Leman Russ Battle Tank | Warhammer 40,000

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[@darklordmalthric3633]

Please cover the Exosquad

[@youtubewanks]

Saying it's ftp while on screen is a $100 aircraft is a little disingenuous :)

[@feralprocessor9853]

I'matankI'matankI'matankI'matankI'matank x10 ):D

[@Eddieo9999]

Might want to open with why its called the Leman Russ not 10 mins in!

[@Thoralmir]

Do Animorphs, EverQuest, or City of Heroes!

[@n.a.4292]

"All guns! Keep firing until they glow!" -Tank commander about to discover why Plasma Cannons are such a rarity

[@nordicberserk]

well, actually.... Plasma guns already glow. That's the blue bit. Still a funny joke.

[@Zadrias6386]

He’s about to be thanking the god emperor for his emergency plasma vents.

[@moritztabor1678]

I dont understand this joke. Would be someone kind enough to explain, please?

[@antonycharalampous5454]

​@moritztabor1678 plasma weapons are a bit volatile in the forty first millennium. Firing something like a plasma cannon too frequently without letting it cool off can have "explosive" consequences

[@rexlumontad5644]

"What I cannot crush with words, I will crush with the tanks of the Imperial Guard!" - Lord Solar Macharius about the Leman Russ Tank

[@thecommentguy9380]

Alexander the Great in space

[@WritingFighter]

DRIVE ME CLOSER! I want to hit them with my sword!

[@andreykuzmin4355]

Leman Russ MBT is a perfect symbol of the Imperium. It is of antiquated design, but can house archaic and ill-understood weapons, like plasma cannon. It is not as cheap as Ork contraptions, or as fast as Eldar antigrav tanks, or as replaceable as Tyranid bioform. But it carries a big gun, crewed by religious fanatics and there in never shortage of them.

[@Yingyanglord1]

iw ouldnt call it an MBT its a medium tank.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

It's also cheap as dirt, so it's never alone.

[@andreykuzmin4355]

@@Yingyanglord1 I'd argue it's infantry tank, even, like Churchill)

[@Sturmensky]

@@Yingyanglord1 I'd say it fits. It's mobile, has enough armor to withstand incoming fire, and has a gun capable of engaging enemy armor at long range. It's basically the definition of an MBT. Admittedly, its modularity means not all variants fill this role, however. The Vanquisher and Executioner variants arguably being the truest Leman Russ MBTs - having high-powered cannons, while variants like the Eradicator and Punisher are arguably infantry support tanks.

[@TricksterPoi]

Rumored to be originated as an agriculture-based vehicle too.

[@Aikurisu]

Ah, yes, the infamous Commissar deployment vehicle, capable of bringing one close enough to their enemy so he can strike them down with his blade!

[@arcturus960]

GUARDSMAN BRING ME CLOSER!

[@jenswurm]

Time to mount a bayonet...on its main gun.

[@rocketman544]

"It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out."

[@fistimusmaximus6576]

"Get them in range of my sword"!!!

[@matteoaievola8643]

@@jenswurm you brought me to a idea, what if instead of Canon it has Blade which can be moved like a human arm

[@UnreasonableOpinions]

A tank that can run anywhere on any fuel in any condition is never going to be obsolete while you can stick a gun on it. The first and last rule of tank design is context; if one side has a bad tank and the other side has no tanks, the first side has a very good tank indeed.

[@akula4366]

Fun fact, the M1 Abrams has a turbine engine which can run on basically anything!

[@evanblack20]

That’s what makes the t34 a great tank

[@victordonavon292]

@@evanblack20 Not really considering the T-34 only runs on diesel fuel. And even with that fuel it falls apart too easily and has an aluminium engine which is not an efficient design along with a host of other issues.

[@SnakeChkn]

I always thought the strength of the t34 was it was good enough and wasn’t the cheapest but was cheap enough

[@victordonavon292]

@@SnakeChkn The cheap is at best misleading consider the Soviet Union was a command economy dictating the price of everything down to even the nugget of metal, virtually disregarding supply and demand and actual value.

[@NewGuy2534]

Leman Russ: So you named a boxy, multi-gunned, versatile tank after me? ME?!….. I LOVE IT!!!

[@twenty-fifth420]

Leman Russ is one of the few primarchs who I can see (in my headcanon) would willingly try to regularly use tanks even if he is a mini-giant. And not just because he is named after it. He and the Wolves just think the guard is chad and just wants an excuse, ANY EXCUSE to ride inside.

[@Zadrias6386]

@@twenty-fifth420 *leman russ, with one foot on the turret of a leman russ and the other on the body, riding it into battle like a primarch sized fenrisian wolf… “DRIVE ME CLOSER I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY AXE”

[@caedenirizarry951]

@@Zadrias6386 Yes

[@commandertoastcz6256]

I want to see Leman Russ in a Leman Russ

[@catcadev]

I love this tank as it's not subtle at all. Even in the lore it's basically a brick. I love it.

[@richardmyhan3369]

An armed battle-brick??

[@kakashiloshotmail]

Murder Brick

[@theholyemu3716]

2+ save armor of contempt the super brick is unkillable

[@kakashiloshotmail]

@@theholyemu3716 when they gave the Russ AoC I needed to change my pants not gonna lie

[@Phenixtri]

makes ya wonder how modern day MBTs, APCs, and IFVs would fair in 40k .....

[@JordonVirtue]

9:30 - "Supplementary improvised armor" In the grim darkness of the far future... there are only cope cages.

[@Lightscribe225]

Cages? Son, that's the guts of the tank sent in before yours!

[@Aniyah-CHG]

Hey most cultists and rebels don't have high tech missile launchers.

[@imatreebelieveme6094]

The empire's enemies dont usually drop small mortar or grenade munitions using drones, so it'll probably be more spaced armor or simply extra plating instead of the russian "cope cages"

[@Dany94256]

Cope cages? Are we sending a Special Military Operation™ to denazify and demilitarise the T'au? 🤣

[@TheArklyte]

"Have you ever tried finding a standard at first glance to you bolt and nut for engine mounting five centuries after the factory that produced it was destroyed, the world that produced a vehicle was blown up, on another side of the galaxy, blockaded by ork forces from any incoming supply and with only medieval smithy at your disposal? First try that, then talk about how crude she is..."

[@thomashsiai6250]

Half a dozen of Leman Russ Vanquisher Varients can effectively challenge a basic Questorious Knight, due to the vanquisher cannon being able to overwhelm a Knight’s ion shielding and afterwards shred its body. You can debate whether this is true or not, but never underestimate a Leman Russ.

[@sciarpecyril]

Vanquisher cannons are also dangerous against light titans.

[@silverfischdotnet]

Only in the lore. Vanquishers got nerfed HARD on the tabletop.

[@JT-hg7mj]

@@silverfischdotnet tabletop is irrelevant. new editions always change stuff.

[@Zadrias6386]

@@silverfischdotnet yeah… I put one on my tank because it looks cool… but man it sucks…

[@fluffly3606]

@@silverfischdotnet, Guard just got new rules and the Vanquisher looks like a scary but niche pick. 72" Heavy 1 S14 AP-5 Dd3+6 w/+1 to hit, ignores invulns and d3 mortals on wound. I rolled dice to see how 15 of them would do against a Warlord Titan and they deleted it in one round once they got into range. Given the 40k rules for Titans are bad for obvious reasons but still

[@tba113]

Love the little nod to the old wives' tale about the Russ being an up-gunned STC design for a farm tractor, and to the ongoing internet arguments about whether the tank's design is unstoppably powerful or laughably obsolete. Those were nice touches.

[@thebighurt2495]

I feel like it's a bit of both. It's incredible Advanced technology applied to the challenge of making the most cost-efficient tank ever. It's engine in particular is a miracle of science. That sucker can run on literally anything flammable. Coal, wood, diesel, crude, gasoline, booze. If it burns and you can get it in the tank, the LR will run on it.

[@gracefulcubix4730]

Could see that tale partly true considering the nature of space marine Armour.

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

One of the more fun things I remember from 40K is a Tech Priest explaining why the old Earth MBTs were inferior, like their inability to climb over a literal wall of corpses.

[@Karhall]

Do you remember where it's from?

[@karebear4485]

I think its from a regimental standard article, so im not sure if it’s canon.

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

@@karebear4485 That one is pretty neat, but this one was some old sepia thing from a photobucket link that probably hasn't worked for years. I tried to find it again, but I just haven't had any luck. Pretty sure it was, like, from the 2nd edition days, so finding it isn't really easy.

[@c0ya1]

@@bubbasbigblast8563 But if the Leman-Russ went up against any modern-day MBT: it will get curb-stomped. Violently. It would be akin to Mike Tyson beating a disabled 5 year old without their arms.

[@Shinzon23]

Ah yes, when you can field so many of a single model of tank that the destroyed wrecks contribute to environmental conditions across most of the planet they died on, you know the design is solid.

[@rexlumontad5644]

1:35 TTS Magnus: "Oh wow, Ullanor! It seems that the Ork spores weren't properly disposed of! It really proves that the Ork genome can survive through anything, even toxic emissions from atrocious family reunions! Not even Vulkan can regenerate from those!"

[@santymartin7383]

Why nobody remember i tear one of his hearts?

[@Jamesgates355]

@@santymartin7383 "I PUNCHED OUT ONE OF HIS HEARTS WHY DOES NO ONE REMEMBER THIS?!" -Magnus in the midsts of the Hugging by Vulcan circa M41

[@Ddnmddnn]

The Big Red Cyclops??? Corax Curze to Vulkan

[@hippymad1]

​@@Jamesgates355 YOU LUMBERING ASHTRAY. I'M PHYSICALLY ILL!

[@gorzonthechampion6784]

I miss tts.

[@emptank]

They ain't the best tanks, but there's a shit ton of them and there's one that's been custom designed to deal specifically with you. It's like if someone crossed a Sherman with a British landship and shot it into space.

[@thebighurt2495]

It is *very* cost-effective and that's exactly what the GUard needs.

[@MedTech37572]

Along with with ease of production and expendability of the T-34

[@MartianTechAdept]

The leman Russ the most stealthy of tanks. After all if there’s no one alive there’s no one to report your presence.

[@admiralgalactica]

Like an Steiner Scout Lance

[@weldonwin]

@@admiralgalactica *(Distant Polka Sounds)*

[@Hippy576]

Beware of bees!!

[@admiralgalactica]

@@weldonwin "In the Lyran Commonwealth The Atlas Scouts you Not you the Atlas"

[@weldonwin]

@@admiralgalactica "Guten Tag. All Steiner forces, show these Godless Kuritans what real wars crimes look like! *SCOUT THEM INTO A NEW GRAVE!!!"*

[@TheColdsuit]

The Leman Russ tank is proof that looks can kill.

[@CantusTropus]

The best thing about this is that it was intended to be the equivalent of a DIY 3d-printed tank for colonies with limited tools, resources, and technical expertise. STC machines of the Golden Age were able to advise colonists on how to build anything with only local resources, and this is what they came up with. That means that it's incredibly easy to build and maintain, which is why it's so darn ubiquitous.

[@rexlumontad5644]

I can imagine a Chad Guardsman play the saxophone on top of the Leman Russ in the front lines and boosting morale with his comrades who charge to battle and/or play the saxophones on top of the Leman Russes too as well.

[@26th_Primarch]

Saxophone solos are an Ultramarines thing. Now Guardsmen blasting *Panzer Battalion* by Sabaton is way more accurate.

[@JoshuaC923]

What about bagpipes

[@DetectiveLance]

@@JoshuaC923 The Tanith 1st don't get tanks

[@26th_Primarch]

@@JoshuaC923 also wrong sci-fi tabletop game franchise from the 80's.

[@Tiramizur]

@@DetectiveLance After Urdesh, we can't be sure anything.

[@rexlumontad5644]

"Cheers luv! Cavalry is here!" - Leman Russ Tank operator chap probably.

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

6:00 For such a small detail, I love how it's actually kinda found representation ingame, due to the rule Grinding Advance. You can move the Russ at it's main movement characteristic of 10 inches, sure, but if you halve it, you can double-tap the cannon onto the designated target. Shows some level of added stability in theory, intended or otherwise.

[@troutwarrior6735]

Yeah, it’s almost like the short staballizer on the sherman tank

[@SephirothRyu]

Baneblade: "Aw., who's a cute widdle tank? YOU are! Such a cute widdle tank!" Leman Russ: **Angry tank noises**

[@macbrodernbror3271]

have had one of these waiting to be painted to like 6 years, think this just gave me enough motivation to get to painting :)

[@caedenirizarry951]

Let's go👍

[@randomcast3183]

Remember to angle your Leman Russ MBT for greater armor values....

[@antarescitizen]

Just angle

[@UGNAvalon]

Primarch Russ: “Who else can claim trillions of kills to their name!” Other Primarchs: “The tank doesn’t count!” Emperor-class Titan: _Raises hand, thinks better of it, stomps away with sad bwaas._

[@rexlumontad5644]

3:06 Leman Russ got stuck inside the Warp for 10, 000 years where he carved out his own Fenris-like realm, made Choas Mjod out of Daemon remains to be completely drunk, hanged out with Kaldor Draigo to harass Realms of Chaos, and met Fyodor Karamazov and his Inquisition forces who were banished to the Warp by Magnus.

[@mikemullen8174]

And I know what you've been watching I miss that series.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

In the grim dark present of the 3rd millenium, there is only Games Workshop...

[@rexlumontad5644]

Chad Commissar on a Leman Russ Tank: "Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"

[@SenorGato237]

I used to be a Guard player. The Leman Russ holds a special place in my wargaming heart.

[@comradeweismann6947]

Oh Leman Russ of the lake, what is your wisdom?

[@rexlumontad5644]

Primarch Leman Russ: "That the Lion can shit talk my sons' behavior all he wants! But it still won't change the fact that at least half of my Legion didn't turn traitor at the first chance it got!"

[@jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847]

BOLO MK. 33 from the Boloverse: *"Are you my little brother or something?"*

[@RAD1111able]

40k is a fascinating setting,tanks without suspension.

[@hang_kentang6709]

Leman Russ is basically the British MK 1 tank with a turret.

[@ThraceVega]

In the grimdark future of 40k, nobody cares about your spine injuries.

[@Aniyah-CHG]

Huh, would inertial Dampeners help with that?

[@wepntech]

@@ThraceVega or might be cheaper to have spinal implants, lol.

[@comradeweismann6947]

The enemy might have Gods on their side. We have Tanks on ours.

[@kinocorner976]

So, the Sherman tank of 40k

[@randomelite4562]

But worse design wise

[@visitingforgefather5997]

The best description of the tanks overall design was in The Siege of Terra, Warhawk novel "No, whoever had designed the Leman Russ - Kaska has always assumed it wasn't actually the Primarch of the VI - was a moron. Or a sadist. Or both"

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

I know it was made as a joke but I've wanted to buy one of those old T-72s many former Eastern Bloc countries sell and just drive it around town. The funny thing is the gas tank is 320 gallons, meaning to stop at a gas station and refuel with any kind of speed would require one to park in such a way that you could get two pumps working at a single time. It takes about a minute or so for my 14 gallon tank to fill so it would take a little over 22 minutes for the tank to be filled on a single pump. And yes, I know the T-72 uses diesel. I imagine the diesel pump run as fast as the gasoline pumps.

[@danielseelye6005]

That's what Truck Stops are for: They have diesel fuel islands and they are designed with fuel nozzles on both sides so the trucker could pay on one pump and have both tanks filling at the same time with a nozzle each.

[@kdegraa]

There are many bigger vehicles powered by Diesel engines. These vehicles can have big fuel tanks. There are high flow diesel bowsers that fill up bigger tanks in shorter times.

[@DanGod07]

Broke: Getting your tanks dragged away by tractors Woke: Dragging away tanks with your tractors Bespoke: Making tractors into tanks

[@tumage8592]

yes, my favourite death-trap

[@theenigma7290]

Wow, you guys are pumping out videos like there's no tomorrow. Nice work!

[@TemplinInstitute]

that's Fleet Week, baby

[@martinstallard2742]

1:24 start of content

[@nc1297]

ALL GUARDSMEN, FOLLOW ME TO GLORY!

[@generalsmite7167]

They are rumors that they are doing a Rogal Dorn tank

[@weldonwin]

Its basically a massive brick wall on treads

[@rikuurufu5534]

(Calmly, in an Irish accent) Oh, bugger: The tank is on fire.

[@LARGO125]

DCoK general: Do you make one that throws shovels? Mechanicus Magus: ummm... no. But this one with the sponsons makes it all but impossible to evacuate. Basically a death trap for the crew. General:..... *perrrrrfect*

[@randomelite4562]

Wait until you hear that DKoK Generals commanded their forces to retreat when a situation appeared untenable

[@LARGO125]

@@randomelite4562 I'm aware. That's why they call it "humor".

[@LARGO125]

@@randomelite4562 they also don't only use shovels as weapons. That's a tongue in cheek reference.

[@randomelite4562]

@@LARGO125 I know, it’s a shit joke that’s been a dead horse that’s not only been beaten, but fucking butchered with how shitty it is. Find a new joke

[@legionofyuri]

Gonna pre-empt the wrong info that comes up in the comments: The Russ wasn't a tractor design, that's the Chimera. The Russ was always a dedicated battle tank.

[@tumage8592]

for backwater planets

[@NerfplsGoyim]

The Chimera was never a tractor. The one Guard vehicle that was is the Siegfried.

[@Phenixtri]

@@NerfplsGoyim no in the dark age the chimera stc was an industrial multi purpose vehicle which later had guns and armor slapped all over it .... dun know about the russ tho cant recall at the top of my head atm but I do know the baneblade stc during the dark age was referred to as a "light tank" so that makes me wonder what the leman russ was made for originally 0_o

[@calebbarnhouse496]

@@Phenixtri it was for driving through there equivalent of Chicago

[@NerfplsGoyim]

@@Phenixtri That's all memes. The Baneblade being a light tank is a well known meme. Nobody can find a source for the claim; it's just more baseless 'common knowledge' within the fandom. And the Russ was a dedicated battle tank STC claimed from Nova Borilia during the Great Crusade.

[@TheDaltonius]

Rumors of the reliable Leman Russ being a heavily modified tractor is a, nice touch since the first tanks came from tractors and the Leman Russ takes after those WW1 tanks in its rhomboid shape

[@rexlumontad5644]

Did you know that the STC of the Leman Russ Battle Tank was discovered on Nova Borilia, which had been part of the Noman civilization, during the Great Crusade? And that the Noman xenos had enslaved a portion of humanity for millennia before they were all crushed by the might and fury of the Space Wolves Legion. After that, the Sons of Russ recovered the STC and named the tank, currently used by Imperial Army/Imperial Guard in the honor of their Primarch and the son of their All-Father, the Man-Emperor of Mankind.

[@LtCWest]

I see you are a follower of Bruva Alfabusa as well ^^

[@RockSplitter]

“Any problem caused by a tank can be solved by a tank.” - Peter Griffin

[@slypask9185]

Loved this tank in tabletop (some editions ago) Opponent : "I already threw 3 AT missiles and two lascanon shots at this thing, WHY. WON'T. IT. FCKING. DIE ???" Me : **Laugh in 14 front armor**

[@runningcommentary2125]

If anyone unfamiliar with Warhammer 40,000 lore starts pointing out the design flaws of the Leman Russ, don't forget to let them know that some elements of the Astra Militarum still use horses.

[@randomelite4562]

That doesn’t at all change the fact that that’s a bad idea and a symptom of the fact that the Imperium is dying

[@mikeblatzheim2797]

I've got to say, in terms of stats this is basically a current (meaning 1980s and onwards) MBT with extra weaponry but a bigger profile.

[@101Mant]

One of the things about STCs is they are supposed to let you build something whatever your tech levels or available materials. That meant that the result wasn't exactly the pinnacle of technology but was easy to make and could be made in large numbers from pretty much whatever you had available and on lower tech worlds. There is much higher tech vehicles but they are largely reserved for more elite forces and exist in much smaller numbers.

[@cgi2002]

@@101Mant also consider it still is far superior to a modern tank due to the materials used. Its armour is something like 500 times stronger than anything we have today, and its gun uses a shell design that has more explosive energy in it than several tons of high explosives. Imperial guard lasguns are apparently on par with the 120mm cannon on an M1 Abrams (in the amount of energy delivered, it just applies it all to 1 spot, no explosion, no penetration, just pure heat).

[@tarektechmarine8209]

@@cgi2002 nope a bit too far, lasguns are like 308 for 200m and like a 9mm after. The 120mm gun is just that, with maybe improved explosives and material and the armour is not more than 3 or 4 times more effective then what we currently have. Here is a case of over blowing a universe and in my opinion takes away from it. A bolter is not an auto rpg but it is a smaller calibre 1000m/s mk19 with exploding AFTER penetrating a heavy target. We could kill an astartes with anything higher than a 12.5mm weapon with consecutive hits, problem is they are astartes. They won't let themselves get hit. This is a buttermilkbob moment right here and I put 40k as better than any other sci-fi so yeah, bit too far.

[@cgi2002]

@@tarektechmarine8209 it honestly depends on the source you use. I admittedly used the most extreme source i've seen, but there are lower end ones have it as you say, which frankly are if we are honest, way underpowered when you consider some of the events that are confirmed to occur (even just using tabletop rule books). 40k as a universe is all about extreme overkill, but the lower end sources you use put them at well below the firepower levels of Star trek which is generally a bit of a joke in how bad its weapons are (in reality, the phasers ability to completely destory things at a subatomic level makes it actually one of the most overpowered guns in scifi, the energy requirements are basically small nuclear warhead levels to do that).

[@tau-5794]

@@tarektechmarine8209 In actual performance lasguns are closer to .50 bmg than rifle rounds, and bolters are roughly comparable to 20mm autocannons in penetration, with enough explosive force to kill both their target and anyone within a few meters. Power armor is functionally immune to lasgun fire and similarly powerful guns like heavy stubbers, only having surface-level craters or scratches made. Standard bolt shells often make much larger craters and can break through power armor in a few hits to the same spot of armor, but aren't one-hit-wonder weapons. To more consistently pierce power armor you need heavy bolters or autocannons closer to 40mm, and to consistently kill the marine inside you would need lascannons or plasma weapons. Essentially, if you're fighting an astartes think of him less like a human in strong armor and more like an IFV that can fit through doorways, dodge bullets, move faster than you can react, and has nearly perfect aim while firing full-auto.

[@joerider2508]

Love the Leman Russ, i mean im bais as someone who has played Guard for 10 years but its such an awesome tank!!

[@LARGO125]

Like Tariq Torgadden said about the Ultrmarines. They may not be the best, but there are so damned many of them!

[@tanks608]

"Smaller Designs" - describing a ludirously tall and wide tank.

[@blazecraftworks8944]

Music “The Greater Good” Imperium: **Cringe**

[@bopaintsminis]

Best thing about the new data slate: the ability to build an imperial guard army with just eleven leman russ tanks.

[@alexfrost2799]

"Tank beats everything!" - Unknown, M3

[@richardmyhan3369]

What about the Leman Russ angrinator variant?? I know it's homebrewery, but it's fantastic. 😂😂

[@kevingluys3063]

Would be fun to see a video comparing comic relief aliens. Orks, Gungans, Ewoks, Packleds, Ferengi, Unggoy.

[@Alexthemeh4214]

I had tank fever for the past few days. This is what I needed... This and girls und panzer.

[@Skhmt]

At 4:18 ish it's mentioned that the Space Wolves operating Leman Russ tanks was a violation of the Codex. That's true, but the Spaces Wolves ignore the Codex as a whole anyway, so they wouldn't care another about one more violation of it.

[@andonis2102]

The Dark Age of Technology folks, where standard-issue battle tanks are 🚜

[@feosty5526]

For new backwater colonies Actual DAOT tech is way more powerful

[@m2aster]

Imperial Army tank commander Kaska's opinion about the Leman Russ battle tank. And of all the possible tanks to be stuck in, a Leman Russ was probably the worst. People spoke of it as the Pride of the Imperium, the greatest battle tank in human history, the mainstay of the Great Crusade. Was it shit. A Leman Russ was a rolling deathtrap. Its tall profile was so notoriously awful that no commander ever wanted to be squadron leader - the only thing big enough to shield a Leman Russ during operations was another Leman Russ, so better to keep the command unit ahead of you for as long as you could. Its fragile tracks were exposed and its armour was a mess of easy-to-hit vertical planes. The standard pattern sponson-bulges just presented another flat edge to destroy, another reason to be glad not to have them. The interior was noisy and prone to bursting into flames whenever a loader coughed too loudly. And, if you were truly unlucky enough to have those sponsons, there was only one escape hatch, right at the top of the main turret, and so the chances of getting out alive in case of all-too-likely disaster were practically zero. No, whoever had designed the Leman Russ - Kaska had always assumed it wasn’t actually the primarch of the VI - was a moron. Or a sadist. Or both. The only things it had going for it were cheapness, mechanical reliability and a certain rugged survivability in numbers. The design was so brutally simple that the Imperium was able to churn them out by the million. It mattered less that each individual unit was a study in self-harm when you could overwhelm a battlefield with hundreds of them. And a front-mounted lascannon at least could keep firing as long as its power packs held a charge, which made running out of shells somewhat less of a disaster. Still, all in all, the crews had few illusions about the tanks they rode into war. Deathboxes, they were called, and homewreckers, and other, earthier, names too. Infantry troopers would occasionally look askance at them, jealous of all that thick armour they had around them, but a Leman Russ tanker knew how fragile it all was really, and how going out to a las-blast was far preferable to being burned alive or buried under a wall of mud or suffocated by trapped engine smoke.

[@calebbarnhouse496]

*tau railgunfires through an entire convoy

[@bastienbabineaux7362]

The Imperium needs a Rheinmetall Weapon Factory.

[@IAmTheStig32]

"Leman Russ was a rolling deathtrap. Its tall profile was so notoriously awful that no commander ever wanted to be squadron leader - the only thing big enough to shield a Leman Russ during operations was another Leman Russ, so better to keep the command unit ahead of you for as long as you could. Its fragile tracks were exposed and its armour was a mess of easy-to-hit vertical planes. The standard pattern sponson-bulges just presented another flat edge to destroy, another reason to be glad not to have them. The interior was noisy and prone to bursting into flames whenever a loader coughed too loudly. And, if you were truly unlucky enough to have those sponsons, there was only one escape hatch, right at the top of the main turret, and so the chances of getting out alive in case of all-too-likely disaster were practically zero. No, whoever had designed the Leman Russ - Kaska had always assumed it wasn't actually the primarch of the VI - was a moron. Or a sadist. Or both. The only things it had going for it were cheapness, mechanical reliability and a certain rugged survivability in numbers. The design was so brutally simple that the Imperium was able to churn them out by the million. It mattered less that each individual unit was a study in self-harm when you could overwhelm a battlefield with hundreds of them. Still, all in all, the crews had few illusions about the tanks they rode into war. Deathboxes, they were called, and homewreckers, and other, earthier, names too."

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Whenever people say that quantity trumps quality, remind them that the Sherman was cheaper than the T-34 and was also the better tank in every single respect, due to the obsession with quality along its entire production and delivery process.

[@davidmccormick7419]

@@dashiellgillingham4579 we were not worried about performance we where worried about reliability. The us had the luxury to perfect the Sherman before deployment. The USSR was forced to deploy what was in most respects a prototype and was already planed to be upgraded to the T-34M when the invasion kicked off in 41. The USA had the M3 as our main tank in 41, and the T-34 was vastly superior.

[@danksouls6034]

people often forget that these are the thoughts of a Leman Russ commander during the *Siege of Terra*, where every single fighting man on the damn planet was affected by low morale due to some nurglite shenanigans.

[@boobah5643]

@@davidmccormick7419 The T-34 wasn't reliable, either, although you can account for _some_ of its mishaps because of manufacturing 'defects' like not bothering to assemble all the parts, some amusing (lack of seats was something you could deal with by making field-expedient substitutes,) some less so (who needs sights for the main gun, anyway?)

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

@@davidmccormick7419 Correct, but A) we never meant to keep that trash, it was literally the garbage from the early Sherman program, and B) at least every M3 had chairs and sights. Many T-34s did not, because you can cut corners like the ability to see the enemy if you just want moar tank naow.

[@McSkumm]

I can't be the only one bothered by the Battle Cannon being described as ONLY 120mm, which is a touch less than 5 inches wide. But every time we see it, the barrel's wide enough you can fit a Ratling through it.

[@jasonscarborough94]

That's a common problem with "military" sci-fi art, the artists will either make vehicle weapons look "too short and too wide" or "too long and too narrow" you never get used to it but, you eventually learn to pretend you can let it go.

[@amirhaikal6672]

i just assume all captured art was of the vanquisher variant. the Vanquisher is a 160mm cannon

[@Spaceman0720]

Its a water jacket. And I have no idea why they would use a water jacket for a tank gun that doesnt even have the rpm of a machine gun or autocannon. Probably a lore excuse to make the gun bigger and more pronounced for the models in tabletop.

[@lieutenantdan9337]

Niiiiiice. Some more 40k content.

[@BaronVonMott]

"Tell the men the cavalry's arrived!" "Ready to win the war, sir!"

[@masongalioth4110]

I used to abuse the absolute HECK outta this tank in Dawn Of War.

[@arandomguardsmen]

Blessed be this holy machine for the god machine has blessed us

[@TalicFIN]

For the Imperium of Man and the God-Emperor of Mankind!

[@GunRunner106]

exactly what I'll be doing 1 hour after this video goes live over on our Twitch channel.

[@ak4390]

The emperor protects but he also let's us build beautiful tanks to protect ourselves.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

An Emperor's Fist Tank Company is an armoured formation consisting of three squadrons of Leman Russ main battle tanks of any type, and a single Formation Leader. The three squadrons must consist of three Leman Russ tanks, of any type. This powerful phalanx of armour makes the perfect hammer for the Imperium's forge war.

[@iainballas]

A little known fact is that as you crank the engine to start it up, it will play Vengaboys, but only for the Death Korps.

[@mingchoi8369]

Drive me closer, I wanna strike down those traitors with my sword!!!! Anyway, I want to see more Arsenal videos on the Imperium’s war machines soon.

[@JoshuaAdim]

Leman Russ Aka Eddard Stark

[@johanalitalo8331]

Ah the leman Russ, the tank that continues the wolf lord holy work.👍 Great to see a video of imperial machinery. Hope to see other machines like the macharius or baneblade heavy tanks. Or the chimera apc and its hulled variants. Keep up the good work. The Emperor protects!!

[@hughmungus4744]

now do the baneblade.

[@masongalioth4110]

☝️This

[@sheldon-cooper]

*THE BANEBLADE*

[@arandomguardsmen]

11 barrels of hell coming your way

[@mot2296]

What I can not shatter with words, I will grind to dust with the Tanks of the Imperial Guards!

[@ultrajd]

Wait…the LR-MBT is only 13 feet high? The art makes it look like it’s MUCH bigger. Don’t get me wrong 13 feet is big. That’s roughly the size of your average single-story house. But still. So much of the artwork makes it look significantly larger. Also I’ve always wondered why they went with the rhomboid design when it came to the main hull.

[@kuradamax]

The shape of the hull is directly taken from one of the earliest functional tanks used in ww1 I forgot the name though

[@randomelite4562]

@@kuradamax The British MK tanks

[@thebloxxer22]

4:50 This fact was reflected in Speed Freeks, where the Looted Wagon is LITERALLY an Ork-seized Leman Russ.

[@Clicint]

The Emperor Protects!

[@norman4588]

"Tell the men the cavalry has arrived!" "Fire until they see the glow of our barrels!" - Unknown Leman Russ Commander.

[@Arclite02]

"This was a violation of the Codex Astartes"... What? The Space Wolves? Violating the Codex?? Nooooooooo... Who would have guessed??

[@owenthomas5103]

I bet they found the idea that they has been "permitted" to use the battletank they discovered hilarious.

[@aragornii507]

The T-34 of the 40k universe

[@ahmadfaturrahman4240]

So Leman Russ MBT is M4 Sherman of 40K universe because they have so much variant and maybe a little bit of T-34 because every fectory in soviet union make they T-34 slightly different depending on they resource sometime they have radio sometime they don't, sometime they have good transmission and engine and once again sometime they don't

[@jonmcgee6987]

I haven't played Warhammer 40 K since 2002. I still have some of my figures and vehicles. the one most intact and displayed is my Leman Russ Demolisher.

[@Real_Iron_Smith]

You read my mind, Templin Institute! I just started painting up Leman Russ Tanks, and this video comes out!

[@AGuyNamedRicky]

If God didn’t want me to drive an M1 Abrams main battle tank 36 miles and back to work every day on the freeway then he wouldn’t have made it so much fun to say “M1 Abrams main battle tank”

[@lordicarus8807]

11:49 I loved the Cadia reference...

[@thexenoist3493]

3:07 saving shas'la ry'an

[@slayerofmidgets3201]

there is simply no way that gun is 120mm, perhaps the punisher gatling cannon is but that main gun is more like 500mm.. i'd love to be loading those shells

[@tarektechmarine8209]

@@Gloria-victrix99857 difference is that the mg was tangible, can't really except fantasy writers to search absolutely everything.

[@Golem-mo5wc]

Er, get ur mm right... The largest battleship guns ever built never reached 500mm We are talking gun calibur

[@slayerofmidgets3201]

@@Golem-mo5wc if the tank is 4m wide give or take and the main gun's bore is about 1/5 the width of the tank then how is that gun 120mm? I'd like to point out too that with ww2 technology we'd fitted 800mm canons to tanks, OK not on a turret but regardless, if you're going to type caliber at least spell it correctly.. Unless you mean the sword but somehow I doubt it

[@Golem-mo5wc]

@@slayerofmidgets3201 when people talk gun mm, they talk about calibur. The diameter of the barrel bruv. So don't tell me again that tank cannons are 500 or 800mm.

[@slayerofmidgets3201]

@@Golem-mo5wc *caliber Seeing as I've got a model of the leman russ with its standard cannon I'll measure it for you and calculate the cannons caliber, but first I'm going to correct you, a tank cannon has its caliber (the size of the barrel after the firing chamber) measured in mm or sometimes inches, but typically mm what you're describing is half right and the problem with statistics is when you're 50% right you're 100% wrong The leman russ is according to my micrometer 79.89mm wide I'm gonna round that to 80mm for ease of calculation, the battle cannons internal dimensions are 6.92mm and 7.12mm so I'm going to round that to 7mm which means the cannon if you line them up bore to bore with the length of the tank you would need 11.4 cannons to make the tanks width, according to the lore leman russ is 4.86m wide without sponsons (4860mm) and when we divide that by the number of cannons it will take to make the width of the tank (11.4) we get the cannons bore diameter or caliber of 426.3mm which is a lot closer to 500mm than 120 as is claimed, I also have a model of the punisher which I said was probably closer to 120mm so I measured that too, it's barrels are 1.6mm, so 50 punisher barrels across which makes the punisher cannon 97mm which is a lot closer to 120mm than the 420mm battle cannon at that this measurement fits far better with the other known scales in the game like the height of a space marine or size of a human head the guns caliber doesn't matter when the lore just gets its scale wrong which was what my first comment was about which you erroneously read, or rather didn't read and then just assumed I was talking about something which I simply wasn't

[@louievelayo4100]

"Tell the men the cavalry has arrived!" Thank the Emperor! Alright men, *CHARGE!*

[@jeshuasamuel6537]

Whats Next, Leman Russ the Primarch?

[@theoffensivelemon2515]

3:06 Dude's seriously trying to destroy a tank with a pistol.

[@thebeardedsquirt3711]

8:53 "Drive closer! I wanna hit them with my SWOOOOOOORD!"

[@drakoslayd]

Petition War Thunder and GamesWorkshop to add the Leman Russ as a tank in War Thunder

[@blackwidowrsa]

Go play World of tanks instead, its in there. Rubbish game though.

[@PaiSAMSEN]

Perhaps the next AFD event.

[@thedragondemands5186]

when is the Wolf Time?

[@thecommissar3620]

Since IG vehicles got armor of contempt I've been running a list of 10 leman russes. So far I've had a thousand sons player surrender after my first shooting phase, an ultramarine player surrender after turn 2, and I've tabled 2 harlequin players. Is this what the Macharian Crusade felt like?

[@belesariuscawl7403]

If it is possible make a few videos about more interesting stuff,like the adeptus mechanicus, thousand sons,emporers children, the return of roboute gulliman or about belesarius cawl. But you are still making a very good job. I say that because you are very epic in storytelling.