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Captain of the Elysian Drop Troops: "Ok men, we are going into hell and fight for the Golden Throne!" One new trooper who recently transfered before the mission: "And For Managed Democracy!"

ODSTs, Drop Troops, Helldivers: FEET FIRST INTO HELL

"Captain, we're surrounded." "We're drop troopers Private... we're supposed to be surrounded."

Bricky clearly has covid because he lost his taste if he doesn't like Elysian models.

Elysians are my fav to play tabletop because they let you do so many meme strats, like dropping a squad of plasma guardsmen directly on top of enemy space marines so they can blow themselves up when their plasma overheats

We’re so close to talking about my favorite guard regiment, the Harakoni Warhawks

As an ork player I basically summarize this entire video as “DARE DA HUIME STORM BOYZ!”

The internet: "You need 3 octillion tigers to defeat the sun." The Hive Mind: "Oh, EZ."

Paratroopers suffering heavy casualties is not just a 40K problem, it's been a problem since they were invented. The German paratroopers had great success early on in the first year of the war, but after that it was just disaster after disaster every time they were used. Even the paratroop drop during D-Day in Normandy was a disaster. Hardly anyone landed in their assigned drop zone and it was only thanks to the slow response of the Germans that they weren't wiped out and were able to accomplish their missions. And even then Allied officers had to just grab whatever soldiers had landed near them as everyone was spread out all over Normandy. It's widely accepted now that paratroopers will be quickly wiped out when deployed in areas with organized defenders unless they are immediately linked up with regular forces. Look at the Russian VDV forces wiped out in the opening attack on Ukraine for a modern example.

For Super Ear- I mean the Imperium of Man!

I’m not even mad at that raycon ad The Segway made me giggle

The Chaos Gremlin energy of DK at the start of this episode is giving me life.

19:53 I was flashbanged with the knowledge of Bricky owning a bullpupped shotgun. What accursed beast is he withholding from his people

Drop troops will be the reason I buy a 3D printer

Finally, my favorite Guard faction. The aesthetic is peak. I love the concept of jet pack drop troops, whether it be Mandalorians, Helldivers, ODSTs, etc.

"It's only a warcrime if you loose." That rings uncomfortably true

T'au on the tabletop: "Our Ethereal is Dead! It's all Joe'ver!" T'au on in the books: "Shas'la our Ethereal has moved on to the afterlife, let's make sure he isn't lonely there." edit "box" ==> "books"

I have been collecting and repainting Elysian models for years. My favorite regiment by a country mile

My favorite drop troupe story is them dropping through the gap in the shield and a weapon beam, disabling the shield and some getting away

The closest thing you'll ever get to ptsd from 40K audiobooks is listening to the Scions of Elysian audio drama series from Zachariah's perspective as he watches recruits with failed grav suetes helplessly turned to mush potatoes (including sound effects) around him.

Of course 40k is just full of boxes: Land Raiders, Dreadnaughts, Saint Katherine, list goes on.

I wasn't expecting Bricky to reveal he owns a bullpup of all things. My money's on a KSG.

Not gonna lie the Elysian Drop Troops feel way more T'au than Imperium in their aesthetics: Tactical compact gear, weaponry that feels very modern inspired rather than WW2 inspired, and even their tactics feel less WW2 Airborn Divisions and more modern spec ops units. Honestly, it just makes me want to see some kind of T'au equivalent with Pathfinders or hell revive the old XV1 stealth suites and give them this kind of role. Even if its something that only exists in the novels I think I would be really cool.

Bricky sweating out his demons in that ad read.

HELLDIVERS NEVER DIE!

Who else wants the next poster to be a metric butt tonne of tigers falling out the back of a Valkyrie?

I like the idea that 10k years in the future a hyper advanced alien species will excavate the ruins of earth. They find the meme about the sun and how many Tigers would be needed to beat it. Using mass cloning technology, they create the amount of tigers needed according to the meme, launch them into the sun. After witnessing the results, they write the answer down and bury it next to the meme.

27:42 love that vultures and Valkyries are legal, but somehow the vendetta is banished to legends 😢

There is one enemy that no one has the courage to destroy.

"How many 8 year olds can you defeat?" "That depends, are we in a mall?"

"Helljumper, Helljumper where you been? Feet first into hell and back again!"

Yes, EDT finally. I hope inquisition allows them to mention D99

AdRid: "I know nothing about guns" Me: "I bet that thing has a garbage trigger"

The question about the respawning 8-year old reminds me of how Vulcan fought Magnus.

Still remember that odst ad fron halo 3… one, if not the best, ad i have ever seen from a video game and i watch it basically multiple time per year.

This episode reminded me of my original desire to start 40k as a guard player and go HEAVY into Valkyries... I'ma do it one day.

Fulgrim: I can take all the Imperial Guard at the same time😀 Imperial Guardsman: In a fight, right. Fulgrim:😈 Imperial Guardsman: I-in a fight r-right

What the hell was Azriel on to come up with this horrible looking gun, I’m not even sure the bolts could even get to the receiver.🤨🐱

For those of you who don't know and would like to know the difference between a standard rifle layout compared to that of a Bullpup the only difference is between the two is that while both of them both have 16 in barrels one of them is actually I guess you could say length to 16 inch barrels while the other one is because the magazine is in the rear where the stock is you get the full 16-in Barrel but in a much smaller frame there therefore you are able to paradrop and clear buildings much much more effectively and efficiently because you don't have that Barrel picking out and a being encompersome while in close confined spaces and also doesn't pick you out or show where you are in the vicinity so then you can properly clear out a room or building and not give away your position just food for thought for people who would like to know 😊

Nah mate, been awhile since I head Drop Bear myself. Good chuckle and joke.

Petition for the next guard regiment to be the Tallarn Desert Raiders?

That sounds like a terrifying FPS movie about drop troops surviving a ork WAH! I'd see that movie.

The Elysian Drop Troops are the constant personification of the Operation: Market Garden; a lot of effort for little gain and a disappointing end. Also, I love how the Cyclops demolition tank is just a bigger IRL Goliath.

Funny story, I was part of a 40k IG themed clan and I first entered it by joining their Elysian division. Eventually that division got disbanded (lack of recruits and people kept leaving) and I joined the ST division, which eventually left the larger clan to become its own thing.

20:03 Thank you, DK; as an Australian, we have strict gun laws, and I had no idea a Bullpup was a thing.

"Your dissapointment encompasses the sun" legendary

No tigers were harmed in the making of this episode. Or, well, not that many tigers anyways.

Hell jumper hell jumper where have you been? Feet first into hell and back again!

Definitely the best poster so far.

YES ELYSIANS! I own so many FW Elysian models, theyre one of my favorite Guard regiments. Love this!

Putting the bodies in “we will crush you under the weight of our dead!” Nothing like getting bird striked by a guards’ man.

Shy hard carried that one. 💪

Just found ya….that bullpup explanation was hilarious, I may or may not be able to confirm I was yelling in the kitchen

18:13 the bullpup las carbine allows for quicker maneuvering and aiming, but you have to take you aim away from the target when changing clips

another tragedy of a poster. give us big buff oiled up custodes bara poster

You can't keep the Elysians down, there are DOZENS of Elysian fans. BAKERS DOZENS. (Fr though, I love the elysians, made an Elysian army, and love to see them covered)

Fun fact, I remember reading somewhere how an Elite remarked how ODSTs come with their own coffins so yeah, drop troopers with coffins is standard slander.

as a fun note, with its current legends datasheet, the drop sentinel can equip a heavy bolter AND a multimelta together

"Pool cues stolen from pubs" killed me

I mean, you gotta talk about the anphelion project next

If I ever build and run a Guard army again, I'm going to name them the Octilian Tigers

I always remember the Rimmy Downunder gaming Arma 3 operation where they play as the Elysians. The last guy that didn’t manage to escape used a melta bomb kill several word bearers. Actually I was wrong, they were cadian drop troops.

Lets gooo! So glad to see my second favourite Guard Regiment get some spotlight time!

I Read the "Word Bearer" trilogy, and these guys made the first book the best one.

This episode goes up there with the assassin one where the bois are just completely off the fucking rails.

They hover by creating downwards force. If there's just their weight, they can hover, but it's not a hover button, it's a small scale jetpack, so its only enough to slow their fall

As an Australian I can say no we love talking/hearing about dropbears

Idk about the rest of Aus, but I love hearing about drop bears, Australia's most dangerous animal deserves more respect

Just a Little Guy has found a new rival with that end cat tiger rant

One of the only faction of 40K that as aesthetics from my country, also always good to see your video. 👍

they may not win often, but they saved their homeworld. That's more than the Cadians can say.

As someone who didn't manage to roll, it does seems to be a fairly important skill.

The 72nd Elysian Storm Troopers - Part of the Imperial counterattack to liberate Tanakreg from the Word Bearers. Were definitely interesting. They are mentioned in the word bearer omnibus series. A really good read. I hope you guys can read it eventually.

in the fiction, the packs can actually fly on par with a marine jumpack (for as long as their limited battery packs last, so a couple minutes), but ruleswise they're treated as just hi-tech parachutes. the Gaunts Ghosts use some in the novel 'Guns of Tanith" to insert a commando team into a chaos held 'city in the clouds' on Phantine. (the Phantine Skyborne are presented as another drop trooper regiment, because their world is a venus like toxic hellscape where there is basically just endless expanse of clouds, and the people live on mile long zepplin airships or domed cities on top of tall mountains)

So when are we getting our TaleSpin droop troops poster? Seeing a bunch of bear men in grav chuts dropping out of a twin boom proppeller plane would be amazing.

Ah yes, Elysian Drop Troops, the poor man's Harakoni Warhawks.

A little bit more on the pullpup lasguns the Elsyian boys use - Kirioth says their lasguns are more "compact" but doesn't really explain how that works. In real-world firearm design, if you put the magazine behind the trigger, that means you can also put the chamber (the "start" of the barrel) and bolt behind the trigger. Then, instead of the chamber being a few inches in front of your hand, it's a few inches behind it. This way, a gun with say a 14.5" barrel (standard M4 barrel length) would end up being several inches shorter in a bullpup configuration while still having the same length barrel, and thus the same effective range and accuracy. The real-world downside is that the manual of arms for bullpup rifles tends to be less biomechanically compatible with our anatomy (makes reloads more difficult) and they aren't as friendly to left-handed shooters unless expressly designed for it (for example, the AUG-A1 can have its ejector flipped to eject brass either left or right, and the side it's not ejecting from can have a rubber cover inserted). Shooting a standard M4 left-handed is uncomfortable but doable - shooting an AUG left-handed without switching the ejection to the other side means you're getting hot brass sprayed at your neck. What functional implications this has for lasguns in WH40k, no idea. They aren't firearms, they shoot lasers. Lasers as we understand them today just need a focal array and lasguns don't eject anything when they shoot. Like everything else in WH40k, this concept was likely pursued just because it looks cool.

17:25 Halo ODST's are all captains before they are ODSTs. ODST's are dropped *so that they can lead from the front*. Their casualty rates are high without even factoring in entry. Leading from the front is what captains do for their squads. Leading from the front is what ODSTs do for entire armies.

I'm so upset that not one of them, or Shy, realized that "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" is a quote from Shrek.

I was a paratrooper and, yeah, this episode covers the general mission of an Airborne unit in a nutshell 🫡

12:45 It can be used on planet side, however its less zoom zoom, and more like slow-mo bouncy castle shenanigans, stolen heavily from the Dune books and movies, with the Harkonen and Saudakar, troops utilizing suspensor suits and doing the floaty spooky thing, but by no means is it very fast.... Floating in mid-air tends to give you negative zero amounts of cover, and for a maximum of about 10 minutes which is mostly eaten up during deployment. In the micro-gravity environment of an asteroid field however , smart troopers can make that 10 minutes last for hours. ... Lastly if you have "already" accelerated to terminal velocity, negating gravity at the point is useless, yer still gonna go splat unless you have a form of rocket to slow you, which is also built in. no momentum as you activate anti-gravity equals a hover. There's a mention in one of the books about an anti-gravity "ray" that they used to deploy entire regiments at one time, if the beam shuts off or gets moved by any angle for even 2 seconds, the tank that "was" and is again in the ray is now moving at enough velocity (at zero g) that it still breaks the tank, like a lifta droppa.

War crimes? You mean a to do Checklist? Signed every Guard Commander ever.

As an 82nd baby, Death From Above. Elysians are fucking awesome.

negative lift basicly means a man running down a runway flapping his arms up and down has a bigger chance of flying

Deathwatch it depends on the chapter, some send their newly graduated Space Marines for experience, some send their veterans, some see it as a mark of honour, so go as a punishment and some (like the space wolves) see it it as an annoying duty they have to do and basically draw lotts.

Managed Democr-what? Hell-Pod? Wake up Trooper, we're Halo-chuting in 30 seconds! Also, for DK, some paratroopers use compact weaponry: the Bullpup has the same barrel length as its cousins, but with less stock, it takes up less space :)

This topic reminds me of the new weebl music video which is an animated helldivers done in an 80’s cartoon intro style, it’s a slapping banger

GW doesn’t want to deal with flyers, so I’d bet it will be a long time before we see Elysians again

The bulpup design to keep the barrel as long as possible to make the bullet more accurate. Also the bolter is technically against the Geneva convention for exploding bullets

The grav chute reminds me of the gm nightseekers own back pack except it can use it to jump back onto the ship that it deployed from after completing its mission.

G.W. has not forgot these guys there's armor of them in Darktide

Sees Kirioth in the image: HELL YEAH! HELL! YEAH! Sees the poster: AWWWWWW YEAH! Bricky: Sick from a Con We're eating good to start this episode

Bullpups allow u to have a long barrel but in a more compact size. So u still get good velocity and accuracy of a full size gun.

54:00 yes and no with the deathwatch question. Its is both volunteer but also semi-forced volunteer too. Its not unknown for certain chapters who send personnel to the Deathwatch to send brothers of more problematic or disgraced heritage out into the service as both a way of penance, but to also give them forced discipline at the hands of other brothers and for some chapters… as a way to potentially get rid of that problem marine in a very… high risk way for said marine.

If they sent signed posters, I would actually buy them.

Think the only worse fate of failing into the hands of the Emporer's Children would be getting captured by the Dark Eldar.

Kreig need paratroopers with shovel shaped parachutes.

The Elysians also get bodied by Word Bearers in the first book of their omnibus and are viewed mockingly by the Dark Apostle for even trying to assault space marines.

So bulpup not so much smaller as it is adjusted to incorporate the barel and ammo back so that theres not a long ass rifle with "dedspace" between the chber and the end of the buttstock. Makes it possible for a 14" barrel rifle to compact down from about 30ish" total length down to about 18ish".