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  1. 13:15 "Just because I'm 10 feet tall, wearing a golden suit of armor and wielding a fiery sword while also having a permanent halo around me dose not mean that I'm god."
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  2. Simply put, they don't care about dying. They know that their lives matter little because millions of their own are created in their world.
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  3. Imperial Guardsmen are generally well-trained and some have seen combat before even being recruited. They're more like the top 10% of conscripts, since the lower 90% gets left in the Planetary Defense Force.
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  4. My favorite Inquisition quote regarding exterminatus is: "Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people. Those who understand realize that you have no right to let them live!"
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  5. It might seem a little silly that the Hammer was capable of dealing more damage than the Bolters but it's unique in that there's an energy field emitting device built into them. They're called Thunder Hammers and only activate upon striking a target, and they do so with enough force to put holes in main battle tanks.
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  6. Thumbnail: “HIGH RISK TACTICS” DKoK: “No... they were still using their rifles.”
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  7. Consider the fact that the stories told through the lore of 40K takes place far into the future and it becomes a reasonable assumption that much of mankind's history prior to the emergence of the Emperor has either been forgotten or is actively suppressed.
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  8. Hilarious idea of your wife's about the mechanicus being endgame silicon valley tech bro. And yet the average mechanicus is still more human than Mark Zuckerberg
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  9. The guardsman was indeed bait, but it was the marine using him.... not the tyrranids. The costumes are all real including the marine and the only CGI used are the tyrranids. It was fun to film. ;)
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  10. The title shot got the silhouette effect by having the camera at ground level as the team approached at ground level. Tactically they were still solid as they were walking out of their LZ which was flat and tree lined all around. Others already covered the flannel and jeans bit for that particular MTF. The hole the chemlight was dropped down was directly below where the floating civilian was in the debrief. Hence why it was treated with such care. Sidenote: 'Roger' and 'Wilco' were common Naval radio calls back during my service in the 90's. Any radioman could use 'roger' as an acknowledgement, but only the CO, XO, CIO, or the OOD could use or authorize a 'wilco' response. The chillness came to the MTF after the initial recon of the hole because it didn't immediately prove hostile and looking further down was the responsibility of another MTF (the Mole Rats that are mentioned). A great deal of the inconsistencies in their terrain movements and especially in their building clear tactics was a result of goofs in editing. In particular the primary target being out in the open like he was. He was supposed to show up to one side of the 2nd floor hall. And yes, they had a top tier tactical advisor. A behind the scenes video talks about how the cast were put through about 14 hours worth of building clear drills to get it right. The missing persons posters was the first scene that gave me the chills, mainly because they were placed directly along the MTF's approach route. The burning effigy approach and walk-by was a one-take show by necessity because of scheduling, lighting, and only being able to burn the effigy once. The owner of the farm land didn't quite understand what was going on so he started rolling the hay bales while they were setting up for the shot so they just added them in. The 'out of the fog' shot was also cluttered because it was multiple MTF teams converging (inner cordon and scouts together). The door bunching I think was one of those balance between tactics and camera work shots.
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  11. What a first week on the job to remember for his assistant
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  12. Simplified the big tyranids are smart and control the smaller ones if no big ones are around the small ones revert to instinct
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  13. That wasn't Terminator Armor, that was Centurion Armor which is a different variant primarily utilized in siege warfare and punching people with giant drills.
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  14. Humanity once made an oopsie and had a skynet. Was called Men of Iron. AIs are now, you guessed it, HERESY!
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  15. For the sisters: Only the Sisters Militant are the fighting force. They also have medical, teaching and even language focused arms of the sisterhood, that are not involved in combat.
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  16. TL;DR Massive lore dump that explains Combat Veteran Reacts' questions. 1. The drones escorting the boarding craft are intercepting incoming missiles, the boarding craft has armor too thick to care about a little space dust. 2. The faction the Astartes are fighting is group of secessionists, not necessarily Chaos worshippers. The dude in the mask is a Psyker and the mask is a device called a psychic hood with works to stabilize the psyker's powers and helps to prevent the psyker from losing control of his abilities and exploding (or worse). 3. Yep, the Astartes are used in raids or QRF. An Astartes company (100 marines) can mobilize very quickly and come to the defense of high level assets within days whereas the slow, grinding wheels of the Imperial Guard which is akin regular army. It could take the Imperial Guard many years if not a decade to mobilize a regiment, but take and hold missions is what the Guard does best. 4. To call a Bolter a pistol. Yes, it's small in the hands of an Astartes but it's a CQB. Imagine an M4 being chambered in 20mm grenades. The bulk of the weapon is nearly all barrel and chamber.
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  17. The average russian was hawkish in the beginning! And I feel about as sorry for them, as they felt for the average Ukrainian, when the invasion started!
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  18. Imperium uses orbital bombardment pretty often, but against something like tyrannids, if they’re swarming on the planet that means you’ve already lost the space battle and probably don’t have any ships left in position.
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  19. This is not a reaction, this is enrichment. Thanks for adding value to the topic.
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  20. Poor Magnus, loses his eye, gets called a nerd, and now everyone makes fun of his nipple horns. Poor guy.
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  21. The siege of Vraks series by Arch is a nice, but long deep dive into the Death korps. My favorite part, that really gives their mindset away is, when they almost rebel after years of bloody carnage...when the new marshal does not send them into their death anymore.
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  22. 13:20 The gunner was likely so terrified when he saw the space marine that all thought of tactics and preserving friendly life left his mind and he just squeezed the trigger.
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  23. Everyone having a really bad time except for a few agricultural worlds out in the boonies growing corn and being strategically irrelevant. Worst thing they have to worry about are stray ork warbands. Which is pretty good all things considered.
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  24. Marines have an object implanted under their skin called a black carapace that allows their nervous system to directly interface with their armor.
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  25. Dunno how realistic this this is but when setting up a trench system the deathkorp will shell the location for trenches with artillery. This leaves craters which they can then use as cover. when in the craters two men will dig a fox hole. Once done they will go back to back and dig their way to the next fox hole forming the trench network. The deathkorp have a type of soldier called a quartermaster. These are the first rung of commissioned officer in the deathkorp. Their role has evolved slightly from when they fought on their irradiated hellhole of a planet after the council of autarchs's rebelled against the imperium. These guys serve the purpose of recovering anything salvageable from the battlefield. be it the lucius pattern las rifles they use, thier equipment or even the soldier himself so yes their role does encompass the duties of a field medic. The officer in charge ordering a bayonet charge is most likely an imperial Commissar. Commisars are like their soviet inspired counterparts political officers attached to imperial guard armies to instil discipline often by force. They aren't above executing their own troops but at the same time they aren't above carrying out acts that they expect troops in their command to carry out. They often lead by example. Problem for commissars in the deathkorps is that they are often put in charge of troops far more zealous than they are. Commissars are typically not from the planet of origin that the regiment is from. The Commissar in question is likely not from krieg. The gasmasks that the deathkorp wear is a throwback to their origins on their home world again. They typically will not take them off even if there's no NBCD threat apparent. The chaos cultists (mortal men, women and in some cases children! grim I know) are often highly fanatical but not highly trained. Armed with autoguns, basic bitch gun powder weapons or stubbers (mounted LMG's) and lasguns if lucky. mortals are generally used as cannon fodder, meatshields if you will for more important units in a traitor army such as chaos space marines and are often flung en masse at an enemy. Man to man an Imperial guardsmen is more than a match for a basic cultist. But there's often WAAAAAY!!!!! more cultists than IG. The cultists may have the entire planets population in their ranks
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  26. I love that they gave the Cadian purple eyes. Also the Marine's insignia is from the Angels of Vengeance, a successor of the Dark Angels.
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  27. "They can not get around physics..." - Well, they are Orks... they actually can if they believe so. Orks are so dumb, even reality said: "Fuck this, I'm out..."
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  28. Nocturn isn’t dark, it’s very bright. Because it’s on fire most of the time. Also very radioactive. It’s why the Salamanders are so dark, so the don’t get super cancer
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  29. Paul there's a lot you missed, there's an extended version that shows the driver is actually aware of the situation before the shots and starts getting ready 20-15 sec. more before the first shot
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  30. I knew something was wrong. I got your back, Paul. Don't worry about it, worry about your beautiful baby girl. I'll join combat vet news. Take care of your family.
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  31. “We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks. Three men died from Eyerot last week and I've sweated enough to fill a lake. Emperor help me, I love this place, it's just like home!"
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  32. When the Death Korps is involved calling “Incoming!” makes perfect sense when they charge your lines because artillery is guaranteed to be inbound
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  33. I believe the Providence op is a reference to H. P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu, as Lovecraft lived in Providence most of his life.
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  34. Kriegs soliders have a multitude of reasons for why they get away with things, one- They dont care. Two- They have better armor in some cases. Three- they're the most suicidal force in lore, if it's a mere gunshot. They keep going until their body gives up. Pain is a weakness and they kill any soldiers who show pain during training. The spears are outfitted with an anti armor grenade bundle at the base of the tip as well.
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  35. P.s. just to make sure you were aware, the death corps do not like unnecessary sacrifice. They want to sell their lives, and do so as best they can. Why they go on suicide missions, and not just suicide. It might also be so that they can get in close and limited medium-long range accuracy. That said, the death corps are known for pulling no punches, including NBC warfare.
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  36. Ultramarines and salamanders pick recruits in a fashion similar to your description. Especially ultramarines
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  37. 2:56 - First a lore point. The Adeptus Munitorum (the logistics branch of the Imperial military) actually values a soldier's equipment more than the soldier himself. Losing your lasgun is an offence punishable by summary execution (just like cowardice and failing to properly shine your coat buttons). Secondly, most models of lasgun are fitted with a bayonet lug that the soldier can fit his combat knife to. A spear is a much more effective combat weapon than a dagger, so tossing his lasgun was a mistake there, too.
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  38. Well, the emperor needed them, to well get their technology and experience to get his stuff to work, and to build all of his stuff.
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  39. Well Done Leo. Former SAP Special Task Force probably one of the best and toughest special forces ever. These guys are well trained and tough as old army boots. From a former SAP member.
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  40. Dark Angels are space Knights, Blood Angels are space vampires and Blood Ravens appropriate everything for their own cause. Literally Blood Ravens are like regular Ravens they will take your shiny things.
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  41. You've actually given me a new perspective on 40K. I'm beginning to think maybe the reason certain units or characters are OP or have plot armor in 40k is that they're actually using sane (or at least somewhat better) tactics when no one else is. Certainly would apply to the Catachans.
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  42. The space wolves are actually a really competent and advanced fighting force that intentionally present themselves as barbarians , at first anyway, to get the enemy to underestimate them. Wars have been won when one side underestimated another.
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  43. The reason he called the Adeptus Sororitas ‘nun’s in space’ is because the original group was called the ‘Brides of the Emperor’ so they essentially started off as Nuns
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  44. 28:50 the point is that the rifle is excellent. Never jam, can be used in every conditions, you can reload the ammopack by leaving the magazine near a fire or a under the sun (or in their chargebanks, if you are in a bunker or a command post) and works really well against "normal" enemies like cultist, gretchskins, small tyrannids, gangers etc. The problem is when facing heavy infantry like astartes, orks or evolved tyrannids: you can kill them, but it need a fuckton of focused fire
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  45. I just wanted to point out that the technique of using a plank to hook on to an enemy ship in order to board was actually a Roman thing, not Greek. The Greeks would try to brush past the other ship and shear off their oars with the prow of their ship. The Roman boarding plank (called a Corvus, if I remember) was developed during one of the Punic wars (I don't remember which) to make up for the fact that the Romans weren't as comfortable with naval combat as the Carthaginians, and would much prefer to fight a land battle. And that's my pedantic nitpick done for the day.
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  46. Wrong tank rounds, Heat rounds are the ones that cause a explosion to compress a inverse cone shaped copper lining to make a jet of plasticized copper that jets through the armor of a target. You are thinking of APHE rounds or APCBC-HE rounds used in second world war tanks which detonate inside the tanks after penetrating.
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  47. So to give a few more points the video misses: 1. Battlefleet Cadia doesn’t rely upon the planet for troops or resources or even port. The Battlefleet is stationed at Cadia for it’s the gateway to the Imperium however it rely upon several massive ports throughout the sector. In addition, additional fleet elements from all over the imperium are usually sent to reinforce the Cadian gate during black crusades - primarily Battlefleet Gothic tho Battlefleet Solar that protects the Sol system itself (I.e. our star systems) sent reinforcements to Cadia too. 2. Cadians are trained from a young age to be soldiers first but the video is wrong about the literacy. They do go over literacy as like you said understanding written orders and other stuff is of great importance, however, they skip the whole advanced literacy unless you move up in the ranks. A basic literacy skill is given to young Cadians so they can read what they are doing, however, said young blood primary duties are learning how to strip and use a lasgun & bayonet, however those going from the ages of 5-10 are usually taught more in the skills of being spotters, messengers and most importantly ammo luggers for no matter the age when the enemy strikes Cadia you are apart of your home worlds defence no matter the age. Once they reach what Cadians believe is maturity 10ish. They begin then inducting them proper into the guard. By this point they should already know the basic of using and maintaining and servicing a lasgun as well as a uniform as such this training is more to bring them in line with the Cadian white shield standard. Once they are properly inducted into a white shield unit, they’ll have chance to serve in some combat close to home - usually anti-pirate, ork and Eldar raider duties tho they can be sent to proper front line units if required/desired. Once they have completed their time as a white shield they can make said choice to join the military industrial complex or the shock troops proper. 3. “The planet broke before the Guard” is a true calling after Cadia fell - tho it has been meme’d to hell. But it represents the guards stubbornness. Throughout all 40k canon the guard are the true guardians of the imperium. The Astartes are but a swift dagger to stab into an enemy when they are weak of vulnerable. The Mechanicus could barely care for the death of people outside their forge worlds unless it means said death hurts their duties. The sister are religious extremists more caring for the defence of monasteries and priest - tho they also sometimes fail in that, normally getting a bit hot under the helmets and charging to meet the enemy even if said enemy is out numbering and fighting them. The guard have always been the true hero’s of the imperium and throughout almost every battle they will be the last standing and the last fighting - their are lots of times where Astartes chapter have abandoned planets due to light casualties (or other more inter chapter/personal reasons) and left the guard to fend for themselves. As such the phrase stands true to all guardsmen that no matter the threat they will never abandon their homes or post until death take them.
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  48. There is no reason to account for something "trivial" as a sound psyche when you plan to brake said psyche in the first place, to reshape it to your wishes. The only reason for selecting these battle hardened kids is for rooting out those, that could not even survive these relatively "safe" conditions, comparable to what is expected of them further down the line. The minds of these kids are going to be completely shattered by the half-way-point of their training to become Space Marines, so no one is going to care if they had a good upbringing or not.
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  49. I think your question about people liking the 40k universe because it makes everything else look great is pretty on point. A common joke about 40k is asking fans if they would like to live in the universe they are a fan of. Would you like to live in the world of Harry Potter? - Sure Would you like to live in the Star Wars universe? - Probably Would you like to live in the 40k Uni -- NO... NONONONONO... No...
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  50. Kriegsman don't care about their life. Their horses ALSO don't care about their lives. Their horses aren't normal, they don't spook, they have been bred and absolutely modified.
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