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Orks vs tyranids a truly terrifying scenario

None of these battles compares to the war GW wages against its own fanbase

The Battle of Iron Cage happened because Rogal Dorn didn't have enough Pain Gloves for his Imperial Fists Legion needed to let them feel the pain he went through and accept the Codex Astartes. Said codex was 5 out of 10 with 3 stars, and it was ok.

Another thing about the Siege of Terra is that Terra has a population in the hundreds of billions to quadrillions, so the civilian casualties must've been unfathomable.

Quick note, none of the Imperium battle ever really accounted for the Imperial Guardsman, because that would be retarded. But in general, multiply Space Marine force and enemy Force by a thousand, and you could get a rough estimation of the number of Imperial Guards present in the battle

You missed one The battle of the sokar gate Szarekh, the silent king and his dynasty + 5 other dynasties Attacked 4 compleat c'tan leading to the destruction of one c'tan and 5 whole necron dynasties

Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in Guillimans current situation would be pretty cool ngl

Majorkill is the type of Australian to say "he's standing right behind me, isnt he" in a horror scenario, pull out a snake from pants and dominate the antagonist

Reminder that Prince Yriel, single handedly, used a spear that was supposed to kill it's user over time, and stabbed the swarm lord so hard that the hive mind itself was in agony. Just another addition to the long list of chad eldars.

On the siege of Terra: in the newest Horus Herresy book, the bloodshed is so humongus, that a curse of Khorn engolves the planet. Everything. And I mean EVERYHING fought and battled against one another. Enemys, Friends, Familys. Imagine Doom, but everybody is the Doom Slayer and all they see is deamons. So yea.

Seeing The Second Battle of Iyanden on this list made me smile. It's a cool and impactful battle and It'd have been so easy to fill this list with battles from The Horus Heresy or other Imperium centered conflicts,so some Eldar love is appreciated!

Do a video on how each primarch would react to a hug from a child! (Pre and post herecy)

Pretty sure the siege of terra had 100s of mils combatants, in saturnine it is mentioned there are 4k BATTLES going on at any single moment but thats only when they count battles with at least 30k fighters on each side.

My personal honorable mention, The Devastation of Baal. While it might be small potatoes compared to some others on the list it still represents one of the largest Astartes conflicts of the past 10,000 years. Almost every son of the Angel was present and like 90 percent of them died. A last stand against billions of Nids vs about 30,000 Blood Angels.

Curious for anyone who may know: Does anyone know the type of Tyranid bioform that big boi is next to the Hierophant in the artwork at 3:18? I don't know a whole lot about Warhammer 40k lore but I've done quite a bit of digging for info on what kind of Tyranid bioform (bio titan) that could be, but the closest thing I could find would be a Tervigon or a Tyrannofex, but from Luetin09's Tyranid videos, that specific bioform looks a lot like the art that Luetin09 uses to represent the Norn-Queen, but Norn-Queens don't take part in Tyranid attacks on planets that I know of.

@Majorkill great content as always, although I'm kinda surprised Tallarn wasn't mentioned, largest tank battle in imperial history. This battle is basically the origin story of the Tallarn Dessert Raiders. For those who don't know, Tallarn is initially a pretty lush and verdant place, until the iron warriors show up post angel exterminatus. Perturabo becomes aware of a particular artefact hidden on the world (the black occulus, he doesn't know exactly what it is but it's a kind of warp portal), and decides yup we're gonna virus bomb the world to get it. Exterminatus happens and it's not a good time. BUT THE LOYALISTS SURVIVE since Tallarn is kind of a reserve world for the imperial army, they have a ton of tanks in shelters and although pretty much everyone on the surface died in about 10 minutes, there were significant portions of the local Tallarn population and imperial army tank companies that were underground when the bombs dropped. The surface is a dusty dessert now, but the survivors start using their vehicles to go out on the surface and actively fight hit and run tank battles against the iron warriors. From there it just escalates, as loyalist and traitor forces begin committing more and more resources to the battle. I'm unaware of the exact numbers, but individual deployments at its peak involved thousands upon thousands of tanks, supported by knights and titans, not to mention the fleet elements, with astartes elements from multiple legions doing a great degree of covert work. 3 Recon squads of the imperial fists even brought down one of the primary macro transporters of the iron warriors fleet, crashing it into the middle of a major tank engagement on the southern continent of Tallarn, creating a 300km diameter nuclear explosion that basically wiped out both sides present and irradiated the planet for about a week with high winds and fallout. Even though the loyalist forces eventually won, Tallarn was fucked up and remains fucked up to this day. Casualties on both sides were severe in the extreme. Of the titans that were deployed, literally one survived. Amazing battle that actually gets the scale of planet wide conflict right.

Been reading titandeath and honestly the beta-garmon battle might be the biggest in the the setting at least for the humans. The battle literally stretched across an entire subsector and was fought by millions of both traitor and loyalist forces

Seige of terra saturnine book 4 i believe. A sister of silence meantioned how there were over 4100 battles around terra with each battle consisting of over 30k soilders on each side. Quick math means over 246,000,000 people were throwing down.

The battles Beta-Garmon is one of my top favorite battles of the heresy. Taking all combatants into account such as the space marines, imperial army, mechanicum forces, imperialis armada, knights and titans, and what we know transpired makes probably, PROBABLY, the biggest battle of the heresy. I don’t think the deposite massacre of the siege of terra can edge it out, only be on par with it

I've read every book on the dropsite massacre and the loyalist planning that went in to it and sometimes when I read that I think, look who you've got on the second wave for support... I know they were seemingly loyalist at that point but you put yourself between the traitors and perty, konrad, lorgar, and alpharius. Even if I didn't think they were traitors yet, I'd still be keeping an eye on those 4 nutjobs and their absolutely insane legions. I know they took who they had on hand and worked with who was available, but the known traitors existing would make these psychopaths behind me seem pretty sus. Obviously I'm more joking, but only kind of

Pretty please do titanicus lore

Majorkill can you do a video on the planets of the Sol System and their purpose in 40k?

YO MAJORKILL. can we get a biggest crusades/campaigns after this too. Love your work as always

Though I am dubious about the teased rules for 10th ed, as a Gribbly Nid player (as well as Black Templar, Death Korps, Death Guard, the list goes on...), I look forward to what monstrous abominations may be spawned.

The siege of terra also had demons, mutants, and beastmen on the traitors side. By the time of Echoes of Eternity they were described as like a roaming horde in the dust. So I feel like the siege of Terra is kind of one long battle for helms deep or Gondor where the defenders know that eventually they are going to get fucked but they put up one hell of a fight.

Hey Majorkill amazing video keep them coming and your getting better and better every video

Now imagine the scale of battle between the Old Ones(Krorks,Eldar) and Ctan led Necrons. Literal God's fighting along with galaxy spanning empires and their armies

It’s criminal we haven’t gotten more detail about the War in Heaven to get a battle for this list.

If we'd get more solid lore and numbers on the war in heaven, most other large scale battles would be blown out of the water no doubt.

The Tyranids winning a war of attrition against the Orks, while also instilling fear in The Bois, is NOT a good sign for The Imperium. People said The Lion pairing up with Robust Guillotine will be OP... Well, I think it's just right.

You should make a sharrowkyn video; man played a pivotal role in determining the outcome of the heresy

What? An Avatar of Khaine was defeated in battle? No Way

The battle on Ullanor comes close to these I would say. Multiple sm legions led by Big E himself against an ork force that was the greatest found during the Great Crusade

May the Ravens have their vengeance for Istvaan Five.

These recent videos are great Major keep it up

As a wise madman once said: Day 347 of asking Majorkill to do a video on Tau Auxiliaries coupled with the release of a "Space Beaked Tribals"/"Space Wasps"/"Nussy Fanboys" team. *Phrases that Sam O'nella never said.

I always love me a new Majorkill upload.

"Yeah, that went well." That one-liner made me laugh really hard.

I think a craftworld may be even bigger than a 100 million. We have 7 billion on our earth and the Eldar call their ships "worlds" so the idea they can fit a planets worth of Eldar on them doesnt seem impossible to me even with their low numbers.

Avatar of Khaine almost guarantees a loss.

Fark yeah!! Solid mate. Nice work

GW should make a "live" map showing all active conflicts. Because people always ask "who is fighting who RIGHT NOW and where?" ... I know it doesn't work like that, but would be so cool to see what happens in "real time" ... where the next tyranid invasion is happening, where the newest tomb world is waking up ect.

Mmm nothing quite like an Annihilation battle in the morning. Btw request as usual for a Major Mini for Commissar Yarrick please.

Jesus, dude. I saw the poll that this video came from like a day ago. Great video, though. Let's get a video on our favorite Mary Sues, Calgar and Drago some time soon.

Don’t think I haven’t noticed how much content you have been putting out over the past few months, i appreciate it my nigga

Another banger mate. After having tacos on a Wednesday I'm hoping for a bit of T'au Thursday with the Ethereal Aun Shi and his status as a T'au Ethereal cheek clapping boss 😅

Hey majorkill it me again can we please have some more necron video if you can

“A continent sized planet” ? That’s not a very big planet. Love your content, keep it up!

3 hours! I love your content, keep it up!!

Majorkill! an idea for a video if I may: Hygiene of the Space Marines, I need to know.. what kind of soap? do they use louffa? are there shower servitors who scrub? What kinds of food do they eat?

i had a friend that said he was into 40k super hard. i was like oh cool yea i watch majorkill, he goes "who? oh i watch one mind syndicate" and i was like yea bro i can make a one mind syndicate video too straight off the wiki page and lexicanum. needless to say we got into a fist fight and i won bearing the banner of majorkill.

The War in Heavens should have larger battles right? I guess the lack of info prevents it from being included

YEAH BUDDY, ALMOST AT 500k, keep it up majorkill

Majorkill, I love your vids and I have 2 I'd love you you to do: a full recap of the Arks of Omen lore now that the Lion's book is released

i'd imagine some battles in the War in Heaven would dwarf these but numbers hasn't been stated before/ indevidual battles

Kryptman after causing two factions who become stronger the more they fight to clash causing the creation of the largest Tyranid fleet the galaxy has ever faced:”Ha whoops.”

The planet fell before the Guard did!

Quick note, it wasn’t the swarmlord in that battle but a regular hive tyrant

“Fuck off” is my new favourite unit of measurement

i like how alpha legion almost wanted to help raven gard

When you fast backwards at the start of the video you can hear majokill attempting to sound like a lazer rifle :].

MK has perfect timing, just sat down for my morning dump.

Lookin forwrd to start the sige of terra books, sound epic😁😁

Istvaan V was by no means the largest in terms of manpower. Yet for actual power and force that was present it was insane, especially in a conventional battle. There were nearly as many astartes that fought in the massacre than are alive in the current setting of 40k - around 750-800k I reckon. That's not including titan legions, the heavy weaponry that Legions deployed and the ten primarchs that were present. It has been, and I imagine will always be, the zenith of war within the 40k setting.

The war that never ends is GW’s war against their fans and fan created content

Could you do a video on all the xeno races in the tau empire

The tyranids tactics are eerily similar to the reaper forces of Mass Effect

Top 10 dark mechanicus units

Great vid majorkill, could you please do a video about gaunts ghosts, thanks majorkill.

Holy shit you actually did it....thank you dude

The numbers for the Siege of Terra were massively bulked out with regulars too... Billions of cultists with the traitor fleets, and billions of conscripts for the defenders :D

Hope we can get a how powerful a space marine is video one day

Majorkill should a do top 5 bromances of 40k video

Rocking that Youngla merch

You should do a ideo on what happened to the countries on terra

You are the best keep up the good work

Not really surprised about the siege of Terra, after 9 years war and warp storms, wouldn't be many at that point

Would love to know if tyrannids have fought chaos demons in a significant clash. Shadowbrink is the only example I could find but not sure if it's just fanfic.

also, on when the new merch drop, is it only the bundle that disappears or is it all of the merch?

I'd love to see a video about Endryd Haar "The Riven Hound"

Last time i was this early erebus was likeable

doing this for magnus the rad: "you know, a video on how each of the pre heresy primarchs would react and what they would do if they were in guillimans place would be pretty cool ngl"

Abaddon's greatest victory was the equivalent of flipping the game board when you lose

How about a video on your favorite fan created marine chapters? Give me angry marines lol

9:10 this is a great comparison of GW not understanding numbers. Seriously, 850 million people on an entire planet with hive cities? There are at least a billion, if not more living on that planet.

For anyone wondering: in general, Black Library and GW writers don't really work with realistic scales. Most of their battles are weirdly small compared to large WW2 battles, for example. This is mainly because they're storytellers first and foremost. They want battle stories that centre around a squad of space marines or things like that. This is true for a lot of other scifi as well, including Star Wars (the Clone Army was hilariously tiny in comparison to how large you'd expect of wars on hundreds if not thousands of planets, if you take the stated numbers at face value, so fans generally go with some looser interpretations.)

Every Tyranid battle is a planet sized one because they want EVERYTHING

OK and how many points would that Orks/Nids battle be in table top, and how long would it take to set everything up, let alone paint it?

Oi majorkill do you think you could make a video about the xeno species of the tau empire? Or technology from the daot ?

Awesome video

The 1 million space marines is insane when you think how few held Baal and how easy it would be for a small detachment to take over a planet like ours 😂

coop vid majorkill

Fuhnoogies!! epic brah, love this sh**!!

Man, continent sized planets, just imagine.. But great video as always.

Majorkill! Beer in melbs sometime?

Hey Majorkill, I'm trying to live up to challange of changing the stereotype of warhammer fans! I've lost just below 200 pounds in the last two years! Love your content! Thanks for making these!

Yo majorkill can you make a video on the different harlequin masques?

Also what's everyone thoughts on if gw did a war in heaven model rage?

Imagine if the Thousand sons held the palace alongside the Fist and Iron Warriors for the loyalist that day.