THE SIEGE OF VRAKS in 60 mins with Moving Maps! | Warhammer 40k Lore 

In my headcanon, they killed a Fallen, said their mission was destroying the Space Port and leaved to kill another Fallen

​@@flaviomonteiro1414makes sense especially if said Fallen joined the Alpha Legion since Dark Angels came in to specifically kill them, destroy their space port and pissed off. Dark Angels are cool but still kind of a bunch of dickheads

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Fucking Chads

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Jovovich has been doing some phenomenal videos on it for the past couple years

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I swear if you skip through you can see his beard growing.

Yeah and then there are the people who absolutely refuse to leave out any minute detail and end up with a 40h long series. (*cough* Arch *cough*)

Half the lore channels use ai voices now 😂. I think they are more in love with money and monetisation

@@StigPrice if AI can expedite the process and bring us more quality storytelling then more power to them. Although when all lore channels start using the same voices with the same inflections, the channels with a more personal touch will be the ones that gather the largest followings.

@@SentientMeatloaf1 spoken like a man who knows nothing about the RU-vid algorithm.

You nailed it.

I've been trying to summon a Daemon since 2015 for this exact reason

I Hate how much I share this sentiment.

I work in a bar, everyday is a chaos uprising ;)

I mean, it's worth a go, but I'm pretty sure it's against Kickstarter's TOS...

Considering it...

This. Took. WEEKS!

@@ArbitorIan I mean not quite 18 years but i respect the effort

@@ArbitorIan How fitting for Vraks!

Any other guard regiment would have moped the fuck out to other war zones given the ungodly losses

@@Jedishill680As any sane regiment should have. The obsession with ponderous sunk cost fallacy is partly why Vraks got so bad in the first place by feeding the death on that planet.

Thanks!

​@@ArbitorIan I can't but agree. There's a channel called the great war where one guy narrates and explains the entirety of the WWI week by week with many details and photo-video materials. This video reminded me of exactly that.

Me, as well. One of the few creators that can actually give me goosebumps talking about space men fighting unknowable horrors from beyond.

That's so cool

It is rare to see someone else use the Yellow Sign here. Hail to the King.

Is it just me or is 14 million too small

@@eshaanjain9379 Lol yeah, actual WW1 and the Spanish Flu right after killed more people. FW writers aren't the best when it comes to scale, then again, most people can barely visualize a thousand people

Way too small, 16 million were killed in WW1@@eshaanjain9379

@@eshaanjain9379 It's far too small, it has a lower casualty rate than a lot of battles in WW2

@@TheKsalad Yeah though tbf Vraks has a tiny population

Disagree, an Exterminatus would have been a gross missuse of vital war assets. Giving the Vindicare Assassin strict instructions to only take the shot if he can utilize a shieldbreaker round would have been more than enough. Sure, the cardinal would have had more time to build his forces, but it wouldn't have meant anything with the Cardinal ending up dead. Would there have been anger at the Imperium due to this? Sure, but without their spiritual leader the Vraksian forces would have inevitably devolved into infighting groups of zealots and opportunists, which then could have been taken care of through other means. This would have also kept the majority of the wargear stockpiles filled and untainted.

​@@AnonD38well, it's only about very early days of conflict, sure, but by the time of clear chaos corruption and very long siege, it was the best choice, though, like in real life, it would mean that all previously spent resources are wasted, which doesn't look good in reports.

@@gi1dor Also the use of Exterminatus was not considered as the Armories and Bunkers of the Citadel were built to withstand exterminatus class weaponry. Realistically it would have only further empowering the Chaos worshippers by giving them millions if not billions of fresh sacrifices.

Just wished the numbers were increased to Trillions on both sides

​@@christiandauz3742That's a... strange wish.

@@dekai7992 Vraks's death toll is half of WW1 despite lasting longer Unrealistic

​@@christiandauz3742 To get to casualty figures of 'Trillions on both sides', you're talking about like 'the Horus Heresy'. Pretty high on the scale, is the thing.

@@basedeltazero714 There are many Hive Worlds with Hundreds of Trillions of people during the Heresy In one horrific incident the Alpha Legion unleashed a virus that kills plant life. 80 BILLION starved to death in the Issos Genocide The Alpha Legion alone probably killed Two Trillion in the Heresy

Theres a series already by Jannovich and the Vraks animation which is pretty well-made even though its only one episode

It's also only really Imperial Armour that can do anything like that. Vraks is the prime example, while baseline GW campaign lack a lot of detail and sense

I can also recommend the Vraks series of Janovich. It is longer tho (currently 2-3 hours or so its still not finished) because he goes into a little more detail and he has also animated maps. (But sadly no awesome Artwork or Dioramas in between)

@@EASY7356 cheers mate, I appreciate your suggestion!

Don't worry lads, we'll be fine. It's not like the enemy has specialist tunnel fighters.....

To be fair, we’re talking an inquisitor who is a powerful psyker, armoured in artificer terminator armour and of such immense strength he can wield a two-handed greatsword in one hand, and a bloodthirster which had already been weakened by battle with the Grey Knights. It’s certainly still extremely implausible that he could beat a greater daemon of Khorne, but the narrative is definitely playing into that by portraying it as a superhumanly epic feat that makes Rex a legendary figure within the Inquisition. Crazy feats like this do pop up in real life wars too, and I think it helps that the narrative makes clear this is not something most inquisitors are capable of by having numerous other inquisitors get absolutely destroyed by the bloodthirster or by the great unclean one

Honnestly I can see them doing an official novel book series on these with the rise of Krieg popularity especially with the recent Krieg book that explained their history and why their planet became said nuclear wasteland and gives you more details about their civil war

​@@BestCupidThey won't do it unless there's a way to tie it to mini sales. That won't happen until the Krieg range is expanded and Traitor Guard become a range themselves.

They were a great counterpoint to the rest of the fiction. Whereas the 40k novels and general background are like watching a great war movie the Forgeworld books were like watching a really satisfying documentary like "The World at War".

Oh hi Warwick Kinrade! Thanks so much for these books (and all the others). Genuinely fun and also pleasingly bonkers.

If hive cities like necromunda is to go by, the people itself are future rations when they're no use.

Virtue signal much? Skull and Bones iconography existed centuries prior to 1930s Germany dude. That dead regime copied and pasted other culture's iconography because they thought it looked cool and were too incompetent to create their own. Next you'll be demanding every movie with a pirate flag be removed from circulation.

AFAIK that's and old prussian hussar deaths head symbol. You can tell them apart by the presence or absence of the jawbone. The SS totenkopf has jawbones, while the prussian hussar does not.

Did some some research, and it seems like unfortunately this isn't a sure distinction between SS symbology and non SS symbology. The lower mandibles are not present on SS designs used from 1925 to 1934. SS absolutely had this symbol on their uniforms for nearly ten years. Luftwaffe and Panzer groups also made use of this symbol lacking the lower mandible later in the war. The symbol changed to include the mandibles later, but ultimately this symbol was definitely used by the murderous scum.

​@@callusklaus2413 Sure, its not a 100% way to distinguish, but its good enough. The SS was just a simple bodyguard unit before 1933/34, and it switched to the deathshead with the jawbone when it transformed into the murderous military organisation thats well known. And as for the luftwafe and tank units. It was a normal thing for mechanized and airborne/air units to keep the tradition of cavalary units. In the case of the germans it was the black uniform with the jawless deathshead. Introduced by Frederick the Great in 1741. So, basically jawless deathshead: a german/prussian military symbol, that goes back hundreds of years, and could represent dozens or even hundreds of various military units form that timeframe. The grinning deathshead: definitely bad people.

I feel like every time a new person makes a video on it it’s just a bit of spit Arch’s grave. Good he deserves it.

@@Tortle-Man his voice is grinding and his vraks series is literally 9 parts if I recall

​@@NopityforthemajorityWhat did you expect? It's a lore focused in detail series, with commentary. This is a visual summary.

Ironically, it seems a piece of fan/commissioned art of Arch made it into this vid - at 57:27.

@@mikewicked.xlooks like it’s redacted by the inquisition

Amazing, thanks! There are probably things you missed though, I'd do it all over again. Maybe twice. 😬🤣

Home? They don't get to go HOME!

​@@ArbitorIando Kriegsmen even have "dad's"? 👀👀👀

Firstly, Grey Knights don't have the athority to do that, only Inquisitors can take such a decision. Inquisitor Rex could have done that with the remnants of Krieg forces sure, but apparently he decided not to, or it's something the FW writers ommited. About the Space Marines like the Red Scorpions or Dark Angels, Inquisitors can take such decision but it's very rare and only in the most serious cases of treachery by the Space Marines, which is explained by how valuable the Space Marines are to the Imperium. For the Imperial Navy, they haven't seen the deamons and only fought from their vessels, which makes them out of consideration. Lastly, Inquisitors and their retinue are formed and trained especially for these kind of scenarios. Unless one of them succumbs to the Chaos side, it could happen but it's extremely unlikely. The poor surviving Sororitas of the Sliver Shroud were just given the Emperor's mercy for their misery, after they've gone mad being kept in cells and certainly tortured. Good question tho ;)

Thank you for your detailed answer - excellent!