CONSCRIPTS OR WHITESHIELDS IN WARHAMMER 40000 The newest and freshest warriors of the Imperium. They have not yet proved themselves, so they fight for the right to wear the colours of the Imperial Guard, the Astra Militarum. NEW CHANNEL: GK Natural History : kzfaq.info/love/OmrRUjHAw93gcWG6r9WoGg Earth and the Early Dinosaurs: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNJoo9VhrJvLdmQ.html AFFILIATE LINKS (Provide a discount and support the channel) USA/Canada: www.nobleknight.com/affiliate/aw.asp?B=2&A=1232&Task=Click UK/EU: elementgames.co.uk/warhammer?d=10795 PATREON LINK: www.patreon.com/join/3510517 Animated Servo Skull Provided by SirFloof, an allied channel. kzfaq.info kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y6qmY6dk1aq2op8.html - just a model! (This chap is amazing - check it out) He is creating animations and we are working together. I am very excited by his efforts so far, so go check him out! (Its worth it) RELEVANT VIDEOS: IMPERIAL GUARD/ ASTRA MILITARUM: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/feBmZtxlr7zLqqM.html HISTORY OF THE GUARD: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNqiZpx3xuDOfn0.html COMMISSARS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZ94ipiWrrjKk2g.html ROUGH RIDERS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8-UhbRh39G7en0.html TEMPESTUS SCIONS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbuYrbJes7nRnac.html RATLINGS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jK5xdrOTyr_Ko58.html ORGYN: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMlpkpaKkqzMgas.html CATACHAN JUNGLE FIGHTERS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/icqHjK-f2Zacp5s.html CATACHAN HEROES: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8-mjJN8ubS3l3U.html LEMAN RUSS BATTLE TANKS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbySn6poyL21h5s.html BANE BLADE SUPERHEAVY TANKS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8WPldeB2dSpqas.html OTHER VIDEOS: SPACE WOLVES SAGA: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pp-XnMaGtLmzmGg.html SPACE WOLVES TIMELINE: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jL-Sdpydq8ycg6c.html ABUNDANCE TERTIUS! : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtBxh6xzqcW-iH0.html CHAOS THE STORY SO FAR (SSF): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMibobCfms7Me6c.html BLOOD ANGELS SSF: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/edCedaxoudezhY0.html PROLOGUE TO ABUNDANCE TERTIUS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ntindcSl2rScpKM.html RED EAGLE / WHITE TIGER SSF: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rL2XlcmHus-XnoU.html ULTRAMARINES SSF: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7qcidJ2ssvSaWg.html TYRANIDS SSF: studio.kzfaq.infofP0wHwnHOlM/edit CHAOS VIDEOS ALPHA LEGION: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hb52fZti0N2uhXU.html THOUSAND SONS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gruoh65nt9qlc58.html WORD BEARERS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bt5-bLSG19G8o5s.html CHAOS SPAWN: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nZebp7xlnrnYpHU.html NIGHT LORDS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h5qhptN-2NmRfaM.html IRON WARRIORS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pcWnoKd1ubKpemQ.html MASTER OF EXECUTIONS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eMqag7J_x86nl2w.html 6 OF THE BEST! CHAPTER FOUNDINGS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7hhZ610mJzOlIU.html DEATH KORPS OF KRIEG: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8Cboaxkqb_XfGw.html HOW WARHAMMER 40K ENDS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7eihMxk1Zu3hKc.html DARK ANGELS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mp5hhNBzms23ooE.html SPACE WOLVES: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pp-XnMaGtLmzmGg.html IMPERIAL FISTS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldSmfsJ71p-qkas.html ALL PERSPECTIVES ARE MY OWN ALONE AND ARE NOT ENDORSED IN ANY WAY BY GAMES WORKSHOP. #Astra Militarum #Imperialguard #astramilitarum #warhammer40klore #warhammerlore #warhammer40000lore #lore #gamesworkshop #tanks

"Astra Mili-what? You're in the Guard son."

This would be an amazing game to start as a whiteshield and earn your way to full Guardsmen and later a Veteran.

The Guardsmen are some of the bravest, in my opinion, people in the Imperium. They are normal humans asked to stand and fight the same battles as the Astartes, who know no fear.

Bravest men in the whole damn setting, and they make for a relatable POV. We all fantasize about being Astartes, or maybe Inquisitors, but in truth? We’d probably all be conscripts.

Conscripts may seem like useless fodder for the Imperial Guard, but one must remember that these men and women will survive battles and wars and become into veterans who train their more younger compatriots, and later become Heroes of the Imperium of their deeds are remembered and acknowledged by many. It is true that many will die, but so long as one of them survives the Spirit of the Imperium will live through them.

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! " But it's " Saviour of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot...

To quote "He is an imperial guardsman drawn from some forgotten corner of the Imperium to fight for his species and for the safety of the people he loves. He is a factory worker, a farmer, a storekeeper, a father, a brother, a son, a mere man. And against creatures like you, teeming and numberless, powered by the very will of thirsting gods ... He holds the line. He has held the line for ten thousand years. +++END QUOTE+++ - Another cracking tale from Brother Baldermort ... it's a cruel world.

When I first started playing 40k, I was in the army. Light infantry machinegunner. I always felt an affinity towards the guard because of that, and they will always be my favorite army. Always nice to see them get their turn in the light!

Best intro, best narrator, best lore master, and one if the best fans of our hobby. We're spoiled friends.

Recruit: What’s a gun baby.. Guardsman: Gun babies…? Oh yeah it’s what we call a Cherub with a las or auto pistol.. The creepiest & most horrifying thing you will ever see.. Heard it even scared off a Dark Eldar raiding party once.. Recruit: Holy shit.. Guardsmen: Right, Dark Eldar aren’t spooked by much..

HELL YEAH Thanks for giving my Boys the Cadian Whiteshields some love! I love your guard videos perfect way to end the work week! I hope that you been well Balders sending all my love and support! When things clear up let me know so we can talk about the painting thingy.

Love the Gaurd Just remember Astartes, Mechanicum, a Saint, The Inquisition all fled. While the GAURD stood, all while the planet cracked, they never broke.

I’m going to have to dig out a new thesaurus, I’m running out of superlatives. Brother Baldermort, brilliant, superb, deep understanding of the subject and a fantastic performance BBB, BBB indeed.

A guardsman may not hold a cancle to an Astartes' physical qualities but they more than match them in bravery

Beautiful story baldermort. A reminder again that even the humble human can be the most formidable warrior if they are trained and experienced enough

This is why I adore the Guard, and the Empire in Fantasy. They're just regular folk doing their best in settings that are WILDLY stacked against them, and doing it surprisingly bloody well at that. I can't identify with an 8' tall brainwashed superhuman, but I can identify (Or pretend to) with a guardsman holding his ground against unspeakable horrors for the sake of his mates and his people.

Thank you uncle Baldy, the astra militarum has always needed a damned good story, or two, in order to give them the glory and hope they deserve. Luckily that duty fell to you

I always get the feeling with each biscuit that He is crafting "The Baldyverse" of Lore I can almost see His Characters journeying towards each other is a Greater Narrative Event Or, I've had 5 minutes too many to think. In any case, the Narratives are amazing fun

40k version of 'Learning by doing'. Nice to get a story from that perspective, thank you!

Definitely what I need to get this weekend started and to get me in the mood to build my new Chaos Knight Rampager

This story was friggin excellent. I hope this guy's story continues!!

Brilliant just brilliant at the end of your tale I'm man enough to proclaim I had a tear of pride in my eye for the "Whiteshields" no longer. Not many authors can invoke that type of emotional reaction from me but you my friend did so, and did so with ease it would seem...

My day has suddenly gotten much better. Thank you Baldemort.

The first thing I listened to from your channel was The Fall Of Cadia. Ever since I haven’t stopped. So I owe you a big thanks

That story was particularly well done! As always you have a amazing talent in writing and narrating that is only getting better and better. At least our protagonist was from a fortress world, just imagine being on a agri world and summoned to your local provincial capital only to be mustered up, being a hive world menial and just redirected onto a transport ship one day without warning, or a civilized worlder having a night at the local pub and waking up in a processing center. How you could just be grabbed or ordered one day, gathered up to fight enemies you didn’t know existed in a imperial guard you only vaguely were aware existed.

Hey great job on the Distractible intros! Really a work of art.

It hasn't been long but my good in this heat is just fantastic to chill and listen to you spin yet another marvellous tale. They you Baldermort and Mrs B. Amazing as ever.

This may be my favorite video yet. Feels so relatable....good ol militarum

Company of Heroes 2 voice: *"FRESH CONSCRIPTS HAVE ARRIVED"*

This was ridiculously well done. Guardsmen are easily overlooked and the blood and bones of the empire

Could this be the long lost past of General Mastima?

It’s great if you run Cadian you can actually bring them, they’re more expensive but they do a great job nonetheless, from screening the enemy to laying down ranks of organised fire, very worth bringing but that’s just my 2p on the matter

You know this entire week I have been seeing videos showing love for the guard and I have to say I've owed them so much more respect over the years. Going to have to make them one of my preferred forces

The Steel Legion, Catachan Jungle-Bois, and Cadian Shock Troops are my favorites along with the Death Korps of Krieg.

Always love seeing the guard getting some attention

"welcome to the guard. we have processed your intake form and your letter of condolences for your death has been sent to your next of kin" "im not dead though..." "yes but by the time it arrives, you most certainly will be... likely them as well, unfortunately. but we find that sending them immediately has an almost 0.0006% successful delivery rate in select core sectors. can't get THAT kind of service with the navy"

I've always loved the guard. I was first introduced to them from lutins video of Colonel Bane. The guard more than proved their worth during the fall of Cadia

"We have one rule in the guard, keep moving forward." -An unknown Steel Legion Seargent.

Special forces and flashy units get the movies and video games made about them, but your sverage infantry dog-soldier is what wins wars. Jets, tanks, navy SEALs, artillery, all of it is only there to assist infantry. Without regular infantry none of the rest matters.

In a fight between Star Wars Storm Troopers and a batch of Imperial Guard, I’d have my money on the guardsmen to win, to not break and run, and to carry the day.

One of your finest, Baldermort!!! And I say that knowing well that you have provided masterpieces aplenty. This was outstanding!!!!

"Only in the Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes are courage and expertise perfectly blended. In other troops they are present in varying degrees and proportions, and many scholars have debated their relative merits. For my own part, I come down on the side of courage. For courage can sometimes make a virtue of inexperience. _I myself have commanded Imperial Army troops whose probitor units have achieved great things, because they were too inexperienced to realise that their goal was impossible._ " Leman Russ

The Whiteshields, where you become one of two things. 1. A corpse. 2. A man.

Your story at the beginning was so good i didn't want it to end. Thanks for the excellent work

I remember the original whiteshields from the 1st edition rules published in white dwarf. Trainees that hadn't been attached to any particular regiment yet, I used to field a unit of them back in the 80s. I also used to field a much more useful unit of trainee commissars too...

Thank you sir! You honor us with your lore videos.

Balder, you legend. Holding it down for the lore-heads.

When the two meter tall genetically engineered supersoldier gets split in half by a BUG, and all you have is a flashlight and a helmet with a white stripe on it.

Now that was an AWESOME story told by a true natural thank you sir I enjoyed that video immensely well done!!!

I'm getting you to do my eulogy at my funeral. You could make a trip to the loo sound like an epic.

Fantastic story my friend! You truly are blessed in what you do.

That was a fun story to have playing whilst glossing my stairs

Having joined the army and recapped and joined the Marine Corp, l can understand the sentiment.

From every hundred men you take to battle, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are fodder to spent enemy arrows, nine are good fighting men, they will make war and we are lucky to have them, but one, one, is the warrior, and he, will bring all of them back... Human, is pretty badass as it goes... we have made it this far in our history just by what we have, normal baseline mouth breathing humans...

Nothing quite as strong and vicious as a man already dead and buried.

That's a kinder title then what they really are, "bullet sponges"

As a retired Catachan lumberjack, I can assure you Baldy is dead right about the boys in the Guard. This video gives me goose bumps every time 😢

I hope this conscript survives into the Baldermort tales.

For me the guard are the bravest of the brave. Not enhanced just human. I salute you. Now hold the line.

Well i now i want Baldermort to narrate an entire audio book based on the life a Guardsman (If there is such a thing) .

YES MORE GUARD CONTENT PLEASE !!! May the God-Emperor Make it so

His first war was against Tyrannids?! *Oh no.*

Bravery is not the absences of fear, that is madness, but rather Bravery is the presence to act and stay collected in the face of danger... I know I have nothing but respect for all my brothers and sisters in uniform past, and present, And I worry for those yet to be sent into harms way. I wore the Electric Turtle I wore the Beer Keg Farts for the Inquisition Comments for the Algorithm

Then Grayfax killed a ship load, to stop any heresy within infecting others! Even after they killed the warped out guy, with unrelenting laz fire!

Hell yeah dude. Another bold take (Bald take?) on the inner journey of the field soldier. You do these kinds of pieces like no one else, making the subject feel unfailingly like a real person in a deeply unreal scenario. That's why you're the best!

Your work stands up there with the BEST, Brother B. Well Done!

This was so good. Amazing job 👏 keep up the amazing work you do.

As usual your readings take a story and elevate it to an epic. I aspire to have the courage of a Guardsman.

Survive ten minutes, and you're a sargent a common joke in the astra militarum, but just because is a joke does not mean it can't happen. still is difficult to think that the astra militarus is better than any military we have,likely will never be exemplified, most writers are not also military elite. Also damn, i felt the pride of the emperor listening to that story, rest well fallen, you are by the emperor now, giving a lasbolt to the arse of a daemon in the warp in His army.

If Leman Russ has faith in the Whiteshields after having them under his command then I have faith in them too. Inexperience can make for horrible battlefield situations but it has its own merits too. Older experienced soldiers know the horrors of war and will do their best to find cover while those young with no experience will charge into the thick of things if ordered to. A real world example is The Normandy Landings on June 6th of 44, the first ones to hit the beaches were mostly 18-20 years old and the landings were their first taste of combat.

"There is one thing, the emperor can." Me: Messing up his kids badly? Oh... yes, messing up planets, I forgot. I enjoyed the story, though. The enthusiast in me getting drawn into the heroic setting, batteling the cynical philosopher I am.

This got me so pumped up!! Cause at the end of the day I AM A GUARDSMAN OF THE ASTRO MILITARUM!!!

This one is one of my all time favorites. I love your description of the empire always taking more the it has. Bravo sir

The Flashlight Boys actually are really damn effective, it just so happens that everything in Imperial space that they were so very effective against has been wiped out. Everything that remains or gains a foothold despite the Guard is reasonable to consider an Astartes-grade threat.

A timely vid, spent the last week contemplating what to do with the Baneblade kit i bought.... do i loot it into Orky o.t.t. madness like i do with everything, but it's such a lovely kit as is, so i had pretty mutch decided to do some guard ( wallet not happy ) and then this vid turns up to cement that decision. Happily i dug out some 20 + yo guard minnies an one of the old luitenents will make an excellent tank comander. 🙂

The warmth of your lasguns overheated barrel and *The Emperors* own hand upon my shoulder is all that is required to repel the darkness.

The men and women of the imperial guard the reason the imperium still stands after 10,000 years

Good afternoon baldy! I'm going to enjoy this very much! Just thought I'd let you know I didn't get a KZfaq notification for this.

Ah pour guardsman. An neverending teil of bravery and suffering

Nothing beats a good guard video

Mesmerizing. Loved it! Thank you very much!

Congratulations whiteshield you have been promoted from meatshield to expendable

31:05 "the Emperor is hardly infallible" .....Perhaps you could discuss this with me...Immediately...Commissar Stauffen

Amazing story and lore again. Really good.

What a great video, thanks for always making gold.

Boldermort could easily write propaganda for the Imperium itself. Screw xenos and traitors, HUMANITY FOR LIFE!

When you consider that everything in the 40k vers is turned up to 11 and in the case of mind rending terror on the battlefield it's up to 20 the fact that baseline humans can even be deployed is testament to their grit and determination. Hell the Necrons literally fought GODS and beat them. The Nids strip world's to their bedrock and even consume their core and atmosphere. Yet against these threats that would annihilate any other setting the baseline humans of the guard stand.

Brave Hero's of The Imperium each and everyone of them!

The algorithm broke before the guard

There's a reason why the Wall of Conscripts is a valid strat

I loved the part in which he said 'even the elites of today the navy seals,green berets ,sas etc would be ripped asander by a single squad of gaurdsman.

Have listened to this one several times. The part about the parents felt a little too familiar. Brilliant.

I love the music! Great video as always, you make painting so much better.

Baldermort I loved this story!! I was listening to this omw home and sat in the driveway fixed by the story haha great job!!

I discocered your channel with this video that I'm rewatching now. By the Emp I was not ready for the quality that you provide! Thank you so much for your work, this is amazing

Hellz yeah. Fantastic work as ever. Keep it up ❤️

Could’ve sworn there was a continuation on this story but I forgot what the lore tidbit it was about. Damn

This has to be my favourite. The narrative is so deep and emotional. Brilliant, I salute you sir.

Guardsmen and their entire variety of regiments are often overlooked in a "haha fire a flashlight and be cannon fodder" type of way but i always thought most PDF forces from 40k would humiliate our current elite divisions severely.