Old Terra sounds like a technically advanced version of the Mad Max universe, complete with the emperor cropping up screaming MEDIOCRE while heaving thunder warriors

Lesson learned from 40K difficulty: unifying all of man kind < being a single father.

Lore for the lore god, fluff for the fluff throne

"Decided not to fight the big ass motherfucker in Golden Plate-Armour leading an army of super-humans." Love that quote.

"Send in the Eighth" So what I'm hearing is that the Night Lords were always absolutely terrifying.

I quite like the Graham McNeill story "The Last Church" and Dan Abnett's "The Lightning Tower" as glimpses of Old Terra. In "The Last Church" there's mention that the Scandinavians returned to their old Viking-y habits and got exterminated by the Emperor and it details a brief uprising against the Emperor in France that was put down by the Thunder Warriors. "The Lightning Tower" while being set after Unification, during preparations for the siege of Terra, in addition to providing an interesting look at the Imperial Palace also indicates that some old pre-Age of Strife artefacts have been preserved (artworks like Van Goghs and the Mona Lisa are heavily implied to have been hanging in Malcador's office).

Careful what you wish for, Arch. Chances are that the 30k/background sourcebook you are requesting would be a joint venture of C.S. Goto, Matt Ward and Robin Cruddace. (for the unaware: the three people who f***** up 40k lore the most by not giving even the slightest of sh*** about it. Ward is even referred to as the 5th Chaos God - which is telling a lot.

What do you call a lasgun that has an under-barrel laser pointer? Twin-linked.

*The Guardsmen approves*

"The United States of Murica" That's more 'murican than the real-life name.

This needs to be a video game Or, at the very least, a Mad Max Mod.

The people based in the Northern Atlantic area could be fighting the Panpacific Empire in what used to be the Arctic Ocean, that is if their empire includes Greenland area. The two would in theory have a boarder at the top of the world if the PE goes into Siberia.

Unless the Legio Custodes video has half naked muscle men with abs so well lubricated you can use them as mirrors, I feel like a good chunk of your viewers will be disappointed Arch lol

It would be pretty neat if someone made a speculative map of the world during the unification wars

"Send in the 8th" 4 words so chilling they could flash freeze a blast furnace.

I mean one could also point out that Thunder Warriors were not made by Gene-Seed processes, meaning they might have been either simple prototypes to find a more stable method of making super soldiers or made using more questionable and archaic methods. Simply put the Emperor probably could not afford to keep using obsolete models as it were, especially considering how violently unstable the Thunder Warriors were. Keeping them reigned in on Terra was possible, but imagine a band of genetically unstable monsters out in the big bad galaxy, lightyears away from the Emperor's prying eyes. Also take into account they were effectively capable of fighting Astartes on ten to one odds. The band of Thunder Warriors that staged that prison riot fucking slaughtered tons of War Hounds Legionaries, and those dudes were not even properly equipped.

The Emperor Approves.

The country names during the unification wars sound exactly like a name youd get in HOI4 after invading a country

*_Unification? FORCEFUL "unification"?_* Mmmmmh, Slaanesh approves!

I kinda miss the first war of Emps in that era back in M27 (as is seen in The Outcast Dead) when Emps and an army of anti-psyker genetically modified warriors eradicate a certain breed of psykers.

The Death Korps approves.

Albia is actually future UK. Albyon(as British Isles). Not that it matters much, this lore video is excellent.

What did the emperor wear at the time? A tux military fatigues? It's hard to imagine our radiant emperor without his armor

I so want there to be more books covering the curving handfull of thunder warriors mentioned in the Hours heresy books.

The Raptor Imperialis ( the main image background) is one my favorite symbols in 40k is most prominently seen on the Thunder warriors but also on The Legiones Astartes as well . If you see marines of a particular legion sporting it that means that they have participated not just in the great crusade but the Unification wars as well the ultimate Veteran Insignia.

17:30 Pol Pot's ultra super great grandson. Literally what he did in Cambodia, not too far North from Indonesia lol.

"The last church" is my favorite pre-unification story from the Horus Heresy series. Amazingly written.

So long story short it takes the Middle East Emperor knows how many thousands of years just to realize "maybe we shouldn't fight the well armed well armored badasses from a distant land"

The Adeptus Mechanicus approves.

Where did the Emperor actually start of his conquest? Did he have a home base?

If an Ork Warboss decided to fight and unite all the Orks in the Materium would it be a unification WAAAGH!?

Next month: 20K lore :)

Many parts of these stories really prove that the Emperor really was the true embodiment of Humanity; imperfect. And really, isn't that in itself the perfect god for humanity? Yeah yeah, _HURRUSEY!!!_ **BLAMBLAMBLAM!!** yadda yadda yadda. As a Rogue Trader, I've heard it all before, and all you commissars pulling your bolt pistols should know that I've got the authority to order you to swivel on it, so put em' back in their holsters.

World War 64 Right there.

Using the Unification Wars period as the setting for my old school Gamma World campaign

Arch! Absolutely outstanding, one of the best videos you have put out yet! The information was great! I didn't know anything about the reunification wars!

Murica ftw

"Send in the 8th"

Tells you how much I listen to your videos, send in the 8th sent a shiver down my spine.

FINALLY!! been waiting for your snobby lores all week!

Arch, a friend and i wish to create a Unification Wars overhaul for Hearts of Iron 4. Meaning we need like a map, tech, factions, as well as any pics that would help to make it feel more like Warhammer 40k. Any ideas where to find alot of this?

The Tech Priest approves

AWESOME! i really really wanted this! To bad really we dont have anymore more to go on. I loved the parts when they talked about chaos demons and thunder warriors battling on earth in the heresy books.

Great lore video, love your work!

"or at least, as civilised as you can get when sorrunded by enemies" *Laughing in Israel*

hey arch would the battle for Luna be a unification war battle or a great crusade battle?

Love this stuff mate, keep it up.

awesome as always arch

It's story time once again!

''Send in the 8th"

2:55 its been 3 years and no video

Great storytelling as always Arch.

so wait the legend of shangri la in our cultures is just the emperors treehouse more or less ?

Am I the only one that god insane chills when he said ''Send in the eight'' I mean I legit got dizzy at that point :D All of the chills ! ^_^

Great video Arch.

Alpia in the north Atlantic would have fought the PanPacific over the north pole. As you say there would be no ocean nor ice pack wich would have left a lot of valuable space to fight over. Maybe?

Greetings and salutations

i dont think the emperor made it a bad undemocratic regime since humanity had it quite well until the Horus Herasy and then became the modern 40K witch scared the shit out of conrad curze so its safe to say pre herasy imperium was quite nice

Amazes me how much I loved 40k when I was a teen, it's a horrifying universe in practice but it's just so well put together you can't help but wish you were there in a please don't shoot me commissar sort of fashion.

always a good day when arch has a new video :D

Primarchs will get their own videos with 3 years.... *Looks at calendar* for some baffling reason I don't expect 17 more primarch lore vids to drop over the next 6 weeks. Call me a cynic but I think 30 years would have been more accurate lol.

Hi. I think, that Imperium of man should have been much different under Emperor, than it is now, after Heresy and Emperors injury and enthronement. Maybe not entirely "democratic", but actually confederation of state-planets, who are alowed to choose their own government - democracy included, Entirely "anti-theocratic" - because of his clensing of all religions, centered around scientifical progress inside logical boundaries giwen by WH40K history and quite open for inside traveling (because of his project for human webway). Protected by superhuman elite, with thriewing arts (his support for that field may be seen in addition of artists inside crusade personell prior HH) and technology enbettering hard life of all man in the galaxy. You know - democracy is just fine, but when the populace is giwen the choice between strong ruler, usually seen as ensurance of safety and stability and between demokracy, they do not tend to pick hunger, instability and violence.

Arch you are the best!

Oh hey a arch 40k lore video *grabs popcorn and soda.*

Arch you should start the Horus Heresy lore by going through the primarchs

SPEESH corgi approves

I love these old videos

4 years later, still waiting for that Salamanders video...

Long live Hy Brasil and long live the Emperor!

Arch pls make a video about age of terra lol

Arch is the Chaos entity of indulgent rambling, he feeds and grows strong from every garish, indulgent R-rolling flourish, aimless meandering and the occasional theatrical chuckle.

I love your passion.

*UUUUUUUUURRRRRRRSH.*

Arch you forgot to mention that Warp powers were used in the unification wars since it was recorded that a kingdom in Africa used warp powers to fight the emperor and im guessing other kingdoms as well.

Damn good lore video, I must have more!

"...Plasma Guns,Flamethrowers, Tactical Nukes, Tactical bombers ..." I dunno why but I was hoping he would say Tactical Flamethrowers. No matter, amazing video!

Do a death korps lf krieg or mordian iron guard video if possible! It would be awesome!

Arch I love your videos so much,that when an Ad plays I mute the video and let the ad run to its completion so you get more ad revenue.

I binge your videos every night to give me glorious dreams for the Emperor And I feel bad that I haven’t liked every video that I’ve viewed

Great video, along with the rest of the 40K playlist!!! I've already seen you start your Horus Heresy/Primach videos with Conrad Curze... Any hints on your next one? And if at all possible, could we touch on Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children? They're one of my favourite units in 40K, and with Fulgrim - in this humble geek's opinion - being the galaxy's most glorified psychotic warlord diva, I imagine the ensuing roast would be epic :P

what happened to Jermany?

So... What if the first Unknown Primarch was from the Thunder Warriors? A failed experiment never to be spoken of again.

Who thinks GW should adapt the pre- and during Unification Wars battles into a tabletop game?

Yay more lore vids!

Nurgle approves.

So erm just wondering, are you Skalagrim or related to him, both of you have a similar voice and a similar way of talking, or is it coincedence?

Yay, a new 40k video!

There should be a game that elaborates on this period in Imperial history!

so it was basically north star univerese ehehehe

what happened to the United states of murica did I miss that if so can someone give me the point in the video its in

i keep thinking why they have not done a warhammer 40k movie, but the more i think about it the more i realize that no matter what way they could do the movie, a lot of the fans will be pissed.

this lore is just...fantastic

The Imperial Navy... approves.

Ok is there anything the imperium dosn't have that has some level of irony

Oh arch you crack my up.

I was supprised (happily) to see you on a live stream with Sargon of Akkad. Had been subscribed to you both, did not imagine you knew each other!

LOL then the emperor spread the oppressive brutal non-democratic government across the entire universe. Yep, everyone is way better off.

when I have work in 7 hours time and I start watching your latest 40k videos....

I was thinking about Old Albia in Northern Atlan, and their conflict with the Pan Pacific Empire. Since there are no oceans left on earth, it is possible for the two powers to wage war over the north pole.

The Audiobook "The Last Church" gives a fantastic little look into his rise to power during his rise on Earth. I think you can still find it some where here on youtube.