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A Russ vs a Hammerhead is like a Sherman with the armor of an Abrams vs an Abrams with the armor of a Sherman.

To be honest any box of steel would atleast be effective against either the italians or the japanese tanks

the imperium discovers the blueprints of an ancient tank.. it uses exactly the same engine as the Leman Russ Tank. Got a powerful long range gun. Is about as reliable as the russ (meaning it breaks down on the slightest incline...) It is called the tiger Tank. and the techpriest has already made a plasma cannon variant.

I mean you could technically introduce a new short and longer leman russ design, you just need to: 1. Establish or "find" an entire forge world. 2. Try to convince the mechanicus that you discovered an alternate design of the leman russ "hidden" in your archives that makes it harder to hit with its lower profile. 3. If they ask why the dimensions of the tank are so... "off", you could always say the STC you have might have been slightly corrupted, thus leading to current vairant of the tank youve been churning out of the assembly line. 4. Prove that your leman russ variant has a slightly higher success rate from being hit just slightly less often. 5. Get found out. 6. Get branded as a heretek. 7. Die and have your forge world wiped off the map by the mechanicus. 8. Become less than a footnote in history 9. After about a century or two, the mechanicus starts churning out your tank variant stating it was a lost STC "discovered, and totally not pried out of some guy's cold dead hands" and call it the newest mark pattern of the Mars Pattern Leman Russ Tank. 10. ... 11. Profit! (For the rest of humanity at least.)

The greatest quote ever: “There is killing to be done!” - Commissar Bradley

I find it hilarious that the Leman Russ uses a variant of the Tigers engine which is infamously super unreliable

A lot of people don’t understand The guard win wars where Space Marines win battles. I’m a Space Marine fanboy, but their normal objective is to hold and capture areas that the imperium can’t lose.

I am an ex-tanker and... yeah, everything you said checks out. I didn't know about the force field on the Lemon though, I didn't know that's why it was so fucking tall. It was something of a standout, most of the Imperium's vehicles are reasonably sized, the Lemon just fucking isn't, and it's good to know there's a reason. I've always thought the Lemon was a great tank, ever since it was blowing my space marines to kingdom come back in 2000, because the gun instagibbed marines.

The Leman Russ canonically has an "HL230 multifuel engine". Coincidentally, the high performance version of Maybach's V12 engine used in Panthers and Tiger IIs is the HL230 model.

A Lemun Russ in green just looks so much like a Tank of Green Earth from Advanced Wars.....

I think the fuel used by the Leman Russ would be its defining factor and its greatest strength since it runs on anything that is combustible liquid making it not as suceptible to fuel shortages as well as simplifying its fuel logistics.

While 120mm may be the canon size for the Russ Battle Cannon, scaling the internal diameter of the model's gun gives you anywhere between 12"-14" depending on model kit and if you count 40k as 1:56 or 1:48 scale. That is over double the stated 120mm 4.75" gun. If you go off the actual model, a Russ is a Mk4 with the front armor of an M3 Lee, the turret of a Tiger, and the gun from a battleship, with a 25% difference for copyright reasons

It's funny, when you play a game like Men of War, which has 40k mods, you get to see how useful those tanks are in a battlefield setting. In the 40k mod, sometimes you'll actually forgo the battle cannon on the russ and get a punisher cannon just for the volume of fire. All other races apart from the guardsmen adjacent ones get vehicles way later and are more expensive. So by the time someone actually gets an armored vehicle out to challenge your russ, you'd already have three of them.

I could imagine the Leman Russ has quite a few advantages in what's called "soft" qualities. It's tall and wide and has very long tracks so it's likely both roomy and comfortable to drive. You never see Leman Russes with things like exterior stowage bins or cargo nets so clearly there's enough room inside for the crew to have their personal gear with them. The multitude of access points mean that you have a good chance to escape a knocked out tank.

As a museum curator working at a military museum, I love that you mentioned the jumbo. The chunky sherman doesn't get enough love. Also, I love the idea of random people from history being thrusted into Warhammer 40k, and actually giving sound advice. hahaha

I absolutely love the level of detail you went into about the lemun russ tank, explaining so much about it, now in defence of the height issue, it is said that the blueprint that the lemun russ was from was for a civilian vehicle, a farm or construction machine perhaps (since half the imperium's vehicles were hilariously originally civilian machines), they simply took the design and technically just slapped on some weapons and armor and decided that's good enough, still a badass tank though

20mm of steel makes you immune to pretty much all small arms fire, so imagine what 10 times that could stop.

About the Sherman, small niggle, it did see combat in 1942, during the second battle of El Alamein, which happened from the 23rd of October to the 11th of November, it was the Shermans Baptism of fire, other than that very good video. Edit: also for the Hammerhead to Leman Russ Comparison, its more like for every single Hammerhead, theres probably about 10,000 Leman Russ tanks, as for production of Leman Russes, you're looking at (Given the size of the Imperium, which is 1 million KNOWN Worlds, so it could be anywhere between just one million to ten million worlds) more Leman Russes produced per day, than there are humans on Earth Right now. Also Also the Leman Russ was called the Leman Russ because... he's rather ugly as is the Leman Russ tank... because the Space Wolves think he is Ugly and so they named it after him as a humerous jab... also also also the Leman Russ was supposed to be (Back before the Greatest Saddening aka the Age of Strife happened) an ULTRA LIGHT SCOUT TANK!

It seems that Vanquishers produced on Gryphonne IV fire 150mm rounds, while Vanquishers made on Stygies VIII use 120mm Sabot rounds.

Guillimans remberancers and the ordo chronos would like to learn more about the midevil europa and civilised era great wars merica.

Everytime I hear him call the Tank a metal box, I think of the Dawn of War quote "METAL BOXES!"

The first Shermans in action were British 8th Army Shermans, at the 2nd Battle of El Alamein in Oct/Nov 42.

The big problem the Russ would have is it's too damned big and heavy. Couldn't be loaded onto a ship without special equipment, couldn't cross most bridges which existed in the 1940s, couldn't fit down a lot of the narrow streets in European towns.

I love 40k tank design. Need a tank? Here's a russ. Need MORE tank in your tank? Here's a Baneblade. It's pretty much the exact same thing, just 5x bigger with more guns.

Fun fact: The Sherman wasn't built to fight other tanks. That's a secondary role. It was built to kill everything else on the battlefield to support infantry. While it had no problem killing the majority of the enemy tanks out there (PzIII's and PzIV's), it absolutely wrecked everything else with it's large capacity HE rounds out of its stubby 75mm. The 2 coaxial .30cal machine guns also made mincemeat out of all infantry in front of it. The Lemon Russ was in the same category. The standard pattern obliterated bunkers, pill boxes, and other infantry fortifications with its 120mm Battle Cannon while cutting down infantry with it's 2 sponson mounted heavy bolters. It could kill most tanks with it's battle cannon but it's job is infantry support. And as mentioned, there were plenty of dedicated specialization variants like tank killers or assault tanks.

"The Leman Russ is the chunkiest tank in all of 40k." Baneblade & Friends would like a word with you on that one!

A leman Russ would be pretty effective if it had a lascannon, they could go straight to berlin

There are even more versions of the Leman Russ: Atlas Recovery Tank replaces the Turret with a crane. Destroyer is a StUG like Jagdpanzer with a rare Laser Destroyer mounted in the front. Usualy replaced with more common Weapons. Thunderer also StUG but "only" with a Demolishercanon. Keeps it cheap. And the Colossus Bombard if you ever feel the need to strap a (barely fitting) Dicke Bertha to your MBT and use it as a heavy Sigemortar.

The question is not how many tanks the Imperium has but how many it has in the theater it is operating in. Since the IOM cannot simply take all the Leman Russ and send them against the Tau. It isn't a problem for the Imperium if 10.000 Leman Russ are lost but it is a problem for their commander who will have to pray that the Warp isn't going crazy at the moment.

Think the Panzer IV (Germany’s medium workhorse) and the T-34 might actually have more production variants and modifications then the M4. Not specifically counting the A-J production models of the Panzer IV that went from infantry support to tank killers was used as the basis for tank destroyers, artillery vehicles, ammo carriers, command vehicles, SPAA platforms, and a lot of test hulls for prototypes. Panzer IV was an older vehicle then the M4 going into production in 1935 the machine would have been pushing a decade by the wars end.

Can I just say how F ing happy I am that the Emperor’s light has found this genre. The Emperor Protects!

Hypothetically... it would be safe to say that all or most Leman Russ tank crew would be the proud descendants of the pioneering tankerie days of both WW1&2,includes both winners and loser's sides

One thing I like the most is how big the tank is, the crew has so much space and there is so much space to modify it.

A jack of all trades is a master of none, but always better than a master of one.

I’m new to your channel and I absolutely love the content. Keep up the great work and May the Emperor protect.

Just remember that west Germany, east Germany, and all of the allies had the opportunity to use or copy any of the ww2 German tanks yet chose not to, because their tanks were already good war winning weapons

"youre solution is to add more plasteel plate?" "yeah" "brilliant guardsman!"

(looks sideways at the new Rogal Dorn tank, which is even more Sherman-y)

My question is : did the Germans had enough manpower to spawn waves of tanks? Maybe they needed tanks that worth ten enemy tanks because it was the only way to do.

The russ has a recovery tank variant, the Atlas. It also has some destroyer variants (what the stug are to the pz4).

I heard that the U.S. Ordnance Department was aware of the Sherman being a 'Tommy Cooker', and attempted to implement various measures to address this issue. The design team was lead by Sheldon Rosenstein, a convicted child-beater, arsonist, and avid necrophiliac. Sheldon was reportedly pen-pals with Shiro Ishii, and Oskar Dirlewanger. When questioned about these letters outgoing to hostile countries, Sheldon replied that he was merely exchanging 'tips and tricks'. Sheldon's team designed a mechanism that would lock the crew hatches shut, thus trapping the crew, when smoke was detected inside the sherman after being penetrated and set alight. Not only that, but apparently there was also a following feature that was a re-take on the Brazen Bull. When the crew was burning to death, their screams would be amplified by speakers that projected outside the tank. The U.S. Ordnance Department justified these features by proclaiming that the Germans would be frightened by the hellish screams of the sherman crews being incinerated, and allied soldiers would be more motivated to fight hard, lest the same fate befall them. Sheldon also later devised a system that had a 1 in 59 chance of setting off an explosive charge in the ammunition storage every time the Sherman's engine was turned on. Supposedly, this was to 'test the crew's luck before battle'. This innovation was well-received by the U.S. Army, but was rejected for budgetary reasons. Upon receiving news of the Army's rejection, Sheldon bludgeoned his manservant to death with a fire iron in a fit of unstoppable rage. Years after the war, Sheldon tragically died in a fire, which he had started in a New York orphanage.

I love the "Walking A10 hating heretic/xeno" RUS variant. Absolutely beautiful

i was always under the impression that the flat nature of modern tanks was partially to do with reduced detection, in 40k auspex and multi spectrum scanners are prolific being flat doesnt necessarily help you and enough aliens run energy weapons that angled armor doesn't necessarily help you. while having the height to see over things in a city fight is useful. hulls wrapped in gribblies? lol russ is tall enough the turrets still clear enough to line up shots at the tervigon spawning them.

Excellent video Brother! The Leman Russ is the 41st Millenniums "Tommy-cooker"

"Leman Russ is the Chunkiest Tank" Rogal Dorn Tank: "Am I a Joke to you?" Mars Pattern Baneblade:

As a huge tank and 40K buff, I loved this video. Thank you so much for posting it.

The important thing to remember about Kasserine pass, is the Americans were sorta that set on the idea of a counter attack, no-one thought to say that commencing a dawn attack directly eastwards is a really terrible idea. It's worth mentioning that the Axis(honestly everyone downplays the Italian role, when they kicked arse here) advance was checked in the southern US sector by GIs dug in on the high ground with tons on 105 howitzers firing directly, and in the Northern sector by like platoon of valentine tanks in a ditch and some AT guns supporting them.

One fundamental problem with the Russ...look at where its main gun is compared to the commander's cupola. It would need to either recoil through the legs of the commander (is that why they don't have any legs on the sprue?), or it has a really weak gun with almost no recoil. At least the Dorn avoids this.

Unfortunately, the Fire Prism only costs 10% more than the russ... which is why the guard loses

I remember a scene in the cadia stands book, where a group of leman russ encountered i think two predator tanks of the traitor marines. Despite being ambushed and few russes destroyes, the experienced cadian tank crew anticipated from where next the predators would open and took out one of the tanks with only one shot while moving. And what I want to add to your statement, that the allies learnd how to deal with the german tanks. Most of the german tanks on the western front where destroyes by airforce not via direct tank to tank combat.

the Cherman is a damn good tank. all i have against it is it's looks.

I will say it straight, the whole thing is structured like a shower thought session, but it does let you think about things instead of just comparing wikipedia numbers to other wikipedia numbers you managed to remember earlier. Shoutout for using Martin Ssempa clips. You describing the tank at the beginning instantly made me think of the lazerpig T 34 video, and then you said it. Very cool

Hammerhead and Fire prism: “1000 to 1? We like those odds”

"The leman Russ is the best tank in 40k" Orks: exist

Fire Prism is artillery, Falcon is Eldar's primary tank.

Assuming Russ was for god knows what reason dumped into WWII and only had the guns that could “““reasonably”””be built and armed with. So let’s say it has the battle cannon and the hull mount and sponson mounted heavy bolters. So armament wise the Russ is rocking a 120mm smooth bore cannon with AP and HE rounds. Very respectable weapon for that time with only heavy TDS and latter heavy tanks in the same area of guns. The heavy bolters alone would be terrifying as a weapon with three of them rapid firing rounds that could punch through 30 or more millimeters of armor. With 150mm-200mm of frontal armor that’s very respectable for the era. The Tiger I only coming in at 110 mm with the latter Soviet IS-2 coming in at 120 mmm of slopped armor. Now that all sounds well and good, but now it’s time to start talking about the part where it kind of falls apart. The Russ would be horribly cramped. Like making Soviet tanks look roomy levels of cramped especially when you consider how much room will be taken up by rounds and crew to operate the vehicle and all its extra guns. The turret would be horrendous especially with a massive 120 in it meaning the fire rate would probably be just south of unacceptable. The engine in the Russ is just the engine used on the Panther a ~44 ton tank. The Russ weighted about 60 tons so the poor overworked engine would probably despise its existence. Even the armor kind of lets the machine down. It’s mostly just flat or full of angles which is normally good on a tank, but A LOT of the angles on the Russ would redirect shots back into the tank commonly known as a shot trap. At 150-200 mms the armor although a lot for the era would still be vulnerable to a lot of AT and tank mounted guns of the era with little to no angling to help increase the effectiveness especially the big slab sides. The old WWI style track and suspension would also hurt the vehicle. It would mostly drive like complete garbage as all the guns haphazardly bounced around and the crew spends half their time trying not to get knocked unconscious. The Russ in a theoretical world in which it was produced by some country in WWII would probably end up a weird mixture of the most intimidating, but also kind of crap tank imaginable. The bolt guns along with the painfully slow 120 would cause absolute mayhem for a while and scare anyone who wasn’t blasted to hell and back by it to death, but it would probably be a relatively simple tank to disable or outright kill. A real world allegory would be the Soviet KV-2 or the German Strumtiger. Both extremely intimidating tanks that could obliterate something if given the chance, but too clumsy and awkward in most situations to accomplish much. More a thought experiment on what a Russ in WWII would look like then anything else.

24:18 best part of the calliope (rocket Sherman) was apparently we literally have no idea why they put those on a Sherman and not on a truck or something lighter faster easier to make kinda thing. Even sources from the time were confused about it. Makes me love it even more. You also left out the m-51. A Sherman I believe given to Israel by France in the late 40s to early 50s I wanna say? It had a long 105mm gun for firing High Explosive Anti-Tank rounds (HEAT)

"Such ingenuity is becoming of a true servant of the Imperium!" Smells like HERESY to me. What temple did you say you studied at, Commissar?

Also, the Vanquisher loops back to your previous point of "Different variants out the ass" See *LORE ALERT!* the Vanquisher was originally made by Tigrus. But when Tigrus got eaten, the Imperium needed the tank rebuilt. So two Forge Worlds stepped up, Stygies VII and Gryphonne VI. Gryphonne used a really long barrel to achieve superior velocity, where as Stygies used a short barrel but high quality chemical propulsion. Gryphonne then got eaten by Tyranids, reducing the amount of LONG BOYS in production, and making the short boy more common.

I kinda wand a series of ww2 soldier trapped in 40k just putting common sense for him, out there and rising in the ranks for such genius ideas to impove the imperial guard. Maybe he meets G-man

until now, i just save 40k vids for while im pooping and have watched a lot of them but this one i had to watch as soon as i saw it. this is a great idea. thanks. love tanks. cheers.

Sergeant: "Get in the shit box." Private: "But Sarge... It's on fire." Sergeant: "SHUT UP AND GET IN THE SHIT BOX!"

Now I am imagining that they all have shield generators, which they are built with. They are just in their own compartment at the back with the engine. It's just that the compartment has been designated as something bogus. And any tank man who opens it and looks in does not have a clue what he's looking at, whilst every techpriest is dogmatically like: well it looks like a shield generator. But leman russes don't have shield generators, so it can't be one.

Fun fact about leman rus tanks and plasma, for some reason they took more care of the tank cannons then plasma guns, they don't blow up, but they will over heat. Which is why they have vents built in. Literally to show this in game instead of loosing a model they just get a mortal wound. I find it funny they can't figure out how to make the plasma guns more stable but they made sure the plasma cannon is.

Honestly i'm more invested in seeing more stories of real life soldiers, wether it be from ww2 or modern time get sent into the 40k universe. Like the intro you did

Always nice to see someone spreading the Sherman love. It was a fabulous Tank if lightly gunned. The IG thrive on the Man Swarm, and their Tanks are not spared from that. If it's good to have 1, its better to have 1 million. Such is the expansive weight of the human race in M41.

Me about every four minutes watching this video: "MATE! Who the hell DREW that!?"

Now this is high quality content m8, hope to c moer in the future :D

those captions had me losing it XD "HEY TOASTER FUCKER, GRAB YOUR SHIT"

im hungry but i dont wanna stop watching and get up to cook

Watching this channel grow from like 60 subs to 10000 is insane. Keep up the hood content

IRL Sherman details: check Chieftain's Hatch for Sherman development. "Why the Sherman was what it was".

• If your tanks are too fragile, put some shit on their armour or even add more armour. • If your tanks are lack of firepower, put a larger gun or more guns. • If your tanks are too heavy, rip something unnessesary out and pray that it will work. • If your tanks are ineffective against infantry, put on heavy machine gun, flamer or even something worse. • If your tanks are too few, don't worry we got 10 times more tanks are on the way and 100 times more tanks are already in assembly. • If your tanks are too expensive, don't worry because your tank can turn into scrap and re-essemble as battle ready for 1/4 of original cost. • If you think that your tanks are ready for every war, then congratulation! You just assure your demise in this steel coffin. No tanks are ready for every war. *War Production Board and Departmento Munitorum, probably.*

During WW2, when the US army got their new M26 pershings they bitched about it, because the pershings were too large and heavy to use most of the bridges the shermans could use without issue. In some cases, the crews left the Pershings back at base and still rode out with their shermans. The shermans being undergunned is also a meme, as all those tigers people were so scared about were fighting against the russians, so in 99% of cases the shermans were fighting panzer 4s and 3s, hell, they fought Panzer 2s, tanks they had no issue defeating, and shooting 75mm HE shells at infantry, for with the 75 gun was fantastic. The shermans also had impressive crew comfort for the time and was one of the most if not THE most survivable tank off ww2 (it was easy to escape from a sherman, not so much from a T34). All this, while having the same effective frontal armor as a Tiger 1. And the long 76 shermans, once they were given to troops, were completely capable of taking out tigers. Similarly, the Russ is so good because it is not a baneblade, or a dorn, or whatever the hell other vehicles might be. The russ i imagine can use the majority of roads and bridges the IG could have to cross, can a baneblade do the same? Can a dorn fit in the same roads a leman russ can? How often does the guard get to fight in a open terrain with kilometers long sightlines? How often instead they have to fight in terrain where their heaviest vehicles have problems even reaching the battlezone? It's something you hardly ever see in 40K and i wish these things were more present in the media. The only issue the leman russ has is the godawful armor geometry, that thing will never bounce a shot, i get that is the "looks" of 40K but god damn, that is a badly engineered front armor scheme.

In the words of the ultimate boss of Tank Knowledge. "You don't go 'oh it's just a Sturmgeschutz, Joe we don't need you.' You have four shermans for a Tiger because that's what you had. Four tanks was the smallest (legitimate) tank unit." I imagine the Guard kind of does the same. In the words of a German tank commander: "A tiger is worth ten Shermans. The problem is they always have eleven." A Hammerhead is worth ten Leman Russ'. The Guard always has eleven. Or more accurately, they have fifteen thousand in four hours...

12:17 it's not like the Italians counterattacked an English armored battalion with only 3 tanks left operational, oh wait they did it.

Fun fact; A standard Sherman got given a round that could punch through a Tiger mantle with relative ease. Not an E8 or a Jumbo. A standard M4.

i remember in 7th ed, me and my friend did a 500-point game. he had swarm of tyranids and was shocked that i was able to bring a leman russ to the game

Meanwhile: How would a Custodes perform in WW2? Lands at Normandy > Single handedly takes france in a day > few days later Berlin and the rest of Germany has fallen, Hitler is dead > Week later so is Japan. *Suddenly realizes that the allies arent loyal to the Emperor either* week later > Allies conquered

Yeah dude, you convinced me, Leman is Sherman.

Until the advent of wet ammo storage, Sherman's were given the name of ronson, (a cigarette lighter). They lit up the first time every time.

Nice vid

When I played it was five Russ to two Hammerheads, and unfair to the Guard player if you had more than 3 marker-light sources.

Men of war assault squad 2 40k mod make me appreciate and fear the Leman Russ even more because it's one of the most durable and powerful vehicle of the mod while being cheap enough to allow multiple tanks to be in the field but because the Leman Russ is so durable that the only way to reliablely destroy it is to use infantry ambush with melta gun blast to the side or call in a superheavy vehicle like land raider. Leman Russ with plasma cannon is the best anti dug in infantry variants, it melt infantry in trenches and bunker but it also cause the most friendly fire incident.

Hell ya brother the Russ and the Sherman beat tanks ever!!! Great video

Honestly, the first section of the video was utterly hilarious.

The Leman Russ has no suspension, a drive faster than walking pace would be fun.

for a second there I imagined a war table pregame discussion first dude: [generic Prosperine prep] second dude: okay so I bring... 250 guardsmen 10 space wolves and 50 Leman Russ. *they agree and shake on it. 1: *set up Thousand Sons and chaos minions 2: proceed to place 50 primarch Leman Russ mini on the field. 1: wait... 2: oh! no... I just had a easier time getting those than the tank ones. But if you want we can have another game afterward where Leman Russ was multiplied by some warp bul****t.

There's a Duplex Drive (aka amphibious) Sherman at the UK's national Tank Museum in Bovington, along with one of the flamethrower Churchills. Sadly they do not have a Leman Russ though.

Did not mention the Sherman AA, 0/10 kidding of course great video

Don't forget there were Shermans up armored with concrete as well.

10:35 I have to correct you on this one. The T-34 has more variants than the Sherman, in one case the Egyptian military even managed to cram a 122mm field gun into the turret of a T-34/85

These videos are amazing

I used to play arma3 with a group called the 143rd siege army. I was a watch master for our platoon of russ's, and the only thing that i wish is that it had a coaxial

Its wild in 30k this thing was practically a second line tank

Ork players " we gots these humie toy-o-tas truks now lets make em orky"

next up, why the Baneblade is the Abrams

If you look at the technical sheets you can tell gw definitely took inspiration from WWII tanks rather than more modern ones. The russ has similar frontal armor to a tiger ii for example

Lmao. My fireprism is a running on a void capable dropship platform; can bombard you from low orbit, high orbit, drop to ground level to laugh at your corpse, and then hit you from low orbit again; and itll do 800k/h under engine power alone. And buddy, expensive? We GROW them. Mon-Keigh on suicide watch.