Is Fire Warrior Really That Bad? | Warhammer 40k

[@Adeptusridiculous]

We got the game on good old games (paid for it no promo) if you want to make it work, you will need Mandalore's fix and some other stuff from www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Warhammer_40,000:_Fire_Warrior

[@vahlok1426]

"Imagine Hulk Hogan is in a cathedral, and he's fighting the Devil. Hogan is wearing about fifty trucks' worth of metal. Also the cathedral is the size of Rhode Island. And its in space." - Lord MandaloreGaming

[@GreaterSeraph]

It's quiet

[@krispykrisps7108]

It’s quiet.

[@tylerchadwell1267]

It's quiet

[@topgunskrill1392]

[boreal scream]

[@Cleanurself]

It’s quiet

[@YoBen100]

Legend says that a single Fire Warrior can take out three guardsmen in close combat and bring down alone Sister of Battle in full power armor with a wrestling move.

[@spurgu9769]

Technically with good dice throw it's possible

[@Tayletubby]

Does that actually happen in the game? Fire Warrior WWE?

[@why9541]

All we know is, he's called the Stig!

[@corinthiansdaniels3728]

I mean yea we watch him try it against a space marine only time I seen a sister laugh

[@raycearcher5794]

As Tau shall, BROOOOOTHERRRRRR

[@mabyeful]

I want a new T'au game that's just a Titanfall clone. Ideally I want an XCOMlike, but if it needs to be a shooter, let them use their Battlesuits now.

[@matijasostojic4288]

Honestly I would love a full on 40k mod for Xcom where you can encounter, fight and recruit units from the many different faction.

[@willhull7713]

A Tau Titanfall clone would be awesome... ... and I hate the Tau

[@Thedeadincursus]

I think a Tau mass effect game could be pretty neat and give a chance to flesh out some more auxiliary races

[@The_Sharktocrab]

40k needs way less turn based games

[@xenoblad]

Tau'tan fall : p

[@Dracobyte]

The fans deserve a better Tau game. I think this faction could have a Titanfall spiritual successor.

[@RumiHereFr]

Let this man cook imagine a XV8 battlesuit game

[@samuraibear5102]

I always saw something in the vein of lost planet

[@burnin8able]

considering how seemingly the entire internet collectively creams their jorts and the slightest HINT of a titanfall 3 GW could basically turn warhammer into a household name overnight with a legit titanfall 3 (but Tau)

[@blankityblankblank2321]

@@burnin8able with the popularity of warhammer games rn, and the untapped fandom of Titanfall, I can actually see something like that. The main issue is that you need pilotable mechs or big things for at least some of the other factions. I don't know enough of the lore to know if that is a thing.

[@Ike_of_pyke]

​@@RumiHereFrI don't want a specific battle suit , I'd want an array

[@devonclark1926]

Hearing Bricky say the name "mandaloregaming" was a mental flashbang I was not expecting today

[@utes5532]

I would've been surprised if he didn't mention him in some capacity, he's pretty much the reason Fire Warrior is in the zeitgeist to any extent

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

Someone needs to make these guys read the games novelization. It actually kicks ass.

[@BlazeMakesGames]

Look, James Workshop, hire the Sniper Elite guys, give them access to Tau models, and figure out how to do an X-Ray on a space marine That could be such a great Tau game

[@No_Superman10]

Warhammer 40k: Pathfinder Elite

[@TriCorp109VA]

Why not use this for an assasin?

[@leovaeg]

or they need to make an Assassinorum game, with different assassins and how they operate :)

[@tartarustrommler5454]

@@TriCorp109VA Because we don't want to play the imperium in every game until the end of time.

[@ecyor0]

@@TriCorp109VA No, give us good Xenos 40k content

[@pouncebounce9470]

We were promised brickey feet when you reach 20,000 on patreon. Where are the feet?

[@daedalus5253]

Bricky feat. Shy.

[@svenbrede6151]

It will be his de feet

[@sethkeown5965]

Thats discouraging. Edit: the feet pics...thats memey sure but foot do i now want that.

[@mistamomo]

20k people actually support these guys patreon?! Disgusting.

[@Balboainc]

​@@mistamomowelcome to the Internet

[@BoisegangGaming]

The T'au are begging for a Titanfall-like game where you can pilot a variety of vehicles or fight on foot. But, of course, because they're a Xenos faction, we're never going to see another game for them.

[@raycearcher5794]

Stomping through waves of baddies as bits of your crisis suit get shot off, and just as it explodes, you bail out - and you're commander Farsight, so you immediately start god-of-warring dudes with your haunted sword.

[@burnin8able]

@@raycearcher5794 the dawnblade is sized for his Coldstar battlesuit, and is naturally so massive I doubt even a space marine could wield it effectively in battle.

[@sparking023]

@@burnin8able pump him full of roids and use the the demonblade as the bustersword or dragonslayer

[@BoisegangGaming]

@@raycearcher5794 I'd rather we play as some new character, tbh

[@burnin8able]

@@sparking023 the Dawnblade is also very explicitly NOT of daemon origin. where it is from is nebulous and a mystery, but that is not one of the possibilities on the table. Implications range from ancient Aeldar to Necron to Old One or even an unnamed extinct ancient alien race.

[@johnthomason9980]

IT'S QUIET

[@someguy8842]

IT'S QUIET!

[@richardrichardhaleysguitar8810]

Mean while explosions go off

[@BlondieYouTube]

*LOUD CRACKING NOISES*

[@steweygrrr]

ITS QUIITSQITSQUIET

[@Hy93Ri0n]

ITS QUIET

[@vokkera6995]

People say we can’t have Slaaneshi enemies like Dante’s Inferno wasn’t published by EA back in 2010 lol just look at the enemies in the lust layer of hell and tell me they wouldn’t fit right in

[@collecter343]

Difference in terms of what people can tolerate these days.

[@warhawk9566]

​@@collecter343 people could tolerate way less in 2010

[@PhoenicopterusR]

​@warhawk9566 really depends on which groups you're putting under "people". 2010 was still during the peak time of normalized racism and sexism online, but there were arguably far less eyes on our communities. I mean, I remember seeing enough questionable stuff just in CoD emblems alone, and people would compliment it. So people outside? Sure way less tolerant, but overall it's probably less tolerant than that today.

[@Mechtoplasm]

Speaking of Tau as the focus, with the Raptor's as the accompanying Space Marine Chapter... Literally today, Oct 23rd, they announced a new Tau Book "Elemental Council" with Raptors as the enemy. A nice callback to this game.

[@mat5977]

That's really cool, is it on GWcommunity website?

[@burnin8able]

I saw GW announce that online and while I will absolutely read it because I'm a sucker for Tau lore, I just gotta say that cover art looks goofy as hell.

[@arthenosthefirst8176]

and then they immediately spoil that there's gonna be a big surprise villain T_T

[@collecter343]

Hell Yeah, book from Tau perspective is desperately needed.

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

​@burnin8able Fr the cover art looks like a cutscene from the game lmao!

[@alexrobinson3251]

Saying GOG doesn't sell the best stuff is disrespectful af, first time I've heard you say something so incredibly gen z Brick

[@marcog.verbruggen674]

Real. For the uninitiated, GOG sells absolute classics, almost always with massive optimization and modernization, including stuff that was originally fan-made and a hassle to get running, built into their version of the game, and all completely DRM free. They're one of the biggest forefronts of video game media preservation on top of selling timeless pieces of art, and obscure hidden gems and cult classics. And all this while also selling all the big names from the modern era just like steam. Maybe he was getting it mixed up with G2A? Cuz that's a shady key reseller..

[@calumgrainger]

Yeah this just seemed really out of touch and like someone who has only ever played on the PC three times so anything that isn't Steam is scary.

[@TeeBeeOhh]

Also they actually sell you the game and not just a license to play it for a bit like everyone else.

[@NorthernXY]

​@marcog.verbruggen674 I generally buy from GOG when I can. Though I've never heard they optimize games, even though they're owned by CDPR who have the ability to do it. I think The Witcher 4, which Geralt won't be the main character, will fail/suck. I'm assuming it'll be a character you're playing as and not a customized character you make. Which is the only way I see it working as anybody other than Geralt is a step down.

[@Girder3]

@@TeeBeeOhh No, they still just sell a license. Hence the EULA (End-user license agreement) included with copies of games. They just have a DRM-free offline installer, which makes it easier to make back copies of, and to share.

[@Ogreman2666]

DK, raw-dog Fallout 3 next!

[@Kingedwardiii2003]

It’s not a bad experience never had a crash or anything

[@beanmclean7959]

Yikes, I pray for those who choose to play original F3 and not some sort of TTW (Tale of Two Wastelands) modlist. Aiming down sights is something we take for granted in shooters.

[@sarahmaxima]

​@@beanmclean7959For some reason on my pc vanilla F3 wont even launch, i have to use 2 watelands.

[@Kingedwardiii2003]

@@beanmclean7959 one of the few games that doesn’t requires mods imo, it even has Liam Nielsen

[@Myomer104]

Console player here. Been there, done that.

[@RougeMephilesClone]

19:10 Final Fantasy 10 had bad English voice direction, but the laughter scene dodged them better than most other cutscenes. The characters involved are being silly to relieve tension, and they laugh normally immediately afterwards. This meme is the product of an audience that wasn't prepared to read vocal intent yet, and was unfairly cropped out of its original context.

[@TheLucidChiba]

Yeah in context it's a cute moment

[@dianauwu1312]

They're literally forcing a laugh

[@starwarsnerd100]

Apparently the reason the Guard is constantly saying “it’s quiet” is because they were supposed to have different voice lines for if they were patrolling or in combat. But there was a bug so they just yelled the “it’s quiet “ line all the time

[@khylerbane4523]

I read once that the in-lore reason for why Kais able to Doomguy against Daemons, Cheos marines, Imperials and other heavy hitters, and use weapons like the Bolter; like with Malem Caedo in Boltgum, is because Khorne is secretary empowering them because they amuse him. I really hope that’s true.

[@1inimilian567]

Hell did you read that?

[@svenbrede6151]

I read that apparently someone wrote a novel for this game and at one point he is like 'blood for the bloodgod'

[@voltus20]

It is *HEAVILY* implied in the Fire Warrior novel (which is a novelization of the events of the game) that he was empowered by Khorne during it's last fight against the Lord of Change, but he managed to fight off the corruption, which i imagine would be even more amusing for Khorne than just succumbing to his power. Chaos aside, he's also considered the pinnacle of the tau warrior, to the point that researchers created a program to make more warriors like him, and estimated that, of the tens of thousands of candidates, over the span of multiple generations, they would only be able to make 1 or 2 warriors like him, and that was if they were succesful at all.

[@stryke-jn3kv]

@@1inimilian567 To add what Voltus said, it was one of those old school 40k memes like Chaos-Chan or Angry Marines that the Fire Warrior from this game was actually Khorne's greatest champion. Was all over the place back in the day before everyone just quoted Emperor Text-to-Speech and called it a day

[@es68951]

I mean… the cover of the game is him perched atop a mountain of skulls… so you might not be wrong 😂

[@giantzombiechild]

You guys need to read the novelization. Unironically one of the best Tau stuff you can read. Shas'la T'au Kais is just built different. "KILL! MAIM! SHOOT! KILL! MAIM! SHOOT! KILL! MAIM! SHOOT!" indeed. If more of the Tau were like him people would vibe with the Tau way harder.

[@DaWrecka]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

[@smilingkira2632]

The canon Kais from Black Library book is Shas O "The Living weapon" Kais. GW never confirm if he is the same Kais from Fire Warrior Game Shas O "The Living weapon" Kais is the same Tau Commander from "Dawn of War: Dark Crusade," his black library book is called "Secret War". Shas O "The Living weapon" Kais is actually the 3rd student of commander Puretide (the other 2 being farsight and shadowsun). And just like farsight master Montka and Shadowsun master Kauyon, Kais master the way of the "Monad" which translate to "The one man army"

[@cegesh1459]

Wrong novel. The novel to the game Fire Warrior is literally called Fire Warrior from Black Library.

[@arthurhucksake2665]

​​@@cegesh1459Is that not the one where Blood Ravens were wielding multi-lasers?

[@spearsage]

​@@cegesh1459 because he's referring to a different Kais and different novel. Simple as that.

[@Myomer104]

Connecting the two is an interview with the Dawn of War devs claiming that DoW:DC Kais is meant to be the same Kais from Fire Warrior.

[@matijasostojic4288]

The ones thing that I hate is the weapons in this. The Tau weapons being flatout worse than standard lasguns is so bad. They are the best supplied standard infantry of 40k and yet nothing in their base arsenal of guns even compares to a lasgun.

[@alshabib5849]

The out of game explanation would be that if you make the weapons you start with too good the player will simply not use the other weapons which would start the same complaints just in the other direction. A game that shows this that was made around the same time was killzone 1 where the ISA rifle you start with is objectively better then 80 percent of anything else you will use from your enemies, the helghast rifle in that game being borderline useless

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

​@alshabib5849 or you could have it that the weapon gets lost/damaged or runs out of amo when you are behind Imperial lines so you have to use other weapons by necessity

[@Italianplayercvu]

Due to this game (which is canon btw) in war of secrets book SPOILERS kais is actually held back and hated by the tau, kept hidden and absolutely not to unleash. When unleashed is also pretty much a complete monster and taus are scared of him.

[@SeanHoltzman]

Oh, and Dune had legit Nuclear Armamaents from Planet-Killers to "small scale" Stone-Burners for primarily construction purposes to slag rock and allow deep trenching, that can be detonated as weapons also. They also had entire solid-armament stockpiles they stopped using when Shields became mass manufacturable, and then they moved to lasers, but lasers create nuclear grade reactions when hitting shields so uh.... its a series where they literally arms raced themselvez back to Melee 😅😂

[@Jfk2Mr]

It was less of "shields rendered nukes obsolete" and more "we have agreed to not use nukes - we still stockpile them in case of aliens attacking, but if someone uses nukes on fellow human, his entire house will be destroyed"

[@svenbrede6151]

Kais has also received appearances in Dawn of War Dark Crusade (he's the commander of the Tau) and had an appearance in the DA novel War of Secrets where he takes out the remnants of a dark angel successor. He is regularly mentioned by both Shadowsun and Shovah as being puretides third disciple 'monat' kais

[@salimcahuas1412]

Different Kais.

[@Heretical_Hatter]

That's different Kais. Kais means "Skillful" That like "John" name for the Fire Warriors. It's super common. O'Kais (from Dawn of War) - was one of the Great Three - and student of Puretide. La'Kais - was, well Shas'la (private) during a war against Humans. And in novelization we find out La'Kais ends up in mental hospital after all the trauma. So - no - not the same character.

[@TenBillionAnts]

⁠​⁠@@Heretical_Hatter It’s him, John T’au

[@Heretical_Hatter]

@@TenBillionAnts Unironically - yes.

[@shiakou5262]

​​@@Heretical_Hatter Kais just recovered in the mental hospital and went on to both amaze and terrify Fire Warriors everywhere by being one of the few Tau willing to melee a Bloodthirster 😊

[@OneNationUnderPug]

It’s quiet.

[@thelordchancellor3454]

It’s quiet

[@real-lifeanimeghost3911]

The cheese that eat must been the best meal the guards had in months

[@200Rats_in_a_Trench_Coat]

Gonna call Bricky a fake Guard fan here a little (or maybe just accuse him of being Gen Z). The IG in Fire Warrior are modeled on the Armageddon Steel Legion for the regular troopers, though seemingly (bafflingly) Mordian Iron Guard for the Officers. The more heavily armoured guys who show up later are Stormtroopers (later renamed to Tempestus Scions) based on the old metal model designs. Edit: I'm assuming Shy meant the last time we saw Air Caste in a video game. Because Forge World made Air Caste models. Edit 2: Pretty sure that's a Rail Rifle, which is an infantry weapon. Pathfinders have them. Ka'is (or however it's spelt) isn't running around with a Hammerhead turret in one hand.

[@Myomer104]

I think I remember it being mentioned that the in-game Rail Rifle is an early prototype.

[@ShadowGhost0117]

@@Myomer104yes, it was.

[@mat5977]

Bro, imagine Fire warrior 2. Where you start as a baseline pathfinder and then get promoted by Darkstrider to get Stealth-suit and go spec-ops

[@ravenwhiteduck3158]

James workshop Hire this man

[@lordwarryl5712]

Majority of the 40k podcast exhausted all the content that they all unanimously end up tackling Tau after years haha how poetic.

[@Al-fp7tx]

They did the tau 2 years ago

[@Duncecap64]

So here's a fun fact many of us in the tau community have speculated that this Kais Is one of pure tides disciples because there is a mention of a kais in the farsight books who was stated to be quote the master of the one-man army which apparently is a teaching of pure tide. We don't know however because we also have the Dawn of War One which kind of like throws it into confusion like there isn't a clearly defined one so we don't know which is which and there could be three of them all named after the same person which given how the society works is not unexpected

[@TheBlastmeister]

Wrong Kais. Kais is just a common tau name.

[@edgieststalker8141]

​@@TheBlastmeister It's like John, a name that is VERY common

[@deezusmaximus3554]

dk not patching this game is one of the funniest things ive ever heard

[@AgentOracle]

Yes it fucking is They gave the Tau plasma rifle, a gun known for long distance accuracy, a significant bullet spread. Your bullets do not hit in the center of your cross hair. They skew to the right. And that is infuriating.

[@FinalTroop]

They should lean into the Fire Warrior acting like the Doom Slayer. Make him a Tau experiment to see if they can make some thing that rivals a space marine. With a little warp magic mixed in or we can get spicy and some thing else. Now we got a recipe for a Ethereal going rogue, creating a one man killing machine. Perhaps he's the only one who can control him. Or just make it a typical Tau V.R. test. Either way I would be on board with a armored core style game but you play as a battle suit.

[@Tab1300]

The fact you're aware of mandalorgaming (sometimes called mandy) is somthing that he deserves and will possibly be terrified of given how hes a singularity of weird stuff happening to him, for example getting hexed by his neighbors who are possibly witches

[@Jesayou]

Didn't he have serial killer at his church camp?

[@0la_N0rdman]

Bricky said in a video that Mandaloregaming was one of his inspirations for his KZbin channel.

[@Tab1300]

@@Jesayou you mean "Jimmy"?

[@Jesayou]

​@Tab1300 I have no idea what the kids name was, I just remember it was a really strange story lol, but Jimmy sounds about right.

[@Tab1300]

@Jesayou ya he was having mental issues and was drawing how he was gonna stab mandalor then his fellow scouts in their beds

[@Gormathius]

28:51 No, that's not it. Cegorach clapped his hands twice, proclaimed "Cheese! For everyone!" and then there was cheese.

[@cinderheart2720]

Y'all should get Mandalore as a guest.

[@Marsuvee]

LMAO. I arrived right as Bricky was screaming and it cut to the end credits.

[@SeanHoltzman]

Perfect timing lmao

[@Marsuvee]

@@SeanHoltzman AAARRGAAAAGHAA DUN DUN DUN NUN NU -----

[@InvinciblKillerQueen]

I think it's important to see Fire Warrior in a historical context (please Bolter me). This was post-Halo and Unreal, we'd had Metroid Prime and Postal 2, and Half-Life 2 (and therefore Portal) would come out in like a year. FPS fans were VERY well fed in this era. The only real appeal to this game, a ps2 Halo-clone that is relatively ugly and was buggy back in the day, was the 40k branding that wasn't nearly as popular as it is today.

[@Torgenator]

fuck Space Marine 2, we need Fire Warrior 2 NOW

[@person7024]

we need a left for dead style game with Kais, Caedo, The Visarch, and idk Zahndrekh riding on Obyron’s back or something

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

The Fire Warrior intro (on a game magazine CD) was my first ever contact with the WH40k universe. I found the concept of humanity being the evil empire that attacks a nascent alien civilization fascinating.

[@conan2096]

you missed the part about the taus insidious takeover of several human colonies. as astartes know, all aliens are made to lie.

[@APotatoMan]

11:23 The autogun being a funking looking M16 makes sense in lore funnily enough

[@silver4831]

Isn't it more off an AK?

[@abelbabel8484]

@@silver4831 no

[@MadEyeScienceK]

​@@silver4831 In the 40k scale of things: AK and m16 might as well be the same make of gun. They're both slug-throwers. They're both select-fire. They're both from tens of thousands of years ago.

[@vegladex]

Yeahhh, the standard heavy stubber is basically identical to the M2 designed for WWI, and I'm pretty sure the M16 isn't a terribly new design either and they're both still "modern" guns with versions in use in modern militaries today. So it's not hard to believe that in 38 thousand years people are STILL using a version of them.

[@Haloister]

Fun fact that's an actual pattern of autogun in lore. It's the mk40 Armageddon pattern autogun. You can find art of it all over the place like the 4th ed corebook.

[@JeancarlosRPerez]

Weird take here... They should make a Tau Mech Game Ala Armored Core with you playing as a cyber pilot or something manning a new prototype mech suit. I think it would be incredible

[@Jleot]

Theres a novelization of this game. I have not read it myself but apparently the book pulls zero punches. Theres no lessening of numbers or feats of warfare. Nah my mans does it and scares his own ethereals.

[@weddincoyote2440]

I remember going into GW and was talking about the book to a friend. A staff member then told me that the game never existed and the book never existed, whilst I had the firewarrior book in my hand.

[@deadboyo2773]

He was an inquisitor, you're lucky you got out of there alive

[@philipschorr5145]

To be fair, kais didnt get a mini, but he DID get white dwarf rules. Also it took titus 2 games to get a mini so maybe thats the bar for videogames to mini.

[@alphacelestial]

Imagine Kai, but In a Crisis Suit. MAN WILL SHUT THE EYE OF TERROR. Commanders Suit: Wakes up the emperor Riptide: IS THE EMPEROR

[@carlzerris6566]

You want a terrifying prospect? Put him in a ghostkeel.

[@daniellangham8190]

Fun fact. The rail rife was invented for this game andband made it into the tabletop game after it's release. And when it did white drawf published rules for Kais, and instructions on how you can convert him from fire warriors and pathfinder kits

[@daniellangham8190]

I believe this was the first case of a new weapon appearing in another media first before coming to the tabletop game propper

[@Dementia-pt5uz]

Gotta say I love listening to these podcasts at work. Makes the time go by and drowns out the noise of my coworkers giving me shit for my “lack of a sex life” Well jokes on them who needs sex when you’ve got FAITH!

[@svenbrede6151]

tits are temporary, brother. The emperor is eternal

[@wolverinepotter7119]

No one forced you to write that

[@SeanHoltzman]

​@@wolverinepotter7119 Where is your FAITH brother? *Stares in Inquisition*

[@GFIZeraph]

Weird self report but I respect it brother

[@geoffrayylmao]

this is something i wouldnt reveal under the most severe torture

[@SeanHoltzman]

DID YOU SEE THE NEW T'AU NOVEL ANNOUNCEMENT HAS RAPTORS involved? Love they kept them involved

[@chponge]

You should reach out to Mandy for a collab or an episode. Hes a big 40K guy, and all around good guy

[@thexenoist3493]

Personably my dream Tau game would be a battlesuit commander game where you can fight in the mech but also direct other forces in your cadre. Think Armored Core meets Mount and Blade.

[@captquark13]

This episode comes out the same day Black Library announces a new Tau-centric novel where they face off against the Raptors, Bricky has to has some sort of insider info at GW.

[@ItisIWOOSH]

It's quiet

[@Fourtytwo4242]

It's quiet

[@eLbeno22]

Holy Shit, I was not expecting a Mandalore Gaming call out.

[@edwardhayes6816]

The Imperial enemies at the beginning were based on the Steel Legion with the coats and gasmasks. The new ones in the Tau ship are the og look for stormtroopers. Before karskin or scions came onto the scene

[@patrickstar1-f9o]

Video idea: the discussion of Leetu.

[@squattinggopnik8514]

Fire warrior was my first introduction into warhammer, bought it when i was about 10 just because i thought it looked cool, never beat it… fast forward about 15yrs later and i find out what warhammer is and my first army i make is the tau without even thinking about the game or any connections, guess i just subconsciously love the tau. FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

[@Tombstone943]

23:23 Rogue Trader, my beloved.

[@Anghellik9]

Speaking of how this game couldn't exist today: It very much exists as a result of its context. Bricky, you asked about how Tau superfans felt about this game: At the time, "Tau Superfans" did not exist. This game was made to try and popularise a new faction: The first Tau release into the 40k universe was October 2001, less than 2 years before this game came out. They were brand new. This was in the days when GW was very very protective of their IP, and wouldnt have greenlit the game if they didnt have a new faction to support.

[@Jesayou]

I've rewatched so many of MandaloreGaming's reviews they are fantastic can't recommend enough. Also its how I stumbled into 40k as setting/lore (Mechanicus review). Every review is a gem, his subtitles are amazing, the humor is always on and he digs into some really obscure games from the past.

[@maxwalker5355]

On the discussion of a Sternguard Veteran vs T'au Fire Warrior against a Lord of Change, I believe it was FUNKE who said, "Yeah, but that's like walking into the nursery ward of a hospital and saying the oldest baby has the best odds of beating Mike Tyson."

[@khylerbane4523]

I desperately what Chaos and the Tau to meet proper. One idea is that a Iron Warrior Warsmith has takes one of their worlds and after the 80% of whole system goes dark, they and the imperium ho yo investigate. Only yo find that not only has everyone thrown there lot in with the Warsmith, but he is targeting them, the Necrons, and Eldar. Stealing and analyzing the drones, mechs, Necrons, obliterater virus, and daemon engines to make Chaos robots loyal to him. Another is a Tau scientist found an chaos sword and is studying it to gain it’s power for the Fire Caste. Only to find a “real living creature” aka a daemon, inside the sword and is able to talk to it, not mentally, *literally* through the computers the sword is hooked up to. But instead of reporting this, or at least “putting it out of its misery”, he keeps it secret to learn more from it. Just in time for an splinter fleet of Imperials given refuge after their planet was destroyed to reveal to be all chaos worshippers and grow into a planet wide chaos cult. Summoning Chaos to the world lead be a Chaos lord champion or daemon prince eager to get his sword back. Plus the Iron Warriors are perfect for the Tau because both use more modern, tactical and efficient ways of waging war.

[@952WeepingOracle]

Talking about a Tau version of Darktide makes me want alien guns in Darktide. Imagine a Ordos Xenos Interrogator or a Rogue Trader who sells Eldar shurikan pistols and Tau rifles to your Rejects.

[@matthews2715]

You all should do a Raptors episode.

[@burtbort3909]

Glad y'all are doing this. I'm pretty sure either this or DoW was my first intro into 40k and I stg it was a fever dream of a game

[@LithiumBlossom]

Absolutely stellar voice cast Sean Pertwee, Brian Blessed, Tom Baker, Peter Serafenowics, Burton Kwok....

[@stangerr0267]

Fire Warrior deserves a remake

[@honeyjm8324]

Make a fire warrior game but it’s sniper elite

[@heavystalin2419]

@@honeyjm8324 _Wave goodbye to your head, gue'la_

[@ShadowGhost0117]

Here’s my take on how I deal with the Valkyrie @10:30. I basically just run to the pipeline barrier that it hovers over, and just crouch behind it while I pop my head out to shoot the two engine turbines on the top (those are basically it’s main weak points). The machine guns on it can’t really hit you while you’re there, and the missiles only get fired once every few bursts (plus they don’t land close enough to do massive damage).

[@xyzen9673]

I will always love mandalore gamings running joke of "its quiet" from the game

[@VivoDraconis]

47:40 - when DK gets a bike and drives off into the sunset of incoming exterminatus

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

4:30 Ok, I can already tell that DK doesn't understand the lore of the era at all. Space marines were basically unstoppable living weapons during that era. Even for peak Tau cheese era, one Fire Warrior being able to take out a bunch of them says a lot about that Fire Warrior, rather than the Tau as a whole.

[@stryke-jn3kv]

Does he understand the lore of any era? It's all about entertainment over accuracy after all.

[@NovusNiveus]

This game does a lot of stuff really well - like for example, they totally nailed the plasma gun, and you even get to fight Chaos Dreadnoughts, but the craziest thing for me is that Fire Warrior still has the best bolter in videogames and only Darktide gets sort of close to matching it.

[@MiorAkif]

Fire Warrior brings back good memories. It was my first introduction to 40k lol

[@joeford5181]

Nagash: These blue things are not worth to be my servants.....

[@NoOne-nm4ng]

And now the Tau are getting a novel featuring the Raptors chapter.

[@Werrf1]

I think the earliest game I can remember off the top of my head that used proper voice acting was Command & Conquer from 1995. The advertising for that game put as much emphasis on using full-motion video cut scenes as it did on the innovative gameplay. I'm sure there were others before that, but that was the first one I personally remember.

[@RetnabBanter]

One important bit of context is that Tau were VERY new when the game came out. Like, within 2 years of minis first releasing they got a video game

[@soupordave]

The first game I played that had actual really good voice acting was Knights of the Old Republic. On the subject of Sci-Fi franchises with planet killer weapons, Dune actually ranks towards the bottom. They only had normal atomic weapons; every Great House had them, but the convention against their use was that whoever used them would be attacked by all the other Great Houses. So basically Galactic Mutually Assured Destruction. Star Trek also had planet killers including virus bombs/bio-weapons but they were outlawed and no one was supposed to have them. The Genesis device could create new solar systems but it destroyed the old one to do it. But the big outlawed weapon in Star Trek were subspace weapons, that would actually destroy the fabric of space-time and create sort of mini warp storms just without the daemons. Star Wars had the Death Star, but in the old Legends books there was also the Sun Crusher. It was an invulnerable star ship that fired torpedoes that destroyed Stars.

[@bmxfjolla]

I remember as a kid I loved the fire warrior novelization, when he had to fight together with the other fire warriors after his time solo and they were all in awe of his way of fighting was hillarius.

[@DirtHermit]

Unexpected. Well done AdRic!

[@mysticone2112]

I know this won't be a video but it be interesting to see your reaction with Mandaloregaming critic and see how much you agree or disagree with his assessment.

[@chemicalwarfare3861]

The perfect way to sum up the game. Kais: "Nah, I'd win."

[@Ezaviel]

The reason the Autogun looks like an M16 is because an Autogun is "comparable to a 20th century automatic rifle both in appearance and operation" (2nd Ed Wargear book). There have been a lot of styles of Autogun that just look like contemporary assault rifles over the years.

[@dredgenvarg7092]

I remember getting this game when it originally came out on the PS2 and being pretty impressed with the voice cast TBH, there are quite a few well known British actors. You have the legendary Tom Baker (4th Doctor Who) as narrator, Brian Blessed, Peter Serafinowicz (better known these days for starring in the John Wick movies), Sean Pertwee (who seems to do a a fair bit of VA work for GW) and Burt Kwok (Cato from the pink panther movies).

[@killianasheart5175]

Still my favorite unconfirmed canon (it’s head canon to me) is that after Fire Warrior Kais went on to be trained by Puretide along side Farsight and Shadowsun, and thus became O’Kais from Dawn of war dark crusade. I know Kais is a standard Fire caster name, but it just feels right to me. Especially since current in canon O’Kais is basically a walking Tau doom marine. I never read the Fire Warrior book so I don’t know if it conflicts with this or not.

[@atlantiswolf]

Another KZbinr whos gone over this game is Josh Strife. He goes into detail about how awful the Tau Weapons feel to use, to the fact that all the big name voice actors went to Imperium characters, to the fact that the game basically has you playing the B Plot to a Space Marine. Honestly its one of those games that with everything I know about it, if you are a fan of the Tau, I probably wouldn't recommend this game, because youd probably walk away feeling disappointed more than anything.

[@whitewolf1658]

I really like the game reviews you guys are doing. On that note if you are to continue this kind of content, maybe you could take a look at Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2. I think it´s quite fun since there is rarely any ship to ship combat in other Warhammer games.

[@alshabib5849]

That autogun is actually lore accurate, it's the Agrippa pattern autogun used by the steel legion who are also the guard regiment in the game. The guys you fight on the ship are also the old school stormtroopers. While you were most commonly just going to use the kasrkin models for the stormtrooper elite statblock back in the day, those storm trooper models with like the EVA like suit were also around but a bit rarer to actually buy, atleast at my store. They were usually the troops option got the inquisitorial army's as well

[@infectedumbrellagrunt3682]

Oh Keepers of Secrets do manage to show up in Warhammer games, ft. Warhammer Fantasy Total Warhammer and 40k Horus Heresy Legions that show bare on tatas in their images like full on with voiceline dialogue.

[@vontheunknown7982]

The Tau themselves, now has a Tau goddess, not to mention some Tau are attacking their own allies. which, may cause problems even could cause a Tau civil war, But what do you guys think?

[@svenbrede6151]

Hmm, the Shovah enclave divide isn't crazy. However the divide between racist 4th expansion Tau and others might actually make it. Especially because there are 4th expansion Aun who are quite racist. The issue being that the Tau listen so hard to the Aun that we'd basically require a rogue Aun going against other Aun for a proper civil war. So if any it'd be at the other end of the startide nexus between... possibly shadowsun and 4th sphere people. Kais could come in for some black ops stuff like in War of Secrets

[@sigurdjensen195]

Bricky being Halo-pilled is always a nice sight, but since you literally asked: Here's a list of games that weren't ripping off Halo from that time Jak, Ratchett and Clank, Half-life, Postal, Planetside (maybe a little), Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Deus Ex, Unreal Tournament (maybe a little), Serious Sam, Battlefield (maybe a little), Metroid Prime. I get that Halo was very influential, but it aint Doom. It sits somewhere with Half-life where it did some things so well that they feel good to play to this day, but they aren't so influential that they blew every other game of the time out of the water, or forced them to emulate what made them so great.

[@vod6264]

OK the moment you put the idea of the main character being the Tau version of Doom Guy made me like this game waaaay more. Also I picture that instead of being a stoic badass like Doom Guy he's almost constantly screaming and panicking as he's fighting things way above his pay grade and yet somehow surviving.

[@keithmattix6952]

Fun coincidence that this episode drops at the same time GW announces a new Tau Black Library book.

[@isawaryokage]

Worst part about this game, is that it's character shows up in a semi recent Dark Angels book that is kind of garbage. In that book, Kais gets a Ghost keel, infiltrates the Fortress Monastary of the Angels of Absolution (Dark Angels 2nd founding sucessor), after fightning Terminators and punching one into the ground. The Fortress whole sweet of sensors isn't able to detect him, somehow, he gets to the Throne room of Chapter Master Moddren, Kills his command squad, the most veterain warriors of the chapter, and the Chief Librarian, while fightning the Chapter Master in melee. And only looses the suit after they shoot the Fortress Monastary from orbit. Dude survived everything and somehow the suit was recorvered by the Tau. It really felt I was reading a fan fiction.

[@WormWagh]

absolutely died at 5:10

[@mourninggirl8825]

A general kais mini would be so dope, it could have effect when warlord all moddles withing 6 inches of him have free fire overwatch.

[@trogon739]

The guard in FW look like a version of the inquisitorial storm trooper modules from DOW2 that the Inquisition get.

[@ChaoticTabris]

Btw, those guards are Imperial Stormtroopers, so essentially Scions before they got rebranded and overhauled.

[@bpdhoplite]

Surprised this video isnt 2 minutes long with a "Yes"