TRENCH CRUSADE: JESUS CLONE SUPER SOLDIERS VS HELL | Trench Crusade Lore

[@joecoaxum3851]

The crazy thing about this setting for me is that humanity was even able to last long enough to get to 1914. Those medieval knights must have been fighting hard as hell.

[@RougeMephilesClone]

As hard, or harder even.

[@what-er8kw]

They got Literal God and anime on their side

[@edwinbasa2804]

They got heroes like Vlad and Joan d Arc

[@HonorEggs]

The lore reasoning for that being the forces of hell are unable to work with each other there is constant in fighting and struggles for power that is pretty much the only reason humanity is still kicking

[@edwinbasa2804]

​@@HonorEggsnope, at the start of the heretic legion conquering all of Europe and they are intoxicated over their victories but the Order of the Dragon stopped them and think who is the one leading the Order of the Dragon.

[@jayjester4843]

I love the snipers that blind themselves so they can shoot more accurately… because they rely on faith.

[@alphashocker7458]

What’s really hilarious is that they have an option in-game to take a machine gun instead of a sniper rifle.

[@TheNaturalnuke]

@@alphashocker7458’spray and pray’ a tried and true method 😂

[@daedalus5253]

Woppa Discworld style. It‘s a chance in a million.

[@jayjester4843]

@@daedalus5253 ‘In the fragile reality of Discworld, and with the gods who like to play games, a million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten.’

[@ricepresident2990]

@@TheNaturalnukeliterally that one comic panel of Daredevil using a gun.

[@TheLastSkyfarer]

Mendelist Order of Monks?! As in Gregor Mendel the father of the science of genetics and selective breeding?! And they make super soldiers... oh thats a great deep cut.

[@UponThisAltar]

I can't believe I hadn't put that together before. Trench Crusade's world building is top notch.

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

That's baller

[@duckpuncher4203]

He was a priest and did his experiments (breeding plants) in the garden of the monastery. Quite a reference

[@High-LordHarza]

Oh my god, I never realized that

[@KillerOrca]

So what your telling me is that somewhere on the front lines, there's lethal anti-demon peas?

[@meeyatttA]

Fun fact: Trench pilgrims have a Dreadnought equivalent whose special thing is what he can crucify other infantry to use as a literal meat shield

[@andylin9523]

And they’re usually completely willing because they think it’s an honor to bless the shrine mech with their broken bodies, the setting is awful in the best ways

[@drsatanrx]

The shrines are limited 1 per warband. Unless you choose a specific procession then you get 2. And you can upgrade them with heavy flamers or an auto cannon. They get SPOOKY

[@MakooWallinen]

7:28 is that him?

[@Beanibirb]

This shit sounds like something from 40k and I'm so glad it's not

[@The_Green_Ghost]

@@MakooWallinen Yep. that is a Shrine Anchorite, and they look fucking AWESOME.

[@carterbenton2399]

Me, a history major, attempting to not crash out when DK forgets when WWI was.

[@Weed_Ghost]

There's brain rot, and then there's whatever DK has

[@hunterlurvey698]

to be fair it was a very small and forgettable moment in world history

[@alblup6860]

​@@hunterlurvey698neglectable almost. I think some people refer to it as the tiny, insignificant war.

[@gabrielpardo4229]

"There was a WW I?"

[@Mozzarella_Sam]

​@@hunterlurvey698 This comment is making me irrationally angry even though I know it's a joke XD

[@FinxOmally]

"In 1907 the construction of the moving fortress of Britannia was completed" Someone clearly watched Howl's Moving Castle and thought.. 'I can turn this into a horror'

[@FeelNoPaintStudios]

@FinxOmally think more...mortal engines meets mad max and Constantine.

[@KillerOrca]

@@FeelNoPaintStudios I'd say a bit more Mortal Engines meets Constatine. But Im dead hear for it either way. St Pauls is, in fact, a superweapon.

[@TheGallantDrake]

​@KillerOrca I read that book so long ago and yet I still remember that plot point

[@danhelsting6308]

Pleace. Im shure its more like "Mortal Engines".

[@bighairguy7]

Speaking as someone who was raised Muslim, the sultanate is just as well researched as the other factions - the “two horns” is a reference to Dhul Al-Qurnayn, literally “he of/bearer of the two horns”, a conqueror who built an iron wall to hold back Ya’juj and Ma’juj (Gog and Magog in the Bible). I also love that the styling is distinctly Turkish, given the ottoman presence in WW1, and the inclusion of the order of assassins

[@radishinglad998]

There's a small hype I've noticed among Jewish players. The developers did say there were "Jewish knights" running around and doing stuff, and I don't think there's been any tabletop wargaming that decided to add anything or anyone explicitly Jewish, much less with the care taken in TC towards Christianity and Islam.

[@samuraijimmi]

I absolutly adore the historic take on other religions, making all of them bad ass in a dark fantasy. Iv legit learned about Islamic history just by digging into what the lore is referencing. Despite how grimdsrk it all is, it really feels like proper inclusion and it's all done with love

[@reallyfreakingoodvideogame468]

Hell yeah.

[@ohadgoldhagen1095]

@@radishinglad998 OH MY GOD WHAT THIS IS AMAZING- can you please find where this was said?? I was actually super upset while reading through the lore primer that there wasn’t anything about Judaism, and that is really cool!!!

[@chronovac]

@@ohadgoldhagen1095 In the timeline page (same section of "Argos was taken by God and is no more) it says "1703 - Against all odds, a small force of Hebrew Knights striking from their secret fortress destroy the Templar stronghold at Acre"

[@CleverEngr]

The stigmatic nuns follow the third meta christ who constantly bleeds but those who pray to him get stronger the more injured they are.

[@stephenbrown4633]

So they wear less armor to get injured more and increase their power. Now it all makes sense. Your name suits you

[@ShadowHybrid92]

@@stephenbrown4633 its basically the same armor principles as gladiator armor, wounds to the torso are fine but loosing a limb is a problem

[@senor-achopijo3841]

Enemy: Wounds a stigmatic nun. The Stigmatic nun: *COWABUNGA IT IS*

[@evillaughinthebackground5732]

Sounds like Darkest Dungeon's Flagellant, getting buffed at low health

[@EE-iv5ej]

So it's a kinda weird balance, get wounded on torso for extra buff, but armor the arms, legs, and head so they still remain functional while fighting. This means that a full-powered Stigmatic Nun would just be fully exposed mangled torso with flesh and bones from all the injuries they received, with still intact armored parts.

[@dudebruh8534]

DK: "Does that soldier have a fetus with a pentagram on it's head barbwired to his belt?" Gives of the exact vibes of "Is that Kermit the frog with two samurai swords smoking a blunt?"

[@michaelkostas6717]

What?

[@dudebruh8534]

@@michaelkostas6717 I'm sorry zoomer. Skibity Ohio rizzler fortnite funny moment.

[@senor-achopijo3841]

Excuse me, what?

[@elijahhayter3026]

Could you please give context to the last bit?

[@fenorlex1126]

Devilartemis Kermit? I'm not sure, but that sounds like him.

[@TheRealUncleDutch]

Not gonna front; the "in 1899 the church space program was launched" seems oddly Pythonesque.

[@SeanHoltzman]

This whole lore really feels like it could include Monty Python's Holy Grail pretty easily - and yes, even the psychotic break murderer Arthur back-line story 😂 TBH

[@TheFriendless1]

The Holy Hand grenade is an in-game item that one of the factions can buy and use.

[@derstein3368]

​@@TheFriendless1Wasnt it called the "holy hand grenade of antioc" in monty python and the holy grail?

[@senor-achopijo3841]

@@TheFriendless1 Nice

[@charchuk7456]

The absence of Spain from the lore is suspicious. I hope they drop a Spanish Inquisition expansion when we least expect it.

[@elitemook4234]

"Hello, you have reached the divine consultation hotline. This call has been automated for your convinence. If you suspect a colleague of heresy, press 1 if you would like to volunteer for choir service, press 2. if you would like to speak to a holy consultant. Please stay on the line." 'Heart rate increases'

[@senor-achopijo3841]

Oh, no 😂

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

The iron sultinate is protected by a TITANIC wall of iron coverd in guns and artillery that no one built. It litteraly just apoeared when the templars opened the gate of hell..

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

It may be a part of why the christians and muslims arnt at each others throughts in the setting. Kinda hard to claim gods against a faction when god litteraly gave them a GIANT ASS ARTILERY CANNON at a time when the best weapon science had was a stick witha rock

[@Dracobyte]

@@cthulhluftagn3812 there is also a Catholic Space Program.

[@rowbot5555]

In the lore, they just got the wall I think, but the cannons are made out of the wall? So maybe its that the iron wall regenerates

[@ANDELE3025]

"It literally just got spawned by demonic alchemy rituals from hell." FTFY

[@WTFisTingispingis]

*THE WALL OF GUNS.*

[@caioloschiferreira9614]

There's two types of alternate history: 1-"What if hitler won ww2?" and that's the entire thing. 2- Where every explanation turns into multiple paragraphs, with gigantic and esoteric words, oh and casual mentions to something called the "Metachrist", yeah. The 98th Siege of Edessa. Neo-Constantinople. Someone revived Rasputin and put him in a mecha. That's the stuff.

[@elijahherstal776]

I'm still floating the alternate history: "What if American slavery wasn't racist and subjugated everyone equally, as slaves?"

[@zaikolebolsh5724]

​@@elijahherstal776 huh... now thats a new one

[@elijahherstal776]

@@zaikolebolsh5724 Now everyone is equally worthless!

[@jamescawl6904]

​@@elijahherstal776 it would still end the same much like how the romans enslaved everyone including their own citizens.

[@SeanCrosser]

​@@elijahherstal776 ooh that's fun, equal inequality.

[@GarredHATES]

If Blasphemous and 40k had a baby

[@kalamander8563]

As soon as I heard about this game I thought the same thing.

[@zackbob6]

I hadn't made that connection till you said it, just kept thinking the style was familiar for some reason, even during the kickstarter. But yes, now that you said it, it makes perfect sense

[@CadianColors]

More like Blasphemous and Bolt Action

[@harbl99]

If Keith Thompson were a gunslinger...

[@robertgronewold3326]

The Artillery Witch is the main reason Trench Crusade blew up. The post of that character went viral on Twitter about five years ago.

[@BalthusHomewood]

There's a bit of irony in the Artillery Witch making something blow up.

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@BalthusHomewood And it's not missed on me. haha

[@RougeMephilesClone]

One of the high-ranking units of either Antioch or the Pilgrims is the Witchburner General, the all-red guy whose art is shown near the end of the video. What he does, is he takes his walkin' stick, and goes for a little stroll. And that's all he can go out for - his station is far too high for any unprofessional jogging. Why? Well, simple. In an overtly religious setting inspired by 40K, holy smites evil, but by choice or necessity, everyone is kinda' evil. So, as one of the single most consecrated people on planet Earth, *every living thing around the Witchburner General combusts.* Friendly fire? Oh, well, what's a little flame between friends?

[@KillerOrca]

If thou are holy and rightious, His flame will not touch you! If thou hath sin in thine soul, it shall be EXPUNGED!

[@SeanCrosser]

Like Kharn, but on the opposite end. Dude's just taking a stroll, it's your fault that you were in the way.

[@TheDandyMann]

JESUS WANTS A HUG 😂

[@reasol5408]

Well that's not really true, Witchburner can bring spontaneous combustion to any sinner in their voice range, by condemning them. But that does not mean everyone around them burst into flame instantly

[@jonathanwatson4484]

I really think it be funny in my head that there a prophet; "round the soldiers" "so another crusade?" "no no we dont call em we trying to be modern, what is it that new Antoch call em?" "peacekeeping?" "yes"

[@jacsoslayer]

I understood that reference!

[@andanjv]

Jesus wants a hug!!!!!

[@alexanderkazantzis8019]

31:20 my estimation of the exact moment Bricky went to look at the rules and saw the stigmatic nun, the gasping laugh feels like it is over the absurdity of the whole thing before his shock takes over!

[@JasoTheRed48F2]

Why are they acting so bitchy over a bit of hornyness?

[@Metal_Maoist]

Prussians aren't actually a new faction, they're just one of the subfactions for New Antioch

[@Metal_Maoist]

(Also the Prussian in the art is a woman btw)

[@sufjanwaleryszak1765]

The real new faction is the church of metamorphosis

[@nuckchorris499]

Regarding the stigmatic nun. I am quoting Mike Franchina “It’s actually a pretty equal amount of penis to boob/ass ratio, you just haven’t seen all the art.” Because there are a couple images in the rule books with a titty out, like the campaign rules have some heretic demon lady completely bare chested. And a few of the demons have that hermaphroditic appearance portrayed in some old religious art.

[@madcapmiguel5071]

By the way the reason why they don't wear armor is in the name, they want to bleed on the battlefield for their God and the rules reflect that (they turn blood markers into boons)

[@pyerack]

lets be real, it's just goon bait.

[@simonj6801]

@@nuckchorris499 yeah the anointed have their willies out

[@williansnobre]

When the dudes fight with their chest out in the open nobody bats an eye, but when a nun does the same everybody looses their mind

[@PsychoticDyldo]

@@pyeracknot really no. Its just the female body

[@matijasostojic4288]

Oh this will be fun. The art goes so hard in TC and I am really interested to see how the lore will be expanded upon when the full thing actually releases.

[@coolcat001100]

First an episode on Kislev, and now one on Trench Crusade. Everything is truly lining up for me lately.

[@bozo6049]

WTF IT'S COOLCAT

[@flaviusgerhardt9354]

4:34 Bricky confuses end of WW2 with start and berates DK for missing history knowledge, absolute cinema

[@Dracobyte]

@@flaviusgerhardt9354 classic Bricky.

[@iannordin5250]

The stigmatic Nuns canonically get stronger the more terrible injuries they receive so they don't wear so much.... but mostly fan service cause franchina loves his nightmare BDSM imagery.

[@gregsmw]

blatantly obvious excuse to throw in some goonbait is blatant its never the male factions that "get stronger if they dont wear armour".......

[@ProjectTaker]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@gregsmwActually… it is here. The Stigmatic Nuns can be equipped with full armour. It’s the Berserkers of the Eire Rangers that have a naked mandate

[@gregsmw]

@@ProjectTaker so why doesnt the artwork have armour blatant goonbait, thats all it is

[@gregsmw]

@@ProjectTaker so why doesnt the artwork have her in armour? becuase its nothing more then blatant goonbait also, the eire rangers arent allowed to wear HEAVY armour, they can still wear other armours, thats literally the only bit of the game i know, so your defence of the shitty goonbait isnt even accurate

[@ProjectTaker]

@@gregsmw Oh the artwork absolutely is goonbait. At least one of her preset models have armour on. Also, reread the rules. Light Armor is a Warband wide rule but The Berserkers specifically never wear armor.

[@phantimon6175]

regular communicants just eat the flesh and hope for the best, it's implied that the church is more scientific about creating anti tank hunters

[@Sam--506]

It's not just "Year 1914" it's The year of Our LORD 1914

[@senor-achopijo3841]

Brother, arrest that heretic immediately!

[@Janko2819]

It is implied that old Antioch was destroyed by a nuclear weapon.

[@Dracobyte]

Wow!

[@thien0300]

The demons got oppenheimer on the speed dial.

[@deimos9780]

the 'nuke' description is mostly in line with how angels are depicted in TC, so probably not an outright nuke

[@FeelNoPaintStudios]

@@Janko2819 kind of... I can see where people get the idea, but at the very least it was something catastrophically powerful. I'm just waiting on more lore for the church space program if I'm honest lol

[@Metal_Maoist]

@@Janko2819 Kind of, but it's definitely also WAY weirder than just a nuke

[@nalthanzo4648]

Jokes on you, Bricky, I won't be swayed to spend more money on yet another plastic addiction. Because I already did. My wallet's cries for mercy go unheard.

[@gunrunner2437]

Laughs in 3d printing

[@collinb.8542]

I don't play any tabletop games but I wanna get the Antioch Mechanized Trooper cause it looks so cool.

[@GG-ou7it]

@@nalthanzo4648 any idea when this stuff will be on sale? I missed the kickstarter and i have no idea if it will open again

[@thethryon6412]

My wallet already cries when it thinks about the Westfalia Kickstarter for Trench Crusade this month.

[@thethryon6412]

@@GG-ou7itThe STLs will be available later this month or february on myminifactory. The physical minis probably after june/july on only-games.

[@PsychoticDyldo]

The concept of a woman’s body is more foreign and alien to the Brickster than demons from hell

[@habibishapur]

As much as I like bricky, he's one of those people who get upset when they see lewd sororitas and is always complaining about lewd sororitas when in reality, if you go stl hunting you'll only find like 3 or 4 lewd proxies in the entire internet. I know cause I'm trying to make a full lewd sororitas army just to spite people like him, and it turns out it's a lot harder than the whiners would make you believe.

[@dragonraptor9756]

@@habibishapur suuure, that's the only reason you're making it. no other reason

[@habibishapur]

@@dragonraptor9756 after youve touched a woman, naked women aren't such a big deal. But you wouldn't know about that.

[@derpstick5467]

@@habibishapuri guess you know some of these prudes irl? Unless you want to troll Bricky with pics.

[@habibishapur]

@@dragonraptor9756 once you've touched a woman, lewd sculpts stop being so preposterous. But you wouldn't know that.

[@CGCAT]

Interesting to note the democratic Prussians allow women in combat with that officer with the anti tank sword being Frau Hauptmann Frederica von Goltz of the IV Gardekorps of Königsberg. As she is part of nobility she can get around normal social mores of women soldiery (trench pilgrims are not selective as they feel that anyone called by god can serve). I think it is important to keep in mind that tanks in this setting are more like the slow infantry tanks of WW1 or the interwar period so they are more susceptible to infantry attacks. Still mad and wonderfully apocalyptic.

[@chimeraelite]

There's actually a Yeoman that's a female sculpt so tbh I think just about everyone is fair game in this world, similar to 40k Imperial Guard. If you can hold a gun or lob a grenade, you're in

[@JanitorScruffy]

I mean, modern tanks are also susceptible to infantry attacks.

[@ArchArturo]

So, if One Paladin betrayed the Church, I guess we could call it a Heresy, but also... Was he called Horus, by any chance?.

[@conorflinn600]

Would not surprise me if he was called judas

[@louieluigi3914]

Leaving the Church would technically be apostasy.

[@cesly87]

The Judas Apostasy (52) books.

[@joshuarosales7554]

12 paladins. The 12 disciples of Jesus with one that betrayed him.

[@KickBAc3]

@@joshuarosales7554 It would technically be 13 disciples. 12 disciples + Judas

[@theodoremccarthy4438]

4:33 “Nothing Good Part 1” 😂 I love his understanding of reality. 😊

[@outbreakperfected9374]

Artillery witches know exactly one spell; and it's ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

[@Jon-yn4pq]

Eagle has arrived

[@voidgivenfocus]

for some reason the craziness of trench crusades lore really does it for me even when I find a lot of the crazier aspects of 40k's lore a bit too silly to take seriously, an official church space program is both hilarious and something that totally makes sense in this alternate setting where the the church essentially is the state

[@GFIZeraph]

I really like the detail that theres 12 Paladins like the 12 Disciples of Christ, and that one turned traitor just like Judas. I'm a lifelong Christian and big fan of grimdark so this entire setting is just MADE for me

[@FeelNoPaintStudios]

I'm looking forward to seeing Bricky and Dk's take on the lore since my videos are different to theirs. It's great to see a big channel talking TC and bringing it to a wider audience

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Yeah!

[@DelsinWolfSanders]

Haven't watched a single video of yours yet I've been playing a lot of forever winter so I'm going to assume your videos are good and I subscribe so I wouldn't lose your channel so I can watch it in a little while

[@FeelNoPaintStudios]

@DelsinWolfSanders oh thank you, welcome aboard and drop a comment on a video you enjoy, im always open to feedback and I've only been on youtube 3 weeks so it's all learning :)

[@Femonk100]

You and Scannerbarkley would be good guests to go into depth on factions

[@FeelNoPaintStudios]

@Femonk100 I love scanners videos, his hand of fate series inspired me to do tales of a Warprophet

[@legomacinnisinc]

The Artillery Witch was my first introduction to the aesthetic and I fricken love it

[@jand.4737]

35:20 that stigmatic nun looks like the Trench Crusade writers thought "what if Warhammer Fantasy Flagellant, but woman". Because Flagellants in WF are people in a loincloth whipping themselves as penitance for humanity's failures to the point where they form groups to whip themselves into a battlefrenzy and go pure mindless carnage against whatever enemy of Sigmar is in sight.

[@Jormyyy]

REJOICE AND PARTAKE IN THE FLESH OF THE META CHRIST!

[@JoshBeck-z5m]

Cavalcade of the tenth plague: “no” (These are a trench pilgrim sub-faction that reject the divinity of the meta-Christs)

[@themullins8957]

35:37 “she’s got an insane skin care routine while everyone else has a fetus attached to their hip” 💀

[@DemonTheDarkHound]

I remember watching one of my first Trench Crusade lore videos. From the moment "Church Space Program" dropped I was all ears.

[@derekburge5294]

Before getting into Trench Crusade, ask yourself... *How much do you like painting rust?*

[@Dracobyte]

I really hope that people do not see Trench Crusade as "The thing that will kill Warhammer 40k" because the battles and the setting are very different. By scope I mean: medium to big armies fighting in a futuristic universe (40k) Vs. Skrimishes in a diesel punk world (TC).

[@finncampbell4662]

I had a stroke reading that

[@Giganfan2k1]

​@@finncampbell4662I had a stroke before reading that and found it comprehensible.

[@leovaeg]

40k is a perpetual

[@Dracobyte]

@@finncampbell4662 sorry, fixed the typos.

[@Confirmed105]

Settings doesen't need to be mutually exclusive, they are settings that could and should co-exist. GW having competition will onyl be healthy for the overal warhammer setting(s)

[@surelylune]

genuinely so delighted to see you guys cover TC. its basically single handedly rekindled my excitement for miniature gaming and ive even created a trench crusade discord for my country, just because i want it to succeed

[@BasedIronWarrior]

We have shifted to the iron warriors timeline LOOKS LIKE TRENCHES ARE BACK ON THE MENU BOYS

[@Gormathius]

What's particularly funny about the Artillery Witch is that they can logically be insanely dangerous summoners who can generate an infinite swarm with the portals they just open at will, but for some reason they just summon bombs and nothing else.

[@shawncollard623]

Another guy for TC that would be really cool to see on the podcast is scannerbarkly. He makes some really good videos on the already established lore and makes his own stories about individual artworks from the setting or short stories.

[@DavidRecuenco]

That's some Clive Barker's Jericho aesthetics right there, love it

[@KolmManison]

I have not heard Clive Barker's Jericho in yeeeears, what a pull

[@PsychoEditor]

YES THE MEMORIES

[@TheDiabeticGameMaster]

Oh, man. I thought nobody else remembered that game. I'm actually a pretty big fan of his first video game, Undying. It was PC only back in '01 so not that many people heard of it but it's definitely worth looking up, it was pretty fun and spooky.

[@DavidRecuenco]

@@TheDiabeticGameMaster It lives rent free in my brain, also bought the physical copy and a DVD player a month ago because I craved to relive it again 😁

[@TheDiabeticGameMaster]

@DavidRecuenco a DVD player? It wasnt adapted into a film, as far as I can tell. It was a video game for Xbox 360 and PC.... So what's with the DVD player?

[@D.B.Collectibles]

You guys should keep covering lore on Trench Crusade as it comes out. You all have me sold!

[@dukefishron517]

Orichalcum is a real metal, btw! It’s made up of mainly copper & zinc, looking a lot like gold but without being as expensive to produce. A decent amount of orichalcum ingots were found off the coast of Gela, Sicily, in 2015, and got analyzed to figure out what they were made of

[@Rhysman30]

Its Brass, btw.

[@forlogic53]

Did not expect this for the first video of the year. Ive seen a bunch of Trench Crusade vids over the last 2 months and now its finally come to Adeptus Ridiculous

[@internetuser320]

New Antioch is objectively the best faction. We have immortal heavy mechanized infantry The H.M.I is eternal, the pilot is only a passager

[@Chris-xc6fd]

The thing about the stigmatic nuns that is really hilarious to me is the fact that the rules explicitly state that the nuns can use any Trench Pilgrim armor/equipment, so the naked nun is doing that for personal reasons, presumably.

[@bajscast]

The rules allow them to benefit from being injured. But there's a faction who are prudes and mandate their nuns wear armour which counts in the rules lol

[@businessmanginger9681]

40:32 This is pretty much true but the Iron Sultanate definitely has an air of superiority over Christendom. There is a blurb (basically a sentence) in the Iron Sultanate section of the lore primer on how the citizens of the Iron Sultanate view Christendom. "Resentment against the infidels who unleashed Gog and Magog* runs deep in the Sultanate, and matters of honour are swiftly resolved with duels to the death. Woe to those who dare to hinder the mission of Those Who Believe." *Gog and Magog in Abrahamic religions refers to the forces of Satan/Hell that are said to appear at the coming of the apocalypse.

[@andrewdiaz3529]

Considering the fact that this is all objectively the Crusaders' fault, kinda fair

[@businessmanginger9681]

@andrewdiaz3529 Oh yeah for sure, I only wanted to point out there IS some disdain for the Christians coming from the Iron Sultanate. I think this attitude fits perfectly with their aesthetic of having gold adorned warriors, their armies are usually better equipped than either New Antioch or the Trench Pilgrims, and their use of alchemy, all of which help cement this feeling of superiority over Christendom.

[@teenyzucchini8294]

This was an awesome episode to ring in the new year, really hope they do more episodes on trench crusade, especially as new content comes out for it! Happy new year AdRic

[@Hacknslaashing]

Wonderful the first video I've seen talking trench crusade lore that doesn't use ai art.

[@phantimon6175]

11:11 it hasn't been confirmed but it is believed that that is an unholy trinket/relic. Or an emotional support fetus if you're on the trench crusade discord

[@gatall91]

Can Kirioth have his own series of explaining the Trench Crusade lore? Asking for a friend. Please lol

[@Rawilow]

He sorta does on his own channel

[@gatall91]

@Rawilow true but he doesn't really talk about Trench Crusade

[@p3BA]

DK's brain is offensively American.

[@habibishapur]

Oh yeah? The guy who doesn't know a thing about guns despite being a gamer?

[@chipflavoredtoes6412]

DKs just a cali gooner, barely qualifies as American

[@MasterHeracross]

@@habibishapur doesn't sound very american to me.

[@LoganGGz]

@@habibishapurhow bored are you

[@jeamon1437]

Artillery Witches: I cast non-magical missile LMAO

[@zalankarpati4387]

Stygmaic Nuns are near-naked, because they have a mechanic that turns their wounds into buffs.

[@louisspeltcorrectly3488]

i still think this isnt a very good explanation tho like why the other armour then? like the most important part of the body with NO armour is silly but oh we have to protect my arms and legs it's asking to be one shot cant be buffed if your dead

[@screamingcactus1753]

I don't think their problem was that they're naked, but that they're flawless. An order of nuns that revere wounds sustained in battle as signs of their faith should look pretty messed up, they should be covered in scars and old wounds, or cuts and gashes that never close and bleed perpetually but don't slow them down. However, their models don't have any visible wounds.

[@shoegazer4113]

​@@louisspeltcorrectly3488Can't regrow a limb if it's severed, not much use if you're hobbling around

[@TitaniumLegman]

​@@screamingcactus1753I know nothing about the lore, but my immediate assumption is that their faith in their meta Christ not only empowered them, but heals them. Real "keep Christ in your heart and you will be healthy" type stuff.

[@notjarrod8287]

@@louisspeltcorrectly3488i imagine they want to be able to still use their arms and legs still even if they want to get slashed for blessings. Wouldn't be much help to get a buff if you can't swing your weapon or walk. Plus it looks cool

[@Sunksi]

As a woman i always laugh so hard when people are like , Oh yeah a faction that flays the skin of men, women and children and wears them as loin cloths? Baller! Fetus wrapped in barbed wire with a cross stamped in its head? Based! Horrid creature dripping flesh and rot made of a million carcasses? Amazing! TITTIES???? NO WAY NO HOW, GET THEM OUT OF MY SIGHT Lmao That aside God trench crusade is so cool, I really hope this becomes a tertiary series for the show

[@victorvondroom]

Like in 40k I feel like grimdarkness and religious fanaticism actually can gain greatly in world building with some well placed titties like in ''religious dogma and tradition trumps reason and modesty'' Like the new repentias are cool and everything but Juan Diaz's metal sculpts reflects better the psychotic levels of fanaticism I expect from the literal army of the church

[@Sunksi]

@victorvondroom Exactly Honestly it makes me think of how around the 1800's theres that infamous painting by heinrich lossow called "the sin" where its a monk banging a nun through a fence Or like the greek statue of women draped in "see-through" fabric from the 1800's

[@derstein3368]

It just feels a little out of place in a faction of religious zelots

[@hammock1804]

I saw Wallachia was still around in Trench Crusade so I had an idea of a warband of vampires coming to stop the forces of Hell with undeath lead by a nephew or follower of Dracula. Using terror tactics and gaining HP when they kill in close combat (because they feed while fighting)

[@JoshBeck-z5m]

It has been confirmed that Vlad is a hero in trench crusade and a member of the sacred order of the dragon which kept the heretics out of Europe. Edit: also supposedly the sacred order of the dragon will be part of the crusader knights faction who are basically space marines.

[@hammock1804]

@@JoshBeck-z5m That is even cooler than my speculation! I thought he was going to be a Konrad Curze like figure, but an actual hero to the Church is so much better

[@blueeyeswtf3087]

A trench crusade episode already ? Lets go! Trench crusade seems so interesting already.

[@MrMoustaffa]

You guys should do Quar next, comfy anteater people in WWI with watercolor art. Itd be cool having a segment on smaller game settings like dropzone commander, k47, etc

[@UponThisAltar]

14:44 "Yeah, there's been a few disagreements over the years..." Really, just a few?! 😂

[@AevasHouse]

The rules will apparently always be free digitally and the game itself is model agnostic! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY 😈😈

[@eldunae922]

There is no way anything in this game can be agnostic.

[@studxmuffin5641]

Thank you thank you thank you guys I started seeing Trench Crusade online here & there and decided not to dive in and waited for you all to cover it, I am so pumped to learn more

[@senor-achopijo3841]

Enemy: Pulls out a tank Me: Bruder, get ze svord. Ze HEAVY svord

[@FibonacciXXI]

Get ze hander. Ze ZWEIHANDER.

[@senor-achopijo3841]

@@FibonacciXXI Shit, that's actually way better 🤣

[@Wafflemarine22]

OMG hell yea, I was waiting for you to mention this Bricky. I spent hours one night reading the lore and its legit.

[@johnnnysilverhand9819]

Addressing DK’s concerns, skirmish games are the BEST way to get into table top games. Paint up 6 heretics, paint 7 soldiers of God, and try to learn the game and you will be just fine.

[@fslayer1290]

I was waiting for you guys to cover Trench Crusade. It’s a New Year’s Day Miracle! 🤩

[@chaosof99]

If you like Trench Crusade, I highly recommend the Second Apocalypse series by R. Scott Bakker. It doesn't have the World War I aspect mixed in, but it is a grimdark universe strongly based on the crusades of the middle ages against a horrifying enemy, though that enemy is initially only covertly present and believed to be a legend. However it is also rather similar to 40k since the story centers around a character that is at least in my opinion rather similar to the Emperor.

[@WildWolfGod]

Skin-Spies :(

[@chaosof99]

@@WildWolfGod Yeah, Skin-Spies are nasty, but they are also one of the least disturbing things that The Unholy Consult fields and that says a lot.

[@MarkLogna]

Blessed with stigmata and unshakeable faith, these swordmaster nuns are the vanguard of any assault by the holy armies. “From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of our Lord and Saviour.” - Galatians 6:17

[@rougenarwhal8378]

halo podcast: office of naval ridiculous gears of war podcast: Gears of ridicule dead space podcast: Concordance Ridiculous Company all tomorrows podcast: humanity of ridiculous

[@Janko2819]

the stigmatic nuns dont wear most of their armour because they can convert their injuries into blessings.

[@718Hokage]

The amount of ppl who felt they needed to explain just proves this shit is cringe af 😂

[@CannibalShinobi]

@@718Hokage "No, you don't get it. The teenage anime girl wears a micro bikini because the clothes are so powerful that they would drive her crazy if she was fully covered."

[@paulr.1961]

So basically Sisters of Battle lol

[@aliendude3001]

Thank god, the filter works

[@PsychoticDyldo]

@@718Hokageok “hokage”

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

1:21:27 Prussia has its roots in the Teutonic Order, an order of crusaders who after the original crusades failed went on to forcibly christianize the Prussians. Their inclusion into the setting is weirdly fitting.

[@zenlocke]

god this was good. please holy clone christ give us a turnip28 episode

[@SamueL-td7fb]

I'll get my FFFFAQING ELEPHANT ready for the occasion

[@Rawilow]

​@@SamueL-td7fb *FOGHORN NOISE*

[@TiernanWilkinson]

So hear me out... Mongols in Trench Crusade

[@ichimaru96]

*throat singing intensifies*

[@JoshBeck-z5m]

I can imagine that they would be a lot more similar to our own time line than other factions, meaning that, to be blunt, they likely wouldn’t get as far as they did in our timeline due to encountering crazier and crazier stuff as they go west until they read the iron wall in the Middle East and the abominable Christian Europe.

[@arihackett8732]

Alright Adric, I know how this works. How many patrons, donations or blood sacrifices to Shy do we need to get more trench crusade? Maybe alternate months? You could call it Dogma of the Ridiculous

[@magosmallen2973]

One thing Kirioth didn’t do well is explain something about the trench pilgrims/ New Antioch. They do all these awful terrible things WILLINGLY. The guy with a cross nailed to his eyeballs? He does that to help him see better. The meta-christ? Im pretty sure (unless I misheard) he cut his own flesh off to create the communicant (right? Communicant? That's the face cross guy). And you didn’t mention the shrine anchorite, a mechsuit that has a guy WILLINGLY crucify himself onto the torture wheel to act as a shield. The nuns I'm pretty sure bathe in the blood of heretics, and there are sinners and heretics that are strapped with suicide bombs and charged into the enemy. The sinners VOLUNTEER FOR THIS. The heretics don't, but they also betrayed all of humanity, so that's on them.

[@The80sWolf_]

I wonder what would be enough to be labeled a sinner in this lore/universe?

[@magosmallen2973]

@The80sWolf_ pretty normal stuff to nowadays. Everyone is just far more strict about it. Murder. Theft. Taking the lords name in vain. Joining the legions of the damned. Breaking the Sabbath. You know, normal sins

[@BrotherSplattley]

Thanks for covering this, I have been watching shorts on trench crusade for the last month, seems perfect for a random 40k world! 😅

[@worldofwarcraftman2]

a lot of the stuff can be explained with Christian theology for example the heretic soldier with the fetus that's easy to explain. It's a mockery of life. He ripped a baby from the womb of a mother and wears the unborn child as a trophy. It's saying there is no innocence that won't be defiled. Also the one thing i don't understand is how its the knights Templar who are responsible for the mess. Because the Templars wouldn't have been formed for another 19 years.

[@AzulGatos41]

They should invite scannerbarkly to talk more Trench Crusade. It was he that made me interested in its lore.

[@InquisitorXarius]

Would you considering doing a video covering the Skaven civil wars and some of the more batshit insane stuff they did like the Black Plague?

[@vyst8132]

Should do an episode on “marcher: empires at war” It’s not fantasy, but it is alternate history dieselpunk sci-fi (ww1/2 but mostly 2). It’s a very interesting setting with great models and rules, who also finished a kickstarter to turn some models into plastic kits.

[@Delta285]

🤦‍♂️Bricky, WW2 ended in 1945. It it sarted in 1939. So it turns out a really good thing happened in1945

[@TheDamned2006]

That might depend on if you were in Hiroshima or Nagasaki at the time...

[@TacDonut]

One of my favorites you’ve done! Great job and happy new year!

[@ya_boi_connie_g8028]

1:21:57 this character is actually a women as stated on the trench crusade twitter account.

[@JIMT412]

You know you failed as a character designer when you can't make it clear a character is a female or male.

[@derstein3368]

​​@@JIMT412Bruh, the character is wearing armor

[@JIMT412]

@@derstein3368 Dude, there's legit a previous work of female armor even if it was from a high ranking unit. Frederica is a noble, I don't see why she wouldn't made a personalized set for her.

[@derstein3368]

@@JIMT412 You know flat chested women exist right?

[@SuperEagle112]

I just picked up my Trench Pilgrims from my buddies printer this morning. The models are so dope and the game looks grim as hell.

[@mistformsquirrel]

So... is it just me or... or is the Artillery Witch running on toon physics? Pulling infinite bombs out of a black hole.

[@Jason-xg3iw]

Now I want the next poster to be artwork of Kerioth as a Heavy Mechanised Infantryman, DK as a Yeoman, Bricky as a Trench Pilgrim, and Shy as an Artillery Witch holding a bomb to throw at the others.

[@asherwegener2764]

it would be cool if they added Indian or Asian factions that aren't necessarily religious but use religious wards and symbols and engravings that are more ranged based or that can grant boons to other units or a Jewish faction that uses ancient relics similar to the thing that opened hell and more magic based

[@Dracobyte]

Yup!

[@JoshBeck-z5m]

The Hebrew knights are a planned faction.

[@chronovac]

"Oh boy AdRic is making a video on Trench Crusade! I wonder what the comments think...Oh good lord"

[@StratagemHobbies]

NO ADRICK, don't do this to me. I can't afford another miniature game! NOOOOOO.

[@laughingskull3447]

Good news it won't break your bank, since you can buy stl's or the physical models

[@dodebro]

man, been real light on the 40k lore recently

[@randombencounter263]

I've played 4 games so far and my favorite guys are the Iron Sultanate, specifically the House of Wisdom. You wanna talk kitbashing, let's talk about the homunculus unit which starts as a blank slate and has to buy body parts and other features manually from the upgrade options. I'm currently converting a snake elf lady from AOS for a homunculus with Startling Speed, Inhuman Strength and Additional Arm

[@polarvortex6496]

Flipped through the primer myself, very interesting, has a lot of potential. Plotting stuff out on google earth raises some questions (Damascus suspiciously close to Jerusalem to be their super-soldier plant, how does Heretic Gibraltar and Catholic Rome co-oexist in the same Mediterranian, where the fuck is that iron wall, there is no southern front mentioned??????) but I imagine that will be elaborated on. Edit: Occurs to me that this all kicked off well before the Americas were discovered by non-viking Europeans, which opens the door to some really, *really* funny alternative history (including but not limited to: indigenous empire gaming (aztec/inca/&c.), super wacky hypercatholic US, or just deleting all of it and putting Purgatorio there since we're running with Dante's hell)

[@Year2047]

Trench Crusade: for when 40K isn’t edgy and grim dark for you.

[@ryanadams0922]

Oh my God. Bruh i just recently saw trench crusade from another youtuber and the lore im surprised you guys would be talking about it.

[@FeelNoPaintStudios]

Any good channel recommendations? There aren't many of us consistently covering it from what i can tell

[@blakeeggleston1762]

I don’t actually dislike trench crusade but I’d really rather they didn’t talk about it. I think it requires care to talk about.

[@FeelNoPaintStudios]

@blakeeggleston1762 because of it dealing with real world religion do you mean?

[@blakeeggleston1762]

@ yes exactly