Horrible Realities of the Life of the Imperial Guard Warhammer 40K

Horrible Realities of the Life of the Imperial Guard Warhammer 40K
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[@mandykarevicius9746]

I love how despite how grim their lore is, Imperial Guard can potentially kick the ever loving shit out of every other army on the table.

[@ekulerudamuru]

Mandy Karevicius they do that's why authors make some stupid lore to not make them OP, but there's also times where they do wreck everything, read the lore about IG commander Macharius..

[@hunter5559]

But you're forgetting the most important thing about being an Imperial Guardsmen, THREE WHOLE MEALS A DAY

[@AliveRumble082]

Hunter Stonechild Anyone who lives in the underhive would take that deal

[@polarcaps8966]

ZERO FIELD TRAINING REQUIRED!

[@jonsong4592]

implying they live long enough to receive a full day's of rations...

[@issstari954]

Opportunity for promotion to upwards mobility

[@sahjjhas9813]

DJ--? F nS $

[@thickbrod6488]

Average life of an imperial guardsmen is 1 day if he's lucky

[@tullussulla6167]

Adeptus Custode life of the Guardmen *1 min* survived for *30 min* becomes Veteran.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

The average lifetime of a soldier coming to Stalingrad front was 24 hours - just one day!, it comes from this

[@jgkitarel]

Shorter than that, actually. It's fifteen hours.

[@coalmine9666]

Yup. 15 hours. The Guard Omnibus has one called 15 hours.

[@whydid666]

Well that's 15 hours of combat. 99% of military life is waiting and traveling.

[@Jaspertenpenny]

Horrible realities the guard has to face? Tyranids. Just watch starship troopers, just not the scenes where the heroes are there.

[@f.e.areproduce5298]

Some heroes die too , even with heroes a ton of soldiers die . Without heroes they're fucked .

[@fellowman8796]

At the end of the day, though he's been ferried through hell on a ship that's ten thousand years old to some godforsaken, war-torn rock; though he deployed from high orbit with nothing but a grav chute; though he is one of ten million men and women snatched from his homeworld to fight a war he barely understands; though he has been given a weapon that fires small suns and may annihilate him as he fires because the knowledge of how it functions has been lost; though his company is supported by tractor-tanks that run on anything you can burn; though he wages war against a devouring hivemind, ravenous demons and hordes of hyper-advanced aliens with strange technologies and sorceries he never dreamed existed; no one will remember his sacrifice, there will be no records of his deeds, no glorious parades in his honor, and no remembrance of his name. All he will earn is a shallow, unmarked grave on a forgotten world untold lightyears from home. Yet for all this thankless sacrifice a Guardsman is a man, just like you. He has no millennia-old genetic engineering, no prophetic leader, no miracles of faith. He has his lasgun, his orders, and those beside him. He is the Imperial Guard. And he will hold the line. - taken from the imperial guard page in 1d4chan

[@martinthewarrior5016]

this is the reason i want u guard army! they must be the most honourable army in 40k if u ask me.

[@theannouncer5538]

That was beautiful man😢

[@martinthewarrior5016]

this is why i want a guard army! they have to be one of the most badass armies in 40k, simply because they have the courage that no one else would have.

[@Awesomeduud]

“I murdered thousands for the Emperor and he gave me nothing except his damning silence. Now his lapdogs yap for every life I take, while the gods promise me the galaxy” -Svane Vulfbad

[@fellowman8796]

The fact that a simple mortal Imperial guardsman can have more faith than one of the mighty grandchildren of the Emperor says quite a lot.

[@themanestmanaa7788]

Just for people who don't know. If an Imperial Guard regiment looses 99% of their men but achieves minimal victory, the battle is considered acceptable.

[@ThePraetorianOfTerra]

On the topic of guardsmen I had a legendary tabletop moment a few months back where I had a commissar attached to a squad with 2 catachan jungle fighters. There was a full squad of Ultramarine terminators next to a bastion (which my guard were occupying) and they were within rapid fire range. During my shooting phase I issued the first rank fire second rank fire order on the squad, in effect diving each squad 3 shots from their lasguns. All shots hit and half wounded the terminators (somehow they rolled 1's). The next turn they initiated a charge at my men when they were close enough. Funny thing though, they all had power weapons and we had bayonets meaning we attacked first, 3 terminators were alive to make the charge and 1 of them was shot to pieces during over watch and the last 2 made it to combat. Both my guardsmen attacked first, hit and wounded the terminators and they both rolled 1's. It's was so fucking spectacular I made sure I remembered who those guardsmen were and literally promoted them to commissars using green stuff and 2 lord commissar conversions kits. Since then they have been my lucky soldiers that never seem to die. IMPERIAL GUARD FOE THE WIN!

[@martinthewarrior5016]

lol. i did a similar thing with my ogres for AoS. there was this one free people wizard who was annoying me and trying to blast my heroes to bits with his arcane bolt. in my turn one of my leadbelchers stepped out of his cover behind a ruined building, sniping the pesky wizard with his massive hand held cannon. i was so happy with this that i converted an ogre sniper character in the leadbelchers honour!

[@benvallow9886]

Elder Maxson They were Ultramarines Terminators, makes sense

[@Monsterpala]

Ash is right, try that with real terminators and the guardsman seem to die instantly.

[@loretta3791]

Elder Maxson this was when i was new to 40k and had about 25 death korps of krieg and one raptor my friend was the tau empire he had 30 soldiers i went against him and guess who won

[@someguy1530]

respect to you my friend, GUARD FOR THE WIN

[@joshheinz5328]

No one mu-tates like Gaston, E-vis-or-ates like Gaston, Pays homage to the Chaos Gods like Gaston!

[@hanibal43]

First I was about to like then I saw the heresy nice try slanash

[@cheerfulpessimist952]

6:19 No one mutates like Gaston!

[@Sam-jj5bj]

No one slaughters and eats souls like Gaston!

[@Sam-jj5bj]

Cheerful Pessimist Also, why does that photo exist?

[@robertgirtakovskis1670]

Sam because no one mutates like Gaston!

[@shadowstep1375]

@@Sam-jj5bj Or is as incredibly thickkk as gaston.

[@zozo4177]

I have a question: who is the oldest guardsman who is still alive. also how awesome video game will be if you play as an imperial Guardsmen in a first person shooter.

[@zozo4177]

The Emperor Of Mankind thank

[@morte2504]

Zozo Balls Sucker that was w joke. sly marbo is just most awesome guardsmen (he is subhuman if i remember correctly) OM Syndicate have a video about him

[@zozo4177]

The Emperor Of Mankind oh.

[@R4ND0mnesscoffeXXL]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@informationyes]

To play as sly marbo would be F*cking awsome

[@blasthunter5]

I find it very hard to believe they're sculpted all their lives to be killing machines, otherwise they'd likely survive at least a week in a combat zone.

[@tristanpiazza8883]

They are litteraly used as cannon fodder, thrown into the ennemy's face. Their only strengh is sheer number and they usually face xenos and these are super duper scary. They also have really shitty equipment ( one human live is consider to be the cheapest currency as vehicules and even missiles or such have to be manufactured on forge world and there is few of them still active )

[@SashaMinkh]

yeah thats some bull. Tons of Guardsmen are just conscripts, from reasons "i just need some food" to "im literally forced to as part of a sentencing"

[@alshabib5849]

blasthunter5 They are recruited as a tithe from the local PDFs. It's understated that Imperial Guardsmen are the best of the PDF, their meant to be professionals

[@BIGESTblade]

Guardsmen are chosen to be soldiers in the moments of their birth, everything they know from the start of their lives are walls of their academy and orders of their instructors. Ecxept for penal legions, they recive like 0 training, but in some rare occasions criminals have even more combat expirience than most guard veterans.

[@ekulerudamuru]

blasthunter5 GW made that lore so that the IG will not be too OP, though in some lore if used right with a great leader that has brain that leads them, they fucking wreck everything..that said leader also become a saint if I remember correctly..

[@MRMcLean98]

6:19 very unusual thing to find in a video like this... XD

[@syos1979]

MasterChica1987 he ate 4 dozen eggs too many

[@MRMcLean98]

XDD

[@MRMcLean98]

The eggs have been tainted!

[@JDWonders]

The story of Beauty and the Beast took place on an Imperial feudal world. Belle's father was a (non-chaos) heretek that experimented in creating rudimentary devices. The crone that cursed the Beast and his servants into their twisted forms was either a daemon of Tzeentch (caused change) or Slaannesh (cursed them into their twisted forms and forced them to experience extreme emotion to be "cleansed"). Gaston was merely trying to follow Imperial protocol. He was even pretty lenient in allowing Belle's father to live, since any official Imperial force would have likely outright killed him.

[@thenutella8846]

No one gets demonically possessed like gaston.

[@walterwilliams5222]

Question: I know it may depend on the regiment but if a Guardsman somehow survives to old age does she or he ever get to retire? Or is "KIA" the only retirement package?

[@CorvusCorone68]

sometimes yes, usually only if they managed to reach a high rank, which isn't impossible what with battlefield promotions; there are paradise planets they can retire to; usually it's too hard or undesirable to retire to the planet they came from; they might have forgotten where the planet was, it might be behind enemy lines, or they might have hated their home planet

[@gavir4379]

Used to be. Ollanious Pius, considered the Saint of the Imperial Guard, earned the right to retire before the Horus Heresy.

[@informationyes]

Im pretty sure retirment is heresy in 40k

[@coalmine9666]

The Imperial Guard Omnibus is great for questions like this. There was a case of someone retiring by lottery, but for the most part KIA is retirement.

[@informationyes]

They probably see death as retirment as they see it as going heaven by sitting at the right side of the emporer, I mean they dont really live for themselves when a gaurdsmen may typicly be conscipted and never see their home planet again let alone family

[@keentrasborg2566]

Emperor protects!

[@liuwang9899]

But He Also Attac

[@fyr7343]

FuckYouGuy but most important he is dead

[@martinthewarrior5016]

yus

[@DarksaberForce]

Ahh...Bullshit

[@cassiusemmanualtheyoutubep3171]

Merrick..... A guardsmen life is to die, my job has always been to send them to places where they can die. I'm not afraid to spend them, but I never waste men.

[@kasrkinwolf9709]

Forever Virgin you are a true hero

[@THEGRUMPTRUCK]

Because of their sacrifice, the inquisitor has the proof she needs. You DO have the proof you need, don't you, Inquisitor?

[@bossshun9]

What proof? I was in Kyras's mind and can't tell you where he is.

[@GnosisZX]

Merrick was an incredible guardsman he and some others survived weeks in tyranid infested world

[@vothbetilia4862]

Merrick was my fav, he cared so much about the guardsmens death, plus their lives and had the balls to insult the commander and the Inquisition.

[@Dorunek]

average life of a guardsman: ain't nobody got time for that

[@mrknifeguy9]

Heretic. Service to the Emperor is most glorious.

[@angrysammich5762]

The average lifespan of a guardsman? 3. 2. 1.

[@KrautGoesWild]

Suggestion: Live of humans who sided with aliens or non-Imperial cultures (Tau, Eldar, even Orks...)

[@biocaster777]

They already did one on Tau's humans.

[@fellowman8796]

Tau: Will live quite a peaceful life, though they'd be discriminated and not have as much rights/(seriously, you and your successors will never become a part of the ethereal caste. All the higher ups in the tau empire are tau! Seriously, discrimination is real in the tau empire.) Eldar? Though I haven't seen a book with such an occurrence, I can say that you'd be viewed as how us humans view a gorilla: Savage, crude, and dimwitted. Orks? Yeah... you'd probably know what'd happen there.

[@ekulerudamuru]

Fellow Man not really, exodites (those eldar living in actual planets) sometimes saves and let humans live in their planet as long as they wont bother them and lice separately from them..the Eldar though arrogant bastards are not genocidal maniacs unless it's necessary for them.. for the Orks living with Humans, their called Diggas so yeah not impossible as might think..

[@Morrigi192]

Tau are basically space commies.

[@InquisitorBoomBoom]

They're considered traitors, death is the forgiveness we can offer to them.

[@JasonSilverain]

The guard are not sculpted from birth to be killing machines, while it does occur on a few rare planets (death worlds or those under constant siege) many are conscripts from local planetary defence forces, taken from prisons (conscripts or occasional volunteers from penal colonies) or actual volunteers who believe that life in the guard would be better than their current conditions I.E. the underhive and attempt to go through the training.

[@JasonSilverain]

Also the guardsmen are often taught incorrect propaganda about their foes through the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer which is jokingly referred to as toilet paper by more veteran troops. (though use of the primer as such is punishable by death)

[@coalmine9666]

I was talking to the wife about this last night actually and her response was "How are humans still alive?" Plot armor. lol

[@VisionsDark]

" Taking it was easy, holding it will be hard "

[@joshdyer9158]

but you DO get a free flashlight

[@wwcwcp09]

Suggestion: 40 facts on Imperial Guardmen training!!!!

[@derhektor6067]

What is the highest rank in the imperial guard an ordinary guardsman could reach?

[@Xaxp]

If a Guardsman is smart/skilled/lucky/sneaky enough to not die on his first deployment, chances are he's good enough to last the rest of his campaign. That's what separates the veterans from the cannon fodder.

[@echos5823]

That is, unless gray knight/inquisition/whatever thinks the guardsman have seen too much.

[@Graotron]

Great video guys! Looking forward for more.

[@FirstLast-gk6lg]

Question: What % of Imperial conflict across the galaxy is fought without the involvement of astartes?

[@arms53]

99%

[@andriuspakulis2948]

About 5%

[@Harry-ct3hw]

An extremely large percentage. Relative to the actual size of the galaxy, and the inconceivable number of conflicts occuring, youd be pretty safe in saying only a fraction of a percent of engagements involve the space marines

[@nebroski]

An Imperial Guardsman will never see an Astarte, it is just not really possible... so probably 99.9%

[@12halo3]

99.9999%

[@edde591]

Great videos bud, keep em coming. I'm gonna soon get a master's degree in 40k lore.

[@soccerandtrack10]

question:what happens to missising ships lost in warp? and what meta physically happens to ships who lose their gallifray?

[@CorvusCorone68]

lolz i think Gallifray is from Doctor Who, the home planet of the Time Lords; the word here is Gellar; the missing ships could have everyone onboard slaughtered, they could be corrupted by Chaos, they could have their occupants slaughtered and then inhabited by xenos, such as Orks or Genestealers; i dunno if you ever heard of the Warhammer 40K Space Hulk games but that's what they are, lost ships that turned up bearing nasties

[@draconianwarking]

Ships lost in the warp eventually run out of fuel or have their crew overrun, the warp is far smaller than realspace so they are eventually drawn to each others slight gravity and over thousands of years make a big ball of wrecks, genestealers are often on those because in the event that they seize control over a ship they can't pilot it so they just sit in hibernation until they detect new food The warp is like a ocean inhabited by sea monsters except its had so much souls (demonfood) pumped into it for thousands of years that it's absolutely filled with them, the only reason that they aren't immediately overrun is that the ship has a bubble of realspace around it which makes it impossible for warp entities to get to it or it's warp presence is so low it doesn't attract attention

[@donwebber9071]

The guidance of the astronomican is the light of the emperor. However the paths are never clear with warp storms, daemon energy's, or even the few ships that can fight in the warp. The warp fields mostly work but as he said if they fail weird stuff happens. Sometimes ships can enter and never be heard from for ages. One ancient ship entered the warp prior to the heresy, only to reappear crewless sometime in the 42nd millennium. Their archeotech found made some salvagers governors of a small system.

[@christophermonheit3993]

I would love to see a video about some of the fabled Imperial Guard Heroes that the IG supposedly read about in their spare time

[@newnamesameperson397]

Question: since belief in something by the masses is enough to make it to come true in the 40k universe is it possible to become god like if you get millions to believe in that?

[@timothycrouse7369]

Not all guard are trained to be soldiers at birth only a few worlds practice this including Krieg and what was once Cadia. Most comprice of volunteers or forced conscription.

[@YeagerBomb-ww3bn]

Suggestion, a video on the realities of being in the Space Navy!

[@Morrigi192]

Fact #21: Your counter-boarding security forces are severely undermanned and primarily equipped with pikes and shotguns. Their most common opponent is Orks.

[@thegooddoctor2009]

With all the war that humans face, and the general lack of privacy, how do people finds enough time to bang, let alone raise a child? And with all the deaths that happen, how does the human population not enter a decline? Do humans breed like rabbits, or are they vat grown or something?

[@AliveRumble082]

thegooddoctor2009 actually both. One humans under stress tend to have sex as a way to relieve that tension if for nothing more than a moment. Especially when they really don't have any luxuries at all to do in exchange. So that might play a part. Krigg regiments actually do have artificial wombs to boost their population since hey are a regiment making world.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

not officially of course, mehcanicus never did find any trace of such artificial wombs. bet its some fucked up Daemonculaba shit going on there.

[@12halo3]

Simple he over exaggerated the entirety of the imperium

[@25angel20]

Question: If 30k Imperial army and 40k Imperial Guard would meat head-on who would win the fight? Just some meatbags and and tanks, no navy or Astartes support.

[@Latias117]

You could do a video on a guardsman experiance in training? I remember reading a while back (be it a black library book or something) of a guardsman being exicuted as an example for not properly cleaning his weapon. (It could have been the novel double eagle, but im not sure, it was AGES ago XD)

[@Payne99]

For the Emperbur! But seriously great job these informative videos are enjoyable to catch up on.

[@pinkmaster123]

Survive 16h, now Captain

[@kelvinsantiago7061]

GOD DANGIT WHERE THE HECK WAS THIS WHEN I WAS A KID!!!?!!

[@fctheone]

Suggestion: I noticed all the Sisters of Battle tend to be white-haired and pale-skinned. Do they bleach they hair/skin in some sort of purity ritual?

[@Eseseso494]

Imperial star destroyer vs sword class frigate

[@js463]

Yeay, more guardsmen stufs, i would be interested to see what is the daily life of a Sentinel operator

[@FirstCitizenXIV]

haha Supreme beings known as Space marines lol you guys should do a video on the Chaos Champions like Kharn, Lucius or Typhus. great vid

[@AdeptusSteve]

That mad pic of Gaston just blew me up lol!

[@Cziro_]

Sugestion: Imperial tank crew trainings/life/duty etc :)

[@JohnTheSpaceCoon]

Therapist: Warp Gaston isn't real. He cannot hurt you. Warp Gaston: 6:19 * exists *

[@beave200]

question in time of low or no supply of food has there ever been a case of the imperial guard eating the fallen enemy or resorting to cannibalism ?

[@Erreul]

"Write about a Slanneshi cult soon." Ogod. Praise any other God, please.

[@aguywithalotofopinions412]

You can’t really blame the ones that deflect to the Tau

[@SayNoToDemocide1]

Where did you get the images shown at 5:53 and 6:20 from? Though I see that the latter is a photoshopped Gaston from the movie "Beauty and the Beast".

[@samizdatbroadcasts7654]

The film Event Horizon shows what happens when you traverse the warp without a gellar field.

[@omegawilliam95s36]

Warhammer 40k: Where using your hyperdrive has a 99.9 percent mortality rate.

[@jrreedve2825]

GUARDSMAN (2018) comes to mind!

[@syley5075]

A guardsmen life is To die

[@Camelwrestler]

Oh to be a man of the guard, to hoist my lasgun towards the stars, to smash weird creatures, sing with the emperor's preachers, that's the life of a man in the guard!

[@fellowman8796]

THis is my favorite imperial guard quote that I've found in the internet: Within that weak sack of meat and bone, uncared for by his god and wept for by none, beats a heart. A human heart, that carries with it the strength and courage of all mankind. Within that sack of meat is ensconced the hope, the will, and the fury of every man woman and child from every corner of the Imperium. Within that weak sack of meat, festooned in thin armour and weapons only powerful in numbers, beats the heart of a man. And for ten thousand years, the hearts of men have beaten, strongly, in defiance of your so called "powers". For ten thousand years, the hearts of men have stood united against a galaxy that despises them for no reason save that they had the audacity not to lay down and die. For then thousand years, your black crusades have been pushed back, beaten down and made a mockery of, by weak sacks of flesh with cheap weapons and disposable equipment. For that weak sack of flesh that you so gleefully mock is no super soldier, no immortal warrior, no creature cursed by chaos like you. He is a man, an imperial guardsmen drawn from some forgotten corner of the Imperium to fight for his species and for the safety of the people he loves. He is a factory worker, a farmer, a storekeeper, a father, a brother, a son, a mere man. And against creatures like you, teeming and numberless, powered by the very will of thirsting gods......... He holds the line. He has held the line for ten thousand Years. So whats your excuse, monster?

[@vertigq5126]

Desertion = out of the frying pan, into the horrifying unreality of psychic warp-fire

[@acexander26]

Question: What would happen if the 40k universe met the Dark souls universe?

[@AliveRumble082]

Ace Xander who said they aren't connected. Hell they probably could fit it into the canon.

[@acexander26]

Connor Ruch that maybe true considering they're both really messed up ,but I'm just curious to see what would happen

[@misfitsa2826]

Now that was way cool! Thank you!

[@syos1979]

6:20 imperial guardsman after a trip to a warp according to lore, notice his craze for having every inch covered in hair and being way better than Gaston.

[@willobi]

The average life expectancy of a new imperial guardsmen from deployment and his first engagement is 15 hours.

[@AnthorionHuss]

Build a wall

[@TN-xx4ih]

AnthorionHuss papa trump

[@MrCouchmen]

and every xeno and heretic will pay for it. For every single brick.

[@Random.Rebel.Lt.General]

Of courses

[@randomcenturion7264]

AnthorionHuss- We did. But that fuck Tzeench tricked Magnus into breaking it down. Now we gotta start all over again.

[@VladtheImpaler_99]

Being an imperial guardsman is a lot like playing planetside 2. You run around for twenty minutes like you know wtf is going on, then as soon as you get to the front you get shot in the face by someone a thousand times better than you.

[@calikk26]

6:32 is that Gaston from beauty and the beast, covered in faces, different copies of his own face to be exact?

[@alphariusfuze8089]

*I feel this is more realistic universe, even there is devils and chaos~* *_For me it was_*

[@zanir2387]

T'au fire Warriors: treat their mooks with respect and prevent useless casualties. Imperial guard: "we have reserves" Imperial creed: " suffers not the xenos to live!" Human lógics....

[@leeellis7553]

Any chance of getting a look at the lemon Russ tank

[@Tommy1977777]

berthing on transports reminds me of my time on ship as a Marine.

[@OhSPY.]

Were a Guardsman’s life not filled with horror, he would not know to be filled with hope.

[@bloodraven1190]

What average Guardsmen see, *piles of fellow guardsmen who are dead* what sly marbo sees *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@Stirl2]

Horrible Realities of the Death Korps of Krieg! Medical Soldiers/leaders in the Astra Military!

[@ZIgoTTo10000]

Where do you find all these cool pic/artwork?

[@johnnys8393]

Question(s): When an Eldar dies in battle, what happens if their soulstone is taken by their foe? And is there some kind of black market for selling/trading eldar soulstones?

[@GnosisZX]

No cause then the eldar will send you there dark cousins as retribution never ever touch an eldar soulstone

[@ricopeacedarer]

Question: Is there a IG Regiment of Aquatic/Amphibious unit?

[@josephstalin6549]

Do top ten heresies by OneMindSyndicate next

[@azariah_kyras]

God. Warping sounds fucking terrifying.

[@vicnedel02]

How about a video on the horrible realities of exploring a dangerous newly discovered planet as the crew of a Rogue Trader's ship?

[@DenethorDurrandir]

Question: what do you think about rougue primaris marines joining tau army? and if the imperium of man goes against all that the Emperor stood for, isn't Tau empire better place for his true followers since they can be free of religion , pursue technological advancement and/or fight the enemies of mankind there?

[@silver4831]

The Tau basically have an organised religion being the Greater Good, the etherials being the top of it. They also don't allow people to branch out at what they are good at, you are forced into one thing forever.

[@DenethorDurrandir]

that is not entirely true, the tau allow any other species in their empire to "keep" their religions and do not see Greater Good as a religion, more of a common cause or rather a way of life, you could compare Greater Good to capitalism/communism etc. but not to religion also not allowing people to branch out concers mostly only Tau population and aliens (to the Tau) living on main worlds, human/alien colonies would have more freedom as long as they fill their quota as a whole

[@silver4831]

They allow them to keep a changed version of the original religion, we can only imagine how changed things would be to fit in with the greater good. They do worship and have faith in the system and leaders, basically to the levels of a religion. They can't even question the leaders or go against a single word.

[@FirstLast-ow1pt]

>Rouge primaris marines Door is right over there, heretic

[@DenethorDurrandir]

It's not that they can't question the leaders (excluding etherials), and they sure can do that, it's that questioning etherials is an alien thought to them, the thought that etherial is wrong doesn't even cross their minds as a result of etherial mind control (or whatever you wanna call it)

[@EvilPaladin11]

Unless you're part of the "All Guardsmen party". Those Guardsmen actually try to use their brains to stay alive to fight another day.

[@theannouncer5538]

Man, I always thought it would be cool to live on the far future... but this is horrifying😂

[@ami6325]

Honestly I've expected worse.

[@TheEarthDragoon]

suggestion: the rest of the facts and lore on the badab war

[@deltasquad8817]

6:22 I died laughing in my bed that i came back to life for shcool the next day....

[@severknight1143]

Why does it sound like captain Zapp Brannigan is leading this army....

[@sneakysnowman5150]

fight die replenish the imperial guards slogan

[@Gringottone]

Suggestion Topic: Nationally or culturaly adapted 40K sets/chapters, like Polish Warhammer 40k Hussar's or Bavarian Orcs. Is there any more Orc Lore? Im under the ipression that there are no really meaningful Orc names.

[@coalmine9666]

Suggestion: Imperial Guard Medical Personnel, plzzzzzzz

[@01MrCapricorn]

suggestion: The Dark Muses (!) :D

[@triggeredtycho2311]

This gave me flashbacks

[@pplr1]

Here I thought the IG was just canon fodder. A few questions. Have to ask, how can everyone be drafted when cities still function? How can so many want to flee when they supposedly have been raised to die for the Imperium? How can the IG find time to fight orks, necrons, and more when they are so busy with their most "common" enemy-other regular humans? Does the Inquisition still kill off any IG units that defeat chaos marines? As stupid as killing off your best units may sound I thought I've heard of the Inquisition doing this to prevent spreading chaos (by getting rid of those who just proved they can defeat it on a battlefield..)

[@FGS-yk3vc]

Army of light? More like army of flashlights

[@lilruss15]

8:30 what is the name of this faction? they looks DOPE

[@demagyar7956]

With the broad exception of conscripts and penal legionnaires, the vast majority of guardsmen are volunteers. 90%+ are male, with the majority of females being in female only regiments that are also usually not line soldiers, instead usually being dedicated logistical regiments, even in the relatively excepting 41st millennia. Warp travel is safe for the most part, with the exception of higher cases of hysteria. Warp travel, while taking varying amounts time to complete, is also quick and you can expect fleets to show up with each other within hours or days at most. This is not discounting the danger, but if you compared warp failure to commercial jet crashes you’d find warp travel to be as safe or only slightly less so. Guardsmen casualty rates are also extremely over hyped. To top it off, most books were written by non military people, and as anyone with access to the internet can tell you, very shallow. IIRC Armageddon had only 50,000 guardsmen and like 10,000 marines. 50k?! More people died in the Somme then guardsmen dedicated to “imperium ending” wars by BL writers.

[@sethatkinson4724]

Where did you get this info?

[@demagyar7956]

@@sethatkinson4724 ciaphas Caine + common sense

[@chambers5945]

Why don't you see gallon field on the battle field?

[@jalexwheeler7751]

Real Men with Real Flashlights. Everyone else is just faking it.

[@rileyschoonmaker3823]

What would the Imperium look like had the Emperor not been fatally wounded by Horus during the Heresy?

[@jeraldgrande1644]

Question. If someone committed suicide in the imperium wouldn't they still goes to chaos? Or is it not like Hell in a since of such a sin?

[@Morrigi192]

The soul might go to Slannesh, being the god of excess.

[@jeraldgrande1644]

Morrigi192 what does excess mean?

[@qtreis]

Suggestion: What are the worst battles of Attrition?

[@bogdankoldunenko8430]

google Krieg regiments

[@Morrigi192]

The ones that the Death Korps of Krieg participate in. They're so indoctrinated to die for the Emperor that one of the main duties of their commissars is to hold them back to avoid wasting their lives needlessly. Also, rumor has it that the number of souls in a Death Korps unit is on the equipment roster.

[@marajade2932]

"Iv seen 10 482 troops die in a blink, im calling exterminatus on their asses' Commisar Auttha 32nd Armageddon steel legion