The Iron Butchers | Homebrew Review #1

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Special Thanks to our wonderful friends for their help with the opening!
‪@TheRemembrancer‬ - Opener
‪@nickgikasvo‬ - Vhorrax
‪@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas‬ - Skhraal
00:00 Opening
02:40 Intro
03:17 Overview
05:23 Warband Beliefs
07:21 Combat Doctrine
11:16 Notable Characters
15:57 Relics
20:49 Notable Events
24:24 Modus Operandi
25:55 The Review
52:16 Submit Your Own!
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Additional Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio - released under CC-BY 4.0.
Additional Music by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0.
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[@TheRemembrancer]

Iron within, iron…without???

[@user-gf4sn6lp5h]

No, no, no, iron within your enemies’s torso

[@mcvillain8058]

Iron within blood throughout

[@TheRetardMen.]

@@mcvillain8058Fr

[@gagedavidson2020]

Iron within, butchers without

[@Death_toTheWorld]

Skulls within, skulls without.

[@thelemming6854]

Its borderline criminal you've only made one of these

[@thelemming6854]

hoping this comment ages horrendously

[@DylanGosseye]

World eater berzerkers with discipline and unmatched siege skills has to be the scariest legion to fight against

[@eastboundmanx6405]

Iron warriors = industrial World eaters = death metal Iron butchers = industrial death metal

[@papaaeon7210]

What I really enjoy is how canon this Warband feels, has a nice unique gimmick and history, as well as some cool relics that aren’t too overpowered. I think stuff like the Megatherion or the Maw are really essential for building an intriguing Warband. Every Warband and Chapter needs their own sort of “thing” that sets them apart, even if it’s a small concept.

[@archmageeldran2567]

As someone who is admittedly more quantity over quality regarding their works watching this really gave me perspective regarding what works regarding high quality homebrew and how I could improve my next projects.

[@grievouserror6726]

Iron for the Iron God! Within for the without throne!!

[@PaimenPlays]

I dig the concept. Both the homebrew and the showcase series. Would watch more!

[@TheMichaellathrop]

Now I'm imagining a war-band nearly annihilated or formed from remnants of other war-bands after the early assaults from the penitent crusade of the cursed 21st. The thing I really like about his combat doctrine is that I could kinda see the flaw coming while he was talking about it's strengths.

[@MrLuisfrossi]

Loved the first episode. Best part of this franchise is the sheer imagination of the community. Can't wait to see what comes next!

[@jopa3330]

Thank you, I am the creator of this homebrew and I am happy you liked it

[@TeamOneDay]

@@jopa3330 Fantastic job, easily one of the better homebrews I've seen.

[@PTurbo4th]

So... I play Iron Warriors and World Eaters. The new codex detachment renegade raiders is so Iron Butchers. 2 rhinos full of 10 Berzerkers each supported by Lord with 10 Chosen. Warpsmith castle with Predator, Vindicator, Forgefiend and helbrute. And some havocs to shoot the rest. The dream

[@saucycardinal3322]

Love this, instant sub. Definitely keep doing these along with lore videos

[@SeanWilliamGeorgeBuc]

Really wish Loyalist had the Juggernaut equivalent. Riding an unstoppable beast of metal in a traditional shock cavalry goes so hard.

[@Poeneutral]

Quit the loyalussies and get with chaos, bro.

[@archmageeldran2567]

Technically the Space Wolves do with their Thunderwolf Cavalry.

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Oh this is gonna SLAP

[@okupant880]

Man, decyphering and translating a navigation system that is written entirely in sexual innuendos, and 80085 must be pretty hard.

[@salamilid3737]

A scary combo would be night lords + iron warrior's

[@rumorcontrol7873]

This Artwork is absolute FIRE background description and makes me want my own chaos warband

[@heliconone3977]

Way to set the bar high with your first homebrew showcase. I am working on something but there's no way I'm going to be able to stretch to professionally created fan art!

[@The_Calcium_King]

I feel the same, I honestly have a cool idea I think but I doubt I can execute this as well

[@ShawSmeltzer-baer]

Man this really helped me flash out my homebrew, stuff i didnt even think about, im pretty much brand new and working on a group of former nightlords who decended into worship of both slaanesh and khorn

[@anthonylotz1565]

The big sword being turned into more smaller swords also keeps with them being very limited in their resources

[@tigerh1426]

This has genuinely made me want to finish writing my homebrew now.

[@inwit594]

I am enamored with the artwork. It's so mechanical and dieselpunky, inkeeping with (certain) imperial aesthetics, but also melded with the insane power of khorne. I love that one of the Megatherion facing down what I believe to be a nurgle-corrupted chaos knight.

[@abyssallagi6042]

This was awesome, now I'm really hoping my marine chapter makes the cut

[@Death_toTheWorld]

Skulls within, Skulls without

[@Agent78j]

This homebrew is straight fire🔥

[@maxhall5260]

You know, the mention of the iron butchers taking contracts from corrupt imperials on occasion made me consider something. What if there was a warband of traitors who had a special relationship with a certain imperial group. As in, they took contracts almost exclusively from a more unorthodox member of the inquisition, or powerful planetary lord. The traitors would be in it for the money, and the patron imperials may use the warband for an extra set of guns, or what have you. I just find the idea of some sketchy inquisitor having traitors on his pay roll extremely cool

[@mattiaslime8926]

I love them. Two of my favourite factions combined.

[@Just_a_Danish_viking]

Unholy shit this is cool! I love it! I actually want to buy and paint an iron butcher army

[@dakotavincent3170]

Need more homebrew content fr fr

[@mister_carrot8428]

Got some great ideas for my own homebrews after watching this. Also realized I still have alot of work to do ahead of me to make it even a tenth this good lol.

[@CaptainDoghaus]

yeeeaaaah this is sick, would love to see more of these

[@LeHunter70]

Actually, this was also my Idea for my homebrew warband named the Engines of Blood. Not unique from my perspective but it is somewhat similar with the Iron Butchers, with the execption that the Engines of Blood nearly worship Khorne, and unlike the Iron Butcher, the Engines of Blood believe daemon possession is seen as a divine work of Khorne, though Khorne did not even give most of them daemon possession.

[@Prattical]

The art and general story were really great. The characters added a lot too.

[@igneelizanagi3171]

Great video idea! And great homebrew! Please keep this video series up!

[@MandoSki464]

First real homebrew video I’ve checked out and got to say this fan made warband is not only believable but dang cool. I lean towards the IW when it comes to a traitor legion mainly because they tend to be more themselves rather than slaves to chaos choosing to utilize chaos/warp as a tool rather than being a tool like the word bearers but the 12th is a close 2nd just wish we could have more personality than mindless berserkers that seem to never be able to form even a sentence which makes it hard to get novels about them. Makes me want to check out the newest world eaters novel though

[@SaintNamedSlickback]

Is that a chain-thunderhammer??

[@Poeneutral]

Now someone make a homebrew with the Death Guard and the Thousand Sons.

[@jjoohhnn6065]

I think alps legion thousands sons would fit better

[@Poeneutral]

@@jjoohhnn6065 I'm not familiar with that one

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

evil evil evill

[@nickgikasvo]

we are simply the WORST HEHEHEHEHE

[@hughsmith7504]

I do like the shard idea, in that it has a very real, physical link between the main characters and the ship. That link may help explain some of how they are able to keep the separate pieces working together?

[@LoneTailProductions]

IRON FOR THE BLOOD FORGE! SKULLS FOR THE IRON MAW!

[@nicolasevans2779]

Blood in, blood out.

[@michaelblevins1651]

We need more of this

[@skullsquad900]

I've only been into WH40k for maybe a year and I'm literally in the middle of writing up my first successor chapter of the Marines Errant (founded by the Astral Claws/Red Corsairs) right now, and this is some Awesome inspiration!

[@sky_nerd3797]

Iron Blood within Iron Rage

[@sordschie3944]

Insanely cool my guys!

[@greatgatsby0174]

I have both an iron warriors and world eaters army…And I regret not making these dudes.

[@dominusbalial835]

I'm working on iron warriors homebrew that are obsessed with preserving the genetic lineage of the iron warriors and have gone down the routes of gene seed experimentation, also resulting in them producing chimerics out of the corrupted portions of their own stock and mixing it with loyalist geneseed to attempt to produce different halfbreed castes of astartes that might be suited towards different roles physically or psychologically. As well as trying to establish a permanent empire. experimentations with dark age of technology mind machine interfacing nanites infected with the obliterator virus to mass produce tech thralls infused with daemonic illness and technology from the dark age, engineering their own artificial disease to produce superior tech thralls for less logistical advancement of resources that allows them to mass convert any humans they capture into efficient obedient labourers. Taking joy in converting imperial citizens and locking them inside of their bodies still consciously as their beings are slowly changed from flesh to metal as they tear down the bastions of their god emperors world and dig the trenches for the iron warriors to besiege their fellows from, dragging the imperium through the mud as it dragged them through the mud and removing even the choice of futile resistance just slow apathetic yet cruelly pragmatic torture. Using Tech Thralls as the backbone of the legion over cultists, any human operators within the lost and the damned attached to the iron warriors as auxiliaries much more elite for chaos and renegade forces and more highly invested in than typical chaos cultists logistically. This video has given me a lot of ideas for my own homebrew, I gotta find a good way to generate a captivating plot hook, I think you should do more of these episodes.

[@zollen123]

Khrone may not like the idea of butchering iron.

[@grantnewton4230]

I can not wait for more in this series, so freaking cool!

[@DragonsHoardOfPlastic]

Been looking forward to this series, VERY excited for the first episode 👍

[@nokkz7307]

Been seeing the butchers on instagram glad to see them on KZbin

[@Lakefront_Khan]

Yes, more of this

[@8ball279]

Need more now

[@BasilTheSageMage]

Great video! Can’t wait to submit my homebrew!

[@Not_Alpharius]

I have a question. Would the iron warriors within the warband answer the call of Peter Turbo? If so, would they take the world eaters with them?

[@citizendisco]

Great stuff! Looking forward to more in this series!

[@sindrimyr5351]

I agree on the Argel Tal type of characters Idea. I have been working fro some time now on my own homebrew chapter for some years and recently had to completely rework them. Mainly because GW stole my name XD (The warband was called the Eightbound). So since I had to remake the name of the warband I decided to rework it as a whole. However the main concept that remained the same is that the warband is heavily inspired and groomed by the Word Bearers. It is a mix of splinters from lesser known warbands (Invocators and Brothers of Livos) Who barely have any lore on them, but all align two points. One is they are undivided and they are obssesed about summoning demons/possesion. Because possesion is the main stick of this warband. They are obsessed with bringing forth Lorgars vision of evolution. The Perfect union of demon and mortal. With a disdain for sloppy mass possesion on their troops like other warbands and legions do, where the demon simply takes over. Possesion in this group is a sacred and meticulous process that requires a lot of preparation. So yeah I am working on expanding on that.

[@LilGinjaMassive]

Mate this is a good idea. I look forward to more lore from peoples chapters. Nice one.

[@Stormeris]

Way cooler than most canon warbands, tbh And this is coming from someone who hates Khorne and World Eaters in general

[@jopa3330]

I am happy that you liked them!

[@JammesJack-td6gv]

Yeah for me i love the iron warriors and world eaters and this is a amazing combo

[@thegamingperio4115]

Finally its here ive been waiting for this and that homebrew looks awesome😁

[@krausercruz2780]

You know i been looking for a good format to line up and organize my Homebrews, really like how you separated this video. Im going to use it as a base for my docs.

[@HRWelch]

Is there a template we can follow so we can maybe get our home-brew shared here?

[@yopoxikeweapescai9066]

Not me waiting until the premiere finished

[@michasalamon8315]

Iron Warriors that fell to Khorne? My two favorite chaos factions joined into one! Why didn’t I think of that, you are a genius!

[@dr.stronk9857]

Very inspirational homebrew and a great video 👍

[@maplemayhem1988]

This was brilliant, really hope the next one drops soon

[@panzermasterwalker4393]

This is amazing love it guys!

[@guilliman1990]

This is some fire lore well done 10/10

[@TechNinjaSigma]

Oh I definitely gotta join up now! Super inspired!

[@rookwills9168]

I have a home brew Called the sons of Ares that practically warship a space marine saint they call Ares and have a intense rage and skull adornment habit,

[@yopoxikeweapescai9066]

To be honest this was pretty good and that homebrew was also cool af

[@sheriffhotdog1443]

Iron within, blood without

[@DavidCendana]

Call apothecary, I'm bleeding out

[@swagpharius_swolemegon]

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment

[@woundedzilla1517]

How are you choosing the war bands you’re covering? I’d love to submit my Iron blooded war band!

[@williamswensenmotta1692]

Discord in description

[@connorcmsmith4302]

Loving this

[@emiliadrew3283]

This is fucking awesome, I’m so glad you guys are doing stuff like this! I love this channel ❤️👏👏👏

[@vlaandhael]

Blood Within, Skull Without!

[@ChaseDaOrk3767]

Will you be convering the Dornian Heresy (or any of the other alternative Heresies, such as a the Roboutian Heresy and Lionel Heresy)?

[@ryansidney1051]

Really hope this is a main stay on the channel and i have a question for anyone who reads this since I'm in the process of creating my own homebrew chaos chapter and I have there patron god being a minor chaos god simar to the sons of malice but I wanted to ask if that's a good thing or is it better to try tie them into one of the 4 main gods Hope that makes sense

[@prophetchosen862]

It is possible to do with examples like malice or Hashut or the great horned rat from fantasy, the problem lies in power. There is a reason that those who worship minor gods don’t get much spotlight, and many chaos followers wouldn’t follow a warband that doesn’t hold to the same god. Likewise those who worship chaos undivided tend to join larger and stronger groups.

[@ryansidney1051]

@@prophetchosen862 cheers I understand what you mean the main reason I was considering a minor god over one of the big four is because they are a faction all about greed called the jewel takers/hunters and the only chaos god I could really think of is slaanesh and I really don't jive with there esthetic or anything

[@prophetchosen862]

@@ryansidney1051 might i recommend a creating a minor chaos god of avarice? Might there asthetic as sapphire blue?

[@zmansoul9450]

I'm a bit late but can you do homebrew on xeno factions? I've seen no videos on that

[@kilorethiw]

Need more of this

[@frankkelio4010]

This is a phenomenal video

[@petermyweiner6688]

This was very enjoyable

[@leftboxanderson5361]

Is that the complete Homebrew? The structure presented? I’m interested in working an idea for one and just don’t know where to start or how best to put it together for review

[@gfresh513]

Great idea!!!

[@AllramYT]

This is awesome :O I Want to play these.

[@someradomperson4949]

I like this video

[@CaptainPoseidon282]

hi, i dont really like soscial media so... im giving my custom chapter here, currently under construction on the wiki i will continue with it and finish this weekend. Hurricane blades

[@CaptainPoseidon282]

who liked this, except me. will the blade be on the podcast in like, a few weeks to months?

[@Demongordon]

Very nice homebrew, my impression of it is that this is a mainly iron warriors traitor chapter with khorne undertone. Because is clearly be the doutrine, modus operandi or other point the beserk close range combat seen to be a addendum to normal iron warrior warband demon engines, heavy use of artillery and the beserk only unleashed in hope they might finish them off they don't seen to really play any part of the strategic sense of the chapter. That is even more apparent in how the new chaptermaster seen to orchestrate the fall of the previous leader rather than a more direct confrontation that you would expect from a khorn leader. I expected that at least their demon engines would be mainly close quarter, but that doesn't seen to be the case. As such make one wonder if the beserkers of khorne are into that because they are being effictely lead to great rivers of blood rather than the fact that their leader embodied the best of both worlds. At same time there must be a lot of problem in keeping the beserkers at bay, because even the very first step of "let soft then up" with artillery is not something that can be done quickly unless they have some sort of specialized doutrine of fast deploying artillery. I also enjoy they embraced the internal division inside it and difficult to fuse to very different philosophy of war. However, I feel that if they had been more developed in how they struggle to keep it going or how they try to minimize the inside conflict or at least use it somehow to enchance other aspect of their doutrine, like if they beserker get too crazy to wait and start to killing each other they have runes that draw that blood to the demon engines so they fire faster or something.

[@EVER_PRINCE]

Not looking forward to when they do my 28 page document… I’m sorry guys

[@astartesanonymous]

Bro, don't worry - a guy submitted a 100+ page document a few weeks ago. - Tom

[@EVER_PRINCE]

@@astartesanonymous I think I know this exact document 🤣

[@manofarmageddon92]

@@astartesanonymous why did I get banned less than 5 minutes after joining the server and saying literally nothing (User: manofarmageddon)

[@yungmalaria]

I’ve been sitting on ideas for a homebrew ever since I started putting together warhammer models for the first time in the last few months. Been into warhammer lore for years now, but putting a story to the army Im building drives me more than making a useable army list. So I’ll have to check out the resources you got, because I feel like I have a sorta uphill battle against cliché tropes and overcooking since my idea is a mesoamerican themed aesthetic alpha legion with various chaos allegiances, but mainly tzeentch.

[@samblackstone3400]

If I met one of these guys I would definitely tell him “Hey man, back off” and if he didn’t I would throw down with him. 10/10

[@JerryBoy245]

I believe you could do it

[@dramsac17]

I'm more interested in non-chaos Iron Warrior chapters but I'm down to see my boys recieve any glory

[@andraskovacs5431]

I literally just a few weeks ago tought about making my homebrew renegade chapter a mixed one from two different chapters. Though in their case due to inquisitoral fuckery a few thousand years ago they have no idea wich geneseed comes from where and at this point they're unwilling to separate the two due to cultural reasons.

[@professionalsasquatch839]

How do people make these little Space Marine profiles?

[@shadowsgames-1788]

If I made a successor chapter could you mention it I’m still in process but I’m asking this 😅

[@cman1477]

The possted/8bound for this warband must go do hard

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

Khorn alpha legion would be even funnier 😂

[@EVER_PRINCE]

I could see them using their stealth and subterfuge to inspire civil war and infighting in their enemy, and actually causing their enemy to fall to chaos and turn in each other

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

@@EVER_PRINCE funny enough in the book harrowmaster we say some khorn alpha legion sadly they were just some dudes rather than an entire warband

[@ricoklan2101]

I LOVE THIS SERIES!! how do you submit?

[@astartesanonymous]

Through our discord linked in the description!!! :)

[@ricoklan2101]

@@astartesanonymous Thank you so much! You are doing an amazing service to the community!

[@manofarmageddon92]

@@astartesanonymous @astartesanonymous why did I get banned less than 5 minutes after joining the server and saying literally nothing (User: manofarmageddon)

[@MiguelFlores-pg8fi]

Iron within!! Blood without!!