Imperial Guard: Tallarn Desert Raiders - Lore & History | Warhammer 40,000 

Space Marines are cool and all but there is nothing like an image of your very own culture to pull you into a community.

Perturabo: Yes, this planet is devoid of life! Now we can retrieve the- Why do I hear boss music?

Man, hearing The Iron Warriors, an Astartes Legion known for sieges and armor got beaten back by an Imperial Guard Regiment even after they got virus bombed gave me chills

Perturabo: No you cant use Gurella tactics on a siege!! Tallarn: Haha, tank go brrr.

who would have thought tactics and conserving your troops are more effective than just throwing millions of men into a line of fire

Perturabo: While you were busy being human I studied the baneblade Tallarn Desert Raiders: *deepstrikes behind Perturabo* no hard feelings kid

Can’t wait for the Tanith

As is with the nature of the 40K universe and general guard tactics... We need MORE REGIMENTS!!! XD seriously man this series is awesome I’d love you to keep going with it

My personal favorite obscure regiment is the Athonian Tunnelrats, the most 40k looking regiment, but you definitely should talk about the Penal Legions, they are a 40k mainstay, have a bunch of lore behind them, and the last chancer novels are hilarious. How about the Tempestus Stormtroopers? They kinda aren't technically an IG unit but kinda are, might fit in a miscellaneous video...

These guys sound awesome! I love it when humanity allies up with xenos. Yes, yes, I know - I am a "heretic". I just really enjoy it when the "good guys" join forces to fight of the "evil" ones. The limit of my Warhammer lore is what you and other youtubers teach me so I don't have any specific suggestions for next video, but would love to hear more about factions who join forces. As always, fantastic video my battle-brother!

Forgot the Dune references. Desert world, live in underground caverns and cities, reclaim water from the dead. So there is a heavy Fremen reference.

Tanith. Including its evolution as they folded others in.

Say it with me, Tanith First (and only).

As if surviving an Exterminatus wasnt insane enough, they then proceed to utterly destroy the shit out of an entire Astartes chapter who'se entire personality revolves around sieges. These guys must have planet sized balls, im sure Catachan Warriors would be best friends with them lol.

I posted on the 40k wiki about a Hypothetical Guard regiment that I came up with based on the Viet Cong. Their origin story was that they lived on a Death World much like Cretacia or Catachan where the inhabitants primarily lived in tunnels and bunkers but only coming out for hunting and gathering. They develop tactics resembling a mix between those of the Tallarn Desert Raiders and Catachan Jungle Fighters because they had to fight off an assault on their planet from a Death Guard warband. Unfortunately the community of the wiki assumed that they would be a complete copy-paste of the Viet Cong and said that that backstory was stupid because the Death Guard would win because "fear tactics" wouldn't work on them and the zombie plague would be too traumatic. I explained everything and said that the Viet Cong knockoffs would become callous and learn to shoot the infected in the head and burn the bodies, but the fuckers didn't seem to listen and said "a single Guard Regiment can't fight the Death Guard." It sounds like they're wanking the Death Guard a bit too much. I know they corrupt the environment but that's a given with Nurgle. If the Death Guard can be killed and sabotaged before they can take over it's fine. It's part of an origin story after all.

Man I miss these lore videos, these were the good ole days

Tomorrow my girlfriend, in the Netherlands, and I are painting a veterans guardsmen box in a desert theme before I go home on Thursday to South Africa.🇿🇦

Can you do a video about the attilan rough riders aka Mongol in space.

Love the Tallarn. Good representation of Arab/South East Asians that makes sense. Badass human guerilla warfighers using mechanized infantry hit and run tactics. Very realistic and clearly influenced from SAS and Mujahideen. I mean fending off an entire LEGION of Traitor Astartes, wow

Been watching lots of your lore videos, so just wanted to say thanks - I love 40k and your style of narrative is really good. I chuckled more than once and learned some cool facts as well :)

This makes me very happy as a middle eastern.

That picture of the Scions and Banshees fighting is cool as hell

These are my kind of people. thanks for posting this

(Wrist-Clasp)- Hey, Brother! Awesome video, and great assessment of the Tallarn- I was never a fan of the Guard, but I just read the HH Novel “Tallarn” a few months back, and gained a totally newfound respect for them. Great timing, and a great video! And yeah, watch out for those sneaky closet vacuums- they’ll getcha.

I've been looking forward to this one! Excellent stuff, dude.

First time watching this channel, nice and simple I'm quite a fan. It isn't a dude making his voice deep trying to sound dramatic with music way too loud in the background Just a man talking about the lore short and sweetly. I'll def be checking more videos

Keep up the good work and do More and more regiments, As a huge 40k fan I love these kinds of videos, i live for them. Another thing to do is focus on specific chapters/regiments/cults/ etc... from each army in general. A nice 25-30 minute video on each one would be perfect.

Keep up the good work with these videos as I love to watch you lore videos.

Definitely want to hear about Tanith First and Only. Such an interesting regiment.

ah my favorite regiment

So they're Fremen. Cool af. Appreciate your lore videos

Finally, been waiting for this. Thank you. How about we do Mordian Iron Guard next? Just a suggestion.

Gaunt's Ghosts!! The Lord Executor Militant is waiting patiently for your work... patiently for now.

Definitely building my Sisters of Battle to this vid. Well done sir, thank you for more great content!

Tallarn are a walking Dune reference, and I love it

You can see GW pulling inspiration from the Long Range Desert Group of WW2, which would in turn later heavily assist in the beginnings of the British SAS.

Nice comparison of the Tallarn and the Afghan-Soviet War. One wonders where GW gets its inspiration.

Tanith first and only

Iron Warriors: "Why is the sand speaking low gothic?"

my 3 fave imperial guards faction are krieg preatorian and tallarn... I just wanna say shame they don't do the last 2 models

Want a pair of Garden Inn use hit-and-run tactics besides charging enemy like a suicidal Madman

Thank you, Sparticus. You go back to your games now.

The Catachan jokes are well received lol

Yes more Guard videos.

Do them all! Especially the Ork Hunters. They are so cool!

Can’t wait till you cover the Pretorian Guard. Got the best uniforms and really fun flavor even if there isn’t a ton of lore like Cadian Shock Troopers or the Steel Legion. Plus this way you can cover Blood Axe Mercenaries, something no other IG units have. For Pretoria and the Emperor!

Omg Tankgirl. I remember first seeing that movie when I was just a young Crawdad. Early 90s

So much lore for the Tanith First and Only!!!

I still have my Tallarn. Mechanized with enough transportation for the full platoon. And a ton of armor

tbh a regiment of ff style dragoons would be pretty baller as well big dragon hunters ?

The Tanith don't have a huge amount of lore? (Scoffs in Dan Abnett)

Don't forget the phantine - only guard flyers, the necromundans, the japol indentured, acid dogs, chem dogs, Attila, and the macabian jannisaries. Solar auxilla out of the question? How about a mention for the Tau gue'vesa and how that's changing now.(just a suggestion)

I’m getting back into 40k. I was sent this channel so I could learn the lore and pic which set I want to go with. I was hoping to branch out of the traditional space marines, and the boys in blue. I got to say holy shit! Every IG regiment is fucking badass!! I love these vids man! I can’t choose which one I want. I’m thinking either the Death Corps or Krieg or Elysian Drop Troops. But these guys would be bad ass af to play!!

I want more of these videos bruh-

@ItalianSpartacus Can we get the most famous Traitor guard regiments/worlds that may or may havent fallen. (Chaos or not IDC)

More guard videos c’mon man I miss your lore!!

I think you can continue with some of the lore for the more minor regiments that are known. At least the ones with enough fluff to fill out two regiments per video, if not one per video. For example, here is a list of the regiments I think could have a decent sized video made about them: 1) Harakoni Warhawks 2) Savlar Chem-Dogs 3) Attlian Rough Riders 4) Maccabian Jannissaries 5) Terrax Guard etc. Two regiments per video (depending on the amount of fluff) I think would be enough for you to make a 15 to 20 minute video. There are a good number of interesting Imperial Guard regiments and it would be shame if you only focused on the ones that only have model ranges and never went on with the rest of them.

Praetorian Guard next?

Cover the tanith please

The knight Who Ask About The Flesheater Courts video have crossed dimensions and franchise-lines so ask: Not to be pushy but how's about that meat-nommer soirée pictcast? I think it'd be sick if you covered the Armageddon Ork Hunters. The kitbashing potential of those diggaguards are off the chart, hook and chain.

Rough riders back now, but i prefer the armoured approach

Yes give us tanith

Everyone gansta until the sand speak low gothic.

Give Tanith 1st please

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the iron warriors going to siege tallarn the tallarn desert raiders i am gonna stop you right there

Eldar should learn diplomacy

praetorians please!

North Africa Campaign Special Air Service

I feel like if they had ability to just dig into sand faster they would abuse the fuck out of that

2:37 ''South of Inwit'' YES HE NAMED THE WORLD OF DADDY ROGAL ''Tallarn Reside, aDORNed'' HE SAID DORN!!!!!!!!!!

10 million tanks...? Astartes pls get on this shit

Thats right I think heard this regiments inspiration was the SASs hit and run tactics in North Africa.

Iron warriors create their own nightmares lol

does the Emperor offer the Tallarnians 72 Virgins in the afterlife for fighting and dying in His name ?

Tallarn were based on the afghan mujahideen made popular in Rambo around when GW was founded, who then became the Taliban......oops

669th like lets go

IS, what is an email address I can send you a business proposal. It's not displaying on your channel.

If these guys were in the Middle East fighting against the US, we’d pull out immediately.