ELYSIAN DROP TROOPS: FEET FIRST INTO HELL! | Warhammer 40k Lore

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The Elysian Drop Troops are Imperial Guard Regiments known for their rapid deployment capabilities, often deploying by rappelling or grav-chutes from Valkyrie Airborne Troop Carriers at high altitudes. These drop regiments are able to strike deep into enemy territory, specialising in ambushing the enemy or capturing important objectives, and can operate for extended periods of time without resupply.

[@Adeptusridiculous]

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[@Dracobyte]

Thank you for making a video about one of my favorite IG regiments.

[@0nerandomdud]

you suck

[@YoBen100]

Captain of the Elysian Drop Troops: "Ok men, we are going into hell and fight for the Golden Throne!" One new trooper who recently transfered before the mission: "And For Managed Democracy!"

[@Lu-db1uf]

*Droop Troops

[@kerianndoassans]

@@Lu-db1uf huh ?

[@martinsimington]

@@kerianndoassanswatch the video and you will get it

[@Montyandrew45]

The commissar turns and executes them. "I wish they would stop letting them spread ideas!"

[@XtreemAlan]

“WE ARE GREEN, AND VERY, *VERY* MEAN”

[@jamespocelinko104]

"Captain, we're surrounded." "We're drop troopers Private... we're supposed to be surrounded."

[@bg9994]

Bricky clearly has covid because he lost his taste if he doesn't like Elysian models.

[@gutterpheonix]

He absolutely lost his taste. Enjoying those models and Furiosa....we can only hope for his swift recovery

[@darkness1293]

ODSTs, Drop Troops, Helldivers: FEET FIRST INTO HELL

[@Lu-db1uf]

*Droop Troops

[@scottlock8584]

Hell jumper ready for drop 🫡

[@alexmartinez5859]

“Troopers! We are green and very, VERY mean!”

[@zerowolf0006]

The ODST trailer and Halo 3 believe trailers always give me chills

[@theonewhosmellsverynice]

mmmh feet 😏😏🤤🤤🤤🤤

[@battleax6364]

As an ork player I basically summarize this entire video as “DARE DA HUIME STORM BOYZ!”

[@rustyshackleford6906]

As someone who can't afford to play Warhammer, but desperately wants to play orks, I am stealing that

[@vxicepickxv]

​@@rustyshackleford6906you don't need to buy new, and can buy slowly over time. There's a lot of ork stuff you can get for fairly cheap.

[@chronosaiyan1953]

We’re so close to talking about my favorite guard regiment, the Harakoni Warhawks

[@imperialguardsman5726]

Ah yes, the Elysian Drop Troops, but Better I love them too

[@mastershangchi3410]

I doubt they could do a full episode. Since there is like less than a quarter elysian size of lore there.

[@ironclamp5325]

@@mastershangchi3410Yeah… the injustice in that fact is heartbreaking.

[@alfatazer_8991]

Elysian drop troops with heavy weapons and carapace armour!

[@Josh-ye9ol]

The Harakoni Warhawks. Everything the Elysian wish they could be... if only they were not press ganged, aged out pdf troopers.

[@dingusdean1905]

Elysians are my fav to play tabletop because they let you do so many meme strats, like dropping a squad of plasma guardsmen directly on top of enemy space marines so they can blow themselves up when their plasma overheats

[@vxicepickxv]

I just use a big old 15 man Scion squad for that. 2 pistols and 2 plasma guns with First Rank Fire, Second Rank Fire.

[@Dracobyte]

For Super Ear- I mean the Imperium of Man!

[@nobleman9393]

Super Terra!

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

The internet: "You need 3 octillion tigers to defeat the sun." The Hive Mind: "Oh, EZ."

[@alecstorer2955]

I’m not even mad at that raycon ad The Segway made me giggle

[@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179]

Segue into a segway! With this mobility tool, *sudden segway ad*

[@mistercmartin]

It was a great Dean Kamen.

[@AlsadsajsAlsadsajs-vl7th]

Drop troops will be the reason I buy a 3D printer

[@SleepingSage308]

Them and Emps Children are literally the entire reason I did.

[@warmachine5835]

Same TBH.

[@soupordave]

Paratroopers suffering heavy casualties is not just a 40K problem, it's been a problem since they were invented. The German paratroopers had great success early on in the first year of the war, but after that it was just disaster after disaster every time they were used. Even the paratroop drop during D-Day in Normandy was a disaster. Hardly anyone landed in their assigned drop zone and it was only thanks to the slow response of the Germans that they weren't wiped out and were able to accomplish their missions. And even then Allied officers had to just grab whatever soldiers had landed near them as everyone was spread out all over Normandy. It's widely accepted now that paratroopers will be quickly wiped out when deployed in areas with organized defenders unless they are immediately linked up with regular forces. Look at the Russian VDV forces wiped out in the opening attack on Ukraine for a modern example.

[@matthewmatthew981]

That kinda explains why Helldivers players can't retake the Creek.

[@seancain2216]

The Chaos Gremlin energy of DK at the start of this episode is giving me life.

[@clarenceweaver1820]

Finally, my favorite Guard faction. The aesthetic is peak. I love the concept of jet pack drop troops, whether it be Mandalorians, Helldivers, ODSTs, etc.

[@Earliersphere]

The harkoni Warhawks fit the heavy air borne more for me. Much closer to Mando or ODST in look than the Elysian. Both are cool and under represented guard.

[@clarenceweaver1820]

@@Earliersphere I’ll have to check the warhawks out then!

[@istvanvozary5184]

"It's only a warcrime if you loose." That rings uncomfortably true

[@anderwebb5350]

I have been collecting and repainting Elysian models for years. My favorite regiment by a country mile

[@Davernn]

19:53 I was flashbanged with the knowledge of Bricky owning a bullpupped shotgun. What accursed beast is he withholding from his people

[@MathMasterism]

T'au on the tabletop: "Our Ethereal is Dead! It's all Joe'ver!" T'au on in the books: "Shas'la our Ethereal has moved on to the afterlife, let's make sure he isn't lonely there." edit "box" ==> "books"

[@Earliersphere]

There was a brief edition where the t'au got a one turn buff when the ethereal died, followed by massive debuff rest of the game.

[@IlyaKokoev]

Of course 40k is just full of boxes: Land Raiders, Dreadnaughts, Saint Katherine, list goes on.

[@thehansenman68]

You're telling me OUR ENEMIES HIDE IN METAL BAWKSES?

[@Beandealer]

HELLDIVERS NEVER DIE!

[@Bluecho4]

Narrator: "They all died."

[@Outband599]

My favorite drop troupe story is them dropping through the gap in the shield and a weapon beam, disabling the shield and some getting away

[@scarecrow2097]

The closest thing you'll ever get to ptsd from 40K audiobooks is listening to the Scions of Elysian audio drama series from Zachariah's perspective as he watches recruits with failed grav suetes helplessly turned to mush potatoes (including sound effects) around him.

[@MrNightmaresinner]

Bricky sweating out his demons in that ad read.

[@MathMasterism]

Not gonna lie the Elysian Drop Troops feel way more T'au than Imperium in their aesthetics: Tactical compact gear, weaponry that feels very modern inspired rather than WW2 inspired, and even their tactics feel less WW2 Airborn Divisions and more modern spec ops units. Honestly, it just makes me want to see some kind of T'au equivalent with Pathfinders or hell revive the old XV1 stealth suites and give them this kind of role. Even if its something that only exists in the novels I think I would be really cool.

[@histone2380]

Who else wants the next poster to be a metric butt tonne of tigers falling out the back of a Valkyrie?

[@ShotGunner5609]

Tigers in guardsman combat armor.

[@Raziel312]

Tigers in guardsman combat armor and big booba.

[@jacobbosecker6916]

There is one enemy that no one has the courage to destroy.

[@TexasTaterSalad]

She sends us cataclysmic cancer from her castle in the void

[@thehonestcompany867]

She blinds our children, burns our skin Dries our crops and rivers thin

[@rathernotpick7183]

You already know her name

[@HighEffortUsername]

3 Octillion Tigers

[@jacsoslayer]

God I love a good Jonathan Young reference

[@Dlnew3]

I wasn't expecting Bricky to reveal he owns a bullpup of all things. My money's on a KSG.

[@cabnbeeschurgr6440]

He strikes me as a mdr or aug type of guy.

[@skylermuncy2218]

27:42 love that vultures and Valkyries are legal, but somehow the vendetta is banished to legends 😢

[@Jason-xg3iw]

"How many 8 year olds can you defeat?" "That depends, are we in a mall?"

[@BrotherBoot97]

"Helljumper, Helljumper where you been? Feet first into hell and back again!"

[@raygc1]

WHEN I DIE PLEASE BURY ME DEEP PLACE AN MA5 DOWN BY MY FEET

[@DetectiveLance]

"When I die, please bury me deep! With my MA5 down at my feet!"

[@Voodoo_Robot]

Yes, EDT finally. I hope inquisition allows them to mention D99

[@topcat59]

What the hell was Azriel on to come up with this horrible looking gun, I’m not even sure the bolts could even get to the receiver.🤨🐱

[@TarnaxTheBarbarian]

AdRid: "I know nothing about guns" Me: "I bet that thing has a garbage trigger"

[@byro_]

bullpup transfer bar moment

[@alfatazer_8991]

​@@byro_ Tbf las guns can just have electronic triggers since they don't need mechanical parts to function unlike stubbers.

[@byro_]

@@alfatazer_8991 yeah, that’s true. But you’d still have to deal with the Armpit reload. Otherwise it might not be that bad for a laser gun with almost no moving parts. Still doesn’t help the ergonomics issue, but the 40k weapons aren’t exactly designed with the comfort of the shooter (who will likely die before they fire let alone empty the weapon) anyways. I will endlessly trash on bullpup firearms though, and I’m glad that they’re being phased out of most of the militaries who use them. Far too many tradeoffs for a slightly smaller package with comparable muzzle velocity to a rifle length weapon, which wouldn’t matter at the ranges they were designed to be used in anyways. Just use a Carbine length weapon system.

[@NXTangl]

​@@byro_But then the question is: why bother with a bullpup laser? It's not like you need to feed the lasing mechanism at the back (and even if you did you could just use a cable or busbar). IMO the only purpose would be if you regularly use bullpup bullet guns and want the reloading reflexes to carry over. That said, I figure bullpup weaponry has a place in spacefuture combat. You could solve the trigger problem with an electronic primer like the EtronX mechanism, and have a magazine like the P90 or G11 prototype...

[@byro_]

@@NXTangl There are a lot of answers to this question. Some of which open up a few cans of worms. The real answer is simple: It’s an aesthetic choice for the faction, plain and simple. An in universe answer requires me to ask another question which has no real solid answer. Is it actually firing a laser? If yes, then barrel length would be irrelevant, and a heavy Las-Pistol should actually be the standard issue weapon for the guard, as lasers wouldn’t be affected by barrel length, nor recoil and thus could be kept in a compact package. (Star Trek Phasers for example) If no, then what is it shooting? How does barrel length affect the “ballistics” of the “projectile”? There are many instances of the lasgun being described or shown to have recoil. Is it plasma? Highly compressed gas? A projectile? Nobody really knows, not even in the lore due to the backwards nature of the Imperium. They probably only use it because that’s what they’ve always used. It’s what their forge world has patterns of so they just make it and don’t ask questions or wonder why. To do such is heresy after all. TL;DR: Bullpup looks cool on cool space guys on the tabletop. Lore can explain it away by saying that the reason why was lost to time. To question is to doubt, and to doubt is Heresy.

[@martinpolo5812]

The question about the respawning 8-year old reminds me of how Vulcan fought Magnus.

[@niko7626]

Still remember that odst ad fron halo 3… one, if not the best, ad i have ever seen from a video game and i watch it basically multiple time per year.

[@aidanthornton173]

I like the idea that 10k years in the future a hyper advanced alien species will excavate the ruins of earth. They find the meme about the sun and how many Tigers would be needed to beat it. Using mass cloning technology, they create the amount of tigers needed according to the meme, launch them into the sun. After witnessing the results, they write the answer down and bury it next to the meme.

[@Boxfortress]

This episode reminded me of my original desire to start 40k as a guard player and go HEAVY into Valkyries... I'ma do it one day.

[@jasonyang2101]

Nah mate, been awhile since I head Drop Bear myself. Good chuckle and joke.

[@1990loulou]

Fulgrim: I can take all the Imperial Guard at the same time😀 Imperial Guardsman: In a fight, right. Fulgrim:😈 Imperial Guardsman: I-in a fight r-right

[@nineballmk2]

Imperial Guardsman: OH SWEET EMPER-

[@cabnbeeschurgr6440]

Local primarch breaks record for most humans involved in an orgy (eldar still hold the first place galactically)

[@JakeCosplays]

That sounds like a terrifying FPS movie about drop troops surviving a ork WAH! I'd see that movie.

[@simplewrites]

Petition for the next guard regiment to be the Tallarn Desert Raiders?

[@vxicepickxv]

Second

[@PattPlays]

"Your dissapointment encompasses the sun" legendary

[@Cracktopus.]

No tigers were harmed in the making of this episode. Or, well, not that many tigers anyways.

[@gypsy3364]

For those of you who don't know and would like to know the difference between a standard rifle layout compared to that of a Bullpup the only difference is between the two is that while both of them both have 16 in barrels one of them is actually I guess you could say length to 16 inch barrels while the other one is because the magazine is in the rear where the stock is you get the full 16-in Barrel but in a much smaller frame there therefore you are able to paradrop and clear buildings much much more effectively and efficiently because you don't have that Barrel picking out and a being encompersome while in close confined spaces and also doesn't pick you out or show where you are in the vicinity so then you can properly clear out a room or building and not give away your position just food for thought for people who would like to know 😊

[@LT_Aegis]

The Elysian Drop Troops are the constant personification of the Operation: Market Garden; a lot of effort for little gain and a disappointing end. Also, I love how the Cyclops demolition tank is just a bigger IRL Goliath.

[@scottl9660]

Just found ya….that bullpup explanation was hilarious, I may or may not be able to confirm I was yelling in the kitchen

[@alexyoblick]

Funny story, I was part of a 40k IG themed clan and I first entered it by joining their Elysian division. Eventually that division got disbanded (lack of recruits and people kept leaving) and I joined the ST division, which eventually left the larger clan to become its own thing.

[@Ruggedtoaster]

Putting the bodies in “we will crush you under the weight of our dead!” Nothing like getting bird striked by a guards’ man.

[@LAV-III]

Hell jumper hell jumper where have you been? Feet first into hell and back again!

[@TheHarzlek]

20:03 Thank you, DK; as an Australian, we have strict gun laws, and I had no idea a Bullpup was a thing.

[@mandoperthstacker]

As Ex-ADF our rifles are bullpup, all good not too many people are aware of that. We have been using bullpup firearms since 1988

[@nickbilske8140]

Our defense forces use the styre. "Fired" one at a sim range and paraded with one when i was in cadets

[@wombataldebaran9686]

Bullpup sounds like an energy drink that causes some kind of digestive issue.

[@TheBiggestHistoryNerd]

YES ELYSIANS! I own so many FW Elysian models, theyre one of my favorite Guard regiments. Love this!

[@SlimRhyno]

Shy hard carried that one. 💪

[@itaughturgirl]

"Pool cues stolen from pubs" killed me

[@SlothSkeleton]

Definitely the best poster so far.

[@devilmaycry265]

18:13 the bullpup las carbine allows for quicker maneuvering and aiming, but you have to take you aim away from the target when changing clips

[@thesaltyschmuck1924]

You can't keep the Elysians down, there are DOZENS of Elysian fans. BAKERS DOZENS. (Fr though, I love the elysians, made an Elysian army, and love to see them covered)

[@Too-Much-Caffeine]

This episode goes up there with the assassin one where the bois are just completely off the fucking rails.

[@PolioPride]

another tragedy of a poster. give us big buff oiled up custodes bara poster

[@Nomand55]

I mean, you gotta talk about the anphelion project next

[@darkora_]

Lets gooo! So glad to see my second favourite Guard Regiment get some spotlight time!

[@mutantmaster1]

Just a Little Guy has found a new rival with that end cat tiger rant

[@ahayala1]

I Read the "Word Bearer" trilogy, and these guys made the first book the best one.

[@zacharyipsaro4936]

Oh baby, one of my fave guard units! Can't wait for a Tallarn vid!

[@lordkoth6735]

Ive been waiting for this for years. Glad to see it though

[@steelgreyed]

12:45 It can be used on planet side, however its less zoom zoom, and more like slow-mo bouncy castle shenanigans, stolen heavily from the Dune books and movies, with the Harkonen and Saudakar, troops utilizing suspensor suits and doing the floaty spooky thing, but by no means is it very fast.... Floating in mid-air tends to give you negative zero amounts of cover, and for a maximum of about 10 minutes which is mostly eaten up during deployment. In the micro-gravity environment of an asteroid field however , smart troopers can make that 10 minutes last for hours. ... Lastly if you have "already" accelerated to terminal velocity, negating gravity at the point is useless, yer still gonna go splat unless you have a form of rocket to slow you, which is also built in. no momentum as you activate anti-gravity equals a hover. There's a mention in one of the books about an anti-gravity "ray" that they used to deploy entire regiments at one time, if the beam shuts off or gets moved by any angle for even 2 seconds, the tank that "was" and is again in the ray is now moving at enough velocity (at zero g) that it still breaks the tank, like a lifta droppa.

[@ether9222]

The most baller of IG regiments. Thank you, gentlemen.

[@collecter343]

Fun fact, I remember reading somewhere how an Elite remarked how ODSTs come with their own coffins so yeah, drop troopers with coffins is standard slander.

[@patrickhennessey7129]

It’s been a while since I heard of a new regiment. I like these guys!

[@vxicepickxv]

I remember thinking about ordering some back when Forge World was regularly making metal guardsmen.

[@vxicepickxv]

War crimes? You mean a to do Checklist? Signed every Guard Commander ever.

[@breembo]

So when are we getting our TaleSpin droop troops poster? Seeing a bunch of bear men in grav chuts dropping out of a twin boom proppeller plane would be amazing.

[@archellothewolf2083]

*sniff sniff sniff Trooper feet.

[@Myomer104]

That vehicle transport variant of the Valkyrie has a bit of a real life counterpart: the CH-54 Tarhee.

[@Myomer104]

As does the Cyclops: the Goliath Remote Bomb from WWII.

[@jamespocelinko104]

Hell yeah, I love the Skycrane for how it's built to sling-load and nothing else.

[@Scorpshee]

Yes! One of my favorite regiments!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@RvEijndhoven]

If I ever build and run a Guard army again, I'm going to name them the Octilian Tigers

[@nassirhaskins8852]

The grav chute reminds me of the gm nightseekers own back pack except it can use it to jump back onto the ship that it deployed from after completing its mission.

[@NorthWindAerial]

Bricky I own the same bullpup shotgun you do. I'm glad you also enjoy the coke filled fantasies of Keltec.

[@Jfk2Mr]

Ah, yes, the line between genius and insanity is very fine and yet they walk it without falling into either

[@NorthWindAerial]

@@Jfk2Mr that might be the single best way to describe Keltec that I've ever heard.

[@Carrisonfire1]

Kreig need paratroopers with shovel shaped parachutes.

[@NothingtoseeHere.Movealong]

as a fun note, with its current legends datasheet, the drop sentinel can equip a heavy bolter AND a multimelta together

[@artifact2835]

I always remember the Rimmy Downunder gaming Arma 3 operation where they play as the Elysians. The last guy that didn’t manage to escape used a melta bomb kill several word bearers. Actually I was wrong, they were cadian drop troops.

[@PattPlays]

17:25 Halo ODST's are all captains before they are ODSTs. ODST's are dropped *so that they can lead from the front*. Their casualty rates are high without even factoring in entry. Leading from the front is what captains do for their squads. Leading from the front is what ODSTs do for entire armies.

[@glitterboy2098]

in the fiction, the packs can actually fly on par with a marine jumpack (for as long as their limited battery packs last, so a couple minutes), but ruleswise they're treated as just hi-tech parachutes. the Gaunts Ghosts use some in the novel 'Guns of Tanith" to insert a commando team into a chaos held 'city in the clouds' on Phantine. (the Phantine Skyborne are presented as another drop trooper regiment, because their world is a venus like toxic hellscape where there is basically just endless expanse of clouds, and the people live on mile long zepplin airships or domed cities on top of tall mountains)

[@vxicepickxv]

I know in the Dark Heresy RPG, it doesn't allow for flight at all, as opposed to jump packs.

[@richardbudge9416]

They hover by creating downwards force. If there's just their weight, they can hover, but it's not a hover button, it's a small scale jetpack, so its only enough to slow their fall

[@wolvie90]

On the topic of Azraels old gun, it totally works if you imagine the action cycling back to pick up a new bolt cartridge.

[@M99THESHaM]

This topic reminds me of the new weebl music video which is an animated helldivers done in an 80’s cartoon intro style, it’s a slapping banger

[@StigPony]

As someone who didn't manage to roll, it does seems to be a fairly important skill.

[@anc757]

The 72nd Elysian Storm Troopers - Part of the Imperial counterattack to liberate Tanakreg from the Word Bearers. Were definitely interesting. They are mentioned in the word bearer omnibus series. A really good read. I hope you guys can read it eventually.

[@willmarsden7657]

Managed Democr-what? Hell-Pod? Wake up Trooper, we're Halo-chuting in 30 seconds! Also, for DK, some paratroopers use compact weaponry: the Bullpup has the same barrel length as its cousins, but with less stock, it takes up less space :)

[@anc757]

The four wheel buggies the Elysians have remind me of DPVs (Desert Patrol Vehicles, basically stripped down and heavily armed dune buggies) U.S. special operations use.

[@michaelthompson5933]

As an Australian I can say no we love talking/hearing about dropbears

[@luscinius2933]

Ah yes, Elysian Drop Troops, the poor man's Harakoni Warhawks.

[@NefariousElasticity]

A little bit more on the pullpup lasguns the Elsyian boys use - Kirioth says their lasguns are more "compact" but doesn't really explain how that works. In real-world firearm design, if you put the magazine behind the trigger, that means you can also put the chamber (the "start" of the barrel) and bolt behind the trigger. Then, instead of the chamber being a few inches in front of your hand, it's a few inches behind it. This way, a gun with say a 14.5" barrel (standard M4 barrel length) would end up being several inches shorter in a bullpup configuration while still having the same length barrel, and thus the same effective range and accuracy. The real-world downside is that the manual of arms for bullpup rifles tends to be less biomechanically compatible with our anatomy (makes reloads more difficult) and they aren't as friendly to left-handed shooters unless expressly designed for it (for example, the AUG-A1 can have its ejector flipped to eject brass either left or right, and the side it's not ejecting from can have a rubber cover inserted). Shooting a standard M4 left-handed is uncomfortable but doable - shooting an AUG left-handed without switching the ejection to the other side means you're getting hot brass sprayed at your neck. What functional implications this has for lasguns in WH40k, no idea. They aren't firearms, they shoot lasers. Lasers as we understand them today just need a focal array and lasguns don't eject anything when they shoot. Like everything else in WH40k, this concept was likely pursued just because it looks cool.

[@jacobduty28]

As an 82nd baby, Death From Above. Elysians are fucking awesome.

[@chowrites6179]

GW not supporting the things they create and expect them to perform on the battlefield before abandoning them because they have lost value? Its starting to make sense why Big E is the way he is.

[@thomasFR967]

One of the only faction of 40K that as aesthetics from my country, also always good to see your video. 👍

[@charlesfoote9666]

I was a paratrooper and, yeah, this episode covers the general mission of an Airborne unit in a nutshell 🫡

[@MathMasterism]

29:15 Wait a fucking second... THAT'S JUST A WARTHOG!!

[@clarenceweaver1820]

I was thinking the exact same thing

[@teddmills2534]

G.W. has not forgot these guys there's armor of them in Darktide

[@ExplodingIce]

Sees Kirioth in the image: HELL YEAH! HELL! YEAH! Sees the poster: AWWWWWW YEAH! Bricky: Sick from a Con We're eating good to start this episode

[@patricksmith4884]

Idk about the rest of Aus, but I love hearing about drop bears, Australia's most dangerous animal deserves more respect