Siege of Vraks Lore 14 - Underground Warfare | Warhammer 40k 

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When a 1 man team + an outstanding narrator is better than anything games workshop animates. You must be proud, great job!

Down and down into the deep! Who knows what we’ll find beneath! Daemons, traitors, orcs and more!

If you think having to fight chaos space marines in a trench as a normal human is bad just imagine how doomed you are if you had to do it in an underground tunnel.

“The tunnels were dug beneath our feet to silence the guns pointed at our heads.”

My friend, you keep producing the best tactical videos regarding W40K .

You know what I want? A strategy game with this type of graphics. You would manage entire groups rather than microing, as engagements would last longer and disengaging would be simulated. Groups would be given a selection of weapons and armor, possibly individual units too, which would change how the group functions. Like a combat engineer group armed with flamethrowers acting differently than one with breaching charges. Or infantry with grenadiers and carapace armor would be tougher and more deadly than a bunch of press-ganged militia who saw a Lasgun for the first time a couple of days ago.

The Full Lukas Alexander quote: "The Immortal Emperor is with us and we are invincible, His soldiers will strike you down, His war machines will crush under their treads, His mighty guns will bring the very sky crashing down upon you. You cannot win!"

The siege continues!!! Can’t wait!

Braaaaa like 14 years of fighting and yet the defenders have soooo many people in such a small place is so frustrating. I sit in anticipation to know if a 100 astarties will be enough to make a change in the tide. Janovich, well done. You are an excellent story teller and do an amazing job with engaging presentation of battles that would normally be left to the imagination.

"What is your duty?" *"To serve The Emperor's Will!"* "What is The Emperor's Will?" *"That we fight and die!"* "What is death?" *"It is our Duty!"*

The vraks are that one player that is going to lose but still defies all odds and is just there to make you suffer a war of attrition.

This is something that DKoK i appreciate. WW1 tujnnel diggers are a group of men that almost never get mentioned in some games or stories, as only a few movies, lotsa historical books, and maybe the odd game or two actually mention them.. DKoK Engineers are just awesome along with their whole world.

Finaly! I could not wait for another episode! Love it

What a tease posting this 24 hours before it’s out live😮‍💨

for someone who studied engineering this is very accurate to real life underground construction or tunnel issues and i was very surprised that you even mentioned sustaining the groundwater level.

A tunnel battle sounds scary but also incredible to see

I need more, like others have said these are the BEST tacitcal 40K videos! Subbing to the patreon as we speak to try and help out!

Amazing work!!! Your videos about the siege of Vraks are the reason i started my journey into the Warhammer 40k universe 👏 keep it up !

I'm am so happy you're back on vraks again your vids on it are by far the best I've seen!!

A Christmas gift for us. Thank you Janovich! Merry Christmas everyone!

This was positively incredible. The animation, the voiceover, the dramatic pacing, the tone that’s unique to other warhammer lore commentaries. Looking forward to the series finale.

The VA could lead a system wide revolt with that voice! Thank you for Jano-Claus for this early present.

4:43 Now thats a cool depiction of the Fortified Vrax Citadel. Makes sense now in my mind the Imperial war effort struggled like it did that castle looks gigantic

man i love the vraks series, you narrate it so well, that i wish there was more quality series like this of other warhamer 40k lore

That was fast. The Drop Sight Massacre video wasn't that long ago.

This videos are simply great, truly love the work you do!

Bet during the underground battle, all the Death Korps were singing "Diggy diggy hole."

The citadel breach reminds me of an 1800s battle between ottomans and Hapsburgs

I always laugh when Krieg simply solves an issue with either tidal wave of soldiers, humongous pile of explosives or then a massive artillery bombardment! Very good 💪🏽

Crazy that someone could be bothered so much as to invent and write such a monumental single happening, a humongous siege, happening sometime somewhere in a FICTIONAL UNIVERSE. It is likewise crazy how excellent of a job you two fellows are making. The animation style and script writing are absolutely gripping, while the narrator manages to convey pathos and frigging bloody massacre action while still retaining a calm and measured voice. Mind-effing-blowing what talent, skill and dedication can do.

Your channel got me into Warhammer, and is why I love the Death Korps. Thank you

the vraks series has given a profound interest with the Death Korps, i'm really glad you guys did this.

One of the best series on the platform. The whole thing is so exciting because (at least for me) it should have ended multiple times by now but somehow there is always a twist and a turn. Can't wait for the continuation.

Now that it is past the madness of the holidays, Happy New Year to the boys on Vraks! Thank you Janovich!

Always a great day when a new Vraks video comes out! Thank you so much for your work!

goedenavond. ik dacht al dat je een video zou uploaden voor het einde van het jaar. ik herinner me toen je begon me toen je m'n suggestie aannam en deze video serie begon. toen wist ik natuurlijk niet dat deze veldslag zo lang zou duren en zoveel videos nodig had, haha. geen wonder dat toen alleen arch warhammer een uitleg van uren en uuuuuuuuuren lang had. dankje voor alle inzet van ht afgelopen jaar. deze serie is een geweldige presentatie over wat er allemaal gebeurde in één van de bekenste veldslagen van 40K. en nu ik toch je aandacht hebt. fijne feestdagen en een gelukkig nieuw jaar.

"the infantry had trouble moving swiftly through the rubble" Now this is poetry

you are the best i would love to read the books about vraks but there kinda rare now so props for the videos

Awesome video 🎉cant wait for the next One 🥰time for loyalists space marines to shine 🤩🤩🤩

The first thing that popped into my head for the minding of the wall was the movie beneath hill 60 the second one that popped in was the battle of helms deep

Just long enough a wait so I feel I should go back to watch the others again. Well played, well played indeed.

Well done Colonel! Im putting u up on the promotion list.

Appreciate this series so much, no one does the siege like this channel does

I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos on the siege of Vraks. Im just a filthy casual, sideline enjoyer of the 40K lore. Time to check out the other vids while I wait for more on Vraks!

Before Napoleonic times we had the Forlorn Hope, a volunteer group from any units who would enter a breach first. The defenders would have dug in an explosive surprise to kill that first wave. Then survivors and following troops would be met by point blank cannons and troops firing. Hence why survivors were instantly promoted and had extra rations and rum issued. Think the author did well to remember the trick of countering the breach.

my day turns great when ever i see a new vid from jany

What a cliff hanger! I cannot wait for the next installment. Thank you!

FOR THE EMPEROR AND FOR KRIEGS FORGIVINESS CHARGE

WRANING MENTAL HEALH AND POTENTIAL TEIGGERS TO DO WITH DEPPEESSION AND SLEF TERMINATION DISCUSED AT THE END…. I Just wanted to express my gratitude for all the hard work you and your team have put in with the Shovel, and HH war. I include the editing and artwork. I am extremely thankful for the Christmas gift you have given to the Warhammer 40,000 community. Your channel is definitely on my top list of favourites, and I appreciate how you have taught me about the Imperium and Warhammer lore. It has become a new passion in my life (the other being The Lord of the Rings, and to be honest I never thought anything could make me as engaged and happy. If you, the reader of this love TLOTR, and soaked up all the lore to the point that Legolas and Gmmly probably went to Vallinor you might know how I feel) and has truly enriched my life to the point of saving it. I was not in good place a year ago. But I got the treatment from a friend I suggest below. The Biggest killer on men 30 to 50 is suicide. I would like to thank @Baldermort, @The Remebrancer, @The Amber King,@Lutin09 and others on your team for all the effort you have put in. I hope you have a fantastic Christmas and keep up the amazing work! I can only speak as myself a man who is 40. Remember talk about the dark stuff with your friends. Men don't talk about how they feel until they think it's probably better of they left this world. Don't get to that point. Have a 10 minute chat with your fellow Brothers and cut the small talk. You will probably save a soul or yourself. You are not worthless and alone you are amazing and the world needs you. You are not weak, you are human. I worked ina hospice and have had the training to talk freely about Suicide and Death with many people. I have done so and it is what it is. I hope some of you cut the banter with you’re friends and check each other out. Love to you all. 💯❤️

Thank you very much for your content, and for the narration, when the videos do not have subtitles, the automatic function works very well. As someone who doesn't speak English well, I appreciate it.

12:20 the Vraksian miners moving to colapse the tunnels, you left them in blue... I was some inmersed in the fight, I had to replay a couple of times to understand what was going on. Super video, the depth of the animation paired with the lore is second to none. Waiting on part 13 and on

4:29 the sunglasses!

Omg yes! Whenever you post a siege of Vraks video it makes my day!

I have to wonder, with how hard a nut the walls on vraks were to going to crack and given the krigers history. Why were no or seeminly very few death strike missiles or tactical nukes used. Surely such weapons would have being preferable if deployed sparingly rather than grinding each wall and hold out to dust. Especially if the ultermate goal of the imperium was to recapture the vaste stock piles under vrake befor they could be depleted

this channel reminds me of a warhammer version of kings and generals or any of the channels that focus on our worlds history in much the same way

Keep up the good work! Can’t wait to bing watch the movie version of this!

I was so happy to get this notification I love your videos!!! Keep it going!

Yooooo, the next part, let’s gooooooo

13:02 worthy of the grandfather, sing his praises of pestilence and corrosive affection

I hate it when these end because of how amazing they are

Loving this series. Great commentary and graphics.

Legendary content , awesome storytelling .

the Death Korps giving the Chaos Space Marines a hard time just describes how hardcore they are.

A Death Korpes fan is making a WW1 game. This seems fitting.

Outstanding content pal! Got me hooked, can’t wait for the finales

Loved the video @Janovich! Can't wait for the next video man! Just started laughing my head off at the Comments section making a Death Korps of Krieg Parody of "Diggy Diggy Hole" LMAO! If I were on the Ground at Vraks, I'd order a Bombardment of High Explosive Incendiary Shells to Detonate within the Gas Cloud under the Possibility of it Igniting the Cloud and Burning out the Death Marines lying in wait within before sending in the Two Northeasternmost Line Corps to hopefully clear them out and Take up Postitions along the Eastern half of the Curtain. Not sure if that canonicaly was the case, but it's a decent idea nonetheless. Let me know what you think about this and I'll catch you in your next video on the Siege of Vraks man!

I thought our boy Cullen was in charge of the Red Scorpions on Vraks?

Man barely discovered your channel and such amazing content but also fantastic narrator voice 👌 cant wait for more vraks

Glad you were still able to get varks out this month

Thank you for another great video Janovich!

Your skill and dedication is amazing.

Wow what wonderful 40k content

Excellent early Christmas gift mate!

Kreig Engineers, like their regular soldiers, were well equipped for their job. They were each equipped with a Lucius-pattern semi-automatic shotgun with 8-round drum magazines, weapons that were utterly lethal in the close confines of the tunnels they worked in. Their gas masks were of the same design as their grenadier comrades, and each mask also included a monocular night vision lens, to allow them to see in almost zero light conditions. Each squad was well equipped with shovels, picks, hammers, demolition charges, frag grenades, chemical grenades, electronic listening devices, mole mortar launchers and had access to vehicles such as the Hades breaching drill. But generally, due to how well sound travelled in the hard rock of Vraks, Engineers tended to use hand tunnelling techniquies, as heavy equipment could literally broadcast their intentions to the enemy. After the initial breach of the curtain wall, the Engineers didn't have much more success in their work - they did manage to breach the Citadel's catacombs around the same time the main complex was stormed, but by that point, the heretics had begun to summon...other...allies...

Oh my god an early Christmas gift thanks Janovich

YOOOO ANOTHER JANOVICH VID GET POPCORN AND CALL THE COMMISSAR BOYS WE BOUT TO WATCH GOOD TONIGHT

Damn chaos marines, always throwing a wrench into our work…

Sappers, because even Infantrymen need heroes!

Excellent work! Cant wait to see your WW1 board game!

I thank the Omnissiah, the god emperor of mankind, for once more bringing a blessing through the youtube machine spirit onto my feed. I have spent the last hours watching the Vraks series and cant wait for more of this series, altough i also wish it to end soon so that my patience is no longer required.

I LVOED THE DAWN OF WAR REFERENCE LUKAS-ALEXANDER IS MY OVERALL FAVORITE CHARACTER IN ALL OF WARHAMMER 40K I LOVE YOU THANK YOU

This serrie stays amazing!

Can't wait for the next episode !

underground warfare: "THIS IS WHERE THE FUN BEGINS!"

POV: You’re 2 weeks into a Roblox faction war (Congratulations for the video & the series overall, great work !)

IM AM A KRIGE AND IM DIGGING A HOLE DIGGING DIGGING HOLE DIGGING DIGGING A HOLE IM AM A KRIGE AND IM A DIGGING!🎶

"Alright troops, you know how you've been caving skulls in with your shovels? Well now I'm gonna show you what they were originally designed for!"

Everyone hangs at his lips like children and waiting for him to tell us more storys about Vraks :)

In Epic where you play engagements of this scale, you must have infantry transports. Non-mechanized infantry is effectively static. You want them in a combat taxi they can pile out of.

Finally "untrained heretics are no match against Krieg" Finally some lore accurate thing THANK YOU FOR VIDEO as usual amazing work

Amazing video! Thx.

I digged this.

Thanks for the videos❤

Amazing as always, great work!

Always hyped to watch new release hope to buy your game one day!

man has been edging us with the release for 24 hours before its out xD

HANZ, WE NEED MORE!

Rock and Stone and Shotguns, oh my!

I think that '"leaving no witnesses" is completely irrelevant when we are talking about going into it, shooting guards all around the place, leaving your own dead behind and then blowing up a random place next to external walls of a bunker. I mean, if Vraksians think it is clever subterfuge then it is no surprise how they managed to cause all of this mess on Vraks in a first place. Last sentence was just my beef with people talking mean things about Zhulka. :(