40k Lore, Titans! God Machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Part 1

[@Autechltd]

I love 1d4chan's description for a Titan, "Imagine a city that hates you. Now give it city leveling weapons and legs to walk on, then fill it with more things that hate you. You have a rough idea of a Titan."

[@MarisaFan411]

It would make more sense to replace the line "then fill it with more things that hate you" with: then strap giant armor plates and highly advanced shielding systems

[@emetanti]

doesn´t beat the description for the Imperator Titan: "HOLY SHIT IT WEARS CASTLES!"

[@jacobtasker1370]

1d4chan is a gift to those who are new to 40k lore. Like me.

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

And when you look up the stats it turns out a wargound is a meagre 15 meters tall...

[@nayrosnoflaalfonso1050]

@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 then you realise that the imperator is 150 meters

[@johnyyonehand]

-Hello, this is Collegia Titanica Helpdesk! How can I help you? -My Titan is not working! -Have you tried unplugging and plugging your Princeps?

[@saintmichaelsarchangel2644]

johnyyonehand “yes I pulled the big black cable and put a laz bolt in his sternum” “………” “Hello?” *pounding on door* “adeptas mechanicus open up”

[@sic6603]

"The Grey Knights are the abominable spawn of the fifth chaos god, Matt Ward." Damn, I just lost my shit xD

[@thomasfejdasz9907]

mechanicus tech support: Have you tried saying the prayer again?

[@aecides3203]

3 years late, but that's the Administratum for you. I did try saying the prayer again but to no avail. With my tech support 'Instant Messenger' caught up in filing, I sought the aid of a local self proclaimed tech expert. She asked if I had "tried turning it off and on again?", I asked how to do that and she didn't actually know either. I asked a local PDF regiment if they knew and now I'm being tried for heresy and a kill squad has been sent after the woman who told me about it. Also, my toilet is still broken and is beginning to blend in with the rest of my hab-block. Please advise.

[@julonkrutor4649]

@@aecides3203 burn heretic!

[@matthewaugart-peponis6361]

I already tried that

[@lordinquisitorpeter8221]

@@aecides3203 Have you tried saying the prayer in binary?

[@xbyllen]

86878

[@gso619]

Slaaneshi titans? Oh god, I can already see the crotch-mounted main gun. it'd probably compensate for the recoil by pelvic thrusting every time it fired.

[@dragb9284]

gso619 God I kinda want to see that.

[@farmerboy916]

Random See, the first thought I had was some sort of demon powered capture-torture-grinder thing

[@LivingMeme7274]

Random great, now I really wanna see someone make it.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Random and then you have a double dong shaped titan CCW mounted sideways at the end of a long super-flexible tail like that of an ankylosaurus...

[@danieljeffersonc1376]

Random crotch mounted battle claw

[@vineethphilip3969]

titan: *upset beeping* tech priests: *runs around in horror*

[@alexzandermueller29]

Vineeth Philip start praying to the omnisire

[@vineethphilip3969]

@@alexzandermueller29 omnissiah

[@absolutelyyousless7605]

*Beeping Intensifies*

[@dualityomk9854]

@@vineethphilip3969 dont assume its gender! it may identify as the omnisighgurl or the omnitrygennier

[@franciosdeaeruiu7555]

I think you mean **upset warhorn honking**

[@SlahyX]

"Oh Emperor, I pray to thee that I have thy holy blessing to not ballocketh up the action of performing rotatorum maximus upon these blessed Screws Imperialis" - Litany of the loosening/tightening the screws.

[@RS250Squid]

"Mine emperor that is my saviour and protector, bless this, thy manifestation of your benificience as I annoint the vision ports of thy worthy device, and rub thereupon, that these, the vision ports of thy worthy device, might be as clear as thy insight, as holy as thy will, as pure as thy blessed works" - Litany of the spraying and wiping the windows.

[@sethgilcrist8088]

I want to laugh but it's so so ....... True in Warhammer. That and my Earth shaker needs a new barrel and beach screw and that spring that holds the tension to my elevation gears seams a little off after the last rite of percussive maintenance.

[@ScrapComputer]

"I recently reached 20k subscribers." Look down and can't help but smile. Hard work leads to hard numbers. Thank you for all of our years of content from the master orator, and most steadfast of inquisitors, Arch. The name itself indicating to me your importance as a central pillar holding up the lore community.

[@MrAwsomenoob]

warhammer 40k so grimdark that a GPS would be powered by human sacrifices

[@codyarcher3263]

they are for instead of AI they make people into mindless cyborgs for specific tasks so a person whould die to make that compass :D

[@peachybiscuits]

MrAwsomenoob oh the astronomicon?

[@Reddotzebra]

@@peachybiscuits It's technically not even a GPS, it's more like a lighthouse. For a GPS you'd probably need to sacrifice entire PLANETS every day... =p

[@pretzelbomb6105]

Don’t give the Adeptus Mechanicus any ideas...

[@leonheartzzz]

How about the astropaths

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

Sure, praying to the Machine God might take up a lot of time, but I think the added protection against deamons and angry machine spirits more than makes up for it. Especially when you are constructing walking battleship the size of Matt Ward's ego.

[@westcoastwarriorsarchive7929]

youtube just gave me a survey on this video. I rated it 5 stars and clicked the checkboxes saying that it was "heart warming" and "life changing" lets see what the youtube algorithms make of that!

[@sethgilcrist8088]

Your awesome

[@666magic]

People looking for life changing and heart warming get this video because they didn't know auto play was on. They are going to be traumatized. Which will be easier for the inquisitors to find them.

[@GeekyGrant]

Precept: Hey buddy hows it going today? ready to kill traitors and xenos? Titan: I guess... scaring people away is what I'm good at anyway... Precept: Now, now don't be like this again, we will return to mars soon, you can go see all your buddies again Titan: Whats the point? I've been away so long I bet no-one of them are even going to want to remember me... Precept: **Sighs Deeply** Titan: Lonely... I'm Mr lonely... ain't got no-body... Precept: **Sighs Even Deeper** Titan: All on my own... wooooooooh~

[@frozi7711]

I could see this happening in the text to speech 40k series

[@absolutelyyousless7605]

I bet it would also have a failed relationship with a Tau Battlesuit, and declare it non-canon

[@TheBuster0926]

@@absolutelyyousless7605 i need go see this

[@patrickwall144]

So I take it from the Audio that Titans are : Ridiculously Ridiculous, Rarely Relative, Massively massive, Outrageously outrageous, Extremely Approximate, Unusually Usual, Absurdly Ludicrous, and Virtually Religious.

[@Iijjccbb]

Yes

[@naomy1701]

holy emperor, that was precisely precise!

[@dionjaywoollaston1349]

Patrick Wall and dangerously deadly

[@dionjaywoollaston1349]

Grumbel Bumbel the alliteration disagrees with you

[@dionjaywoollaston1349]

Grumbel Bumbel that’s not the correct way to alliterate, it would be “indeed considerable and considerably indeed”

[@ulfgard4734]

I'm hoping to see VR technology advance by leaps and bounds in the coming years. Maybe when I'm old and grey, we'll see VR advanced enough to justify a first-person Titan-based game. I would sell just about everything I own for that experience.

[@ArchYouTube]

+Nicholas Wright that would indeed be quite the thing!

[@SkywalkerWroc]

Technically it's already possible, and there are games that have individual elements needed to realize it. The biggest issue right now is the GPU processing power to make it look at least somewhat realistic. Battlefields with hundreds if not thousands of units in VR are a really bad idea...

[@naomy1701]

if that ever happens (hopefully in my lifetime still >_

[@bobmilaplace3816]

I M'kar, Master of Chaos! once unleashed unspeakable evil! But a Foolish Grey Knight Warrior wielding a magical sword sought to destroy me! But before the final blow was struck, I flung him to the warp. No he seeks to return to his Corpse God

[@venomstar6789]

+Bob MiLaplace hi m'kar i hear that all the gods are piss after you did that he made them look like jokes

[@sethgilcrist8088]

And he come back to get your ass as on of the legion of the damned

[@seand.g423]

@@sethgilcrist8088 but in the process, loses his Slaaneshi Dark Sororitas main squeeze...

[@sethgilcrist8088]

@@seand.g423 he left her last he caught a little nurgle surprise from her after after she went to go play with the blood leters during that time of the month

[@seand.g423]

@@sethgilcrist8088 you realize I was applying this Drukhari crossover notion to Ashi...

[@rosskliebenstein8363]

I wonder what would happen if members of the imperium actually got off their butts and tried to figure out how their toys worked?

[@rosskliebenstein8363]

and humans are screwed over yet again by faith and fanaticism

[@rosskliebenstein8363]

tomato tomatah

[@MrPeanut624]

I can't help but think someone would be charged with heresy or something else that would keep the universe the same crapsack mess it is now.

[@ryanlow6114]

+Ross Kliebenstein Nothing. The MOMENT even _one_ member of the Imperium attempts to understand technology, some red-robed asshat will alert the rest of the red-robed asshats and the order of red-robed asshats will immediately come the fuck over and fuck their shit up.

[@axelNodvon2047]

Ryan Low not even one person? Thats not true, its just the beliefs of the mechanicum that prevents research, but they do exist

[@acarter9806]

Titans are really just giant, metal, weaponized puppies of doom.

[@RS250Squid]

I want that on a t shirt.

[@MyRickyjoe]

D'awwwww...

[@DocWolph]

So the Titans are Battlemechs, powered by Magic, Psychic Power, and whatever passes for Mountain Dew in the 41st Millennium.

[@sethgilcrist8088]

Titans make assault class mech look little little bitchs. Even 100 Ton assault mechs are only what 15 meters tall so 45 feet tall. That's the best battletech has to offer. And I love battletech it was my First love. After all I'm a star Commander

[@naomy1701]

well i couldnt have said it any better, little bitches in comparison,. even the smallest titan (a Warhound) is about as tall as Assault Mech, and manyfold its weight and power, it would be like a pitbull playing with its favourit toy >_

[@leechowning2712]

As Battlemechs often hide between 3 story buildings, even the smallest Titan is close to twice its size. That is why Titans can be boarded, while a Battletech universe Mech is a single pilot vehicle, and simply put there is nowhere to board internally. Even a Battletech pilot himself has to climb to the cockpit externally. It is why I laugh at the "who is best" because the universe of W40 is already has collapsed, while the star wars, Star trek, and such universes the main goal of the story is the stopping of these collapses. Even Battletech is based in a universe where most of the population are not in danger of being eaten alive. A medium sized Titan he lists at 25-30 meters tall, so in the vicinity of 100 foot tall. Battlemechs are tanks, fighting among themselves. Titans are walking buildings, fighting against fortresses or other Titans themselves. An Imperator Titan is literally a small town, roughly the same area as the Vatican itself.

[@naomy1701]

thats also why the size measure in WH40k make no sense to me, a Imperator cant be "only" 150-200 meters tall when it carries a garrison in each shin and fields weapons that can level entire cities with ease. even a Warhound would theoreticaly have alot more size than 25-30 meters given they can play football with the heaviest and biggest tanks if they want to, and those are basicaly the size of a not to small family house. from how i see it, if theres several tank squadrons (even if its just the "small" Leman Russ from the guard) stationed inside an Imperators shin bastion, or up to a full Astartes Chapter with Wargear, there must be enough room to even store a Lance of Heavy/Assault mechs or even more, and then the hight of 100m doesnt add up at all anymore

[@verankgaming516]

@@naomy1701 I'm curious how the Space Marines would compare to the clans battlesuit troops.... I'll come back to edit when I look up the name of said troops.

[@SpaceAngelMewtwo]

I'm surprised that, when you got to Psi-Titans, there was no mention of the fact that the Princeps of the Titan, an already uncommon individual at the best of times, must also be a psychic blank. And that, when Sanguinius had an encounter with one of these things and saw it silently extinguish the souls of everything within a several kilometer radius, he promptly shat his Primarch pants, took his Blood Angels, and got the fuck off the planet that thing was on as fast as Primarchly possible. Now that... is quite the achievement. When you can get a Primarch to say "I fear no man, but that THING, it scares me," you have to know that you've gone possibly a bit... too far. It would probably not be a hyperbole to say that Psi-Titans are nothing less than Culexus Assassins in Titan form.

[@TheEyez187]

Not sure which HH or 40K novel/book it was in, but an Imperator Titan making ground-fall via drop-pod certainly left a vivid image in my mind. Anything that survives the initial cataclysmic collision/landing, doesn't survive much longer when the hab-block tall Raping-Death machine unleashes it's weaponry that's only out-matched by fire-power on battle-barges and other large void-ships! That said, did I read somewhere that there are some super-psykers that can crack titans in half with warp powers?!

[@skyrimn00b98]

He never even mentioned Imperiator Our class Titans.

[@RS250Squid]

In 40k, there's always a bigger weapon ;).

[@azek009]

Magnus was able to destroy eldar titans with his powers, i'd guess that the emperor would be too

[@SilimSavertin]

Psychic powers have no real upper limit when it involves insane story-character Psykers as far as the destruction goes that they can bring.

[@wolfyboy]

exactly! if there aren't any bigger weapons, you just haven't FOUND them yet! XD

[@Spuuunt]

Who else wants a game playing as a Reaver or Warlord class Titan?

[@RS250Squid]

Look up Adeptus Titanicus: Dominus, in early access on Steam.

[@thepatrioticgamer3101]

sounds amazing lol

[@artoolli2256]

"5th Chaos God, Matt Ward!" Oh my god Arch, my spleen just ruptured from laughing :D

[@gabrielbarile73]

150 meters tall, with weapons of size of "cities"...'???? My scale logic had just exploted

[@hobanagerik]

Gabriel Barile Exaggeration is common for 40K. Look at the Hive video for instance.

[@plink4861]

Add a few 0s

[@Zaprozhan]

There is always a bigger one.

[@jameslyddall]

Gabriel Barile NATO needs to get on this shit ASAP and build some titans lol forwarded this video to my friend in DOD who loves 40k.

[@matthewaugart-peponis6361]

@Jonathan Stiles wrong it just needs more dakka

[@darkblood626]

Rant's are fun to listen to. I'd like a video going through the Grey Knight BS.

[@LeFrakaTV]

+darkblood626 I agree, I hate them and would love to hear an hour long rant about them.

[@GothaBillsAndDeath]

+darkblood626 They're fun in concept given old fantasy norms on binding demons, but god did Matt Ward hit them over the head with his fanboyhammer.

[@Necromancer1230]

+GothaBillsAndDeath Really a lot of the books have kind of hyped them up to insane levels, the idea of a Chapter based entirely around psykers who hunt daemons for the inquisition is a fine concept. It's just when incompetents are asked to write the fluff that they get obnoxious (Draigo being a prime example).

[@GothaBillsAndDeath]

***** YEP. Proves that anything good in the idea stage can be horribly, horribly implemented. I'm glad the MInotaurs weren't written by Matt Ward.

[@Necromancer1230]

GothaBillsAndDeath But than they'd be the SPIRITUAL LIEGE of all other chapters who they'd all wish to emulate! They could walk up to daemon princes and say "I must break you!"

[@Misawa619]

I am new to Warhammer, and new to the lore. BUT HOLY FUCKING SHIT I NEVER KNEW HOW METAL THIS SHIT IS!

[@doomslayer4433]

Chaos and orks are the most metal

[@doomslayer4433]

The imperium got some cool shit but all the space marines and stuff are all trendy and everyone blindly thinks there the best I think of them as the pop music of war hammer now, especially the ultra marines. There are a few exceptions though like dark Angels and space wolves.

[@wonderboy2402]

How cool would it be to have a mechwarrior type Titan game, or a modern epic 40k game?

[@fefe6461]

hell yeah

[@THECRUELTITAN]

On mobile phones there is such warhammer 40k games

[@buckyohare9993]

Look at horizon wars, able to have fast play battle tech in essence. No set types, rather choose the size and there are x no. Points to allocate to movement, firepower etc.

[@robinhood5627]

I always wanted to play epic 40k sooo badly as a kid, fielding tank battalions and legions and titan battle groups! what a awesome game that sounds like! If GW decided to reboot epic table top today I would be all over that like a rash!

[@sanadayukimura1615]

wonderboy2402 come back to this comment!!! its a seriously underused / unfufilled franchise for video games theres a ways to go :)

[@gallendugall8913]

So I take it the Grey Knights are a matter of controversy since I've heard other people describe them as the most popular and most impressive yadda yadda yadda.

[@gallendugall8913]

Okay I looked it up. Quiet the rabbit hole.

[@Choppytehbear1337]

I would reccomend they Grey Knights Omnibus book written by Ben Counter. It is actually quite good and is not tainted by Matt Ward, the person who fucked up the Grey Knights.

[@gallendugall8913]

What I found was the problems came from top down executive decisions to redesign the product around the marketing technique of dumbing everything down to appeal to new customers. Marketing 101 dictates that everything your existing customers love about a product are what is keeping new customers from embracing it. Marketing only cares about bringing in new customers as retaining existing customers can't be linked to a marketing campaign. Matt Ward's name was put on the products as part of basic branding, even though he was at best an implementation team leader, and the results were very much the product of marketing department product redesign. In fact it's probably the most successful example of such marketing techniques. Usually when marketing department is allowed to redesign a product this completely they end up completely destroying the company.

[@trickster3696]

i read on tv tropes that some grey knights saved eldar soul stones, was that matt ward

[@whatsuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu]

So can in a paragraph or less say why arch and others hate them because i always thought they were cool

[@SSVjoker]

Considering they are actively prohibited to actually invent new technologies (which is absolutely stupid, by the way), the Mechanicus should be more careful with how they keep their blueprints, less they'll forget how to make a knife (again)

[@nathanjora7627]

SSVjoker it is absolutely stupid, but if your organization of tech lovers was born from a galactic scale civilization ending event that sent humanity back to the literal dark ages in many cases, and brought an end to the mightiest human civilization ever, and said event was caused by unrestrained use and development of technology, I think it’s understandable that you’d be cautious around technology ^^

[@Fyrebrand18]

Giant Triple Linked Flamers, cause burn the heretic.

[@RandomMajin]

For anyone looking for the song, it's "Crusade" from Kevin MacLeod.

[@theosb7271]

That image of the dude melding with the titan is horrifying.

[@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536]

The OSB a man would be blessed to have that happen

[@Davidernoob]

3 years later and still rewatching these

[@anarchy4812]

"Dark Adeptus" By Ben Counter That Specific novel covers that a certain Forge World has produced Chaos Titans in massive numbers Granted, its Grey Knights, but ey. Knowledge:)

[@Falorik]

Hey Arch, I have to say I like your lore videos a lot and it REALLY helps me to unterstand the warhammer universe. Thanks for all that work. Big like

[@steelreaper8066]

The "official" heights of these machines kills my soul. Look at the photos.....a Reaver titan is not 15 meters tall!

[@plink4861]

I always invisioned titans as HUUUUUUUUGE like the empire state building would go up to a imperators shin

[@lolzyking656]

Its all imperial propoganda, the tau empire knows the true actual sizes of imperial walkers, while large, none are close to the size the men claim.

[@marcuskurze9759]

@@lolzyking656 The Tau think the Chaos is just human Superstition so I would not give so much on their so called Knowledge.

[@Troglodytarum]

@@marcuskurze9759 Technically, a significant part of the warp is created by human superstition. They are not completely wrong.

[@marcuskurze9759]

@@Troglodytarum Thats not what I mean.They think the Dangers of the warp like deamons are just Superstition and half Trues the Imperium is telling the Tau to Prevent them from Warptravel.I know that the warp is technically created by the Feelings and also Superstition of humans and other species but the Thing itself is anything but that it is a real danger and the Tau think that is just some Kind of Overstatement.

[@TheDrumminjay]

Thanks for another wonderfully worded, commedically presented, and vastly enlightening presentation of the best fictional lore out there. I'm relatively new to the Warhammer 40K universe, but I'm soaking it up like a sponge, thanks in large part to guys like you, taking the time to make these videos. I know these videos were posted long ago, but still, I'm very grateful. Hopefully you're still updating, and if not, you should be presenting some type of information, to the masses, as you have a talent for the oratory.

[@jeremiahhowell1319]

Everybody gangster tell the church gandums start walking

[@Jonny_Wrigs]

Hey Arch just wanted to thank you for all your efforts in putting these together for us, I appreciate it.

[@VectorGhost]

Grey knights, OP in the lore, shit in on the table...

[@johansmifthelry9307]

Like all adeptus astartes

[@adamduffield7782]

@@johansmifthelry9307 so you don't know how to use adaptus astartes, because if you did, you wouldn't consider them shit.

[@johansmifthelry9307]

@@adamduffield7782 man this comment is 2 yo...

[@johansmifthelry9307]

@@adamduffield7782 and i am by no means a good player, so if you have any good recommendations for adeptus astartes ill take it

[@Hiihtopipa]

@@johansmifthelry9307 maybe im too late but white scars are a superb to play as

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

31:10 This makes me think of how certain people can literally become addicted to warfare, getting high from the adrenaline of fighting in a war and how they hit a slump when they are not actively fighting. It's quite an interesting and scary prospect, getting so coked up on risking your life on the battlefield that pretty much everything else just becomes meh due to those parts of the brain being dulled.

[@paddyh8023]

These titans would make the titans from 'Attack on Titan' crap themselves

[@Plankensen]

only need one to save the city.

[@lordclangtheintolorable2094]

@@Plankensen Bring an *EMPRAH TITAN* just in case

[@nayrosnoflaalfonso1050]

@@lordclangtheintolorable2094 if that thing shoots its gun(the titan class melta cannon or the vulcan bolter) itt'll chew through a majority of the map of attack on titan

[@kingnothing8570]

@@nayrosnoflaalfonso1050 All the more reason.

[@lordclangtheintolorable2094]

@@nayrosnoflaalfonso1050 Holy, im late, sorry. But yes your right, but then again why not.

[@moe2184]

everybody gangsta till the church starts walkin

[@Buzzy_Bland]

You know, I'd actually like to see a lore video dedicated to technology in the imperium, and the psychology behind the practices that are done with them. I've read some interesting threads about the subject that I, being the schmuck I am, cannot recall or cite at the moment. They went into what lead to the "culture" built around machines, and why you could *not* solve all of the imperium' problems with one person with common sense and a rudimentary understanding of technology and mechanics. I had a great time reading them, and I think such a thing would make a good video. (though it would definitely be hard, given how vague the subject is) ... And I should probably be saying this on a video that isn't 7 months old if I actually want to get noticed. Ah well.

[@patrickb1303]

Damn your audio quality really improved over the years. It sounds like you are recording this on a toy microphone

[@alexanderstanfield5845]

>Shit talks the gay knights for 5 min... Welp I guess I have to subscribe now

[@ArchYouTube]

+Alexander Stanfield you realy dont have a choice, it's law now!

[@MutatedPixelation]

+Alexander Stanfield I wish the Grey Knights weren't so damn OP and ridiculous because they're premise is really great.

[@alexanderstanfield5845]

MutatedPixelation Its ok that theyre OP but their writing is so damn bad that they even rip off samuari jack at one point, see for yourself: 1d4chan.org/wiki/Kaldor_Draigo all we can do is blame MATT WARRRRRRD the 5th chaos god

[@LordDarthHarry]

+Alexander Stanfield ....but what about Malal?

[@JesusProtects]

+MutatedPixelation i don't know how they are today, but like 9-10 years ago they were not overpowered at all. The cost of every unit compared to how they perform was ridiculously high, like 28pts each basic grey knight, and it wasn't specially hard to kill honestly, toughness 4, 1 wound and 3+ armor save just like any other space marine out there. They tried to justify the point price making them significantly better at close combat, usually giving them a weapon skill of 5, 2 attacks and strenght 6, and a storm bolter for a better ranged performance but still, they were so few and "easy" to kill that against any semi-decent ranged focused army they were fucking doomed from the start. I have more criticism towards their rules back then but i will shut up for now. PS: I would like to hear from arch why do he hate their lore so much, i didn't think it was not even half bad back in the day, a special force composed by some of the best of the best marines in the galaxy dedicated to exterminate deamons within and without the imperium, i like it.

[@SilverStarHeggisist]

the piloting of titans sounds like how I drive my trucks... I am the truck.

[@Talon3000]

Ah yeah the great Titans of the Imperium, even the Warhound is a nearly unstoppable force... until a pack of four of them met a single flight of Tau Anti-Armour fighters and were sent packing. Turns out being a 25-Meter high bullseye without any place to run or hide isn't the best of ideas.

[@aaa72317]

Lies by the enemies of the empire! Do not belive the Xenos scum, loyal servants of the empire!

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

The Warhammer and 40k lore is simply awesome. There is so much interesting stuff. Thanks Arch.

[@emprahsfinest7092]

I do t mind the grey knights in older lore, I actually liked them...until Matt ward fucking ruined them with his bs. I think some thing are starting to be fixed now at least. Btw what's your opinion on the new skitarii/mechanicus stuff arch?

[@ArchYouTube]

+Heinz Guderian the old lore was fine, and then Matt "i will destroy all" Ward got his claws on it

[@johnfeliciano7560]

+Arch Warhammer im very new to W:40K just bought my first book pandorax and im getting horus rising and thanks to you im able to understand and picture everything better thanks man. I have a question tho like why do u hate the grey knights in new lore like whats the diference between old new knights?

[@ArchYouTube]

John Feliciano ohhh that! my friend is a considerable list of reasons! ill get to it eventually in a video, rage videos do get all the views after all ;)

[@johnfeliciano7560]

Arch Warhammer oh ok lol and thanks again for helping me get into the W:40K Universe

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

+Arch Warhammer matt ward is a tyrannid gene stealer in disguise! ! THE HERETIC MUST BUT IN HOLY FIRE AND LAS!!

[@RupertFoulmouth]

I love warhammer 40k lore videos. They are interesting enough to be enjoyable but i don't care enough to prevent me from falling asleep while listening.

[@berndberndsen5680]

I'd like a rough number on how many titans of each class the imperium has at its disposal in 999M41 if it can be established, especially Emperor class titans as I vaguely remember reading that those are basically impossible to produce at that point. Also I'm confused about the dimensions of titans. You mentioned Emperor titans being up to 150 meters high but a quick glance at the lexicanum gives a number of roughly 50 metes. Yes, both the Prince of Wales and the Yamato were battleships but such an immense discrepancy in dimensions within a single class would be as if the Musashi was 3 times as large as the Yamato at which point it makes no sense to call it the same class.

[@ArchYouTube]

+Bernd Berndsen old vs new fluff, over the course of 40k Titans have varied in size from several hundred meters to 40-50, i used the "dictionary definition" from the old source books but in the Horus books fks it's closer to 50m

[@magnos_decimus]

+Arch Warhammer were the developers of Mechwarrior inspired by the games workshop titans or is it a coincidence that they look similar

[@PaganShredhead]

+Meta Melcan Battletech is older, and it was inspired by Japanese mecha.

[@magnos_decimus]

I figured it was of course but I con see uncanny similarities to the mechs in Mech warrior

[@wanaan]

+Meta Melcan I would think that they were at least inspired by the western mech designs of the time, which would be the same place that WH40k drew inspiration from. Only the earlier of the Mechwarriors were inspired by Japanese mecha (easily seen by the Valkyrie mechs from Macross). They took a few steps back from those after a while.

[@chriscolumbia9834]

It was so cool because as I put my car in park after having pulled up to work, the video ended with "have a good day". These lore videos are fuckin phenomenal arch

[@macromondo8026]

Neon Genesis Titangelion anyone? jokes atside now i understand why back in the early 2000's i saw so manny NGE/WH40K Crossovers.

[@TheRisingofPhex]

Thank's man! Love the effort that go into these!

[@Tommy-5684]

i know its technicly defunked but id love to see a vid on space warfare in the 40k universe i have been reading some of the Hours heresy books and scae or as they call it void warfare is there in the background

[@Tommy-5684]

i meant that battle fleet went away so there may be less lore on ships and such

[@Tommy-5684]

true but i mean lore wise you may not be able to get the kind of depth about weapon systems oprational history notable capainges and such. but maybe im asking too much

[@Tommy-5684]

true true i just wish the space combat was better fleshed out i love the space combat scines in Betrayer and the Space warfare art in Macraggshoner especaly the bording actions.

[@Tommy-5684]

well atlest mat fucking ward has left or atlest i hear he has

[@wabbitking]

+Tommy Breitwieser the most current 40k lore about space combat comes from the rogue trader rpg by fantasy flight.

[@damagethecombine3369]

“ There are things you can’t fight like acts of god. You see a hurricane coming and you get out the way but in a titan you can fight the hurricane, you can win. “

[@atreides213]

So wait. The Mechanicus believe that any and all Artificial Intelligence is evil. But they also believe that each and every machine has some kind of sentient spirit within it. A, perhaps, INTELLIGENT spirit. Anyone else see the problem here?

[@skepsisrollins1711]

+atreides213 I think you're looking at it wrong, A.I.'s can become self aware and whatnot, and change and do different things rather than what it's designed to do, machine spirits are not self aware, or self aware to the same degree as a machine spirit and can't really change what it does like an A.I. I think that's the distinction. Pretty small line between the two but yeah that's what i think.

[@Bidmartinlo]

+Skepsis Rollins Perhaps it's just programmed with random behaviors, while in reality being a really complex computer program rather than a digital mind. Although, their behavior is awfully suspicious, if you ask me. Suspicious enough to be considered an A.I or maybe even... human, in a way.

[@kingkong381]

+atreides213 The Mechanicus' concept of machine spirits is a religious one with little to no evidence backing it up. It's comparable to the religious beliefs of certain cultures in nature guardians/spirits but rather than the spirits being in nature they are in anything mechanical.

[@skepsisrollins1711]

kingkong381 in a lot of the books a lot of machines, especially ships have their machine spirits explained in a way that makes it seem real. It makes this debate a lot more complicated.

[@Sagnus1]

+atreides213 This is just speculation but I see it as machine spirits being natural entities whereas A.I.'s are something more akin to Frankenstein's monster. It's a perversion of the natural order, it has no 'machine soul'. It's the technological equivalent of necromancy.

[@rangeroutdoors3]

yo Arch, I really enjoy your lore videos. your voice is perfect for doing this kind of thing, sounds like a mix of norway, britain, and nigel thornberry. anyway, for people new to 40k like me, your videos are valuable wealths of knowledge. thanks man.

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

Kaldor Draigo is batshit fucking crazy. Too much time in the warp

[@TheCorrodedMan]

Commissar_Dan and drinking warp beer with lemen russ

[@TheWaterdog6]

I love your stuff so much. I am just listening to all of it on a playlist until there is no more.

[@Lornext]

Pacific Rim 40K

[@leechowning2712]

A Reaver or Warhound class Titan is about the same size as the machines in Pacific Rim... But without the motivation to mount the same classes of weapons. If they expand that storyline, it would be the closest we have gotten so far to a W40k movie.

[@keldon_champion]

I think another important option available to chaos and the most likely to actually result in gaining a titan is stealing one from the imperium a daunting task but definitely possible especially given chaos having an abundance of combat man power and a shortage of real space construction facilities.

[@MrLuftwafflez]

First of all it's Castigator and not Castigor. Castigator Titan was an original STC titan from the dark age of technology that was buried in a mechanicum world's surface, and tainted by the warp when the renegade mechanicus plunged the planet into a warp plunge. It was destroyed by Justicar Alaric in Ben Counter's Dark Mechanicum.

[@johnhenryiii3070]

The Titan's avatar was destroyed by Justicar Alaric which by that point was basically a greater daemon, which while difficult is dooable. The Titan itself was destroyed by a chaos battleship. Arch went a little bit but hurt over the Grey Knights "destroying" the titan when they didn't.

[@humanitysreject5233]

John Henry III well they did. when the daemon construct died the titan began to lose it's form.

[@therustbeltblacksmith]

i just found your channel, i'm really enjoying it. for all you titan fans, some good news, GW is bringing back adeptus titanicus (official announcement should be coming at some point after blood bowl release) it was the first GW game i ever played some 30 years ago, i can't wait. for those of you not familiar, it's like kill team with titan legions, also forge world is supposed to do epic, i wasn't as big of a fan of that, but many were.

[@Astraben]

Feedback: You should lower or remove the background music IMO. It seems to make the video more difficult to hear and understand, and gives it a too monotonous pace.

[@ravenstrategist1325]

+Rubén Vivo hell no!Keep the music on!

[@Astraben]

But 45 mins minimum of the same looped track in the background... I´d much rather just hear Arch. Maybe lowering it would help. I´m not a native English-speaker, and I find it kind of difficult to catch everything having the song in my mind during the whole video. It´s up to Arch, tough.

[@ravenstrategist1325]

Rubén Vivo I am neither but I understand perfectly. Still I understand your point on variation

[@Yog-Sothothery]

+Rubén Vivo Defiently lowering it would give it a more chill aspect, which I think is needed for such a long video.

[@CaptKrunch96]

+Rubén Vivo I disagree personally, I like the tracks he chooses and would like to see them stay. HOWEVER if he can use all his tracks and sort them together so its not just one track per vid that would be fine I think.

[@OnTopAStemOfThornsARose]

Thank you for this, I am just getting into all this. It's so cool

[@EpsilonNPC]

Emphatic link, semi-sentient machine, ability to go berserk... Holy shit, Titans and Evangelions really are similar!

[@kotapainting]

14:04 I am dying laughing at this little segment. Perfectly executed within the normal framework of seriousness in these videos to be hilarious.

[@kronosken8040]

ARCH, I GIVE YOU YOUR GREATEST CHALLENGE YET. I DARE YOU TO MAKE A VIDEO FOR EVERY KNOWN IMPERIAL GAURD REGIMENTS COMPLETE WITH LORE AND PICTURES. WHAT DO YOU SAY SIR?

[@codyarcher3263]

look at how long it yook ed

[@kronosken8040]

Cody Archer um, what?

[@codyarcher3263]

+kronos ken about vaults of terra he starts every video with hi im ed I meant took not yook

[@kronosken8040]

Dude you need to stop abbreviating or turn off auto correct because I can't understand you.

[@codyarcher3263]

All the words were right except took was yook

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

As I was listening to the rants about the Grey Knights I couldn't help but realize "Wow some one hates a space marine chapter more than the Ultra Marines"....Seriously though the blue smurfs seem to get all the good stuff in the lore.

[@phuturephunk]

Good stuff, but change up that backing track. It gets repetitive.

[@thorpey012]

Good Lord Arch, I'm a big fan of your videos and you can tell this is an old one....Because damn man, you used to be very VERY long winded! Love ya dude

[@arnekrug939]

I recognized that you are using this background music in a lots of your videos but it's name is never mentioned in the description so could you please tell me the name of the background music? Edit: I now know that the song is called "Crusade" from Kevin MacLeod.

[@reesetompkins7987]

As a note on the Warhound, IIRC it's not a match for armour squadrons; it carries roughly the same weapons as Baneblade variants; the Vulcan cannon on the one pictured at 42:20 is also mounted to Macharius heavy tanks, which are somewhat smaller than a Baneblade.

[@reesetompkins7987]

Sorry, Vulkan Mega Bolter

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

So, when would you get to the tactics of deploying and killing titans?

[@nonamed9613]

The comment for the Algorithmus, glory to Arch

[@robertnogva]

Grey Knights Lore! With BOTH old and new! demonstrate to us how horrible it has gotten!

[@dermeistefan]

Watching this vid makes me remember... I WANT Mech Commander 3, DAMMIT!!

[@peccatz9717]

a cannon that fires demons. demon cannon. god. need one

[@quill3897]

coughcough heretic coughcough

[@sjoerddz]

that was a long one, and i loved every minute of it.(them spoilers on the "Dies Irae" in the horus heresy though xD)

[@moffxanatos6376]

Speaking as someone who's favourite chapters have been Ultramarines (literally only because they are Blue Space Romans) and Grey Knights since 2nd edition, and especially 3rd for Grey Knights, all I have to say is Fuck Matt Ward. The only fluff he ever wrote that I actually liked was the idea behind the Newcrons, and that's only because it lets people personalize their Necron armies in a lore friendly way, since beforehand the only way you could do it was paint them in the specific color of the dirt they crawled out of, even Tyranids could have more distinct character between armies than oldcrons. I basically ignore any ultramarine and grey knight fluff after 4th edition. Though I've heard graham mcneill and the horus heresy books do a good job making them well rounded characters, I have yet to read those myself.

[@steventcunliffe]

Great lore video, love your work!

[@Govt.is.corrupt]

Quieter background music brother.

[@NetMoverSitan]

17:30 - a LOT of incense is needed for that. | 28:25 - ...lighting incense and praying. | 51:35 - Even more so than their spacecraft.

[@yarus5889]

Ever thought of making a video on the different classes of ships?

[@seamusmcg23]

You sound like Caddicarus only older, wiser, and inebriated. Love listening to your videos man.

[@Technologeek92]

Skallagrim?

[@johansmifthelry9307]

First thing I thought when I heard his voice xD

[@JUGO49]

+Technologeek92 Lol this is his secret channel where he can full on geek out...nobody must know the truth!

[@johansmifthelry9307]

+JUGO49 xD

[@davidtiganila27]

+Technologeek92 how terrifying would it be if titans were armed with pommels...

[@warrenbainbridge6646]

Really well made man thank you very much keep it up

[@shumishumi2059]

OH EMPEROR OH LORD I JUST READ THE FLUFF ABOUT GREY KNIGHTS OH GOD EMPEROR PROTECT ME OH LORD WHY

[@matthewdeleon382]

COGS AND BOLTS AND ANCIENT LORE! FASHION FEARSOME ENGINES OF WAR!

[@EpsilonNPC]

What I dislike about the lore changes is that it creates a huge gap between the warlord and emperor titan classes. With a warlord being a mere 35 meters tall at best, and an emperor class being at least 150 meters. Why aren't there any 70 or 80 meter tall titan classes?

[@purplexenno]

+Reichtangle maybe, but i fail to see how a 50 meter titan is "scary". It's to damn short. Now 150 i can see.

[@skyrimn00b98]

There is a Titan in that Gap but he forgot the fucking mention it. It's called the Imperiator class Titan.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Bryce Baker no, the emperor class=imperator class it's just low vs. high gothic spelling. Just like they put "Astra Militarum" (high gothic) on the 7th ed "Imperial Guard" (low gothic) codex

[@jepp4425]

Nice video, really informative! :D I hope you get around the the spaceships of the 40k universe soon, that would really be awesome!

[@Darudeen]

So, Grey Knights are basicly "The End Times" of 40k?

[@sirderik]

+Darudeen yes...dushbags. if 40k end times ragnarök all primarch that lives in a glory's death ever happens...plz GW let the space wolf launch a exterminatus on grey knight base and make so that it works (fore in the fluff ti would not work) becuase the knigh whanted to exterminate fenrirs and that irony is so so sweat..and ofcoures let i dont know russ and (the name escapes me) dark angles primarch have duels like drinking,brawling,shoting jousting and all that shit just fore the epic rivalry. and dont make it like fantasy....but now i am off the point.

[@Lalle524]

+Darudeen Comparing the 2 is like comparing Slaanesh to THE GOD EMPEROR OF MANKIND

[@SkullHeroLord]

+The Artist Of War Yeaaah,lets wipe out the Imperiums best weapon against daemons,that seems like a GREAT idea!

[@sirderik]

Uncle Skull,14'th Panonian Regiment of the Imperial Guard well if the end is coming why not go full on revenge and fluff fan servise..like i dont say destroy the knights in every day 40k i say wipe them out fore irony sake at the end of all things...fore whats the point in not doing it if they are all going to lose anyway.

[@kingkong381]

+Darudeen Yes and no. The Grey Knights have been in 40k lore for a long time but their most recent army books and lore were written by Matt Ward. Now, I can't judge the gameplay aspects of his army books as I've played very little of the tabletop game over the years, but I've been told that the army rules he writes are too overpowered. But when it comes to lore Ward is a fucking plague on Warhammer 40k. He takes otherwise decent factions and ruins them by turning them into ludicrous, over the top, parodies of what they ought to be. Among Ward's victims are the Ultramarines, the Grey Knights and the Blood Angels.

[@joelkay4726]

God, 47000 subscribers in 9months good job Arch!

[@rdgk1se3019]

There is a crew of 10........not thousands.

[@LordNethesis]

I really like your channel :) I hope this grows well

[@diamondmetal3062]

These Titans seem a lot like EVA Units from NGE, they seem to have personalities of their own and directly link to the pilot.

[@honestkyn718]

Actually the elder have a "titian" that is powered by the soul of a dead family member (your twin) which does give them synchronization, I think arch talks about it in his Non- Imperial titan vid.

[@diamondmetal3062]

+Matthew Chirino Oh yeah, I read about that on TvTropes a few days ago. The site explicitly said it was a reference to NGE and, after reading the Wraithknight entry on the wh40k wiki, it's hard to disagree.

[@luciusvanhal2064]

+ 1 sub because of your cozy-christmas-fireplace-teatime english accent (i'm french...) and because you are very enlightening, tho i think you could add some references from where you took your informations, it could help viewers to continue in the same topic with novels and such... great work !

[@TheJoazzz]

author of the 8:52 Warhound shot here - no watermark, no footnote, nothing to tell the viewer who made the pic or the other shots you grabbed from Deviantart. maybe you should give people some goddamn credit where it's due?

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

How appropriate that the music used throughout this video is "Crusade" from Kevin MacLeod (in case anyone was wondering).