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One day, an elderly skaven of Clan Eshin was walking along the fetid pools near his home when he noticed something odd. Four baby turtles had somehow found their way deep underground into Skavenblight. In a rare act of pity, the skaven took the creatures into his home. Some time later, sensing the end of his days, he decided that it was time to pass on his skills. However, he had long since learned that his own kind could not be trusted. So rather than train a young skaven who would no doubt use the very skills he passed to them to kill him, he instead took the turtles to a contact from Clan Moulder. His instructions were simple. They must be intelligent enough to understand his teachings, humanoid so that they could perform his techniques, and above all else, unquestionably loyal. The deed was done, for a considerable cost in warp stone. And as the Eshin elder looked upon his new disciples, Clan Skryre made yet another monumental fuck up. One of their inventions exploded violently, tearing open a rift in reality which pulled the turtles and their new mentor into a new world. Now finding themselves in a world where skaven did not exist and the man-animals ruled unopposed, the elder looked to his new sons and made one firm decision. They would survive.
I've always liked Clan Moulder. "You get glued to something with Warpstone salve," " _You_ get glued to those two with Warpstone salve..." "...and YOU get glued to that mess with MORE WARPSTONE SALVE" *"YOU'RE ALL GETTING GLUED TOGETHER WITH WARPSTONE SALVE!"* - Master Moulder
Arch has gained the following trait: 'Hatred of Weebs' +5 leadership when fighting anime fans "Turns out that when you run with your arms behind you, you tend to die as stupidly as you look"
teenage mutant ninja rats teenage mutant ninja rats teenage mutant ninja rats their the world's most skittish fighting team their heros in the sewers, enemies come on let's flee when the evil other skaven attack these skaven boys won't cut em no slack teenage mutant ninja rats teenage mutant ninja rats teenage mutant ninja rats
Years later, it turns out Dev is the perfect Eshen-Roleplayer. Entirely convinced his plans will work and even learning the art of not loudly roleplaying while trying to achieve his objective( whatever that may be).
you know I never thought about it before but for space marines *most* chapters and like 5 ships and just focus on land combat......meah there my least favorite 40k faction anyways.
Here's what bugs me about space marines as a whole, imagine I'm some semi- important, soon to retire and become irrelevant commander on old tera working deep under the Himalayas.. Emperor: Come, you and your men are ordered to build faculties for my latest project Me: What is this project my lord? Emperor: I am developing the greatest warriors mankind has ever known!!!! Me: Are they gene altered warriors changing there bodys at will, the wrath of evolution incarnate! Armed with claws of bone, acid filed spines and think carapaces. if they face cold they will evolve fur, faced with blade they will evolve to move and dodge it! such would be a terrible weapon. Emperor: NO!!!!!! my children will be stronger than that! Me: Is it a swarm of tiny nanobots, too small to fight and dissolving your enemy's from the inside out? Emperor: NO!!!!!! my children will be stronger than that! Me: Have you taken your best warriors and implanted there brains into cybernetic body's. they would be stronger and faster then any living thing, able to switch into a different body to perfectly fit there mission on a case by case basis. each would have the power of a supercomputer inside his mind calculating each and every shot. Perhaps best of all they could be completely destroyed and as long as the brain survives, they will be remade! if this is what you have made you are truly the greatest genus mankind has ever known! Emperor: NO!!!!!! my children will be stronger than that! Me: Um.........is it.......... I have no fucking clue is it just a fuck ton of um........FELINIDS!!!!!! SEXEY SEXEY FELINIDS!!!!!!!! Emperor: THEY WILL BE DUDES BUT LIKE REALEY BIG DUDES LIKE SUPER DUPER BODY BUILDERS THAT HAVE HAD MEGA STEROIDS BUT NOT. THEN WE TAKE A BUNCH OF DUDES PUT THEM IN MY BEST ARMOUR AND THEY JUST BRO ACCROSS THE UNAVERSE Me: um...... that sounds kinda gay (instantly shot in the face) space marines are litarley the least creative thing I have ever seen outside of startrek. there just SO DULL there just big dudes, what a rip off for my super cool gene altered warriors. LAME! NO CREATIVITEY ( good thing the rest of 40k has tons of cool stuff)
Kyber Cat I think you're overreacting a bit, also some of your ideas mentioned men of iron-ish tech, and I don't think that I have to explain why big E wouldn't, most propably, do it. Also we have to remember that Emps built them not olny as a soldiers, but also as leaders and protectors of soon-to-be his Imperium and guys who unify it (preety much supermen), where psychological effect of SM works quite good, imagine this: You're some guy living on a feral world during the grat crusade. One day a werid flying ship lands near your village, and from it comes group of giant, muscular guys in heavy armour armed with shining swords and other cool shit. "Dayum, they look like heroes of old legends" you think to yourself. Then one of them says -Greetings this planet's humans! Do you want to join our interstellar Empire led by a guy who's even bigger and mightier than us? Would you refuse him? In the other hand you have some really cool ideas. Ever thought of writing a book?
So basically the Foot Clan, but meaner & on steroids, bet you there is someone who named his hero or favorite model Hamato Yoshi, then added some mutated Lizard Men as his retinue & has Chaos Warlord, or Dark Elf Lord would also work, with a thing for spikes & wields bladed fist weapons as his main enemy! :D
Thomas Wightman yeah last skaven to openly hate the horned rat spontaneously and violently bursted into warpflames and burned for days alive and once he was ash his loud scream was still heard for weeks, sends a powerful message to the others
Alexander Owens I still wouldn't be surprised if another aspiring skaven thought to himself " that's a nice seat, I think I'll have it" and then ended up as chargrilled rat, remember every single ratman thinks he's immortal
If so, it is not recorded. Unlikely though. Every last Skaven is scared far beyond reason's fourth cousin twice removed when it comes to the horned bastard.
Arch could you do a lore video , ranking the space marines in terms of which had the most violent /successful/most skilled troops/most technologically equipped /best weaponry/legendary leaders - and do your best to rank them in a list , I think this would be a good video , when I typed in "most powerful space marines chapters" there was no definitive video on the subject and it is a very commonly searched request on Google , I only typed in ' most powerful s" and I could see it . No need for a short video make it an hour plus please .
Also there general strong/weak points in the actual game itself , which are the most efficient and valuable troops per point , and which are just simply the coolest
The answer is pretty clear though! Obviously, the Dark Angels, being the first legion, are the greatest and most powerful Chapter of Space Marines. That being said, the rest are irrelevant.
Dicerson EXCEPT THE DARK ANGELS ARE NOW A COMPLETELY NORMAL SIZED CHAPTER OF UNQUESTIONED LOYALTY THAT DOES NOT IN ANY WAY HAVE ANY PATTERN OF UNUSUALLY CLOSE COOPERATION WITH ITS MANY SUCCESSOR CHAPTERS, AND CERTAINLY DO NOT HAVE LEGION-LEVEL FORCES AT ITS DISPOSAL. AND SO YOUR POINT IS MOOT.
I'm surprised that one of the lords of decay actually lost in combat,as most of the current Council of Thirteen are more than likely to gut any rat foolish enough to challenge then.
My goodness!I thought it was just me who works out to Sabaton! Thank goodness, I decided to wait this week and listen to this wonderful Skaven lore before my workout this week!
You touched upon an important aspect of the Skaven; their egomania combined with their paranoia. They think their race is the greatest to ever grace the world. But because they see themselves as so competent, they view each OTHER as way more threatening than any of the enemy countries. Hopefully, when playing Skaven, the game is programmed to make world domination as hard as possible. Perhaps if your Skaven faction has the highest power rating, every other one will team up to knock you down a peg.
Well, the new mechanic is that EVERY faction will do that anyway, not Skaven exclusive. Also, loyalty is a feature of Skaven generals so if it drops to zero, you have yourself an enemy army, with units handpicked by you (so the build is actually good)
well to be fair there isnt exactly much chance they could practically get all of the iconic units in by launch. pretty much every skaven unit has so much personality its iconic and unless you want to cut serious corners with the elves we arent getting all the clans iconic units plus hellpit abomination is simply THE most adorable thing i have seen all year so im willing to be lenient with them
Jerec 12 Yeah man..but think about it...no Doom Flayers, no Warplock Jezzails, no Packmaster, no Ratling Gunner, no poisoned Wind Mortar, no Giant rats or rat swarms
Timefliesbye No no,,Giant rats..basicly Skaven Direwolves..or Chaos Hounds..as for the rat swarms idk honestly thought it just might be cool 😂 Btw, you rlly think they would release all the previous mentioned units in one DLC?
what do most of these of these have in common? skyre, if we are ever getting a skaven lord pack it will be skyre based and we will get most of those. also the poisoned wind mortar seems kind of irrelevant when you have the plague claw catapult which is just better. and giant rat swarms are just fucking pointless
Poison Wind Mortar, Jezzails, Doomflayer and Ratling Guns will come with Skryre themed dlc mate - most likely with Ikit Claw. I'm not sure if Giant Rats, Wolf Rats and Packmasters will make it - not unless they do addition to Clan Moulder with Throt but never say never.
my theory is that pickle rick and splinter from tmnt fought each other on the battlefield rick being of course a sell sword employed by armies that needed him and splinter being a less than common skaven they fought epic battles but they could never quite kill each other always managing to just get away one day they were fighting both reaching the end of their careers splinter because he was old rick because there were hundreds of thousands rat ogres coming straight for them they danced a deadly dance of life and death their battlefield lighted only by the warpstone cavern in a quick move splinter slashes a warpstones crystal shattering it in the face of pickle rick and makes his escape into one of the thousands of tunnels rick looking down quickly grabs a chunk of WARP STONE wink* and escapes via hole above the chamber climbing to safety from the now furious rat ogres...soon thereafter splinter recived his discharge papers having fought with the great verminetide his whole life he sets out on a new adventure in New York rick remained on the run the vermintide now looking everywhere for him Ricks new invention the portal gun took him to a strange new world
What would you think if they did TWW3, Arch? They could maybe have Cathay as an actual army, maybe with units from Ind and Nippon working as mercenaries. And there could even still be a Clan Eshin faction living in Cathay - there's really no telling how many of them stayed behind when the others returned to Skavenblight is there? They might even Ogre and Chaos Dwarf armies to play around with, huh?
I would guess they are about equally strong and tough and almost equally agile. However, Skaven have the edge in dexterity and pure speed and a few minor advantages such as incisors and claws. I'd argue that because of their metabolism and jittery nature they also have a tad better reflexes. While Goblins and Skaven are both cowardly however, unless this is a Night Goblin, I'd argue the Common Goblin is slightly braver than the average Skaven, certainly braver than Skavenslaves. The courage would matter little though if the fight was certain. The odds favor, I guess, the Skaven.
I cant breathe... Love your indepth vids. Especialy the way you describe things, it's killing me from a disturbing inability to inhale oxygen properly!
Oh my god! It's about damn time Arch! It's only been a little under a year since your last Skaven video. I mean, you're supposed to be a huge skaven fanboy, but it's taken you this long to just get to the second of the 5 major skaven clans. I'm not going to keep holding out hope that you'll get to Clan Mors, Moulder, or Pestilens, let alone a few of the lesser but still major clans like Clan Rictus.
I think there's a quote from sniper that states Eshin's business model quite well. "As long as there's two people alive, some one is gonna want someone dead"
Apologies for the very late reply. Sisyphos is a figure of ancient Greek myth. He was a king of Epyrus, renowned for his deceitful and treacherous ways. He would welcome visitors with lavish feasts and assassinate them or poison them as part of his political machinations. His punishment for his behavior was to be damned to push a great boulder up a mountain, and just before he reached the top, it would always hit a tiny stone and roll back down, forcing him to go back down and begin again.
WTF is the Sisyphus complex? I can find references to it, but I have no idea what it means. Sisyphus was forced to roll a rock up a hill as punishment, it wasn't anything the did willingly. Therefore, I don't understand how he can be the blueprint for a mental complex.
Oh yes yes it easy to kill and poison but only the true greatest clan clan Mors could take a region. Take it from me me a totally impartial observer and not the one true greatest skaven no no.
