Units of Warhammer - The Winged Lancers of Kislev DOCUMENTARY

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In this Units of History episode we venture into the world of Warhammer Fantasy. Many of its factions draw inspiration from real history and this is especially true of the Winged Lancers of Kislev who are closely modelled after the Polish Winged Hussars. Big difference being that while the historical variant charged the ranks of the Ottomans, the Warhammer variant charges into the ranks of Demons from the Realms of Chaos.
We begin the episode with an intro on Kislev lore by looking at the geography and geopolitics of the region. Next we discuss the origins of the Winged Lancers of Kislev and how they grew to be a prominent part of the army of Kislev. We then take a look at recruitment, deployment, equipment and service history. Along the way it should be quite evident where the lore of Warhammer has drawn from real military history. For instance the Siege of Kislev City during the Great War Against Chaos is quite analogous to the Siege of Vienna in 1683.
Stay tuned for more episodes on the units from the upcoming Total War Warhammer 3 game. I hope that these lore videos help breath life into the game as we head towards launch.
Sources and Suggested Reading:
Warhammer Armies: Kislev (6th Edition)
Warhammer Fantasy RPG 2nd ED - Realm of the Ice Queen
Warhammer Armies: Warriors of Chaos (8th Edition)
Warhammer Armies: The Empire (7th Edition)
Warhammer Armies: Chaos (4 Edition)
Credits:
Research: Invicta
Writing: Invicta
Narration: Guy Michaels
Artwork: Penta Limited
#Kislev
#WingedLancers
#Warhammer3

[@InvictaHistory]

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[@soroushtorabi98]

Can't wait for the next unit of history

[@InvictaHistory]

@@soroushtorabi98 got a lot in the works. Highest in the queue are "Germanic Warriors", "Silver Shield Pikemen", and "Spartan Skiritae"

[@AwesomeLionSaurus]

Does this include the unit icons? Like the Winged Lancers, Chaos Warriors, etc.?

[@InvictaHistory]

@@AwesomeLionSaurus I can certainly add those

[@LithiumFemmek]

Hope you guys end up doing more Warhammer videos I'd love to see a mix of releases some units of history and Warhammer maybe even some videos where you compare the units in Warhamer to their real life counterparts

[@milkandcookiesTW]

Invicta and I will be partnering up for many of the episodes in this series. We've got a lot of cool stuff lined up, so stay tuned for more! Should be a ton of fun :)

[@NageIfar]

Awesome news! Super excited for this series :)

[@diegoivan685]

Wtf, really? Super excited for this

[@CssHDmonster]

oi very nice , but u forgot to put a sabaton reference every 30 sec

[@lysimachosdiadochos7203]

Please stick to history.

[@hvw2377]

awesome to see you two collabing again

[@gaiusoctavius5935]

I didn't see the "Units of Warhammer" part and I thought this was going to be a video about the winged hussars.

[@TT-pn6hi]

They are inspired by them so yeah I was also fooled. A surprise but an welcomed one

[@ibnyahud]

Didn't see "units of Warhammer" and thought it was some obscure calvary unit of Judean Maccabees that fought in that revolt, which was during the Hebrew month of Kislev, lol

[@gaiusoctavius5935]

@@ibnyahud A Maccabean calvary would have been epic but they already had Judah Maccabee and his brothers if they had calvary they would have been too OP.

[@Robert399]

They're pretty much the same, except that real winged hussars usually didn't carry shields and did carry many more weapons (a sabre, an estoc, several guns and maybe a horseman's hammer). Also, I don't think they often wore mail but in the Warhammer world it makes sense.

[@specter86fl]

@@Robert399 the winged hussars were also polish and were mortal enemies of the mongols and the russian tzars........

[@astoran3147]

"You look down on us and think we are little better than barbarians, but you should be glad we are, for without us here, the northern tribes would be dining on the flesh of your children in your burning homes. But for the courage that flows in our veins would your lands be theirs. Look down on us? You should get on your knees and thank us every day!"

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HELL YEAH!

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Do a collab with MK 👀

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@@stefanhenning40 😂

[@redacted5824]

Yes, they charge at hell.

[@the_dohboy7832]

Greatswords, hammerers, black orcs, the black guard, temple guard, blood knights, chosen, phoenix guard, ironbreakers. Any of these would be a great vid for sure.

[@shorewall]

I would LOVE to see Temple Guard. :D

[@masonstover2960]

Demigryph knights would be good too

[@warhammerguy]

This is the parts of Kislev culture that made me interested in Kislev. Not piles of ice and bears and bears accessories. I really love the concept of Kislev being an amalgamation of several Eastern European countries and cultures.

[@edim108]

Absolutely! It's basically a DBZ fusion of PLC and Russia with some Tartars sprinkled in and I love every last bit of it!

[@Chikanuk]

@@edim108 Tatars, not tartars.

[@nitrofochv2185]

That's the worst part about it. winged hussars are polish and it will never be russian. U can try as hard as you want and even try making fictional armies like kislev but that's the only place you will See it. I think that hussars deserve their own faction and if fusion would be necessary then it would be fusion with hungary, lithuania Ukrain and nothing more. Also when you translate polish tribe name(Polanie) from whitch comes present name of my country It means People living on fields or clearings whitch doesn't fit with ice cold mountains.

[@nitrofochv2185]

And btw Poland isn't on East it's on West or Centre of Europe if you prefer ;)

[@bearistotle2820]

@@nitrofochv2185 Poland is one of the most Eastern nations in Europe. If we are using the Commonwealth, which is what Warhammer heavily draws from, it's borders very much make it an Eastern European nation.

[@raveloart5728]

I’d like to see more videos on the Units of Warhammer Fantasy; this was a really good video.

[@InvictaHistory]

Thanks! Please do leave feedback and share around as the continuation of the series does depend on how receptive the viewers are

[@Miqzz]

@@InvictaHistory This was great, definetely looking forward for more

[@lion80000]

@@InvictaHistory Kislev bear cavalry.

[@Thomas-gs8ug]

@@InvictaHistory WE NEED MORE PLEASE! Please do the imperial infantry

[@masonstover2960]

I second that notion. I would like to see not only other units, but units of other factions like Cathay

[@amatthew1231]

Damn this was as close to professionally done as you can get.

[@hUCK-]

I mean it's literally professionally done lol

[@connorgolden4]

So basically the winged hussars of the warhammer fantasy world?

[@InvictaHistory]

yup, except rather than charging the Ottomans they charge the Demon Hordes from the Chaos Wastes

[@cruzaider5339]

@tkg Correction sounds like Muslims to me

[@cisarovnajosefina4525]

And then the winged hussars arived

[@diegoivan685]

@@cruzaider5339 that's xenophobic as fuck but ok

[@MrSafior]

@@diegoivan685 That because it is.

[@lebarondeminuit3580]

THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVES !!!

[@masonstover2960]

Sabaton Winged Hussars starts to play.

[@lebarondeminuit3580]

@@masonstover2960 YESSSSS

[@alejandrorivas4585]

THEN THE KISLEVITES ARRIVED

[@PoddyPeaPea]

And there it is

[@dwarvenminer3329]

The Dwarf "Grumblers" would give a really good look into Dwarven society

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YES, more Warhammer. This is AWESOME!!

[@optcn]

Invicta exploring my favorite fictional universe, it’s a dream come true.

[@MrKOLCOO]

GW: Let's slap together Czechs, Poles an Russians and some other Slavs and create one nation...

[@yamnayaseed356]

They used to be one nation at least according to the Lech, Czech and Rus legend

[@AeneasGemini]

I'm surprised the Slavs got anything at all, kinda sad that they never had a proper army though, or an independent TWW faction

[@Robert399]

@@AeneasGemini They're getting one in TWW3

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

Meanwhile in 40k we have space tsardom (Vostroyans) and space viking sovyets (Valhalla)

[@Wildboy789789]

And mongolians really

[@TheBard1999]

Would you make a video about irl winged hussars? Going deeper then "they were at Vienna".

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[@socratrash]

Here you go Fantastic historical channel.

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@@socratrash very underrated

[@tompotter8703]

This is your first piece of Warhammer content in over two years. And what a way to return.

[@DarthDracvla]

More of this please! Absolutely loved this! Would love to see something over the greenskins!

[@InvictaHistory]

If the videos do well enough I'd certainly consider doing a unit spotlight for each faction

[@Qba86]

BTW: "Pułk" translates as regiment from Polish

[@gibbon8827]

Polk in russian too

[@antoniogivaldri5184]

Sooo, Polish Winged Hussars, and the siege of Vienna:) I really love warhammer, great video!

[@user-qp3kt6ow9u]

Kislev,Russia

[@GlaDi02]

@@user-qp3kt6ow9u Kislev is Polish-Russian mix.

[@Vitalis94]

@@GlaDi02 General Slavic, really. Praag comes to mind. But the majority of the influences are Russian.

[@MrEndriju]

@@Vitalis94 To be Honest if you check 16th century Commonwealth miltiary it's basically copy pasta into fantasy universe . Russian theme is in the names but idea and even story is copy of historical events. If we would remove tsar and boyars and replaced those names with kings and szlachta (but boyars still existed within the realm) we have basically Ukraine/Poland/Lithuania without Russia. Still I don't see issue in making it more universal just dont let forget that Russia accent is minor.

[@davidec.4021]

Oh boy i’m so glad this is a thing now

[@Gunny55555]

Really liking this video. Even though it is a work of fiction with Warhammer Fantasy it really feels like one of your previous videos of history. Almost as if this exists in a living world. Overall I do hope you do more as it is both educational and entertaining.

[@InvictaHistory]

Thanks, it was my goal to keep things as grounded as possible

[@medkitz1483]

Absolutely, a breakdown of Warhammer units would be awesome. The Black Guard of Naggarond, Knights of the Blazing Sun, or Dragon Princes of Caledor would make fantastic videos'.

[@zintosion]

13:13 AND THAN THE WINGED LANCERS ARRIVE!

[@decus9544]

Warhammer Fantasy: When it started, 40 years ago, I'd have said that it seemed quite generic and unimaginative, I poor copy perhaps of Tolkien's work spread over a world that could be said to be little more than a caricaturized version of Earth, but over these decades it has become quite possibly the deepest traditional fantasy setting in the world. The setting is now a masterpiece, enabled by this progressively expanding richness in it's lore, in all it's factions, cultures, geographic regions, characters and history. That Games Workshop scrapped all this for their new Age of Sigmar: a stale, hollow and artificial setting nearly as empty as Warhammer Fantasy in it's formative years... is difficult to describe in words. In any case, I would certainly endorse further explorations into the lore of Warhammer Fantasy by this channel or any others that take interest.

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How do I get started with warhammer fantasy? Like where do I begin reading? I'm really hoping there's a great resource when new people can get a good introduction into the lore.

[@Ruhrpottpatriot]

@@bharatbheesetti1920 With Age of Sigmar. The Old WH:FB was very hard to get into and pursuing the hobby was way more costly (if I had to guess, I'd say a good starting army is at least around 100 EUR) than getting into it's Sci-Fi equivalent 40k, one of the main reasons why WH:FB didn't sell well outside Europe. Age of Sigmar scrapped most of the complicated stuff and made it way easier to get into. The only problem is: While AoS lore is compatible with the old WH:FB lore (it's a sequel/ continuation of the story), the game system is not.

[@Sangheilitat117]

@@Ruhrpottpatriot “With age of Sigmar” He asked how to get into Warhammer Fantasy, not how to get into a trash heap.

[@username12120]

@@bharatbheesetti1920 Ignore the drooling fool who first responded to you, you want to get into warhammer fantasy? Great, which factions looks coolest to you? Once you've figured that out go search for that factions lore. Whether it's on fan wikis or from bootleg army book PDFs find it and just start reading. If you want to build and collect an army it's harder to get your foot in(since Games Workshop cancelled the game years ago) but there are plenty of avenues to approach it from for that still.

[@Ruhrpottpatriot]

@@username12120 Yes, the droling fool who has spent about 15k on WHFB Miniatures and about 0 on AoS. So stop your rampant fanboyism wanking on a dead system that was harder to get into than the empires Hard-On for twin-tailed comets.

[@SageThyme23]

wow warhammer really did the " hey can i borrow your homework" to the real winged hussars

[@miquelltkmc]

When you look into warhammer fantasy, it's probably harder to find something that isn't copied than what is :))

[@alexandermiller2149]

This was an absolutely phenomenal piece on a game with some really good lore. I'm extremely excited to see more of these, as for requests the Greatsword Regiments of the Empire with a spotlight on the Carroburg Regiment would be wonderful. These guys were the models that brought me into the hobby, other options could be the Grail knights of Brettonia, or the Knights of the White Wolf or Knights of the Panther. When you move to the more fantasy units, maybe the Lions Guard of the High Elves, The Dwarven Rangers, and Ogre Maneaters. Though If you did one on The Saurus of the Lizardmen I think you could touch on a lot of their Unique Designs.

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They are really well made, I just wish they were in a historical title. But glad to see invicta getting back to total war

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They are in empire if you play as poland

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I dont understand how a decent amount of people that watch this after watching a hundred of their historical videos just hate it automatically. Like not all videos are catered to everyone you dont have to watch it lol.

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Yessss, glad to see franchise expansion of the channel.

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The custom artwork makes these some of the best lore videos I have ever seen. And such a soothing voice too.

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I never thought I'd watch a Warhammer lore video structured like a historical vid and be so in love with it

[@dhwwiiexpert]

*WHEN THE WINGED LANCERS ARRIVE!!!*

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Do more units of warhammer please!!!!! This is too awesome

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love the production quality and general feel of this video!!

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Amazing video, watched it three times now just to appreciate the hard work and high quality of the production. Looking forward to more of these!

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Fantastic production quality and content, really well done.

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Wow this was really good, you should do more of these for Warhammer Fantasy. 👍

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YES! give us more! love this format!

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Fantastic video guys, This channel and Warhammer are 2 of the best things ever!!! Please do more.

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Really enjoyed this video, would love to see more Warhammer lore brought in this fashion.

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58 chaos marauders disliked this video. I love this content, keep it up.

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We are on 208 now. It's the ultra large units setting.

[@joegushi3013]

This was great! Thanks all. Really enjoyed this.

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I'm down for this! And any units you want to showcase! Though for me, the history of the different units of each Elector province would be awesome!

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That's a Real Intimidating Force. Their enemies would have been amazed, scared, confused, shocked, petrified, and dead 💀

[@randomelite4562]

Eh, not really. The plate armored Chaos Warriors would be like “oh, okay”

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Some of the legendary units or seiges and battles of 40K would be such a cool circuit breaker for the channel imo, depicting voidcraft Imperial Fleets or conflicts like the Badab War would be incredible. Love the fantasy though, great work all :)

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Amazing work! Great watch. Well done!

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The idea of this is just lovely.

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Love this! Definitely want more! Can’t wait for the next one! Empire Star Trooper perhaps? Or a High Elf warrior?

[@GeorgeEstregan828]

Adeptus Astartes 😎

[@rrobucksthehuman9186]

BUT THEN THE WINGED H̶u̶s̶s̶a̶r̶s̶ LANCERS ARIVED

[@emilefumiere7560]

This video was great. Looking forward to future episodes in this series.

[@tolkiennini]

I sincerely hope this is just the first in a series of many episodes diving deep into the lore of Warhammer units. If I might make a suggestion, the Black Guard of Naggarond would be a fine choice to cover in the next episode.

[@drakoslayd]

I wanna see more Warhammer Old World videos

[@awesomehpt8938]

Gimme more warhammer fantasy videos! Please.

[@InvictaHistory]

Roger-Roger

[@marcuswestman3334]

Outstanding quality! Art, animation and narration... All top notch! I'm usually marginally interested in Lore. But this video got me hooked and wanting more! Bring it on!

[@scartioantolare5825]

this was exceptionally done, would love to see more.

[@octodaddy4494]

Yes well i love the Empire so i wish in the future a video of the Empire would be made =D Kislev always gets destroyed easy in every campaign i do.

[@Farrew221]

Unfortunately, GW seems to have changed the image of the Winged Lancers somewhat. No more red and white horses. Their armor also seems different.

[@2009VandA]

I think that was just due to Katarina's faction. Some of her winged lancers had blue and white paint.

[@martin12042]

The New kislev looks more russian. I really enjoyed the old style like in this video. We didnt see whole roster yet but I hope ca left some polish lithuanian aspect of the army style 😁. It just looks too "russian" for me.

[@flexzible3848]

I love that you have done this with warhammer lore keep it up please do more

[@Alexyrion]

This was AWESOME, i would love to watch more of these!

[@awesomehpt8938]

Looks like book of Choyer has some competition maybe.

[@funoff3207]

Different style

[@johntitor1256]

Only one thing to say, really: Kislev.

[@Beer_]

*KISLEV*

[@afilthypeasant9646]

@@Beer_ who calls? KISLEV

[@4usterlitZ]

Awesome production, as always. Absolutely love your take on the Warhammer universe: please make some more, I love it 🔥

[@Bimpy96]

Such an amazing video, Well done!

[@Tribune_of_Italia]

Kislev.

[@IansMentalOmega]

Kislev.

[@TexasTeaHTX]

The Piper Perri meme would be appropriate here.

[@archangel2709]

Dude. This is awesome. More of this please !

[@emondragon68]

Killed it....I unequivocally enjoy this type of video. As entertaining as actual history if done well and you guys always rock the presentation.

[@BradPittler]

Even in fiction derived from history Charles of Lorraine doesn’t seem to get his due.

[@caesarshotdogchampion8738]

I can’t even complain. Thank you. lol

[@mrora3679]

Please more! Incredible Work!

[@Hanikendy2626]

I really hoped that there would be a mention of the polish winged hussars, it just feels that all these information, though amazing mean nothing in real history

[@TwistedAlphonso1]

Thats why its called fantasy

[@Hanikendy2626]

@@TwistedAlphonso1 i realize that, its just that its based on real history, as they have already mentioned and knowing the details of a fantasy world dosent mean anything, i come here to draw information but with this i cant.

[@funoff3207]

@@Hanikendy2626 It's just not made for you then, I don't know why you've come with those expectations

[@DarkLordOfSweden]

@@Hanikendy2626 oh don't be like that, information is information, what you do with it is in the end fully up to you

[@theredbar-cross8515]

"Painting them in red and white" I thought these guys were supposed to be inspired by the Polish Winged Hussars? What does this have to do with Indonesia?

[@johntitor1256]

I think it's actually Monaco.

[@davidlizaso758]

I would love to see more units of warhammer videos. Also the historical ones. Keep the good work, your content is awesome.

[@kieron7087]

Great video. The art, script and narration are all very well done

[@Rob-pl9vo]

Thought this would be about the Polish Winged Hussars... Now I (a TW History Purist) am a sad and disappointed boy.

[@stuckbarry4163]

Who else clicked thinking this was going to be about the real life Winged Hussars?

[@extassy_13]

Very pretty visuals and writing, thank you sir.

[@UserName-qt9dz]

Your lore telling of the warhammer fantasy world is expertly done, bravo!

[@frantisekprusa4877]

I am a little disapointed. I expected Polish lancers... I got Warhammer instead... Whish is fakin epic!

[@frantisekprusa4877]

@@adamkasztankiewicz8835 I wouldnt compare Kislev to Russia. Its legit a combo of Bohemia, poland, russia and the mongols

[@Blizbor18]

@@frantisekprusa4877 Not the mongols. Kislevs Ungols are based on Ukrainian Cossacks. Mongols and eastern steppe peoples in Warhammer Fantasy are portrayed by a faction called Hobgoblin Khanate.

[@tigertankerer]

So shame that fictional winged lancers have their material before real winged hussars.

[@InvictaHistory]

We will get to them in the future. For now this was a nice Ying-Yang situation where I can cover the fantasy version while our sponsor provides the historical version. Their video is actually quite good and uses historians + reenactors to really being them to life. Definitely recommend it.

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Such a great video! Definitely more of this please!!

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I've always been happy about being subscribed to this channel. Today, I'm proud of it.

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i like warhammer and all but i wish we could just keep it to the historical, maybe making a fantasy separate channel ?

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Love ur videos and this just takes the cake, keep up the good work.

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I love this Warhammer series! Please continue with it, its fantastic in its quality and depth of lore!

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Heck yeah! Excited for more of these!

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Super hype for this series to continue

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This is Awesome!! Thanks for this!

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I hope Units of Warhammer become a series because this is Awesome!

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This was fantastic fun to watch. I hope to see more.

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This is definitely one of the better forms of lore explaining ive seen gg

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There can be never enough Warhammer content. Especially in this quality.

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That was fantastic. More please.

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Are you kidding me?! I didn't realise it was possible for me to love this channel even more

[@pooch7245]

I'd love to see more videos like this! I'd love one on Estalia or some of their units

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Artwork is amazing. Please more!

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This is really cool! Definitely want to see more!

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Awesome well done! CA should be supporting content this quality, certainly helps to wet the appetite for what's the come

[@Mahbu]

Invicta continues to be in the upper echelons of historical and fictional military youtube channels. I rate it in the same breath as Kings and Generals, Occulus Imperia, The Templin Institute, Space Dock, Eckhartsladder, Wolf Lord Rho, Historia Civilis, Baz Battles, and Historia Marche. And Potential History because El oh el.

[@Mahbu]

And if some or most or all engaged in some kind of warhammer tournament in one of the warhammer games for a benefit. . I'm just saying. I'd watch.