Imperial Guard: Tallarn Desert Raiders - Lore & History | Warhammer 40,000

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[@themanfromtheeast2048]

Space Marines are cool and all but there is nothing like an image of your very own culture to pull you into a community.

[@sirunklydunk8861]

Perturabo: Yes, this planet is devoid of life! Now we can retrieve the- Why do I hear boss music?

[@nofuxgivens2797]

I'm an iron warrior from the first day they got their own rules in 3rd. It's always bugged the fuck out of me that no one has ever bested perturabo except for the tallarn raiders....

[@forgefathereli8354]

@@nofuxgivens2797 Perturabo also invaded Medusa during the 10th black crusade (because everything with the iron hands seems to HAVE to due with something Iron and the number 10... *shrugs* ) And we beat your Iron Warriors and random Black Legionares and Abbadon back to the eye of terror all without any Primarchs on our side. So to be fair Perturabo Has been bested more than once I only knew about the time My boys the Iron Hands did it. I didn't even know who won the battle of tallarn until today. I just always knew it was "the biggest tank battle in history" Until the current record holder: When Perturabo tried to invade Medusa AGAIN during the 13th Black crusade! lol. We won cuz...Primaris marines?

[@forgefathereli8354]

@@nofuxgivens2797 And as a longtime gamer myself I appreciate your longevity in this hobby I also started in the 90's late 2nd early 3rd edition. I played Orks and space marines. I played Iron Hands long before they even had unique rules lol. But as soon as they did i started investing in the army more heavily. Only to have to buy all that primaris stuff... I don't mind i had plenty of time to save up the money i just wish the old marine stuff was as good Point for point and it just isn't... (except tactical troops, dreads, sternguard and vanguard) but all my predators and razorbacks and vindicators and land raiders barely see the table anymore... At least my dreadnoughts still make it, cheap as hell.

[@nofuxgivens2797]

@@forgefathereli8354 that's a bit of a revisionist twist to what happened....the iron warriors destroyed most of the surrounding worlds and defenses before attacking medusa. They train wrecked a few of the mobile fortresses and would have won but Iron Hands got reinforcements. Abbadon and Peturabo disengaged before having to fight the reinforcements. I honestly am not keen on what the iron warriors and/or Peturabo did in the 13th crusade. I recall they retconned some of it. Chaos won...there is now more systems and worlds taken by them. cadia is gone. Comms and travel is cutoff to a lot of humanity now. As for the iron hands all I know is that medusa was attacked by traitor armored guard and they destroyed one of their mobile fortresses and by the time iron hands had fought back and won they lost most of the chapter.

[@forgefathereli8354]

@@nofuxgivens2797 lol All i can say is that is not at all what it says in the most recent books. And you make it seem like its a real contest. its just a fictitious universe. Besides this is clearly all part of the emperors plan to defeat all his enemies.

[@thydzz2180]

Man, hearing The Iron Warriors, an Astartes Legion known for sieges and armor got beaten back by an Imperial Guard Regiment even after they got virus bombed gave me chills

[@user-is3ku4tg9onahnotgonna]

They didn't, imperial reinforcements arrived including loyalist astartes which meant the IW had to withdraw.

[@AmerikanSkull]

Perturabo: No you cant use Gurella tactics on a siege!! Tallarn: Haha, tank go brrr.

[@hugmynutus]

Perturabo: While you were busy being human I studied the baneblade Tallarn Desert Raiders: *deepstrikes behind Perturabo* no hard feelings kid

[@mohamedouhibi5389]

who would have thought tactics and conserving your troops are more effective than just throwing millions of men into a line of fire

[@Dan13l159]

As is with the nature of the 40K universe and general guard tactics... We need MORE REGIMENTS!!! XD seriously man this series is awesome I’d love you to keep going with it

[@robertoleary5470]

Can’t wait for the Tanith

[@HollowSatanous]

First and Only :)

[@PomaiKajiyama]

My personal favorite obscure regiment is the Athonian Tunnelrats, the most 40k looking regiment, but you definitely should talk about the Penal Legions, they are a 40k mainstay, have a bunch of lore behind them, and the last chancer novels are hilarious. How about the Tempestus Stormtroopers? They kinda aren't technically an IG unit but kinda are, might fit in a miscellaneous video...

[@TekkVonDoom]

yes.. do tunnelrats.. and also Celestine

[@Azoth86730]

Inquisitorial Stormtroopers are also cool

[@PerunAU]

Tanith. Including its evolution as they folded others in.

[@SultanFilm]

Forgot the Dune references. Desert world, live in underground caverns and cities, reclaim water from the dead. So there is a heavy Fremen reference.

[@italianspartacus]

I made that reference!! Right before I talked about their general appearance :D

[@SultanFilm]

Guess I didn't hear dune. Just heard tank girl in the line.

[@AwesomeLionSaurus]

These guys sound awesome! I love it when humanity allies up with xenos. Yes, yes, I know - I am a "heretic". I just really enjoy it when the "good guys" join forces to fight of the "evil" ones. The limit of my Warhammer lore is what you and other youtubers teach me so I don't have any specific suggestions for next video, but would love to hear more about factions who join forces. As always, fantastic video my battle-brother!

[@guardsmanlars6797]

HERETIC

[@toledochristianmatthew9919]

The Imperium does not hate all xenos. Heck they are even willing to make alliances and make trade at times. But when you have the likes of Orks, Eldar, Tyranids, and even Tau, they would have a right not to trust another xeno species

[@ohamatchhams]

@@toledochristianmatthew9919 Oddly enough during Dark Age of Technology, Humanity's military capabilities are so powerful that it forced the warmongering and war-loving Orks to sign peace treaties with humans lol If A.I is immune to corruption of chaos and sets to be more consistent with loyalty or harmonious between different 3 types of men, humanity might still in it's supposed golden age lol

[@scrapinator8910]

Say it with me, Tanith First (and only).

[@carlbrittain1993]

Gaunt's Ghosts, form up!!

[@HollowSatanous]

Fix Straight Silver!

[@nopeacejustwar1664]

Man I miss these lore videos, these were the good ole days

[@asnodt42]

As if surviving an Exterminatus wasnt insane enough, they then proceed to utterly destroy the shit out of an entire Astartes chapter who'se entire personality revolves around sieges. These guys must have planet sized balls, im sure Catachan Warriors would be best friends with them lol.

[@landenmorton4543]

That picture of the Scions and Banshees fighting is cool as hell

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

I posted on the 40k wiki about a Hypothetical Guard regiment that I came up with based on the Viet Cong. Their origin story was that they lived on a Death World much like Cretacia or Catachan where the inhabitants primarily lived in tunnels and bunkers but only coming out for hunting and gathering. They develop tactics resembling a mix between those of the Tallarn Desert Raiders and Catachan Jungle Fighters because they had to fight off an assault on their planet from a Death Guard warband. Unfortunately the community of the wiki assumed that they would be a complete copy-paste of the Viet Cong and said that that backstory was stupid because the Death Guard would win because "fear tactics" wouldn't work on them and the zombie plague would be too traumatic. I explained everything and said that the Viet Cong knockoffs would become callous and learn to shoot the infected in the head and burn the bodies, but the fuckers didn't seem to listen and said "a single Guard Regiment can't fight the Death Guard." It sounds like they're wanking the Death Guard a bit too much. I know they corrupt the environment but that's a given with Nurgle. If the Death Guard can be killed and sabotaged before they can take over it's fine. It's part of an origin story after all.

[@vulkan7800]

I like it

[@wallacestenson8597]

Meh, they're full of themselves. I like it.

[@johnfraire6931]

Let me guess, wh40kfanon? Those guys are pretty zealous, they gave me a hard time with my custom chapter way back in the day. Personally I use wh40khomebrew nowadays, people there are more chill.

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

@@johnfraire6931 Warhammer 40k wiki

[@johnfraire6931]

@@samuelrodriguez9801 Oh my man, that ain't for homebrew! That's where official canon goes; at least it's supposed to be. Anyways, sounds like a sick enough concept for a full article if you ever did want to write one up on the ol' Homebrew wiki.

[@TheEvilShepard]

Been watching lots of your lore videos, so just wanted to say thanks - I love 40k and your style of narrative is really good. I chuckled more than once and learned some cool facts as well :)

[@beanie1636]

I've been looking forward to this one! Excellent stuff, dude.

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

(Wrist-Clasp)- Hey, Brother! Awesome video, and great assessment of the Tallarn- I was never a fan of the Guard, but I just read the HH Novel “Tallarn” a few months back, and gained a totally newfound respect for them. Great timing, and a great video! And yeah, watch out for those sneaky closet vacuums- they’ll getcha.

[@huytra8157]

Can you do a video about the attilan rough riders aka Mongol in space.

[@PoorManatee6197]

Arent they huns in space? You know, "attila"

[@huytra8157]

PoorManatee 6197 I’m sorry my bad, what I mean is that Attilan rough riders was inspired by Central Asia nomadic tribes. So yes, both Mongol and the Hun can be considered to be inspirations for the attilan rough riders.

[@tafnac75]

currently painting up 20 Attilan Rough Riders for my Praetorian Guard Army, would love to hear about both of these old units

[@huytra8157]

Also not to confuse anyone, both the Hun and Mongol are Central Asia nomadic horsemen. So there is a common ancestor hint for both the Hun and the Mongol.

[@mohammadmutari6214]

These are my kind of people. thanks for posting this

[@forgefathereli8354]

Keep up the good work and do More and more regiments, As a huge 40k fan I love these kinds of videos, i live for them. Another thing to do is focus on specific chapters/regiments/cults/ etc... from each army in general. A nice 25-30 minute video on each one would be perfect.

[@sobanred7509]

Keep up the good work with these videos as I love to watch you lore videos.

[@HinokasArabfan1]

This makes me very happy as a middle eastern.

[@rossstubbs7398]

Tomorrow my girlfriend, in the Netherlands, and I are painting a veterans guardsmen box in a desert theme before I go home on Thursday to South Africa.🇿🇦

[@MrUzzynator]

Love the Tallarn. Good representation of Arab/South East Asians that makes sense. Badass human guerilla warfighers using mechanized infantry hit and run tactics. Very realistic and clearly influenced from SAS and Mujahideen. I mean fending off an entire LEGION of Traitor Astartes, wow

[@comradekenobi6908]

Whats South East Asian about them?

[@MrUzzynator]

@@comradekenobi6908 Afghanistan Mujahideen who fought off the Russians, using Guerilla tactics, Cold War era

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@MrUzzynator oh ok

[@bopy420]

First time watching this channel, nice and simple I'm quite a fan. It isn't a dude making his voice deep trying to sound dramatic with music way too loud in the background Just a man talking about the lore short and sweetly. I'll def be checking more videos

[@italianspartacus]

thank you very much dude!! i will be starting a new 40k series on the Eldar covering the many different Aspect Warriors, but I have a primarch video that is sorely over due :)

[@warwolf116]

Definitely want to hear about Tanith First and Only. Such an interesting regiment.

[@carlbrittain1993]

Gaunt's Ghosts!! The Lord Executor Militant is waiting patiently for your work... patiently for now.

[@Vaegarion]

Definitely building my Sisters of Battle to this vid. Well done sir, thank you for more great content!

[@italianspartacus]

you saw the Sisters versions of these, right/

[@Vaegarion]

@@italianspartacus I saw the Our Martyred Lady One, loved it. Is there more!?

[@italianspartacus]

Yeah I did Ebon Chalice :)

[@Vaegarion]

@@italianspartacus Just watched it! I love all these lore vids. Saw that you got into some AOS. It seems pretty interesting. I started with Warhammer Fantasy like 20 years ago so dipping into the AOS lore felt like it would be jarring.

[@maDbiL]

Finally, been waiting for this. Thank you. How about we do Mordian Iron Guard next? Just a suggestion.

[@italianspartacus]

i already covered them!! :)

[@maDbiL]

@@italianspartacus Oh yes you did. Sorry about that.

[@Dustbinlid1]

You can see GW pulling inspiration from the Long Range Desert Group of WW2, which would in turn later heavily assist in the beginnings of the British SAS.

[@tafnac75]

also they remind me of the 7th Armoured Division aka " The Desert Rats "

[@samuel10125]

Thats pretty much it and when you look at where WH40K was created it makes sense.

[@CrimsonGuard1992]

Iron Warriors: "Why is the sand speaking low gothic?"

[@mohamedouhibi5389]

yeah its basically vietnam LOL

[@Vince_86]

So they're Fremen. Cool af. Appreciate your lore videos

[@italianspartacus]

My pleasure brother!

[@michaelwilliams7292]

ah my favorite regiment

[@jackiesantos2121]

Want a pair of Garden Inn use hit-and-run tactics besides charging enemy like a suicidal Madman

[@stephencrockett3084]

Tanith first and only

[@mattgrandich3977]

Nice comparison of the Tallarn and the Afghan-Soviet War. One wonders where GW gets its inspiration.

[@woodlandcreature8857]

Tallarn are a walking Dune reference, and I love it

[@michaelhowell2326]

Thank you, Sparticus. You go back to your games now.

[@forgefathereli8354]

The Catachan jokes are well received lol

[@takedasamurai238]

my 3 fave imperial guards faction are krieg preatorian and tallarn... I just wanna say shame they don't do the last 2 models

[@tswims92]

Can’t wait till you cover the Pretorian Guard. Got the best uniforms and really fun flavor even if there isn’t a ton of lore like Cadian Shock Troopers or the Steel Legion. Plus this way you can cover Blood Axe Mercenaries, something no other IG units have. For Pretoria and the Emperor!

[@Milquetoastfireball]

The Tanith don't have a huge amount of lore? (Scoffs in Dan Abnett)

[@racspartan1]

Yes more Guard videos.

[@batman9592]

Do them all! Especially the Ork Hunters. They are so cool!

[@comradecrawdaddy3343]

Omg Tankgirl. I remember first seeing that movie when I was just a young Crawdad. Early 90s

[@HollowSatanous]

So much lore for the Tanith First and Only!!!

[@Fdejonge84]

tbh a regiment of ff style dragoons would be pretty baller as well big dragon hunters ?

[@terynmidzain7089]

I’m getting back into 40k. I was sent this channel so I could learn the lore and pic which set I want to go with. I was hoping to branch out of the traditional space marines, and the boys in blue. I got to say holy shit! Every IG regiment is fucking badass!! I love these vids man! I can’t choose which one I want. I’m thinking either the Death Corps or Krieg or Elysian Drop Troops. But these guys would be bad ass af to play!!

[@italianspartacus]

HAHAH thank you so much dude! If you're looking for more lore, PLEASE check out Luetin, Wolf Lord Rho, and Baldermort. The latter two are up and coming channels who do an amazing job. Rho goes into a lot of the smaller vignettes from the Horus Heresy, using direct quotes from the book and extrapolating on them. Baldermort has AMAZING voice acting skills and does a really good job of really bringing you into the lore on a ground level; you feel like you're listening to an audio book. Luetin, on the other hand, is the gold standard of 40k lore on KZbin. Here's been here forever and covers SO many topics that it's hard to encapsulate him in one thesis style sentence hahah. I'll also be covering some more 40k lore in the very near future, I've been taking a break from it to focus on some new gaming content, but I'll becoming back to it very shortly :) Anything in specific you'd like to know more about?

[@terynmidzain7089]

ItalianSpartacus thanks for the suggestions man! My buddy also sent me Luetin as well! I’ll search the others up ASAP! I need lots of videos while work has slowed down 😂 Ooh, that’s a tough one. One of the reasons I got into 40k was because my friend made me read the Grey Knights book. I didn’t if you had a GK video yet but that’d be badass to learn even more about them! (I know their a bit cliché), or more about the Eldar and the Webway! Thanks so much for asking man!

[@italianspartacus]

OHH i have yet to cover GK on the channel, but i have also read the grey knights series and the most recent one by aaron dembski-bowden is bad ass.. they've always had a special place in my heart. i might crank one out soon :)

[@terynmidzain7089]

ItalianSpartacus fuck yes man!!! They’re so bad ass! I would’ve gone with them for my first tabletop set. But I feel like I wouldn’t have as much fun as I would now that I’ve been watching these vids! Ok I’ll have to look out for that GK book and author! I’ve been finishing up Salvatore’s Drizzt books. So I’ll need to take a fantasy break and will do a sci-fi dive next! Thanks for the suggestions and help man! Keep up the awesome work!! Also, I was definitely drinking a post workout protein shake with creatine while I was watching Catachan Junglr Fighters vid! No joke, I was on the exercise bike doing some post workout cardio too

[@jep77ray]

I still have my Tallarn. Mechanized with enough transportation for the full platoon. And a ton of armor

[@joezhangmd]

Don't forget the phantine - only guard flyers, the necromundans, the japol indentured, acid dogs, chem dogs, Attila, and the macabian jannisaries. Solar auxilla out of the question? How about a mention for the Tau gue'vesa and how that's changing now.(just a suggestion)

[@FakeAccount-ri6sr]

@ItalianSpartacus Can we get the most famous Traitor guard regiments/worlds that may or may havent fallen. (Chaos or not IDC)

[@ipapachubbs8609]

I want more of these videos bruh-

[@merlin4084]

I think you can continue with some of the lore for the more minor regiments that are known. At least the ones with enough fluff to fill out two regiments per video, if not one per video. For example, here is a list of the regiments I think could have a decent sized video made about them: 1) Harakoni Warhawks 2) Savlar Chem-Dogs 3) Attlian Rough Riders 4) Maccabian Jannissaries 5) Terrax Guard etc. Two regiments per video (depending on the amount of fluff) I think would be enough for you to make a 15 to 20 minute video. There are a good number of interesting Imperial Guard regiments and it would be shame if you only focused on the ones that only have model ranges and never went on with the rest of them.

[@nopeacejustwar1664]

More guard videos c’mon man I miss your lore!!

[@samrominski2290]

Cover the tanith please

[@Dingusmaningus]

Praetorian Guard next?

[@GreatgoatonFire]

The knight Who Ask About The Flesheater Courts video have crossed dimensions and franchise-lines so ask: Not to be pushy but how's about that meat-nommer soirée pictcast? I think it'd be sick if you covered the Armageddon Ork Hunters. The kitbashing potential of those diggaguards are off the chart, hook and chain.

[@CommissarMitch]

Everyone gansta until the sand speak low gothic.

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

Rough riders back now, but i prefer the armoured approach

[@juliodiaz1097]

Yes give us tanith

[@captainsalamander5473]

Hello!I am a video maker from Cina,I really love your series of warhammer lore,Can I translate some of your videos into Chinese and transfer to bilibili?

[@italianspartacus]

HELLO! Yes absolutely, just please link back to me here on KZbin, make sure you give me credit, and just shoot me a link ! :)

[@captainsalamander5473]

Sure!Thank you very much!

[@captainsalamander5473]

How should I give you the link?By twitter or gmail?

[@armyfreak9389]

Give Tanith 1st please

[@Amazing20225]

does the Emperor offer the Tallarnians 72 Virgins in the afterlife for fighting and dying in His name ?

[@gshort55]

praetorians please!

[@thil2894]

2:37 ''South of Inwit'' YES HE NAMED THE WORLD OF DADDY ROGAL ''Tallarn Reside, aDORNed'' HE SAID DORN!!!!!!!!!!

[@FrozenLord66]

the iron warriors going to siege tallarn the tallarn desert raiders i am gonna stop you right there

[@thegreatboi8357]

I feel like if they had ability to just dig into sand faster they would abuse the fuck out of that

[@samuel10125]

Thats right I think heard this regiments inspiration was the SASs hit and run tactics in North Africa.

[@lacka90]

Eldar should learn diplomacy

[@attalan8732]

North Africa Campaign Special Air Service

[@luxeternity]

Iron warriors create their own nightmares lol

[@ChillAssTurtle]

10 million tanks...? Astartes pls get on this shit

[@LordInter]

Tallarn were based on the afghan mujahideen made popular in Rambo around when GW was founded, who then became the Taliban......oops

[@captainmarvel76927]

IS, what is an email address I can send you a business proposal. It's not displaying on your channel.

[@eugeneoliveros5814]

669th like lets go

[@bluedog843]

If these guys were in the Middle East fighting against the US, we’d pull out immediately.

[@youngbloodbanana3376]

I just wish we were this united