THE SIEGE OF VRAKS: THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@THExRISER]

"Escalation" is not nearly enough to describe what happens in this part of the story.

[@augustweightman272]

Exponential escalation is more accurate.

[@THExRISER]

@@augustweightman272 That'll do.

[@BeKindToBirds]

The US joining WW2 was also an escalation. That's how the word is traditionally used, it means something big in military history and analysis.

[@adambartholomew6575]

Things went down on Vraks, then things went sideways when the Alpha Legion dropped in, then it got kicked into the stratosphere when the demons were summoned, and now it has come back and crashed down on top of us

[@BeKindToBirds]

@@adambartholomew6575 Alpha legion were there from the very beginning. It was the Cardinals advisor who sent him on the path to power and advised him to take vraks, an alpha legion captain in disguise. They were there from the start, ordo hereticus screwed up.

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

I.G. : Well, at least the situation can't get much worse from here. Khorne Berserkers: "Free falls from the sky and start killing shit." I.G.: "sigh" sure, why not? Anyone alse wants to join? Nurgle: It's Nurgling time!

[@Fourtytwo4242]

I.G:ANYTHING ELSE!?!?! Red scorpions: "purging time."

[@RougeMephilesClone]

​​@@Fourtytwo4242I.G.: ...You know what, living in these tunnels isn't so ba- Grey Knights: BEST NOT FLEE FROM THINE PRIOR ENGAGEMENTS, BROTHERS, LEST YOUR SOULS BE DEEMED IMPURE! I.G., whimpering: _Why?_ Inquisitor: **Taps wristwatch**

[@kinman3051]

XD I love all of these comments. Makes me realize just how crazy everything was.

[@Vanq22114]

And then they Nurgled all over the place

[@markberghel275]

I.G.: Oh great, now we're dealing with this nonsense, too? Okay, I don't care who shows up anymore. *The Inquisition has entered the chat.*

[@erickalbani546]

DK's unbridled, malicious glee at the Khorne Berzerkers drop was a beautiful thing to see

[@heboric6136]

To be fair, it's pretty awesome

[@jordanvangesen2080]

To be fair it’s my army so it’s the right response

[@worldeater2414]

Everyone has fun when Khorne comes to town 😌

[@gabthegreat01]

Not to mention his mounting horror at the Inquisition/Grey Knights’ arrival

[@thewerdna]

Fun fact, not only did the Inquisition bring the Grey Knights, they also brought the Red Hunters. For those who don't know, the Red Hunters are a chapter of Space Marines who specifically work for the Inquisition, but unlike the Grey Knights or Deathwatch, they aren't associated with any specific ordo and are otherwise a normal chapter in terms of capabilities and such. They are who the inquisition gets when they need Astartes in general for whatever given reason. Really the only unique thing about them is the fact that due to working for the Inquisition, their memebers undergo regular memory wipes to keep the Inquisitions' activities secret. So basically the Inquisition looked at the situation and went, you know, in addition to bringing the "Spacer" Marines, lets also bring our normal Space Marines for good measure

[@danielwensink7792]

Could you imagine being a space marine, and their large periods of your life missing.

[@ladeandix7451]

And over 200 Red Hunters got killed due to an ambush and bad communication.

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

This would make keeping the Grey Knights secret easier though. Just tell everyone there were only "normal" Space Marines present (nevermind that the very existence of the Inquisition itself is supposed to be secret).

[@thewerdna]

@@danielwensink7792 to be fair, they know why they have huge gaps in their memories at least. The chapter is well aware they work for the inquisition and that the memory wipes are common practice

[@danielwensink7792]

Red Hunter unofficial motto "we don't remember, but was probably important."

[@joshuadunn2]

Episode description: DK repeatedly asks how things can get worse. Bricky proceeds to explain how things get worse.

[@refurbishedtechpriest9076]

And despite being the "expert" Bricky continuously reveals how little he knows and how little effort he puts into his work.

[@gamewatch6861]

Apparently he hasn’t learned that is 40k. It can always get worse.

[@thien0300]

@@refurbishedtechpriest9076 *tap the sign again for 10.001 time

[@Bugeye0704]

@@refurbishedtechpriest9076 ”entertainment before accuracy” The channel’s motto.

[@imperialfist2304]

“Man I can’t wait to rush over these trenches and take the fight to the traitors!” My brother in the God Emperor, the Death Guard have cornered us and there is highly corrosive gas coming towards us, we are going to die.

[@Archon3960]

That guy must not be from Krieg. B)

[@Hello-bp8dx]

*Good*

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

"That only means I don't have to waste time and effort finding the enemy and going towards them, good."

[@AbyssWatcher745]

So? Set up the suicide krak grenades!

[@piratekingthaszar7912]

"Is that cowardice I hear from you, commissar?"

[@trentthehehim3936]

Bricky has been ignoring the MAIN issue of WHY it’s taken 9 years so far. The leadership. The leadership has been playing it safe and not committing the Krieg to their fullest potential.

[@woaddragon]

Well, yes and no. While the General commander, ( who name I can not remember the name of), was one of those high born general who never step foot on Vraks, who did more work getting the job as commander than the siege work itself. That ture. Vraks was so well fortified that the minstromium itself predicted it would take at least 5 to 10 years, and that the best case scenario. That would have been true regardless. The General commander was pretty lax, letting the navy presence wither, and lack of a personal touch made things wo

[@conan2096]

if krieg were just allowed to krieg they would have done a lot better. srs if the generals just said, you like tunnels right? go as deep as you can and capsize that fucking hive city....xaphan wouldnt have even had time to become all fucked up.

[@refurbishedtechpriest9076]

@@woaddragon"Lax" is putting it mildly. The way I hear it he was an incompetent who spent more time pampering himself than actually running the war. Yeah, the war still would have taken a long time, but his incompetency guaranteed that it took as long as it did.

[@myth5588]

The first commander was incompetent, the second was great but didn't know how to command Kreig to their full potential, and the Lord Inquisitor was in such a desperate fight that there wasn't too much else he could do

[@trentthehehim3936]

@@woaddragon yeah but I thought the problem was the Krieg could have been tunneling under the walls the whole time. Not just frontal assault after frontal assault.

[@donatedorb4094]

It goes from a somewhat fair fight of guardsmen on traitor guardsman to "Oops, all space marines!" As suddenly Khornate bersekers and Titans lurk behind every corner. Honestly Krieg morale is basically unbreakable and damn are they determined

[@bmobmo6438]

Khornate berserkers and chaos Titans don't know what lurking is lmao

[@lukalovric2463]

Some of them broke tho

[@clonerwesker]

Vraks getting hit with the "but wait, there's more!" As Grey Knights arrive

[@Yama048]

It should be noted that the Red Scorpions taskforce was just 96 space marines, 3 dreadnoughts and some armour support who were already heading back from a different mission. In the process of opening a breach via a drop assault to deploy a teleport homer, a terminator teleport assault and a strike force coming across no man's land, and then holding out for the Krieg and titans to arrive they lost sixty two space marines and a dreadnought, plus their commander was severly injured. I'd say its quite reasonable that they then left given there was barely a third of what turned up after all that

[@MatthewCSnow]

“We’re here to save you-“ “Yay, the grey knights are here” “-from yourselves” “Oh no, the grey knights are here”

[@theofficerfactory2625]

I think Bricky forgotten about "The Big Push". The obscene artillery barrage.

[@dyingearth]

The Big Push is basically Imperium's version of the Battle of Somme. And just like the Entente, it went nowhere except costing both side lots of death.

[@hunnyfung5165]

Da big push

[@AAhmou]

When the Imperium stopped their offensive for a few months to load up on as many artillery shells as possible only to empty them for a matter of days? Good news the enemy fortifications are severely weakened, the bad news, the remaining Vraksians are getting reinforced.

[@heboric6136]

And the tunnel/wall big boom boom. Also red Scorpions did not just leave, they got very hurted and left to ask their chapter master for permission to come back and finish. Lol also "three parts" looking forward to next week

[@redecterthomsonshadowascen5177]

@@dyingearth My dear sir, the big push was what they called the Somme offensive

[@pyerack]

26:10 Honestly the way this story simply keeps going "But wait! There's more!" is part of why it NEEDS to be made into a series.

[@YoBen100]

On the bright side, Krieg and Imperium don't have to worry about looking for enemies in the field. All you need is artillery, lasgun, and good old shovel to call it a day.

[@IdioticSynergy]

Why isn't the title ''THE SIEGE OF VRAKS: THIS IS GETTING (adeptus) RIDICULOUS?''

[@heboric6136]

agreed wth?!

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

* Metal bar drop sound *

[@bjornancraite2266]

Whenever GW gives a number in lore, especially with the guard in regards to the number of men involved, I feel like it's generally best practice to add at least one zero to the end of it. Like, sure, the numbers they give might sound big but like, there were more men apparently involved in the battle of Stalingrad than the Ullanor crusade.

[@joshuabarrett7997]

Ullanor had like 8 million Imperial Army in addition to the Astartes and Titans, but yes your point stands. That's not a lot to conquer a planet, even with the tech in-universe. Honestly even triple that number might be something of a low-end of reasonable.

[@karlwes6273]

13:50 fun fact about saving private Ryan, that d-day invasion scene gave many ww2 veteran episodes of ptsd and there had to be a help line opened up to said veterans due to how realistic it was.

[@Tommy9834]

Thanks for sharing this bit of trivia, that everyone already knows, because it gets spam on anything, remotely to the Saving Private Ryan.

[@Arto257]

​@@Tommy9834cry about it

[@BurkinaFaso69]

„fun fact“ not so sure about that phrasing

[@rameybutler-hm7nx]

My grandfather cried. He was part of normandy clean up crew as a medic. He came back from ww2 9 kinds of f'ed up.

[@steelgreyed]

38:50 This is why most everyone else relies HEAVILY on the maps to explain how this wasn't over in just 3 days, not the full year it took our Lord Marshal to show up. Also why you don't mix Space Marine Chapters much less Chaos Space Marine Chapters. The infighting saved Krieg more than anything else.....

[@Rembanspellsong]

If Vraks ran out of their timetable, they would be reduced in priority for receiving supplies and replacement troops. During those first few years they were top priority and things would be replaced immediately. After the time ran out, supplies would still trickle in but it wouldn't be the flood it was for the first decade. And also, Julka would also be disgraced and replaced by a different commanding officer, which in the case of Vraks was actually a good thing because Julka was an incompetent commander who was given his rank because of family connections and thought he could effectively command a solar system away, and is replaced by an actually competent commander.

[@dyingearth]

Actually Inquisition have always been involved in this war. It was under the purview of Ordo Hereticus (anything heretical in the Church falls into their ballpark) that the war have been conducted. However, with the introduction of so many actual Chaos space marines, Ordo Malleus and the Grey Knight decided that this is far too important for those amateurs (Hereticus) to handle. Enter Stage Right Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex of Ordo Malleus.

[@BeKindToBirds]

Segmentum ordo hereticus dropping the ball completely is why this all happened!

[@andrewmichael9201]

Why does the inquisition have some of Warhammers best villain names?

[@dyingearth]

@@andrewmichael9201 I wouldn't call Hector Rex a villain. Stay tuned next week to see what he personally has to deal with.

[@andrewmichael9201]

@@dyingearth even if he’s not a villain Hector Rex is a top tier villain name.

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

Also in the first phases the Inquisition let non-inquisition commanders do most of the work because apart from the original cause this was more or less standard war work. Only when the chaos presence made itself known did the inquisition eventually get more directly involved. Typical "i must do everything myself" scenario.

[@sc2_Nightmare]

I think a hard cut after DK saying "Is that a Grey Knight?!" would have been a funnier ending/cliff hanger.

[@ZeusStormbringer]

Kriegsman: "Well this can't get any worse." *Khorn has arrived* "Whatever, this is fine." *Nurggle has arrived* "Gas masks aren't working...whatever we still have arty." *Red Scorpions have arrived* "Oh great more Astartes." *Red Scorpions have departed* "Why can't any of our guys stay!" *The Inquisition has arrived* "Anyone willing to *help* us!" *The Grey Knights have joined the Inquisition* "What's next? Orks!"

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

*In the distance* "WAAAGH!"

[@arrowtooth]

Drukari: No need to fear, WE ARE HERE! “Maniacal laughter intensifies “

[@DillJosh007]

Ahh Vraks, truly the definition of "Hey friend listen, i know the world is scary right now but, ITS GONNA GET WAY WORSE"

[@CuzTyler]

"At Least It can't get any worse" said the Kriegsman. "lol" said the Grey Knights

[@dylankahn168]

"lmao"

[@khylerbane4523]

Vraks: *gets progressively worse* Alpha Legion: *surrounded by Death Guard* “Hi, I am Alpharius and welcome to Jackass!” *gets crushed by World Eater drop pod*

[@simplewrites]

Imperial officers watching Vraks in the last few years of the siege: "Well... That escalated quickly. I mean that really got outta hand fast."

[@Brody2362]

If Brickey skips over the hilarity of the chaos commander losing ground because the alpha legion dips out if the fight without anyone knowing imma be sad.

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

"Can you imagine a Chaos cultist streamer?" Thanks to TTS, I can. Ok, it's Lucius the Eternal instead of a cultist, but the same principle applies.

[@TheRedGauntlet]

Twich Streamers basically are Slanesh cultists

[@thewerdna]

I was going to say, isn't that just a Slaaneshi cultist?

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

@@thewerdna "Just" a Slaaneshi cultist, no. He's her champion among the Astartes.

[@thewerdna]

@@matiasyannuzzi9655 i meant a Streamer is basically just a Slaanesh Cultist already. I know who Lucius is.

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

@@thewerdna Oh, I see. Yeah, probably. Those who are also crypto grifters could be Tzeench cultists, and more than a few could qualify for Khorne and/or Nurgle.

[@DBSG1976]

Some of the best lore is when Imperial Planets rebel against the Imperium.

[@evilmiera]

The kinda lore I miss is when a planet rebels and it has nothing to do with either Chaos or Genestealer cults or xenos influence or whatever, its just plain old struggles against an oppressive regime and the Imperium responding to it like it is the worst of the lot of possible scenarios because people might get the bright idea that the Imperium is as bad as it looks and might also try to replace it with something better. The others they can deal with because it fits in with their propaganda but they completely lose their minds at someone just piping up and saying "Actually we can do better" because they have no real response to it other than INFIDEL

[@SunTzu176]

​@evilmiera the best response to "we can do better" the Imperium can give is lmao lol try it. Which is the response they do give. The one with the biggest stick wins.

[@krennicsaspirations4883]

I think the Red Scorpions were suspected to be Emperor’s Children successors or half EC, half Ultramarines.

[@sschuster2180]

Ive heard theories about them beeing possibly descendend from the Word Bearers because of their Livery and their extreme devotion, if not obsession with "purity" in all things ...

[@TheVerruckMan]

@@sschuster2180 Yeah, but obsession with purity is more of an Emperor's Children thing than a Word Bearer's thing. After all, it's only a short jump from obsessing over being pure, as opposed to obsessing over being perfect...

[@The_Natalist]

No idea, but they are absolute GIGACHADS, so who cares

[@radeadcool]

@@TheVerruckMan Also dont for get all that Mark 4 they just lying around....

[@flatheadgg2443]

Them using the scorpion symbol might also be a reference to the irl praetorian guard which were pretty much the whole inspiration for the pre heresy/loyalist emperor's children so there's also that.

[@sparking023]

The Siege of Vraks is "what could possibly go wrong?" pushed to the maximum extend. Good Lord, that's one hell of a war

[@TheDeceptiveMoss]

I love how DK now knows enough about the setting that he has emotional reactions to hearing about different factions showing up.

[@GambeTama]

To counter to shy's comment about the worst reinforcements for the Kreigsmen, the Lamenters showing up would actually have been a pretty good thing. They honestly would have made ample progress to victory, it's just that it would come at the cost of 90% of the Lamenter forces, minimum.

[@thomasallen9974]

Indeed say what you will about their luck, survival rate, and pr rep but Lamenters are hardcore about getting the job done.

[@jakebailey1636]

It may of been red scorpions, but thank god it wasn't Marines Malevolent

[@cr4zyp4t89]

feel like saying a Lord Inquisitor arrived has more impact than saying the inquisition comes

[@brelthedrunkgiant1267]

I could of sworn that the Red Scorpions are SUPER up-tight with following the Codex Astartes in a fanatical sense. Like even Ultramarines would go like "Dude don't take it so seriously" and the Scorpions goes "You fuckin' Blueball Heretics!" So if you even suggest something else or do one minor mistake that's not written in the Codex Astartes, you basically gonna get skinned alive in their next Tik-tok live stream.

[@tristinquiram]

52:45 The for-really-reals anguish in DK’s voice at the end was fucking mint

[@conj5815]

One of my favorite details not mentioned about the seige at this point in the timeline is the "big push" which also includes the battle of mortuary ridge. (I think, I know this definitely happend before the chaos astartes showed up) The best part is that prior to the offensive, the death korps bombarded the vraxian defence line for 4 days straight non stop with all 70,000 artillery guns, approximately 10 million or so shells were fired in 4 days which is x10 more than what was fired at the Germans during the battle of the somme in 1 week. Kreig artillery crews were rotated out every 30 minutes and were instructed to keep their mouths open, or scream as loud as possible to equalise the pressure so their eardrums didn't burst. About 14 million shells were needed for the push with the additional 4 million or so needed for further strikes, alongside all the spare gun barrels and required storage bunkers needing construction, the prep work for this took so long that the vraxians actually thaught all the activity was the guard leaving vraks, until the second defence lines comms went dead and 80% of it and its defenders were wiped off the map. The kreigers faced surviving resistance in some areas but in others were completely unaposed, then the chaos forces showed up and ruined it all

[@AchanCham_]

This has been an amazing story. I think the ending of this episode might be one of my favorite. Thank you for making this!

[@RougeMephilesClone]

I know just enough about Warhumber Four-Hundred-and-Change to know that thumbnail is a little more than just "ridiculous". If Captain Titus isn't available, Vraks is firmly in Exterminatus range now.

[@edgieststalker8141]

Momento Wuajamer cuarentamil

[@Fey_Yoshida]

:) Grey knights bb

[@RougeMephilesClone]

​@@Fey_Yoshida**Concerned Face**

[@lelopumbaaraco5376]

the only planet that needed excesive force

[@Fey_Yoshida]

@@RougeMephilesClone Grey knights Bay Beeeeee

[@yrgol]

I'm loving the long form multipart story. It could even be mixed in with monster of the week episodes and not all in a row.

[@jixdl]

16:52 From the mist, a shape a ship is taking form, And the silence of the seas about to drift into a storm...

[@kevincass9917]

Sign of power! Show of Force!

[@danielwensink7792]

Battleship taking it course?

[@lucian777777777]

Dk: "how many guardsmen died?" Imperium: "idk we dont keep track of stupid shit like that"

[@snowbush7990]

Kreig tunnel warfare to study to. Its just the sound of pickaxes, shovels, and then once in this three day long video there is a 5 minute outbreak of lasfire, shouting, screaming, and the sounds of knives and shovels being used on other people.

[@falsebeliever8079]

"So embarrasing for *insert x loyalist getting bodied*!" Please just acknowledge that Vraks is a nightmare to siege and the Vraxians are Tough as Nails badass veterans by now.

[@MightyGachiman]

Yeah being sieged for 10+ years will make even the most newbie recruit a grizzled and well drilled veteran

[@pfirestarter29]

I remember that the overall total casualties that the Krieg suffered during this siege was something like 17 million and when I read that I was genuinely shocked that the numbers were so low for a siege like this AND how many people that the Krieg could potentially have overall.

[@irish-italianintrovert.8600]

Best thumbnail out of all three of them so far. 10/10 they did the meme

[@bridgelock6940]

This is now easily one of my favorite episodes. The sheer number of times DK says, “oH NO.” 😂

[@leechambers2295]

I spent 8 years as an Army Ranger. While I obviously never saw the carnage that the Army Rangers saw during “D day” I can say “Saving private Ryan”is the most accurate “War” movie I have ever seen.

[@Some_Average_Joe]

There is a little known adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front" from the 20s or 30s I've heard might beat out Saving Private Ryan for realism. A lot of the extras were WWI veterans and they consulted them on details constantly. And then pretty much every country in the world banned it.

[@jonlewis6357]

Bricky complete skipped over the bit where the second wall is blown up. The underground war ends when kreig gets under the second defensive wall and blows a hole through it, and after is when the red scorpions show up to help take the breach, as their was a whole battle that was fought over the opening in the wall

[@inductivegrunt94]

And that's it for may have missed the premier for all of these, but I loved all of these episodes. Can't get anymore ridiculous than Vraks. And the ending with everyone lamenting over the Grey Knights arriving will always be hilarious.

[@markgresch9944]

I do wonder how Kriegsman would feel about winning and then being executed after the fact by the Grey Knights. Probably something like Grey Knight: "You did your duty, now die." Krieg: "This is the happiest day of my life."

[@DRTisKING]

The Red Scorpions where descendants for Loyalists of the Emperor's Children

[@popularopinion1]

"Um... Other than that, I don't know, who?" "Uh, oof... The Inquisition..." "Oh no... Oh n- oh no... Oh noo.. stop" "And a certain... Do you see who's behind the inquisitor?" "Oh no, is that a Grey Knight?!?" "It's the Grey Knights, let's go!" "Oh god, oh god, ooooh goood..." "The only thing more frightening than more Chaos are the Grey Knights!" "Ooooooohhh noooO" "They're here!" *Sobbing sounds* "They're ready." *Sobbing continues* "They're gonna be a problem, and that's the end!" *Sobbing throughout*

[@The_Natalist]

The Red Scorpions are absolute CHADS

[@aitoriri1]

Love how the Death Guard wage war basically like the Kreig but this are warp mutated space marines

[@jasonburke1671]

Yknow i have yet to read a section with the Dark Angels where they arent complete assholes. They even stripped inwit of all its astartes defenses during the Heresy just so they could keep planet bombing Edit: no one tell Bricky about the 40k Vtubers

[@jackmack4181]

You know that scene in puss in boots where the beanstalk grows? That’s how fast the escalation happened

[@dashyboi6243]

Would love for them to make a Krieg poster.

[@poseidon4766]

As a fan of Stories, I do love when there are more plots, and more characters, and more settings. Thanks for the acknowledgement.

[@bigsadge747]

wanna see a nurgling pog now

[@Rug0s]

Nah wanna see a death korps for kriege pogging with it's gasmask

[@dathore]

Considering this next part is gonna be where literal hell breaks loose and shit hits the continental sized nuke button, DK is gonna run out of oh no's to throw out there.

[@Channel-23s]

Just when you think things won’t get more hectic and wild and Chaotic “pun intended” you get 10-12+ Space Marines chapters/groups going at each other like hell

[@total_no_more]

Krieg really started becoming the locust coming out of e-holes with that tunnel warfare.

[@froschknechter8110]

„Here come the World Eaters…Wait…Wait IS THAT A STEEL CHAIR?!?!“

[@ouchiegiverjr]

Imperium really proving red and black are the best color schemes, for the COOLEST designs

[@jammedtuba7820]

It was only a strike force of Red Scorpions. They literally had a single Strike force, about 100 marines, and a Strike cruisers helping at first. They held a crucial breach in the fortress walls after krieg blew it sky high from underground. The red Scorpions took HUGE loses, only one one the initial strike team survived until the terminators managed to teleport in and save their lives. Edit: To say the Red Scorpions came, did very little, and just left, is insulting to the absolute losses and gains they made where the Death Korps couldn't for years, they broke the third defensive line. The Red Scorpions won Vraks for the Imperium. You can't convince me otherwise.

[@Fordo007]

Krieg trench digging has got to be a real ASMR thing in 40K people use to relax and fall asleep.

[@Ryanubet35]

"We haven't really gone over the Chaos Navy" call Kirioth!!!!!

[@byronswain7569]

I love Bricky asking leading questions and getting huffed as JD keeps missing :D

[@c4ns3r53]

DA stand : we are cool with all out shenanigans and even cooler with our Primarch leading us once again. Shovel boi : Vraks

[@sadknight8012]

Fun fact for DK, that opening scene of saving private Ryan had some veterans walking out of the theater because it was so realistic they needed a break to calm themselves

[@Reddotzebra]

The opening scene of the D-day invasion is so famous they actually parodied it in Conker's Bad fur Day. It's not one of the scenes that everyone loves to giggle about in that game, but I always found it funny as hell. "OK boys, teeeeen seconds. It's been nice knowing you guys..."

[@KevinACarroll1996]

As a Grey Knights player, I am absolutely HYPED for the next episode.

[@YOGI-kb9tg]

Fun little fact the lord general was sent to Armageddon.

[@YOGI-kb9tg]

@@SWProductions100 I think it was the second war so... No he jumped out the pot into an inferno

[@TheNecromancer6666]

The Siege of Vraks is way smaller then WW1, of which it's supposed to be an overblown version...

[@kuroshine]

"Hi, I'm field commander of the Kireg artillery regiment, and join me for today's field battery bombardment ASMR"

[@DaoYeLung]

It couldn't possibly get worse. *hears chain axe rev up* It could, indeed, get worse.

[@levigoodrich5276]

12:41 High lord inquisitor, is that you?

[@ember_angeldust]

The Knight of the poster looks like a Cylon... and I LOVE IT!

[@beastalchemistVA]

Love that thumbnail. Here it comes!

[@Deleto8026]

I hate and love that you can see the Kriegers eyes under their masks in the thumbnail.

[@eduardodiaz9942]

35:49 "THE GASMASKS DO NOTHING!"

[@tylercross8877]

I'll definitely be rewatching this in the near future

[@D3ATHPROOF1]

Drop ship lands: " were saved!" Out walks a giant in inscribed gray armor wielding a halberd. "I'm dead...."

[@josiahbobenrieth6250]

Hope you are proud of yourself, Bricky. Because ot you I got Moon Breakers. Been putting 40k paint schemes on the minis. Starting with Necron paint scheme on the bots. Gonna go for Ultramarine on the people.

[@TriptuneRadio]

Its my personal headcanon that the Red Scorpions are Iron Hands successors and unintentionally the only ones to live in their primarch's image. They mirror the attitude the iron hands have towards flesh, but project it outwards to others (xenos) rather than inwards

[@scottjohnson1483]

DK: “it can’t possibly get any worse” Bricky, gleefully: “I disagree!” 27:08

[@Jelle1880]

Oh man, the 'it can't get any worse' part had me in stitches.

[@ianharrison8960]

Didn’t the Red Scorpions send their ENTIRE 1st Company of Terminators into the heart of the breach in order to take it? Like 100 Terminators vs iron warriors, black legion, world eaters, ect. They did more then their fair share

[@greenfire4656]

My strategy for thay dammed boss in armor core was out missile him and be fast. Also, try to be under him to avoid the majority of missiles.

[@jackmesrel4933]

Mine was "be and annyoing fly, stick as close to him as possible, melt his shield with double bubble ray, then laser sword him to hell". FUN

[@qionsaber2870]

Which weapons and build would you recommend?

[@greenfire4656]

@qionsaber2870 I belive pulse weapons are good against pulse sheilds, and that pulse bunker melee insta breaks pulse sheilds I belive

[@lilithleeming3325]

Linear rifle pulse sword and the vertical missile launchers was my strat

[@jollyb4285]

This is always the problem I have when discussing Chaos getting involved, you have to be specific. It's not like entire Chaos Space Marines legions that show up- usually its just a war band that can range from a few dozen marines, to a few hundred depending on how spicy the author or GW feels that day. I think of the War bands that showed up to Vraks, the Khorne and Nurgle warbands were the most numerous, and the number of Iron Warriors were on the smaller scale of things. But the main bulk of the forces were still mortal cultists, both the Cardinals initial troops and the cultists brought along by the war bands.

[@ryanadams0922]

You guys need to continue with the seige of varaks because its just getting BALLS TO THE WALLS CRAZY! I want to hear about the hole battles and even the naval battles and especially the battles in silent darkness

[@thedragonlady6661]

You could cut me on that edge too, that poster is fire

[@gundamthatateataco4729]

24 hour asmr Krieg tunnel digging, randomly broken by explosives

[@SaviourSword995]

I have info on Chaos battleships so allow me to say it as I am a chaos fan. Allow me to say it. Chaos navy is large so I will cover only battleships. -Despoiler Class is indeed a battleship. 8-11 km long. These battleships are built on the basis of Terminus Est, the death guard flagship. It's pure carrier ship with some ling lange weapons. But it's not heavily armed. -Desolater battleship is a pure combat based Chaos battleship. There were lots of ships like this in great crusade as their design is older than Imperium. They don't build it anymore. Most turned traitor in Horus Heresy and few remaining ships also turned traitor in 1st and 2nd black cusades. Chaos still make this ships. They also made a new variant called Dececrator class battleship which is mixed type heavy combat carrier. -Then you have Battle barges. These battle barges are mix of both Horus heresy and Modern imperium designs so you can easily identify them. One variant is called Warspite class battleship which imperium doesn't use it anymore and now most of these ships are used by chaos. -Then you have massive ships like Planet Killer and Gloriana class battleship which yeah a problem. One more unique ship in their roaster is called Abyss Class battleship. These are come in different types and sizes. Some are emperor class type sizes and some even outmatch gloriana class battleships both in size and firepower. These are word Bearers exclusive ships. 3 ships were built during heresy in which one is destroyed in the war and 2 are unknown. But since these designs are word Bearers brainchild you can see more of it. And that is it. You have to remember that every retired ship in the inperial navy is extensivly used by Chaos. They stole and use it as their own (Horus heresy) with some design and modifications changes. And that is true to every ship in chaos navy. Every chaos ship is basically a combination of old ships that are retired, failed experimentation ships which they aquire and mixure of both. EDIT:- Oh I am sorry. There are far more retired battleships of great crusade era which is also used by chaos. And this is same with every ship class in the chaos navy.

[@isaacfransonfilm2139]

Space marines frequently leave engagements """early""" because they are a shock assault force. They show up, blow up anything that isn't human, make some huge push, and then leave to do it again somewhere else. They can't bunker down and fight a battle of attrition like the guard can, it would be a waste of resources. If you need 1 big fortress push done in a weekend, then space Marines are your group of choice. They are specific, just mass damage and aggression all at once! Shock Assault!!! Blitzkrieg!!!

[@thewerdna]

Yeah only the siege specialist chapters stick around longer. Or Imperial Fists, who frankly would have been a good pick for who to call

[@jacobvardy]

On not having enough artillery shells, thats kinda realistic. Shell shortages are a really common phenomenon.

[@305bj]

Having the doge pop up for dk moments is a stroke of genius

[@timothyhaskell7212]

Love all the work y'all do! Especially you Brick Daddy.