40k Lore, Regiments of the Imperial Guard, Mordian Iron Guard

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Intro by Henrik Sigeman

[@ArchYouTube]

Music! yes? no? good? bad?

[@alkain6906]

good

[@wailrimouche1171]

didn't even notice it. but now that you mention it it's subtle but what about something grim dark..

[@ThisIsNotKohkie]

Too fluffy need more grim music like before

[@mikhailbychkov5042]

Yes, YES!!!

[@theaenam]

I can hear you better so I'm good with no music.

[@Stonewall5101]

Iron Guardsman watching a Cadian squad get overwhelmed: “This is what happens when you mock the grooming standard.”

[@idkwhatmynameis53]

Tristan Potter godfather approves

[@gatorgames2951]

That is why you shave shit then shower with your pt belt.

[@ordersmilitant5998]

Yes

[@ApekOmega]

40K where ar 670-1 is enforced with lethal intent

[@jakebroghie292]

Tristan Potter better police that moostache

[@TheAlterspark]

Iron Guardsman: We are the most disciplined of all regiments. We beat our own citizens back on Mordia. Death Korps Guardsman: Beat them? We nuked our own home planet when they tried to rebel. Cadia stands, Mordia obeys, Krieg remembers.

[@waxiboi331]

Ha lol I love the death korps of krieg to

[@nooneinparticular5256]

*Wall of Iron Guardsman promptly BLAMs you for misspelling Mordian* Jokes aside, that's a pretty good way of putting it. Wonder what could be used for other regiments. Armageddon endures. Attila rides. Vostroya marches.

[@murderouskitten2577]

cadia fell :D

[@sethgilcrist8088]

@@NinthRomance with shovels because our bayonets broke on there armor

[@kowboykalebb]

*mordant Acid Dogs have joined the chat*

[@DominionSorcerer]

I'd watch a sitcom taking place inside of a bunker in the middle of an Ork, Tyranid or Chaos infested planet with the main characters being a Maccabian Janissary, a Death Korps Kriegsman and a Mordian Iron Guardsman.

[@heliveruscalion9124]

Dominion Sorcerer Death Korps of Kreig Guardsman*

[@Memento--Mori]

The Death Korps Guardsman would bayonet charge out of the bunker (actual lore for why they have Comissars), because they rely of Comissars to keep them all from bayonet charging into tanks and titans.

[@taan1424]

You need to add a normal guardsman in a mix to have a point of reference.

[@CryingZombie666]

There needs to be a Valhallan Ice Warrior in the midst too! xD

[@WarriorVirtue]

With a Cadian thrown in just because.

[@rahbaralhaq]

"We will build a wall with lasfire, and make the xenos pay for it."

[@brandonalsop1281]

build a wall out of zenos

[@MrJustonemorevoice]

Oddly fitting

[@cringelifemasternovasa7an377]

ur mom gay @Steven Rodriguez

[@arielben-zeev1418]

@@cringelifemasternovasa7an377 ur dad man woman

[@bradmarkus7768]

@@forgefathereli8354 Reminder that this is why antisemitism is at 1934 Germany levels

[@BlyatBear]

Mordia: Look at my well kept cities! Cadia: ...? Mordia: *The secret ingredient is Violence.*

[@FuelDropforthewin]

I remember reading somewhere that commissars assigned to the iron guard have a tenancy to get written up for insufficient attention to dress and deportment, with the complaint then filed with the regiment's morale officer... AKA the Commissar.

[@varminthevermin8371]

Wait what, that great

[@jackdaalfbrainork6392]

Hugh Mann “am reporting the commissar to the commissar”

[@dasirrlicht5415]

"Sir Commissar, I have a complain to hand in." "What is is, Guardsman?" "Sir Commissar, I have to report that you, Sir Commissar, are not wearing your hat straight and your bolt-pistol is insufficently cleaned, still showing scorchmarks from the target practice yesterday."

[@blitzburn2871]

@@dasirrlicht5415 "Very good guardsman, that reminds me, I was to inform you that todays target practice has been rescheduled" *BLAM* "Anything else?" "Sir Commissar, I have to report that you, Sir Commissar, are wearing a bloodstained uniform"

[@xo-1320]

@@blitzburn2871 *Repeat seceral dozen or so times* "Sir, Co-" "Screw this." *BLAM* "Did he just kill himself?"

[@GrugSmesh]

Mordian Iron Guardsmen can use the shine from their boots to amplify the power of their lasgun.

[@Memento--Mori]

Poor Commissar, all the best Guard regiments will blam you, before you can blam them. Catachans, Mordians, and DEATH KORPS...

[@mdb45424]

that brings to question why they have a commissar in the pick. the lore discribes them as totally not needed it and since commissars are not techinically in the chain of command would they take orders

[@toxicmongerofthehatefulbro5745]

I would hazzard a guess and say that if their Command has ordered the Commissar attached to them, then they will obey them as a Superior Officer. Especially if they're being used as a Police Force.

[@lordfrostwind3151]

Whoever is in charge of shoe polish and dry cleaning on Mordia probably has more money than the entire ecclesiarchy at this point.

[@medworthy]

Reference: Prussian Landwehr regiment (circa 1789 - 1815)

[@luckiller019]

40 minutes on Mordian "if I´am going to die, I am going to die fashionable" Iron Guard, praise Kek

[@markauditor7873]

heresy

[@RobGcraft]

“Praise kek” Yes Lord Inquisitor, this heresy right here

[@bruceweiner5306]

Live fast. Die young. Leave a good looking corpse.

[@jacobstewart1950]

If I'm going to die I'm going to die well dressed

[@barcod11]

while the Mordian Iron Guard and maccabian janissaries are busy fighting each other, the Death Korps roll up, pacify the planet and then execute both regiments for incompetence

[@alcatras201]

Execut them with a big artilery barage.

[@sethgilcrist8088]

@@alcatras201 +happy gas mask noise+ where do you need my Earth Shakers

[@ConfusedGuardsman]

@@alcatras201 Don't forget my lasgun and bayonet!

[@xatileofmorgon5095]

@@ConfusedGuardsman And the shovels! Dont forget your trusty shovel!

[@user-ro9zf9kz1h]

@@xatileofmorgon5095 would you like a chain shovel or a power shovel.

[@SultanOfAwesomeness]

*Peace through superior firepower

[@IRMentat]

Peace through turning everyone else into catfood!

[@nasraliproductions2571]

peace by force

[@hellishhybrid1839]

Sultan A heavily armed society is a very polite society.

[@devoidofvoltz2562]

The best way to ensure peace is to prepare for war.

[@NetMoverSitan]

Yeah, you're not the only one who gets the Star Trek: The Next Generation reference.

[@RVGmetallicasaw]

Best recipe for defending a fortress: Mordian Iron Guard, Maccabian Janissaries, Sororitas, Kriegers, and Imperial Fists. That wall ain't ever gonna break.

[@silvermarksman6834]

Metall As long as they don't kill each other that is

[@rasiabsgamingcorner2258]

Those Janissaries will probably go on their own crusade against the sororitias purely because they are women. Then they will look at the mordians and everyone else as below them...... That wall would get torn the fuck down from the inside out

[@rv3029]

Why the Soroitas and not the Astartes? Surely with the latter, the filthy Xenos won't be even near the wall.

[@resonating6621]

I would like to see tyranids try

[@thetrippedup9322]

The Valhallans are known for never giving up ground

[@lordofmankind33]

Nitroglycerin in a ferret's anus? Arch's explinations are .... original

[@thomasschmidlin3296]

Lordof Mankind and funny as hell

[@Hellsong89]

Essentially only reason why i'm interested to hear about 40k. Dont get me wrong 40k sounds interesting, but its the combination of 40k+arch that makes it worth while time investment.. heck GW should hire arch to clean up the story line and start writing it! He might know more than about the lore than anyone in GW actually does and bloody hell that would be awesome story telling!

[@josephstalin6549]

They're more nonsensical than original

[@thegreatazal5021]

You know I feel like these guys are the only people who wouldn't use that book for emergency toilet paper

[@farmerboy916]

The Great Azal Unless ordered to, anyway.

[@marshallbernarte8216]

@@farmerboy916 "Sir permission to wipe this ones ass."

[@justanotherinternetmusicia1248]

In the immortal words of the engineer “Use a gun. If that don’t work, use more gun” Mordia took that to heart

[@DeathmasterSniktch]

So I'm guessing that Rogal Dorn, the most uptight bastard in the most uptight chapter didn't had a simply stick up his arse. No a stick would be too flexible. Instead he probably took a Mordian Iron Guard, with its standard issue adamantium ass-rod, and used it in the place of the stick. Yep, that sounds legit to me.

[@simonsm9682]

DeathmasterSniktch sounds rather...... slaaneshey to me.

[@Necroid9001]

... That almost sounds like Herasy.

[@frenchsoldier8485]

You have sullied your mind with filthy thoughts of heresy, how do you plead?

[@ragingidiot2842]

@@frenchsoldier8485 Too late! *B L A M*

[@physical_insanity]

So does this mean every single one of them could be a Commissar?

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

Better way to put it is that they have actually executed their own commissars for lack of discipline or cowardice or failure to lead by example, but if it is a lesser offensive the commissar will just face some form of disciplinary action. Yes, they are that extreme which is why the soldiers of the Imperium are thanking the Emperor that they got commissars instead of Mordians. Overall the Mordians, like the Death Korps, are one of those groups that don't need a commissar for the usual reason but instead to keep their quirks in check and prevent them from fighting other regiments. For the former point the Commissar is supposed to prevent the Death Korps from charging at inopportune times and they stick to the battle plan, for the Mordians it is they follow a changing battle plan and move positions when it will be most opprotune. For the regiment fighting well picture these stuck up folks in the same room as the Catachans. Yeah, won't be pretty.

[@kristopherruiz7644]

They'd make poor Commisars do to their lack of flexible tactics or Command experience. Imagine it this way, think how effect would Blood Angels be if their only object after orbital strike via drop pod was to defend the heavy bolter servitor on the drop pod? Not very. That would be an Iron Guard Commisar in charge of a Stormtrooper regiment, like the Elysians or the Cadians. You need to taylor your tactics to the battlefield scenario to be an effective officer in the Astra Militarum.

[@mr.badguy8500]

Elysian Kentarchy except for a collision course like that you would need an Adeptus Custodes to keep the Catachan and the Mordians from killing each other, as both regiments are notorious for eliminating Commissars.

[@bladestormviking]

@@mr.badguy8500 look at the kinds of jobs Catachan Devils do, Commissars aren't built or needed for that. as for the Mordians, we've already established that they make the most staunch of Commissars go ".....fucking prudes, will you lighten up?!" it would be counterproductive to even bother with commissariat details in regiments already known to be THIS loyal and effective.

[@ironstarofmordian7098]

@@bladestormviking the only reason you'd have a Commissar present is so the unit doesn't begin fighting with other units. If you had a regiment of Catachans and Death Korps Troopers in the same camp as a bunch of Mordians, it would get very bloody very quickly.

[@DarkCT]

a Maccabian Janissary, a Mordian Iron Guardsman, and a Death Korp of Kreiger enter a battlefield. how the actual feth does that shake down?

[@brandondemers1769]

Probably would turn into a race of who can take on the most/dangerous enemies or die gloriously doing so.

[@Memento--Mori]

The Mordian has a psychotic breakdown after spending hours out of a line, the Maccabian sits and prays, and the Death Korps Guardsman bayonet charging a titan.

[@CryingZombie666]

+Someone I think the Death Korps Guardsman would also blast death metal while doing that too :D

[@eightnineseven]

Be more into seeing what a tanith would do seeing that plce bets or join in

[@alexanderpaluck4272]

Bloody, think bucher shop with every color you want.

[@tn_bluetick231]

Catachan Jungle Fights next please. Who doesn't want to hear about a planet full Rambos.

[@patrickmcginty3234]

It's planet's demographic is probably more like this: 40% Rambo, 20% Dutch (Predator), 20% Terry Cruise, and the rest being Ellen Ripley (Alien)

[@darksoul4858]

I'd prefer the Death korps of krieg

[@CryingZombie666]

+Patrick McGinty Lemme correct ya: The rest being Ripley and Sarah Connor.

[@torinodeguzman4243]

Tyler Bayless Sly Marbo that is all you need to know.

[@MrDorkbot]

I too want to hear about this.

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

FINALY IMPERIAL GUARD VIDEOS ARE BACK!!!! DEATH KORPS OF KRIEG NEXT???

[@alexanderpaluck4272]

cole thompson the only use I have for them is to soke up the bullets for my sanguineary gard

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

perhaps, yet the fact remains...they have the SAME enemies!

[@Buzzy_Bland]

cole thompson I kinda want for Arch to put the Krieg video off for a few more years just to see the fanboys lose their shit.

[@thomaswhite3149]

KRIEG!!!

[@mitchellline3398]

Fuck space Marines! Real men use lasguns and wear flak armor

[@Vineor]

some parents read their children storys, mine are snoozing away to the tales of the grim darkness that is the 40k universe.

[@kenrudd6362]

Bet!!!!!

[@devonswisher199]

When I have kids they will hear those tales of darkness to learn about the horrors of the world

[@devonswisher199]

FOR THE GOD EMPEROR

[@sethgilcrist8088]

My daughter six years daughter sits with me listening to Arch. She called a class mate a heretic in school last week 😁

[@sethgilcrist8088]

@Prefect Oxus she shot her much older half brother in the balls, with her toy bow for. He was yelling kill space Marines and Orks are the best (the only Warhammer 40k he's ever come across is an old PS3 games his daddy played) Death to the Xeno lover

[@arandomcrusader-9355]

Lore! Yes! I now have something to listen to while on crusade!

[@jimpseudonym1092]

yo crusader, fancy seeing you here see you at the next tfs dnd video.

[@arandomcrusader-9355]

Jim Pseudonym Nice to see you too, it was a nice vid IMO.

[@DarkSolace33]

Whenever I see you, I know the video you commented on is going to good!

[@narcisoferreira9976]

A Random Crusader - Deus Vult fellow crusader it has been some time since but were you not leading the fleadlings during the siege of vraak you really turned those weaklings into real soldiers

[@arandomcrusader-9355]

Primarch Roboute Guilliman Thank you, I usually do refrain from visiting videos that I despise.

[@blakejohnson6362]

A Krieger, a Jannisary, a Praetorian, and a Mordian walk into a bar...

[@anghbalahr2971]

Blake Johnson suddenly: Shia Labeuof

[@kenrudd6362]

They are devoured by tyranid swarms or enslaves by dark eldar

[@abysswatcher9172]

@@kenrudd6362 ptfft they'd all sooner kill themselves before getting enslaved.

[@ironstarofmordian7098]

The bar collapses and the Death Korps Guardsmen digs his way out.

[@abysswatcher9172]

The Jannisary starts preaching

[@dropdead234]

Soooo...Space New Jersey? But less guidos and better dressed? And smells better?

[@nooneinparticular5256]

Sounds more to me like a microcosm of the modern Imperium itself, and that's coming from a fan.

[@dionjaywoollaston1349]

dropdead234 more like space London, two completely opposite stereotypes living in close proximity

[@malcadorthesigillite5847]

For Jurgen's sake, please cover the Valhallan Ice Warriors!

[@blackwatertv7018]

I love that Ferret analogy. You have such a way to describe things Arch Arch never changes.

[@kenrudd6362]

The Skeptical Space Marine dude yes he has an impeccable nack for putting things in a "fresh" new light

[@shmee123ful]

Krieg, Krieg, KRIEG, KRIEG, KRIEG!

[@deathkorpofkrieg6768]

YES

[@NinthRomance]

All hail the blessed Death Korps of Krieg, may the emperor shine brightly on these the bravest of Guardsmen the Imperium has to offer and most loyal too.

[@waxiboi331]

Ninth F Remnants I wouldn’t say brave I would say down right crazy but in s good way

[@DeltaXXI]

Holy moly, this is the first time that I noticed the flames in the background moving!

[@patrickmcginty3234]

Can we do a video on the Cadian Shock Troops, in memory of Cadia. After all, the planet broke before the Guard did.

[@commissarrezzik8713]

Cadia Stands!

[@arfbark3924]

Screw that book.

[@thegoof171]

Arch you are the Best. Hands down, on delivery, voice and accuracy. I could listen to you all day. I wish you could do a Masterpiece Theater once a week and read us a chapter from any book on the Skaven, your voices would beat any voice acters! Vote Up if you want this!!

[@angryzergling7832]

Archy boi is the bestest boi.

[@SteelBadger13]

I cant wait for you to cover the Elysian drop troops.

[@pirig-gal]

Putting an Ultramarine at the head of a regiment of Mordian Iron Guard might be interesting. The Ultrasmurf does everything by the Book and Mordians obey every command. I know it's basically heresy, but it kind of might just work?

[@Thecommander248]

I honestly agree. Guilliman could pull that off easily given that he can think as a lesser man can in order to understand their limits and capabilities. He would know when the Iron Guard would break before they did and could utilize them to their full potential.

[@ironstarofmordian7098]

I'd love to read a book from the perspective of a Cadian commissar who has been put in command of a unit made of Iron Guardsmen, Cadian Shock Troopers, Death Korps of Krieg Infantrymen, Catachans and Maccabian Janisaries.

[@dyar648]

I think maybe a video on the Lamenters would be interesting, their story is arguably one of the most tragic in 40k

[@Kamina.D.Fierce]

It's kind of strange that their cities are prone to heat problems... On the dark side of a planet that doesn't rotate properly. You'd think it would be the exact opposite with FREEZING being the issue, not heat.

[@Belllcross]

Arch for October can we spoopy 40k lore? Then in December, lore about Space Marine chapters that actually give a shit about the Imperium Civilians?

[@Memento--Mori]

Salamanders, Lamenters, and Ultramarines care the most about non-Marines.

[@Belllcross]

What about the Blood Angels and Space Wolves?

[@WarriorVirtue]

If it's a Halloween theme you're looking for, can't go wrong with the Night Lords.

[@JimbobHarrigan1984]

Blood Angels around civvies, that's a recipe for disaster

[@sjoerddz]

so night lords and then Salamanders?

[@gianlucaborg195]

How can anyone dislike this??? even Khorne and Nurgle 'like' this!

[@nomad7865]

Probably Krieg Wehrboos

[@DistendedPerinium]

You had me in tears with the ferrets. That was a gem.

[@mickaeldelatre3320]

okay, something bothering me for decades now : since Mordian witnessed a Chaos invasion, under strict Inquisition rule it should have been under Exterminatus order. But the 5th IG codex does as if Mordian Iron Guard went on unaffected ... - is the Exterminatus order something "of the past" in the 40th millenium, as higher ups in the Imperium realized it was highly ineffective ? - was Mordian in fact wiped out ? - did the inquisition "save" the IG and brainwash it for further use ? ( I remember somewhere that only valuable Astartes can be brainwashed instead of being terminated after having fought the Chaos - but this was so stupid I couldn't believe it) - or is it simply because Matt Ward ?

[@NetMoverSitan]

They'd be wiped out if they witnessed a Chaos Primarch (as was the case when Angron last showed up) that wasn't the case.

[@TheManofthecross]

@@NetMoverSitan but even then the space worlds prevented the inquisition from doing that the first time and the people saved by the space wolves lived to tell the tale about and know the nature of chaos.

[@NetMoverSitan]

Thankfully it was just Chaos Space Marines and Daemons on Mordian and they considered any lingering taint to be acceptable.

[@charlottewalnut3118]

@@NetMoverSitan They’re not gonna start that shit up again last time they had to deal with the space wolves now they have an active Primark who would more than likely tear their heads off and shit down their throats while hiring a dark Elder to keep them alive and make them into living meat toilets

[@MortusVanDerHell]

An Exterminatus is the last option - and Mordia was practically worthless economically at that point and strategically useless as a staging area for another advance because of its particular climate on the planet. Death planets make bad places to gather large forces, as half are dead before the last squad can even land. Accordingly, I assume that the Exterminatus bombs, their transport to Mordia with the corresponding fleet and the battle in orbit to be able to drop them would have cost the Inquisition more than Mordia and the interruption of chaos would have been worth at that point. Perhaps there were simply no suitably equipped ships in the vicinity and they had to be requisitioned first - although in the meantime the Iron Guard had already solved the problem.

[@vulkanofnocturne]

Mordia, a Death world in all but name.

[@kingheath97]

VULCAN?!?!? MY PRIMARCH!?!?! YOU STILL LIVE?!?!?

[@mcschwarztee4040]

Literally, as a German Lol

[@raymondhamill270]

VULCAN LIVES!!! *STOMP* *STOMP*

[@VarangianGuard13]

Vulkan lives! *STOMP! STOMP!*

[@nickypenn5841]

Even for a fun re-watch during the quarantine, I still nearly choked to death on that specific part of *_"Infantrymen's Uplifting toilet papers"._* Dammit, Arch.

[@76HabeasCorpus]

I think we'de all prefer it if you'de roll your "R's" just a little more in future, thanks.

[@damarei]

76HabeasCorpus Agreed

[@theatagamer90]

STONE PHILLIPS. I think you mean: Agrrrrreed

[@nbp2015]

The Tanith First and Only will always be my favorite.

[@grantharriman284]

Arch. You are a poet. That ferret metaphor is wonderfully illuminating, and outright hilarious.

[@Callis57]

'In all due likelihood... '

[@Legitpenguins99]

@@snuurferalangur4357 which time?

[@hamzatanvir4491]

Lmao his catchphrase lol

[@hamzatanvir4491]

Lmao his catchphrase lol

[@luthorharkon6109]

You best do a vid on the Kriegs next.

[@MCWhoppaFloppaTTV]

Templar Crusader I'm with this guy

[@forgefathereli8354]

Vader? o shit way worse its a commissar!

[@iglidor]

Kriegs way of negotiations: We do not have time to deal with your rebelion. Orcs will invade any day now. So you have one hour to discuss your unconditional surrender and then we will gas everything from here to mountains.

[@Munich22100]

Vostroyans?

[@baker90338]

Glorious mustaches.

[@charion1234]

Got an appreciation for them after Ciaphus Cain.

[@blacklanner5795]

7:45 I don't know where you get your metaphors but dear God they are amazing.

[@maxxray3665]

One of Many of my favorite videos. Best way to start my morning drive listening to Arch Warhammer. FOR THE EMPERIUM!!

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Mordian Iron Guard (Commisar NOT required)

[@TheManofthecross]

they will need the commissar especially when dealing with eldar etc who can make a battle fluid etc thus throwing the mordian iron guard off balance. they will need the commissars and others to allow the iniciative and indavigual moves to keep the mordians on track.

[@Uberdude6666]

Who settled all these places in the first place?._.

[@Uberdude6666]

I mean who chose to live in these crappy places the imperium is ripe with?

[@blackwatertv7018]

Humans on massive fuck off colony ships during the golden age of technology

[@Venneroth]

Planets that are ideal for settlement are extremely rare. Planets that are even marginally inhabitable are going to be settled. Waste not.

[@kazaddum2448]

What Venneroth said + some planets were once quite pleasant but the Age of Strife and/or Horus Heresy wrecked them for example Necromunda (Arch got that wrong as he often does, after the demons it was pretty much a hellhole, then got worse. No pleasant phase between.) and Talarn for example.)

[@Venneroth]

Good point. Nothing says resource exhaustion and ecological damage like fifty billion people for 10 thousand years.

[@midgetydeath]

The Triplex is also noted as one of the most powerful lasguns, if I remember correctly. So, this isn’t a flashlight.

[@worldsbuffestloremaster]

Can't say how many times I've watched this video. Keep coming back to it years later. My favorite kind of guardsmen combined with Archs unique style are an absolute win.

[@honestkyn718]

Still not Krieg tho.

[@heliveruscalion9124]

Matthew Chirino This is not nearly as bad as where me and my brethren where born and raised, battle brother.

[@Buzzy_Bland]

Matthew Chirino Yeah, because they can do their job _and survive._

[@elasolezito]

Buzzy, you know nothing.

[@entspannter]

Miss them too :(

[@Buzzy_Bland]

Der amerikanische Judenjäger I know. I mostly just give Krieg shit because of the annoying amount of fan-wank that goes on for them XD I get the appeal of them, though, especially in a universe like 40k. I just kind of laugh because it almost seems like Krieg wastes lives for its own sake at times. Imagine what those stone-cold motherfuckers could do if they weren't so damn grimderp. Granted, wasting human life is pretty much the national pastime of the Imperium as a whole, but the Kriegers take it to a level that is rather silly, even by Imperial standards.

[@RobGcraft]

“If i am to die, I die F A N C Y”

[@theblancmange1265]

My favourite example of that is a lost siege, where the defenders put on their best clothes, stuffed their pockets with money and charged after setting fire to the castle.

[@Kriegwolf109]

I’ve watched every video you have put out for... about a year now. Needless to say, keep up the superb work.

[@jbeckley6849]

How I have missed 40K Lore videos. Keep up the great work Arch!

[@samrowland2816]

I'd like to see a campaign built around that ferret metaphore

[@cringlator]

Anyone else hype for the guard codex tomorrow?

[@parkermaisterra8532]

Say what!?

[@angrysammich5762]

Hell yeah.

[@nwerner3654]

Ha ha, yes, I'm excited for regimental doctrines and how insane Russes are going to be... although the guard seems to be in the cheese limelight, the Ta'u/Eldar of 8e, but nevertheless I'm going to have so much fun blasting away people with good old fashioned ballistics and flashlights.

[@DoctorKrain]

I'm looking forward to my collector's edtion codex today!

[@GoatOfTheWoods]

couldn't care less

[@KaineOfficial]

I love your videos Arch! Keep up the excellent content - been playing 40k since 1993!

[@BenSmith-jp5bj]

Favourite lore episode yet, great job Arch!

[@Buzzy_Bland]

Mordians vs Maccabians: left wing straw man vs right wing straw man?

[@ironstarofmordian7098]

So true

[@Whatsup8858]

Music was a nice addition. You should add more provided that it is that low-tune.

[@sonofjack6286]

That ferret bit was hilarious and I was barely able to hold in my laughs. Also with all of the Regiments not getting along, I can imagine most of them beating the crap out of each other, whilst maybe the Karskin, Steel Legionaire, and Jungle Fighter are sitting nearby watching this unfold.

[@miked9126]

Gotta love the "Alternate weapons settings" Descriptions. Love this shit! Keep it up Arch!

[@makebritaingreatagain2613]

4:29 Somalia? De Mordian Iron Guard know de way.

[@QixTheDS]

Think you got the country wrong

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

The Napoleonic armies of the 40th millennium, quite literally and figuratively! :D Catachan Jungle Fighters, Armaggedons Steel Legion & Death Guard of Krieg for life,

[@Memento--Mori]

Catachans are Vietnam War U.S. Marines. What a great regiment.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

They eat orcs for breakfast & tyranids for desert, Sly Marbo & Yarrick have brunch

[@CryingZombie666]

Well, also the Valhallan Ice Warriors and Cadian Shock Troops eat daemons and Traitor Marines for dinner xD

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

Cadia..yah..space hobos now...wait...that means...HOLY FUCKIG TERRA....Cadia is only a short couple of light years Warp jumps, like 4 months from the Albion System in the Ultima Segmentum, that is my home terf, oh shit was getting more refugees, just what the sector needs, more people! For some reason, that side of the galaxy has a very strong connection with the light of the Astronomican

[@CryingZombie666]

Big E works in mysterious ways, y'know.

[@DodgyNPC]

"Fuck that thing in particular" firing mode had me in stitches 😆😆

[@midgetydeath]

Their uniforms also have carapace armor sewn into them. They are _extremely_ well protected.

[@undertakernumberone1]

Krieg please!

[@CryingZombie666]

Death ( Metal ) Korps of Krieg!! \m/

[@somebodyoncetoldme5203]

when are we getting the video for the Death Corps of Krieg?

[@Toratchi888]

Your accent and your pacing and your intonation... Just amazing. I can't even. :)

[@nerowulfee9210]

You know what would be even more dangerous than Mordian Iron Guard? Mordian civilians. Hungry, dirty, ragged, they still have balls to rise from time to time. And against whom? Against forementioned Iron Guard! Recruit those civvies into Guard by promising them 2 meals a day and you have yourself an army.

[@asianboy969]

So the myth is true? Commissar will get shot if he lack of discipline?

[@silver4831]

By a higher rank Commissar.

[@30year-oldboomer17]

PEACE THROUGH POWER! KANE LIVES!

[@jillvalentinefan77]

In the name of Kane!

[@CareerGamer2012]

Kane's word is all!

[@AnotherfromEngland]

Great vid arch, cant wait for the next guard regiment.

[@user-xb9nf4yw6p]

Finally! Some 40k lore is well recieved keep up the great work and the 40k content arch!

[@robro2214]

The death corps would get along well with the iron gaurd

[@akriegguardsman5238]

Nah the'd try to report us for having too much mud on us

[@arandomcrusader-9355]

First! Can we has best chapter: Black Templars?

[@nathanvictor2013]

Great idea fellow crusader!

[@ABorderPrince]

A Random Crusader - purge them all! Imperator volt!

[@arandomcrusader-9355]

Nathan Andrews Thank you!

[@arandomcrusader-9355]

ABorder Prince DEUS VULT

[@nickdahl203]

That's a strange way to spell Ultramarines.

[@industrialcamo]

Cool that you added background ambience again! :D

[@maxiggy8069]

Been waiting for more of this series

[@alexjonezNH]

Just Wanted to say that your videos are what finally got me to take the dive into the huge library of 40k games! I may not always agree with some of the more real life political opinions in videos you've posted in the past, but damned if I'm not excited every time I see a new video pop up in my notifications!

[@user-hr1iy4nz4s]

Bear yes he is a liberal

[@bruceweiner5306]

Can we just send the Iron Guard to Portland?

[@blackmanogco]

Never once I herd dealing violence soound so cozy damm...

[@RichardVarnegan]

I told the Ferret analogy to my dad 3 years ago…. He found it hilarious.

[@tylerr377]

The American national guard... in spess

[@commissarrobertson4779]

Emir Wat Tambor no actually they were designed based upon the French foreign legion

[@arandomcrusader-9355]

Commissar Robertson Then why haven't they surrendered yet?

[@Memento--Mori]

More like U.S. Marines in Dress Blues. Catachan... well those are Vietnam War U.S. Marines.

[@seantaylor6339]

The French foreign legion is where French keeps all the bagasses, all of them foreigners obviously.

[@seantaylor6339]

*Badasses

[@KingQwertzlbrmpf]

I know just the place that could use a company of Morian Iron Guard. Gotham city. Within a couple weeks of them stationed there Batman would either be jobless or dead. Probably both.

[@TheManofthecross]

that until the crooks find out the morian weakness and go for there officers first etc make it fluid on them and then pick them off one by one. though a better place that can use them is the southern border and the sanctuary cities run by the regressive democrats and the left let them lose on those places and in weeks they will make those cities counties and states red in every way including political and the southern border for a long while safe and secured though at the price of the UN and international outrage and America's enemies using this for there propaganda campagins. unless you sick the morians on them to shut them up that is.

[@jewell278]

Right Arch, I'm sat ready to do some painting. FEED MY BRAIN!

[@jasonjacobs176]

This is my new favorite lore vid. Really enjoying the Imperial Guard Regiment videos. Music was a bit soft throughout but please don't use that repetitive guitar and piano music it haunts my dreams, which I swear I could play myself by memory at this point. Keep up the hard work Arch, your lore videos keep my faith in the God Emperor alive. Seriously appreciate the time and effort to make these and I do really enjoy your sense of humor and the fact that you script your vids.

[@Markos_Malitsos]

The Iron guard uniform looks remarkably similar the USMC uniform. Obviously it's not.. but it looks similar.

[@jesusgasperi123456]

mord sounds like venezuela (venezuelan here)

[@user-hr1iy4nz4s]

jesusgasperi123456 sosialism works hahahahahahahahahahaha

[@jesusgasperi123456]

yes now excuse me im gonna continue being hungry good times

[@vraska8799]

maybe getting a job would help more than complaining

[@jesusgasperi123456]

maybe that's already done maybe its not enough ya dum dum

[@jesusgasperi123456]

and food and electricity? well you get up like at 4 or so in the morning all days also internet its cheap because its own by the government its the worst also acquiring basic necessity goods its the problem since they are so expensive all of your money goes to those expenses an you have no more u can not save for any thing else and if u have its an o shit button also if u have money in the bank the government can take it "for the good of the people"

[@potandpoliticswithmr.broph1420]

I'd like to see Iron Guard vs Death Korps of Krieg in a "pill box assault "derby.

[@ironstarofmordian7098]

Death Korps wins. Assaults like that are they're stick.

[@ahha623]

And defending is the Guards. better equipment, better armour and hold the title Elite. while i do agree Krieg are good not everyone of there soldiers holds the title Elites. while the Mordians soldier do, the side would heavily favour the Mordians on all the tables. except numbers, Krieg at least has that going for them.

[@vladneacsu]

I love the music. Fits perfectly.

[@ABorderPrince]

Nice man but praetorians are better ;)

[@yochaiwyss3843]

Rule Preatoria, Preatoria rules the Space!

[@Teno2001]

No death Korps are best.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

Catachan Jungle Fighters, for the win!

[@JacatackLP]

All pale before the Gue'vesa! FOR THE GREATER GOOD

[@user-hr1iy4nz4s]

ABorder Prince frei corps are the best

[@Cpt0bviouss]

these guys versus Antifa. Please, god-emperor...

[@elasolezito]

Still not grim enough ending.

[@thatoneinfidel5481]

tudor strateanu antifa would have no survivers...I like this idea

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

tudor strateanu emperor have mercy on those tau loving bastards because the Mordians sure as shit won't

[@codyconnor6981]

Better ideas: a group of feminists vs a contingent of S.O.B, and Antifa vs the Inquisition.

[@Fuyu_Sei12]

Cody Connor there will be nothing left but ashes

[@zauni-mm4wx]

Just seen this , little late i know, love this lore vid man, specially as ner every peace of art has Female Gard depicted, And what with the lastest fuss it's just another poke in the eye for those ppl, Great vid man

[@Inherent_Deterrent]

just started painting and an arch lore video gets dropped. just made my evening

[@DocWolph]

Mordian is a key point why WH40K makes so little sense. Let';s ignore the fact the galaxy is literally going to hell, Mordian is a planet that no one would set down roots on unless they had an exit strategy. More I'm guessing there is more than ONE planet in the system they could exploit for resources. So they would not be so impoverished and could take care of themselves. Planets like Macragge would be a general rule not an weird "Mary Sue-ish" exception as a world that can make ends meet on its own.

[@robouteguilliman6662]

Where are you gonna put trillions of civilians?

[@DocWolph]

Roboute Guilliman, You build, maintain and defend a Vast Galaxy spanning Civilization and you really don't know how that works? You have a Million planets, in a galaxy of 400B stars each star having at least one planet) each with at least million people. That is one trillion right there. Keep in mind most of these planets have 100s of millions even billions of people. You are looking at Guadrillions of citizens almost entirely by default. In the IoM Life is cheap because there is just so much of it.

[@DocWolph]

Sorry I was thinking of something else. You have a hive city that covers roughly half the planet, you can easily have trillion people. A population study done showing every human alive today on Earth, about 7.5B people, could be packed into a single city, as dense as New York City, about the size of Texas. NYC is pretty built up and not a HIVE city. You could easily have a city the size of North America as dense a London or Tokyo and still not reach one Trillion people. The biggest problem ins that a LOT of the IoM is just really poorly managed. You either have palatial worlds like the Realm of Ultramar, or slum worlds like Mordia or basically any other world that has Hive cities or is itself a Hive world. Holy Terra seems to skirt this but the planetary population is pretty well managed.

[@knah13]

You got to remember that alot of these planets where settled during the golden age of technology. When it would have been easy to supply it and it may have even had an actual purpose.

[@JoTheVeteran]

Imagine Mordian Iron Guards vs BLM and ANTIFA.. That will go well XD XD XD

[@iliaszidek5681]

I want the music of the old lore videos back. Loved it.

[@bradymenting5120]

Iron Guard: "DISPERSE OR RECIEVE THE MOST FABULOUS BEATING OF YOUR LIFE"