THE SIEGE OF VRAKS: PRELUDE TO A NIGHTMARE | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@mutantmaster1]

I can't hear Vraks without thinking of that short someone made where a Krieger is dancing to the cannons going off like they're in the club

[@retroplays5075]

Are u talking about the one janovich made

[@Thought_Processing_]

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom

[@SG_Simson]

boom boom boom boom the sound of coming doom

[@combinecommando001]

But he's so happy, he'll get to charge the lines when the cannons stop firing!

[@heboric6136]

It's only natural

[@draochvar9646]

Aaaaaaahh Vraks, where incompetence, misfortune, megalomania and SUICIDAL RAGE conspire to create one of the greatest clusterfucks in Sector history ... good times.

[@weldonwin]

Marshal Zhulke: Well, things aren't looking too good here. Guess I'll get my uncle to swing me a posting to the Eastern Fringe, nothing ever happens out there... Wait... What's that chittering, scuttling sound?

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

Honestly doesn’t sound different from life in any other military.

[@arueshalaetablebuildingsociety]

It can also be argued that even the Canoness was in it for personal power, and Imperial propaganda made her a martyr afterwards.

[@lightkingphilip9092]

Do you know what’s worsts than incompetent marshal? An Incompetent Inquisitor who has no military experience and is trying to one up he’s rivals.

[@draochvar9646]

@@lightkingphilip9092 yeeeeeeee ... Poor Arnim Kaghori. The only competent Commander (with the exception of the Astartes involved) in that entire conflict and then he gets booted out by an Inquisitor with 0 high-command experience.

[@Rug0s]

Boom boom boom boom The sound of coming doom Let's dig this trench together Attrition lasts forever Boom boom boom boom The trenches don't have more room Let's bomb them all together The crust will be their tomb Boom boom boom boom The charge can't come to soon Their mortal coil, we'll sever For that's our sole endeavour Boom boom boom boom The sky's a darkened gloom The whistle sounds its sharp tune None'll come back after noon

[@Thisisaworkofrat]

this is my life now

[@pupska23]

Please someone actually make this a song!

[@Knight-Bishop]

​@@pupska23 Best Vengaboys cover? Lol

[@pupska23]

@@Knight-Bishop indeed

[@erickalbani546]

"he started out ok, he started out good, just with megalomania, but then..." God, I love 40k

[@chronosand563]

I love how "krieg" in German literally just means war. Their name could not be any more on the nose, man I love 40k.

[@Khornecussion]

Being clever or subtle is not usually GW's strong suit.

[@drxtale9446]

*THE DEATH KORPS OF WAR*

[@weldonwin]

You mean as on the nose as Armageddon or the Blood Angels being from Baal, named after a god of Blood and Sacrifice or the Space Wolves being from Fenris, named after the giant God-Wolf that will devour the sun at the end of time?

[@mightykanohii]

Or Angron's main caracteristic is being angry

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

Ultramarines, headquartered on Ultramar which is situated at the far end of the Galaxy (ultramarine = "beyond the seas" in latin), painted in ultramarine blue.

[@YoBen100]

Entire star system goes traitor. Send Death Korps of Krieg to solve the problem. The problem escalated and requires artillery and bayonets charge. Typical day in the 40k universe.

[@jdo1996]

What problem doesnt need a bayonet charge?

[@eliavi3251]

Never seen a commissar call for a bayonet towards a titan?

[@Niikemi]

Sounds like premium krieg vacation package

[@consolescrub4031]

@@eliavi3251I know a necron archaeologist who has.

[@art-o-cart5166]

and when the inquisition came and were being overun by chaos, the Grenadiers charged shovels and lasguns in hand

[@D34DHUNT3R1]

Good ol Vraks, the place where the space marines looked at the Krieg and thought: "I thought I was tough, but wtf is up with you lunatics!?"

[@Archon3960]

Yeah. Quite the lunatics they are. 😂

[@b1on1k638]

So I finished watching all past episodes of AdRic and DetRic and I've just gotta say, Bricky's name being Taylor is terrifying.

[@AceTaxiaGaming]

Having known another guy named Taylor, it fits him.

[@Tmaget]

True tastes of terror come from Taylor's

[@probablythedm1669]

I don't know... It kind of feels as cursed as knowing Majorkill's name is Chris. It makes sense, but also... of course it is. 🤣

[@b1on1k638]

@@probablythedm1669 I read this and physically reacted, and I did NOT like it

[@matthewmcg321]

Or Valrak is Sam. It’s just the guys

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

For anyone interested: The Janovich channel has great animations about The Siege of Vraks, his videos deserve a lot more recognition and views.

[@heboric6136]

More people like this! What's wrong with y'all janovich is good shit

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Is there something wrong with Janovich?@@heboric6136

[@12SickOne34]

You, Sir, are doing the emperors work!

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Thank you.@@12SickOne34

[@woaddragon]

New episode

[@rdeEKINS]

If you want more, Janovich is doing a massive ongoing series on Vraks

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Indeed, and the new episode has been uploaded!!

[@waffles47_87]

As a dark angels and alpha legion lover, the siege of Vraks might be the single best thing in 40k. It’s and absolute clusterfuck and I love it

[@SMScorx89]

While everyone is engaged in a grueling siege, the Dark Angels and the Alpha Legion decided to have a rousing game of capture the flag at the spaceport.

[@brok56]

​@@SMScorx89 and than it blew up. Perfection.

[@SneedRemembrancer]

I like how they they show up Actively screw over the guard forces by taking out assets they wanted to capture Don’t help them at all Suffer significant casualties to pdf and traitor marine forces Completely fail to accomplish their objective to capture alpha legion marines Chapter master is wounded Leave with a mission accomplished message The dark angels aren’t very good at their jobs, like come on they had losses to pdf in cqc.

[@onemanlegion3274]

The situation with the Vindicare is a feeling that i think about in the zombie horde survival genre when you don't realize just how many people there are in the world until they're suddenly all trying to kill you.

[@d.thieud.1056]

If the sniper used a shield breaker round, he wouldn't have been able to shoot through the decorative pillar. He chose the turbopenetrator round to penetrate that, but didn't know about the refractor field most likely.

[@jwebcoding7289]

It's almost certainly a case of the guy weighing the odds and knowing that personal refractor field tech is extremely rare even amongst cardinals of the Imperium. All things considered, it was good bet to presume he didn't have one but even then, he lost. Moral of the story I guess is don't gamble. Even the best bets fail.

[@ЯАга-я4л]

Isn't this thing glow freaking gold?

[@d.thieud.1056]

@@ЯАга-я4л They are extremely rare, even among the highest echelons of imperial society, ESPECIALLY outside of the military. golden light can be achieved by other means, it would be both a giant status symbol to have one meaning there's incentive for someone that doesn't have one to fake it, and it would also be a good effect to fake in exactly the scenarios at hand, as mentioned before, had he used a shieldbreaker it would likely not have had the penetration to bore through an entire stone pillar.

[@TheHej2]

It was an one in a million shot, but not the correct shot

[@FreedomFighterEx]

@@jwebcoding7289 Dude got XComed. He stacking odds in his favor with calculated risk but the risk is still there and he lost.

[@eduardodiaz9942]

This episode is almost an hour of "But Wait, It Gets Worse!" But then, that can be applied to 40K as a whole

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

And then they made two whole more episodes of the exact same thing still getting worse

[@jagnestormskull3178]

My favorite Vraks story is of the two Krieg combat engineer teams who are in the dark, and about to fire on each other, when one sergeant (or whatever equivalent rank) calls out to the other unit in Krieg Battle Cant, and his counterpart responds in Krieg Battle Cant, and they're like "yeah, it's our brothers!"

[@zerowolf0006]

Ya the Shield Breaker round would have killed him but the shot needed to pass through the pillar of marble and that was the only shot he was able to find so he used a turbo penetrator round but didn’t think he had a void shield generator on him those are rare

[@ЯАга-я4л]

Moral: always go for a clear shot if you want to assassinate someone

[@thewerdna]

Can't wait for next time when the Dark Angels go all Dark Angel. By which I mean show up unannounced, fight some Alpha Legion to try to get intel on the Fallen, and then immediately "my work here is done" meme out of there

[@GearShotgun]

I loved it when they said “it’s angelin’ time” and left without any explanation

[@aaronstorey9712]

I can't wait for the lions reaction to their bullshit

[@weldonwin]

Not Full-On Dark Angels, they didn't turn on and slaughter loyal Imperial Soldiers and servants of the Golden Throne to cover up their heresy

[@GearShotgun]

@@aaronstorey9712 oh boy will that be fun. The lion isn’t as much of an asshole as he was in 30k and will probably blame himself for what his sons have become. Doesn’t mean he won’t be furious though.

[@Ballard258]

Destroying a perfectly good and usable space port that they had allready captures may I add 😅

[@bersewarsong2380]

Darn, didn't expect to see Vraks show up at any point soon. God, I love how random some of these topics can get.

[@An_Inconvenience]

The siege of vracks was the greatest example of "GW does not understand numbers" they specify that Krieg made use of 70,000 artillery pieces for a 96-hour artillery barrage and had ordered 100 million shells for said barrage. Today your average artillery piece can loose about 6 rounds per minute. So 6 rounds per minute from 70,000 artillery pieces for 96 hours adds up to about 2,419,200,000 shells. Their 100 million orderd shells wouldn't even cover a 20th of that.

[@Fyrwulf]

Rate of fire goes down as bore size increases. The ROF of 155mm artillery is probably not terribly relevant.

[@necromancerwu]

Also 96 hours of none stop shooting doesn't mean every gun is firing every second, rotation is a thing.

[@bluiechen]

Build upon fyrwolf. You have to remember in 40k the standard guardsman siege artillery being the colossus and bombard are in the 500-600mm shell size. Keep in mind the Largest ship mounted guns ever built and mounted on the Yamato was 450mm and the largest towed/mechanized guns at 600mm from the Karl. Each Karl shell in our world leveled city blocks. Remember In warhammer capital ships shoot apartment sized shells at each other as their secondary armaments.

[@spartanalex9006]

@@FyrwulfThe Earthshaker is canonically a 160mm bore so it would probably remain similar.

[@TheExtremePotato]

The population of the planet is also a good example. 8 million is basically nothing in terms of planetary population, more people live in London or New York (both about 10 million). It’s also pretty funny that DK was amazed by the 8 million active personnel thing, considering the Germans, Soviets, Chinese and Americans all had much more than that during WW2 (14 million for just the Chinese, 13 million for the Soviets and Germans, 11 million for the Americans). Even the Japanese were pretty close with 6 million active personnel. Generally rule of thumb with GW numbers imo is to add atleast 1 or 2 extra zeros to it to make sense.

[@samuelbravo1946]

The moment he said 12 years & Krieg, i remembered this battle. He told it in the first episode. 25 years...

[@jonathanmanard7797]

This is legit going to be 56 minutes of bricky and dk just saying clusterfuck, and I'm so here for it

[@AAhmou]

Can't wait for the sequel.

[@heboric6136]

Im so proud of DK! Look at him sussing out the cardinal just on his name

[@davidflack1466]

he should have sussed deacon mamon first! *the cardinal did nothing wrong* 😂😅

[@cyanideinmycereal1077]

As the sole surviving Krieg player post 2020 range discontinuation, this does bring a smile to my face.

[@stratigangames508]

They need to bring it back. Krieg is too cool to discontinue.

[@SethepOmega]

I'll neve forgive tem!

[@Skullgryn]

I just got into war hammer and they discontinued the Kriegs? 😭

[@cyanideinmycereal1077]

@@Skullgryn They’re still around, just less of them and the models are less cool.

[@khylerbane4523]

Mistakes were Made. -Vraks in a nutshell.

[@JudicialBrat]

Mistakes ARE made.

[@garretthochmuth4522]

Literally everyone: “I took a calculated risk, but I’m bad at math.”

[@timblok2614]

'For those who want to know what is in their pants. It's a boltpistol about to be pointed at your face.' My favourite gender thus far

[@apollothecoderule.8639]

its a BLAST its a BLAAS- *blam*

[@alexvaraderey]

Bricky : The cardinal thought that with his army of thousands of supporters, how much good he could do. DK: How much GOOD he could do? I'm shocked. Bless DK. He's come so far.

[@TheDethBringer666]

finally, the dive into the trilogy of trilogies begins

[@thedistinctman9507]

Kriegsman Randy Savage: “CALL ME THE SHOVEL, CAUSE IM GONNA BURY YOU!”

[@evulutionofgaming]

The vindicare had to use the turbo pen, instead of the shield breaker due to the pillar if I remember right.

[@AAhmou]

The procedure was using both. The shield breaker would have been ineffective because of the pillar.

[@danguinius3654]

I first learned of the Siege of Vraks from Arch's series on it, and it remains one of the coolest multi-faction battles in the setting! Cant wait to listen to the next one!

[@sammartin8746]

When you try to shoot Cardinal Xaphan but the Siege of Vraks is a cannon event

[@korstmahler]

The Ordo Chronos will be/were/are crapping themselves over this.

[@BuddyWithTheSideburns]

I'd like to sincerely thank Bricky and DK for paying more tribute to Canada's role in the Argo crisis than Ben Afflek did 👍

[@Unseengenie]

I’m loving this story so far! I’m just waiting till the group goes over the equivalent of the USMC in the 40k universe. The blood ravens who are so well known for “borrowing” everyone’s things!

[@hugodelafuente3926]

Gear adrift is a gear gift

[@firefang600]

Strategically Transferring Equipment to an Alternate Location.

[@Spyders-y2g]

11:36 bit on the nose. Mamon, the demon of greed.

[@TheFrothyBrew]

The slow burn of this episode was awesome. Loved the quote/title drop moment!!

[@inductivegrunt94]

Oh boy, Vraks, this will be fun to see them get into the real grit of the siege. Plus this is more Krieg lore, which is always welcome.

[@Become-Eggplant]

The Terrain of Vraks and the Kreigsmen being there really gives off that world war one Vibe. Like DK puts it "they're right at home".

[@juniusluriuscatalus6606]

Word of warning: Do not play drinking game every time Bricky says "So..." Your liver will thank me. :P

[@lordcommissarspartan]

To anyone wants more info on the Seige of Vraks, I reccomend checking out Janovich's Animated Lore Videos, and the spicy blonde man 🅱️arch's 42 video series on the conflict.

[@TealWolf26]

Jesus yeah that's a beast of a series I rematch it constantly.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Indeed and the newest episode has already been uploaded!

[@IdioticSynergy]

I am hyped for this one

[@heboric6136]

Let's gooo! Its siegen time

[@jamesfreeman3617]

Oh sweat I was just watching your shorts

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

That meme about Judge Frollo did me in. I'm done in. Edit: I imagine the conversation among the strategists and logisticians went something like this. 1: So we need to supress this rebellion in this well-fortified world, but we can't just turn it into molten slag because we'd prefer it if we could recover the equipment stored there. 2: Ok, then we need to lay siege to it. Blockading the planet until they run out of food would take too long. Doing an old-fashioned planetside siege of the main fortification takes considerably less but with higher casualties. 1: Cool, the Death Korps will love it. 2: Although in the time it takes to lay siege, the enemy is bound to use against us the very stockpiles we'd like to recover, meaning we won't recover shit. So there's no real reason not to slag the planet. 1: Yes there is. The Death Korps will not love it.

[@lolmeister9764]

*Cues up the music* "WE'RE BACK ON VRAKS BABY"

[@kubastachowiak1089]

For the past month I thought "man I heard the vraks story in my native tongue. The boys mentioned it a few times... I wonder if... naaaah" and here we are

[@johnoneil9188]

There is this train that runs in my area that has a couple of local bands on them and I swear to the Emperor, one of the people on it is a dead ringer for Bricky. Same beard, same glasses, same giant forehead you can land a Stormbird on.

[@Grimpo96]

I had hoped and wondered when you guys would cover Vraks. I remember way back during the first comments something being mentioned about maybe covering Vraks. Definitely knew it wasn’t going to be for a long time. Only think I know about the whole siege is a guy named Lord Arkos and that’s it.

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

Vraks: it’s muddy, it’s rocky, it has severe lighting storms, and it’s completely infested with Heretics. “Been spending most our lives living in a Kriegsmans paradise.”

[@Sabwones]

The Siege of Vraks: How one idiot Inquisitor fumbled the bag so hard that it turned an entire planet to heresy

[@lokikinch]

Right as Janovichs new Seige of Vraks episode came out, nice!

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Yes!

[@be-noble3393]

When Shy put up the Cleveland image for Vraks. It was a bad time to take a drink of water.

[@samfish2550]

This is my favorite episode in a while, it gave a genuine sense of investment in the story of vrax and doubled down by holding the quote for impact.

[@Channel-23s]

Back and forth just like WW1 and stagnant too and times where you think a side is gonna win and it has a plot twist /roller coaster of action and death

[@fenrirsrage4609]

Man Adeptus Ridiculous and Janovich talking About Vraks? Hell yeah lots of Krieg love lately

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Like a well oiled machine!

[@Skullgryn]

When do we get some more Tempestus love man

[@dantefortheparty]

The Seige of Vraks is 13 years of Krieg and Astartes fighting a bunch of Heretics and Traitor Astartes, and it all could have ended in like 5 years if they hadn't chosen Inquisition friendly SM chapters.

[@consolescrub4031]

Numbers can win a battle even if your opponent is better. Unfortunately for Nostramo, the number you need to overwhelm a primarch is significantly greater than the amount you need for sisters of battle or space marines.

[@feralprocessor9853]

The poster is baller I think Shy is messing with bricky's expectations of the posters now

[@akiva2112]

I need you guys to go through and go through the complete battle, especially how tits up things go at the end

[@apathy_in_ut]

Love this lore glad to see it covered. Can’t wait for more.

[@InquisitorXarius]

If you are a Imperial Hero the ways to honor you are make a servo skull from your skull, and be used as one of many other imperial heroes used as a clone template for the Death Korp of Krieg.

[@UmamaGoblin]

The drop pod assassination NEEDS to be animated 🥃🥃

[@vuk3303]

Perfectly timed episode, just as Janovich releases another episode of his Vraks series!

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

yeah!

[@waterdog_mf]

For anyone wanting more Siege of Vraks, Janovich is 12 parts in on an amazing animated history of the entire siege King and generals or Invicta style. Highly recommend it.

[@beastalchemistVA]

Congratulation on the 200k subscribers!

[@corwyn97]

See I love the little jangle jangles of DK's cat shpwing up in the background, she wants to be involved

[@Ballard258]

As a funny side note. "Mamon" means sucker in Spanish. Its usually derrogative slang for when sombody is an asholle. So "decan mamon" its oddly apropiate 😂

[@ragnarian]

Funnily enough, a blockade actually might've been the best idea Xaphans power and control rested on the belief that an invasion was imminent But what if it didn't arrive? What if nothing came? People would see he was full of shit, and doubts would set in, internal politics would tear apart the defenders in a fraction of the time they thought it would take Hell, if the inquisition sent a subterfuge team to spread dissent, cause accidents on minor power officials and commanders No siege necessary, just a blockade and subterfuge

[@Dextarish]

The Cleveland bit absolutely killed, also hell of a quote drop. 10/10!

[@Will_Parker]

It's 40k, there are no war crimes because no type of war is outlawed

[@originalcharacterplznostea2749]

Perfect upload timing with Siege of Vraks Episode 12 - Second Void Battle (animated 40K Lore) from Janovich.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Yeah, the newest episode is here!

[@tedd_zero7657]

Shy sneaking in my check failure WiP Thanks boss 💙

[@dansteinhardt8746]

janovich covers the siege extremely well

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Indeed!

[@Jadguy24]

The road to chaos is paved with good intentions and people

[@heavystalin2419]

And a frivolous use of frag grenades

[@ayanleman]

The road to chaos is paved with good intentiins The walls of the schola are paved with students.

[@lightkingphilip9092]

I was expecting for you guys to talk about notable 40k wars, like Badab, War of the Beast, damocles crusade, etc in the future, and looks like my wish has come true but we’re going to VRAKS! I watched Arch’s series on it it was so long, and learning so much more on how Kreig operates and how things can go from bad to worst if you left the Inquisition to take control. *Happy gasmask*

[@Voodoo_Robot]

Krieg, not “kreig”. For Emporor’s sake.

[@lightkingphilip9092]

@@Voodoo_Robot Krieg, Kreig doesn’t matter

[@RedHood0327]

Discovered the podcast about 3 weeks ago, just got caught up with all the episodes, and now I have to understand the pain of waiting in anticipation 😵‍💫

[@heboric6136]

[@williamwhittington6038]

me: well this sounds like and interesting guy, and quite kind AR: his second in command is named Mammon me: ...oh well shit, now i know this is gonna go bad.

[@Firewarz217]

I'm gonna just ask for an Episode about the Adeptus Arbites

[@pavelsvacha]

When i'm binging AdRic episodes i don't even read the title so that title drop bricky did at 39:05 was such a cool surprise lol

[@identity7536]

Bricky thinking of the mass effect citadel apartment instantly warmed my heart. Same.

[@alexanders.1359]

I'll keep it short: CONTINUE THIS!!! I want a funny Vraks after listening to Arch's vraks😅

[@Archon3960]

Majorkill's episode on it? 😂

[@masterofspam1408]

Bricky thinks he'll get through this in just 3 episodes! XD Good luck buddy. I can't wait for the spooky shit to start.

[@hydraxusauth3808]

I hear Boom Boom Boom by the Venga boys. (Hanz dances in the distance)

[@srcocomad]

Yeah clone Jurgen, create like a hundred of them and just send them against Leviathan.

[@SolarArmadillo]

15:30 Wait a minute, Vraks only has 8 million people? I know GW sucks with numbers sometimes but that sounds like a MAJOR oversight. Most modern day nations have more people than that.

[@Transmissional]

listened to the siege of vraks from other youtubers way in the day. such a great series! really looking forward to your own take on it!

[@Whispers_of_Madness]

That Inquisitor poster slaps so hard! I'm going to buy one ASAP! 🔥

[@dynashrelik2458]

This was the first series I learned about when getting into 40k. So cool to come back to it after this time when I know so much more about the setting.

[@cappinjocj9316]

Ah yes, the Vraks campaign; 40K’s version of WW1 on steroids, now with added war crimes!

[@epicsardines6440]

I have been waiting so long for you guys to talk about this!!! So excited

[@frostedscales]

you guys HAVE to show the Janovich animations. he is all about krieg and vraks.

[@korstmahler]

12:47 All hail the most 40k personal defence weapon ever. The Sacred Pyrophant-Evicserator - Now with reliquary bones for bonus faith power.

[@dresden117]

By all that is holy, I'm so happy you guys are covering Vraks

[@lemanrussraddle6636]

Absolutely LOVE the new poster, well done!

[@thegreatpumpkin4564]

Nice! Always been curious about The Siege of Vraks, but given its Forge World stuff, never got around to it.

[@nobady9752]

I love the poster, because it looks like she belongs in Detective Ridiculous. Which the inquisitor would totally fit into.

[@justagoodfriend60]

Oh man, this series is going to be a huge deal for me. The siege of Vraks was the very first thing I'd ever learned about in 40k. It's what got me into the franchise in the first place. It's so exciting getting to hear DK learn about it; almost like I'm getting to live through that a second time. Can't wait for the next one!

[@istvanballa5067]

Yay you guys are finally arriving to the good stuff now It is truelly a PRELUDE TO A NIGHTMARE

[@DaughterOfDrakes]

As soon as I heard 'planet-wide revolution' my thought was 'okay, so that adviser who keeps encouraging the cardinal is definitely in league with tzeench...'

[@maultshake]

Im glad that bricky addressed the cat jingles in the back ground. I was starting to think that DK was chained to a desk or something....

[@phatomwhite9569]

Nah when Dk said “so this story is cannon” I completely lost it🤣🤣🤣

[@Craigerfried1128]

Holy shit, that’s Kobeni from chainsaw man, looks like she hasn’t changed her occupation in over 37,000 years.

[@shadowslaughter9449]

Not to be mean but, can we get a poster or something of that cannoness slapping DK I would pay top dollar for that.