KISLEV: LET'S KICK SOME ICE | Warhammer Fantasy Lore

[@TonusStoneshield]

Poland, the entire country, vibrating in rage at Bricky calling winged hussars Russian.

[@kingerc1]

My Polish blood it burns

[@latayantheazran]

Im not even polish but my friend is so I rage on her behalf

[@ComicalConqueror]

don't worry, no one actually cares about the polish

[@NotAnAlphaLegionary]

​@@ComicalConqueror the Ottomans sure learned to, tho.

[@UNSCMarine117]

Bricky is going to find a pipe bomb in his mail.

[@jefrosiers8880]

Tonight on Realm of Ridiculous, Bricky meets a hag witch, DK wrestles a bear, and Shy casts a snowstorm on top of Grimgor

[@Tactical_Turtwig]

I miss classic Top Gear 🥺

[@ergerg-su2jr]

Peak mad max

[@drask1988]

is shy the hag? she got the personality down pat

[@ryantannar5301]

Praag has only ever fallen when Gotrek and Felix weren't there. Oh man we need a Gotrek and Felix episode. Teach bricky about the compressed meat cube of a dwarf that would probably look at Khorne and say "Nah, I'd win"

[@АлександрСудаков-с2и]

A book club

[@reecedignan8365]

The mini ginger lad who walked his way into Age of Sigmar with all the gods just going “nope” and refusing to fight him after they sent legions to take him down but couldn’t.

[@trifontrifonov4297]

And he is most likely right.

[@scooterdescooter4018]

::all of chaos decends:: "Cool, now its a fair fight."- angy mohawk stumpy boy.

[@arandomguardsmen]

@@scooterdescooter4018laughs madly now it is a good doom manling come my axe thirsts

[@Mikikumpel]

Warhammer Fantasy Kislev is an everyday Polish reality. You wake up, get dressed, wrestle some polar bears on your way to work, try to dodge some chaos entities, and get a call from your wife that she forgot her cursed Frost Blade at home and you have to go pick it up and deliver it to her.

[@kingerc1]

Facts

[@bakaultima]

Only part of that I don't believe is the wife looses the blade every day now once a week....

[@murmurlock779]

Orthodox poland*

[@Nikolarean]

The wings of the Polish Winged Hussars were actually a fear tactic, since panicking infantry is an extremely effective part of cavalry charges. It served to make the horse and rider even larger looking as well as causing a fierce clatter of metal from the metal feathers crashing against each other while charging. So you've have this group of gigantic looking armored horsemen that in addition to all the noise of a charge also have enough metal clattering to be an entire army of swords clashing against each other. The reason why this was important was because braced infantry can counter heavy cavalry relatively effectively. If you can cause a panic this result in the formation becomes far easier to penetrate, and at that point it's just a matter of chasing and chopping until they're dead or letting them rout as you move onto the next target. The Ungols sounds like a combination of Cossacks and Mongols.

[@Sandrodziej]

I heard it was a bunch of bulllshizz. The big wings are from late 18 and early 19 century remakes of Hussar armor. Also hussars were shock cavalry, from your comment it seems like they had effin metal feathers and notbird ones which is pretty funny since they relied on speed and having a bunch of metal feathers on their back would add a lot of weight. But idk I hope the real history was more like wgat ur saying... it would be cooler.

[@Nikolarean]

Yeah, I think I got it mixed up with something else. But the main thing is that it was a fear tactic to cause the formation to break more easily. Combination of "They're gigantic" and "Ahh, scary noises". It was the wooden frame clattering, which I got mixed up. It also served to spook enemy horses.

[@NotAnAlphaLegionary]

​@@Sandrodziej look up the Siege of Vienna.

[@henrychurch6062]

@@Sandrodziej I don't think the feathers would be all that heavy. How heavy is a steel knife? similar size and weight to a single metal feather I would wager. Pick up 20 butter knives and you're probably looking at around 2 or 3 lbs of steel. Maybe another 2 for the form they were attached to and another 1/2 pound for the harness. Lets make an assumption though that I'm estimating wrong and we'll double the weight to get a worst case scenario. (Maybe they were thicker than I think, or longer for example) That leaves us with (about) 11 lbs. And that's not so bad. (and again that's a big estimate and some napkin math so don't take it as a scholarly attempt, but I don't really think the wing's weight was much of a factor)

[@khylerbane4523]

Ursin, and Kislev bear: *growling with murderous intent* Vulkan, Boris, and Shen Zoo: *Jamaican accent* “I would like to pet this creature.”

[@thehermitman822]

VULKAN HUGS *CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH*

[@gabrielcanejo187]

"VULKAN NO!!"

[@Mad_Italian]

Wood Elves: You are cannon fodder for our war Bretonians: Noooo, our religion is a lie!!! Empire: You are cannon fodder for our war Kislev: We know

[@r17DeadFlamingos]

I mean honestly they fell for the old "lady of the lake" trick

[@willtanker7684]

the soyjacks mentally flashbanged me with this as the text

[@boyanpenev9822]

"Shut up and send vodka, empire femboi."

[@agunsson]

All Races: there is a prophecy that a twin-tailed comet will herald the end times, and we should be very cautious of it. Skaven: let’s build a a giant rocket and fire it at one of our moons.

[@necroplayer97]

Fun fact for yall, one of the main writers for the lore of kislev is Andy law who also has a lore podcast called lorebeards

[@SquirtleSquady]

Andy or Sotek would be such amazing guest cohosts for Realm of Ridiculous

[@boyanpenev9822]

It's a joint podcast with Loremaster of Sotek, and it's pretty good.

[@thehermitman822]

Talk about a counterbalance to Shy. 😂

[@AlphariusCLH]

​@@SquirtleSquadyI can just imagine a dwarf episode with them. While Bricky and DK struggle to understand the meaning of grudges, Sotek and Andy have a 4 hour, in depth discussion of the different accents of Khazalid. 😂

[@Rapture-nv5vj]

Ahhh, Kislev. Basically, "how british see everything east from Berlin". Also: Bricky, i dare you, i kurwa dare you, to say that Winged Hussars were russian one more time 😂

[@lordorion5776]

I've loved the Winged Hussars ever sense I looked up the siege of Vienna

[@High-LordHarza]

He did correct they were polish, also he lacks the context of the hatred of everyone west of Russia hating Russia.

[@MrSamulai]

@@High-LordHarza And south of russia. And east of russia. And while no one lives north of russia, I'm positive they'd also hate russia.

[@High-LordHarza]

@@MrSamulai I mean fair, I just personally only know of europeans hating Russia, being Finnish myself.

[@Rapture-nv5vj]

​@@MrSamulai You're neighbor of Russia? Congrats, now you will have eternal hatred for Russia and for most of things that comes from them

[@trainheartnet5657]

I think this series needs a chaos/Norsca episode to really explain how big of a deal Kislev holding them back is. Love the video, guys!

[@dektarey4024]

Its far too easy to underestimate how important Kislev is. If the rightfully named "Bulwark of the North" falls, its pretty much game over since every piece of land hiding behind it will be way easier to traverse for the enemy. If Kislev falls, the Empire soon follows. Once the Empire is gone, anything else in the Old World is going to go as well. The Empire thinks they're facing the worst the enemy has. Far from it.

[@MilloSpiegel]

Norsca really are just "What medival people thought the Vikings were". But somehow even more prone to commit crimes of the "war-" and the "Against Humanity" variety

[@arkplayer179]

the wings were not taken off for combat. they served the purpouse of both making the rider look larger and more intimidating and also made it sound like there were more men charging than there actually were.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

It also made it easy for their allies to see them and go "hey! Look! Winged Hussars! We're gonna win!" Elite Troops in Real Life had Total War Leadership Buffs for fellow troops.

[@jefrosiers8880]

A theme that is strong in the lore of Kislev is that women in many human cultures are the ones trusted with wielding magic, in Bretonnia with the Grail Damsels, and in Kislev with the Ice witches and the Wise Women who make a pact with the spirits. this seems to be a thing in many human cultures in the old world, in Nehekhara, the Empire and Cathay this is far less the case, and I love the variety of all the human cultiures in warhammer so i'm a fan of this, it truly shows that these are all different people with different beliefs and ways of life

[@rocks7263]

As a slav I can confirm that this is also the case with most slavic countries. Surprisingly GW actually did their fair share of homework when they made Kislev, big fan of em. I hope Dk does them justice in this video.

[@jefrosiers8880]

@@rocks7263 I hope so as well

[@PattPlays]

the only reason theres a woman leader is bc of olga of kiev

[@mistadangerzone8362]

@@rocks7263well to be fair, most if not all of the original designers of Warhammer where history majors, so they knew a lot of stuff to draw from

[@InternationalAwesomeFoundation]

It's usually for different reasons, too.

[@jefrosiers8880]

57:35 about that, these wise woman barter with spirits, sacrificing themselves to keep their people safe, and those spirits will aid them at a price, they lose their youth, grow monstrous and frightening, these women make a big sacrifice and it shows, when you see art of these hags, they look like that because of the spirits

[@tobiashagstrom4168]

I'm screaming at my screen for Bricky to tell him how to pronounce "steppe".

[@gokbay3057]

"Steeps" my effing sides. (Also it is DK that makes that mispronounciation, though he does say steppe correctly a few times.)

[@RiverTheFluid]

Ah yes, “Eastern Europe: The faction”

[@ScadrianGhostblood]

You meant fantasy Russia the faction with hussars on bears. I mean they could have done more when they were modernizing the faction for total war. What Polish or other slavic folklore besides Russian one did they even used and referenced?

[@NotAnAlphaLegionary]

Pretty sure they meant what they meant. Poland-Lithuanian common wealth, Russia, the Kievan Rus.... All Eastern Europe. You really think that isn't enough? How about you do some deep research on all Eastern European nations and comeback when you have a comprehensive enough reason as to why they can't be included in this. If you think shared Slavic folklore doesn't reach the Balkans or the Baltic sea, you are tripping. And if you do think that... Your original comment makes no sense.

[@ScadrianGhostblood]

@@NotAnAlphaLegionary they just made a fantasy Russia and called it the representation of all of the slavic cultures. Them adding hussars on bears and references to kozaków doesn't make it any more broad of a representation. It's like having a faction based on China, but calling it also Japanese representation because the faction has ninjas. Also sorry for not liking the fact that the reason why slavic countries for many years where under oppression and weren't able to develop until recently is the main central inspiration behind the only slavic inspired faction in warhammer fantasy. (also Poland is central europe, not eastern. we have a culture that isn't just "shared slavic folklore")

[@NotAnAlphaLegionary]

@@ScadrianGhostblood first: Poland is most definitely eastern Europe. It's as east as you can get before reaching Russia, which isn't part of Europe. Way to fail basic geography. And I never said all Eastern countries share culture. I said Slavic nations share folklore, cause they do. Like, your ignorance isn't a replacement for reality bud.

[@ScadrianGhostblood]

@NotAnAlphaLegionary "Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe. Central Europe is known for its cultural diversity; however, countries in this region also share historical and cultural similarities. Whilst the region is variously defined, it often includes Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Transylvania as part of Romania." Also what are you even talking about, Poland isn't right before Russia starts. You know that Ukraine still stands, right? And there are big differences between folklore from slavic countries. There are many legends and historical elements they could have used to make it more broadly slavic instead of Russian. Where is warhammer version of Zawisza the black? Where is Dragon Wawelski? Where is Stańczyk? Where is Wernyhora?

[@angolomat882]

1:03:52 Is that "Cossack letter to sultan"! I love this painting! Best letter ever writen!

[@TheGreatNico]

Yes! And they didn't read the letter! That's the funniest part

[@inquisitierdavis821]

45:32 so fun fact: no the winged hussars were one of the premier cavalry of Eastern Europe until they were made outdated by firearms and pikes

[@ZakuInATopHat]

Didn’t they dress as ostentatiously as they did so everyone would recognize them? As a way to demoralize enemy troops?

[@inquisitierdavis821]

@ yeah they dressed like that to both stand out on the battlefield and the clacking of their wings would scare enemy horses and make the hussars themselves look bigger for intimidation.

[@gokbay3057]

In fairness, they did keep heavy armoured cavalry relevant for a lot longer than Western Europe. (And also it was from Poland that the lance was popularised again in the Napoleonic Era with the Lancers/Uhlans.)

[@orcatwar9810]

THEN THE WINGED HUSARS ARRIVED!!

[@lasarus1989]

COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE

[@elijahstewart3377]

COMING DOWN THEY TURNED THE TIDE

[@__-jt4tv]

I was looking for my fellow Sabaton fans 😉

[@BK2207]

To be fair, Kislev is like most minor human factions (Estalia, Tilea, Arabya, Nosca etc.) in WF; they are 100% taken out from the history books.

[@michasalamon8315]

I know you didn’t mean that this way, but I just want to point out that officially, Albion is/was the smallest human factions/nation in Warhammer Fantasy. Yep. A guy back in the day cut out Albion from the map on some computer program and compared it to the Empire. Turned out that Albion is about the size of Talabecland at best, the largest province of the Empire, and maybe like one fourth of bretonnia at worst. But that was almost 20 years ago now, so unless we count Norscan tribes in Skeggi, or other human factions/nations that were or will be added later, Albion is the smallest Human Kingdom/faction in the lore that does not worship chaos

[@BK2207]

@@michasalamon8315 Yeah. Good thing I wasn't talking about the smallest human faction.

[@berea2258]

didnt even start but fuck it...PRAISE THE BEAR!!

[@jefrosiers8880]

FOR URSUN, fOR KISLEV!

[@alfredosaint-jean9660]

59:52 That is so cool. That sacred of hospitality is something I genuinely think of as a good societal value.

[@boyanpenev9822]

Actually I think they specifically make exception for Chaos. Anyone else can come right in. Chaos? Apply axe to neck, repeatedly.

[@hammeroftyr]

Can't believe the Everchosen didn't even find out his army was getting the most devilish Imperial backshots.

[@ikondrift]

The only people who are always unhappy that the episode is too long : Shy, Bricky and DK. Everyone who's watching is like "You're cutting it short AGAIN?!"

[@trixus4768]

As someone who lived in Prague his entire life, I have to admit that the Everchosen shenanigans have been absolutely wild😂😂😂

[@MySuperPowerIsITouchGrass]

53:20 not exactly, the winds are normal come straight out of the warp. In the case of ice magic it flows though the ancient widow first, she changes it somehow. It's actually stronger than normal magic as a result but the training to uses it is also more brutal. Most girls who train to be ice witches do not live to become one.

[@LockandLoad79]

Never miss a chance to sing "Let it Go" while casting Kislevs Ice magic. Heh.

[@MySuperPowerIsITouchGrass]

Frost wyrms also obay the ice court. It's their trump card when they need something big to be killed. They also have snow cats they can summon!

[@alejandroelluxray5298]

You mean snow leopards

[@angolomat882]

Poland metioned! W for today received

[@Ratzo123ify]

On the note of things being taken straight out of the history books, ever looked at a picture of a Landsknecht next to a picture of an Empire Greatsword? Pretty much the same thing :p

[@imperatorsnipes7751]

The southern kingdoms (tilea for example) is just europe during the renaissance, araby is a hodge podge of persian and african cultures, ind is just japan and is where clan eshin studied at ninja school, and cathay literally has a great wall of china just facing the other direction (and is taller by a lot)

[@Brakvash]

Kislev mages only being female cause it's a feminine trade is very old-nordic-coded. Most shamans were women, and finnish women were considered the most achieved magic-users. The sheer threat of these finnish women sometimes kept the vikings off their coasts. Sources - I'm a swede, having heard of sagas of how shit-scared the swedish vikings were of finnish magic, and how kings and queens travelled to Finland to be helped by- or learn from these finnish witches.

[@angolomat882]

And Babajaga

[@jefrosiers8880]

A fun fact, in the new Old world game, which is the new edition of warhammer fantasy after the endtimes we have gone back to just befoe Azavar Khull, hence we now have gotten lore indicating that Kislev at the time was much larger than it is right before the endtimes

[@tartarustrommler5454]

That isn't necessarily new. We know they held parts of the empire for a while since the old days.

[@joshua41175]

Man, can you please fix your commas.

[@Alphazans]

1:26:40 where they start talking about TW: Warhammer 3, it brought back nostalgia when he started playing through one of my favorite games, even though at launch it wasn't the best. I understand him not getting into it and don't blame him. I liked that he tried it out, even though I wish he could give it another shot with all the content and patches he's done. And regarding the 4X stuff, IMO, it's actually more beginner friendly in terms of tutorial than any other installment in the Total war series, where things were more complicated. Just wish it had that tutorial in the first game in the series with how it explains everything.

[@Sandrodziej]

KISLEV HAS NOT YET PERISHED, SO LONG AS WE STILL LIVE.

[@curiouswind9196]

BEAR CAVALRY ON VODKA LETS GOOO

[@Deadsnake47]

calling it now.... when its spring they are going to do wood elf's...or in terms of my fellow dwarfs. THOSE DAMN POINTY EARED TREE HUGGERS......ROCK AND STONE

[@scuffedwizard]

I'm so bricked up for Kislev, and by bricked up I mean it's an icicle

[@TwojaStaraIFrytki]

we need these episodes more often then once a month :P

[@parkermaisterra8532]

I freaking adore Kislev! When I tried to homebrew my own Space Marine chapter it accidentally turned into Kislev space marines 😅

[@GrimViridian]

I love that

[@grandpanurgle5781]

Space bears?

[@aarovit4257]

Most killed faction in Total War Warhammer 3 Killed in 1 day in the end times Ignored by GW to give them an army BUT I DON’T CARE! I WILL FIGHT AND DIE FOR THE BEAR, FOR THE MOTHERLAND, FOR THE TZARINA!

[@rynemcgriffin1752]

At least they’re getting a rework in SoC 3.0

[@aarovit4257]

@ when people asked why they are getting reworked over Norska (who absolutely also deserve a rework) I point at the fact at least The cave man can survive to turn 50. The ice queen is usually the only one standing with only her capitol

[@michasalamon8315]

I always wanted more lore for the Wheatlands too. The Kislev territory on the other side of the mountains. And More history about Trollcountry and their relationship with norscans. Like, why the hell do we have so many stories of norscan raids in the Enpire but so little in Kislev? Come on GW, so you want my money or not? Luckly there are still fan Made content that include not Only armies but colonies as well. I swear Kislev’s 9th edition fan made army book is better than anything GW could have made, and some madlad actually made entire website page about Wheatlands and other minor colonies/factions purely Basic them on oldhammer lore

[@dektarey4024]

Kislev is the single most flavorful faction in Warhammer 3. Everyday feels like the end of world in Kislev. Its great. Also helps how strong their low-tier units are. Amoured Kossars are ridiculous all the way to endgame. They also have the most high quality mods alongside Dawi on the workshop.

[@40kterapy3]

Ok I doubt that dj bricky and shy will see this but I hope they do cause my god, they deserve to know. For one, the winged hussars were one of the last major heavy Calvary forces in Europe, and in fact contemporaries to them thought Poland was incredibly backwards for still using heavy Calvary. But anyways, one of the most famous battle the winged hussars partook in was the siege of Vienna, specifically its ending. Basically the Ottoman Empire had lay siege to Vienna for quite a while (years I think but don’t quote me) and Vienna was, at the time, the last major defensive bastion for quite the distance. Had the ottomans been able to take Vienna history likely would have been extremely different. But anyways, the winged hussars along with many other Calvary contingents arrived at a hilltop overlooking the ottoman siege camp. What came next was the LARGEST CALVARY CHARGE, in history, mind this was in 1527, cannons and rudimentary guns were not uncommon at this point. 20,000 people on horse back, in shining armor, proceed to as one charge down the hillside smashing into ottoman defensive lines breaking the siege and with it, ending the last serious push by the ottomans further into Europe. It is truly one of the few moments in history I wish I could see as a third person omniscient perspective.

[@chstens]

Bricky should know better than to be taken aback by "Praag" by now. Hell, even to just contain it to this episode, GW took "Kiev" and added an sl in the middle. The Warhammer Fantasy world is a slightly smudged version of Earth, you know this Bricky, we all do. Also, can we get a confirmation on whether or not the boys knows the difference between the holy roman empire and the roman empire?

[@NotAnAlphaLegionary]

Omg I had this happen to me the other day. Was talking about the HRE and Austria during the Seven Years war, and the person I was talking to cut me off to say I meant Caesar when I said Holy Roman Emperor. I'd been talking about Maria Theresa and mentioning her dad as the Holy Roman Emperor. I just ended the convo at that point cause I didn't even know where to start.

[@chstens]

@NotAnAlphaLegionary That's kinda hilarious

[@godforothchannel4272]

… Nobody is going to mention the SUPER OLD Lore about the Goddess of Order buried under Praag? … understandable….

[@robfromjersey7899]

When the Winged Hussars Arrive!

[@a.gravemistake3061]

The traditional Kislev hello: "Freezed to beat you."

[@M0r7r3d0r]

Winged hussars? My understanding is that they arrive

[@Khornecussion]

Every time I hear " Troll Country " the guitar riff to Bat Country plays in my head.

[@danielbricker7204]

a thing bricky should be told: warhammer fantasy has way more spiritual creatures and stuff than just Chaos. all forest sprites are essentially demons, just ones that dont work for Chaos. lots of places in the lands have spirits that can work with the forces or order, or try to kill you, but that doesnt mean they are doing it for the big 4

[@MySuperPowerIsITouchGrass]

Yep, magic and the warp in fantasy are a bit more complicated than 40k. Gods manifest their powers a lot easier in fantasy as well. Sigmar and Ulric juice their followers all the time.

[@gokbay3057]

Yeah, there are many good gods and spirits in Fantasy. It isn't a thing of Sigmar vs Chaos + non-human gods are also there. Just like how Undead are an evil magical force entirely unconnected from Chaos.

[@alejandroelluxray5298]

​@gokbay3057 Depends on which ones we are talking about because those under Settra's command are undead who fight against Nagash (supreme evil Necromancer)

[@angolomat882]

Fun fact Kislev is Jewish third month of the year.

[@thomashanham723]

Can't wait to listen to this, I can bear-ly contain my excitement

[@odditiescollector4540]

im looking forward to the norsca episode and the potential of kremlo being talked about

[@gopherboy8074]

I love when dk says “this is the tldr version” then goes over everything anyways

[@coolcat001100]

I’ve fallen hard in love with this channel ever since the beginning of this year, so ending the year on an episode about my absolute favorite Fantasy faction was the perfect cap-off. Here’s to another year of Ridiculous shenanigans!

[@juanbelio2057]

Family feud but it's two Kislev families with beef that duel with each other between question rounds. Steve Harvey is just the same guy but in a Kislevite attire.

[@RougeMephilesClone]

I don't know why I was surprised about seeing this topic. Tis the season, after all.

[@hijiriyukari]

Wings are the symbols of the Badassery

[@epyonwing7770]

Yesss vampire counts! Mannfred is coming!

[@ArchDuke_Romellenios_Lanz]

The ungols are basically tribal Slav, while the kost sounds like cossocks But later on the Kislev looks Polish, Serb, Rus, Ukrainian and cossack

[@angolomat882]

I hear you but on the contrary Monglos=Ungols

[@ArchDuke_Romellenios_Lanz]

@@angolomat882 I thought so too, but just by hearing ungols here, they don't sound like they have any horse based warrior while the Kost does. The kost sounds like Mongols, tartars cossacks

[@boyanpenev9822]

Not Mongols exactly, but definitely steppe people . Alans, Volga Bulgars, Khazars, etc, basically all the tribes Kislev... I mean Kievan Rus and later Muscovy subjugated

[@justsomedude3762]

Dk finally puts respect on the ever chosen name compared to his empire episode

[@RainbowQueen23]

Thanks!

[@rowanfroese8577]

Why does Praag look like every Isekai city?

[@acedias12]

The other way round you mean.

[@theshamurai32]

Because Isekai cities are typically based on late Medieval/Renaissance Era European walled cities cause fantasy setting and they typically had a pretty predictable layout.

[@boyanpenev9822]

You get isekai'd to Praag. You, my dear anime protagonist, are f****d. Not in the fun harem way.

[@xqwart9331]

because every isekai city is based on medieval era cities, which WFB is also took a lot of ideas

[@LostTheNecromancer]

About time we got back to fantasy 👏👏

[@drask1988]

Bricky thinking about the forsworn from skyrim when looking at the ungols :D

[@jand.4737]

58:14 The Hag Witches of Kislev can not look different, because they age a lot faster than normal people. Like, you see a "decrepit old woman" and she tells you that she is 27 years old. Once you are born with this "gift" of seeing the spirits of the land, that is your fate. Meanwhile, the Wise Women are basically the group of people to teach the young Hag Witches before their gifts "activate". They also do not directly use magic, but rather make deals with the spirits of the land and have them do stuff.

[@cptr95]

This is great and all, but when do we talk about the well known Warhammer Fantasy character: Kaldor Draigo

[@robertgronewold3326]

Honestly, Kislev is one of my favorite factions. They might be Eastern Europe, the mashup, but I love them.

[@KronosV]

DK, bruh, tell him about big lads!

[@HeroNotFound05]

WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVE

[@gabecbm3113]

Kislev.

[@terrible209]

Kislev.

[@gianniskarazelidis8012]

Kislev

[@RazzMatazz3651]

Kislev.

[@isfren5482]

Kislev.

[@swatcccp4673]

Kislev

[@asphyxianone]

One of these days they'll accept that Warhammer Fantasy being just fantasy-earth isn't because they thought they'd get away with it but the point. Next they'll be shocked when they realize Bretonnia is France, Albion is England, and Ulthuan is Atlantis. Maybe the true brain blast of Ind being India.

[@ARL2D2]

Pls do Gotrek and Felix book review

[@jakebailey1636]

here's a tiny bout of bonus lore to link it to the real world- Kislev is actually a real name; for a month, from the old Gregorian calendar

[@funeralhippy3209]

really good episode and overall a far improvement from the Greenskins episode. DK managed to relatively balance both important characters as well as general lore as well as some of the more nuanced small stuff that really fleshes out the faction and WH fantasy as a whole. the only things that I will say needs improvement (NAPWISS) is that DK should maybe emphasize a bit more that WH fantasy is not a Medieval Dark-High fantasy but a Renaissance/ early gunpowder era dark-high fantasy. I would've liked if he mentioned just a tiny bit about the Streltsi or the fact they have bear-pulled cannons as artillery

[@lizards2wizards]

Kislev: you get exactly what is on the tin.

[@Stagart]

Not what we asked for Slaaneshmas but Dwarf Shy holding a pint on a parrot perch is definitly what we needed !

[@CuriousLumenwood]

I know this series is supposed to be focused on Old World/Fantasy, but honestly I’d really enjoy if Realm of Ridiculous extended into Age of Sigmar. Like, if you guys covered the End Times and then continued with Sigmar, going over the factions in that setting next. Or even if you guys wanted to keep this show to only Old World, just going back and doing part 2s to topics that you couldn’t finish like the Skaven. Basically I just want infinite content

[@ScadrianGhostblood]

They confirmed they will talk about aos after end times

[@digunder14]

Kislev's role seems comparable to cadia in 40k

[@swatcccp4673]

That be praag

[@MySuperPowerIsITouchGrass]

That's about right. Tho as far as how they play in TWW3 they are the space marines. Them and Cathay.

[@NotAnAlphaLegionary]

​@@MySuperPowerIsITouchGrass Are you saying they are basically super heavy knights errant? Heavily specialized? A swiss army knife faction? I'm not trying to nit pick, I'm just generally confused how you are comparing these two lol

[@MySuperPowerIsITouchGrass]

@NotAnAlphaLegionary sorry for the confusion. Let me see if I can clarify. Role wise Kislev is the first order nation the Chaos factions reach. This means they deal with them more often than any other faction with Cathay being a close number 2. As stated by OP, this makes their role similar to that of Cadia in 40k. Gameplay wise, at least in W3, they are the SM of fantasy. Warriors of Chaos are the elite armored faction of fantasy. In fact, SM and CSM are based on them. Kislev is a reflection of them, with beefy armord infantry that aren't as good as they Choas counter parts but way better than most other order faction. They also got some big monsters like WoC. Kislev does really more on ranged but thats because while their units can compete with WoC, they have fewer models, so they need that ranged DPS to handle units like chosen. Now going forward here is some speculation as to why this is. Current Kislev is the result of a rewrite for the old world. Units like ice guard and frost wyrms did not exist when the faction was last playable in (6th?) edition. Before the Old World got massively reduced in scope, Kislev was going to be a launch faction for the game. This is likely because one of the issues identified by GW with WHFB was that the empire was a difficult starter faction. A horde army that's hard to paint makes for a bad first faction for new playera. The Kislev rewrite was likely an attempt to resolve this issue. Hope this comment helped! Edit: tldr; they are the swiss army knife faction.

[@skullsquad900]

1:21:28 I'm gonna say the handle of the Axe must have some flex to it and be strung like a bow so they can loose a quick arrow between strikes.

[@Ketooey]

I might be in the minority here, but I think Bricky could do a little more active listening. There are a lot of times where DK ends a point, and it's met with silence, so DK goes, "Um, yeah, so,"

[@Scowleasy]

🎵 Deaaaath is liiike the wiiinter chiiill 🎵

[@CloudedThoughtss]

@1:28:44 You might not see this Bricky and DK but WH3 has the options to just play the "Quest Battles" for each of the major playable characters. They're scripted and give you preset armies. It's similiar to the Historical Battles feature from the other Total War Titles

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

Kizlev: Russia, but it's always Winter.

[@ianbabcock6802]

Gospodar is an actual thing. Funnily enough it’s a Slavic term for lord or master.

[@swatcccp4673]

The actial term is "gospodin" Practically master or can be used as "mr."

[@boyanpenev9822]

@@swatcccp4673 Gospodar or Hospodar as lord or master exists in several Slavic languages, especially south slavic. It's also related to also related to Gospod, which is the Lord, as in "The Lord thy god."

[@swatcccp4673]

@boyanpenev9822 thank you for the addition. I wrote the russian version of this word, reckon its also relevant here.

[@sigurdjensen195]

Kislev sounds surprisingly medieval-nordic-icelandic in some of their rules. Especially their family blood feud thing

[@theofficerfactory2625]

1:04:25 Oh, that event! Oh, it's great. It's a painting called Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by Ilya Repin. You should look it up; it's a blast.

[@Drax1949]

12:21 Sleigh

[@Talius10]

"Hey! Where the wise women at?" distant ancestor of Sheriff Bart.

[@nedaraid3372]

Kislev. (Perhaps my favorite mortal tall boy faction)

[@stevestrangelove4970]

warhammer fantasy lore episodes is mostly they learning about history or not realizing they are talking about history.

[@L.Pondera]

Ah, the kingdom of Elsa

[@MrMorphine482]

44:00 AND WHAT IS BORIS DOIN' 'ERE?! BORIS! WHAT ARE YOU DOIN' 'ERE!?

[@Nicache1918]

Imagine having a governer so well known to be competent, that raising the taxes is not even batting an eye.

[@lazynomad3956]

I can’t be the only one who heard “hit and run tactics” and immediately thought White Scars

[@RainbowQueen23]

Great episode can't wait to hear about the next faction! ❤

[@vortexmazz1137]

A way better and eye appealing video

[@cjmarion6350]

the old man bricky was talking about in tw warhammer 3 is the advisor, he was cursed by tzeentch and wants a drop of ursuns blood to break the curse so he goes to the strongest lord (whoever you play as) to try to convince them to help in exchange for his services

[@hannesgranlund8838]

Fun reference to the George Clooney batman with the nipple armor and Arnold Schwarzenegger as mr freeze for some reason

[@forgefathervulkanhestan18]

They have Winged Hussars that ride polar bears. WINGED 👏 HUSSARS 👏 RIDING 👏 POLAR BEARS 👏. And GW isn't giving us Kislev as an army in the Old World.

[@beebeebees]

Kislev is so freaking cool. I love my bear riding witches. They are quite "cool".

[@archaoneverchosen5110]

You guys still need to do vampire counts, ogre kingdoms, chaos dwarfs, norsca, dark elves, wood elves, beastmen, bretonnia and I think that's all

[@tsarzamancorpdna]

***Happy horse noises***