The Siege of Vraks EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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oh and ecclesiarchy lore, and list of planets that attempted to succeede from the imperium please

when can count the artillery shells but not the tanks.....Australians lol

Khorne, I wish you made this video sooner I would’ve save me quite a few hours.

How come timmy never raises his hand?

Yup. Ahhahah that's it ahahha the only ones to have fun were the alpha legionnaires and zhufor the impaler who stayed until the siege devolved into a major clusterfuck summoned anggrath and then said fuck it and left in the warp with his boys ahhaha

WW1 in a nutshell

Inquisition has a simple yet effective method for dealing with planets that suffered chaos incursion: Khorne: get the mops Tzeentch: therapists Slaneesh: Scotchgard and new furniture. Nurgle: exterminatus

And the Krieg fucking loved it!

Just as planned.

Cypher: Finally they are gone.

Dark Angels being useless as usual

Why are my goddamn legion so useless when it's not something in relation with the fallen? Why didn't the iron hands responded first they were make a better fuckin job

They're just the best. Outside of their own internal inquisition they couldn't give a fuck about the wider imperium.

@@jerrysmith5931 Totally not traitors Dark Angels are.

Now that would be confusing.

Ja, mein Jeager.

THE TERROR OF THE SEAS, THE BISMARCK AND THE KRIEGSMARINE

Or how bout Deathcore. Sounds metal asf.

@@bigchungus2667 2000 men and 50,000 tons of steel

"There is a great disturbance in the force."

Everything went wrong at vraks except the glorious victory for the Imperium

Khorne and Nurgle: even though we enjoy deaths but this shit is too much to handle

I dont know, did the Alphas? Were they thwarting the Master O’ Plans or helping the nerd? Hard to tell. Did Arkos even know? Did the Dark Angels? Definitely, maybe, shouldnt, do it for sure!

Sad gasmask noises!

Can confirm.

I can confirm, it was fun

The Alpha Legion definitely had, Tzeentch is angery-wondering wether they're fooling him or not

Literally made this comment 2 hours ago. 1 like. Wtf

Yes, but Oculus Imperia is... hang on a sec. Yeah, in retrospect, I wanted to have some sort of zinger here that insulted Oculus, just because you set me up for a zinger so well, but I don't really dislike him. At all. So now this great setup is wasted. Can you set me up for a zinger against someone else instead? Like Tabletop Titans or something?

Timmy! Who let you out of your cage?!

Arch is annoying as hell

@@sheevpalpatine2128 We weren't really talking about him, but I'm glad you've gotten that out of your system.

It may have made sense, until the Alpha decided to stay instead of sneaking away

@@nate742 naw the death angels have some shady side dealings with them for sure. Just think about it. The fact that they stayed even after the berserkers left shows they did it on purpose. More then likely they were passing on information through "capture" while also keeping up the image of being traitors by continuing to fight to the death. Why else would the DA just pop up and specifically ask to be the ones to deal with alpha?

@@nate742 Or maybe the Alpha Legion somehow convinced the World Eaters to swap armour to both confuse the Imperium and make the Dark Angels stick around.

​@@mapleflag6518 Oh my God if true, this will be 1000 IQ level genius. But how someone said here already, this theory is stupid and actually makes no sense.

It was omegon. Alpharius got cut short by Rogal Dorn

Tybork, the captain, later promoted to Commander, who was the one to cause the breach in the 1st defensive line. He was last seen in the siege proper when he assaulted the citadel. He was later assigned to another theater in a different subsector.

I think that the chances of that happening are tinier than a Tau fan's dick

The men and women, who survived the entire siege from tur start to its very end were real chads.

Not everyone has the time for a 43 part series ya know

@@majorkill hey majorkill did you talk to game Workshop and if not yet you mind telling them about dawn of War to see if I'm making a new one or remake that can redo mistakes made on dawn of War 3

Its nice to listen to Arch's longer lore videos while painting. But Majorkill has videos you can watch even if you dont have much time. A good balance in my opinion.

@@deadlyydude5522 oh didn't know about that

@@vontheunknown7982 A big Part of his content is making porn out of gw charakters. I guess they dont like that ;)

This isn’t Paschendale

@@kellerblair2952 but this is a fitting song for Vraks.

Up the irons haha

Run to the hills! Run for your lives!

Well WW2 casualties for a good part of civilian casualties. I see it’s fairly reasonable since 14 million casualties in a single battle match up with WW1 casualties. Plus it doesn’t account for chaos losses

Everything is off about the numbers. Like Krieg had 70,000 artillery pieces shelling Vracks over a 96 hour period. They apparently ordered 100 million shells for this single barrage. Here's some fun math for you. Today your average artillery piece can loose about 6 rounds per minute. So 6 rounds per minute from 70,000 artillery pieces for 96 hours adds up to about 2,419,200,000 shells. If you factor in barrel changes then that's about 80 hours of drum fire, so just over 2,016,000,000 shells. Their 100 million orderd shells wouldn't even cover a 20th of that.

When it comes to GW dont look at numbers. I am convinced nobody at that company knows how to do math.

sometimes, the real world ends up being way more terrible than whatever we can cook up in our fictions. no matter how har you try and what the fabois tell you. it's sadly just a fact of life. and we can all hope that the opposite remains the norm.

@@lordhamster9452 that doesn’t make sense though the imperium is scaled to a million worlds. The Horus heresy costed trillions of life’s and your telling me one of the most defining sieges costed only millions of lives.

That might just be stupid enough to be canon

Certified Alpha legion moment

Imagine wearing a world eater armor. You'd get hepatitis B faster then you can say typhus. ^^

That is absolutely some shit they'd pull

it’s so stupid it would actually be canon

Siege only lasts one week: *depressed gas mask noises*

Whistle blowing: *Happy gasmask noises as they fix bayonets.*

every kriegsman and kriegswoman apperantly according to MK

can confirm exept u forgot *eathshaker rounds being packed*

He’s hopped up on speed and inhalents

If only he'd mix alcohol with his meds... he could go full Timmy. And you never go full Timmy...

What drugs does MK even like anyway?

@@ValiumCupcakes all of them

@@ValiumCupcakes yes

Bro facts it’s so sick

Except kill is cool and arch just gives me shivers when I see his face

hell yeah! i was listening to it during breakfast for a good few months

They have individual artillery bombardments written into lore? Whenever I think I'm a giant nerd...

@@isaacburrows8405 In this case yes. In fact they went into detail about a bombardment that consumed so much ammo that the logistics vehicles started falling apart from how much hauling they were doing. Or stuff like preliminary bombardments, drum fire bombardments and box barrages and the like. Pulled right out of WW1 and WW2 artillery handbooks

Mate if i remember there was a mad lad krige officer that rush in and get cartoonishly flung out the trenches by a chaos marine or some demon

@@boom-wj1gt a commisar also was yeeted off a breach in the wall by a ogryn

@@Foehammer335 this is why 40k is the best. You really can't ever run out of lore

You forgot the planet sized amount of steroids

@@mugenokami2201 planet? More like galaxy-sized steroids.

Multiply that by 1000000 and you will be close

@@mugenokami2201 also forgot about normandy

A sprinkle on Waterloo on top and a pinch of love

If this does well then yes, I really enjoyed pushing the editing a bit on this one

That shit show finna take a while to make

Badad war next pls

@@majorkill Commissar Yarrick next please.

Arch also did bodab its shorter than vraks i love the detail arch puts into here but i love major for his top 10 or 5 lists i love you guys equally

Two titans, I repeat, two titans

majorkill is kinda cliffnotes of arch and i think thats a good thing he gives you the big picture and arch gives you the tiny details both fit the nich well

This is called a bromantic rivalry.

Now...Kiss....!!

Arch is cringe

@@ChillAssTurtle you are cringe 😘

Someones gonna make a fan fic of this

I think they retconned that to “any corrupted guardsmen are killed”; otherwise you’d never have any veteran IG forces. Witnessing the Grey Knights, that’ll get your unit exterminated

@@SportyMabamba why is that again

@@cyantile5490 Grey Knights are treated as super secret by the Inquisition

Some may have exception like Cadian units since they have withness Chaos and trained for fight against Chaos.

It may not be as frequent or as blunt as it used. I'd reckon older guard regiments are still thoroughly screen especially those with frequent fights with Chaos. The veterans may even be given an option to be euthanised if they don't think they can handle the strain anymore. It's not really a bad way to go anyhow. With how bad chaos is, only the strong-willed get to live to see the sun set on their own terms.

Oh nah mate that's probably just the Krieg casualties lmao.

Yeah that's just the dead krieg ahhah to that you have to add 8 million vraksian militia plus all the marines (traitors and not) that got yoinked there too

@@jackcanox4015 so at most 30 million. From a battle this famous, with all the space marine chapters involved, anything less than a few billion dead soldiers is just way off

20-30million dead vraks soldiers. + maybe 1-million other regiments died in space or in the siege. 8 million vraks defenders + aaall the civilians died (turned into kinda zombies of chaos. Kids, women, elders everyone), countless ammount of demons and + who knows how many troops came from space to vraks, space marines, titans + defenders of titans and all the traitors. Death count could be over 100 million in 1 siege. The area was not that large even... but yeah it feels empty that large battle only had that ammount of deaths...

@@MrTuerte both Wikis say basically the same: "14 million Imperial Guardsmen had been lost and Vraks Prime's entire original population of 8 million souls had been consumed in the violence or exterminated after they fell to Chaos corruption". So apparently there really are only supposed to be 30 million dead for the entire planetary siege.

Yeah, two very sneaky and secretive groups fighting each other. Also at the end DA won, killed or captured remaining AL chaos marines, but damn..they did only that, like:" there is a big and very bloody battle, but we are here only about and for AL, you can keep our millions heretics and mutants, thousands of Chaos SP and demons, you fight them, we deal only with AL!"😂😂😂 This is so DA. Or the case in the first stages of the battle, when DA were like:"Well...we sabotaged enemy supplies and communications, their logistics is damaged, so our job here is done. Goodbye and good look with the battle, we hope you win somehow!"😂😂😂 As DA fan i must admit, DA are really annoying and unpredictable and not very reliable, but on same time very good in their job and amazingly effective, but unreliable! Effective, but can't rely on them, but at least can done your job effective...and after that will probably leave you.😂

They survived? I remember them being shot in theyr room when they were starting to suspect something

@@firmak2 that didn’t happen . They were kept alive

+ what happened to all the civilians :D

@@MrTuerte They were mostly converted into the very cultists that were defining Vraks, I'm sure anyone who resisted met the same fate as the local Arbites...

@@MrTuerte this is warhammer, they probably died

As majorkill said, he skipped a lot. Arches 43 videos arent there for the lols

Somehow less casualties than ww2

Lmao, you're not wrong. Scaling in this universe can be a doozy. But, I usually manage to suspend disbelief ha

​@@NoNameTaken117 Here we go again!😂 Look WW2 was a planetary scale war at its finest. Around many countries and continents on hundreds of different territories. In which casualties them putt and civilians deahts around the whole world. And that was just battle in and about one single city, yes big city, but not entire planetary war, but for one city. So i think, that the numbers are good.

@@vencislavgynev8282 World War 2 was over 1 planet and to be specific 2 areas, the pacific theater and Eastern Front, including the western front too. This was on 1 planet where the level of technology was very low comapred to standard imperium tech. This was the era where a million men lost was abysmal and destructive to any country. WW2 had around 53 million died in 6 years Vraks had around 22 million died excluding space marines and titan legions, and this was over 17 years A better comparison to vraks would be the battle of stalingrad

Tybork. The captain that achieved the breach in the first defensive line. He later was promoted to colonel and led an attack on the citadel. He survived Vraks and was promoted to commander.

You never know because I am Alpharius

Sad shovel noise

@@alexejvecera6317 HERESEY HE IS OFFERIGN US TO DIE FOR THE EMPEROR OUR ONLY WAY FOR SALVATION I WAS ON VRAKS AND SURVIVED SO U BE QUITE AND LET US SERVE THE EPREROR YOU H E R E T I C

you can even see me at 11:21 im at the far left and this was before i got promoted to grenadier i survived cus of that astaries taking all the bolts instead of me :(

and at 1249 as they needed someone who had lasted longer than 30 mins to lead the demo team

@@88thdeathkoregrenadier68 sad that they have to wait to die

Cannot even begin to imagine being a Kriegsman and surviving the entire siege from start to finish

@@brandonberry1764 our wo/man's out here trying to die for the emperor and just consistently avoids death over a 14 year, deadliest assault on a fort to rival forts. At the end they just grumble and hope they die in the next warzone

A 95% chance if dying and you fuck it up. How embarrassing.

@@netman446 For the most part he did other than a few innuendo and jokes.

@@netman446 Watched both series and he kept his personal opinions out of it. When you have the time, do watch his series on both Vraks and Badab.

@@netman446 I remember counting about 3-4 times in the entire series that he mentioned modern sociopolitics.

@@netman446 what is his political opinion exactly? I’ve only ever seen people calling him a nazi and that just doesn’t seem right; I’ve been watching him for a while and seen nothing that seemed to suggest that outlook

@@TheCorrodedMan pretty sure some discord screenshots came out showing that, you could probably look them up

GWs grasp of numbers have always been shit. “4million gaurdsmen!!” sounds impressive until you realise the battle of the Somme had over 1million fatalities.

In GWs defence, im pretty sure that Vraks only had one point of interest, which was the departmento munitorum facility. The rest of the planet was an inhospitable wasteland, this being the major reason the death korps were selected, as they require no special training nor extra equipment to maintain ongoing operations on such a shithole. They administratum does not care about guardsmans feelings (for more info, see 15 hours or any other early guard novel), so imo this is the reason (beyond convenience) that the krieg were chosen. As for other warzones, yeah, you got a point, I mean, Ive always wondered how a company of space marines could conquer a planet with 5 billion people, millions of professional soldiers with armour and artillery support and even tactical cruise missles, nukes and orbital lasers n shit. Assuming one astartes carries a bolter with 3 magazines with 50 rounds each, we have 200 rounds x 100 astartes = 20000 rounds. Assuming each round equates to a kill, we have 20000 kills prior to re supply. which means that it would require 50 resupplies to wipe out a million enemy soldiers. This gives a chaos corrupted pdf force 50 chances to use conventional artillery or orbital weaponry to take out a substantial part of the astartes force, or at least neutralize their combat effectiveness. And thats just the start. How exactly can 1000 soldiers operate across an entire planet? An army of a million would be broken down into between 500 and 1000 battalions, presumably with support assets. Plot armour aside, one or two soldiers cannot take out a battalion with only 200 rounds each. Thats why I like fluff like this, where the astartes are used as surgical strike forces and large armies of cannon fodder get to experience the constant boredom, interupted by sometimes terminal excitement, that is a warzone.

Very true, Majorkill even mentions this and says that what he does to make the numbers make more sense is add another zero to every military number like a chapter of space marines does not have just a 1000 space marines (ridiculously low number to fight galactic wars) but instead has 10 000. the legions did not have 200 000 (how can you wipe out entire interstellar civilizations with just 200 thousand soldiers no matter how good they are?) space marines each but 2 million. But honestly GWs numbers are so low I think adding 2 zeros would make more sense, a chapter of a 100 000 space marines could actually be considered a real army. And a legion of 20 million space marines I could start believing could theoretically take over interstellar civilizations. This planet though was just an armory world and mostly a dead world with only a few millions people living on it so the engagement actually made sense. But any other engagement where a civilized star system revolts along with its capital planet which would have billions of humans living on it would of course have way more soldiers than just 8 million. For example Germany a single country with a population of 70 milion during world war 2 was able to have far more than that ( nazi germany had around 14 million soldiers). If we go by that example a planet of 7 billion humans that are as motivated as Nazi Germany would literally have over a billion well armed and well trained and capable soldiers even 10 000 space marines could not put a dent in that lmao. So yeah I agree the numbers are all fucked and make no sense someone with a brain has to fix that in warhammer 40k eventually. Its so bad that retconning past retarded numbers would make sense and just replace it all with sensible numbers.

Yea idk how sci fi gets this wrong they are trillions maybe even more people in the imperium but the battles are below ten million and are considered big while our planet with 7 billion have battles that have ranged into 50+ million combatants Star Wars is the same 2 million clones for an entire galaxy makes zero sense.

@@winstonlewis5630 oh dang didnt notice star wars had the same idiotic numbers too, lmao.

It's okay Fred. I'll be taking you to KFC soon.

@@Callsign_Bear no mortal can survive eating cosmic poultry, your mind will shatter

@@fredthecosmicchicken6737 But I will try. And if my mind goes, so what? It's already far gone. This will just be a little farther. I mean, does my face look like a sane man's?

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Too true

idk if you've read the Horus Heresy but that's pretty much it. Especially through the short stories you get the big picture. You see alot of the traitor Astartes for what they are, some are demented and twisted but others were just confused but by design were to follow their Primarch

@@SerusKellen I have read Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra books. Not all admitedly, but many, and each time when reading them I always couldn’t shake off a feeling that the loyalists were winning. It just felt like in every book the chaos was bleeding for every step they took. In Solar War for example, the book starts with Sigismund standing in his command bridge, literally camping off traitor ships after Dorn killed Alpharius or Omegon and learned from Alpha legion intel in the previous books where Horus was going to Enter the system. I guess I never really felt while reading the 40k novels that chaos was winning in anyway. They never really got a big win, even Istvaan 3 and 4 were said to be very bloody for both loyalists and traitors. The Lords of Silence were a forst book that change that, as I finally felt that chaos did score a win. If you know more novels like that Please do tell me.

@@michasalamon8315 it doesn’t help that some traitors went crazy stupid and became useless in the ways of tactics for some reason looking at Angron here.

I mean that’s what this story is the traitors were not even worshipping chaos until serval years into the war and the cardinal did not order the uprising it happened because people thought we was dead when he was only knocked out from the sniper by the time he woke up the world had overthrown the government and declared him in change then he tried to make peace with the imperium but they didn’t want to

That being said the hardest decision would be how to tell the story since there is no main character

@@firmak2 there could be 1 character on each side, 1 is a kriegsman that somehow survives from day 1 to the end of the war and the other a civilian from vraks that starts as a emperor zealot but eventually becomes a spawn of chaos.

Play Dawn of War Soulstorm with the Unification mod. Then play a large map (theres even one called Vraks Space Port!) as either the DKoK, Daemonhunters, Daemons, Chaos Space Marines (they have access to mortal cultists or renegade guard squads) World Eaters (you ca deploy Zufor) or Imperial Guard with Chaos paint. Though soon the mod version 7.0 will introduce Renegade Guard as a full faction.

Same. Not dissapointed also. Especially with how much energy he put into telling Timmy to shut up.

They cant copyright Astartes either.

Just wait until the US Space Force incorporates Marines in some capacity

kriegsman "thank the emperor"

@@lionheart6176 Very true. But still an error.

Why were you drawing bones?

But that series was really good. In 1-2 months i listened all the episodes.

Arch will be his biggest challenge yet. The blood god and the Bridge god are both _very_ powerful, almost equal to one another

As one does!!

On behalf of Australia, yes

Also on behalf of Australia yes

Fuck yeah dude R&H is my personal white whale. I want to do one so bad. I have 10 renegade guard bodies, the know how to recast them, I just need the money and all the extra chaos bits. I wish GW would rerelease the chaos vehicle upgrade sprue so I could recast that too. They're bloody impossible to get ahold of intact nowadays.