“I’m only human after all. Don’t put the blame on me.”- Ancient Terran proverb, circa M3.

The Tau are the perfect representation of an iron fist in a velvet glove. That so many of the "critical literary experts" fail to see and understand this is amazing. It's the perfect litmus test for tourists too. If they think the Tau are the good guys, then you know they're not as intelligent as they pretend to be and are also most likely tourists.

Even ants have figured how to herd and farm, the fact that Nids never tried that which would be a huge lot more efficient for their biomass gain, instead resulting in all the horrible ways they go to devour planets whole shows clearly how evil the hive mind is...

If someone cannot separate contemporary political discourse and social issues from fiction it only means they lack any imagination and should probably find another hobby. Also viva Venezuela, you will be free bros

I am one of the two Iron Hands fans, and it pleases me that they managed to put an even weirder and more dysfunctional chapter in their place.

What is best to my ability. Gatekeepers of 40k bring tourists into compliance.

|Imagine rooting for another faction that want to eradicate you.

I had no idea they'd retconned the Eye of Terror. I'll choose to ignore that. It is, and always will be, the former site of the Eldar homeworlds and the birth wound of Slaanesh.

"The Tyranids are just animals, wanting to eat. Nothing more" But they destroy everything, without contributing to anything. Heck, even the most vicious animals contribute to something. They keep in check the population of other animals, keeping the ecosystem in balance. They die someday, dissolving in the ground, providing nutricion to, let's say, growing plants or scavengers. They produce excrement, being used as fertilizer to plants. They are still useful. The tyranids? They only take, don't give anything.

Damn that accent is like butter to my ears.

Sad to see older designs go, but I respect your decision. I like to think these new redesigns are just costumes you guys have to wear due to copyright reasons, but once the video is done you simply take off said costumes, and go back to your older selfs. As for the video itself it was once again another great and informative material that makes me crave for more, and dwelve deeper into the lore. Definetely I'm looking forward for your next video.

One of the worst things that came about from the votann is the small group of people insisting they prove the imperium is 100% unnecessarily cruel.

As a local to vegas I can confirm the comparison.

Just subbed, loved the content, but is it ok to ask what intro song you use? I so want to hear the full thing. Apologies to post something unrelated, i couldn't find it on a music finder. I wonder what you think of Oculus Imperia's video on this same topic.

I thought the necrons weren't created by the old ones?

A pretty egregious over simplification of the Eldar as you say all Craftworld Eldar want the restore the Empire, but the only Craftworld that actively try to is (or was, but I ignore that) Biel Tann. The others mostly do what they do in the name of survival.

Lorgar is less intelligent than a chair.

All hail the primarch of the tuna legion

Just finished, glad youre here Danny 🐟🐟🐟🐟 💪

Nope. Everyone is a villain in 40K. If you don't know that, you shouldn't be allowed to play it. You need parental guidance. There is only war, grim dark war, nothing else. There are no heroes, only war.

The golden Italian has returned!! 🎉

Just because they are the good guys, doesn't mean they are good guys...

This channel is single handedly making Italian accents cool. The sheer number of rolled R's is magnificent.

Thank you for making this

no its sad how far the fanbase has fallen to follow gw in their marvelification of the setting

I thought the term "monkeigh" came from a alien species the eldar fought that were very dangerous but also very stupid, and thought the term fit humans

Buon Natale to Pio, he really looks like he needs it

Very well represented and explained. I can already hear the screeching Harpy-Tourists from the "Alphabet-Salad-Nonsense-Mafia" coping and seething. And that is a sound of pure pleasure and Entertainment i can and will enjoy to no end! Thank you.

does Games Workshop the truth about this mystery? do the authors have some backround-stories already written, but are refusing to publish them?

Suffer not the vegan nor the environmentalist to live

great video!

Judging 40k by the morals of 40k feels a bit meaningless. You are effectively just ranking the species by how quickly they will grant you death. Why not judge them by their ideals and aspirations, rather than the pragmatic necessities of the reality in which they find themselves.

12/10 video

Another banger of a video, keep doing the Lord's work buddy. Humanity #1 <3

I don't even grant that Bricky "everyone is some shade of evil" statement any validity. There are objectively evil factions, but the other ones are merely self-serving and most often driven to survive and are guided towards survival by pragmaticism more than anything. It's a hill I'll die on against every idiot that quotes Bricky's take, because it fundamentally undermines the true value of the Grimdark genre, or at least the kind that WH40k is built on, namely that it is in the darkest times that even the tiniest glint of hope becomes that much more precious. Watch "Virgin Grimdark vs Chad Grimdark" by Noman for that point, it's a short video.

No matter when I've brought it up, when this question is raised, no one has successfully rebutted this answer: Who are the good guys in 40K? The Ogryn. The Ogryn are the good guys.

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

I once responded to a KZbin comment which claimed that 40k was entirely a satirical setting. I asked him what was being satirized specifically in the plot of Saturnine. His response? "I haven't played Saturnine, I'm still working my way through Space Marine 2."

Warhammer Florky Kay

This was excellent. Thank you! Also , Pio has taken on a new shape. Has he been working out?

The bit about the tau entering the warp unshielded had me genuinely laughing out loud.

Also, the Eye of Terror being retconned into being the aftermath of the War in Heaven makes no sense since the Traitor Legions fled there PRECISELY because it was a new region of the Galaxy that nobody got around to exploring, and so the Imperium could not follow them there during the Scouring. The Maelstrom would make more sense for being the Warp Storm left in the aftermath of the War in Heaven (which didn't happen 60 million years ago, because that's stupid), since it's much closer to the center of the Galaxy.

Little late to the party, but that makes a frightening amount of sense. And doesn't even contradict other lore speculations on the missing Primachs' fates. And doesn't even take away from the mystery. Very well done, subscriber gained.

Good work, keep it up guys!

"To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable." People with no knowledge of the universe will look at this and think, the Imperium is evil. People with at least surface knowledge of the universe know that the alternative is for humanity to be hunted, tortured and murdered by all kinds of aliens, or to have their souls tortured for eternity by literal demons.

Great video, loved it. Too bad that your florks had to go though

The imperium's (and by extension, the whole humanity in WH40k) biggest sin is not the endless xenocides, slavery, and extreminatuses, but weakness, especially in terms of technology and societal development, thus raw military power and then the economy, for it was the single cause of all of those serious cruelty both against innocent fellow humans and xenos alike. If the imperium has the DAoT level tech and also somewhat become wiser than DAoT humanity, I can guarantee that it will turn 180 degress on their treatment of xenos and chaos. Tyrannids hive fleets will not be a scary existential threat but a cute raging pokemon pet and chaos gods will be humanity's (with more warp mastery than the Eldar) own C'tan. Morality needs power to have concrete effects in the real world. Power needs morality (in Nietzschean sense) too to self reproduce. Giving your best tech to sentient AI, barely giving training and exerting control to anyone that possesses superpowers and finally not having any contingency plan against your current allies was just stupid and completely avoidable. Just like other "dark sci fi" like Dune, WH40k is not pure satire, but a warning for IRL humanity from a fictional setting, using satirical tone simply as the appearance. Satire is the outer package not the content. Sadly IRL humans made those kind of stupid and completely avoidable mistakes too. Although I think a partial reset of IRL global political and economic system is necessary to fix all of modern problems like low birthrate, microplastics in environment and human bodies, skyrocketing price of regular homes, declining attention span, online petty tribalism and finally climate change, I wish there will be no IRL Age of Strife.

Not a fan of the redesign of your characters. Don't burn me, but it feels lame. The previous ones were cool.

Great video. I agree with most of this. Warhammer hasn't been satire for decades now. Orks are... kind of evil but not on the level of Chaos or Dark Eldar. They are psychopathic manchildren football hooligans. Their cruelty is that of a particularly dumb child. The argument can be made that they are neutral or at least evil by nature, but not good. The Tyranids are not good at all. They can be evil, or a force of nature that is hostile. That doesn't make them good. Necrons are mostly evil, but some can be neutral, but most are just not sentient. Craftworld Eldar, the Imperium, and the Tau are as good guys as they can be, each out for their own people's sakes. The ethereals are definately up to something shady, and some High Lords definately are too. But the average imperial, eldar or tau is unlikely to be evil. Everything the Imperium do is justified and necessary. This is just a theory of mine, but any not evil alien race likely did not survive the Age of Strife, if they used Warp travel too, they would also be broken by it, and stomped out by the more warlike races. What few remained, the Imperium couldn't afford to care, and better safe than sorry. If 99 out of 100 aliens are hostile, by the time you meet that rare alien that isn't, it is just common sense not to take it as face value.