. Now imagine that the whole world is a cancer. Now imagine that there is passing presence of corrupting evil that turns EVERYONE mad - from Humans, through tau to even the Kroot. Every atom of that world is a cancerous cell that infects mind, body and soul. It's a hell and both sides forgot why they even fight for it.
I think that as the Tau establish themselves more, they are more and more influenced by the Warp. After all, the Tau are just extremely weak psykers, they are not naturally blank.
Maybe insulting and mocking the idea of greater good while killing her best buddy in the fire caste warrior army???? Then again probably be some eldar backstabbing and attacking in the shadows as usual.....
Fun Facts - a fair number of this regiment had power armor. IIRC a few dozen in total. For a guard regiment that's pretty remarkable. Their types could have either inbuilt buzzsaws or drills as weapons. - The Shas'Ui in this battle was a recently promoted Tau Pathfinder who had refused promotion multiple times and had never piloted a crisis suit before. My favourite scene in the entire book is a guard sentinel squad leader watching this advanced alien killing machine land in front of him flanked by two equally heavily armed bodyguards and his only reaction is "Wow. You DO NOT know how to drive that." - the guardsman mentioned in this post was a religious lunatic even by the standards of the Imperium. Specifically the "murder your superiors in broad daylight when they call you out on your behavior but it's fine 'cause I'm God's favourite"-type. Also *SPOILER* He didn't die in the initial explosion. He died when his armour's jetpack exploded when he tried to do percussive maintenace on it.
@@macshadow1150 preachers can't be tainted, they're abundantly loyal no matter how much corruption compared to the average human, he simply had so much Faith.
@@vothbetilia4862 Oh they can be corrupted, its just harder. Taint however can take many shapes and forms, here twisting prayers of the faithfull, which are little too close yo Khorn
@@macshadow1150 you do realize every imperial planet has different view points of the emperor right? The twist of prayer you call it, doesn't mean it's khorn related
Hm, considering that the tau were uncharacteristically rage filled and what the preacher said, odds are, there is a Khorne artefact or something like that buried beneath the surface.
Yeah An unaugmented human In Power armor should have no business winning against those battlesuits Especially since the dude jumped out of it 😂 Humanity for the W
@@josephboustany4852to be fair he only won on the principle "The bells toll you filthy blue skin and I shall make sure you hear their call as well" kinda thing one thing no one should ever underestimate is the ability to be spiteful
Providence must be a rich and advanced world if they could afford to locally create their own power armour yes standard Imperial PA would still be better on all accounts but those tend to be built on Forge Worlds.
Fairly, yes. The armour is a relatively new invention from the Arkhan's homeworld. An Arkhan pov character mentions their world was enjoying a technological revolution before the Imperium found them and the Mechanicus put the kibosh on it.
@@vermeer11136 Of course they did wish Cawl or his followers found them first always wanted a fully powered armoured regimwnt of guardsmen that's not homebrew.
Ahhh fire caste It is released as a tau novel but secretly is the best chaos novel. Seeing chaos from psychological perspective was very weird and chilling. One of the best 40k novels apocalypse now+silent hill in format of 40k.
Honestly, good for the Tau that theyve learned to have a bit of pure hatred. In more civilized circumstances, it would be bad. But 40K is NOT civilized. Of course, respect to Joyce for standing for the Imperium of man.
I wonder if it is with intention they write more subtle hints of corruption as this into Warhammer lore. It is one of my favorite elements when things like that manage to get slipped into stories.
I remember when I was younger, like first getting into 40k and learning about the guard. About how depending on the planet the standard of armaments would vastly change with some worlds not having even the weakest of Flak armor to worlds where entire regiments had carapace armor to worlds that could even give power armor to their troops. I’m glad I finally got to see that here
I love how we have a codified mid stage for the imperial cult turning to khorne. Because of course closet khorne worship, even unconsciously could evolve in this way.
Ah, so that battlefield had a whole lot of Khorne influence it seems. Tau isn't normally that violent, but the only thing out of place for the Human side was them saying "Blood for the God Emperor!" Rather than "FOR THE EMPEROR!!!". One is shouted by soon-to-be Khore worshipers while the other is shouted by the truest of giga chads.
Rarely get to see power armor amongst the guard. Should be more common given the circumstances. At the very least, would make for cool moments and scenes.
Ah, the great rift in full effect. At last, the Tau as well can be driven by primitive rage. Soon, they too shall get infected, and plagued by psychic genes. May their age of strife be short and dark.
Arkhan confederates are inspired in the American confederates. Hell, even their world is a reference to the civil war as their planet suffered a civil war between 2 factions resulting as them as winners with the help of imperium
I'm gonna be real with you guys I'm kinda tired of humans somehow beating the xenos with some kinda hail Mary shouldn't have happened BULL SHIT it's gets old fast
GW: we got many factions! Each one is very interesting, has its own culture, they are all very unique! also GW: 3 out of those factions are humanity derived (Imperium, Chaos Worshipers and Leagues of Votaan), and most of the time, the Imperium always wins because we want to.
