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It has come to my attention I accidentally drew the USA as a continent, how CRINGE. This is why sleep is important

"Going to replace your old misconceptions with new, more fun misconceptions" Absolute Alpha Legion behavior

The Baneblade being a scout tank works if there is no one left alive to report your position. It's the Steiner Scout Lance of 40k.

Long time Krieg rieg fan here, Krieg is mentioned to have gotten specialized shovels with sharpened blades meant to be readily usable in trench melee, but a korpsman actually using one hasn't appeared and is just assumed.

The ork psychic gestalt does smooth over some janky mechanical designs that should probably malfunction without it, from what I understand. An ork shoota is a functioning gun, but it shouldn’t be able to fire 100 rounds without exploding.

The Krieger myth is indeed extremely pervasive. I had to watch Janovich's analysis of Vraks to realize how effective and tactically competent the Kriegers are. They went from being a "hammy attempt at Grimdark WWI" to one of my genuinely favourite regiments.

How a person really described Slanmesh is not just the god of sex is that Slannesh is just as please as you enjoying a jungle burger and simply relaxing ad much as having a wild party

I can’t believe it only took 20s for me to see a shovel It’s literally the first thing I thought of when I saw the title

Excuse me! We warhammer players do sex and drugs more than any other fanbase out there. We are hopelessly addicted to plastic crack and Games Workshop keeps screwing us at every opportunity

Now you know how we feel when they say Stormtroopers can’t aim

maybe the orginal baneblades were like those antartic exploration vehicles, and the 'exploration vehicle' got mistranslated into 'scout vehicle' by the imperium

The kill team trailer back in 2021 has to be one of the best animated representation of the Death Korps

Eldar Aspect Warrior looks at Space Marine: "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!"

I genuinely can’t understand the Krieger one. Their entire deal is trench warfare, which is explicitly designed to stretch conflicts out. That’s about as far from suicidal as you can get. They’re not killing themselves for no reason, they’re making a 2-day battle into a 3-year siege and betting that they’ll outlast the enemy.

The alternate Baneblade misconception makes way more sense than the scout tank crap. Also, I like this channel, subbed. nice.

I hate it when people say "Guradsman only survive 1 hour in the guard" and "for every battle 1 bajillion guardsmen die" yeah nah this is straight up false and fake news.

A misconception I hate is "the necrons are the good guys" The closest they get to being good is Trayzin, who is at best neutral

I like how the new Krieg misconception is basically just Ciaphas Cain syndrome

I never heard the Baneblade was a scout myth I heard it as “In the dark age of technology the baneblade was a MAIN battle tank” Basically they were the equivalent of the M1 , powerful but extremely common

I *think* the baneblade scout tank thing stems from the malcador tank being equipped with overdrive engines in Horus Heresy, which allows the thing to move like a fast tank like the Sicaran would, but I have no clue if that’s the origin of the misconception or not.

Was for SURE expecting the "Vulcan and the Salamanders hate Eldar children." Meme in here.

I feel like the shovel makes some sense. I remember in Erich Maria Remarque's All quiet on the western front, and I mean the book (haven't finished it), there is a line about why use shovels over bayonets. Shovels have an edge and are heavier, they are basically multiuse axes and as such they would pass much more easily though stuff and get stuck less times, compared with the bayonet which can fail sometimes. Plus a shovel is multiuse so it is more efficient to only supply a shovel and not giving a bayonet. It may not be much for just one soldier but for an army it is something. However that doesn't mean that the shovel is the number one weapon, it has it's place, mostly as a fall back weapon in CQB and as a tool to break enemy morale in charges.

I am pretty sure the idea was that ENOUGH works hard to believe in the thing t the same time to make it happen. One ork may be completely delusional and think a stick is gun, but all the other orks around him just see him waving a stick around, so his single bit of power is countered by all of the other orks thinking he's an idiot. EVERY ork knows the red ones go fasta, so they do. Big ones is one time the emperor himself went down to kill some orks and when he killed the warboss several fusion reactors around the planet went critical and blew up since the warboss wasn't keeping the field as united anymore and the ork belief in their ability to win was cracked, so all the reactors using WAAAAGH as duct tape to keep them from blowing up, finally did.

As for the Slaanesh misconception, Slaanesh *was* the god of Sex and Depravity on inception, however this has not been considered kosher or ‘socially acceptable in polite society’ (whatever that means) and the more generic, but annoyingly unspecific dominion of Excess was put in as a replacement… Which is frustrating because all chaos gods are fundamentally gods of excess.

I think misconceptions work in-universe, because of how fast rumours and second-hand anecdotal stories spread in the army

Once Sly Marbo destroyed a whole craft world on a tuesday. I am Alpharius, this is a lie

It's stated in the lore that the big threat of an Eldar craftworld isn't so much their warriors, since they are indeed doomed to lose a battle of attrition against pretty much anyone else, but their fleet. In space combat, Craftworld Eldar's lack of manpower (elfpower, rather) isn't nearly as much of a limiting factor, especially since some of their vessels are "wraithships" controlled by spirit stones and a dozen or so warlocks. Not only that, but Eldar warship crews are, themselves, a type of aspect warriors.

Krieg: Your lives are the emperor's currency! Spend them wisely!

"Orkz are boring and for so they don't bring things to reality" Nah, M8. When your buddies put gretchin into big reality bending cannon to launch them ,they are everything but boring

The baneblade is like the scout Atlas of House Steiner. The enemy has no scouts to report if there's no enemy left to report 😂

I think that hammer and bolter episode where the ultramarines destroy a craft world didn’t do that whole misconception any favors lol. Great vid

I think the biggest 40k misconception is that it is still a good game.

One of the biggest misconceptions about 40k is that it's a good story and not just all an excuse for little armies of figurines to fight each other on a tabletop.

Baneblade's as luxury sedans is the natural evolutionary endpoint of soccer moms driving four ton pickup trucks.

average ultramarine enjoyer: " fiVe hUndRed sPais maRiNes iZ aLl iT WoULd TAkE 2 cOnKUr EARth"

My logic for the baneblade "scout tank" nonsense, is that it wasn't a "fast recon" type and more of a "self sufficient explorer". Since they have entire bunk rooms inside them lol. They are more like a ship or submarine then a tank in that sense. They have enough guns and armor to keep themselves safe from anything that isn't dedicated to kill them, so they can spend a few months out by themselves on isolated and dangerous missions. Perhaps where there isn't even a active conflict with anybody, but just for patrolling a death world. (Fule efficiency and 'just use a drone' and other logical issues aside)

Of the many, many 40k lore misconceptions that get repeated non-stop I believe that the silliest of them all must be that Tyberos uses a dreadnought or parts of a dreadnought for his armor. This comes from the fact that terminator armor is technically called tactical dreadnought armor. It's specially silly because they will be like "and he's so big he wears motherfucking DREADNAUGHT ARMOR!!" while pointig at a picture where you can clearly see that he's wearing regular terminator armor.

Slaanesh's domain is kind of the broadest one out of the chaos gods, to the point that there really isn't that much you can do to try and avoid them on a large scale. For some good examples of this, we can look at what the elves in Age of Sigmar do to stave off Slaanesh. There, elves don't immediately go to Slaanesh when they die, but they did all get eaten by Slaanesh in the End Times so they're still pretty scared of them. The Idoneth Deepkin went to live in the deep sea to deprive themselves of their senses - except that it's pointed out that extreme sensory deprivation is also a type of excess that Slaanesh can feed off. The Lumineth Realmlords have stopped their extreme perfectionism that caused them to fall to Slaanesh in the past, and now seek balance and harmony with the elements - to an extreme and obsessive degree which also feeds Slaanesh. Fuck.

I think the biggest reason for Kriegers being stupidly suicidal, at least for me, is because the Siege of Vraks books portrayed them as completely mindless drones who were asked to 'march' into the enemy position to just die for the Emperor. Not even fighting or trying to take positions, just MARCH into enemy fire and die, just to deplete their ammunition. And they happily did so. Makes a WW1 charge look like a field trip in comparison, except incredibly stupid. As for the ork misconception, I'm happy to see it getting some attention. Orks get smarter the bigger they get, and they have knowledge of how to build things in their genes, so if the genes activate in an ork, they becomes X or Y. Mek boys know how to build things that work, and the bigger they get, the bigger things they can build. They just don't know HOW it works. Edit: Here's the paragraph in question: "Onward came the Death Korps, resolute and steadfast, the front ranks in parade ground order. And so they died, scythed down by enemy fire, man after man, as they walked head long into a pitiless hurricane of fire." - Last paragraph of page 22, Imperial Armor volume five.

One of the ones that annoys me is "The Tau can't melee" Like they can, but why would they? they have some of the best guns in the setting and their training and doctrine is based around using them, plus if the enemy can get past their guns, their missiles, their power suits, and their drones, whats a sharp piece of metal really going to do at that point? The two instances in lore I can recall of Tau using melee they were pretty good at it because they specialized in it, like Commander Farsight and Aon' Shi I think his name was, an eldar ethereal cast Tau who was able to slit up orks with ease in melee.

the kreigsmen hit me deep, i remember a story where a squad of kreigers charge a necron and they were throwing meltaguns to each other while being shot at

Slaanesh: the 40K god of binging shows from before streaming

2:35 i agree kriegsmen aren't suicidal they just have zero self preservation but they are meant to be German because the planet's name is German for war, the founder had a German name, there is nothing against them being germans but the suicide jokes aren't funny

IIRC Bricky did explicitly call out the I'm a Tank Incident as a "this is not how it works but I'm going to tell you anyway because it's funny" to be fair

I always viewed the shovel meme as a comment on krieger resoursefulness. They operate effectively with the bare minimum (much like troops during the first world war). Given no comforts, conviences and asking for none in turn. So, would a krieger fight with a shovel if they had to, yeah, are they likely, of fucking course not.

The idea of the Kreigers being so brave just because they're not really sure what's going on is pretty good.

Orks magical imagination magic only works for things believable to an ork, like you couldn't convince an ork he's a tank because clearly he's an ork, now if you bolted some sheets of metal onto him, placed a big gun on his head, and gave him tracks, then he'd believe he was a tank, and he'd probably be able to take part in a tank battle

I imagine the shovel meme originated from them digging trenches, but that’s a little like making power tools the most iconic part of the Leagues Of Votann

I'd say the misconception with the bane blade being a "Scout tank" is the fact it is *litterally* a scout tank. Not a light scouting vehicle but a mobile base you send ahead to function as litterally the galaxy's most deadly camper van for scouts to live in. What are you gonna do? Blow up their recon base? That thing probably has more firepower than you! I could see it being used as a more combat oriented smaller crassus where its used to host a team of scouts and provide fire power rather than scout itself

"Cadia #1" Oh no, my poor sweet deluded boy

The Ork one and the Baneblade one are ones I had to explain to most people by far xD

I'll add from my own experience. Orcs. All latent psykers. This gives a small buff to everything they create: guns don't jam, red ones drive faster, ships don't explode after 0.00001s, etc. But this does not allow them to shoot without ammo, and purple also does not give invisibility. Purple is all about a meme. Orc commandos use banal camouflage. Krieg. Yes, they are extremely selfless, but they are still human. In the early stages of the Siege of Vraks, there is a description of a case where, in one of the senseless attacks, the first wave of Kriegs fled back to their positions, and the commissar was also killed. But what I hate most is that they are considered clones. Or artificially grown people. Or grown in an artificial womb. This desire of the community to come up with specifics out of thin air is terrifying. There is no specific information in the sources about what exactly Vitae-Womb is and how it works. Only that some Biologis consider it disgusting. Not even all, but just some. Slaanesh. Yes, excesses are at the forefront of everything. In addition to them there are perversions. Sex for such guys quickly becomes a boring thing, which either has to be accelerated as much as possible with music, theatrical production, drugs and other bodily sensations. "The Astartes can defeat the *thing_name." Oh yes, the greatest thing. I especially like "Company Astartes can take over the planet." Yes, they can. Feudal, for example, or wild. It's hard for people to realize that in 40k the Imperium will have even regular Imperial Worlds, not Hive Worlds, with massive anti-ship guns, massive anti-air guns, and numerous PDF regiments. This cult around the coolness of ceramite autists has been getting on my nerves for years. Here we can also recall the misconception that all PDFs are stupid, weak, and cowardly soldiers who themselves cannot do anything, created in order to lose to the invaders and wait for the arrival of the Imperial Guard from other systems. The humor is that the Imperial Guard itself is recruited from the PDF, or rather from the best PDF fighters. The power of the PDF, and the IG too, depends on the level of importance of the planet. This is why there is such a wide range in the quality of the troops, from aborigines with sticks to cyborgs with plasma. Baneblade. Hell yeah, 300 tons of reconnaissance noise. The fact that all other equipment is also made according to STC from the Dark Age of Technology does not bother anyone. Leman Russ, it turns out, is an infantry fighting vehicle, and the Chimera is something like a cool civilian car to pick up girls. And swim. Himpera is an amphibious vehicle, yes.

The whole ork thing seems to work on what they all consider to be correct, like a groupthink, if their bundle of gun-shaped scrap is the right shape, weight, colour, etc. It becomes dakka, or their other garbage becomes a bike, and the colours are heavily associated with certain traits and actions. When orks or their cool garbage are separated from the rest by a significant margin they become depressive and their stuff stops working. I believe that two entirely separated ork hordes will have somewhat different groupthink results. Their imagination ability is not a "one ork" or "group of orks" thing, its a "all orks" thing. Mek boys or brain boys or whatever are just orks but obsessed with their profession instead with some special gene-knowhow that they can use to put together stuff that every ork already agrees with, like their warpy weapons or stompas n shit. Krorks are like orks but smart enough to do independant thought (incredibly dangerous)

Krieg aren't stupid morons. They're stupid geniuses with a redemption complex.

Iyanden the lagest, coolest and best craftworld and arguably the only truly good faction in the Lore. Survived being hit with an exterminautous level munition in witch a single one would be enough to wipe out life on a planet, and then got attacked by a hive fleet being border by nids and fought them on bord for a long time before prince Yriel and the eldritch raiders came and finally won the battle. Both of these is a testament to the size of craft world Iyanden being able to survive 2 planet killing events relativity back to back, that individualy have in the past been able to wipe out whole imperial worlds including space marine worlds, well obviously ultramar and bhal or whatever we're able to survive and kill the swarm lord as well many others were not as lucky, even in those conflicts whole chapters were wiped out, and in each case they had their factions most powerful units defending. Iyanden on the otherhand had just been exterminautous nuked being greatly weakened loosing a massive chunk of their population (Iyanden was historically the most populus craftworld prior to these events) exiled Prince Yriel for letting it happen, loosing both their most powerful hero and a massive chunk of their remaining military that joined Yriel forming the Eldrich raiders, one of the largest and most powerful eldar Corsair fleets. Leaving Iyanden at a small fraction of their power when the tyranids attacked, the remaining forces held our along with no support for a very long time till Yriel and the Eldrich raiders finally returned and Yriel killed the swarm lord so hard the hivemind felt pain for arguably the first time since entering the galaxy. Comparing a full strength Iyanden to the blood angels and all their successors with out their primarch leading them actually seems very one sided to Iyanden's advantage Comparing their performance vs the Nids, when you take in to account the blood angels had all their successors and narrowly held where as Iyanden had only a minuscule fraction of their full strength from before they started being screwed over back to back by the galaxy holding out till another mear fraction arrived and won the day for them. At full strength Iyanden would massively out preform the Blood angels, and could have wiped out Bhal if they so please, however as stated earlier they are debatably the one good guys in the setting and don't generally every fight anyone apart from chaos, nids and maybe orks, they disagreed with biel-tan's pro gen-O-side stance and preferred diplomatic relations with non chaos aligned xenos even going to far as to host an imperial embassy and maintain good relations with the inquisition, they are also the reason that humanity had such an easy time colonizing their half the galaxy and why that half was noted as being far more peaceful by imperial officials as Iyanden was wiping out nearly all chaos influence in the area well Biel-tan handled the other side of the galaxy with a more aggressive approach being less efficient at combating chaos as they would be distracted by xenos and the need to wipe out all traces of xeno life on planets they encountered, where as Iyanden really didn't mind xenos, being utterly focused on the forces of chaos. Regardless their activities made it much easier for xenos including humans to survive and expand in their half the galaxy. Without witch many imperial worlds including some space marine worlds would not even exist as imperial worlds. Dispite being more then able to purge humanity much of their territory arguably better then Biel-tan who was smaller and weaker then Iyanden in their prime, they chose tolerate them right under their noses and ever helped them and engaged in diplomatic relations. Theor benevolence towards xenos and others, is why Iyanden would never attack or wipe out uncorrected space marines (as they have eliminated massive fleets of chaos space marines) Dispite having the the potential to in do in the past. I honestly can't think of any serious conflict Iyanden has ever had Space marines, the closest I can think of is when gray knights borded a small empty craftworld that was being attacked by demons who sought to consume the souls of the dead, the gray nights defend the soul stones from the demons, then Iyanden showed up to try to save the craftworld only to find everyone dead except for some grayknights, naturally that's very suspicious so the Iyanden Asuryani were Innititaly a bit hostile demanding to know what had happened and why they were there when it became clear the grayknights were innocent and were actually defending the souls of the craftworld, Iyanden graciously thanked them for their efforts and their sacrifice as some of the knight has fallen, and escorted them safely back to the imperium as the grayknights had no means of transportation currently, comparing this to how many eldar would approach this most would assume hostile intent on part of the humans and attack them, or they may space them for their surface then abandon them with no way off the drifting hulk or maroon them somewhere nearby of off the craftworld after recovering the soul stones Biel-tan specificly would not care what their reason was they would kill them as wipe any trance of their xeno filth from the craftworld even if it ment risking the soul stones in a fight with the knights. Regardless to say Iyanden in its prime was bigger then some worlds. With a population dwarfing any other craftworld and even many human worlds, further more then were among if not the only craftworld that engaged in colonization, with good relationship with exodites, unlike most Asuryani who saw no point in colonizing world that were not once art of the Eldar empire, aka maidenwords, unlike most who at best thought to rebuild the old empire, Iyanden saw to make a new Eldar Empire, and as such colonized planets that were not part of the old empire as well as maidenwords, though would also not fight xenos off maidenwords if they happened to be populated already, theu would also regularly help exodites and other craftworlds in need, after all their run of very back luck Iyanden's population is now amongst the lowest, however with the dead now walking among the living and playing a major role in the continuation of Iyanden as the dead outnumber the living, it is however speculated that if Iyanden recalled all it's colonists they would once again be one of the most populous craftworld, however this is not something they would ever wish to do, for a few reasons, one of witch being it is best to not have all your eggs in one basket. Also they have been cutt off from their Collonies and allies by warpstorms and such for a long time. Anyways Iyanden is also responsible for the discovery of soul stone on the crownworlds, and the creation of the infinite circuits, and freely sharing it with all Asuryani out of benevolence and the hope to save their people and build a new eldar empire, Innititaly they were like "hey guys here have this amazing technology to save your souls, now we can work together and rebuild our civilization." And them most of the craftworld were like, "cool thanks, but you know I'm busy next weekend... and everyday after their for basicly ever so yeah thanks for the gift, bye" The only one will really decide to work with Iyanden was Biel-tan who was like " ahh yeah thanks bro, we'll help ya Crack some heads and wipe out all the filthy xenos" And Iyanden was like "uhh... you mean wipe out chaos and build an empire where our people can once more prosper?" And Biel-tan was like "uhh yeah that... now let's kill some xenos!" And Iyanden was like "uhh wait what, we only want to kill chaos, we have nothing against the xenos" And Biel-tan was like "Yeah, that's what I said" Then way later Biel-tan called Iyanden and was like "hey bro want to help us wipe out some xenos on some planets down to the last cell, it's going to be so rad bro" and Iyanden was like "What!?!, have you been gen-O-siding xenos this whole time?!?! We told you we don't do that!!!" And Biel-tan was like "I'm not hearing a now so you or what bro" and Iyanden was like "Fudge no we are not going to kill some innocent xenos" And so Biel-tan was like "wow pro why you gotta be such a spoil sport, maybe we should like no hang out anymore if your going to be such a bumber." And Iyanden was like "maybe we shouldn't, i don't really want be hanging our with a homicidal maniacs" And so they two went their separate ways, with Iyanden being an unrivaled force for good in one half of the galaxy and Biel-tan kinda just killing everything in their half... That said they don't actually kill everyone and duo to their actives reducing chaos threats allowed for some Human worlds to survive that likly would not have otherwise one of witch if I remember correctly was Ultramar witch was really only able to prosper due to Eldar influence keeping the area around them safe.

If they thought that the Bainblade was a light scout, then it must've been the Legio Titanicus' fault for calling the "light-armoured scout vehicles" because they were too used to comparing things with the Titans

Current baneblades are a shadow of what they must have been during the dark age of technology. A completely different vehicle. I still think it's unlikely, maybe even a bit dumb, but there are ways for it to work

I like how the older ork mob rules could work. You take fire and some die. But you look around and see that you got enough mates left. So you keep going. Ork units would check morale against unit size in a way. Orks do not need to overthink beating a bloke and taking their stuff. All troopers got a shovel. There is a whole little standard kit along with the mess kit, lasgun and primer.

You think someone would do that? Just tell lies on the Internet?

Tzeentchian motives ngl

Finally im not the only one thinking the Baneblade was just a glorified Chevy Tahoe of dark age of tech

My way of usually imagining/explaining the ork psychic ability is that if orks were gambling at a casino, if itd be more fun then their collective thought can make the dice come up 6 more often. It cannot however make the dice come up 7

I've never heard the meme of the baneblade being a light tank in the dark age of technology. I have heard *all* guard tank variants were once farming and construction machinery for colonizing planets during the dark age of technology, such as the Leman Russ acting like a tractor

I love adeptus ridiculous and all that, but yeah, Bricky dropping the ball on WAAGH magic is just.. such a simple blunder no average 40k fan can do. Sure, there's reality bending with enough believing from orks, but they work on suspension of disbelief rules. You can only pretend to be tank so far before you cannot ignore the fact that you are not infact a tank after all.

The ork one is kind of true. But its a lot less powerful than we think. Orks can do that, but only if enough of them think so, and its still very weak, so if 50 orks think that red makes them go faster for those 50 orks red go fast. But you can't tell 1 ork that a log can fire lasers and have that log fire lasers. The death korps are not suicidal. However, they will charge a tank but only if they have an anti tank grenade on them. YOU SHUSH ABOUT THE SHOVELS LET US HAVE OUR SHOVEL BOIS! Also Steel Legion is better! ''A single space marine'' Depends, is it an angry blood angel, a named ultramarine, or a dark angel that has a slight suspicion that a fallen is in the general area?

I believe the shovel meme with the krieg corps is just from world war memes merging with krieg since they have very obvious inspirations

Also Kriegers and salamanders aren’t fuzzy friendly guys. Kriegers in lore are described as dicks who strongly dislike anyone who doesn’t hold the same devotion to the emperor as them (which is pretty difficult since they come from a culture of eternal debt to the emperor which can only be paid in heroic martyrdom) the Krieg commissars are used apparently as less of a way to prevent cowardice and more as a liaison for the regiment and also to keep the krieg from being too over zealous (whether that be stopping them from doing something too reckless or beating a cadian to death because they didn’t praise the god emperor zealously enough for their rations). Salamanders also aren’t that nice, more they’re passionate and temperamental. They can be nice and kind and truly care for the imperium but also just as if not more brutal and merciless as the other space marines. Much like fire it can be warm and helpful but also uncontrollable and destructive, the salamanders just as soon protect civilians for no strategic benefit as burn an entire planet down because elder and humans got along on it

Another extremely popular misconception I dislike (even pertaining to the Guard this one) is the, "Lasguns are flashlights" nonsense. Another is the Roboute x Yvraine relationship. This was never a thing. Yvraine simply helped revive Roboute and maybe had a chat, then went on her way.

best cannon is head-cannon have fun

The last point sterns from the general misconception about the Dark Age of Technology. It wasn't about super-tech - more so about available adaptable tech. You remember that one Man of Iron that's still kicking it? That robot isn't that advanced or powerful. Its just smarter and more complex automaton with gatling gun and powerclaw. The knights? Those machines are from the Dark Age. And while they weren't top-of-the-line tech by any metric, IIRC, they are still technically archeotech. Dark Age tech just isn't that powerful. Sure there were some epic super-weapons or gigantic proportions - but it's very possible those were just as rare as some Gloriana-class battleship is now. We simply don't have enough details, and those that we do have are vague and often conflicting. In most likelihood Baneblade wasn't the "light scout tank" simply because it was just a tank. Maybe of better variant, better equipped and in much greater numbers, but that's probably it.

6:12 Black Templars and Space Wolfs: Are you sure about that

The Kriegers don't *waste* their lives, but they're happy to *spend* their lives. there's a big difference in that.

Just discovered your channel and am loving it! Keep it up man!

3:30 DONT TELL ME YOU JIST GAVE KRIEGERS THE SAME EXCUSE AS STORMTROOPERS IN THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY

Maybe, and this is a big MAYBE, but maybe the baneblade is a “scout tank” in the same way an MBT like a T-72 or M1 Abrams are used for recon by force. Maybe the original idea was that the Baneblade was the MBT class of it’s era, I dunno though. Great video either way.

I’ve read a few of the kreig books and as far as I’m aware there is currently NO canonical instance of them using a shovel in melee there are examples of things like trench clubs and In one exceptional instance a pickaxe but no shovels I’m guessing the meme is so pervasive the author dosent want to to break immersion or feed into it Though to be fair it would make sense for them to do so

Now that Helldivers 2 are so popular, you can explain to people Kriegs are just Helldivers but WWI. You don't mind completing the mission going through 25 helldivers in progress, you don't want to, but the mission is more important than anything.

#4 came because of the 5E Space Marine codex, written by Matt "Spiritual Liege" Ward. In the timeline, he did describe the Invaders wrecking the hitherto unmentioned Idharae craftworld, then surviving retribution by two major ones, I believe Saim-Hann and Alaitoc. The chapter supposedly took heavy losses, but was noted to fight Chaos Space Marines in a few decades so it made do. The small lore blurb had no mention of Guard, other SM chapters or the like. Later lore mentioned that the craftworld, alongside two others (Iyanden and Malan'tai) had previously fought in a grueling campaign to defeat Hive Fleet Naga, so presumably they were at least somewhat depleted, and the Legion of the Damned showed up to help, and they took heavy losses, but yes, a single Space Marine Chapter destroyed a craftworld and fought off attacks by two very pissed major craftworlds, because they are Space Marines. Shockingly enough for this book, they were not Ultramarine Successors. Let's just say that Matt "Spiritual Liege" Ward is STILL infamous.

Okay I see you've made a reasonable point about the baneblade but I have a counter point, Stiener Scout lances (they had four assault 70-100 ton mechs)

About the Baneblade, my head cannon is that it was a scout tank before the weirdos from mars put a lot of extra weight with the new extra weapons, ordinance and extra armor plates that they put in the think. Originally it had only the main canon and some bolter. It was capable of reach to much higher speeds, where much more silent and carried much more sensors to scouting.

The most persistent 40k misconception is that TTS was funny or entertaining in any way.

Khorne: adrenaline Nurgle: endorphine Slaanesh: seratonin Tzeench: acetylcholine

Just to shatter a few more misconceptions: Space Marine bolters fire a projectile that is less than an inch in diameter. The largest titans that the Imperium has aren't even as tall as the pedestal that the Statue of Liberty stands on.

If this "standard chapter" has their hands on a couple cyclone torpedoes they could lol

On the tabletop Kriegers are freaking terrifying. They have an ability -- they're just randomly bringing models back every command phase. Once, a unit of 10 held a light tank in combat 3 rounds.

My funny misconception addition: Baneblades WERE the stealth scout tanks. They were small, fast and invisible STC got corrupted and misread, it was slightly modified because of that

Krieg was honestly ruined for me by the constant excess of stupid shitty memes "hans get the heavy shovel when the depressed krieg commissar one powershovel krieg 1v1 chaos marine siege of vraks" I hate it

shovels in general are just excellent weapons, *and* excellent survival methods. because theres no better armour from bullets than five kilometres of earth. that's what a foxhole is. also a trench. get lower than the ground and the ground becomes your shield.

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no no no. it isn't a luxury Sudan. the Baneblade was an autocamped. a big mobile home that someone then strapped guns to. that's why there is room for a compartment where you just have a scribe servitor writing about the tanks engagements. that used to be the bathroom.

Yay lies

slaanesh is a god of excess in the sense of following fleeting whims as they take you. obsessive perfectionism is anathema to slanessh as she can't abide the discipline required to deny all other pursuits to master a single thing. That's why the Asuryani path system works.

I really love the Idea of the Death Korps always suffering from tunnelvision because of their masks. "Hermann, what is command saying? This position will be overrun and we should regroup at defensive line theta? There's barely a dozen Tyranids coming for us." Meanwhile the entire horizon is moving and chittering.

The way I like to describe the mentality of the Death Korps is that they aren't suicidal morons, they have just had every shred of self preservation bred out of them, to the point where it is explicit canon that they can be bad for the morale of OTHER regiments if they are fighting alongside non Korpsmen. They won't think twice about a suicide rush into direct enemy fire if it is what they actually think will get the job done. There was a bit in the Siege of Vraks where they were attacking a fortified position and ran across a minefield and just kept going rather than retreating or slowly clearing the minefield, because they felt that if even a few of them survived and got into the enemy lines they could cause immense havoc, and they did! Basically think of them being like Necron Warriors, but still capable of thinking for themselves, even if it's not exactly a common occurrence.

6:25 People forget that Space marine chapters aren't groups of 1000 intercessors. They have librarians, captains, terminators, vehicles, dreadnoughts, and a few even have their primarch. People tend to vastly overestimate chapters or vastly underestimate them. Sure, a regular space marine can't hold off an entire army on their own, even if people like to think they could. Dreadnoughts, librarians and terminators could definitely do a lot all on their own though and people tend to ignore them.

You get an instant thumb up for being the first person I've ever heard saying the plural to codex (codicies) correctly

I do actually think the Baneblade being a "scout" tank makes some degree of sense, hear me out. Obviously on the battlefield the only real scouting it could do would be reconnaissance by force, however that obviously doesn't make it a "scout" tank. Rather I think it's less of a "scout" for the battlefield and more a scout / explorer for newly discovered worlds. We know that the Baneblade from the inside is basically a land battleship, with different compartments, storage space, bunk beds etc. So basically, as long as you have fuel and supplies, you don't actually need to leave the Baneblade, it can operate _somewhat_ independently, well more independently than most other Imperial Guard tanks. So if during the golden age of technology humanity needed to explore a death world for example, basically like Catachan or something, then a Baneblade would not be the worst choice to "scout" / explore it. You are safe from local fauna, flora and even the atmosphere within your hermetically sealed mobile ceramite and plassteel fortress, you can obliterate anything big enough to threaten you and you can survey the land somewhat well through the Baneblade's cupola, observation slits and "portholes", while also having enough space inside the tank to allow crewmembers to move around a bit. Basically a glorified deathworld safari jeep.

The way I could see a Baneblade being used as a scouting unit is just because, by virtue of having that much firepower (and presumably also space for other kinds of equipment), a single one could be used to survey planet surfaces by itself, without needing an escort. Honestly, it would be cool if, in principle, it was supposed to host a variety of exploration/surveying tools during mankind's age of discovery, but then sh*t hit the fan and humanity started to use all those slots just to put more guns in their place.

Ork belief is actually more than you think, there were documentated cases in the 40k universe, where people tried to reverse engineer ork weapons and learned that they simply should not work the way they do.

Only just started getting into 40k so I haven't seen most of these. Also, 1:42 to 1:51...perfection.