ABHUMANS: YES, 40K CATGIRLS ARE IN THIS ONE | Warhammer 40k lore

[@rycolligan]

The ratlings being good snipers is a reference to Tolkien. The Hobbits have 2 surprising combat attributes: the ability to move about with perfect stealth, and uncanny accuracy with slings and thrown stones.

[@ceeno9042]

Also in Warhammer Fantasy, least the rpg, they literally were as good of shots as elves

[@logangrimnar3800]

Well duh. Everything is bigger to them. Larger targets.

[@sayther01]

In Tolkien's book the hobbits have this special trait that they are very very resistant to magic, specially dark magic.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

@@sayther01 it's attributed to their ties to the earth, quite hearty even if not in the way of warriors

[@SigvaldScionofSuccubi]

@@sayther01you cant be tempted by the dark lord when grandma makes a cake a thousand times better than any fancy smancy ring

[@bthsr7113]

Let me recontextualize the cat people. Imagine soldiers able to cram themselves through duct work, night ops without paying for goggles, innate insulation for colder battlefields, enhanced hearing on patrols, superior smell for search and destroy, better balance for the heights of hive cities, and feline sadism when laying traps/kill boxes.

[@Gordon519]

laser pointers

[@bthsr7113]

@@Gordon519 Makes concentrating fire easier.

[@varun009]

That's ridiculously insightful and well put. Talent truly does escape prominence.

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

Wonder if they have fangs or claws for stealth kills. Leopards dead ass hunt crocodiles so imagine what a humanoid leopard could pull off

[@zacattack32441]

@@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062 knives would work better, since claws tens to be for holding prey down or maiming it (in the case of the big cats) while they bite to kill.

[@steirqwe7956]

Cute fact about ogryns is how protective and gentle they are about their fellow normal sized guardsmen likely due their parental instincts kicking in.

[@moodyfingers7301]

"Keep small shotting man behind you"

[@Lakefront_Khan]

Here's another one: the reason they are so loyal to the Creed is because they all believe the EMPEROR is their actual father.

[@zcgamerandreacts2762]

@@Lakefront_Khan Ogryn:"hey big hat. I have a gift for big dada. Can you give this to him?" Big hat:"Why yes big dada will surely love this gift! Move along you still have some meanies to shoot!"

[@tezlaactual6582]

Ogren and his guard gf

[@inquisitorbenediktanders3142]

@V2_ Missile a very young child.

[@mariusmitre492]

"You're a necron overlord who lived around 60 million years and used to conquer the galaxy and then five of these ogryns who can't count to three run up to you and rip all of your limbs off." Thats the funniest part of this episode for me LOL.

[@burnin8able]

I'm surprised Briky didn't point out that Nork Deddog looks as if he has acne scarring all over his face, but they're actually BULLET SCARS, FROM BEING REPEATEDLY SHOT IN THE FACE

[@Rapture-nv5vj]

No brain, no pain

[@burnin8able]

@@Rapture-nv5vj it's true, but also just the fact that Ogryn literally have skin as tough as kevlar that can stop bullets is an important part to skip over lmao

[@Rapture-nv5vj]

@@burnin8able I know, but "no brain, no pain" sounds funnier

[@didekjozwiak]

Fun facts about Navigators: -Due to their nav-gene being extremely recessive, they tend to only make offspring with other navigators, which connected with cut-throat politics and constant family feuds of Terra means almost all of them are horribly inbred -All Navigators, no matter the status of their family, will eventually suffer mutations due to nature of their gene. There are no uniform ways it happens, but it always gets worse with age, to a point where really old Navigators don't even remotely resemble humans anymore and have to be obscured from populus, their family and ESPECIALLY the Inquisition

[@AGrumpyPanda]

It's worth mentioning that it's only the horribly mutated navigators that have to worry about the Inquisition, the rest just get a stern glare because they're a necessity.

[@steirqwe7956]

So not stolen from Dune, goddamit GW can you at least pretend to be subtle?

[@matchesburn]

"and ESPECIALLY the Inquisition" To be fair, while the Inquisition can and some more zealous Inquisitors do sometimes go after Navigators for aberrations in mutations... Usually it's left alone unless it's Chaos shit or they're doing something that threatens the Imperium. If they just have horrible mutations but aren't tainted by Chaos or doing anything, even the most self-righteous of Inquisitors are unlikely to go after them because while they do technically have the authority to do so... The Navigator guilds are one of those entities you simply don't piss off. Ever. Not if you know what's good for you. And while the Navigator guilds are cut-throat bastards against each other, they do protect their own. It would not be unthinkable for an Inquisitor that purged a Navigator that was a loyal servant to the Imperium to suddenly develop a lot of issues with getting reliable transport and suddenly finding out that there's no Navigators available to crew whatever ship he happens to be on. It's the same way you don't piss off the AdMech. Sure, if it's legit heresy/heretek behavior, go for it. But if you're just pissing in their pool because you can technically do so with your authority... That's one very foolish Inquisitor that is going to have one very, very short career as one.

[@jagnestormskull3178]

@@matchesburn Inquisitor Gideon Lorr kills both Astropaths and Navigators quite frequently without charging them of any crime, because he views all psykers as daemon-bridges. I'm surprised that the Navigator Houses and the Adeptus Astra Telepathica haven't sent assass- I MEAN Ork Snipers after him.

[@matchesburn]

@@jagnestormskull3178 That's surprising. How the hell does he get a ride anywhere if he's killing Navigators all the time? From what I understand, the fastest way to get stranded on a planet and without any warp-capable ships to transport you is to piss off the Navigator guild to the point where they don't allow you passage. I mean, many high-ranking Inquisitors Navigators in their retinue because of how much they have to travel and it's convenient having them for that purpose. You'd think ever Inquisitor would want one and to not piss off the guild.

[@killianasheart5175]

Fun fact about the Ogryn Rippa gun, it actually has a staggered rate of fire most of the time, aka doesn’t shoot as fast as it could. Reason why, Ogryn’s aren’t capable of understanding “Ammo preservation” so they make them shoot slower in hopes that they won’t waste all their Ammo in the first minute of a fight.

[@AGrumpyPanda]

They also often have fire limiters so they can only fire so many shots with a single pull of the trigger.

[@mikeloeven]

@@AGrumpyPanda Which is always why i use burst or semi in survival games Auto is never required and its a trap for noobs to waste ammo when something jump scares you

[@davidfrancisco3502]

@@AGrumpyPanda They're also called Rippa Guns because their brutal recoil combined with their big size and weight can rip a regular human apart if he attempts to use it.

[@Sentient_Scarab_Swarm]

I love that

[@mikeloeven]

@@davidfrancisco3502 I would be kinda interested to see what a Rippa could do in the hands of a well trained Assault Marine assuming you could somehow put one in a situation where they would be forced to actually use it.

[@hellodelightfulrando]

Bricky is despairing over anime catgirls but I don’t think the TTS cat people alternative where it’s basically reverse a mermaid situation with a real cat head attached to humanoid body is any better

[@riiswalker8241]

Its a good spin off as a subversion of expectation but disgustingly cursed in any other scenario

[@starkiller332]

Witch episode was this?

[@riiswalker8241]

@@starkiller332 Felinids

[@starkiller332]

@@riiswalker8241 thanks, you are a good gun

[@nickkurzy2246]

quote one of the guardsmen from that episode *clears throat* *"I can't bang that..."*

[@scurvydog20]

Strictly speaking there are limits on abhumans. Theres an entire organization devoted to determining if a strain is human, abhuman, or mutant with the last one being exterminated.

[@Brutalyte616]

Actually mutants do occasionally have an option to become conscripts in a Penal Legion. It's basically still a death sentence, but it's an opportunity for them to demonstrate their loyalty to the Imperium and the God-Emperor.

[@starburst98]

Reminds me of this comic where some purifier dude with a flaming hat did a reverse devastation on a group of mutants, he killed 9 of them and had the 10th one put into manacles and a sign and let loose.

[@AGrumpyPanda]

@@starburst98 I don't want to pull an ACKSHUALLLYYYYY but good information is good information, the term you're looking for is 'decimation.'

[@AGrumpyPanda]

@@Brutalyte616 The Navy also occasionally hauls out the mutants and abhumans from the depths of their ships to replace crew losses, then kills them off once they can replenish with actual humans. It's even a mechanic in Rogue Trader, the TTRPG!

[@Steir12]

Boundaries between them are still very blurred and metric shitton of mutants live in underhive untill shit hit the fan hard enough for imperial officials to interviene. Like mutant uprising or forming chaos cult. Heck, there even xenos to be found in underhive sometimes.

[@mikeloeven]

Imagine a Felinid Auxila being accidentally sent to reinforce a group of space wolves on the front of some war world... the space wolves just all abandon their posts to chase them around the landing pad while their captains are running around like soccer moms at the dog park trying to get them back on the leash

[@Thatonelurkingboi]

That would be cute. I also see the Felinids not being happy with the salamanders due to them being too "affectionate."

[@bloodwolfkoji]

Apparently Beastmen happily served as Imperial Army auxiliaries to the Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade, part of their thing is that when the Heresy began; a LOT of Beastmen sided with Horus's forces and so in the modern Imperium they're heavily ostracized to the point that joining Chaos is almost they're only option.

[@stryke-jn3kv]

It's also region, world, and commander dependent going from shoot on sight, to hey let's stick explosive collars on them and point them at the enemy, to get that gloriously horny son of a bitch into the PDF or Guard where he or she can put to better use.

[@bonogiamboni4830]

I'm imagining an inquisitor doing the shocked pikachu face hearing that modern beastmen get ostracized so much for having fallen to chaos in the past that they fall to chaos in the present too.

[@Sara3346]

Yo, a fan of both Beastmen and 2003 FMA's Wrath? Wow sometimes miracles really do exist OP! Keep on being you the internet needs more people like you!

[@user-unos111]

They still served as auxiliaries until fairly recent times and I think they were even playable in IG armies in very early editions. Unfortunately GW decided they didn't fit with imperials and the tone they wanted to give to the universe (Read: They wanted to distance it from Fantasy). Thus, they were quietly dropped for a while. In universe, the reasonwas the Inquisition decided they too mutated to not by a product of chaos corruption (They may have a point) and were banned from joining the guard.

[@patentedorganism1557]

I love how they had to specify that catgirls are in this episode, just in case people might’ve freaked out.

[@DocStro]

And im not quite sure how I feel about 40k unironically having catgirls.

[@benjaminwallen5578]

Either that or they were trying to reach a very specific demographic, warhammer fans who want to learn about great memes and love cat girls

[@lukeryall3309]

@@benjaminwallen5578 aka most warhammet fans

[@some1337dude1]

Its a trigger warning

[@Bluecho4]

It's for the benefit of two kinds of viewers: the ones who wouldn't stop asking when Adeptus Ridiculous would talk about the catgirls, and the ones who needed to be forewarned so they wouldn't pitch a shitfit or go into cardiac arrest from cringing. (The cowards).

[@jakebailey1636]

Gonna drop an extra tidbit which if I am incorrect you're welcome to correct, internet! But if I recall a Ratling is recorded as the first confirmed kill on a Tau Ethereal, after scouting out an Armoured force on the way to attack an Imperial outpost. He saw what to him were leaders discussing prior to the attack so he took the chance and domed the blueberry, throwing the force into disorganisation and panic and securing the victory

[@ladywaffle2210]

Ratlings just became my favorite type of Humans.

[@stankobarabata2406]

A T'au killed by super long range weapon. Hah. As a certain Dark Lord said himself - "Ironic, isn't it"

[@Aralaas]

I hope they remember that felinids are supposed to be covered in fur so they'd look like Captain Amelia from treasure planet or Cheetah from Wonder Woman, not japanese cat girls.

[@csmrookie9600]

you really think that's going to stop someone from banging them?

[@Aralaas]

@@csmrookie9600 Wouldn't stop me, I just want to get the facts straight.

[@BrotherVoidBomber]

Honestly that's better in my eyes.

[@Rapture-nv5vj]

As someone once said *cough cough* EVEN BETTER!!!

[@Broomer52]

Honestly feels more genuine that way and not half assed

[@cuhlainnslane1564]

the ogryn are big because of the cold, not the gravity. The square cube law means that if you double somethings size you cube (to the power of three) its volume. This makes it easier for an animal to stay warm in a cold enviroment, they have way more body to produce heat as compared to surface area for them to loose heat from. Its why polar bears, emperor penguins, blue whales (all whales actually), seals, walruses, wolly mammoths, etc. were/are so big, especially compared to their more tropical relatives. Edit: to be fair elephants and wooly mammoths are big because of another evolutionary factor, defense. Get big enough and predators will avoid hurting you. Their size meant they were just predsiposed to surviving in colder climates.

[@zalekvoris1517]

What about humans, like in Scandinavia

[@majormajorasic]

@@zalekvoris1517 Generally taller than central/southern europeans, but it's not such a difference due to clothing and shelters.

[@maximsavage]

@@zalekvoris1517 Evolutionary differences between modern humans are minimal. We adapt to environments mostly through technology (even clothing and shelter are basic technology), for example, while Scandinavians do tend to be taller than many other humans, the Inuït people do not, despite having lived in climates that stay below freezing year-long for thousands of years. This is why the genetic differences between ethnic groups aren't even significant enough to constitute a different race (scientifically speaking), much less a sub-specie.

[@mahoganydoughnut6082]

Glad someone said it, though i think gw just made them big because "ogre" its just coincidence it worked out.

[@norsethenomad5978]

This is why I like the snow, its an adaptation and not because I’m depressed?

[@Hinokassaudifan1]

I can see the commissars be like: "I'M TIRED OF THESE MF'ING CAT GIRLS IN MY MF'ING REGIMENT"

[@mr.potato2223]

"Permission to purge?"

[@chaoticaberration294]

More like purrge

[@cavareenvius7886]

Permission to poke them?

[@eneaceribelli8023]

Hide the field full of laser pointers

[@eneaceribelli8023]

@@akumaking1 Yeah, they take a shot and then they chase it

[@TheKingsPride]

I’m just waiting for the inevitable “And then there‘s Ratlings. They like to eat lasgun power packs.” “Wait, really?” “No, moron. It’s a joke.”

[@paracausalguy4009]

I am sad they did not mention this

[@LegendaryCollektor]

close

[@jakoski]

A note on the Afriel Strains because I love them: They actually were incredibly effective soldiers. They were hard, fast, skilled, pretty much everything they were meant to be. That bad luck didn’t really happen until after the battle was over. They also are pretty blunt. For example, a female Afriel Strain once walked into the canteen of a penal legion…topless. When one of the penal legionaries obviously tried to cop a feel, she responded by ripping his eye (pretty sure it was an eye) out and presented it to the company commander. Edit: fixing autocorrect.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

what stories are the Afreil Strains featured in?

[@wabbitking1355]

@@henrypaleveda7760 Last Chancers I believe.

[@mattshriner4897]

There are two, including the one mentioned, in 13th Legion. She survives into the second Last Chancers book as well. As I recall, there was at least an entire Regiment of Afriel Strain setup by that experiment. Doing great work by all accounts, but with an inexplicably high loss rate. Something about how Murphy's law is a certainty for the Afriel, not a suspicion.

[@thewitch7342]

33:25 frostpunk impressed bricky so much that he cannot think of a Better use for workers than to send them down a frozen coal mine 24/7

[@Demicleas]

Frostpunk 2 those coal miners are ganna be working in the oil mines.

[@Azzie420]

I remember a conversation about the ogryn and it went something like “class ogryn as children, and when children misbehaved who do you blame? You blame the parents” It was due to one of them having issues with working with the big guys because they could never keep them under control so commisar Gallus scorns him

[@milanmaschgan6299]

Its from the Ogg the Ogryn from Noman here on youtube.

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

Ogg the Ogryn is too good

[@danny_decheeto8300]

Oh hey I liked that story

[@Azzie420]

@@milanmaschgan6299 I know if you see their “tomorrow” post you can find my ogg comment

[@Sara3346]

Noman is severely undersubscribed.

[@YoBen100]

Time for Bricky to hate himself while DK goes completely weeb.

[@jaketheberge1970]

And Shy just pokes them both with sharp sticks.

[@adenkyramud5005]

@@jaketheberge1970 I mean... Does shy ever do anything other than that (and painting minis)

[@ladywaffle2210]

@@adenkyramud5005 sometimes she edits Also, par Manda'yaim

[@warboss3686]

DK better get this one right Also friendly reminder that for every Cat Girl joke cracked on this episode Bricky dies just a little bit more on the inside

[@xuruiyu]

A small price to pay for catgirls

[@blatvis5710]

Emperor NYAHoth

[@kiritotheabridgedgod4178]

We don't need to make jokes about cat girls for Bricky to die inside, he's already dying inside because Shy kept putting up CG's from a porn game behind him while he was talking about them.

[@dudemcduder1628]

A small price to pay

[@HunterSentinel]

30:05 lord of the rings halfings literally are world renowned for their insane accuracy. They’re able to protect their shire extremely well with extremely accurately thrown rocks. And if I’m not mistaken they bring down several orcs and or more with just rocks.

[@MattManDX1]

They used bows and arrows too, but yeah even sharp rocks were deadly in their hands

[@Reepicheep-1]

TBF, any thrown rock can be deadly. A bullet is really just a very fast metal rock. Slingers were feared any time they were on a battlefield.

[@coralynnremning9083]

OK! A fun story! I made a character for Rogue Trader (the tabletop RPG set in the 40K universe) with the "false man" background (ie genetically engineered, born in a tube basically) who was made by a heretek. I did not know about the Afriel strain until later, but it just so happens I made her albino. Once I heard of the Afriel strain, me and my GM worked in her backstory that the heretek that created her used forbidden lore to improve on the Afriel strain, and my character was the only succesfull specimen. Bow, here is the real fun part: Me, the player, had an INSANE luck with my rolls. Sneak through a corridor littered with surveilance cameras unseen? Nailed it. Snipe a heavily protected driver while hanging on to a careening guncutter? No problemo. Yes, my character, Mira, was an extremely good fighter/assassin, but it doesnt help that I rolled near perfect almost all the time. Even funnier is that it seemed like my luck seemed to be leeched from the other players, as their rolls were usually abysmal. So.. it was kinda lorefriendly in a way! =D

[@bthsr7113]

Fascinating.

[@tannergee]

At last Necromunda has been touched on! Still hoping for a full episode on the house gangs and culture of Necromunda. But Goliaths aren't really bred like cattle they're mainly test tube grown or inducted and pumped full of chems.

[@fumarc4501]

I wonder if all the chemical and bio enhancements they do contributed to the creation of the Saclies?

[@tannergee]

@@fumarc4501 Maybe, I had always thought scalies were more evolved reptiles rather than less evolved people. But maybe you're right. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

[@doomguy9049]

Sounds like cattle to me! 😱😭

[@doomguy9049]

@@tannergee scalies can breed with other muties so they’re definitely evolved or devolved from standard human stock at some point, or have been spliced with enough human DNA to make intermarrying with muties possible.

[@oldeskul]

I know y'all were limited by time, so I'll toss one strain of abhuman in here. The Voidborn, humans that only live on the space ships and orbital stations on the Imperium. They have lived so long on the ships and stations that they've developed their own clans and communities that only live in specific parts of the ships and stations. There have been wars fought between voidborn clans on the ships. The voidborn repair and maintain the systems in the parts of the ships they live in,and some of the voidborn clans have developed their own odd religions. They have dark skin and are of a spindly build. Voidborn clans only know how to repair and maintain very specific sections of a ship or station and don't know how to repair or maintain anything else. A voidborn can go their entire life without ever seeing someone outside their clan. There was a short story where a voidborn clan who maintained the coolant regulators on a ship went extinct and another clan had to figure out how to repair them.

[@saintmuerte13]

That sounds like a really interesting story, any idea on which book it was?

[@oldeskul]

@@saintmuerte13 I think it was in an edition of White Dwarf.

[@michaeldimare3786]

I was hoping for someone to talk about those! And the Hullghast and Ghiliam, which are basically something out of Man After Man but stuck on a big spaceship.

[@bthsr7113]

So 40k belters. I'm not saying anyone ripped anyone else off, but that's an apparent connection in my brain that loves both.

[@jalopy3574]

I'm thinking of the Belters from The Expanse

[@derekburge5294]

Holy shit, there really is a Shy Felinid. What absolute *titan* of patrician taste is responsible for that?

[@woaddragon]

It kinda look like Lily from the youtube channel Lost Pause...

[@theemeraldenderman3007]

@@woaddragon Now that you mentioned it ………. 🤨🧐 ………. Could be just a coincidence

[@the-wanderer111]

15:32 So the Afriel Strain are just Lamenters before they became space marines.

[@seanrydell112]

That what I thought too, and it makes the "genetic make-up fucked with the laws of probability" idea sound like it might actually be closer to true. Try to replicate once in a life time hero? The warp shits on you. Try to take the black rage out of blood angels? Literally every single thing in the universe shits on you Makes sense to me

[@kieranh2005]

Perhaps the double negative would cancel itself out?

[@Bluelightshield]

Everyone here is talking about catgirls while I'm here hyped about how my boys The Skaven made a cameo in Adeptus Ridiculous! SKAVEN ARE BEST-BEST! ALL SHALL SING-PRAY TO GREAT HORNED RAT!

[@cavareenvius7886]

It's sad there are no Skaven in 40k.

[@Bluelightshield]

@@cavareenvius7886 Do not squeak-say such bad things again! You make me depressed-sad...

[@katarjin]

Skaven feelings on the Catpeople?

[@Ashtor1337]

Nothing says their not. Squats technically no longer exist in current lore... Doesn't mean they haven't shown up I'm my DH games.

[@Bluelightshield]

@@katarjinThey are indeed quite useful-important. They are great-fine food and are useful for many experiments of many great clans, yes-yes! They training-dummys for clan Mors! Provide intresting-strong mutations for clan Moulder! Funny to see-watch die-suffer from diseases of clan pestilens! Great test-things for weapons of Skryre! And give-provide leather and fur for cloaks of clan Eshin! Cat-things are valuable-precious indeed, friend Katarjin!

[@qball331]

As an imperial guard fan I love the abhumans from the small, tricky ratlings to the giant, yet innocent ogryns they add some much to the guard. To this day I find myself wishing I could put beastmen in my army. Even if others think they don't work/make sense in the imperium.

[@meloncito7020]

I think they do make sense...since they literally need every human to fight. Plus they want the human race to persevere, as long as you are able to fight, you are valid

[@TheSynthPunk]

I now have a literal squad of battle satyrs in my headcanon now, thank you

[@suppmydiff3257]

@@meloncito7020 that's kinda the opposite of imperial philosophy. What you're describing is far more Tau

[@P1gdude]

Get 30 and use them as a conscript squad. They can be reinforcements from a Penal Legion. Or maybe just make 3 normal squad. Maybe they're loyalist underhivers from a hive world that volunteered to prove their loyalty to the Emperor and maybe also earn better food rations.

[@Gormathius]

16:44 I love how Shy's choice of illustrating literally the unluckiest human in the universe is just Sideshow Bob. That's so accurate to the character.

[@williansnobre]

To me Felinids are more like Swat Kats instead of anime catgirls. Altough this could be a problem because it would make them less anime but more furry.

[@bthsr7113]

Eh, not like the hecklers will make much of a distinction.

[@sarmeister1699]

I don't see a problem with that

[@moodyfingers7301]

I have to side with the lesser evil, weebs get this one.

[@dakotah7683]

Not season 2, that was made by an anime studio

[@floridamanwentwild4411]

Necron overlord with a rolled up new paper fighting off cat guardsmen

[@steirqwe7956]

Cadian finest attaching broom bayonets before storming felinid heretics trenches.

[@ObakeOnna]

@@steirqwe7956 Felinid guard are prone to defection because they will literally fight for anyone who has tuna. This is why commissars of felinid regiments are always armed with lasguns - not to shoot the cat guardsmen but to distract them into following the red dot towards the enemy.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

He then gets the Ogryn treatment as apparently those cat guardsman were nice to them.

[@nerdzoneplays1743]

Bricky: Nothing ever goes the Afriel's way much to their detriment. DK: So they cant make more right? they fucked up somehow in the first place so its not like they'll keep making more of these unlucky fuckers, right? Lamenter: Hold my dead battle brother

[@Adjuni]

As a 40K Imperial Guard officer, I would love to have a few squads of these guys to draw off the bad stuff from my good stuff. Send them off to some place and run into an offensive while I'm taking the rear with my main force. Basically luck baiting.

[@88thdeathkoregrenadier68]

@@Adjuni “taking the rear” SO RETREATING

[@Adjuni]

@@88thdeathkoregrenadier68 Taking the rear of the enemy position, obviously. For The Throne!

[@88thdeathkoregrenadier68]

@@Adjuni "enemy position" SO A TRAITOR

[@inquisitorbenediktanders3142]

@@88thdeathkoregrenadier68 let me explain for you: The idea is that the afriel strain soldiers are put as far in the front as possible to soak up the brunt of the damage, while the regular guard then take advantage of any successes they were able to achieve and reinforce. Basically what you are doing except instead of sheer numbers they got terrible luck and great skill.

[@zacharysimmons4115]

Okay I got a good cackle when I saw Pat. Nice one Shy. As an aside, I'm surprised at no mention of the other meme surrounding felinids, that being their discoverer, Rogue Trader Carlos McConnell THE MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE IMPERIUM. Would love to see how DK reacts to the craziness of Rogue Traders in general, if I'm honest.

[@Sentient_Scarab_Swarm]

Ratlings are space hobbits with sniper rifles Ogryn are space ogres and are dumb AF but good at hitting things Physcers are telepathic recluses Felinids are clickbait

[@burnin8able]

psykers aren't abhumans.

[@robberyproductions1363]

@@burnin8able yes they aren't abhumans, they're Heretical Witches! Less than a mutant, less than a Heretic and No different than a Daemon!

[@fumarc4501]

Scalies are from Necromunda, but no ones knows about then.

[@lordfelidae4505]

Felenids are lazy ninjas.

[@thegingerwon2795]

The title alone was worth the like

[@Basically_Anybody]

Shy knows why we're here

[@chrisnicolet8910]

DK was the true catboy mechanicus all along This is the new lore for his character accept it

[@eneaceribelli8023]

Did you ever notice the two pointy thing coming out of his head in the videos? Those were cat ears all along

[@Bluecho4]

Oh yeah, it's all coming together.

[@Nobleheart111]

“The Troth, hailing from the world of Verdantus, are classified as Abhuman. Abhumans are those sub-species whose existence is tolerated due to their similarities to the human norm, and thus accepted as members of humanity as a whole. Whilst this is certainly the case, the Troth are restricted to a single world in the Imperium, the planet of Verdant, whose ecosystem they are incapable of surviving without, and their actual deviation from “true” human biology is unknown. Those few who are aware of the existence of the Troth theorise that they have developed an intimate relationship with the flora of their home world (which by its name is thought to be a planet covered in great expanses of forest or jungle) and cannot survive without the vegetable component of their symbiosis.” Basically, they are plant people. Mostly provide food shipments to the Imperium.

[@xenostyrant4118]

That sounds kinda like the Quarians from Mass Effect

[@Ravensgale]

27:59 I about spit my drink out when I saw that since the description of a Rattling is pretty accurate to Pat.

[@samuelevans738]

Why do Afriel Strains have such bad luck? Because they inherited all the "best traits" of the imperium's heroes. Which just so happened to include their trouble magnet powers, and not the bits that help them get OUT of trouble.

[@vincentkoch6559]

Trazyn has a cat boy and cat girl, each with perfect genetic traits, stored in his museum so that he can breed the perfect biological being to present to the biological species show.

[@steelgreyed]

When DK said underhive, he couldn't have nailed more vaguely. That "is" where most abhuman's live, I would give a partial credit for going there....

[@bthsr7113]

Beyond industrial scale waste by/products that could fall into nuclear, biological, and/or chemical categories.... a vast population... an adverse environment creating an unreal selection pressure.... Honestly, if not for the dogmatic superstition and oppression, I'd argue that Hivers could have actually started to potentially evolve into a full on subspecies.

[@calebbarnhouse496]

The quote also perfectly describes underhive gangs, so his answer was really pretty right

[@Nobleheart111]

Another canon Abhuman strain are the “Humans with 4 legs”, aka Centaur humans, discovered on an unknown high gravity planet's surface. Discovered by Guardsman Floscan Hartoum and Commissar Leminkanen (deceased by giant scorpion), this knowledge of Abhuman existence on this world remains undocumented to the wider Imperium at this time. “Back aboard the Imperial battleship Ravenger, the Commissar's report is being filed with the Captain, stating that the planet is worthless and inhabited by ferocious creatures and a primitive semi-intelligent alien species unlikely to progress any further. The report then drops off midsentence on explaining that no further action should be taken. The Captain accepts this and forwards it to the Adeptus Terra. Hartoum, sitting in his cell, reflects on his actions, altering the Commissar's already open report to protect the centaurs from exterminatus, as well as philosphizing on whether the Emperor would abhor or agree with his actions.“ PS: A Small Khornate blood cult had been established among some of the human centaur humans on the planet, resulting in conflicts between the various tribes. The status of the species remains currently unknown. Children of the Emperor - Short story.

[@barrybend7189]

With the Squats it's high gravity plus underground habitats. For Ogryn it's just high gravity. High gravity doesn't neccesarily make smaller size adaptation.

[@tenkora1]

It just encourages thickness

[@shittestcat]

AND it's shit cold. So they are thicc as hell boi. Plus living outside your planet for generations may undo the shortening, but thiccness is here to stay.

[@emperorskulls]

41:08 Holy shit. That Felinid OC really does look like Shy!

[@Resident_Kriegsman]

Alright well I was a % right with my Ogryn guess. I'm gonna play CNC3 to remember a good time in RTS days while I listen to you two discuss the furries and degents of 40k, loyal to the emperor or otherwise. Loved this podcast since I discovered it, Thanks for doing it 🤘💯❤️

[@gabrielmirandahurtado6539]

I like to think that felinids look like khajiit but with really long ears, kinda like floppa's ears

[@IronRAVENxvx]

My headcanon had them looking like those from Thundercats 2011.

[@xaga8794]

Sounds.. Like the only cat person that isn't made for horny flurries or horny weebs

[@davidfrancisco3502]

@@IronRAVENxvx The khajiit from Elder Scrolls depending the day are born under the many phases of the twin moons some of them can grow into forms similar to humans and elves with higher presence of fur on the skin.

[@Somedude317]

You all should do a Warhammer fantasy race thing. A huge skaven fan like myself was so proud of DK over the ratling gunners.

[@michaeldimare3786]

This makes me so happy because I love the idea of a dumb duo of Ogryn and Ratling, like something out of a Pixar movie….except with more faces being crunched/shot inwards! The comedy would write itself. Also, I haven’t watched the whole episode- but I hope you mention the Longshanks (super tall humans from low gravity worlds) and the Pelager (aquatic Ogryn that look like they had kids with the Creature From the Black Lagoon)

[@EvelynNdenial]

and they do a master blaster kind of thing with the ratling sniping from the ogryn's back

[@bradydonovan6180]

God I’ve been waiting for this one. You guys do amazing work as always and Ogryns are my favorite guard units. Just big dumb and loving the emperor. Ripper guns, grenade launchers, big ass shields, and hilarious quotes. Keep it up guys yall are awesome.

[@fumarc4501]

I like that the rules leave it open for fans to make their own Abhumans. Go wild fam!

[@tybirous3417]

The picture of Patrick Fuckboyven for the description of the ratlings had me in tears, it's so mean but also absolutely perfect. Shy you're finna be on the hook for murder if you keep doing this to me

[@Inquisitormateo]

*Cat-boy abhuman guardsmen arrive on tomb world* Trazyn: "ORIKAN. There's a weird fuckin' cat in the yard! The organics are at it again!"

[@ironappleseed]

Just think for a second. One second to think about how absurdly niche of a cross section this joke is. Revel in it

[@iambumbo7534]

40:07 *gets to catpeople* *shows nyanners* "cultured, she is"

[@PuppyM0dr]

brickie: the ratling gun isnt real, it cant hurt you wh writers: write that down, write that down now

[@mahoganydoughnut6082]

Bricky after finally getting to my favorite abhuman: "ah who cares moving on" P.s. scientific names are pretty spot on look up the rhinos.

[@joshuaolejasz9590]

23:36, I think it has more to do with the frigid nature of the planet, I remember hearing that animals that live in colder climates tend to grow larger

[@JohnDoe-zl6qw]

Yep. It's a surface area to volume ratio thing. The larger you are, the less surface area you have relative to your volume. This helps retain heat / insulate better compared to smaller variants of a species. Conversely, hot climates will tend to see a species adapt by becoming smaller (radiates heat away faster compared to their larger brethren).

[@Cosmic_idea]

You always gotta remember, no matter what, Trazyn has at least one specimen in his vault.

[@TheHacknor]

The ratlings being good snipers is a nod to Tolkiens description that Hobbits were good at throwing stones

[@tylergee1405]

Trazyn the infinite for sure has a bunch of cat boys and cat girls in his collection.

[@FreedomFighterEx]

Bricky is like a dad that is trying to get into what his son is like to bond better but slowly found out that his son is a lost cause.

[@Iknowtoomuchable]

My man is constantly giving GW shit for these scientific names, but he doesn't know that the scientific name of the Western Lowland Gorilla is literally _Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla_

[@zsoltgyuricza6961]

3 main ideas that came up for me during this podcast: 1 - catgirl sister of battle, 2- said sisters meeting up with spacewolves. The 3d idea is actually unrelated, what if the Necrontyr were ALL Blanks? This would explain why the old ones didnt want to help them and why they were hated in general.

[@Ashtor1337]

Holy shit!!! That's a great theroy!!

[@majormajorasic]

Nah Necrontyr all had souls, it's why C'tan could do biotransference and slurp their souls as they got converted into machine skeletons.

[@LocalInnocentHereticJoe]

Reads title Me "Oh Emperor, the heresy, It burns!"

[@hunterwaguespack3963]

Would Fabius bile’s gland hounds be considered abhumans,if so they would’ve made a good addition to this video or would they just counted as another one of his experimental monsters?

[@tomaspabon2484]

The whole thing with Ogryn and high G planets always bugged me too. I dont know if anyone's read Mission of Gravity (kind of a weird example since the planet in the book has variable gravity), but it does a wonderful job of displaying how creatures would evolve in high gravity environments. The sentient creatures on that planet are small, flattened, scorpion like creatures

[@imperialguardsman5726]

i love how you could *FEEL* the internal and external suffering in his voice when he was describing the felinids

[@taborh2011]

Some of the coolest abhuman/mutants ive read about were these humans that the gravity on their planet was so intense they grew 2 extra legs. A guardsmen crash landed on this planet and they saved him from like a crab or something and he found either a commissar or a higher ranking officer who wanted to exterminatus the planet but before he finished his report he got killed by a squid thing and the guardsmen changed the report to save them

[@Abhothra]

Great episode! Do remember GW publishing some rules in Chapter Approved for Abhumans but I'm not a guard player so not sure if these actually worked or were more of a comedic thing. Did find this on them (Apparently from the march 2005 edition of WD) Which jog some memories but no idea whatsoever how these worked under the rules at the time. "There are seven different doctrines, BUT to take any of them, you first have to spend one doctrine point on Restricted Troops: Abhumans. Then you have to spend an additional doctrine point on the chosen abhuman doctrine. Quick rundown without any point values below. Feral World Ogryns: FOr a cost per model, you can have Ogryns as Troops and replace their standard armament with an additional CCW. They do not have access to Bone'eads or transport vehicles. Nightsiders: Cost per unit (Guard Infantry), unit gains Acute Senses special rule. Slave Levies: Cost per unit (IG Infantry Squads only), gain Feel No Pain and Slow and Purposeful and may not take any additional doctrines. The Afriel Strain: Cost per unit (Guard Infantry), gain ATSKNF, may take no other abhuman doctrines, may not be combined with Iron Discipline or Chen-Inhaler. May not take any Priests or allies from any Inquisitorial codex. Homo Sapiens Variatus: Conscript Platoon only, cost per unit, gain +1 WS and Furious Charge. Subs: Conscript Platoon only, cost per unit. Units behind Subs gain a grot cover save, Subs never fall back but become pinned instead. Lose the cover save if Subs are pinned. Enemy units may always choose to ignore Subs when determining closest unit for shooting purposes. Gland Warriors: Cost per unit (Guard Infantry), gain Fleet special rule. However, if the fleet roll is a 6, one member dies as the gland drugs kill him."

[@celsetialarchives5909]

One thing I'd like to know How in the name of the Emperor do you train a navigator 😅🤣

[@Ashtor1337]

.... They have schools and families teach the young.

[@link4585]

"small. Loud. Hungry" Yep that's Pat

[@mikoajrog1780]

I clicked at random place on the bar and I heared Bricky shout "Made catboys fucking canon!" I can't believe my luck.

[@minxthekitty8859]

Felid auxiliary meeting the space wolfs and lots of hissing and barking ensues

[@theskinthiefs6301]

Make Haste Battle Brothers, soon we shall receive the Emperors blessings.

[@theskinthiefs6301]

We have been enlightened by Shy Cat Girl. FOR THE EMPEROR!!

[@Zand3rParkour]

@Deez Knuts Diamantes: dude that is how scientific classifications for species/subspecies works. They aren't creative, they're just latin generally.

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

You ever notice that there's not that many dogs in 40K? That's because in the 41st millennium Ogryns have become man's best friend.

[@kmcd6140]

I think I know what Bricky was getting at with the Homo Sapien thing. That is the scientific classification of the Human species. Some experts have begun to use Homo Sapien Sapien as there is an expectation that there will eventually be a subspecies classification. Like Navigators might be more accurately classified as Homo Sapien Navigo, as they are off-shoots of "standard" humans.

[@vegladex]

> Necron going "good kitty" OH SHIT, BECAUSE NECRONS HAVE EGYPTIAN THEMES! Maybe including cat-worship!?

[@Northbravo]

I just read an excerpt about noise marine's having some "Fun" with captives and the author actually describes their GROINS. He said it was covered in EYES AND MOUTHES.

[@moodyfingers7301]

You could have shut up... But you didn't. Why did you curze me with this knowledge?

[@Nobleheart111]

The Troth, also known as Homo Sapien Verdantus, are a recognized strain of Abhuman within the Imperium. They are restricted to the world of Verdant.[1] According to legend, a tribal king called Nemus once ruled over a people isolated from the rest of humanity in the time before the Great Crusade. It is said that Nemus swore an oath to protect his world of Verdant if the planet would protect his people. As a result, Nemus' descendants, the Troth, share a symbiotic relationship with the forests of their homeworld that enables them to "converge" with their environment and confound invaders. Over many centuries, the Troth have supposedly been transformed into beings with flesh as tough as oak and digestive systems that can extract nutrients from the earth.[2] 1: Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Rulebook, pg. 405 2: Liber Xenologis, pg. 27

[@ultrablueberry2420]

Boy: Fussy Dorn: *NOOOOOOOOOOOO*

[@SamueL-td7fb]

move on, quick!

[@Gat720Dua]

I said it while watching a Majorkill video and it bares repeating, I would unironically like to see what a grim dark take on cat people would look and the fan art is no help cause it's either anime style or furries (sometimes both). The best example I got is the Cathar from Star Wars, specifically how the Knights of The Old Republic games depict them.

[@memethief5878]

BRICKY! WHERE IS MY BLACKSTONE FORTRESS/ ROGUE TRADER EPISODE?!?!

[@supremetarantulasorcerer165]

Anyone else think of the plains striders from All Tomorrows when they talked about Long Shanks?

[@MaxiusTheGod]

YOU HAD ME AT CATGIRLS

[@archerdontspeak99.92]

I honestly would love to see a video just showing off all 170 entries for the knight art competition

[@wiiblii8584]

There should be a show about a collection of Abhumans in the Guard just being Guard, fighting, chilling, and having a good time, ya got the Cat girl, the Ogryn and Ratling Duo, the one normal guy, and the Genestealer person It's all there GW, and yet they waste their time with Hammer and Bolter

[@KageRyuu6]

I wonder what would happen if Ratlings ever met Felinids.

[@MrGrimsmith]

Oh good grief, that would be like the catgirl version of a munchkin cat...

[@JaegerMeisterDemon]

27:50 I just about fucking died at Shys chosen picture for the ratlings

[@samsara5214]

As soon as it got onto beastmen and rambois all I could think was "after so many thousands of years of sheep sha**ing its good to see that the Welsh and their fluffy wives have representation in 40k"

[@Tucker0603]

28:09 that's a great call out there.

[@Beanie28]

Why do Dwarves who are traditionally minors use axes? ELVES LIVE IN TREE

[@brokedude9999]

I had this playing in the back ground, while at the office. The final minute or so got Me wrote up for inappropriate conduct Imagine trying to defend AdRic or GW to a boss who's a Southern Baptist Associate Pastor on the Weekends Yeah, I just keep digging that hole for the whole meeting

[@topscrappy1012]

One of the missing legions was an army of cat people

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

Astral tigers 🐯 a sucer chapter of the astral clow: grudges

[@IsaacClodfelter]

The only time GW has an excuse for their on the nose naming is with scientific nomenclature, irl that stuff is generally kept simple and, well, on the nose.

[@reliusornez1448]

The cold might be a reason for ogren being so large. It's an evolutionary trait we see here on earth

[@michalsniadala1667]

34:46 thats exactly what I thought when you said the big eyes thing

[@From-North-Jersey]

I think ratlings are great snipers because Hobbits were known to be really accurate with ranged weapons.

[@BoneTrait]

A Necron overlord leads his forces. “Crush them! Hail to the Eterna-“ a fucking Ogryn just tears a mfs limbs off.