Marine reacts to WH40k Helsreach Part 3 (By Richard Boylan) 

My take on Grimaldus' reaction to being "left" on the surface is not that he's pissed that it's a suicide mission or that he's gonna die, but instead that he's denied the chance to take the fight directly to the Orks in the orbital battle and the glory from dying on the offensive. Instead he's put on guard duty in this hive city. "-Don't deny me this glory"

"Is that a Commisar?" That is THE Commisar. Sebastian Yarrik. The man who, when he heard that the orks told tales of him being able to kill with a look; had one of his eyes replaced by a bionic laser.

Grimaldus wasnt pissed that he was going to die, he was pissed that he was going to die "alone" in a hive city, when his Brothers were fighting a glorious fight in the void. He would prefer to die in the void battle.

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Grimaldus , does not even trust his own ability, and commanders recognize also.

So the black Templars use a loop hole in the codex astartes. Do to the constant crusading they get away with having more than 1000 battle brothers. If a chapter is in a crusade they can create more battle brothers. And so they are on a eternal crusade

"Isnt there 1000 Astartes supposed to be a whole chappter" Well yeah, but then again not even the Black Templars know how many they are. They have something called Sword Brethren (replacing their scouts) and each Astartes has many of them following him. Someone said that the Black Templars are like Super Man, their power (numbers) are always just enough to save the day They are waging an Eternal Crusade for over 10.000 years, they are at constant war all the time, their numbers diminish and grow constantly, so they need a large supply of recruits. So they are alot more than 1000 Brothers, but then again there is nobody in the galaxy who can enforce the 1000 rule upon them. Not even the Inquisition.

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Saw your face when the guradsman saluted the space marine. Hand over hand, palms to the chest, thumbs interlocked. Rest of the fingers splayed outward like wings. It's a the symbol of the 2 headed aquila. The symbol of the imperium

In the novel Helsreach was garrisoned by squad Grimaldus and around 100 Black Templars. But this animation focuses on him and his squad which sort of cut some content,You should give it a try with the audiobook. It'll give you more feels 😂

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A normal chapter is approximately 1000 space marines, however the Black Templars rejected both the Codex Astartes and the Imperial Legislation prohibiting legion building and after ten thousand years of Crusade are over half legion strength with over 6000 marines under their colors. If they were all to show up in one place at one time it'd basically be game over for whatever they showed up to shit on.

"Ya can't kill old one-eyed Yarrick!" -Every Ork

"Isn't a full chapter supposed to be a thousand?" Hehhhehhehe... This is the Black Templars we're talking about.

The Black Templar chapter is rumored to be around 6000+. In the Black templar codex from 2004 I believe it states that the black template had almost 2,000 in the battle. There was 3 battle groups of templars on the planet and the and the rest were fighting in the space battle around the planet

What you saw was a recreation of Commissar Yarrick's last stand at Hades Hive. Yarrick fought an Ork Nob in single combat and lost an arm, but he managed to decapitate the Ork, cut off its Power Klaw and hoisted it high in the air, which sent the mob running. Despite his injury, Yarrick managed to stay on his feet shouting orders until he was absolutely sure the Orks were routed, whereupon he lost consciousness. Yarrick had the Power Klaw refitted by the local Mechanicus so he could use it himself, and he became famous among both the Imperium and the Orks for his sheer resilience.

Yarrick was about to retire when the Orks invaded and he pulled the most epic 'Get Off My Lawn' move ever. At which point he decided to not retire because the Orks pissed him off. 57 years later...

Black Templars don't think highly of humans. They do use humans as expendable troops.

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I want to adress two points: 1-The Black Templars: they are a fleet base chapter that don't follow the codex astartes rules, they are one of the few chapters who has more than 1.000 battle brothers, in fact they have around 6.000 thousand marines and each marine has a neophyte (basically a pupil who's enhaced well beyond regular humans but lacks the dicipline and skills of a full battle brother,) so in reality they have around 12.000 soldiers. 2-Sebastian Yarric is a beast: there's a scene in the book where one astartes interrupts the comissar and dismisses him as "only a Human", and all of the other astartes basically tell the young battle brother to shut up, Yarric is one of the VERY few unaugmented humans who has face an ork warboss in melee combat and not only actually won but did not fainted or show weakness in the presence of the ork horde or his soldiers despite missing an arm and being completly out number, just like grimaldus said "His name is sebastian Yarric, even we astartes must respect that name", this is coming from a black templar one of the chapters that see regular humans and guardmans as little more than cannon fodder. Oh and finally that last scene where squad grimaldus is on the ship flying over helsreach and nerovar (the apothecary) ask "how can we defend all of this" and Bastilan (the sergeant with the bird helmet) answers "with blade and bolter, with faith and fire" those where grimaldus own words, grimaldus teach that to Bastilan probably decades before when he was only a chaplain... Wich hits really hard because it wasn't grimaldus who answer nerovar, it really shows his mental state at the time.

A codex compliant chapter is roughly a 1000 Astartes but the Templars wipe their ass with the codex and have way more, idk the exact number but according to the warhammer text to speech podcast it’s over 6000 nearly full legion size

Irony to Armageddon, exceedingly "few" Commisars "get" to the age of retirement, much less allowed to. Yarrick here "tried" to retire, but the Greenskin's ....just ...kept... ...coming.... back...

Him getting hit wasn't really to see his reaction, only to tell him that "It shall be the last blow you receive unanswered" which means that from that point forward he should fight back if struck, because the blows will be coming from his enemies now.

6:10 No, they didn't. You are right: a space marine chapter is SUPPOSED to have no more than 1,000 Astartes at any time (a measure taken after the Horus Heresy to better contain any future rebellions among them), but the Black Templars don't take the Codex Astartes too seriously. It is unknown how many of them there are (if they knew, the Inquisition would surely want to have a word or two with the High Marshal), but there are probably several thousands of them.

I recommend watching Arch's War for Armaggedon series, it explains in details his rise to fame and what happened on wider scale on the planet. In short, Yarrik was a commisar who retired on Armaggedon but once the Orks invaded reinstated himself. It was pretty much under his leadership that many of the cities survived until reinforcement arrived and counter attacks could be made against the invaders. As for his age, the Imperium has rejuvination treatments, which is basically a medical procedure where for a time your aging stops. It doesnt make you younger or anything it simply stops you from aging further. The richest of the rich and most important people have access to this tech, thats whats preventing from primarily from dying of old age. Besides that, medical technology in the Imperium is comparitvly extremly advanced so even normal people have good chances of getting 100 year old, the rich and important get easily hundreds of years if not closing to a millenium if they make heavy use of cybernatic implants

Ehhhh, the Codex Astartes is adhered to in varying degrees by chapters. Some set the Codex on fire and toss it out the window. Others are fanatical in applying it.

Black Templars are a little different, they are pretty much known for having more then 1000 Space Marines, nobody can prove it though and they're so fanatically loyal that nobody really looks too hard anyway.

Oculi imperia is a great Horus Heresy channel with an in universe perspective on events.

Will give you 10 points for that one

One thing I like to think about is that the animation style reflects Grimaldus’ mental clarity. As the animation style improves so does his sense of place and purpose. Something to keep in mind as you watch it.

the at attention stance the imperial guard gave was the symbol of the Imperium. Make an 'Eagle' with extended wings with your hands over your chest. basically you link your thumbs while extending your hands as wings.

900 full force? Hohohoh.... Black Tenplars dont like being so...confined. They currently have AT LEAST 6000 marines in service, and its likely far more.

The Black Templars do not care for the limit of 1.000 astartes and do not count their scouts as actual space marines. They are a chapter of the second founding with their primarch Rogal Dorn just rounding up all the "problem childen" into their own chapter, led by Sigismund his former second in command that had "fallen out of favor". And Sigismund hated the break up of the Legiones Astartes into chapters and are now about 6.000 astartes and 6.000 scout marines, tho EVERYONE has different numbers and the discussion never stops. Being in constant warfare for 10.000 years and often separated from their brothers, they just recruit whomever they can find, you can never know when you find new aspirants or how many casualites they will suffer in the next battle. AND THEY WILL NOT SUFFER THE THOUGHT OF HAVING TO STOP THEIR ETERNAL CRUSADE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE THE BODIES TO THROW AT THE ENEMY. The inquisition is always on their heels, but how to count them when they are all over the entire imperium and have no desire to be counted. They simply deal with anyone coming to close to the truth , after all being an inquisitor is a very dangerous job, there can be any amount of unfotunate accidents.

The Black Templar's don't listen to the Codex Astartes. They have around 6000 Astartes split between multiple Crusades.

That is Yarrick, THE commissar and an Ork God of War (yup, he’s so bad ass, the Orks believe he can’t be killed, so their power of belief has made him immortal) In the first Ork waaagghh for Armageddon Ghazkull assaulted the planet with a Space Hulk and brought the planet to its knees. In the second Ork Waaaagghh for Armageddon, Ghazkull assaulted the planet with 5000 ships, 3 Space Hulks and hundreds of Space Rok’s (hollowed out asteroids dropped on the planet as fortresses) Ghazkull Mag Uruk Thraka’s fleet is now over 5 million ships, countless Spacehulks dragged from the depths of the warp, uncounted Space Rok’s refitted for war with sublight and warp engines, and even....battle Moonz (last time seen in the 32nd millennium)

The orks once captured Yarrick... and let him go because he is so much fun to fight against... aaaaand because they basically SCARRED of him. The commissar responsible for at least 20% of the Guard’s manliness

A normal chapter of Astartes count 1000, yes. The exception is for crusades, which allow the chapters to exceed that limit. The Black Knights solved the limit-issue by declaring The Eternal Crusade. The Space-book said it was ok.

Search a video called: 40k Lore, The War For Armageddon, The 1st Ork War! made by Arch It is a video lore (1h) talking about the first ork invasion of armagedon, when Yarrik becomes famous

"Isn't a chapter supposed to be 1000?" Their supposed limit is to be 1000.. unless you're crusading/expecting heavy losses. Since the black templars are always crusading, they're kinda loopholing the rule. It's also the "problem" of them being spread out all troughout the galaxy, so it's hard for the inquisition to go around and count exact numbers, but the time they're halfway, the numbers will have changed radically. Just a side note, there are more templars in the city than just squad Grimaldus. He is in charge of them, but we mostly just follow his squad and what they get into.

Black Templars are somewhat deviant from Codex Astartes in that they have more than 1000 Astartes. Some sources say they are in ten thousands. Q: Is Grimaldus disagreeing Helbrecht from logical standpoint? A: No, but he being Astartes sees no honor in defending backwater city. He thought he would either go dead unremembered... where he found out as wrong. This would be his ultimate testing ground.

The Black Templars have upwards of 7000 marines across the galaxy

Every chapter is supposta be 1000 max. The templars are using a loop hole/technicality in how if in a active "crusade" force is allowed to go slightly above their 1000 cuz they are bound to face casualtys. Except the black templars celebrate a successful crusade. Is to declare a new crusade. Hense the eternal crusade thing they say. Their numbers is gussed at 2000 to 6000. They dont share their numbers cuz well. If at 6k when your supposta have 1 it might be problem.

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You are right about a 1000 Space Marines per chapter, but the Black Templars do not follow that rule. Reason being they are on constant mult-crusades, The wider Imperium either does not know their numbers or choose to turn a blind eye, Best estimation is anywhere from 3 thousand to 5 thousand. Anyway, keep up the great videos.

The black templars only use the codex astartes as toilet paper. They don't really follow the only 1000 astaetes rule and they hide it by constantly being on multiple different crusades which makes it nearly impossible to count since space travel takes that long. We don't know how many they have but it should be between 3000- 5000.

also about Sebastian Yarrick he was technically impossible to kill because Orks believe that he cannot be defeated and if many Orks believe something then its going to be true ... its called "WAAAGH energy" and it depends how many orks belive in that ... if less then its weaker if more then its stronger.

So during that Yarrik flashback when he had his arm snipped off before killing an Ork warboss; He then proceeded to lead his men in a counter-attack, breaking and routing the enemy Ork charge, arm bleeding heavily. He did not allow himself to pass out - or recieve medical attention, mind you - until after that day's battle was won.

I see you are taking in your learning well guardsman. Yes, a codex-compliant chapter has indeed 1 000 marines. The Black Templars are not a codex-compliant chapter though. In their eternal crusade, the Black Templars have chosen to spread out far and therefore in need of more Marines to cover all of their endeavors. It is rumored that The Black Templars have more than 5 000 marines under their heraldry.

Black templars do not follow the Codex Astartes. Their chapter is bigger than most, however rarely do they fight as one, usually splitting into smaller crusades.

Commissar Yarrick, the man who made the Orks do the one thing Orks never do...flee.

as some of the other comments say, we don't really know how many Black Templars there are, but it's rumored to be somewhere between 2000-6000 men strong. the normal limit is a thousand in order to keep chapters weak enough that no one chapter is strong enough to overthrow the Imperium if it turns traitor, but there's an exception in the law that is something to the affect of "This limit doesn't apply while your chapter is actively on crusade." The Black Templars are technically never not on crusade because the minute one war is done, they declare another so they argue that the law doesn't apply to them and they can be as big as they want to be, so they've just been building up for about 10,000 years and growing as fast as they can recruit more marines than get killed in battle

Templars have close to 6000 battle brothers, countless neophytes and a few thousand sword brothers. We are not a codex complaint chapter

13:20 Richard Boylan did such an awesome job there, conveying so much with just the movements of the heads.

Not "a" commisar. That's THE commisar! Yup that's yarrick!

The black Templars numbers are unknown but most likely well over 1000

"Isn't 900 like the whole chapter?" Ha. Haha. AHAHA.

What is the scariest thing in the 40k universe,,, Its not a daemon primarch, or even a greater daemon, No ork, tyranid, Tau, eldar or necron comes close to the #1 spot... The creature that makes mortal men stand fast with their trusty laz pointers is a commisar with a pistol in hand behind you.

Funny you mentioned that it takes balls for ordinary men to oppose the threats facing humanity in this universe. This is essentially the pattern that repeats in the interaction between Astartes and mortal soldiers. You saw an example in Space Marine when capt. Titus walked among the wounded and said "A few hundred against a million orks, and they fight on. Remarkable." Astartes are impressed when they realise that ordinary men, so weak, with paltry gear, fight the same battles as they do. You will see more beautiful examples in this series.

couple of things here. First, you gotta get these out faster. I understand that you want to space them out but this needs to come out faster. As for the Black Templar, they are rule benders when it comes to astartes rules. You see, an astartes chapter is able to have more then 1000 standing warriors at a time IF they are in a Imperial Crusade. Since the very beginning of the chapter has been in a crusade against the enemies of mankind. Now they have like 6 crusades going around the galaxy fighting the emperors enemies. Because of they are always fighting wars there is no good estimate how many standing astartes warriors there are but it is estimated to be around 6000.

It's not that grim is pissed because it's a suicide mission...black templars are not into defence or guard duty...as a chapter they're all about being offensive, attacking the heart and going straight for throat of the enemy...to them there's no glory in babysitting some hive...they want to die taking the fight to their foe.

If you want videos that will have good lore on yarrek but also the full war of Armageddon check the wars of Armageddon videos from arch warhammer

Arch Warhammer has a video called "War for Armageddon : The leaders" that goes over the more notable big players throughout the war

Another fun rumor by the Orks is that Yarrik can kill with a look. Hearing this rumor, Yarrik inserted a laser in his bionic eye.

while chapters are by law no more then 1000 marines some have shown a blatend disregard for that rule, the black templars being one such chapter with only the high marshel knowing how many marines his chapter has

Grimaldus is worried not that it is a suicide mission. He is full expecting to die, but what he wants to die in a mission that means something and lead to a great victory. He sees Helsreach as a pointless through away mission and not worth the time of the Astartes and to defend it will not mean victory in the war. Plus he has a bit of doubt in his abilities, and that he not worthy of being the highest Chaplin in the Black Templars. He is seeing being kept out of main fight in orbit a bit of the same way. In my opinion anyway.

Nice dude waiting on your next video on Helsreach

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Keep in mind , he just got promoted. The Higher Ups are testing him, he either does this or dies. They had questions of his ability to lead, and this is the test!

In year 40th millenium they don't need any cover

I like the idea of "warhammer days" so to speak!

Sebastian Yarrick . A true hero.

I think one of the reasons Grimaldus was so upset is that the Black templars are a fleet based unit, and he's being sent planetside. A bit like a US marine unit specialized in boarding enemy vessels being denied that task and sent to guard an embassy. A part of it definitely seemed to me on first watch to be him being promoted to a new rank just so he could he sent to die, basically a political maneuver- "we have to pledge someone important to die but we dont want to lose anyone important" sort of move, and think that's one of the more accessible themes without context. I know another context mentioned by some is that Grimaldus had survivors guilt when his superior died, and doesnt feel up to taking on his position. Perhaps he wanted to prove himself and relieve his guilt while surrounded by those he knew and in familiar territory, not be isolated from everyone, in command of a company fated to die.

Yeah about the Black Templars "only" having 1,000 Astartes. (BUAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) You are correct about Codex Compliant chapters having 1k Astartes however for one thing the sons of Dorn never really liked the book overmuch, and are too useful to the Inquisition Ordo Xenos to be openly called to the carpet on not keeping their numbers limited. If they weren't stretched over the "entire" galaxy performing multiple crusades at once, they would indeed be a problem.

Nice, keep the series goin! :)

As for commisars I would suggest looking at ibram gaunt.

By the way, just so know it is suspected that the Black Templars have a lager than average Chapter. There true numbers are kept secret by being a fleet based chapter. They may be between 2000 and 5000 marines. Hope they are since the fall of Cadia and hope Inquisition is not monitoring this commit.

I suggest you to watch exploring series scp 5000, don't get me wrong I love scp illustrated but I think it's gonna be hard for you to understand if you watch scp illustrated because you still haven't watched quite a number of scp that is in the scp 5000

Even though a Space Marine chapter is suppose to have a thousand Space marines, not everyone knows how to count in 40k. Thus some SM chapters are Legion size (10k+ SpaceMarines). Space Wolves and Black Templars are such chapters

Watch "the black templars" lore by majorkill u will understand way more about The black templar plus they're unique astartes..

SM are not there to protect the people per say - Black Templars in general are not know for caring about mortals.....I mean from the SM chapters 2 are known for actually caring about normal humans - Salamanders and Space Wolfs (who went to fight the Inquisition to protect a planet). Understandable though - if you are 200-1000 years old and Superhuman in every aspect from Intelligence, to speed/reflexes/strength, you aren't probably going to care about those you see as beneath you......SM are there to coordinate and command the defense forces. I mean I would prefer the person who gives command to the army I am part of, to have 200-300 years of experience, no fear and is not at all shy from diving into the fight.....