Also blood ravens: it is a shame the xeno filth didn't learn from their first mistake. Now we must quadruple the k/d ratio brothers. Imperium Invictus it is. Show no mercy. We take no prisoners. -Sips tea nonchalantly-

@@sircharlesvonpimpsmack7667 Blood ravens: "Ah, depopulated the eldar species by at least twelve eldar...Give or take a few extras." Scout: "Two more just died." Blood raven: "wh-" Scout: "Burned inside and out. ***The geneseed is unrecoverable.***" Alpha legion: "Do you hear somethin-" >Drop pod full of terminators lands

@@nonya1366 burned from the inside out you say? That sounds like heretic witchfire to me scout. They will know such furious rebuke that it shall make the blavk templars hatred for traitors appear as but a mild disagreement. *Drops teacup, dons sunglasses and lights cigar.* Prepare the drop pods and the fortunate sun playlist. The land raiders and their treads require a new paint job.

Can't wait to see this man do the Order Campaign for Winter Assault. Try to save as many Eldar lives and as many Guardsmen lives as possible. That would be a challenge, for sure, lads.

@@Guardsman-from-Cadia Davey gunface did it deathless already. Go watch it.

Underrated comment💀💀💀

now you can go be expendable somewhere else, which makes both of us happy

Star Wars?

@@Sapphiregamer8605 Yup. More specifically, The Clone Wars cartoon.

No guardsman actually says they are expendable though.

It's so cathartic, those absolute legends deserve better, and now, we can give that to them 😄

Same!!!! I'm gonna try this 😍 Always protect the brave servants of the emperor 💪

Somehow I managed to save them by accidently body blocking them when I went towards the webway gate with my 5 full squeads of marines.

In repeated playthroughs, I always made sure to bring extra squads to protect them immediately.

2 lone guardsmen surviving against Orcs, Eldar, and chaos forces for a week? these guys are main character level special, and I love it

Original dow allowed unlimited turrets so long as you had the space for them. Relic implemented the 6 turret limit in the future expansions.

@@Satugai unless you’re playing the Guard, then (almost) every building can be a turret!

​@@dingusdean1905 or orks, where all buildings are turrets.

I want to see one side try to break through those defenses

I actually did that throughout my play through of DOW1. During the Into The Maw mission for every listening post I built I would build as many turrets as I could fit by it.

One million greenskin corpses at a time!

Noblebright at its finest.

that hyphen made me realize the relationship between thesis and antithesis.

Yes and that's why I like him.

you might say he's the anathoma to them

​@@florijnvantill4422ass in: Ana-thema

​@@justinstratfordBut what about the synthesis

The irony is the Tau would be more likely to agree to this compromise than the imperial commanders would

@@sturm9087 given the tau in context stole that world not a decade ago and are still trying to lay down roots not really unjustified I think thule had it right if you wanted you wanted to care about your mens lives ya shoulda thought of that months before you showed up

Absolutely. THAT is how it should be. His Angels of Death acting as the shield for the Guard, as they act as the shield for civilians. Ahaha it doesn't always go like that, but it's what we should all strive for. I'm certain those Guardsmen would go on to save others, and many; if not most of them would be evacuated in the end as the people of Tartarus are sent to a new planet.

@@Saint_Jam You’re a good man. As a wise Ogryn has said many-a times: “PROTECT THE LIL ‘UNS!!!!”

Absolute legend! thank you man, ahaha I very much appreciate that; I love how the context adds so much more depth to the game so I just had to weave it in

hi sindri :) , this is sheg

@@shegaft3566 Yoooooo! OMG, it's an honor 😅You're a legend in DoW, and I've watched many of your replays on Astro's channel, lol.

@@luckylarry71 lol you over react xD , i'm just a player

@@shegaft3566 I salute your modesty, good sir. Still, you give the game a good name in my book ;D

*intense sobbing* I MISS YOU, GENERAL STURNN!

Dawn of war 1 is one of the worst games to do deathless, it's squad based and the pathfinding is not the best, so you need to be extra careful in your engagements, and some sections you will have to wait a long while for the pre-buff whirlwinds to bombard the enemy. At least you are space marines so you are rather robust. For winter assault the guard is actually kinda cracked for deathless, solid builder unit, you can put guardsmen into buildings where they shoot out and they can tunnel to other buildings, your apc is solid and you can load guardsmen into it to shoot out. eldar are not great, you have to rely on your farseer doing most of the work due to durability issues on the rest of your units. the disorder side has a mission where you really can't go deathless, unless you count cheesing the faction swap so all the deaths are on the ai controller...

@@andrewgreeb916 "disorder"? are we not allowed to say *choas* now?

@@rokkraljkolesa9317 It's "Chaos", but Disorder is a better term because Orks aren't aligned with the in-setting concept of "Chaos"

@@SynonamessBotchKevin oh right, orks

I know this is an old comment, but I unironically played most RTS games the same way. Why waste perfectly good resources on units that will die quickly, when you can just blow up everything miles away, and use those squishy units to defend those artillery guns and emplacements instead? Yes I spammed bunkers and siege tanks in Starcraft, as well as played British in Company of Heroes 2, how can you tell?

And i thought my battles taking up to a 1 hour 30 minutes were long (fuck drukhari and tau)

@@damianwaga6357yooo another UKF main!

sir that's the correct way

Kaldor Draigo mode!!

he could be cloned, I read that the Imperium invented cloning

Whats the game called 3:46

@@martinpavlovski3251it’s a meme about there being so many guardsmen’s in the universe that they made a planet out of em and still have plenty left

@@martinpavlovski3251 It's Chapter Master.

I just love how the summary says "Ork Presence: Tiny." *_"Tiny"_* This means that, on this planet, which has a guard presence _so large_ the sting of numbers goes completely off the screen, *_SOME ORKS ARE STILL ALIVE._*

No blod fot the blod god

“But a loaded bolter never hurt either”

​@@TheHej2 HERETIC! GET THEM BOYS (RATATATATATATATA)

Emperors protect

The Emperor did

For a smaller engagement 23 marines is a lot but in the larger battles/campaigns/warzones in the setting losing an entire company or even a chapter in a single battle isn’t uncommon. On taros a marine chapter lost 80+ marines in the span of around 2 days while on the defensive in a city against the Tau.

⁠@@sturm9087really does depend on a lot, (mostly the writers bias) but casualties do depend a lot on what they’re fighting and whether or not things have gone horribly wrong. I’d still call losing 80 marines a pyrrhic victory and not ideal.

@@clan741 yeah writers bias can be a problem but this was in the imperium armor books which are some of the best and most accurate books out there written directly by the forgeworld team and not contracted out to freelance authors like black library does. If lore directly from games workshops internal team isn’t accurate idk what would be. These books also have everything from force org charts to technical specs for weapons and vehicles and even the standard kit of the different factions units. Most of what we know about 40k weapons and gear comes directly from these books. It also wasn’t a pyrrhic victory for the marines since they lost that battle and retreated. They sent in a company of marines (100+ a dreadnought) to assassinate a governor friendly to the Tau. While they were searching for him the Tau sent reinforcements to the local pdf and the marines tried to hold the palace and surrounding areas while searching for the governor. By day 2 the captain in charge realized the governor must have escaped and he had already lost 80% of his company and the dreadnought so he had his thunderhawks pull the remaining marines out under cover of darkness.

​@@sturm9087 completely unrelated that but just reminds me of people that say things stupid like a single space marine marine chapter could wipe out the tau, like at there best performance 80 marines getting killed on a world they don't even hold

@@calebbarnhouse496 yeah people always say that the damocles gulf crusade almost wiped out the Tau but it didn’t even get through its first sept world before getting stopped in its tracks. That was back when the Tau didn’t have a military fleet, didn’t know how to fight the imperium, and were like 20% of the size they are now. If the imperium wanted to destroy the Tau it would be a warzone that makes armageddon look small and the imperium really can’t afford to start something that big right now

....as he munches on his 1'000th soul of the day!!

@@TheEyez187 to keep suffering agony beyond human understanding to keep literal hundreds if not thousands of billions humans alive and capable of traversing the Warp. I think its more than a fair deal, especially because he personally gets nothing out of it than more endless pain and agony.

@@MrVlad12340 Oh I know, I wasn't not condoning it. Live for the Emperor, not for yourself..... now die!! nom nom nom. Statisitcally God* requested/required more sacrifices and lives/blood taken/spilled. The number of sacrificial offerings should have equated to 000's of animals a year and not just any animals the first and best. and he was only Lording over and "Protecting a few hundred thousand followers". When you have to protect ten hundred thousand worlds worth of followers, such a minor animal genocide is not going to cut it! You get {to eat} Humans and not just any, the psyker and the witch! :D * and the Christians have the audacity to accuse Satanist's of animal sacrifice, esecially goats and Rams, and blood magic rituals and altars!! >XD That's why the Big E got rid of the religions, such practices would appease Khorne...... in the same way it seems to please God .... Blood for the Blood God. Wait is God Khorne!? Jesus Khorne have I stumbled on to the truths!?! >XD

Oh Hell yeah! Ok THAT is exactly what I love to hear! I'm over joyed to hear that, showing off all these hobbies and interests to people who may have never seen them before is exactly what I love doing 😄 Thank you

I'm a fan of Half Life, and I'm a sucker for keeping NPC allies in video games alive. It was almost like the two vids you made on that series were made specifically for me to see. So of course I'd stick around if you continued that effort elsewhere. Well, you shared this hobby and interest with me. I can toss one back to ya if you're interested. Ever heard of a series known as the Earth Defense Force / EDF? Third person shooters set in Japanese, Budgeted, Sci-Fi Military VS. Alien Invasion films? I think it's a series that you might enjoy, and it's got a lot of NPCs fighting alongside you. Though most entries are consoles only, there's two games on steam (besides spin-off titles): EDF 4.1 (remake of 4 to ps4 after a shoddy attempt at a ps3 release, re-released to steam soon after), and EDF 5.

@@galacticheroman AHHH YES! Yeah I loved EDF, I only played one of the games but I loved it to bits. Earth Defense Force 2017 on the 360 Seriously 😄that was GOOD, and I have looked into the newer EDF games on steam, they look really good, I'll need to make the plunge into them one day for sure, ahh thanks for the suggestion bro and yeah i'm glad you enjoyed the video man! It's comments like these that inspire me, cheers!

@@Saint_Jam You. I like you. Ya wanna play together? I've delved _way_ too many hours into BOTH of the steam games and sunk deep into the trenches of the (kinda small) sea of wikis. I'd be happy to chuck lore / headcanon knowledge at you if you wanna throw some Warhammer 40k lore at me. We'd be like monkeys throwing rocks at each other for fun. Also if you do pick 'em up, I'd recommend getting the Mission Pack DLCs for additional content. The other DLCs besides that are kinda useless, mostly some weeb stuff and weapons meant for the early game.

@@Saint_Jam okay maybe the "throwing rocks at each other for fun" comment was a bit weird, sorry-

I know the feeling all too well man. AHaha welllll it is a.. turning point in 40k, both for lore and the table top 😅

Before the *What* of Cadia? Yeah nah. That's the end of the setting to me the day that never comes.

Cadia Stands! ​@@DIEGhostfish

Thank you, very much and congratulations man, that news is exciting! I wish you the absolute best of luck man, your gonna make it

Gonna have a really shitty 13 weeks bud lmao have fun screaming aye sir

Good luck in the meat grinder. May you make it through your service in one piece.

@@LexYeen Too bad nobody does

good luck, greatest of sirs

I couldn't agree more, and the thing is, especially under Gabriel Angelos. The Blood Ravens actually on MANY occasions go out of their way to help the ordinary men, women and children. For me, that is why the Space Marines exist in the first place, or at least that's their purpose now. Protecting Humanity, some just do it better then others lmao. It's why they're my favourite Chapter honestly.

@@Saint_Jam I see, my favorite chapter is the Salamander’s for the very same reason.

"only Salamanders do" *Cries in Lamenters*

@@natesiress1057 Oh right, sorry lad. Whenever I think of Space Marines I just think of the 20 legions.

@@Saint_Jam "Fury of a thousand suns" You're one of *those* blood ravens fans I fucking adore that

Dunno if you into the novelization of Warhammer 40k, but there were at least 2 novels set between DOW1 and DOW2 where Gabriel encounter the Eldars again and they had to do a temporary alliance against the Chaos Space Marines

@@hanchiman Dear god please don't bring up the Goto novels. Please.

Yes Inquisitor, this comment right here.

I have no doubt and in the end the Emperor Protects

Sure, but I don't know how viable Dark Crusade and Soulstorm would actually be in this format. The Strongholds missions are interesting, but everything else is just annihilation battles against the AI on generic multiplayer maps.

​@@bilbobagend8155that's kinda what makes it the most interesting ones to do, the fact they are so free-form makes a deathless run incredibly difficult, let alone for each race

Cheers! Yeah I love adding in and bringing all this information together, to give the most comprehensive understanding of what happened. Which yeah 😁 considering Dawn Of War just throws you in the middle with 0 context, I think it was great piecing together the backstory leading up to the campaign. And I hope you go on to save many boys in your own play through's!

All these guardsmen will make excellent “gifts” to the chapter.

*an

@@addison_v_ertisement1678 thanks for fixing it.

I'm so glad you've had a genuine blast with these videos, and that I've been able to introduce something like this to new people. Ahaha happy birthday man, I hope you had a good one with your old man 😄 I've got plenty more stuff I want to make and show that I know you boys will love, but yeah in the meantime have a good one with the starter kit! Painting them is the challenging but fun part

Au contraire mon ami, check his vid on winter assault

@Echoe-14 Implying I haven't already done that when it was released. Check the video and you'll find my comment there as well.

@@inductivegrunt94 Ah, sorry

I have good news for you

Not as doomed as fantasy lol. And that was slightly less grimdark that 40k.

The only ones who benefit from accepting defeat and failure as "inevitable" are the ones you are fighting. Guard your mind from doubt as you would a fortress from saboteurs.

You're right. "To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods." The people in this comment section and the creator are completely misunderstanding the setting. Hell, the video starts with him saying "humanity good, alien bad." People who genuinely believe that's what 40K is about are morons, and are perpetuating the pretty-problematic notion that the Imperium is somehow the "good guys" of the setting.

@@brynnyon7293 the term "problematic" used unironically, opinion disregarded.

Do you have any idea where that speech is from?

@@ironduke5058 nope :(