New Antioch, The Most Important City | Trench Crusade Faction Lore

[@halosammy14]

New Antioch is founded on the idea that there is a finite number of satchel charges required to kill Satan.

[@glueboy]

And they're god damed right

[@TheCraftyFox612]

Judging by the rules restrictions, this number is 4

[@benelgermosen]

The Scottish literally play bagpipes into battle to hard counter the Choristers of hell.

[@glueboy]

Supremely based of them lmao

[@vazk-thret]

Those things can get pretty loud, makes sense honestly.

[@Malleus_77]

We did it in the real WW1 as well💪

[@Mischievous_Moth]

SCOTLAND FOREVER!!!!!!

[@TSInfiMa-r6z]

New Antioch has a discipline like Palanite Enforcers while Trench Pilgrims are more Cawdor-like.

[@internetuser320]

Ay necromunda fan

[@Jimmy-w5o]

😊😊 6:43 😊😊 6:45 😊😊 6:46 😊 6:48 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😅😊😅😅😊😮😮😊😊

[@calebr699]

The lore i think states that in can be soldiers particularly page 70 the Ethiopia part. But it does say "It is a matter of pride and prestige to the House of Solomon that the tithe to New Antioch is met punctually. So once in seven years the Negarit war drums sound the kitet, the call to arms. The volunteers gather at Axum, the spiritual capital of the nation, where the Ark of the Covenant is said to be kept" so i think one could argure that maybe the volunteers of soldiers is more extra on top of whatever they give. So who knows. I love your videos btw keep being amazing

[@glueboy]

Yeah sounds like it! Or if anything this confirms different practices between regions. Or they have a regular recruitment drive. Mainly over the idea of the more grimdark option where some dude comes in and just does some forced conscriptions lol. It still at least sounds like New Antioch doesn't partake in that practice as of now. Either way I didn't see this lore blurb and I appreciate the extra context.

[@calebr699]

@@glueboy I personally would like it be different for each faction cause it gives more options on for paint schemes and stuff. Yea no worries. I love New Antioch because it allows more options for kit bashing

[@glueboy]

Honestly agreed! I can see a fun version where each areas's gov has a different method of fulfilling the tithe. Some darker than others, some more fun. I picture Alba's (Scotland) being more like "You have a system to pay the tithe? Nerds." As they have thousand upon thousands of soldiers already landing on New Antioch to crack some heretic skulls.

[@calebr699]

@@glueboy yooo thats awesome. I see the the few spanish colonies recruiting Natives as special units for New Antioch. Im imaging it being a way to introduce tribes from the Americas in small fun ways like the Anishinaabe. Who would view Mammon with such hate because they would view part of ethos (i.e. eating humans) greed/want for exceese and forbidden treasures of flesh as a wendigo like corruption

[@izzydarkhart4144]

I actually worked in an armor factory that has been making armor for law enforcement and the military sense WW2 and there is actually a lot of science as to why we do use midevil plate armor and why it sucks at absorbing kinetic energy and cartridges. Plate armor is designed to deflect and not absorb on top of that it is a lot more expensive. However fantasy and science fiction go the path of cool and figure it out later. Plate armor just looks badass and grimdark.

[@glueboy]

True! Theres a lot of legitimate reasons we moved away from it. I know we actually have some museum pieces of breastplate with muskets impacts in it showing what you described. Also sounds like what you're saying is similar to the same development we had with cars. Designing protection based on impact absorption based on crumple zones. Which makes sense cause we understand how physics works way more now.

[@halosammy14]

The plate armor in Trench Crusade explicitly involves supernatural forces, so it’s not plate armor as we understand it.

[@fslayer1290]

I’m calling it now: one Meta-Christ will defect/be stolen/be cloned by hell and become the anti-Christ.

[@Maimkillburn69]

No the bald Warmaster Meta-christ would never turn against god lol

[@warmonster9]

A few small things I have been thinking about the metachrist. 1. How much do you have to each for mutation to occur and is it proportional to the amount eaten? 2. Can the metameat be mass produced for emergency berserker MREs? 3. What happens if you feed some to an animal? 4. Is the one eating being baptised first a factor?

[@glueboy]

Questions I wonder if we'll ever actually have enough info on the Meta-Christ to ever answer fully. Though I imagine it would transfer to animals the same way? Thats a sick idea tbh. Also now I have a mental image of Meta-Christ Spam so that's fun lmao. And only a little horrifying.

[@internetuser320]

I think the berserker MRE is the maytrdom pill

[@purpleblah2]

Even if they could feed it to animals, wouldn’t it only work if the animal was a devoted Christian? Are they gonna have lore about how they converted a bunch of dogs to Christianity?

[@theenderdestruction2362]

​@@purpleblah2dogs are secretly angels without wings, so it wouldn't work on them as they are all good boys and girls, and hell can't touch them less. God gets very very very, very angry, and starts going full old testament on that specific bastard

[@ethantaylor9613]

Going to start saying “faith unwavered, pants unsoiled” regularly now

[@glueboy]

I picture it shouted from the ramparts during a siege

[@chimeraelite]

I'm just thinking Jesus dressed in various garb related to their specialty. Knight Jesus, Jesus with a monacle and lab coat, Jesus with six shooters and strapped with a tommy gun and shottys, Jesus with a blacksmith apron and a lil sooty etc. I love it

[@ethantaylor9613]

They’re called Yewmen because British long bowman were taken from the medieval middle class and they made their bows generally out of Yew.

[@SebaztienHawke-ci5hm]

Do you mean Yeoman?? The original is uncertain but might have been “young man”. However they are self sufficient land owners first, and archers second or third.

[@gurtwurz]

Self sufficient they may have been, land owners they generally were most definitely not. Most englishmen were in serfdom to a land owning lord

[@Maethendias]

""the meta christ is a clone of jesus christ, that when you imbue the flesh and blood into ritual sacrement, your body is enhanced in some way" EXCUSE ME WHAT lmfao

[@Bradn-w5n]

Not to sound nitpicky but Prussia is German not Russia

[@glueboy]

Ah shit did I say Russia? I was doing my damnedest to not mix that up. Cause I know the mix of my own pronunciation + sound mixing can mess up some P sounds. If I did you are completely right!

[@zuephillips3450]

What?

[@veilofdarkness000]

Based Oneyplays reference.

[@glueboy]

That is one of many moments stuck in my head of theirs

[@Big-Dadi-F]

As someone who had a few family members who fought in ww1 and were devoted Catholics I can confirm this is canon.

[@YullishPelor]

Great timing for this video, making a DND system for Trench Crusade. Working on New Antioch first

[@andrashosszu1106]

I'm going with New Antioch because I feel like you could do so many historical references with them. Maybe make some French or tsarist Russian? There are so many options for kitbashing!

[@glueboy]

For a game so kitbash friendly New Antioch feels like one of the best for it. Pull from any historical wargame and bam new model options.

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

Joan of Arc did cononically drive back the Black Grail, so there's some stuff to work with for france

[@BrownOwl2036]

Wake up babe, new Trench Crusade lore video just dropped

[@Mischievous_Moth]

I'm going to be building an army of New Antioch, I just REALLY love how their armor feels like a natural evolution of medieval/renaissance armor.

[@eg.1803]

Finally!!!! He is back and fully glued too🐎

[@matijasostojic4288]

Its people opinion and I respect that but I think they are just not bland in the slightest. Like yea in comparison to the demons that break the laws of reality they don't look too crazy but something about how they perfectly mixed WW1/2 soldiers with medieval armour is on another level. The Praetors and such do look insanely cool but man those Shocktroopers just make me feel good looking at them.

[@glueboy]

I'm glad there are people who love New Antioch as much as I love the other factions. I might not prefer them, but TC would be a much lamer game if they didn't exist tbh.

[@GrimDarkHalfOff]

Happy to hear about your success, even if you dont plan on making a lot of videos consider doing more! Your very fun and have a good casual style that helps people digest this nightmare feul

[@glueboy]

Dont get me wrong, I have no intention of hard dropping TC! It's gonna be something I'll be regularly covering. Just dont expect one for a good few uploads lol.

[@drinkyourpaintwater]

love the videos. also that oneyplays clip is gold

[@vualt69]

Faith Unwavered, Pants slightly soiled

[@glueboy]

Much like Antioch we can get a new one

[@akramgimmini8165]

Cadia but even MORE zelous and Melee combat

[@Cammy_809]

Just got into the lore of this and love the videos! I havnt read anything yet so this may already be confirmed but I can only assume that the "weapon" the hell made to destroy Antioch would be something not to dissimilar to a nuke

[@glueboy]

I wouldn't be suprised if its revealed (if they reveal it at all) that Hell made a nuke as a one off like hundreds of years early lol. So far in official lore the only two nuke like weapons are angels. Whenever they descend from heaven they just obliterate *everyone.* Then theres gonna be a faction coming soon that has to do with radiation? So we'll have to see lol

[@rails2579]

Your love for this game is infectious just the black grail keep up the awesome work.(ps your incredibly based for picking the Iron sultanates).

[@noahthurman4257]

Knights in trench jacket with machine guns, and he says they're boring

[@glueboy]

Lmao when you put it that way... but nah its the problem when put every faction next to each other. Big cool demons, satanic shit, islamic beasties/assassins, and then dudes in fine looking armor. Looks cool and all but I like everything else more.

[@theodorebear6714]

I want to get gnostics involved in the lore somewhere as well as mansa musa.

[@glueboy]

True! I've already seen some small whispers on the Discord that seem like the setting might be more Gnostic in inspiration. But its speculation over confirmation. Based on the fact the angels dont feel all that divine and act as giant holy nukes lol.

[@ikarischannel]

It is mentioned somewhere that Mammon (Greed) wants to get the riches of Africa but the Ethiopians were stopping them

[@anon9469]

I had some gnostic ideas but I don't wanna be That Guy who barges into the comments to dump his own writing.

[@theenderdestruction2362]

I feel like if i really wanted to i could just plop a regular crusader down and have a huge story of him 1. finding out whats been happening sense he was time jumped by Gods own hands, 2. Have to deal with demons being pissed at him for existing more then usual and 3. Having to avoid as much attention from the wider church as possible as he's got glowing golden eyes and sometimes has golden energy arch across him what do y'all think of this?

[@ruideng-c7l]

Hey dude. Love the channel and really really love your enthusiasm and love for what you do. Easy sub

[@devinwatkins8953]

Keep going brother. I highly enjoy your vids.

[@ProjectTaker]

As it stands, New Antioch is the only faction that can take the fight TO Hell.

[@culturalliberator9425]

This guy thought that Prussia was Russia 💀 The German : 😭

[@neverloseyuorrobux166]

Some people think the aesthetic is a bit bland but as a Imperial Guard lover from 40k and just a real army geek with multiple RTS games of every kind on my desktop i just love the knights mixed with WW2 and WW1 equipment, i mean the ISU-152 with a witch pyre on it and the New Antioch Shocktroopers are absolutely up my alley

[@glueboy]

Which that is why I try to be super precise in how I word my opinion on New Antioch. I might not vibe with them visually, but they aren't badly designed. It starts and ends in a personal bias. They're objectively very cool. Honestly mean it that I think weaker designers would have made a faction like New Antioch the boring vanilla faction.

[@Chumbi77]

At this point in time you have 6.66k subscribers. Which seems like a pretty on point for this setting.

[@kroposman2302]

I really hoped it won't share the same fate as Cadia.... Oh, who am I kidding....

[@ikarischannel]

They already got Cadia'd by an infernal superweapon. They just rebuilt the city hundreds of years ago because the garrison didn't stop defending as their city burned.

[@neovalley]

I found you from trench crusade! Please keep it up!

[@cadenboissineau4604]

FAITH UNWAVOIRED, PANTS UNSOILED, SHIT WITHIN.

[@vladirimus2689]

Artillery metachrist? That's the coolest thing ever.

[@CToast]

I've watched quite a few of your videos recently. I think you do a really good job, and have engaging visuals. I do have one slight criticism: your background music tends to be quite loud. Keep doing what you're doing :)

[@lukelaermjob]

louis ck's stand ups getting weirder every year

[@leovalenzuela8368]

9:18 that’s kind of a weak timeline split. They shoulda instead said that they never discovered plastics or polymers of any kind.

[@JayJet53]

Considering TC military tech is in between WW1 to late WW2/early cold war(aircraft), the limited availability of oil, and when and how the metal was discovered (1503 with divine help with modifications added along the way), this makes a lot more sense

[@matijasostojic4288]

Well if they literally don't have the resources for that or they got something way better than normal metal then yea they bassically just never discovered that stuff.

[@ProjectTaker]

Also, the metals New Antioch uses has a kind of light bullet repelling blessings on them. Their armours don’t just stop bullets, they make it less likely for the wearer to even get shot at all.

[@Mr281560]

I have a theory on the destruction of Old Antioch. I think similarly to how Jesus died for the sins of man, old Antioch had to "die" for the creation of the MetaChrists

[@MMWALSH98]

Hey brother love your content, also I hope you realize this but you're in a position to be THE Trench Crusade Lore dude, hope it works out for you, goodluck. Subbed btw

[@glueboy]

Appreciate the sentiment on this! Though expanding on the idea of becoming 'The Guy' for any of the subjects I cover. Not just for you, but for others too. Focusing on a single subject is a better idea sucess wise, but would make me hate the videos lol. I like too many things and would quickly get bored and start hating whatever I cover. Then quality would drop. So I can have the downsides of variety lore, and enjoy the whole process. Or maybe get better numbers but hate making videos. The former sounds a bit better lol.

[@texassasquatch5734]

Dig your style...New Sub

[@VietPham-zc9oh]

Deus Vault

[@AScottishCatholic]

*BASED + DEUS VULT + GLORIA IN EXCLESIS*

[@thecactusman17]

It's kind of weird to be listening to a lore video about grimdark Catholics while listening to background music specifically invoking the Greek pantheon and their god of the dead.

[@glueboy]

Might yoink some tunes from Blasphemous at a later point too lmao. Felt more fun than my usual 40k tracks.

[@IssacTheScourge]

Holy fuck Oneyplays reference

[@17vmrivas]

Where can we buy books?

[@SamuraiMujuru]

Hades OST for a Trench Crusade video? Quality choice.

[@IAmLordGingeous]

I like this channel. But the random oneyplays reference sealed me into subscribing lmao

[@glueboy]

I'm glad cause I only heard Chris's "The lord giveth and the God taketh away" when I saw that lore blurb on the timeline lmao. Had to put it in there.

[@mrfluffyribs3141]

So what is the rest of the world like? Is the war against hell mainly just the middle east, or has shit kinda dribbled onto the fan here and there too

[@mrfluffyribs3141]

Also how much cooler would our modern era be if we had armor rather then Kevlar?!?!! Give us armor!

[@glueboy]

Its not super detailed but apparently shit is happening in the Americas? But its not a focus since we never "discovered" (heaviest air quotes lmao) it in this timeline. No time to send ol Christopher over there with Hell on the doorstep. With the faction's they've previewed in one of the latest Kickstarter updates might be a fat minute till we see any of it though

[@mrfluffyribs3141]

@glueboy interesting, I hope we get some native themed demons and loyalists. Wendigos and shit would go so hard In this universe! Also you're the first person I've heard give good lore and videos on this cool ass world, you shall be my #1 for trench crusade forever now lol

[@CorporalCookie]

​@@mrfluffyribs3141I'm not entirely sure, but I have a distinct recollection that Saint Kateri is mentioned somewhere in the New Antioch lore and that would make her a native American involved with Antioch.

[@INCIESSE]

How do you get this game/minis?

[@glueboy]

Game rules are free and will stay free on their website. www.trenchcrusade.com/playtest-rules Official models are going live soon now that the Kickstarter is over! You can get 3d prints for significantly cheaper or buy full models that they'll ship. But that costs a bit more. Or you can make your own. They fully endorse kitbashing or 3rd party stuff. Or just saying a model of a similar size/base size is whatever thing you wanna play with lol. Its way less rigid than Warhammer.

[@danielwebb4294]

hellll yeeeeee!

[@babaupaul1656]

Aaa can the anti-tank dude actually pull the trigger of that gun ? Its a giant ass gun with a 1911 trigger the 1911 part is the problem his fingers are gigantic he whould pull that with his nails.

[@Kyle-w2p]

Artillery meta-christ? More like murican jesus, (ironic, considering the US never formed in TC lol)

[@collinb.8542]

I kinda wish we did have America in TC. I mean I'm not too sad about it and I understand alot of people are not fond of America but like Jesus and Guns (as a person from Appalachia) are and have been our thing for like since we existed. Hell we literally have a seal team called the "Crusaders".

[@Kyle-w2p]

@collinb.8542 I don't really think it's a dislike situation so much as it wouldn't make sense for the timeline, since its doubtful they'd even have the resources to "discover" it in the first place, though there's always room for later expansions, with the mention of space and submarines being developed

[@collinb.8542]

@Kyle-w2p yeah that's true. I do like the like mystery involved with basically knowing only how Europe and the closest surrounding areas are doing lol. I'm really excited to see if they do anything with the Church Space Program and stuff.

[@Kyle-w2p]

@@collinb.8542 though, it does kinda raise some questions as to heaven and hell's knowledge of them. I'd imagine the demons would see native americans' souls in hell and go " ooh, new minions to enslave" and vice versa with heaven. And for the council of saints to not pass that info on seems odd.

[@GeoffryGifari]

Dieselpunk?

[@glueboy]

A little bit maybe? If they make art of New Antioch itself then we could see.

[@mill_ania]

Pretty sure Metachrist might be less human, more just flesh amalgam? I can imagine it more of a giant pulsing meatball that WAS made from actual flesh and blood from Jesus Christ Himself at one point, but Metachrist itself isn't a true clone, especially since cause they talk about partaking in the flesh as if it's just food, and we don't really get told that Metachrist is something sentient.

[@glueboy]

The only thing we get is that its capable of producing noises of pain. Incredibly unclear if thats genuine attempts at speach, but the priests in charge claim to translate. But similarly I also like to picture it as a horrifying flesh amalgam in the approximation of man. The only knock against the Meta-Christ not being sapient is that they will independently revive Trench Pilgrims they deem important or note worthy. So one of those cool bits we wont know fully until they drop for fun hints lol.

[@connorthomson]

Can you talk about paladins

[@ernestodominguez2778]

Not Russian it is Prussian sure there is a difference

[@glueboy]

I went back and relistened. My mic ate the P at the beginning, cause yeah I know the difference between Russia and Prussia. Though gotta say it would be very funny to confidently call them Russian then describe all their incredibly German sounding terms and tactics lmao

[@alannatherson7721]

666th like, I just found that funny.

[@zuephillips3450]

Kid:”I want 40k lore” Mom:” we have 40k lore at home” 40k lore at home:

[@archeogeek315]

Pretty good.

[@culturalliberator9425]

The feel bad vibes for the Christian side is hard. Your city belongs to the baddies, Rome is full of nuts, and you don't even have your last holy city, rip. Very sad.

[@americancaesar4715]

And even worse, Constantinople is also gone like in our timeline. Instead of falling to Turks its destroyed by Demons :(