Army Combat Veteran Reacts to Guardsman (2018)

[@Becosplayforge]

The guardsman was indeed bait, but it was the marine using him.... not the tyrranids. The costumes are all real including the marine and the only CGI used are the tyrranids. It was fun to film. ;)

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That's awesome. You and the rest of the crew's attention to detail and craftsmanship really showed! Thanks for this!

[@WingManFang1]

Left us Needing MOAR!!! 💎💜💎

[@SovietRussia777]

Lies! They clearly had pet tyrranids

[@antonstezhkin5991]

I do not think that marines care to use baits. They are kind of too proud for such stuff. I'd rather think that the Tyranids were baiting tha space marine.

[@Becosplayforge]

@@antonstezhkin5991 helps that I knew the script. :)

[@dcohen1359]

I love that they gave the Cadian purple eyes. Also the Marine's insignia is from the Angels of Vengeance, a successor of the Dark Angels.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is a cool detail I missed!

[@marcuskylemarcuskyle222]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Another unrealistic thing is the radio, individual guardsmen don't have it. Platoon level is the lowest you'll find it and there is only ONE for the whole platoon. WWII/Vietnam era bulky backpack sized with a big circle antenna, you can't miss it.

[@bjornthefellhanded5655]

Not the fricking Dark Angels.....well, at least this time they managed to do something good WITHOUT screwing over the Imperium’s Objective(s) from what we know To get an idea of the kind of Shenanigans the Dark Angels and their Successor Chapters get up to just google what they accomplished during the Siege of Vraks

[@Aden_III]

@@marcuskylemarcuskyle222 Cadians have comm links

[@TheZellaCatalyst]

@@marcuskylemarcuskyle222 NOT TRUE. This varies dramatically from regiment to regiment. Every ghost has an earpiece com. It just needs to be within rage of a vox caster

[@RetroVGamer1]

Simplified the big tyranids are smart and control the smaller ones if no big ones are around the small ones revert to instinct

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

This is actually helpful, thank!

[@k96man]

@I.B. Jr. Hence why OP started their statement with simplified

[@mercerholt8299]

Also simplified some smaller ones exist as basically coms equipment/officers.

[@soulsurvivor8293]

@@CombatVeteranReacts as for the Guardsman, his comms are limited to his squad or platoon at best. To contact anyone else he would need a Vox caster, looks roughly like the old school radios carried on a soldiers back. Guardsmen, Cadian's more than most other regiments, adhere to a very strict and uncompromising chain of command. A Guardsman won't leave a man behind, but the Guard will. Attrition rates for the Guard would make Staln's or Mao's look like a typical training casualty list. Humans literally out number the stars, humanity can't waste time or effort on saving the one Guardsman that survived his unit being wiped out. Thus why they get issued Lasguns, limited comms and the cheapest mass produced gear. Billions like him die every day and there are trillions more to replace him. More expendable than anything he isn't issued with.

[@TimelineTheSchizoid]

Not accounting for gene stealer cults which are tyranid bio weapons to infiltrate and subvert planets to prime them for invasion

[@legionaireb]

2:56 - First a lore point. The Adeptus Munitorum (the logistics branch of the Imperial military) actually values a soldier's equipment more than the soldier himself. Losing your lasgun is an offence punishable by summary execution (just like cowardice and failing to properly shine your coat buttons). Secondly, most models of lasgun are fitted with a bayonet lug that the soldier can fit his combat knife to. A spear is a much more effective combat weapon than a dagger, so tossing his lasgun was a mistake there, too.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is true of the modern US military. Soldiers get fired or charged if they lose their weapon

[@chrisgraham9700]

@@CombatVeteranReacts dumb question what about equipment damage in combat more curious than need to know just if the weapon is beyond field repair say bent barrel or shrapnel damaged receiver not allowing the rifle to cycle or fire though unlikely it is a possibility

[@FreeOfFantasy]

@@chrisgraham9700 You give it to your armorer, fill out a lot of paper work, get issued a new one and fill out some more paper work.

[@aennaenn7468]

@@FreeOfFantasy Oh and don't forget the paperwork

[@dantreadwell7421]

@@aennaenn7468 and the requisition paperwork, in triplicate.

[@powerflumi]

Thats actually not Special Effects, thats an actual real dude inside that armor. The guys name on KZbin is "Becosplay forge" he made the armor and is also of course staring ( The Dark Angel ) in the shortfilm. He also made a cosplay suit for Indomitus pattern Terminator Armor.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is sick!

[@tartarustrommler5454]

Not a big mistake, but I think that is an Angel of Vengance and not a Dark Angel.

[@powerflumi]

@@tartarustrommler5454 Angels of Vengeance are still Dark Angels. Literally they still operate as a defacto Legion still

[@tartarustrommler5454]

@@powerflumi The fact that the unforgiven are essentialy a legion does not mean that the Angels of Vengance are Dark Angels. I know that for the most part the difference is only in name and heraldry but the difference is still there.

[@powerflumi]

@@tartarustrommler5454 Yeah i called him a Dark Angel just for that reason. And of course because the name of the actuall chapter didnt come to mind and i didnt remember it / was to lazy to look it up

[@StarboyXL9]

Tyranid strategy in direct combat is overwhelming numbers. The grunt-level Tyranids receive only the most basic of directions from whatever hive nexus is relaying imformation from the ships in orbit. They mostly are just used in human wave-style tactics. The Hive Mind reserves its advanced thinking and strategies for its best operators, the organisms that are meant to act like scalpels rather than hammers. Another thing to remember about Gestalts is that they aren't really a single great mind except in rare exception. The Hive would have had to specifically evolve that trait universally across its entire genome range which would leave it open in other respects. The Tyranids are more of a Gestalt in the sense that they have the ability to connect, communicate, and coordinate across vast distances, forming a pseudo-superconsciousness within an area in which its organisms are concentrated. What this essentially means in plain English is that not every Tyranid organism is constantly in connection with the gestalt consciousness, it operates on animistic instincts programmed into it by the Hive's bio-engineering processes until it receives orders from whatever bioform is acting as a relay for the local swarm. The Guardsman was basically facing a pack of incredibly efficient and well-sculpted predators, not the Hive Mind acting directly through those organisms as the Tyranids haven't really evolved that way.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

This is helpful to understanding them! Thanks!

[@NotContinuum]

@@CombatVeteranReacts You're collecting information to plan your strike, aren't you?

[@Briselance]

@@NotContinuumOf course, he is. He's a guardsman, after all.

[@grantkruger3689]

It took me a while to realize, the officer talking on the vox in the guardsman's ear, he dies as that position is overrun as the guardsman wakes up. This is a great fan film, very well done.

[@gardenthefermentingsound6218]

The officer is actually Graham McNeil

[@Brutalyte616]

The Tyranid Hive Mind does not actually direct every single bioform. The individual Tyranid organisms are actually quite autonomous, and will behave like wild animals of varying degrees of intelligence when not being actively ordered around. A single lower-ranking Tyranid organism in a standoff against a lone injured Guardsman does not warrant the attention of the Hive Mind, so the Tyranid will probably be left to act solely on instinct, especially if this is in the later stages of a successful counter assault where there might not be many synapse creatures extending the influence of the Hive Mind and relaying more specific orders. This phenomenon is actually kind of terrifying, because the Tyranid vanguard can sometimes be sent so far ahead of the Hive Fleets that they will go feral and integrate with the local ecosystem; it's hinted that many of the exotic creatures found throughout the galaxy like the Fenrisian Kraken may be Tyranids that arrived in the Milky Way thousands or even millions of years ahead of the Hive Fleets.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is interesting!

[@dagonofthedepths]

It tries not to do that with gaunts but there are some like lictors and genestealers that don't need synapse links to function.

[@Brutalyte616]

@@dagonofthedepths Well yes, but they still operate on very limited directives. Genestealers undermine the population and prepare the planet for invasion by infecting native lifeforms and establishing Genestealer Cults while Lictors gather limited intelligence to relay to the approaching Hive Fleets and eliminate threats before and during the invasion. They aren't feral beasts without the Synapse, but it's not like they have a direct link to the Hive Mind at all times either.

[@scottmcintyre2809]

@@dagonofthedepths While true, in the context of this movie it's quite possible all the local synapse creatures had been killed and these gaunts were left to their own initiative, such as it was.

[@enderoctanus]

@@Brutalyte616 I think you are underestimating the intellect of the lictors. I'm sure that it's mostly pure instinct, but they are incredibly effective at waging terror campaigns against the leadership of a planet. To be able to identify the leader and decide to go fuck with them in a non-lethal manner takes some cunning to my mind.

[@roneon4]

Yes Richard Boylan same guy behind Helsreach. He is also working with GW Angels of Death.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Cool!

[@aennaenn7468]

Danger stick is my new favorite term for the lasgun. Also thanks for making me rewatch this, I did not get a good look at the astartes' insignia before. He's a Dark Angel.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Thanks!

[@Torthak]

In Universe there called "Flashlights"

[@aennaenn7468]

@@Torthak Pretty sure they're called 'Lasguns' in universe.

[@lorddanielthesecond73]

The moustache is coming in strong and looking good

[@josh_1597]

" the danger stick " that shit had me by the gut I laughed for ten minutes straight

[@tanaka601]

6:39 yeah,pretty unrealistic for our “today’s world standards” but for the humans of the 40k that’s more effective than a load of morfine and steroids especially in these type of situations

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Fair point

[@sorrowwrath]

Combat stims........ If your gonna die a horrible death might as well be high out of your mind.

[@Morrigi192]

@@CombatVeteranReacts There's definitely footage out there of US forces shouting profanities at the Taliban in firefights, and there are Houthi rebels in Yemen with their "Death to America! Death to Israel!" mantra that they seem to yell in every video. It happens, it's just rare for two opposing forces to actually be in shouting distance of each other on the modern battlefield.

[@AlindBack]

I always do so enjoy when an Imperial in dire straits prays to the Emperor and is subsequently saved by one of the Emperor's Angels of Death.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

lol. Several levels of irony there. Or none at all

[@dantreadwell7421]

So I have to point out that the Marine was almost certainly there the entire time, watching.

[@Torthak]

@@dantreadwell7421 he was, he was possibly seeing if that Caden might be a potential recruit.

[@dantreadwell7421]

@@Torthak likely not, unfortunately. Space Marine potentials are picked up as children, as a number of the implants require the recipient to be in specific age ranges. Also, I'm fairly certian that Cadia is a no no for recruiting from, given it's massive importance in securing the Eye.

[@Sollapoke]

Definitely more likely the space marine set up the guardsmen as bait for the Nids. Especially considering the tactical level of the marine compared to the lower bio-form nids.

[@QueenAleenaFan]

"The danger stick" God, if I ever have to write a primitive setting where they encounter firearms or lasers, I'm calling a gun that.

[@kennethbedwell5188]

Richard Boylan is a Canadian combat vet (2 tours in Afghanistan), so he always focuses on making sure stuff like this is accurate. Remember, Imperial Guard are fanatics so "shrugs" maybe with the spitting. Terry (Becosplay Forge) did all the props for the video. It is also my opinion that this was kinda Proof of Concept for both Richard and GW to do with live action 40k. It was soon after this that Richard announced he was working with GW. And about 9 months later GW announced Eisenhorn was coming to TV with the producers of "Man in the High Castle"

[@DesRaven]

If you're wondering why this space marine helped Raines consider the following: the space marine is from the Angels of Vengeance chapter, notoriously stubborn and who cannot accept failure. So much so they have a history of suffering very heavy losses but at the same time they have achieved objectives thought unobtainable by almost everyone else. So this particular marine sees Raines stand up with a busted leg, a fried Lasgun, against a group of hormogaunts with a piddling combat knife. He's not run or broken down, he is standing defiant, not accepting failure, embodying the AoV.

[@xanosdarkpaw1]

The tyranids also do not care if his weapon works or not.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

But they could surely recognize the difference between a dangerous human and a less dangerous one?

[@valoskii8773]

Well, the hive minds yes, others, i dont think so. Correct me please if im wrong

[@masonwilliams1345]

@@CombatVeteranReacts they just want the bio mass so a weak guardsman like this may not be a lot of it, but it's a relatively minor threat (the guardsman can get lucky but 9 times out of 10 a single guardsman vs a single tyranid will lose) and a easy snack

[@xanosdarkpaw1]

@@CombatVeteranReacts only as to give them a higher priority to takedown. What they were fighting there were gaunt. Gaunts are basically ammo. The way they acted it seemed like they were out of contact with the hivemind.

[@enderoctanus]

@@CombatVeteranReacts They may recognize the difference in threat, but they are living weapons that don't typically display any self-preservation instincts to begin with. Without the Hive Mind reigning their instincts in, they will mindlessly get themselves killed in stupid fucking traps that would even be obvious to a cockroach, so long as there's an enemy beyond it. The best strategy to defeating the Tyranids, is to take out synapse bioforms, and get the remainder to kill themselves like the dumb animals they mostly are. Of course this varies. The more advanced bioforms are increasingly more intelligent by nature even without the synapse.

[@N0-1_H3r3]

Tyranid strategy is an unusual thing. In some ways, it's more like a virus overwhelming an organism, except the organism is a planet. The smaller Tyranid war-beasts are essentially animals-Hormagaunts like those that appeared here are around 2.5m from snout to tail and weigh 200 kilos, and built just to hunt and kill, often finding dark places to skulk in while they stalk prey. Some Tyranids have much greater independence of thought and higher intelligence, but they tend to be specialists serving particular tactical or battlefield roles. Larger psychic Tyranids-known as Synapse Creatures-have a direct connection to the Hive Mind and can project control over the lesser beasts in their vicinity, overriding instincts and any sense of self-preservation. They tend to expend swarms of creatures with the same regard that a soldier might expend ammunition, using living tides of claws and fangs and venom to overwhelm defences.

[@MrDaviDGuY224]

8:03 "The Danger Stick" - I love this haha. Good job man, keep it up!

[@sorrowwrath]

Smaller units of nids really have the thought process as larger nids. They don't see a space marine and go "oh shit he's scary" it's more just like a tuna can. If anything it's more just for dramatic effects. Still a great short film non the less.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Cinematically, it makes perfect sense. Fewer special effects, more drama and tension. I ma just curious how it aligns with lore tyranid behavior

[@sorrowwrath]

@@CombatVeteranReacts combat nids basically just kill everything in sight. They are the forward moving unit. Also just a FYI I'm just giving "basic"over view of combat for the tyrinads. But you have the smaller nids moving the line while the bigger more smarty pants nids kinda spread out. BASICALLY it's just a wave of death. Then at the end of the wave you have the rippers which eat ANYTHING dead or still alive or hiding and once the rippers are full they jump like happy lemmings In a digestive pool and get broken down with all the happy bio mass in there tummies and then gets sucked up by the hive ships..... I probably gave a badly description of tyrinads and how they consume a planet but that's the basis of it.

[@alexanderdewitt1989]

@@CombatVeteranReacts in lore the Tyranids Combat Doctrine is drown the Enemy in Bodys.

[@LeonNFG]

You really gotta watch the behind the scenes of this video, the power armor is not a special effect, it's a costume including feet on stilts.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is sick

[@DarkCrusaderEntertainment]

dude you should listen to "the all guardsman party" videos, its a story about a group of guardsman that somehow manage to survive the craziest shit in the 40k universe

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That sounds like fun!

[@criminalpidgeon4636]

@@CombatVeteranReacts it really is.

[@Qia_shaajah-deh]

Yes. It's a really good story/tabletop write up.

[@RobGcraft]

The All Guardsman part is the craziest DND game out there

[@gokbay3057]

@@RobGcraft AGP is Dark Heresy, not DnD.

[@Zarothose]

Now we just need a helsreach reaction because the same guy who made this did that as well and got hired on by gw to do the angels of death for them.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Awesome!

[@JinKee]

rise, and let this be the last blow you leave unanswered

[@johnd2058]

2:00 True that! Every American Civil War battle has at least one story of a flag officer bleeding out in the saddle, not knowing just how bad or just where they're hit.

[@crimsonknight7011]

He’s a Dark Angel successor chapter, I bet they are there specifically to help the guardsman and fight the tyranids, there is absolutely no ulterior reason they are there that would have nothing to do with a random guy wearing black space marine armor with a red sword and wings logo and the armor looking really really old. None at all

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

any suggestion that those are related will earn you a visit to the commissar. Followed by a high velocity 'release from military duty'

[@crimsonknight7011]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Then the Dark Angels would kill the commissar to make sure no one else knew about it.

[@deathkorpswatchmaster2414]

This guardsman is actually a true blood Chadian (you can tell because he has purple eyes) so he has been trained essentially from birth so they are a much higher degree then other guardsman

[@theangrygermanlad1328]

“The danger stick”

[@Optix334]

To the question at the end about the radio and switching channels and why he didn't do that: To normal humans, Space Marines are like Angels. Literal, godly angels. The vast majority of people that even know about their existence have never seen one. We have no context for this guardsman, but the most likely answer is that he is internally in awe at the marine, and assuming everything is OK and taken care of since the marine saved him. The guardsman assumes he doesn't need to do anything else but carry out the Emperor's will with one of the Emperor's Angels.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Fair point

[@BinaTremblay]

Tyranids work kind of like a wifi network. Individual creatures need to be in range of hive mind "nodes" for it to take over, usually the big tyrant prince or zoanthropes or other psychic bug. if they are not under the hive mind control they revert to default "instinctive behavior" and sometime that behavior can be "hide in the shadow". the hive mind also kind of behave like a normal mind where it can focus or be distracted, so it can be fooled up to some degree. bonus fact : the space marines is from the Angel of vengeance , a dark angel successor.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Ah interesting!

[@StarboyXL9]

As for the Guardsman not searching different channels, its likely because command on the planet was breaking down. This likely is set in the "twilight" period of a Tyranid invasion where the last strongholds of resistance are being overrun and the majority of the planet belongs to the 'Nids. Thus the Guardsman would somewhat accurately assume that if his Commissar has fallen, the entire defense they were part of has also fallen and High Command itself is being overrun. Once the 'Nids break through your defenses that is usually all she wrote. They just keep coming and coming and coming and coming. An endless tide of teeth, spines, claws, and pincers. Its a soldier's nightmare fuel, if not everybody's nightmare fuel. So he'd see no reason to waste time and attention searching for any other channels remaining because odds are there are none. They've all been silenced. Its just him making a final stand and trying to take as many of the enemy with him.

[@Tounushi]

A guardsman holding to his weapon would not be of any concern to 'nids. They'd charge him regardless.

[@AgentA1cr]

Standard equipment for an imperial guardsman: a t-shirt, a flashlight, and a wheelbarrow to carry their enormous steel balls.

[@goliath1179]

I thought that static and shut off meant that his helmet radio was damaged and he thought, fuck it.

[@sirgaz8699]

I like that the Lasgun is an automatic weapon rather than a, I don't even want to call it a semi automatic because you could almost fire a breach loading rifle faster than most depictions of Lasguns.

[@JinKee]

they relly took that napoleonic aestheic seriously in those other depictions

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Maybe he is some sort of specialists? fully automatic lasgun and a vox caster?

[@enderoctanus]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Depends upon the pattern of lasgun. Most fire on semi and full. Krieg? Only semi.

[@Aurilion44]

There is also the fact that some Space Marine chapters recruit people from combat veterans often those who impress Battle Brothers themselves in battle. So that Guardsman? It's possible he's gonna join Angels themselves a few decades from now on. He defintely left an impression on that Marine

[@deamonmindgaming2054]

They are outside of their synaptic range so they are running on their basic instincts. Dark Angels and their successors are the least caring of chapters depending on the situation. If their is any mention of The Fallen they are gonna be dipping out.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

The fallen?

[@deamonmindgaming2054]

@@CombatVeteranReacts think of them as space marines who've gone rouge and that must be hunted down. The Dark Angels lore is more deep on that subject when it comes to them dealing with their space marines who turned to chaos.

[@Fabierien]

@@CombatVeteranReacts The Dark Angels were the second largest Legion behind The Ultramarines in the Great Crusade. Once the Heresy began a solid number of them went rogue and caused a bit of a secondary civil war inside their own chapter. Those that turned from the light of the Golden Throne were deemed to be The Fallen and are relentlessly hunted by their brother. All in an effort to keep the defectors a secret. The end result was their homeworld of Caliban kind of got exploded. All that is left is their fortress monastery floating around on an asteroid.

[@gokbay3057]

Heresy! Lies and Slander! The Dark Angels are the most loyal, there has been no traitors from their ranks. Please inform the nearest chapter of Dark Angels or Successor if you hear of the so called "Fallen" so that the Sons of the Lion can educate them that there is no Fallen. And also the Unforgiven is just a close brotherhood of chapters and not a secret legion. The Dark Angels are Codex compliant. (This was all sarcasm, if it was not clear)

[@Fabierien]

@@gokbay3057 I was not familiar with the Unforgiven. Interesting. I'll have to look them up.

[@WingManFang1]

This just goes to show we need either a show on a streaming platform done for the fans by the fans, or a movie along the same vein

[@christianphipps116]

"the danger stick" I found my new favorite way to describe a gun...thank you

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Happy to help!

[@tsriftsal3581]

Shop smart, shop S Mart!

[@scottmcintyre2809]

With regards to changing radio frequencies, the Guard is often more concerned with hierarchy and chain of command than efficiency. It varies from regiment to regiment but the lawful-stupid rigid command chain where you can't ever dream of proactively talking to anyone beyond your immediate superior is more Grimdark so it tends to be the most common. As such the Guardsman's radio was likely either hardwired to the frequency assigned for his platoon, or encrypted in such a way that even if he switched frequencies he was unlikely to be able to understand anything being said on any other frequencies, plus his trainers and Commissars likely would have put the fear of the Emperor into him about listening in on radio chatter he wasn't authorized to listen to.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is a good point. With psykers and genestealers around keeping your guardsmen as ignorant as possible is good practice

[@lechristine1372]

"THE EMPEROR SENDS FORTH HIS ANGEL", . . . omg thats a literal meaning of the Emperor protects.

[@MrRevan991]

the whole surge of adrenaline causing you not to notice an injury i can attest to that... fell from a floor up and a rock put big gash on my forehead. i came too and didn't realize i couldn't see out of one eye due to the blood.. walked in the bar where my parents where and said "i have a headache"

[@vaevictis6990]

As a Lion fan boy I take one exception. That astartes is Angels of Vengeance, one of the Dark Angels succesors. No soft spot for normal humans. They are the most zealous of the Dark Angels for hunting chaos, but do not worship the Emperor, nor believing that he protects. They are focused on one thing; The Fallen

[@Rurik_Luci]

6:38 Keep in mind this isn't a standard war. This is religious and he expects to die. Him showing defiance till the end could easily be him falling back on what he knows to be the only truth. The Emperor is watching over him and it is his duty to die standing. Defiant against Xenos until his final breath. 7:50 The issue is he knows if the Tyranids wanted him in that moment that he would have died regardless. The Xeno filth also known as Tyranids fight with no self preservation as if they die it is for the good of the hive. Having a firing weapon wouldn't be enough to stop Tyranids that want to attack you. Their standard technique being to overwhelm the enemy with numbers. Dying in the millions as their biomass will just be harvested after death. 8:17 Being shot is no deterrent to such foul xeno filth. 12:37 I'm unsure if a Tyranid would wait to attack on him to pull anyone out of hiding if they're winning. However an Angel of Vengeance will never accept anything except the best. He will stand against the whole of the Xeno horde if it is what it comes down to. So seeing a lone guardsmen stand up and prepare to face death for the glory of Emperor made this AoV feel something. For lack of better words he felt a kinship in that sense of I die for the Emperor. That would make him come in no matter what Xeno was preparing to stand against them. In that moment that guardsmen was a nearly going to be seen as a brother in the eyes of the AoV.

[@OEFarredondo]

Great invite. I never thought about the nids baiting the marine or waiting for him

[@flavorgod]

There are high powered lasguns, but they tend to be used by stormtroopers. There are Astartes Lascannons which are essential vehicle mounted las weapons that are handheld by Space Marines.

[@anilaisor]

ok so couple things first a tyranid that is not connected to the hive mind becomes pretty much a big bug, so that might be why some times in lore they act different even more there are some kinds that do act a bit different because that is their job, so some are smarter other not as much now the way they act in this video i think its because its a cool shot and very movie like

[@isaquemaldrylnesouzar-laen5642]

Guardsman short-film. "The daily life of the Imperial Guard to mantain the Domain of Mankind safe".

[@hadesdogs4366]

It looks very much like a dark Angel space marine who are primarily known for their insanity and less friendly personality who mostly keep to themselves even from other chapters and are very secretive

[@Brother_O4TS]

Not insanity more like paranoia and suspicion

[@hadesdogs4366]

@@Brother_O4TS that’s the word I was looking for

[@Josh-ye9ol]

so yes, same guys who did hellsreach. He is a war vet too if I recall.

[@demi_narch8674]

Lasgun, one-shot is actually the same as getting hit by a 0.50 caliber incendiary, it is less powerful than a bolter but still very strong. The Lasgun works on most of the enemies the guardsmen are facing. The closer the enemies are, the more powerful the impact. I think you asked why the standard weapon of the guardsman cannot defeat a space marine on another video. - It can actually... if they are close and enough guardsmen are firing their weapons. If space marines are fighting guardsmen, they know the effective range of any lasguns, so the priorities to them are those guardsmen with Plasma weaponry or heavy gunner team. Even a space marine will go under a cover if facing a wall of guardsmen in lasguns effective range. I think it is 50m if wanted to damage their armor with normal charges and a kill shot if hitting a weak spot with an overload lasgun within 50m. Yes, 50 meters is not much. That is why they are jokingly called flashlights :/. but on any other enemies, non-human, it is 100-300 meters. You can still kill an unarmored human from a longer range, like blow up their limps from more than 300m...

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is helpful info! Thanks!

[@jamie_d0g978]

Yeah, lasguns are weak compared to the other over the top, absurdly powerful weapons but by today's standards they are incredible weapons. It's basically a .50 caliber assault rifle with no recoil and practically infinite ammo. And they are usually fired in such volume that they can obliterate anything.

[@bruvamichal7437]

Yes it is same guy who did Helsreach... BTW guy is from Canadian Army

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Now I really want to check out Helsreach

[@Ritter_Gruppe]

The marine in question is a Pre-Heresy Dark Angel, or a current era 2nd Company Dark Angel known as the Ravenwing. Not the most kind of chapters when you compare them to chapters like the Salamanders, Lamenters and Ultramarines.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Oh neat!

[@PrimeSniper7]

The marine is actually an Angel of Vengeance, a Dark Angels successor.

[@Ritter_Gruppe]

@@PrimeSniper7 My bad, I'm not as versed with the DA successors

[@watchdogCZ]

Given the shoulder insignia, I am actually quite certain he is an Angel of Vengeance, which is a Sucessor chapter of the Dark Angels.

[@phalanxwarden4124]

As the Angels of Vengeance are a chapter of the second founding they kept the original 1st Legion colours and adopted new insignia. They are known to be extremely stubborn to a fault, in many cases they have preferred to stand and fight to the death rather than fail a mission where others would retreat or redeploy. This attitude has had very mixed results, sometimes ending in miraculous victories or horrendous losses. Once their plans are set they will follow them no matter what, often completely disregarding the strategies of their allies. They are ferociously single minded and definitely not "friendly" to anyone, allies or not.

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

possible explanation about the coms question is that person to person range of imperial guards com units is very very limited (should still have tried but would probably not have found anything) the short range is compensated by larger arrays at command posts or tanks boosting the signal, both in receiving and transmitting in a city fight the signal would probably go from the guard to headquarters and then back to another unit in the city instead of from squad to squad directly unless the squads have a dedicated com specialist with a booster backpack so losing coms with the higher ups probably means your not going to get lucky finding someone more locally because if the big guys cant receive your signal their also not going to be able to boost your signal to find anyone else

[@basketcase289]

The lower nid bioforms need to be within the range of a synapse creature for the hive mind to control them, if they aren't they revert to instincts which can sometimes end up having them fight each other funnily enough

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is interesting!

[@1Maklak]

I can confirm not really feeling much pain directly after injury. When a Rottweiler dog was biting through my hand, I felt discomfort, but it hurt a lot more later. I had no problem walking home with a trashed hand, but I was a bit pale. I've also heard a story about a guy who argued with someone at a party, that other guy punched him in the back, then quickly left, but the spot got wet, so they checked and it was a puncture wound from a knife. Interesting advice about using a tourniquet first and not removing things stuck in a wound. When the hivemind is not microeing them, small Tyrannids are basically pack-hunting animals. They can be scared off by wounding them or killing a few, which the hive mind normally overrides. I'm a bit surprised the Guarsman has a radio at all. Normally a vox caster is a backpack-sized, item at squad or even company level.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Yea, the human body is crazy about injuries. Re watching some of my fight videos, a lot of punches I took that I didn't even really feel at the time were in fact pretty big hits.

[@1Maklak]

@@CombatVeteranReacts I find it rather paradoxical how a human body can be fragile or resilient. Some people die or break bones from slipping, while others can walk away with some bruises from getting beaten down. Or how a bullet can be fatal, but some guys survive multiple gunshot wounds.

[@TheSabre1313]

@@CombatVeteranReacts By the way it looks I believe it was a Micro Bead the guardsman had and not an actual Vox Caster since those are indeed rather big units usually on the back of a squad sergeants vox pack mule guardsman. The Micro Bead is more commonly available though has quite a short distance then the Vox Caster which is able to hear up to orbit where as the Micro Bead has a few klicks for coverage

[@fatcoyote2]

Those gaunts he's facing are probably out of range of one of the leader species. When that happens, they go to basic instinct mode, either lurk or hunt. These seem to be on 'Lurk' mode. They were feeling that Guardsman out before they ate him. As far as the radio (or "vox" as it's called) freqs goes, many Guardsmen are not allowed that level of initiative. It may never have occurred to him to change it, or if it did, he may have been taught that doing so may be a punishable offense. Seems wrong-minded, but think about how many times in the real world military units suffered for not being allowed to stray from SOP.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

info security makes sense. Don't want an enemy using a dead guardsman's helmet to listen in to radio comms. Or worse, a psyker reading his mind or genestealer just...eating it

[@Belphegorite]

He likely doesn't even know how to change it. The way the Mechanicus hoards tech secrets, very few people actually really understand the items they work with. They've memorized certain rituals that operate specific functions. Like the idea of lubrication for moving parts is unknown, but if the sacred unguents aren't applied every cycle then the Machine Spirit gets angry and starts shrieking. At least in the old lore, not sure what's out there now. It was even unclear if the Mechanicus understood what they were doing or were just following procedures handed down from generation to generation, the technical principles becoming obscured by religious ritual over time.

[@street1111]

The planet broke before the guardsman did

[@oldeskul]

What we saw in the video looked like a bunch of turmagaunts, they are a melee-oriented subspecies of gaunt, and no sign of a synapse creature around, so they might have been operating on a low-level predatory instinctual intellect. When the guardsman fired several pulses from his lasrifle, he may have killed several of them and spooked the rest of the pack. At the end of the video, we heard, what I believe though I could be wrong, was a lictor, a specialized tyranid creature which has chameleonic abilities and possesses high-level intellect on the level of or near to that of a human's. Lictors hunt down leaders and other significant threats, kinda like an assassin, to launch decapitation strikes at the enemy in an attempt to not only take the leadership in a battlefield, but also remove some of the(mind the pun) fangs of enemy resistance. Lictors can(unless they've changed the lore) take command of lesser tyranid creatures which aren't under the control of a synapse creature. This particular lictor was probably already hunting the space marine and when he went to aid the guardsman, it took control of the turmagaunts to test the space marine and make him expend ammunition, then it sent out the trilling cry either as a challenge or to call for any other tyranid creatures in the vicinity for back up and aid.

[@phalanxwarden4124]

As the Angels of Vengeance are a chapter of the second founding they kept the original 1st Legion colours and adopted new insignia. They are known to be extremely stubborn to a fault, in many cases they have preferred to stand and fight to the death rather than fail a mission where others would retreat or redeploy. This attitude has had very mixed results, sometimes ending in miraculous victories or horrendous losses. Once their plans are set they will follow them no matter what, often completely disregarding the strategies of their allies. On top of all the usual Dark Angel secrecy and paranoia, they are ferociously single minded and definitely not "friendly" to anyone, allies or not.

[@xazelnighthaunterfanboy975]

You should look at Old 1996 Inquisitor Movie. It is cheasy as hell but a nice look at old 40k.

[@stevenpeven258]

I can only assume the guardsman didn’t try to call for backup from a combination of not thinking straight due to injuries, having a more life threatening issue to take care of in the form of Tyranids and his leg injury, and likely knowing that most imperial officers won’t go out their way to get a lowly grunt they have thousands, if not millions, more of unless they are a majorly important asset.

[@damonmealor9701]

9:00 Planetside, the Hive Mind needs to be relayed by leader units known as Synapse Creatures. If lesser Tyranids are out of range, they revert to a feral state.

[@Cringe_Dispencer]

"So this guy regains consciosness, hears his command being overrun by the tyranids and realises there is i large piece of shrapnel stuck in his lower thigh. This is not as uncommon as you might think" So the americans been fighting Tyranids in the middle east this whole time? Damn

[@tunfisktun]

Awesome video. You have really been catching up on the lore quickly!

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Thanks! The lore experts in the comments really really help!

[@themeanestkitten]

"danger stick"😂 best name

[@mikemarcotte5962]

If I remember correctly Richard Boylan was able to draw from his OWN military experience.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is pretty cool. It shows!

[@konradson]

The Empire of Humankind lost most of their tech, thousands of years ago. Even before 30K. Since then, they have been trying to recover that tech...

[@silverdirewolf6440]

I do like the sound of thunder after the impact of the power fist.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is a nice touch

[@lewiskoluk8749]

For your last question. It depends on the guardsman. He has a radio but he may not know how it works. He was trained to do basic wound dressing he may not know the reasoning why just the training. Hence, maybe, why all his lines are just repeated religious chants? All he knows? Not likely but a possibility.

[@TruemperJohn]

Dark Angels having a soft spot for humanity? You were close, they wear a different shade of green.

[@konradson]

This is a member of the First Legion, the Dark Angels, the Proud sons of the Lion!

[@CarcharodonsAstra]

Something to remember is in the imperium some guardsmen are more crusader than soldier when it comes to spiting on the ground. Tactically wrong but what a good follower of the emperor might consider expected behavior as a righteous citizen or if they feel watched by the inquisition and seek to avoid being seen as a weak link for chaos to use behavior that borders on common sense and reflective at that point. Our brains naturally make shortcuts on things we consider solved like two plus two equals four so something as simple as hate and fear the xenos might have bled through and turned into a reflexive visceral reaction.

[@666stonewall]

Decent bolter sounds! Sounds powerful af.

[@LegatusLucius1994]

I have no medical expertise whatsoever but Common Sense would dictate that it is possible that that large piece of shrapnel it's also wedged in there so good. Of stopping the blood flow putting a tourniquet on before removing it in my opinion is definitely a good idea

[@LegatusLucius1994]

Mustache veteran just concerned my theory thank you

[@BrazenBard]

Noting that the guardsman might not have had the option of calling for backup/extraction. We *are* talking about the society where being taken hostage is punishable by death for obstructing police work.

[@theotherbaratheon1895]

"The danger stick" 😂

[@christianleocastelo342]

Lasguns may be a joke in the 40k universe, but if it were in our reality you would be carrying the power of main gun of a battle tank with each shot

[@tarektechmarine8209]

No, but yes. Otherwise astartes would use them if they were that powerfull. A bolter is maybe a 20mm aphe so definitly lacking 120mm weapon power. I'd say they are more like 308 round with extreamly limited range to around 200m.

[@Morrigi192]

@@tarektechmarine8209 It depends. Some lasguns at max power (and they do tend to have power settings) definitely hit harder than .308, probably closer to a .338 magnum with no recoil. This is more than enough firepower to handle unaugmented humans, which is a large fraction of the Imperial Guard's job description.

[@Wrenchie7]

i mean, he WAS a pure blood Cadian, hense the purple eyes. theres a reason their reputation can be summed up in the words "The Planet broke before the Guard did!"

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Cadia stands!

[@-Big_Big]

if the tyranids are in connection with the hive mind they are fearless and will ignore threats of death if needed to. though it feels like they are alone

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Ah interesting!

[@lewisbenzie845]

Take up your weapon guardsman.

[@christiedt9818]

You chuckle about the lasguns, but read about it. It can blow stuff apart.

[@ImaginaryTerrie3]

Behold my Danger Stick!!

[@BikerTrashWolf]

"Powerful lasgun hahaha" I think I read somewhere that lasguns are only unimpressive in game because of how crazy everything else in the setting is.

[@dantreadwell7421]

Don't knock the standard issue flashlights, for they are shiny and go pew pew.

[@BikerTrashWolf]

@@dantreadwell7421 not knocking them at all.

[@LegatusLucius1994]

The stubble looks cool though

[@queencyrys6309]

You actually do need a good deal of gunfire to kill a Gaunt. Not only is each tyranid organism a cell in a larger body, each part of a tyranid organism is its own lifeform. It’s not super easy to kill a tyranid because large parts of their physiology is redundant.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Interesting!

[@CT-Clone]

If you want to hear something inspiring featuring the IG, try listening to/watching the video "Tribute to the Imperial Guard - Cadia Stands". It's a speech made to represents the final moments on Cadia before it broke and consists of dialogue from the Dawn of War games and is very well made. ^^

[@coreystephenson6038]

outside of the hive mind they revert to basic instinct. hide,lurk ect.

[@jakobknudsen6864]

Don't mind me, watching this while assembling some Tyranid minis. :)

[@mrmartoo3079]

Normally Guardsman have a shovel for close combat

[@khorneflakes4446]

I think that is just Kriegers.

[@kesegoe9488]

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[@-----REDACTED-----]

The stache is growing! 👍

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Maybe I will style it one day...

[@Lynxdom]

I always assumed they held back because they wanted to implant him.

[@GTA_500]

I wish it was a movie.

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

I kinda wanted reply to show up with a flamer after the Goan says the emperor protects. That would be an badass homage to Aliens and one of the most badass female characters in cinema history.

[@SmokeDrake]

The trash talk isn't real in our lives but in the 40k it's pretty common actually. So that's one subject that can be debated, but again, 40k opposed to our lives, a lot can be "debated".

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

I mean, honestly, warfare in the actually year 40,000 (if there are still humans anywhere in the universe) would probably be utterly incomprehensible to us, like modern war would be incomprehensible to a stone age hunter-gatherer tribe.

[@skyquester]

This is WH40K. The Guardsman isnt important enough to get a pick up. He will need to get back to friendly lines all by himself and he knows it.

[@psyberklown3434]

A Guardsmen's Lazgun is as powerful as an Imperial citizens life is fulfilling.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Hahahaha

[@enderoctanus]

So what you're saying is, VERY effective whenever the Commissar checks?

[@Belphegorite]

Literally true. On it's own, neither is successful. But in a throng of billions guided by the Emperor's Will, unstoppable.

[@thetalantonx]

The Guardsman has the markings of a Cadian (the Cadian gate on his right pauldron) so you're talking ultrabadass. "Though our tanks and artillery are mighty, it is the vast ranks of Imperial Guardsmen that shall trample the enemy to dust -- let them come." -Lord Castellan Ursarkar E. Creed of Cadia Cadia *literally* Stands in this film.

[@lewisbenzie845]

Cadia broke before the guard did.

[@darkhorse13golfgaming]

You see they run off of synapse creatures which keep them in line they are like anchor points edit the synapse creatures get killed the Lesser ones go feral

[@jacobstewart1950]

Had a idiot applied a tourniquet to my neck in training.